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A Regret, Oft, $outd yo hilt liuvo noon, vrhU?.they **ov<? oura, > c Thogvooo of (layo forovor pasaod awayi Had wo but foll tho beauty of tho flowers Thatbloomod for us-boforo thoy knew do? o?yj Could w? havo known how wo ehouM yearn in vain For looks and smiles no moro to great our sight, Or how tho fruitless i oars would fall Uko rain For hours of swoot oommunlon, vanished quite; Their worth tous-had wobutbottor known, Thon had wo hold thom doaror, while our own, Had kept somo ealvogo from tho joys o'or thrown, And lonollnossUeolt has found us loss alone! -Agnos Maulo Maohar, In Coutury. TALMAUE'S SERMON. Dr. Talmage's Discourse on tho Growth and Perfection of Christianity Although Pr. Talmago was hindorod from attonding tho groat annual moot ing of the Christaia EndsAVor society at Cincinnati, his sormon shows him to bo in ?ympathy with tho groat tuovo mont; toxt. Amos ix; 13, "Behold tho days oomo, saith tho Lord, that tho plowman shall ovortako tho roaper." Unablo booauao of othor important dutios to aooopt tho invitation to tako part in tho groat convention of Christian Endoavorors at Cincinnati, bogun last wook, 1 proaoh a sormon of. congratulation for all tho members of that magnifioont association, whether now gathered in vast assomblago or busy in thoir places of usefulness, transatlantic and oisatlantio, and aa it is now harvest timo in tho Holds and sioklor aro Hashing in tho gathoring of a groat orop, I find mighty suggestive ness in my text. It is a pioturo of a tropical elimo, with a soason so prosperous that tho harvest roaohos olear o vor to tho plant ing time, and tho swarthy husbandman busy cutting tho grain, almost fools tho broath of tho horses on his shoulders, tho horso hitohod to tho plow, prepar ing for a now crop. "Bohold tho days como, saith tho Lord, tho plowman shall ovortako tho roapor." Whon is that? That is now. That is this dav whon hardly havo you dono reaping ono harvost' of roligious rosult than tho plowman is getting roady for anothor. In phraseology oharged with all venom and abuso ond oaricaturo I know that ingolds and agnostics havo declar ed that,Christianity has oollapsod: that tho Biblo is an obsoleto book; that tho Christian ohuroh is on tho rotrcat. 1 shall answer thal wholesale ohargo to day. Botwoon 3,000,000 and 4,000,000 En doavors sworn boforo high hoavon that they will do all thoy oan to tako Amoroa for God. Europo for God. Asia and Afrioa for God-aro not tho sign most ohooring? Or, to roturn to tho agrioultural figuro of my toxt, moro than a million roapors aro overtaken by moro than a million plowmon. Besides this, thoro aro moro pooplowho bolicvo in the Bible lhau at any time in thc world's cxistonoo. An Arab guido was loading a French infidel across tho de sert, and over and anon tho Arab guido wculd got down in tho sand and pray to tho Lord. It disgusted tho Fronoh in fidel) end aftor awhilo, as tho Arab got up from ono of his prayers, tho infidel said, "How do you know thoro ia any God?" And tho Arab guido said: "How do 1 know that a man and a camel pasBod by our tont last night? 1 know it by tho footprint in tho sand, And you want to know how I know whothor thoro ^is any God? Look at tho sunsot. Is that tho footstep of a man?" And by tho samo process you and I havo oomo to undoistand thal this book is tho footstep of God. But now lot us soo whothor tho book is a last your's almanac Lot us soo whothor tho ohuroh of God is a Bull Ruo rotroat, muskets, oantoons and havoreaoks strowing all tho way. Tho groat English historian Sharon Turnor, a man of vast loaming and groat ao ouraoy, nota olorgyman but an attornoy ns well as a historian, gi vos this ovor wholming statistic in regard to Chris tianity and in rogard to tho numbor of Christains in tho different centuries; In tho first oontury 500.000 Christiane, in tho sooond oontury 2.000,000 Chris tians, in tho third oontury 5,000,000 Christians, in tho fourth oontury 10, 000,000 Christians, in tho fifth oontury 15,000 000 Christians, in tho sixth oon tury 20,000,000 Christains, in tho sovonth oontury 24 000,000 Christians, in tho oight oontury 30,000,1)00 Chris tions, in tho ninth oontury 40,000,000 Ohristainfl, in tho tonth oontury 50, 000,000 Christians, in tho olovonth oon tury 70,000,000 Christians, in tho twolth oontury 80,000,0000 Christians, in tho thirteenth oontury 75,000,000 Christains, in tho fourtconth oontury 80,000,000 Christians, in tho fiftoonth oontury 100,000,000 Christians, in tho sixtoonth oontury 125,000,000 Chris taina, in tho soventoonth oontury 155f 000,000 Christians, in tho oightoonth oontury 200,000,030 Ohristaina-a do oadonoo, as you observo, in only ono oontury, and moro than mado up in tho following oonturios, wmlo it is tho usual computation that thoro woro at tho close of tho nineteenth oontury 470,000,000 Christians, making us to boliovo that boforo this oontury is dos ed tho millennium will havo startod its boom and liftod its hosanna. Poor Christianity 1 What a pity it hos no friondal How lonesome it must bot Who will tako it out of tho poorhouse? Poor Christianity I Four hundrod mil lions in ono oontury. In a fow wooka of thia yoar 2,500,000 oopios.of tho Now Tostamont distributed. Why, tho oarth is liko an old oa&tlo with 20 gatos and a park of arti]lory roady to thundor down ovory gato. Soo how hoathondom is ho ing surrounded and honeycombed and attaokod by this all oonquoring gospol. At tho beginning of tlio nineteenth oontury 150 missionaries; at tho oloso of that oontury 84,000 missionaries and nativo helpers and ovangolists. At tho boginning of tho nineteenth oon tury thoro woro only 50,000 oonvorts. Now thoro aro ovor 1,000,000 oonvorts from hoathondom. You all know that an important work of nn army is to plant tho battorios. It may tako many days to plant tho bat torios, and thoy nay do all tho work in ton minutos. Thoso gospol battorios aro hoing planted all along tho soaooasts and in all nations. It may tako a good whilo to plant thom, and thoy may do all their work in ono day. Thoy will. Nations aro to bo born in a day. . But just oomo baok to Christendom and rooognizo tho faot that during tho last ton years as many pooplo havo connected thonieolvoswith ovangolioal churches as connected thomsol ves with tho churches in tho first 50 yoars of last oontury. So Christianity is falling baok, and tho Biblo, thoy say, is boooming an obso loto book. I go into a oourt, and wher ever I find a judge's bonoh or a olork's dosk I find a Biblo. Upon what book could thoro bo uttorod tuo solemnity of an oath? What book is apt to bo put in tho trunk of tho young man as ho loavoB for olly lifo?- Tho Bible. What shall I find in nino out of ovory ton homo in this oity? Tho Biblo. Tn nino out of every tea homo lo Ohrlnton ?lom? Tho Biblo. Voltaire wroto Ibo prophecy that tho Biblo iu tho nino toonth century would boootno oxtinot, Tho oontury ia gonoj and I havo to toll you that tho room in whioh Voltaico wroto that prophooy not long ar?o waa orowded from floor to coiling with Bi bios from Switzerland. Suppoco tho oongrous of tho United Statos should poss a l;,w that thoro shculd bo no moro Biblob printod in Amorioa and no Bibles read. If thoro aro 00,000,000 grown pooplo iu tho Unitod States, thoro would bo 60,000, 000 pooplo in an army to # put down s?oh a law and dofond thoir right to road tho Hildo. But eupposo tho oon groas of tho Unitod Statos should make a law against) tho roading or tho publi cation of any othor book, how many pooplo would go rut in suoh a oruaado? Could you got 60,000,000 pooplo to go out and risk their lives in tho dofonso of Shakospcaro's tragodioa or Glad stono's traota or Maoaulay's "History of longland?" You know that thoro aro a thousand mon who would dio In tho dofonso of this book whore thoro is not more than ono man who would dio in tho dofonso of any other book. You try to insult my common sonso by telling mo tho Biblo is fading out from tho world. It io tho most popular book of tho conturios. How do I know it? I know it just as 1 know in rogard to othor booka. How many volumos of that history aro published? Woll, you aay 5,000. How many copies of another hook aro pub lished? A hundrod thousand. Whioh is tho moro popular? Why, of oourso, tho ono that has tho hundrod thousand circulation. And if this book hm moro oopios abroad ia tho world, if thero aro fivo timos as many Bibloa abroad as any othor book among civilizod nations, ! doon not that show you that tho most popular book on oarth today ?B tho word of God? "Oh," say pooplo, "tko ohuroh isa collection of hypocrites, and it is los iog itB powor and it is fading out from tho world." Ia it? A bishop of-tbo Mothodist ohuroh told mo that that do nomination avoragos two now ohurohos ovory day. In othor words, thoy build 730 oburohes in that denomination in a yoar, and thoro aro at loast 1,500 now Christian ohurohos built in Amnrina ovory year. Dooo that look as though tho Christian ohuroh woro fading out, as though it woro a def unot institution? What stands noarost to tho hoarts of tho Amorioan pooplo today? I do not caro in what villago or what oity or what neighborhood you go. What is it? ls it tho postoflioo? Is it tho hotol? Is it tho looturlng hall? Ah, you know it is not I You know , that that whioh stands noarost to tho heartu of tho American pooplo is tho Chris tian ohuroh. You may talk about tho ohuroh bo in?; a collection of hypoorites, but whon tho diphthoria swoops your phil dron off whom do you sond foi? The postmaster, tho attorney genoral, thc hotol koopor, aldorman? No. You send for a minister of this Biblo rolig ion. And if you havo not a room ic your houso for tho obsoquioa, what buildiog do you solioit? Do you say 'Givo mo tho fi cost room in tho ho tel?" Do you say, "Givo mo thai theater?" Do you say, "Givo mo tba publio building whore I oan lay ni] doad for a little whilo until wo say i prayor ovor it?" No. You say. "Giv< ua tho houso of God." >Yud if thoro i a song to bo sung at tho obsequies what do you want? What does any body want? Tho "Marseillaise Hymn? "God Save tho Qaoon?" Our owi grand national air? No. Thoy wan tho hymn with whioh thoy sang thoi old Christian mother into her lae aloop, or thoy want sung tho Sabbat sohool hyma whioh thoir iittlo girl san tho last Sabbath aftornoon sho was ou before sho got that awful sickness whio bioko your hoart. I appoal to you common sonso. You know tho mos ondoaring institution on earth, th most popular institution on oarth today is tho ohuroh of tho Lord Joaua Christ A man ia a fool that doos uotroeogniz it. Tho infidola say: "Thoro is groa liberty now for infidola; froodom c platform. Infidelity shows itu powc fi om tho faot that it in ovory whore toi orated, and it oan aay what it will. Why, my frionds, infidelity is not hal so blatant in our day as it waa in th days of our fathers. Do you know tbs in tho days of our fathers thoro wei pronounced it li lois in publio author ty, and thoy could got any politior position? Lot a man todiy doolai himself antagonistio to tho Chrisiia roligion, and what oity wants him fe mayor; what ntato wants him for govei nor; what nation wautu bini for pros dont or for king? Lot a man oponl proclaim bimmil tho onomy of or glorious Christianity, and ho oannt got a majority of votos in any state, i any oity, in any oountry, in any war of Amorioa. A distinguished infidol yoars ago ri< ing in a rail oar in Illinois said. "Win has Christianity ovor dono?'' An ol Christian woman said: "It has dor ono good thing anyhow. It has kopt n infidol from hoing governor of Illinois. A4 I stood in tho sido room ofthoopoi houso of Peoria, Ills., & promt no nt ge i ?loman ol that oity said, I o?n Uli ye tho uoorot of that eromondous bitlorno against Christi/?.nity." Said I, "Wat it?" "Why, Baid ho, "in this vc houso there waa a groat ooovontion nominate a governor, and thoro wo tinco or four candidates. At tho san timo thoro was in a ohuroh in this oi a Sabbath sohool oonvontion, and happened that ono of tho mon who w in tho Sabbath sohool oonvontion w also a moinbor of tho politioal oonvo don. In tho politioal* oonvontion tl namo highest on tho roll at that tin and about to bo nominated was tho nan of tho grqat champion infidol. Tho was an adjournmont botwoon ballot and in tho afternoon, whon tho non nations woro boing mado, a plain f ann got up and said: 'Mr, Chairman, th nomination must not bo mado. T Sunday schools of Illinois will dofc him.' That ondod all proapoot of 1 nomination." Tho Christian roligion is mightier t day than it ovor was. Do you thi that suoh a scono could bo onaotod n< as was onaotod in tho days of Kobi piorro, whon a shamoloBS woman v, olovatod to tho dignity of agoddoss a oarriod in a goldon ohair to aoathord whoro inoonso was burnod to hor a pooplo bowod down boforo hor as divino boing, sho taking tho plaoo tho Biblo and God, whilo iu tho c ridor of that cathedral woro onad Buoh Boonos of drunkonnoso and < bauchory aa had novor boforo be witnosBod? Do you think suoh a thi oould possibly ooour inOhriatondom day? No. Tho polioo of Waahingti or of Now York, or of Paris wot swoop upon it. I know infidelity mal a good deal of talk in our day. Ono fidol can mako groat oxoitomont, but oar toll you on what prinoiplo it is. is on tho prinoiplo that if a man jun ovorboard from an oooan liner ho ma! more cxoitoment than all tho 500 v stay on board. But tho faot that jump;, ovorboard doos not stop tho el Dooa tlmfc wrook tho SOO paflflongora? It inakoa KVtTit oxoitomont when a mau j ii m pa from tho loot uv i np, platform or from tho pulpit into infidolity, but dooB that koop tho Biblo or tho oburoh from oarrying millions of poaaongora to tho shoro of otornal safotj ? ThoBo oppononta Boy that soionoo ia ovorooming roligion in our day. Thoy look through tho spootaolos bf tbo in fido u soiontints, and thoy say: "It is impoBBiblo that thia book bo truo. Poo plo oro finding it out. Tho Biblo has got td go overboard. Soionoo ia going to throw it overboard." Do you boliovo that tho Biblo aooount of tho origin of lifo will bo ovorthrowo by infidel aoion tista who havo 50 di fieront thoorioa about tho origin of lifo? If thoy should all oomo up in solid phalanx, all agroo ingon ono sandmont and ono thoory, por haps Christianity might bo dnmagod, but thoro aro not to many differouoos of opinion insido the oburoh as outsido tho ohuroh. Oh, it makes ino sick to soo tlioso litorary fops going along with a copy of Dar arin under ono arm and a ! of sn of transfixed grasshoppers and but- j toi fi40 un er tho othor arm tolling about.j tho "survival of tho fittost" and Hux ley's protoplasm and tho nebular hy pothesis Tho faot ia that somo natu ralists just as soon aa tboy find out tho difforonoo bctwoon tho foolers of a wa ip and (bo horns of a bootle begin to pat ronize tho Almighty, whilo Agassiz, glorious Agassiz, who novor mado any protonsion to b ing a Christian, puts both his foot on tho dootrino of ovolu tion and Bays: "I soo that many of tho naturalists of our day aro adopting foots whioh do not bear observation, or havo not passed undor objorvatiou. Thoso mon warring with each othor--1)irwin waning against Litnaroh, Wallaoo war ring against Cope, ovon Ilorsobol de nouncing Ferguson. Thoy do not agroo about anything. Thoy do not agroo on tho gradation of tho spooios." What do thoy agroo on? Ilorsobol writ os a wholo ohaptor on tho tho orr ors of astronomy. La Piaoo declares that tho moon was not put in tho right plaoo. Ho says if it had boon put four timos farther from tho earth than -it is now thoro would bo moro harmony in tho universo, but L:onvillo comos up just in timo to provo that tho moon was put in tho right plaoo. How many oolorn w?y?n into tho lighi? Huvon. says Isaao Nowton. Throo, soys David Brcwstor. How high is tbo ourora borealis? Two and a half miles, says Lias. Ninoty iniloB, say othor soion tists. How far is tho sun from tho oarth? Sovonty-six million milos, says Laoallo, Eighty-two million, sayb Hum boldt. Ninoty million milos, says Hen derson. Ooo hundred and four million milos, says Mayor. Only a littlo differ ence of 28,000,000 milosl All split up among thomsolvos-^-not agrooing on anything. Il ero thoso infidel soiontists havo im paneled themselves as a jury to decide this trial botwoon Infidolity, tho plain tiff, and Christianity, tho dofondant, ana aftor hoing out for oonturios thoy como in to rondor their vordiot. Gen tlomon of tho jury, havo you agcood on a vordiot? No, no. Thon go baok for another 500 years and deliberate and agroo on something. Thoro is not o poor miaorablo wretch in thc oity prison tomorrow that could bo ooo detuned by a jury that did not agroo on tho vordiot, and yot you oxpoot us to givo up our glorious Christianity to picoso thoso mon who cannot agroo on anything Ah, my friends, tho ohuroh of Jesus Carist instead of falling baok is on tho ad van oo. I am certain it is on tho advanoo. I soo tho glittering of tho swords; I.,hoar tho tramping of tho troops; I hoar tho thundering parks of artillery. O G ?d, I thank theo that I havo boon porinittoa to seo this day of thy triumph, this day of tho oonfusion ot chino onomiofll O Lord God, toko thy sword from thy thigh and rido forth to tho victory 1 I am'mightily encouraged lccauso I find, among othor things that whilo thia Christianity bas boon bombarded for oonturios infidolity has not destroyed ono ohuroh, or oripplod ono minister, or up rooted ono verso of ono chapter of all tho Bible If that has boon their magnifi cent record for tho oonturios of tho past, what may wo oxpoot for tho futuro? Tho ohuroh all tho timo gotting tho viotory, and thoir shot and sholl all geno. And thon I find another most on oouraging thought in tho faot that tho secular printing prosa and tho pulpit aoom harnessed in tho samo loath, for tho proclamation of tho gospel. 10v.:ry bankor in thia Capital tomorrow, ovory Wall stroot banker tomorrow in Now York, ovory Stato stroot bankor tomor row in Boston, ovory Third stroot bankor in Philadelphia, ovory bankor in tho Unitod States aud ovory mor chant will havo in his pookct n treatise on Ghristianty, 10, 20 or 30 passages ot Soripturo in tho reports of sormons preached throughout tho land today. It will bo so in Uhioago, BO in Now Or leans, so in Charleston, so in Boston, so iu Philadelphia, so in Cincinnati, so cvorywhore I know tho traotsooiotios oro doi?g a grand and glorious work, but I toll you thoro is no power on oarth today equal to tho faot that tho American printing press is taking up tho Bornions whioh aro proaohod to a fow hun Ired or a fow thoiisaad people, and on Monday morning and Monday ovo ning scattering that truth to millions What an onoouragomont to oyery Chris tian mani Tho you havo notiood a moro sig nifioant faot if you havo talkod with pooplo on tho subjoot, that thoy aro gotting di ignited with worldly philoso phy as a mattor of ?omfort. Thoy Bay it docs not amount to anything whon you havo a doad obild in tho house i Thov toll you whon thoy worj siok and tho door of tho futuro Boomed opening tho only oomfort thoy oould find was tho gospol. Pooplo aro having demon strated oil over tho land that soionoo and philosophy oannot solooo tho troubles and woos of tho world, and thoy want somo othor roligioo, ami thoy aro taking Christianity, the only sympa thetic roligion that over oamo into tho world, You just tako a soiontifie conso lation into tliat room where a motlier has lost hoi* ohild. Try in that caso your splendid dbotrlno of tho "survival of tho fittost." Toll her that ohild diod booauso it was not worth as muoh as tho othor ohildron. That ?B your "survival of tho fittost." Just (ry your transoondon taliam, your philosophy, your soicr.oo, on that widowed soul, and toll her it was a goologioal nooossity that hor compan ion should bo takon away from her, just as in tho oourao of tho world's his tory tho mogathorium and tho iohty oaaurua had to pass out of oxistonoo, and thon you go on your scion ti fio con solation until you got to tho 'sublimo faot that 50,000 000 yoars from now we ourselves may ho floiontifio spool mono on tho goologio aholf, potriftod spooimons of an oxtinot human race. And aftor you havo got all through with your consolation, if tho poor afilio tod soul is not oraz id by it, we will Bond forth from any of our ohurohos tho plain est Christian wo havo and with ono half hom of prayor and roading of Soripturo promisos tho toars will bo wiped away, and tho houso from floor to eupola will be flood od with tho calm no os of an In dian summor sunset, Thoro is whore 1 soo tho triumph ot Christianity, People oro dlaatiBflod -with ovc\\yihiui( oloo. Thoy waut God, Thoy want Josue Ohriet, Young man, do not bo ashamod to bo a friend of tho Biblo. Do not nut your thumb in your vest, as young mon some timos do, and swaggor about talking of tho glorious light of nature ?nd of thoro hoing no nood of tho Biblo. Thoy havo tho light of naturo in India and China and in all tho dark plaoos of tho oarbh. Did you over hoar that tho light of na turo gavo thom comfort for their trouble? Thoy have lanoots to out and j gjornauto to orujh, but no oomfort. Ah, my frionds, you had bottor stop your skoptioisin. SuppoBO you aro put in a oriBis liko that of Ooh Ethan Allon. I saw tho aooount and at ono timo mon tionod it in an addroas. A doscorjdant of kilian Allon, who is sn infidel, said it novor occurred. Soon aftor I re ceived a lottor from aprofoasorin ono of our oollogos, who is aho a dosoondant of Ethan Allon and is a Christian. Ho wroto mo that tho inoidont is aoouratc; that my otatomont was authontio and tvti<\ Tho wile of Colonol Ethan Allen was a vary oonsooratod woman. Tho mother instructed tho daughtor in tho truths of Christianty. Tho daughter eiokouod and wai about to dio, and she said to her fathor: "Father, shall I tako your instruction or shalt I tako mother's instruction? I am going to dio now; I must havo thia matter decided." That nun, who had booti loud in his in fidelity, said to his dying daughtor. "My doar, you had bottor tako your mother's roligion." My advioo is tho sauio to you, 0 young mani lou know how roligion oomfortod hor. You know what sho said to you whon sho waa dyiug. You had bottor tako your mother'H ro ligion._ FRANCE.'* NAVY, Will Ooa\ 8hxy-Tw> Millions Next Ytsnr. Tho naval expondituro of Franoi fe r 1901 is offioialty proposed to bo $62,520, 000, which at first sight seems to bo loss than in 1901, but if it ia takon into ao oount thu tho cost of maintaining tho marino infantry and artillery, amount :_i. _ _ L_i 4.C t i\n AAA 1_L mg vu nvvut -rn -nnyiuv, una uuvui vinun ferred from tho navy to tho ministries of war and tho Colonios, it is found that tho money that Franco intonds to spond upon tho navy during 1902 ia in roality $2,300,000 in oxooss of tho naval ox 1 oudituro? of tho ourront yoar Ic is a mattor of serious considera tion for tho Frouoh whothor thoy aro not spending upon thoir navy moro than thoir national resources warrant. Franco has now pilod up a dopt in volving an annual ohargo for intorost of noaily $200,000,000 or, in othor words, ovcry man, woman and ohild in Franco has nosY to pay $5. por annum for intcrost on tho National dobt. Tho army costs tho oountry $132,000,000 a yoar and tho total expenditure for 1902 is oflSoially proposed to bo $750,000,000. Moroovor, reflections upon tho French oonsus oauao ronowod uneasi ness. Last March tho population in round numbors waa 38,600,000, boing an inoroaso of only 330,000 since 1896; and even this mosgro result is mostly aooountod for by Paris and its suburbs, whore tho inoroaso has boon 292,000, duo principally to foreign immigration, BO that ia tho rest of Franco thoipopu lation has boen augumontod by only 38,000 during tho last live years. That is to say, for military and navajo pur poses tho population is almost station ary, and in thia respect.Frano.o"j?tands alono. among tho. groat nations of Europo. Under thoo conditions, M. Jauros, tho socialist loador, and many advanood thinkers among tho radicals and radical sooialists, hold that is U impossible for Franco to have at tho samo time ? navy and army of tho first rank, simply bo oauso oho has not tho rosuroe) of men and monoy to maintain both. Disciplino of tho Wood Pilo. Every human malo min who possossos ovon a lingering taint of temper should koop an ax and a wood pilo somowhoro handy, that ho may rush out and work off his wrath whon it waxos fioroo. Thoro is nothing in this vain old world that will sond a man baok to his ap pointed work with a moro wilted colim an <i a truor comprehension of himsolf than this minutos' wrestling with a full fiavered ax. Ho oan uso it so fiorooly in tho wood that all tho fury of his naturo, all tho hato that ho fools for for his onciny, ho oan infueo into tho ax bandlo, and how tho o hips will fly I Not very artistically, probably, but thoy will fly. And proaontly it bogins to dawn upon tho man that ho is fooling moro calm. Evidently ho is experienc ing a ohaoge of boat, t?o doos not hato hid enemy ut all. Ho ohungoQ his stroko and bogins to ohop en . tho sys tem of Italian pon.nanship-tho up strokes hoavy and tho down ones light. Ho rather loves his enemy now. At last ho puts all his falling strength in ono terrifia blow. Ho misses his tip with thc ax aud smitos tho ohopping blook with tho handle. A tinglo, as though ho had swailowod au alarm olook, goos from elbow to hip. and baok: again, tho ax drops from his powerless hands, and a woak, limp, nerveless, porspiring, trembling, gasping ho stag gers to tho house, lies down on tho first thing that looks Hko a lounge, and is roady to dio. Thoro isn't a foav br a fault in his boat. Doatn has no tommi, and lifo has no temptations for him Ho has ohoppod out all his baser na turo, and ho is j mt as ethereal and spiritual as ho can bo o i this t?do of Jordan. It is a groat medicino. How s This? Wo offor Ono Hundred Dollar Howard for any caso of Catarrh that oan not b ourod hy Hall's Catarrh Curo. F. J. CHENEY & CO , Tolodo.O. Wo tho undorsignod, havo known F J. Ohonoy for the last 15 yoara, and bo liovo him perfectly honorable in all businoss transactions and financially ablo to carry out any obligations mud by thoir firm. WKST?? TnuAx, Wholosalo Druggists Toiodo, O. WALDINO, KINMAN? MARVIN, Whole salo Druggists, Toiodo, O. Hall's Catarrh Curo is takon intornal ly, aoting dirootly upon tho blood and muooua surfaoos of tho systom. Tes Unionists sont froo. Frico 75o, por bot tie. Sold by all Druggists. Hall's Family Pills arc thc boat. Big Trust Formed. Nows oontirming tho report of tho consolidation of all tho cotton send oil mills in tho oountry was reoivod Fri day morning. Thoro aro sovon of suoh mills in Now Orloans, tho largost of whioh aro tho Southorn Standard an Union. Tho eombinod output of the sovon is about 80,000 barrols por year Whilo dispatohos from Now York stato tho capital fltook of tho cotton oocd oil trust io bo $50,000,000, privato infor mation roooivol hore ia $100,000,000 Now Orloans manusaoturos moro cotton sood oil than any othor oity in tho country oxoopt Houston, Texas, whioh, by tho way, only has four mills, but they aro very largo. ?ILL ARP atJOTEB BEECHER. Tho Noted Minister XTued Caen Word? and the Hot Woather Caused lt. rr I. J.LA^M ?/\***tf1 WAn?hn,? ri m Irwin rr?r? Af A'ilU **V*A***| frV*^,*?* ?, -*?*?.w*v* * v ****** v.** **-w whet Honry Ward Beecher sntd in his ohuroh ono BWOlterlbg day in July. Ho took no toxt. Ho Tripod tho perspiration' from h'.i brow and looking solomnly at the largo con gregation, enid: "It 1? hot tod?y. It ie dflinnod hot. It is aa hot aa holli Evorybody WAB nmozod and ahookod until ho addod, "That la tho languago 1 hoard two young mon uso at tho door of tho ohuroh as I pnSBOd thom. My jour g friends, lt ls not j wi hot as hell." Thon In a low, earnest tono ho piolurod tho torments of boll and tho oor tain fato of tho wicked until tho atmesphoro of tho ohuroh Boouiod to bo cool aud pleasant ! In comparison Tho ladles oeaHod to movo thoir I fans and everybody was still and solemn as a I funeral. It waa something like Jonathan Ed wards at Northampton whoa ho got his hoar ors so wrought up aud alarmed that thoy groaned in four and gravped tho poata and braces to koop from sinkiug into holt, and an other preacher in tho pulpit begged Mr. lid wards lo stop,' "Stop, Mr. Edward?; stop now and toll thom of tho linroy sud lovo of dod." What wonderful powor is In tho words of au cloquont, earnest man. Mr. Beecher was all ot' that-aglftod, cloquont man. 1 heard him proaoh twieo boforo tho war and was profoundly impressed. I looked upon bim as tho imporsonnlion of tho man of Qod. Later on, when ho hegau his vindiotivo war upon tho South and said that Sharp'a rifles woro bottor than Bibles for John Brown in Kansas aud it was a oriino to shoot at a slavo-boldor and mid.) him, 1 wouderod at my infatuation with 4ho m?h and oxolnimod with Isaiah, ?.How aro tho mighty fallou." And still lalor when Tilton charged him'with nliouating and seducing MM wifoaud il tooklwo momba to try tho onto aud thc jury two days to inakp up a vcrdiol, willoh virtually saio, "Ho is not guilty, but ho must not do co any moro," I was m or I i Iii" I nt my own wonkno^s in bo coming his idolator and rcBolvod to worship no man wkilo'no livod A great man's obar notor cannot bo mado up until after ho is dead. But I was ruminating how easy it is for a young man to say damn and pamnit, I'll bo damned, nndovou to tako tho namo of Qod in vain. Baron is a moro oonvonioutaud ex protsivo word than (logon or dlngaatioa or blamed, and it ?hows a dofianoo of tho dovil and a eolf ooncoil in tho man who usos it But ills a vory handy oxplotivo and whon a young mau gola iu tho habit of using it, ho rarely roforms. Ho knows .'ml it io not go?u manners, for ho doos not uso it in tho pros ouoo of ladies or proaohors or bis parents. Nevertheless thoro aro somo good pooplo who think damn it without Baying it. 1 hca d a a good itory tho other day on Col. Livingston our inonibor of Congrojs from tho Atlanta district. Last Bummer ho was sont over tj West Virginia to speak and holp tho Demo orata in thoir'oanvass. Ile ventured into a protty hot ftc j mid icm town and was har anguing and olootrtfying a largo audionoo, and while soarltying tho Republicans and this fighting administration a soft, half douo Irish potato took him korzlp right botwoon tho oyoa. Il knookod oil' hie socolados and llattonod into muih all over his olasBio coun tenance, lt surprised o nd suooked him of courue, ltccovorod his glasses ho wined tho stioky stuff from hia/aoo and said with ex cited tone, "My friends, I have Deon-1 havo boon a coniistont-a oonsistoat mombor of tho Prcflby terian ohuroh-tho Proabyfoiian ohuroh, I Bay for moro than-moro than fifty years-yes, tifty odd yoar?, and have tried ii? live-triod to live in harmony with all mon wi'h all mon, but if tho dirty, dog med, dad blamod puppy who throw lhat potato will stand up or raise hie right hand I l.bc-dad' bladed if I dont stop spoaklng long enough to como down and hoW tho.hau' and Dido oft of him in two minutes by tho oloek." As no body ro80 or raised a hand tho colonel remm od his broko?romarks, but declares tba?, bo never e rnie so near oursing tinco ho joined tho churoh. This thing of, ourslng le of vory anolont orlgiu. ' Somotitnes it was done by proxy. P(-|ak, _ |ho kl.^n; of Moab, birod Balaam, to curso loiraol, ?nu somo of un votorsns romom borwhon wo, too, wanted to biro a cusslu man .to expend'our w'.*ath upon the Yankoes. Te tor ouraod nnd s woro whon aoouscd of bo lng ouejof thodisoiplca. Iiis probable that Ito eau! ''I'll be damned if 1 am." or porhaps worse Sjldiors and sailors have in all agos boen profano-tho very olass that aro in greatest, poril and should have tho greatest roveromo for thoir Maker. Unolo Toby says "Our army sworo terribly ia Flanders." And Uno'o Toby hlmso'f sworo an oath when he found tho biok soldier lying and dying at his gate. "llosbtdi notdio, by Cod," he said, and tho aoousing ipirit Hew up to hoi.von with tho oath aud blushed as ho gavo it in. The rooording angel as ho wrote it down dropped a lear upon tho word and blotted it out lor ovor." Chatis beautiful, i?oat^U?^ Verily, charily hideth a multitude of sins. % But this la enough on thia subj cet. It is too hot to work in tho gardon and so I got in tho shade of tho vines on my verandah and ruminate. Judge Griggs, our honored mom bor of Congress, tolls mat story oa Colonel Livingston and ho told another that will make the otd mon forgot that it is hot, for they never got loo old to onjoy auy story that has a pretty woman in it. Uno of tho last casos brought boforo tho judge wasayoung uuso phistioatcd country boy who waa charged with an assault upon a bonnie country girl in that ho hail oaugtit hor nt tho spring and huggod and kisskod hor against her will. Her molhor aaw it from hor piazza and hoatd hor Borenm nnd saw him run away to tho Hold whoio ho was plowing, Sho was very iudiguaut, and prosee nod nim. She was tho witneas and so was tho girl, but tho girl didont seem vory vindictive bho said he didont hin t hor but look her by surprise, oho had ll lied her buokut aud was about to go baok when he omigal hor and huggod hor aud kissed hV r right on hor mouth. Tho solioilor cloned his cnbo. 'Ibo roting man wad put up to make bis Etatemont, aud ail he said was that sho lookod so swcot and pretty ho could not holp it, and ho didont believe that Miss Molly was very mid about it nohow, for she wont uti' singing of ahymo "What byrne was sho Binging? naked tho judge. "I don't know," hoatiid. "What hy me woro youang lng, Mies Molly? asked tho juoge.* Oho smiled and said ii was "The Lord Wilt Bro. vido." Tho judge eh urged Ihojury vory mild ly, and told thuin thai an assault implied m dice, oto , but na tho jury oouldnll soo waoro tho malioo oamo in, thoy c imo baok with this verdict. "We, tho jury, liad tho defendant not guilty, as thoro was no malioo or bato in it, and wo reoommond him to tho moroy of thooourt." This story reminds mo of John Rlloy'a vor diot in tho VMS cano. Qood old John Riley, tho foreman of Tho Romo Connor's pressroom for years and y cara and tho foreman of tho jury in tho caso of tho Stale against Ronni hts Pass for hog stealing. Pass had boon suspooted of killing Wallis Warron's shoats as thoy ran In tho woodB, and so Wallis laid for bim and ono ovonlug about dusk, whon ho hoard a rille shot, ho siippod up aud caught Pass In tho very act of putting tho shoat lu a saok. Wallie tlldontgo to tho warand manag ed to aavo Ids stook. Pass wont, and left his wifo and throo littlo ohlldron to tho moroy of Cod and thooommunity. Whon ho returned, ho found thoro was nothing loft to li A o on, and ono of tho ohlldron had died. Judgo Wright volunteered to dofond him, and introduced no ovidenco, but had tho last speech, I will nevor forgot tho tender pathos of that speech -his pioiuro of a "poor eoldior returning homo to find doiolation and despair. Ho novor al hid od to tho ovidonoo, hut bad tho jury aud tho court in toara. Tho judgo oharg. od thom as fairly aa ho oou'd; and thoy ro Brod. Ia a brief timo tb oy carno in with thil vordiot: "Whoroae, tho lalo, unhappy war reduced many of our bravo soldiers and thoir fiinllloa to want and poverty by reason of whioh thoy wero fornod at tlmoito wandorln tho woods for suoh gamo as ihoy could find n ordor to koop tho wolf from the door and thoir little onos from starvation; theroforo, we, the Jury, find tho dofondautnot guilty. John HUoy,foremai. "Bygraolousl" enid Wallis, ??thoy found Pass gullly and thon pardonod him," Judgo Wright novor lost a ooso whoro ho had tho lait spoooh and a woman or a poor man was his client. But it ia golting a Hf tlo oooler now aa tho sun nears tho horizon. I must ntop and turn tho water loono on my gardon. The elly has no wator motera yot, and I can atoal water with impunity, hilt as tho ntggor proaohor THE i Grove's ' Thc formula know just what y< do not advertise tr their medicine if ) Iron and Quinine p form. The Iron malaria out of the Grove's is the Or Chill Tonics arc ii that Grove's is ? are not experimen and excellence h only Chill Cure a _thc United States. Bimi lo h*n Hook, "Von musent bo cotoued alcalin' ouiokeiiH-cotohed, 1 ?ny." Bn.r. Ati". THE WEEKLY CKOP REPORT. Director Bauer Bey's it Was the Most Favorable Week of the Season. Tho following is tho weokly bulletin of tho oondition of t' o wcathor and orops in tho Stato, issuod WodnoBday by Dirootor Bauer of tho South Caro lina sootioa of tho olimato and orop sorvioo of tho United Statos weather buroau: Tho wook onding Monday, July 8, averaged slightly warmer than usual ovor tho woo,er ii, nor thorn and oont?al portions, and slightly coolor over tho southeastern. Tho dailey maximum ranged botwoen 80 and 08dogroos, while a minimum of GO was notod at Groen villo on tho 1st. There was moro than tho usual amount of bright sunshine. IO ur 1 y in tho week, ned again noar its OIOBO, thoro woro soattorod showers, hoaviost in tho oontral and south oastorn oountioa, with a maximum rainfall of 1.99 indies at St. Goorgo, whilo over tho northorn and western oountios tho wook was gonorally rain loos. Thoso conditions of high tom poraturo abundant tunshine, and ab sence of rain, mt do this tho most fa vorable wook of tho season for cultiva tion, novertholoss, many holds romain grassy, and it will require st loast an other wook of dry woathor to oloan them. Rr,in 15 needed generally for tho orops, and to softon tho.soil eapsoially olaycy land that driod out hard, and broaks oloddy undor oultivation. ?talo is also noodod to prevont furthor injury to orops that wcro damagod in ridding thom of grass and woods. Cotton made a slight and gonotal im provomont, oxoept BO* island, that im proved dooidodly. Tho plants are un usually Bin%ll for tho soason, and aro growing slowly, ospooially on sandy !oils, whore their condition is oxoop ionally poor. Bloonia otc notcd 'ovor tho wholo Stato, but 0 ott on is not blooming as profusoly as it should at this Eoason. It is reported that tho orop as a wbolo oannot possibly attain a normal oondition, however favorablo tho woathor during tho romaindor of tho season may bo. Tho oom orop oan now safely bo charaotorizod as tho poorest in many years, and ovor considerable areas will approximate a failuro. Corn, with somo exceptions, has slender stalks, is tassolling low, and not oaring well. Planting bottom and slubblo lands con tinue?. Tobacco shared in tho general im provomont during tho past wook, but is st'll vory poor. Cutting and our ing is well undor way in all districts. llico made marked improvement, but has not fully rooovorod from tho ill t il iota of tho excessive dune rainfall, ! Poas aro hoing extensively plantod in wiib oom and on stubble ?Ulds. Somo have como up to good stands. Applos, poaches and poars continue to drop extensively, whilo poaches and .grapes rotas thoy ripon. ' Tho labor situation has not improvod, and oontinuos to bo a serious factor in this yoar's farm economics Big Fire in North Carolina. Ooo of tho most destructivo fires in tho history of-this'.-town broke out Thursday afternoon at 2 o'olook in tho MoDougald Furniture storo and tho wind was so favorablo that it soomod tho oniiro town was doomed. A rough estimate places tho loss at $66,000.- Tho northern portion of tho town is in ruins. No ono has any adoquato idoa as to how tho fire originated. Tho loaos and in surance aro estimated as follows: M. A. MoDougald; two-stores and stock, Iocs $14,000; ono half insured; lt. 13, Loo, two Btoro buildings, livery stablo and stock of goods, loss $10,000; G. M. Wright, BtookllOO, insuranoo $200; H. O. Covington, two storos, loss $2,000, insuranoo $1,200; D. C. MoNoill, stock, $3,500; Suthornland & Morgan, $900, insuranoo $500; W. D. JamoB and A. A. Jamos, throo atoros and. goods, $19, 000, insvranoo about $5,000, J. S. Mo Douflio, .ons $13,000 stook insuranoo $13,000; J. O. Morgan loas $2.000 stock J. B. Cowan $600, and W. P, Evans, Btoro and stook $1,500, insuranoo $2, 000. SrEfioonApMea ?K?T 6t 0?A?VATR Jtt*>V, .**' COOK-KtepRft, At.. - Ifr. . 61/SINCSJ f I AM AO t fl MUCT lt AV I YH440V(, 6o?t> ?ooK-tiiteHa m Ydsl They're Wanted. Butlness activity oroates a demand for business exports, and tho? who hold diplo mas from our oollego aro business oxperta. They havo little troublo llndlng plaoea, and no troublo koopiug thom. Such diploma*) aro guwanteos fltnoss. It's not guosa work, and tho possibility of disappoint ment in tho now employee, but a guaran tee from us to your ability. For full information, fiend now to the Columbia Business College, COLUHWA, S. 0. W. H. NRWBK?RY, President |i||f Chills Tasteless Ch is plainly printed on every ou are taking when you take ?eir formula knowing that y rou knew what ft contained, ut up in correct proportions ? acts as a tonic while tho system. Any reliable druggii "Sffinai and that all other mitations. An analysis of oth superior to all others in e iting when you take Groi aving long been establish? old throughout thc entire No Cure, No Pay. Prto Presbyterian College Noxt SesBlon opens Sept. 20, 1901. Spc numhor cnn he accommodated in Dormltorj matriculation, and tuition, for Collogiato 3 in fnoulty. Moral influenooa good. Court M.A. Fino Commercial Courso. Wrlto f "What tho Nations Owe An article summarizing the national debts of the various countries of tho world appears in a recent publication from the bureau of statistics. It shows a total of thirty-one billion, a ' sum that is utterly inconcoiv- I able, and which there is about as much chanco of the world ever paying as there is of elect ing a Southern man President next time. On a basis of per oapita dept tho following in teresting and instructive figures are given: In the Australasian colonies the debt amounts to $203.90 for each individual. Tho citizens of Honduras each carry $210.GO. The peoplo of Franco' strain under aper capita debt of $100.Cl. In Urguay it is $148.0G; in Portugal, $143.82; A'rgentinia $128.85; Spain, $95.53; the Netherlands, $90.71; Belgium, $75.03, and Great Britain, $74. 83. Our burdens, much as we complain, aro comparatively easy to bear, being only $14.62 per capita, though in Mexico the per capita debt is but $10.84 Tho. debt of tho United States in 1835 was only $33,000, 000, and in 1800 was but 04,000, 000, but in five years it had soar ed to $2,750,413,571,43 the legacy of our great civil war. The British- national dobt ia o vor four billions, hut-like tho United States, Great Britain still ex pects to pay principal as well as interest, or, at least, has no thought of repudiating it even if it is never paid. France still struggles to pay the interest on her entire national debt, but at least three-fourths of it is regar ded as irredeemable, while Spain, Italy, Turkey and Aus tria-Hungary are practically j bankrupt countries. Nobody expects the debts of these na tions to bo paid. The only ques tion is, will they be able to con tinu?lo pay the interest? War isa great debt builder, and if Uncle Sam over wants to see his | national debt wiped out ho must so to it that tho peace treaty which he signed at Tho Hague boars. better fruit than that which has immediately follow ed tho peace conference. SUMATRA widows are tied down by an iron-clad custom. When tho husband dies tho widow erects a flagstaff at her front, door and nings a flag to tho breeze. As long as the flag remains untorn she must wear widow's weeds and keep in se clusion. Tho moment a rent, no matter how small, appears in the flag she can lay aside her weeds and accept the first offer that comes. NEGROES throughout tho state are said to bo showing consider able interest in tho Charleston exposition. Saw Mills, Corn Mills? Cane Mills, Rice Hullers j Pea Hullers, Engines, Boilers, Planers and ^Matchers, Swing Saws, Rip Saws, and all other kinds o? wood working machinery. My Ser geant Log Beam Saw mill ls the heaviest, strongest, and most efficient mill for the money on the market, ouiok, aoonrate. S tato Agent for H. B. Smith Maokitte Company wood working maohinery, For high grade engines, plain slide valve-Automatic, and Corliss, write me: Atta, Watertown, and Struthera and Wells. V. 0. BADHAM, 10580 Hain St., Columbia, 8. O ION SS bottle-hence you Grove's. Imitators ou would not buy Grove's contains ind is in a Tasteless Quinine drives the 5t will tell you that so-called Tasteless cr chill tonics shows very respect. You 'e's-its superiority \ sd. Grove's is thc malarial sections of e, 50c. of South Carolina. olal ratos to boarding eludontp. Mndlo.l T. $100.00 wiU pay for boa'd, robin-ront ?car. FITO professors and "ono iiiBtruotor JCS of study leading to degrees of B. A. and or cat Mogue or Information ot any kind to A. E. SPENCER, Clinton, 8. C. fclodcrn Bletlioil*. Fi rot Burglar--How ye gittin\ott? ! Second Burglar-Bully 1 Doln* flrftf ? rate. Robbin' doctors now. I jus'ring th,' bell late at night, an' tell 'em Mrs. Astorbilt la fallin* in a faint, an* they rn/nn' run fnv ber ??f?. "Bah I You'ro way behind the times. Quick.os a p'liccman secs a mon rim olin' at night ho arresta 'tm as a sus picious character. I wait till they grab th* doctor, an* then I go In an' rob th* house."-N. Y Weekly. Intcrtthansre of Confidence, "And now, my boy, don't have ahjr D?crets from your father. What are your collcgo elebts? pon't he afraid to tell mo tko sum total, to the last.; cent." "I won't, father. The wholo amount ls $5,327.50." "I thank you for-.your confidence, . my boy, and I will bo equally frank. You may pay those debts tho beet way you can."-Chicago Tribune. A Cameo. J I The carpet ls bobbing- 1 : And napping on high, . t; ? ; Tho strawberry's throbbing In dumpling and pie. 1 -N. Y. Herald. "HeavensI Whore did your parrot learn to sweat* so horribly, Mrs. Jones?" "Oh, I forgot to take him from tho room while Mr. Jones w?s looking for, bis collar button."-Chicago Ameriv can. Grnnpltnj?-lronn of Succ?s?. , Life la uphill all tho way- 1 If you climb, and wish to stay I Where you aro, you'll have to uso, ? Like all linemen, well-Bplkcd shoes. } -Detroit Froo Press, j -1 Hind Not Yet In Sigh?. Yeast-I just saw your wife In the other room. Crlmsonbeak-Talking? "Yes; I heard her say, as I passed, that she had arrived at a conclusion.*' "Well, she hasn't dono anything- of the sort. She's talking yet."-Yon ker's Statesman. A Orete. "Well," she asked hex- old- bnohelor brother, as she took the baby away from him, "what do you think of the. dear little darling, anyway?" "Oh, I dunno," he said, "I guess mebby it'll do to raise." - Chicago? Times-Hernld. Silent Criticism. "She is very nico and all that; but she is altogether too orlWcal." "I assure you 6>ho novor speaks, of you but In the kindliest wny." "P'raps so; but every time I seo hor sho gives me the impression that my frook doesn't fltl"-Brooklyn Lifo. . THE YO UN G B LO Q D LUMBER COMPANY, AUGUSTA, an. OWIOK AND WORKS, NORTH AcavaTA, S. 0. D00R8, SASH, BUNDS AND BUILDER'S II ABD WAUK. FLOORING, BIDING, .CEILING Aim IN SIDE FINISHING LUMBER IN -?-GEORGIA PINE, AU Correspondence given prompt atten tion. July 2-ly Addrose, Box 105, B. W. GB?fHNGE?, Spartantmrg? B. 0. 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