Georgetown Enquirer : volume 08, number 18 - 01-25-1888

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GEORGETOWN, S.Q., JANUAEY 25,1888.
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Tliat!* the Question—The Agnostic's View of Death Gmtragtort   With the Christian's Hope ol Faith. (J, P.T, Intho ColumliU Register.] *.. Mis. Ms Whiting Knowloa, wile of, Mr. Howard   Kuowlos,  lato   United Slates Collector at   Peons," Illinois, ilied in Now Yoik  cily- on December 16th last.-: Bhe ia roprcsonte- ns'hav ' iug loft* a' wiile ,ioircle   of frionds to mourn tier early death.*.*,Before~h'er re¬ mains wole eent. to tlto   West for bur is I Ool,Robert Q*. Ingersoll, oalled llie notorious inliilel, but whom I prefer to call, at lie haa oalled himself, au ag¬ nostic, delivered the following tribute loiter memory:.:'    .¦••'.* ••¦.,;• .-¦•:.
Mv FntBKua; Again, we Maud in the shadow .ofthe great mystery—a shadow aa deep aiid dark as when the teats ol tlio Hut mother fell upon the pallid faoe of her lifeless babe—a myi- tery that hat nover yet beoa solved, We havo inet in, tho presence of Ihe wcreft dead to apeak a.word of praise,
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of hope',' of ^bdua'olaiibtu: Another lile ¦of lovo1 ia now a bletsed memory—a lingering ttraiu of musio... Tho loving daughter,; the ; pnre. and couaoorated wile, the sincora friend .who with ten- tier faithfulness discharged the duties -"of life, has roachtd her'journey's end.
A braver,   a? mora* serene, a more chivaliic  apirit—olaspiug   the-loved .and   by them  clasped—nover passed from lifo .to ehrich. the realm ol death ' No' field bf war over   witnessed greater fortitude,*' mora perfect; smiling cour¬ age than this poor;   ivoafc and-helpless woman* displayed upon the lied of paiu and death.   Her lifo was genllo und her death sublime.' Sho loved the good and all the good., loved her. *. But there ] it thia'consolation: .She  can?   never ,.* miffor mote; sho can never  (eel. again the chill  of  dealh; never  part, agaiu ftom thom the Ipvea.   Her heart' can break no.more.'. She.has shed her last '.tear,'.and upou har stainless brow has been set lho wondrous' seal ol everlast¬ ing peace;*" .':¦   A-<-   ';'¦*'• '.-'¦ Vu-t When tlie ahg-el of death—the mask ..mt and voiceless—enters  the door of home, there, come wilh, Iter all   llie ' daughters ot compassion, and ol these
love and hope temnin forever.
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.**,   Lay her In lhe earth,   -v.**. .    And from her fair and unpolluted flesh ' *    TMay violets aprlng.. \ •>. 'I bev-Sr kuew','1 never 'roefa bravef :•'' spirit than the one? that once inhabi¬ ted the silent form of; dreamless clay." 1 have   no .denunciation for such a man aa Ool, Ingersoll.*. Il is not ior a fellow mortal tn call in wanton ques- .   tion tli*-earnest convictions or the wcll- cotioeived. creeds of another finite soul. ',.;  Inthe forum of conscience, at lhe tri¬ bunal of,.Ood—of  that Being whence we oame and .whither-wo must return to give account—at lhat .augnst   bur .  ditoornedin  tho light, of Revelation, ,   eueh, as Ingersoll  and  company must .'-.  aland or. fall—must   go. acquitted or '., condemned at lhe awful instance of tlie ,   Judge of all the earth.      ....?,• .. , ¦ But I may   well give my, sympathy to a man,*,* whose belief denies , to liim the hopes of the Ohristian.; and .the promises made^in .llio .word , of Ood. Robert ,G, Ingersoll,  according to the information thai wo bavo of. hiin, is a .. man of high character nnd   blameless lile, judged by the standard of moral!* ly.   He isan-intelloelnal man—a man of refined tastes and poetic sensibili¬ ties.   Butlie lacks—it occurs to mo— two ossential  things, to  wit, a proper sense of his own unwoithincsi,   and a '  due  appreciation ofthe splendid and resplendent beanty and*majesty and '-'¦ attach in  the  rightly attuned soul to . the personality of the Most High. Tho inspired Psalmist—tlie aweet singer of Israel—tho singer of songs that are the rarest and the fairest by mortals e'er sung—songs whose echoes mnst ring forevermore in the corridors of Time— has declared:  .''The fool hath laid in '*. I|ls heart, ihere is ho God.'"   Now, ,,.   men, like .tlio .'distinguished   Knoto Knothing may say iu the natural out. . grbw(f of tlieir thoughts   that there is '_. no'God;   But. it.may* well ? donbled if any Btrong reasonor, any honest think¬ er, any deep del ver. any true woiker in .tha everlasting mine of   God's ores of - .?-.- .truth, eat) really/eel- in-lilt heart that '    ..'thore ia'no God. ^ Even beloro the rev- •'•"_,   e|atia»;of -God,'as embodied in the • '   .. NeWiTestament, eame in  God's grace .   v   tolheaid ofslaggoring humanity the ;   .   intimations of (he truth of Life," l.cnlh and   Immortality,   to tho  thinkers ol '•**¦•    old, as witness a Plato anil ..a* Socrates. -;'•'•  .'.;.;..*Tlte;*languago of .Robert G, Inger- '','*.' •-' toll over*¦*the*.remains": of-   wumau .,**,,'. who?was histriiiud ia beautiful.? He is if-,$'-* niBHler.?of itio..biiMiiiif«ii.V iii T«licli«n ',?an4*itil;?tlie •|>otitloal''jii il*/e??*rinlin'i:ol'
lifeless body before hiin is superficially bright, but it has tho odor oi mortality and the phosphorescent gleaming that comes 'from*; 'decaying substances or mouldering - frames, Tho sermon is grand, bnl' wants the aroma of the life fo come. "It is magnificent, hut it is not"—glory eternal. "Again we stand" says he,''."iu tlio "shadow of a great mystery—a mystery' that1 has never been sold." Hear the ..inspired decla- <atioh of St. Paul:'. Behold, I shew yon a mystery; w_c shall not all sleep, bnt wo shall till be changed,in a momcnt.in the twinkling of ah eye, at the last trump; for the trumpet shall sound, and ihe dead shall be raised incorrnp; tible, and wa shall ho changed.; For 'this corruptible'shall put on incorrnp lion, and this mortal must put "on tin mortality.'' ;*- ***' ' ' '   *'"' '?'* -. .'.*¦
"*¦ Contrast, now, if yon please;? Iuger7 soil's.dreamless peace? with "Paul's as¬ surance. Under whicli "King? The Pagaii sleep or the'? Christian's resur¬ rection?' ¦"'¦"      "•'"¦ '"- '¦"''¦' ".'*"        ":.*.'*.
THK GREAT SUGAR KING.
Particulars of the New "Trust" Wliich Will Corner tlio Country's Sweet-
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NUNS VERSUS THE BISHOP.
A legal Contest That is Canslng Great Sensatiou iu Pittsburg. .-.,*.
PiTTSBono, P*.'; January" 15.—T'1? Times  to-moiTow? will publish a two column ariielo, of which the following is* condensation: '*' ; r,¦'..*-'¦"*•',« .**.'. Slim Ily after the  Fl anco* Prussian war nino choir mun came to Pittsburg from .France to* establish a school,for yonng ladies.   The nuns contributed j money, from their own purses, parches-* ed-landau! elected buildings tlieieon. They scoored a charter from the* State of Pennsylvania for an educatioiml.in* stitution..  No mention ol religion was made in the charter,  but the incorpo¬ rators are described? as members of the Ursulino Order of 'Nona.  • .Theso ladies, by ibeir teaching, have made* a -great deal of money, and  the property is now worth over   $300,000. Thero bas all along' been a* conflict of authority  between tho   Bishop of lliis diocese and  tlio   Sisters, the  Bishop claiming .spiritual  authority, and the Sister's  insisting * that' their   propeity was llie result oflhair own labor. Law. yers eoufirmoA the till* ol the*'Sisters, bill liioyjdid not-'tako 'tlieir  advice, and   the 'property is 'advertised   for sale:-'.*."?- '¦' ¦ ¦••!-'   "_' ' -¦¦¦''•¦.-¦'¦•.•'¦'',:' ¦-. **''"ttecenlly the'Bishop deposed'tlio boad mother Alphbiise; and  nppoiuted an. other linn to be mother superior. 'Six or seven of lho original'.'iinna have de: cided to follow mot her Alphonse,: and it is probable lliat "tliey will  ieiurn  to France, ?•'•'*¦ *     ,'v "-¦"•;   .,-.-   ¦?'\i; Interest' centers   on' the  question Will tbo Ursnliiie Nuns exercise  thoir legal rights to receive the  proceeds of, the sale?    Additional interest attaches to the case from a Statement mado by ii lady member of'one of the oldest Pitta- bhrg families, that Madamo Alphonse is a duchess of France,' and   that^an¬ other of the nuns,Sister Emanuel,' is.a Bourbon countess and cousin of tlio Ex- EnipiosBEngenio.'    ¦ " *.; *'*?'.,'   ; ¦•.
.*. A Darlington Hermit. " IFroia the Timmonsvillo Farmers' Friend.] A gentleman ol this placo tells of a citizen of Ibis county whom he chanced to meet on the train '¦-. between here arid Oolnmbia on a recent occasion whose life, according to his own account, has been, a rather singular one. Hewas born iu Kershaw Oounty, S. O., thir¬ ty-five years ago. Fourteen years ago he .moved to thia: county and. settled'fn the Hartsville seotion,-where he has continued to live ever since. ". He: nev¬ er taw the capital: of the: county- in which he waa born, and np to that time had never seeu a town, except Darlington, which, be had visited onco.. Hewas taking his second ride on a railroad train, having once made a few miles over the Oheraw and "Dar¬ lington Boad. He is Ibe father of a lamily, with whom he was on this oo* cssion on his way to Columbia to see the farmer.' convention* and meet add ahake hands with Oapt. B. K. Till-, man.'; • ' • *.-"'•,: ¦¦¦ *:-;V"' ;¦¦-..';
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.Perhaps no local disease : hat * puz¬ zled and baffled the medical profession mora than nasal catarrh; While not immediately fatal it is among the most distressing, nauseous and disgusting ills ihe flesh is heir to, and the records show very? few or no cases of radical cures of chronic catarrh by any of tbo multitude of modes of trealmeut until the inlrodnclion of Ely'a, Cream Balm a fcw';yeats ago. The success of this preparation has been most gratifying aiid surprising. ' ...   ;
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only sjx months old. * An urchin '(lid it
The Now Yoik Herald of yesterday prints a page of'description of lhe. sov¬ eral gianl tiusls whereby varions- pro-' duels are successfully cornered, and in- clndes among thein lho lollowing slory of the concentration' of. thc sugar inter¬ ests:        ""      ¦".; ¦¦'¦¦¦     ¦';** The latest and . one of tbo very big¬ gest trusts ia the Sugar Trust.    It   is a.',monopolistic   ;combination    which' comes home to every man's pocketbook, lor,it affects tho cost of-ono of tboncc- essarios of lifo, and hlihongb tbo trust is a.very.yonhg baby.?nnd. has hardly gpt upon its feet; yet the slrengtli  of its grasp is already.apparent in the ad¬ vance ¦