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THE SEMI-WEEKLY SUMTER REPUBLICAN. ESTABLISHED IN 1554, By CHAS. W. HANCOCK, j VOL. 18. The Sumter Republican. Semi-Weekly, One Year - - -$4 00 Weely, One Year - - - - - 2.0(1 ISfPAYABLE IN ADVANCE gt All advertisements eminating from public oiHces will be charged for in accordance with an act passed by the late General Assembly of Georgia—7s cents per hundred words for each of the first four insertions, and 35 cents for each subsequent insertion. Fractional parts of one hundred are considered one hundred words;each figureand initial, with date and signature, is counted as a word. The casli must accompany the copy of each advertisement, unless different arrange ments have been made. Advertising Bates. One Square first insertion, - - - -§I.OO Each subsequent insertion, - - - - .5 TSTTen Lines of Minion, type solid con stitute a square. All advertisements not contracted for will be charged above rates. Advertisements not specifying the length of time for which they are to be inserted will be continued until ordered out and charged for accordingly. Advertisements tooccupy fixed pia'ces will be charged 23 per cent, above .regular rates Notices in local column inserted for ten cent per line each insertion. I JOIN ’X BUY Groceries BEFORE EXAMINING (MEM PERRY'S |jARGE STOCK! —AS,THEY— WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD ! On,,any article in their line, but propose to UNDERSELL! WILL PA Y HIGHEST PRICE FOR Georgia Seed Rye / COUNTEY MERCHANTS Will find that they can buy ot us Kerosene Oil, Gun Powder, Shot and Matches ! ! For less money than they can order. GLOVER & PERRY, ssp9tf Americds, Ga. THE OELiBRATED SEXTUPLE BED. To breathe, eat and sleep well is the first requirement of physical organization. S. FLEISGriMAN’S SEXTUPLE BED SPRING. [Patented Aug. 22, 1882.] Is the first and foremost to accomplish this end, as it facilitates the first, accelerates the second, and perfects the last of these grand purposes. It is a “tiling of beauty and a joy forever.” Last with life, perfect in its adaptation forcomtort, being disconnect ed in the center prevems sagging. Made by S. M- LESTER, who will put them on, and is from long experience able to guarantee satisfaction. AGENTS WANTED to sell these Springs. Territory and Spring outfit turnislied and large commissions paid. S. FLEISCHMAN, Patentee and Manufacturer, octll-Om Cotton Avc., Americus. Ga. Kosser & Gunnels. New Bar and Billiard SALOON. Messrs. G. S. ROSSER and P. W. GUN NELS have openeika Bar and Billiard Sa loon in the new building of Hanoi Bros., on Cotton Avenue, where they have a line stock of pure Brandies, Wines and W hiskies ! Also the National Drink, ANHUESER BEER, the best in the land. The best Cigars and Tobacco always on hand. 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Pi Ml lir 1 Weigh, up to MID." Price. V DcanUn Seen C - cu>’ U, 0. INDEPENDENT IN POLITICS, AND DEVOTED TO NEWS, LITERATURE, SCIENCE AND GENERAL PROGRESS. AMERICUS, GEORGIA; SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1882. V&O’VB.'Y. I Aim DYING. The following beautiful poem we copy from the columns of the Memphis Bulletin. It is rarety we find sucii contributions in the columns of a newspaper. It is sweetly, beautifully said: Raise my pillow, husband, dearest, Faint and fainter comes my breath; And these shadows stealing slowly Must, I know, be those of death! Sit down beside me, darling, Let me clasp your strong warm hand— Yours that lias ever sustained me To the borders of this land. For your God is mine; our Father Thence shall ever lead me on, Where, upon a throne eternal, Sits his loved and only son. I’ve had visions and been dreaming O’er the past of joy and pain— Year by year I’ve wandered backward Till I was a child again. Dreaming of girlhood, and the moment When I stood your wife and bride— How my heart thrilled with love’s triumph In that hour of woman’s pride. Dreaming of tliee and all earth cords Firmly twined about my heart— Oh! the bitter, burning anguish When I first knew that we must part. It has passed and God has promised All thy footsteps to attend, lie, that’s more than friend or brother, He’ll be with you in the end, There’s no shadow o’er the portal Leading to my heavenly home. Christ has promised life immortal, And ’tis He that bids me come. When life’s trials wait around thee, And its chilling billows swell. Thou’lt thank heaven you’ve been spared them— Thou’lt then feel that “all is well.” Bring our boys unto my bedside, My last blessing let them keep! But they’re sleeping, do not wake them They’ll learn soon enough to weep. Tell them often of their mother; Kiss them for me when they wake; Lead them gently in lifes pathway; Love them doubly for my sake Clasp iny hand then closer, darling— This tlie last night of my life, For to-morrow I shall never Answer when you call me “wife.” Fare thee well, my noble husband, Faint not ’neath the chastening rod; Throw your strong arm round our children; Keep them close to thee and God. TABERNACLE SERMONS. BY RET. T. DeWITT TALMAGE GARRISON DUTY. As his part is that goetli down to tlie Bat tle, so shall his part be that tarrieth by the stuff—l. Samuel, xxx, 24. If you have never seen an army change quarters, you have no idea of the amount of baggage—twenty loads, fifty loads, a hundred loads of baggage. David and his army were about to start on a double quick march for the recov ery of their captured families from the Amalekites. So they left 4 by the brook Besor their blankets, their knapsacks, their baggage and their carriages. Who shall he detailed to watch their stuff? There are sick soldiers, and wounded soldiers, and aged soldiers who are not able to go on this swift military expe dition, but who are able to do some work, and so they are detailed to watch the baggage. There is many a soldier who is not strong enough to march thirty miles in a day and then plunge in to a ten hours’ fight who is able with drawn sword lifted against his shoul der to pace up and down as a sentinel to keep off an enemy who might put the torch to the baggage. There are two hundred of these crippled and aged and wounded soldiers detailed to watch the baggage. Some of them, I suppose had bandages across the brow, and some of them had their arm in a sling, and some of them walked on crutches. They were not cewards shirking duty. They had fought in many a fierce bat tle for their country and their God. They are now part of the time in hos pital and part of the time oil garrison duty. They almost cry because they cannot go with other troops to the front. While these sentinels watch the bag gage, the Lord watches the sentinels. There is quite a different scene being enacted in the distance. The Amalek ites, having ravaged aud ransack and robbed whole countries, are celebrating their success in a royal carousal. Some of them are danciug on the lawn with wonderful gyration of heel and toe, and some of them are examining the spoils of victory—the finger rings and ear rings, the necklaces, the wristlets, the head bands diamond-star-red, and the coffers, with coronets, andcamelias, and pearls, and sapphires, and emer alds, and all the wealth of plate, and jewels, and decantor, and the silver, and the gold banker upon the earth in princely profusion, and the embroid eries, and the robes, and the tuibans, and the cloaks of an imperial wardrobs. The banquet has gone on until the banquiters afe all maudlin and weak, and stupid, and indecent, and loathe soruely drunk. What a time it is now for David and his men to swoop on them. So the English lost the battle of Bannocburn, because the night be fore they were in wassail and bibulous celebration while the Scotch were in prayer. So the Syrians were over thrown in their carousal by the Israel ites. So Cbedalamer and his army were overthrown in their carousal by Abraham and his men. Soonr North ern forces were defeated at Fredericks burg, because one of the commanders was drunk. Now is the time for David and his men to swoop upon these ca rousing Amalekites. Some of the Amalokites are hacked to pieces on the •pot, tome of them are just able to go staggering and hiccoughing off the field, some of them are just able to crawl on camels and speed off in the distance. David and his men gather together the wardrobes, the jewels, and they put them upon the back of camels and put them into wagons, and thsy gather to gether the sheep and cattle that had been stolen and start back toward the garrison. Yonder they come, yonder they come. The limping men of the garrison come out and greet them with wild huzza! The Bible says David saluted them. That is he asked them how they all were. “How is your broken arm?” “llow is your fractured jaw?” “Has the stiffened limb been unlimbered?” “Have you had another chill?” “Are you getting better?” He saluted them. But now came a very different thing, the distribution of the spoils of victory. Drive up these laden camels now. Who shall have the spoils? Well, some selfish soul suggests that these treasures ought all to belong to those who had been out in active service. “We did all the fighting while these men stayed at home in the garrison, and we ought to have all the treasures.” But David looked into the worn faces of these vete rans who had stayed in the garrison, and he looked around and saw how cleanly everything had been kept, and he saw that the baggage was all safe, and ho knew how that these wounded and crippled men would gladly enough have been at the front if they had beea able, and the little general looks up from under his helmet and says: “No, no, let us have fair play,” and ha rushes up to one of these men who had lost both eyes in a former conflict and he says: “Hold your hands together,” and the hands are held together, and he fills them with silver, and he rushes up to another man, who was sitting away back and had no idea of getting any of the spoils, and throws a Baby lonish garment over him and fills his hand with gold. And he rushes up to another man who had lost all his prop erty in serving God and his country years before, and he drives up some of the cattle and some of the sheep that they had brought back from the Amalekites, and he gives two or three of the cattle and three or four of the sheep to this poor man, so he shall al ways be fed and clothed. He sees a man so emaciated and worn out and sick he needs stimulants, and he gives him a lit tle of the wine that he brought from the Amalekites. Yonder is a man who has no appetite for the rough rations of the army and he gives him a rare mor sel from the Amalekitish banquet, and the two hundred crippled aud teamed and aged soldiers who tarried on gar rison duty get just as much of the spoils of battle as any of the two hun dred inen that went to the front. “As his part is that goeth down to the bat tle, o shall his part be that tarrieth by the stuff.” The impression is abroad that the Christian rewards are for those who do conspicuous service in distin guished places—great martyrs, great patriots, great preachers, great philan thropists. But my text sets forth the idea that there is just as much reward for a man that stays at home and minds his own business, and who, crippled and unable to go torth and lead in great movements and in the high places of the earth, does his whole duty just where he is. Garrison duty is just as remunerative as service at the front. “As his part is that goeth down to the battle, so shall his part be that tarrieth by the stuff.” The Earl of Kintoie said to me in an English railway: “Mr. Talmage, when you get back to Amer ica, I want you to preach a sermon on the discharge of ordinary duty, in or dinary places, and then send me a copy of it.” Afterward, an English clergy man, coming to this laud, brought from the Earl of Kintore the same message. Alas! that before I got ready to do what he asked me to do, the good Earl of Kintore had departed this life. But that man, surrounded by all palatial surroundings, and in a distinguished sphere, felt ‘sympathetic with those who had ordinary duties to perform in ordinary places and in ordinary ways. A great many people are discouraged when they hear the story of Moses and of Joshua, and of David and of Luther, and of John Knox and of Deborah, and of Florence Nightingale. They say: “0! that was all good and right for tlipm, but I shall never be called to re ceive the law on Mount Sinai. I shall never be called to command the sun and the moon to stand still. I shall never preach on Mars Hill, I shall never defy the Diet of Worms, I shall never be called to make a queen tremble for her crimes while I preach to her, I shall never preside over a hospital. There are women who say, “If 1 had as bril liant a sphere as those people had, I should be just as brave and just as grand; but my business is to get the children off to school, and to hunt up things when they are lost, and see that dinner is ready, and to keep account of the household expenses, and to hinder the children from being strangulated by the whooping cough, and to go through all the annoyances and vexa tions of housekeeping. Oh! my sphere is so infiuitessimal and so insignificant, I am clear discouraged,” Woman, God places you on garrison duty, and your reward will be just as great as ap that of Florence Nightengale, who, moving so often night by night with a light in her hand through the hospitals, was called by the wounded the “lady of the lamp.” Your reward will be just as great as-that of Mrs. Hertzog, who built and endowed theo logical seminaries. Your reward will be just an great as that of Hannah Moore, who by her excellent books won for her admirers Gareick and Edmund Burke and Joshua Reynolds, Rewards are not to be given according to the amount of noise you make in the world, nor even according to the amount of good you do, but according to whether you work to your full capacity, accor ding to whether or not you do your full duty in the sphere where God has placed you. Suppose you give to two of your children an errand, aud they are to go off to make purchases, and to one you give one dollar, and to the other you give twenty dollars. Do you reward the boy that you gave twenty dollars to for purchasing more with that amount of money than the other boy purchased with one dollar? Of course not. If God give wealth, or social position, or eloquence, or twenty times the faculty to a man that he gives to the ordinary man, is He going to give to the favored man a reward be cause he has more power and more in fluence? Oh no. In other words, if you and I do our whole duty, and you have twenty times more talent than 1 have, you will get no more divine re ward than I will. Is God going to re ward you because He gave you more? That would not be fair, that would not be right. These two hundred men of the text who fainted by the brook Besor did their whole duty; they watched the baggage, they took care of the stuff, and they got just as much of the spoils of victory as the men who went to the front. “As his part is that goeth down to the battle, so shall his part be that tarrieth by the stuff.” There is high encouragement in this for all who have great responsibility and little credit for what they do. You know the names of the great commer cial houses ef these cities. Do you know the names of the confidential clerks—the men who have the key to the safe, the men who know the com bination lock? A distinguished mer chant goes for.h at the summer water ing place and he flashes past and yon say, “Who is that?” “Oh,” .replies someone, “don’t you know? That is the great importer; that is the great banker, that is the great manufacturer.” Tlieconfidentialclerk has hisweek off,no body notices whether he comes or goes. Nobody knows him, and after a while his week is done, and he sits down again at his desk. But God will re ward his fidelity just as much as He recognizes the work of the merchant, philanthropist whose investments this unknown clerk so carefully guarded. Hudson River Railroad, Pennsylvania Railroad, Erie Railroad, New York and New Hayen Railroad—business men know the names of the presidents of those roads and of the prominent di rectors, but they do not know the name of the engineers, the names of the switchmen, the names of the flagmen, the names of the breakemen. These men have awful responsibilities and sometimes through the recklessness of an engineer, or the unfaithfulness of a switchman, it has brought to mind the faithfulness of uearly all the rest of them. Such men do not have recogni tion of their services. They have small wages and much complaint. I very often ride upon locomotives, and I very often ask the question, as we shoot around some curve, oruodersome ledge of rocks, ‘How much wages do you get,’ and I am always surprised to find how little for such Aast responsibility. Do you not suppose God is going to recog nize that fidelity? Thomas Scott, the president of the Pennsylvania Rail way, going up at death to receive from God his destiny was no better known in that hour than was known last night the breakman who on the Erie Railroad was jamed to death amid the car coup ling. “As his part is that goeth down to the battle, so shall his part be that tarrieth by the stuff.” For thirty-six hours we expected every moment to go to the bottom of tho ocean. The waves struck through the skylights and rushed down into the hold of the ship and hissed against the boilers. It was an awful time; but by the blessing of God and the faithful ness of the men in charge we came out of the cyclone and we arrived at home. Each one before leaving the ship thank ed Capt. Andrews. I do not think there was a man or woman that went off that ship without thanking Capt. Andrews, and when years after I heard of his death I was impelled to write a letter of condolence to his family in Liverpool. Everybody recognized the courage, the kindness of Capt. An drews; but it occurs to me now that wo never thanked the engineer. He stood away down in the darkness amid the hissing furnaces doing his whole duty. Nobody thanked the engineer, but God recognized his heroism, and his contin uance, and his fidelity, and there will be just as high reward for the engineer who worked out of sight as the Captain who stood on the bridge of the ship in the midst of the howling tempest. “As his part is that he goeth down to the battle, so shall his part be that tarrieth by the stuff.” A Christian woman was seen going along the edge of a wood every eventide, and the neighbors in the country did not understand how a mother with so many cares and anxie ties should waste so much time as to be idly sauntering out evening by even ing. It was found out afterward that she went there to pray for her house hold, and while there one evening she wrote that beautiful hymn, famous in all ages for cheering Christian hearts: “1 love to steal a while away From every cumbering care, And spend the Uours of setting day In bumble, grateful prayer.” Shall there be no reward for such unpretending yet everlasting service? Clear back in the country there is a boy who wants to go to college and get an education. They call him a book worm. Wherever they find him, in the barn or in the house, he is reading a book. “What a pity it is,” they say, “that Ed cannot getan education.” His father, work as hard as he will, can no more than support the family by the product'of the farm. One night Ed has retired to his room and there is a family conference about him. The sisters say: “Father, I wish you would send Ed to college; if you will we will work harder than we ever did, and we will make our old dresses do.” The mother says: “Yes, l will get along without any hired help; although I am not as strong as I used to be, I think 1 can get along without any hired help.” The father says: “Well, I think by busking corn at nights I can get along without any assistance.” Sugar is banished from the table, butter is ban ished from the plate. That family is put down on rigid, yea, suffering econ omy, that the boy may go to college. Time passes on. Commencement Day has come. Think not that I mention an imaginary case. God knows it hap pened. Commencement Day has come, and the professorsjwalk in on the stage in their long gowns. The interest of tho occasion is passing on, and after a while it comes to a climax of interest as the valedictorian is introduced. Ed has studied so hard and worked so well that he has had the honor Sonferred upon him. There are rounds of applause sometimes breaking into vociferation. It is a great day for Ed. But away back in the galleries are his sisters in their plain hats and their faded shawls, and the old-fashioned father and mother —dear me, she has not had anew hat for six years; he has not had anew coat for six years—and they get up and look over on the platform, and they laugh, and they cry, and they sit down, and they look pale, andjthey are very much flushed. Ed gets the garlands, and the group, the old-fashioned group in the gallery have their full share of the Uiumph. They have made that scene possible, and in the day when God shall more fully reward self-saciifices made for others, He will give grand and glorious recognition. “As his part is that goeth down to the battle, so shall his part be that tarrieth by the stuff.” Thare is great encouragement in this subject also for those who once wrought mightily for Christ and church, but through sickness, or collapse of fortune, or advanced years, cannot now go to the front. These 200 men of the text, they were veterans. Let that man bare his arm and see how his mus cles are torn. Let him pull aside the turdan and see the mark of a battle ax. Pull aside the coat and see where the spear thrust him. Would it have been fair for those men, crippled, weak and old, by the brook Besor, to have no share in the spoils of triumph? I was in the Soldiers’ Hospital at Paris and I saw there some of the men of the first Nepoleon, and I asked them where they had fought under their great com mander. One man said, “I was in Austerlitz;” another man said, “I was at the Ayramids;” another man said, “I was in the awful retreat from Mos cow;” another man said, “I was at the bridge of Lodi.” Some of them were lame; they were all aged. Did the French government turn off these old soldiers to die in want? No; their last days were spent like princes. And do you think my Lord is going to turn off His old soldiers because they are weak and worn, and because they faint ed by the brook Besor? Are they going to get no part of the spoils of the victo ry? Just look at them. Doyouthink those crivices in the face are wrinkles? No; they are battle scars. They fought against sickness; they fought against trouble, they fought against sin, thev fought for Got 1 , they fought for the church, they fought for the truth, they fought for Heaven. When they had plenty of money their names were al ways on the subscription list. When there was any hard work to be done for God they were ready to take the heavi est part of it. When there came a great revival they were ready to pray all night for the anxious and the sin struck. They were ready to do any work, endure any sacrifice, do the most unpopular thing that God demanded of them, But now they cannot go further. Now they have physical infirmities, now their head troubles them. They are weak and faint by the brook Besor. Are they to have no share in the tri umph? Are they to get none of the treasures, none of the spoils of con quest? Y T ou must think that Christ has a very short memory if you think He has forgotten their services. Fret not ye aged ones. J ust tarry by the stuff and wait for your share of the spoils. Yonder they are coming. I hear the bleating of the fat lambs, and I see the jewels glint in the snn. It makes me laugh to think how you will be surprised when they throw a chain of gold over your neek, and tell you to go in and drive with the king. I see you backing out because you feel un worthy. The shining ones come up on one side, and the shining ones come up on the other side, and they push you on and they push you up, and they say, “Here is an old soldier of Jesus Christ,” and the shining ones will rush out to ward you and say: "Yes, that man saved my soul?” or they will rush out and say: “O! yes, she was with me in the last sickness.” And then the cry will go round the circle. “Come in, come in, come up, come up; we saw you away down there, old and sick and decrepit and discouraged because you could not go to the front, hut “as his | FOUR DOLLARS PER ANNUM. NO. 16. part is that goeth down to the battle, so shall his part be that tarrieth by the stuff.” There is high consolation also in this for aged ministers. I see some of them here to-day. They sit in pews in our churches. They used to stand in pulpits. Their hair is white with the blossoms of the tree of life. Their names marked on the General Assem bly, or on the convocation, “emeritus.” They sometimes hear a text announced which brings to mind a sermon they preached fifty years ago on that same subject. They preached more Gospel on S4OO a year than some of their suc cessors preach on $4,000. Some Sun day the old minister is in a church and near by in another pew there is a hus band aud a wife and a row of children, and after the benediction the lady comes up and says: “Doctor, yon don’t know me, do you?” “ Well,” he says, “Your face is familiar but 1 cannot call you by name.” “Why,” she says, “you baptized me, and you married me, and you buried my father and mother and sisters.” “Oh yes,” he says, “my eyesight isn’t as good as it used to be.” They are in all our churches—the he roes of 1820, the heroes of 1832, the heroes of 1857. By the long grave trench that cut through half a century, they have stood sounding the resurrec tion. They have been in more Balak lavas and have taken more Sebastopols than ycu ever heard of. Sometimes they get a little fretful because they cannot be at the front. They hear the sound of the battle, and the old war horse champs his bit. But the 60,000 ministers of religion this day standing in the brunt of the fray shall have no more rew-ard than those retired veterans. “My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and the horsemen thereof.” “As his part is that goeth down to thf> bat tle, so shall his part be that tarrieth by the stuff.” Cheer up, men and women of unappreciated services. You will get your reward; if not here, hereafter. When Charles Wesley comes up to judgment, and the thousands of souls which were wafted into glory through his songs shall be enumerated, he will take his throne. Then John Wesley will come up to judgment, and after his name has been mentioned in con nection with the salvation of the mill ions of souls brought to God through the Methodism which he founded, he will take his throne. 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