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TKESoUSEiOF DAVmT: I I Saved From Fx'inctior. by J ?- i hosheba's Heroic Deed. THE SAVING OF SOULS RjV. Dr, Talmage Draws a Useful Lessen From the Rescue of Joash From the Murderous Athaliah. In this discourse on a neglected incident of the Bible Dr. Talmage draws f?rtw>^rs-+?nor Ipssrtnp. and SQSW5 that ouuav wvmtiavamm^ all around us are loyal natures that We may help deliver. The text is II King? xi, 2, 3: "Jehosheba, the daughter of King Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash, the sou of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king's sons which were slain, and they hid him, even him and his nurse., in the bedchamber from Athaliah, so that he was not slain And he was with her hid in the house of the Lord six years." Grandmother are more lenient with their children's children than they were with their own. At 40 years ot age if discipline be necessa- y chastise ment is used, but at 70 ine grandmother, looking upon the misbehavior - * ii-it- , j ol tiie granacana, is 3po.iogeue auu u?posed to substitute conreotionery for whip. There is nothing more beautiful than childhood. Grandmother takes out her pocket handkerchief and wipes her spectacles and outs them on and Iooks down into the face of her mischievous and reballious descendent and says: "I don't think he meant to do it. Let him eff this time. I'll be responsible for his behavior in the future." My mother, with the second generation around her, a boisterous crew, said one day: "I suppose they ought to be disciplined, but 1 can't do it. Grandmothers are not fit to bring ? j-V.-1 J? ? up graiiuuiiiiujrcu. nan hub au text we have a grandmother of a different type. I have been at Jerusalem, where the ooourrence of the text took place, and the whole scene came vividly before me while I was going over the site of the ancient temple and climbing the jt towers of the king's palace. Here in W the text it is old Athaiiah, the royal v murderess. She ought to have been honorable. Her father was a king, gjjlir Her husband was a king. Her son was a king. And yet we find her plotting for the extermination of the entire royal family, including her own grandchildren. The executioners' knives oka cjV* oTho mIoao 7C rpfl with I the blood of princes and princesses. On all sides are shrieks and bands thrown ap and straggle and death groan No mercy! Kill kill! Bat while the b? ivory floors of the palace run with carnage and the whole land is nnder the shadow of a great horror a fleet footed woman, a clergyman's wife. Jehosheba by name, stealthily appraches the im perial nursery, seizes upon the grandchild that had somehow as yet escaped f massacre, wraps it up tenderly but in haste, snuggles it against her, flies down the palace stairs, her heart in her Iao^ Via in fVnc uuvav ioug vo UAkwivtvu au compassionate abduction. Get her out of tne way as quick as you can, for she carries a precious burden, even a young king. With this youthful prize she ^ ' presses into the room of tbs ancient temple the church of oiden time, un wraps the young king and puts him down, sound asleep as he is and unconscious of the peril that has been threatened, and there for six years he is secreted in that ohurch apartment Meanwhile old Athaliah smacks her lips with satisfaction and thinks that ? all the royal family are dead. But the six years expire, and it is time for young Joash to come forth ana take the throne and to push baok into disgrace and death old Athaliah. The arrangements are all made for political revolution. The military come and take possession of the temple, swear loyalty to the boy Joash and stand around for his defense. See the sharpened swords and the burnished * shields! Everything is ready. Now Joasb, half sfrighced at the armed tramp of his defenders, seared at the vociferation of his admirers, is brought orth in lull regalia. The scroll of authority is put in his hands, the coronet of government is put on his brow, *?- -- and the people clapped and waved and huzzaed and trumpeted. "What is that?" said Athalaih. "What is that sound over in the temple?" And she flies to see, and on her way they meet here and say: "Why, haven't jou heard? You thought you had slain all the ryoal family, but Joa3h has come to light" Then the rojal murderess, frantic with rage, grabbed her mantle and tore it to tatters and cried until Bhe foamed at the mouth: ''You have no right to crown my grandson. You have no right to take the government from my shoulders. Treason, treason!'' While she stood there crying that the military started for her arrest, and she took a short cut through a back door of the temple and ran through the royal stables, but the battleaxos of the military fell on her in the barnyard, and for many a day when the horses were being unloosened from the chariot after drawing out young Joash the fiery steeds would snort and rear passing the place as they smell the place of the carnage. The first thought I hand you from this subject is that the extermination of righteousness is an impossibility. When a woman is good, she is apt to be very good, and when she is bad she is apt to be very bad, and this Athaliah was one of the latter sort. She would exterminate the iast soion of the house of David, through whom Jesus was to come. There was plenty of work for embalmers and undertakers. She would clear the land of all God fearing and Iattiwap x/x/'vtnI r\ C ^ a rrAn 1 ^ r?Ti a ^ V4 \J\L XVVXAJ& KJU.V TTVU1U ^U<; OXi. end to everything that could it anywise interfere with her imperial criminalty. She fold3 her hands and says: "The work is done. It is completely done." Is it? in the swaddling clothes of that church apartment are wrapped the cause of God and the cause of good government. That is the scion of the house of David. It is Joash, the God worshiping reformer. It is Joash, the friend of God. It is Joash, the demoralizer of Baalitish idolatry. Kock him tenderly, nurse him gently. Athaiiah. 5 on may kill all tne other children, but you cannot kill him. Eternal defenses are thrown all around him, and this clergyman's wife, Jehosheba, will snatch him up from the palace nur0", ?nd will run down with Mm ink lac c juse ot the Lord, and there 9he will hide him for six jears, and at the end of that time lie will come forth for our dethronement and obliteration. Well, my friends, just as poor a botch does the world always make of extinguishing righteousness. Superstition rises up and says, "I will iust put an 2nd to pure religion." _Dom!tian slew 11 M 000 Christians. Diocletian slew 844.- j t )00 Christians. Atfi the soythe of per 11 secution has been swung through a!! j v the ages, and the fiimes hissed, and thi c eruillotine chopped, and the B tstilie j fc groaned, but did the foes of Christianity 1 nx'erminate it? Did they exterminate \ Alban. the first British sacrifice, or Zm-gli, the S*iss reformer, or J )hn U'dcastle, the Christian nobleman, or Aodallah, the Arabian martyr, or Anne A*kew or S znders or Craumer? Great *ork of ex-ermination they made ot' it. Just at the time when they thought they had slain all t&e royal family of Jesus some Jor.3a would spring up and out aiid take the throne of power and wield a very scepter of Christian dominion. Infidelity ?ays, "I will exterminate the Bible," and the Scriptures were thrown into the street for the mob to trample on, and they were piled up in the public squares and set on fire, and mountains of indignant contempt were hurled on them, and learned universities decreed the Bible out of existence Thomas Pain said: In my 'Age of Reason' I -have annihilated the Scriptures. Your Washington is a pusillanimous Christian, but I am the foe of Bibles and of churches." Oh, how many assaults upon that word! A'l the , hostilities that hav ever beeu created | on earth are not to be compared with ( the hostilities against that one book t Said one man in his ibfidel desperation ( to his wife, "You must tot be reading ; chat Bible," and he snatched it away , from her. And though in that Bible < was a lock of hair cf the dear child? j the only child that God had ever given j them?he pitchedthe book with its j contents into the fire aiad stired it with the tongs and spat on it and cursed it 1 and said, ''Susan, never have any more ; of that damnable s:uff here." "CT/^ttt nr.oir.TT i rt?Tn ^ n oj flt*:?Aniz *(3 JLIV/If JJ4C9J4J v9? - , atieuapts have been made to exterminate j that Bible? H?ve its enemies done it? | Have they exterminated the American i Bible societj ? Have they exterminated , the British and Foreign Bible society? ( Have they exterminated the thousands . of Christian institutions whose only ob ject it is to multiply copies of the Scriptures and spread them broadcast j around the world? They have exter- , minated until instead of one or two j copies of the Bible in our houses we have eight or ten, and we .pile them up in the corners of our Sabbath school , rooms and send great boxes of them everywhere. If they get on as well as they are dow going on in tho work of extermination, I do Dot kno# but that our ohildren may live to see the millen nium. Yea, if there should oome a time of persecution ia which all the known Bibles of the earth should be destroyed, all these lamps of hf j that blaze in our pulpits and in our families extinguished, in the very day that infidelity and sin should be holding jubilee over the universal extinction there would be in some closet of a backwoods churah a seoreted copy of the Bible, and this Joash of eternal literature would come out and come up aod take the throne, and the Athaliah of infidelity and persecution would fly out the baok door of the palace and drop her miserable carcass under the hoof3 of the ? ? ? I . II "TT | horses ot tne *mg s staoies. i ou cannot exterminate Christianity! ?ou cannot kiJl Joash? The second thought I hand you from my subject is that there are opportunities in which we may save royal life. You koow thaf. profane history is replete with stories of strangled monarchs and of young princes who have been put out of the wa>. Here is the story of a young king saved. How Jehosheba; the clergyman's wife, must have trem bled as she rashed into the imperial nursery and snatched up Joash! How she hushed him lest by his ory he hinder the escape! Fiy with him Jehosh eba! You hold in your arms the cause of God and good government. Fail, and he is slain. Suaceed, and you turn the tides of the world's history in the right direction. It seems as if betweeD i-nnnrr ini! hie acaassins is nothing but the frail arm of a woman. But why should we spend our time in praising this bravery of expedition when God asks the same thing of you ; and me? All around us the imperiled i children of a great king. They are I born of Almighty parentage and wili < come to a throne or a crown if permit- i ted. But sia, the old Athaliah, goes i forth to the massocre. Murderous < temptations are out for the asssassina- i tion. Valens, the emperor, was told j that there was somebody in his realm < who would usurp his throne and that 1 the name of the man who should be the ' usurper would begin with the letters i T, H, E, 0, I', and the edict went ' forth from the emperor's throne, "Kill i everybody whose name begins with T, < U IE Ti " At?5 hnnrf-rftde and i -"J "? thousands were slain, hoping by that massacre to put an end to that one usurper. But sin is more terrific in its denunciation. It matters not how you spell your name, you come under its knife, under its sword, under its doom, unless there be some omnipotent relief brought to the rescue. But, blessed be God, there is such a thing as delivering a royal soul. Who *ill snatch away Joash? This afternoon in your Sabbath school class there will be a prince of God, some one who may yet reign a3 king forever before the'throne; there will be some one in your class who has a corrupt physical inheritance; there 1 will be some in your class who has a 1 father and mother who do not know 3 how to pray; there will \ j.some one in 1 your class who is destined to command * in church or state, some Cromwell to 1 dissolve a parliment, some Beethoven 1 to touch the world's harp strings, some < John Howard to pour fresh air in the 1 lassretto, some Florence Nightingale * to baniage the battle wouids, some * Miss Dix to soothe the crazed brain, 1 some John Frederick Oberlin to ed- < ucate the besotted, some David Brain- 1 erd to change the Indian's warwhoop 1 to a sabboth song, some John Wesley $ to marshall three fourths of Christen- J dom, some John Knox to make queens 3 turn pale, seme Joash to demolish idol- 3 ond ctrilro fnr t'no fcirnri?nrtl heaven. There are sleeping in your J cradle3 by night, there are playing in your nuseries by day, imperial souls waiting for dominion, and whichever side the cradle they gee out will decide the destiny of empires. For each one of those children sin and holiness contend?Athaliah on the one side, Johosheba on the other. But I hear people say: "What's the use of bothering children with religious instruction? Let them grow up and choose for themselves. Don't interfere with their volition." Suppose some one had said to Jehosheba: "Don't interfere with that young J oash. Let him grow up and decide whether he likes the palace or not; whether he wants to be king or not. Don't disturb his volition." Johesheba knew right well 1 that unless that day the young king i was rescued he would never be reecued ( at all. I tell you, my friends, the 3 reason we don't reclaim all our child- < ren from world iness is because we begin too late. Parents wait until their i children lie before they teach them 1 mm he 7ala? of fratb. They wait until j 1 heir chi-dren ssvear before they teach i i beta the importance of richteos* con- J i eroatioa. They vjifc u^til rheK j c hildren are all w:ai>t up io ihis world t lefore they tell th^m vf & better wcrid j foo late with jonr prayers. Too iare i lafct* wiih I ( ru-u ;vui \*~^ ? 'our benediction. Yju put all ca~e j ipon y>ur childrea betwrerj 12 aud 18 i i\Thy do you not put the chief care bo < ween 4 and 8? it is too lita to re >air a vessel when it his got out of the Irydocka. It is too late tu save Joash ifter the executioners hare broken in. !klay God ami us all for this work of matching royal souls from death to soronstion. Can you imagine any sublimer work ! ;han this soul saving? That was what i luahed Paul's cheek with enthusiasm; :hat was what led Munson to risk his ife amid Bornesian cannibals; that pras what sent Dr. Abeel to preach un- 1 Jer the consuming skies of China; that 1 uras what gave courage to Pkoca3 iu 1 ihe third century. When the military vffi.vrs me to tut him to death for 1 Christ's sake, he put them to bed that hey might rest, while he himself went 5ut and in his own gardea dug his jrave and then osme bask and said, "I am ready." ' Bus they W; re shock3d at the idea of taking the life of their host. He said, "It is the wilf )f God that I should die," and he stood on the margin of his own frave, md they beheaded him. You say it is a mania, a foolhardineis, a fanaticism. Rather would I call it a glorious 3elf abnegation, the thrill of eternal satisfaction, the plucking of Joash from death and raisin'; him to coronation. The thirl thought I hand-to you is that the church of God is a good hilling place. When Jehosheba rushes into the nursery of the king aad picks ap Joash, what shall she do with him?. Shall she take him to some room in the palace? ' No, for the offoial desperadoes will hunt through every nook and corner of that building. Shall she take him in the residence of some wealthy cuizcn? No; that ciuzen would not dare to harbor the fugitive. Bat she has to take him somewhere. She hears the cry of the mob in the streets; she hears the shriek of the dying nobility; so she rushes with Jeash anto the room of the temple, into the house of Gad, and there she puts him down. She knows that Athaliah and her wicked assassins will not bother the temple a great deal. They are not apt to go very much to church, and so she sets down Joash in the temple. There he will be hearing the songs of the worshipers year after year; there he will breathe the order cf the golden censer?; in that sacred spot he will tarry, secreted until the six years have passed and he come to enthronement. Would (rod that we were all as wise c .rohnsAha and lcnftw thaf, rthnrn'n of God ia the best hiding place! Perhaps our parents took us there in our early days. They thatched U3 away from the world and hid us behind the baptismal fonts and amid the Bibles and psalmbooks. 0 glorious enclosure! We have been breathing the breath of the golden censers all the time, and we have seen the Lamb on the altar, and we have handled the vials in which are the prayers of all saints, and we have d -reit under the wings of the cheribim. Glorious inclo3ure! When my father and mother died and the property was settled up, there was hardly anything left. But they endowed us with a property worth more than any earthly possession because they hid us in the temple. And when days of temptation havo come upon my soui I have gone there for shelter, and when assaulted of sorrows I have gqne there for comfort, and there I mean to live. I want, like Joash, to stay until ooronation. 0 men of the world outside there, betrayed, caricatured and cheated of the world, why do ycu not come in through the broad, wide open door of Christian communion? I wish I could act the part of Jehosheba today and steal you away from your perils and hide you ia the tem pie. How few of us appreciate the fact that the church of Q-od is a hiding place! There are many people who put the church at so low a mark that they begrudge it everything, even the few dollars they give toward it. They make no sacrifices. They dole a little out of their surplusage. They piy thejr butchjr's bill, and they pay thsir doctor's bill, and they pay their landlord, and they pay everybody but the Lord, and they some in at the last to, pay the Lord in bis church and frown as they say: 'There, Lord, it is. Send me a receipt in full and don't bother me soon again." fhere is not more than one man out of \ thousand that appreciates what the jhurch ia. Where are the souls that put uside one-tenth for Christian institutions?one-tenth of their inoome? Where are those who, having put aside f r\-n m f/antK rr ti nftn if. onrfrt! 1 t? ? ?1JL?W VUV VVMWAi V*iW T A^/VU AV vu VVAi ? Why, it is pull aad drag and hold on ind grab and clutch, and giving is an iffliotion to most people who it ought to 5e an exhilaration and a rapture. Ob, ! :hat God would remodel our souls on ;his subject and that we might appreciate the hou^e cf God as the great efuge! If your children are to come up ! io lives of virtue and happiness, they 1 yili come up under the shadow of the jhurch. If the church does not get them, | ,he world will. Ah, when you pass away?and it will . iot be long before you do?when you pass away, it wiil be a satisfaction to see rour children in Christian society. You vant to have them sitting at the holy lacraments. You want them mingling n Christian associations. You would ike to have them die io the sacred prejinots. When you are on your dying )ed and take your little ones come up to ! ;ake your last word and you look into iheir bewildered faces, you will want to eave them under the church's benidiotion. 1 do not care how hard you ire; that is so. I said to a man of the fforid: "Your son and daughter are joingtojjin our churoh next Sunday. ' Save you any objections?1' "Bless foul'' he said. "Objections? I wish aU I ny children belonged to the church. I lon't attend to those matters myself? 1 [ know I am very wicked- -but I am rery glad they are going, and I shall be ( ;here to see them. I am very glad, six; [ am very glad. I want them there." A.nd so. though you mav have been wan lerers from God and though you may aave sometimes caricatured the church < )f Jesus, it is your great desire that rour sons and daughters should be standing all their lives within this sacred inclcsure. More than that, you yourself will 1 ffant the church for a hiding place when : ihe mortgage is foreclosed; when your i laughter, jast blooming into woman- . tiood, suddenly clasps her hands in a < slumber that konws no waking; when jaunt trouble waiks through the parlor i and the sitting room and the dining : hall and the nursery, you will wane 1 V.U A h 3UIU5 BilCiCCi J1UUL1 tJUCJ some of yon have been run upon by I misfortune and trial! Why do you not some in-o the shelter? Church of God, be a hiding place to ; ill these people! Give them a seat where they can rest their weary souls. JL . i <?b mw?iiwmni ra?. mm ****** niw* v j'ias'i soma light from your chandeliers jpoa their darkness With some soothng hymn hush their griefs. Oh. church >f God, gate of heaven, let hi; go ihroag'ii'i! AU other iiatitut-ioDS are roine to f?il, but thn churoh of God? V ? 3. ~J" A Uc AS MUQUdllUU 13 IU?3 Vi XiitCD, iVD jharter is for everlasting years, its keys ir^ h- Id by the universal Proprietor, i*.? <3 vidend is heaven. its president is jr ?o! Siire as thy truth shall last, To Z on shall ba given The hizest glories earth oan yield And brighter bliss of heaven. God grant that all this audience, the youngest, the eldest, the worst, the best, may find their safe aud glorious biding piace where Jcash found it?in the temple! An Important City. The Newport News Herald figures out the election down to New York oity, and says t'-.e v)te of that city wi 1 decide the itsie between Bryan aiid McKinley. Tne Herald says the night of November 6th will find naif the people of the United States watching the bulletin boards to lea:n the news from the election. Tncse pfople will closely scan every report that is flashed over the o]fc.'fnr. wires and soma of tham will en tertain tbems -Ives comparing the returns from some preciact in Oregon with the fienres made by the same prenint in 1896 The same figureing will be nadewith othvpre ?ntshere5 the: a aud everyvfLere aiK*wr thisbroau ianc. Bat all this wiil be useless and idle worJs To find out who shall be the next President of the United States, the man who watches the bulletin board has only to watch the returns from New York city. No matter how many other states Mr. Bryan or Mr. McKlnley may carry each of them needs the vote of >f<iw York. The creat State that casts 36 electoral votes is absolutely pivotal. It will make one candidate and unmake the other. It will dictate the policy of tbft government through the comiag four years.'' l'ho Herald goes on to say that "Mr. Bryan's chance for carryiog the State lies in the power of Tammany Hall to roli up a majority of 100,000 for him in the city of New York?in Greater N-w Yerk. Mr. Croker Siya it can he done. He says it shall be done. Republicans on the other hand are loudly proclaiming that Mr. Bryan's msjority in New York city will fall a long way under 100,000. Some claiming that it will sjarcely reach 25,009. The difference between 25,000 and 100000 is great, great enough to changc the electoral vote of the State and the electoral vote of the Empire State is great enough to say who shall be President. The Republican vote in the Sta e above the Brjnx cannot overcome 100,000 Democratic plurality in the city, while it can really overcome 25,000 plurality. Ic thus comes to pass that New York city is the pivot. If Mr. Croker and his co workers correct ly estimate the v<tias of the grea-, to**n vi_ o 11 u^L-v? JiT. JLJIJrifcLi Will UUUUjJy tliC UitC House after March 4, and the trusts and combines wiil ha?e to face an Attorney General that knows not New Jersey." We do not agree with The Herald. If Bry<m iseltcted, a&d we believe he wi 1 be unless tlaona oaa succeed in having the election, he will go in oa a tidal wave that wili make the vote of NTo.of Ynrk State nnnftcoesp.arv for hia success. New York will be 12 Bryan's column, but it will not be necessary to secure his election. Tne Republicans hope to buy up the small farmer m the doubtful States and thus save them to McKinley. As we said above, this is the oniy chance they have of winning. We hope and trust that ihcy will not succeed in carrying cut their debanching process. If they do not Bryan will go in on the biggest tidal wave ever known in our political history. A Boston Post View. The Boston Post says the political situation now closeiy resembles thaf of 1892. "Nothing was more positive," it declares, "than the conviction of the Republican managers in 1892 that Harrison wnn'.d h>> rfi filftfttfld. Th? r>nnn try was highly 'prosperous' and the 'full dinner paii' was strongly in evidence. Industrial trusts were booming all over the land under the stimu lus of the McKinley tariff. All the machinery of the government wa3 in the hands of the Republicans and was j worked for the advancege of the R3 j jublican candidate. Ail the 'protected' industries aid the monopolies receiving favors through Republican legislation in Congress were liberal contributors to the party campaign fund. There was money in plently for political U3e, there was apparent prosperity tnroughout the land, and there was the prestige of being 'in.' At this period of the campaign, two weeks before election, Harrison was declared the winner by almost any majority, hardly short of unanimity. But Cleveland swept the country. Tne result of the contest this year turns upon five states which are doubtful, althouge claimed by each side respectively. These are Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland and New York. All of these states were carried for McKiDley in 1896, Kentucky alone giving oae of its electoral votes to Bryan, if half of their votes 3an be held for McKinley this year he will be re-elected; if Bryan can win back a little more than haif of their combined electoral vote, in addition to the states which he carried four years ago, he will win. It is not even neoessary that Bryan should carry New York in order to oarry the election, Illinois, Indiana and Kentucky will give hioa enough.'' Brethren who have been demoralized by the New York Herald and other sheets might find encouragement in this. Hot, Pure and Simple. The New York Sun says Henry Voorce Brandenburg, senior member of the firm of Henry Voorce Brandenburg & Co., of Wall street, said on Saturday tbat while the public was informed in a general way of the fact that capital was waiting before investing to sea the out come of the Presidential contest, there was no conception among moss people of the tremendous amounts which waited only the assurance of continued Republican control to begin the development of new industries. "I do not believe that the people realize the exteDt of this condition," said. Mr. Brandenburg. "Millions of doHarsare being Held oacs unui tne election ia over. When the money ia put into these enterprises that are now standing still, thousands of workingmen will be employed. So you see that the capitalist and the laborer are both affected by the present condition." This is rot, pure and simple, put out for the purpose of helping the Kepublicans. If we mistake not, the Sun, and most other liepublican papers, claim that there is no chance whatever of Bryan's election. t - - ? a.??? ?rtHorrfl^ JLI LOIS IS true, wny D JLLUuiu bu^oo gigantic financial echemes he held back? In publishing such stuff as the above the Sun and other Republican newspapers discredit their own claims that McKinley will s*eep the country next Tuesday. y " APPEAL 0? TEE MAYORS Of Certain Cities to Voters of the State The mayors of the several cities interested have issued the follo??iog j ?ict stress to the people of the Sf.a<e in r gard to the? proposed constitu*'onal amendment to be voted upon at the coming general election. To the Voters of South Carolina; At the last session of our general assembly, through the efforts of onr respective senators and representatives, the following amendment to the constitution of onr State was passed by the requisite majority of both the senate and the house of representatives, and will be sabenitted to you at the general electioa on the 6th day of November next: "A Joint Resolution proposing to amend section 7. article Vlll. of the constitution, relating to municipal bonded indebtedness: ''Section 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of the State of South Carolina, that the following amendment to section 7, of article Vlll, of the constitution, be agreed to: Add at the end thereof the following words: Provided, that the limitation imposed by this section and by section 5, article IV, of this constitution, shall do: apply to bonded indebtedness in curred by the cities of Colombia, Rock Hill, Charleston and Florence, where the proceeds or the said bonds are ap plied solely for the purchase, establishment, maintenance or increase of water-works plant or sewerage system; and by the city cf Georgetown, when the proceeds of said bonds are applied solely for the purchase, establishments maintenance or increase of wa;or work, plant, sewerage system, gas, and electric light plants, where the entire rev enue arising from the operation of such plants or system5, sball be devoted solely and exclusively to the maintenance and operation of the same, and where the question of incurring such indebtedness is submitted to the freeholders and qualified voters of such municipality. as provided in the constitution^ upon the question of other bonded indebtedness. Approved the 19th day of February, A. JD. 1900. We believe if the vital importance of this amendment to our oities waa understood by yon, there would be no dcubt of its being ad jpted by an overwhelming majority. Fearing taat you may not appreciate the imperative necessity of giving our municipalities the opportunity of deciding, each one for itself, whether we should increase cur resp9ctive debts for the sols purposes named, we appeal to you to give us this right of choice. All must realize that without an abundant supply of good water, suitable for all purposes, and without a proper system of sewerage, whioh can not be made efficient without this water supply, the growth and the health of any municipality must be seriously impaired. We believe there is no other measure orprojact possible, for the advancef /mi* MifnAa r> o r? nArn r.o m UiCLIl \Jl UU1 bU^U vau VVlU|/Oi& in importance with an abundant water supply atd a proper system of sewerage, aad without these, in our opinion, they caunot advance in prosperity or population as they should do. Section 13, of artide 2, of the constitution of South Carolina, adopted December 3 1895, provides: . Section 13. In authorizing a special election in any incorporated city or town in the State for the purpose of bonding the same, the general assembly shall precribe as a condition precedent to the holding of said election a petition from a majority of the freeholders of said oity or town ss shown by its tax books, and at suoh elections all electors of such city or town who are duly qualified for voting under section 12 of this article, and who have paid taxes, 8tate, oounty and munsci pal, for tbo previous year enau De allowed to vote; and a vote of the majority of those votingia said election shall be necessary to aushorizj the issue of 3aid bonds. And sections V and VII of artiole VIII of the constitution confirm and anr reiterate the same provisions. You will ece therefore that the adoption of this amendment will not commit any of our communities to an issuance of bonds, or to municipal ownership, bat will only confer upon us a power in these respects that we do not now possess. And the conferring of this authority, ia the event that other plans prove impractical or undersirable for procuring for us these vital essentials to oar very life and growth, will be under these most ample safe guards provided by thp constitution of the State. JLne cousuiatioa a? quuueu suuve now wisely surrounds this question of increasing the debt of any municipality with such provisions and limitations, j as require the consent of a majority of [ both the real estate owners and of the qualified voters in each place to any issuance of additional munioipal bonds. The amendment submitted to your I votes recogQiz2s and repeats the constitution provision. Should this Qamendment be adopted by the voters of the State, and approved by our next general assembly, neither of our cities can issue a single bond nor increase their bonded debt a single dollar, by any action whatever of our municipal authorities, unless and until in each city, first, '"a majority-of the freeholders" petition those authorities to order a special eleotion, at that, nnftnial election a "maioritv of the qualified eleotors" vote to issue these bonds for the special purpeses named in the amendment, and for no other purpose whatsoever. Unless this constitutional amendment is adopted, "the freeholders and qualified voters" in neither of our cities can have the privilege or option of issuing bonds for the purpose cf acquiring these necessities, so essential to health, life and prosperity, even if all "the freeholders and all the qualified voters" were unanimous in their de^re to do so. We therefore appeal to you, our fellow citizens, to help us secure by your votes for the adoption of this amendment, the right to decide for ourselves, subject to the limitation of the constiinfirtn rtf Sftntll HAMIIHA. aboVS Sfifc fortb, these blessings so essential to our health and prosperity, which our own people are praying for, and a prayer which we feel sure our fellow South Carolinians will not suffer to pass unheeded. Yours respectfully, F. S. Earle, Mayor of Columbia. J. J. Waters, Mayor of Rock Hill. W. D. Morgan, Mayor of Georgetown. W. H. Malloy, Mayor of Florence. J. Adger Smythe, Mayor of Charleston. yarn Mil?a miujw aif^i?nw?p?<mmn iwii .una ~~~sm THE PENALTY. i Warby Wine, tin MurcUrcr of Mr H. H Paulling, Hang 'Warhv Wir/v thfi mnr^fer nf Mr H H. Paulliog. was hang ia the corridor of the 0 angeburg county j iii en last Friday m the presence of about seventy witnesses. About one thou -and people were on tbe outside, bat the/ could not see the execution, The prxs oier was baptizied by Rev. Jones, the pastor of the colored Baptist church, on last Saturday aua professed conversion. Sheriff Dakes wax very liberal in his time allowance to the prisoner. Shortly before 1 o'clock the march frem the cell to me gallows was commenced, the culprit joining with his spiritual adviser in singing a hymn, which lasted some time after the place of execution was reached. Rev. Jones made a few appropriate remarks, after which the prisoner was given an opportunity to speak. He was perf ;ctly cool and in possession of all his faculties. He said that he realized that he had only about five minutes longer to live and would soon be before his Maker, whom he felt had pardoned him and would re ce've him in lit avei. He w*a guilty out had re pe n tea a ad had no fear of the hereafter. Aiccr tnis a teeiiog ana earnest prayer was offiered by the minister Just as the preacher said "amen" the trip was sprung and simultaneously the prison clook struck the hoor of 1. The only hitoh in the whole affair ac curred just as the trap was sprung. Oae cf the man's feet caught in the rope which supported the trap and for Dearly a minute he lay suspended by his feet and neck. This oiroumstanoe probably prevented his neck from being broken, as there was no "drop." Deatn wa3 caused by strangulation. In 14 minutes he was pronounced dead by Drs. Djyie and Jclforas, aad in 25 the bsdy was cut down. The remains were interred by the county. It will be remembered that on the night of Decembar 17, 1898, Mr. H. H Pauling was found wouudeu in an old field near Fort Motte. He did not live long after being found, and died without saying who had shot him. By ac cident almost Warby Wine, Major Q-reen and two other negroes were associated with the crime. They were arrested. At the trial Wine and Green were convioted, and the other two were discharged. They left for Darts un known as they have not been seen or heard of since The evidence produced on the trial was quite strong. Finally Wine confessed that on the night of the murder he and Green were going along the road and that he bad tired at an oblect lying cn the side of the road, supposing it 10 besoms animal. He claimed that ho and Green passed on without stopping. This, of coarse, was not trae, as Paulling's watch was in Green a possession, proving conclusively that the deceased had been rob bed, as stated by h m before his death. Green tesuned thac ihe watoh had been given him by Wine, but the evidence. clearly showed that both were conoemed in the robbery. Wirie aad Green were both conv'oted and sentenced to be hang. The caae was aDDealed to the suurcme court, but the verdict W3S sustained. The governor was then appealed to in behalf of the criminals, but lie also refused to interfere unul Thursday, when Wine made a confession, in which he stated that he alone killed Paulling and Green had nothing to do with it. Upon the strength of this confession Gov. McSweeney commuted Green's sentence to imprisonment in the penitentiary for life. Ho is now in that institution. Wine's was about thirty years old and Green about twenty five. New York Herald's Forecast. According to the* New York Herald's forecast of the election, published ten days ago, McKinley is as good as elected. 'lne Herald gives McKtnley 282 AUAfAvio] TTAtofl Rfnan nnlxr T VVVW UU\* VJM<^ AWf it gives Ohio, Indiana, Maryland and West Virginia to McKinley. It also gives him Kansas and ionr of the extreme Western States that Bryan carried in 1896. It giyes Bryan eleven less votes than he received in 1896. The only gain it gives Bryan is the vote of Kentucky. If there is & tidal wave for McKinley the Herald's forecast may prove true, otherwise Bryan will be elected. The New York correspondent of the Louisville Courier- i Journal has dissected this forecast and his conclusions are interesting. He says: "How the Herald oan concede a Republican loss of 150,000 in New York State and still give McKinley States that Bryan carried in the West in 1896 is perplexing. Is Bryan stronger East now and weaker in the West than la 1896? If so, why would he not carry Marryland, Delaware and West Virginia? If Bryan, aooording to the Heralds forecast, has gained 150,000 votes in New York and 40,000 votes in jNew Jersey in four years, would not the same percentage of gains give him Maryland, Indiana, West Virginia and Delaware? Certainly it would. "In 1896 McKinley carried Ohio by 47,498; now the Herald gives him but 35, J00, or a loss of 12,500. If Bryan is going to gain 12 500 votes in Ohio, why should he loss 12.300 votes in Kansas? The Herald forecast is all rot and a bundle of inconsistencies. Bryan has oa -mTinfi (iKtriftfl nf ftn.rrvioi7 Ohio. In ?""??? V?V ?" ? ? J diana and Illinois as Mo Kinley. The eleciorial vote of these three states ia sixty-two. Added to that which the Herald gives him, 165, makes 227, or three more than requirdd to elect. "If the Democrats of Indianapolis cut the McKiniey majority of 1896 down from 7,000 to 2,5u0, as they say they will, Bryan will cairy Indiana, "If the Democrats of Cnicago carry Cook county, as they say they will, by 30,000, Bryan will carry Illinois, fer Cook County gave. McKiniey 71000 in 1896. 4'If the Democrats of Cincinnati, nnlnmhtf* and Davfcon VAVrVAHUVj vw. ?>? ??? do one-half of what John R. McLean and Tom L. Johnson gay they will, Bryan will carry Ohio. L. W. Habeman, one of the most intelligent German-American citizens in the country, who has made a thorough canvass of Ohio, told 'me this morning that 65 per cent, of the German vote and all the Quaker vote of Ohio would go for Bryan. Haberman says that Bryan will carry Ohio by -30,000. 'Golden Kule' Jones, of Toledo, who received 100,000 votes for Governor a year ago, tells me that Bryan will get two-thirds of that vote." A Sew Rice Huller. Patents have been taken out for a rice-fcuHing machine, invented by a citizen of Cincinnati. The working part of the machine is a carborundum wheel, or cylinder. There are corrugations on the surface and these are deep and I sharp enough to cut th9 hull without injuring the kernel, The nee win De fed upon the roil from the hopper above and a stiff brush will hold the grain to the wheel while the hull is being taken off. A fan will then separate the husk from the grain. Novembar Weather. The to'iowiDg data, covering a per-! iod of 29 yeaTs, have been compiled from tne weather bureau records at C harks on for the month of November for the past 29 years: Temperattee Mean or normal temperature, 58 degrees The warmest month was that of 1896,. with an average of 63 degrees. The coldest month was that of 1872, with, an average of 54 degress. The highest temperature was 83 degrees on November 23 1899. The lowest temperature watt 23 degrees on November 30. 1872. a? _ ^ xxvciagc uaic uu niiiuu mat frosfc occured in autumn, November 30. Average date 011 which last "killing" frost occurred in spring, March 3 Precipitation. Average for the month, 2 99 inches. Average number of days with 01 of an inch or more, 8 The greatest monthly precipitation was 7 54 inches in 1888. The least; monthly preoipitatton was 0 33 inahes in 1886. The greatest amount of precipitation recorded in any 24 consecutive hours was 5 94 inches on November 16 and 17, 1899. Clouds \nd Weather, Average number of clear diys, 13; nartlv cloudy davs. 10: cloudv dava. 7. Winds The prevails* winds have been from the northeast, 22 per centum. The highest velocity of the wind wss 46 miles from the east, on November 14 18S8. L. N. Jesunoftky, Local Forecast Official, Weather Bureau. m.JJ- A m:. xeuuy vjrows lixesome. The Baltimore News, which is supporting Mc&tnley is not so well pleased with Kooevelt and his methods in this campaign. The News takes a shot at him thus: Governor Roosevelt does not appear to be very comprehensive of the impationceof the. American people with a nun who harps too much on one string, especially when that string strikes a jarring and unnecessary note. It has been the habit of Governor Roosevelt for several weekes past to answer those who attend his meetings to cheer for Bryan with the injunction: 41 Why don't jou cheer for Aguinaldo?'' and ' Why don't you cheer for Altgeld?" Of course, this silences the enthusiasm some solitary individual here and there might have been bcld enough to manifest for Bryan; but it has become tiresome. Governor Roosevelt is not hard up for arguments in this campaign that he is compelled to resort this kind of claD trao " How's This? We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO. Props., Toledo, 0. We, the undersigned, hayo known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years aad believes hitn perfeotly honorable in all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obligations made by their firm. West & Feuax, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo,. 0. Walding, Kinnan & Maryin, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, 0. flail's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting direotly upon the blood and muoous surfaces of the system. Price 75 c. per bottle. Sold by all Druggists, Testimonials free. Hall's Family Pills are the best. Boxers on Tod. ? The governor of Hong Kong, China, had been informed that 4,000 villagers ia the Sasntochuok-Kwaishin distriot were attacked by rebels at Pengkok. The villagers were defeated and 2,000 of them killed. The rebels, who lost 400 killed, burned two villages containing 3,000 houses. A force of 2,000 troops went to the assistance of the villagers and engaged the rebels on October 22ad. No details of the resuit have been received. Gen. Ho, with 2,000 troops has returned to Hong Kong, having burned the villages of Shan Chautin and Malantau. Nothing In It. The Mobille Register says "much is made by the republican journals of the v i.: XT XT L ueiucg uu lue eiuuuuu iu itew jlu?, but a correspondent of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch writes that there is nothing in it. There is not, he says* $100,000 wagered in New York on the election, and th9 talk about betting is a bluff for election purposes." Wouldn't Do in Politics. 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