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jJ 1. Vienna News. I Published Semi-Weekly. VIENNA, GEORGIA. It 1b now denied tbat Marconi Is an "originator.” In other words, he has merely done what other people have tried to do. Chicago bird-lovers threaten the ar rest ot women who wear birds In their bonnets as well as milliners who sell them. If the threat is carried oat Chicago will Indeed be a breezy place for a time. A lobster trust Is to be organized in Maine.' One by one the standbys of the kitchen are relegated to the ranks of prohibitive luxuries. The great Amer ican pie-trust will no doubt arrive be fore long to strike the final blow. Traditions are common In western Kansas of trees suddenly dying without apparent cause after having been used as gallows for lynchlngs. Many are said never to have leaved again after this experience. Chinese mines. It is said, sve to bo let to foreigners in any part of Chin* on the following terms 1 : The ^>vcrn- mont to have twenty-five percent of the profits, twenty-five percent of the out put of diamonds and other gems, fifteen percent of gold, silver and mercury, ten percent of copper, lead and zinc, and five percent of coal and iron. "Forestry may briefly be defined as the science of conservative .lumbering, the management of o forest Ln a way to secure a financial return to the owner, to protect, to perpetuate, and so to Improve the younger foreBt a3 to Insure permanence.” Paul Griswold Huston tells, in the Atlantic Monthly, the methods of the valuation survey adopted by the government: "Usually three men nre employed In a crew: the central one, as tallyman and the head of the crew, to record the trees, and a man on each side of him to i measure them with calipers. The per centage of timber actually surveyed for an estimate varies from two to five percent, or In rare cases, even more." President Bufllngton of the Illinois Steel company Is quoted as saying that In the future "captains of Industry" will not be so often os ln the past pro moted from the ranks. “We want,” ho says, "educated young men, grad uates from technical schools.” And to Illustrate bla point ho says: “We have tho case of President Schwab, who came Into his position without techni cal education. But he had worked al most Into It under the old school. We may believe that he would have got there under any circumstances, and It must be recognized that there are not many Schwabs ln the great masses ot young men. There will be Canieglea and Schwabs in the future who will rise in spite of circumstances, but In speaking to young men of modest capa city It is a mistake to Impress upon them the belief that the methods ot forty years ago are applicable, now.” DE. CHAPMAN’S SERMON A SUNDAY DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED PASTOR-EVANGELIST 1 , Subject! A Vision of HI«;F«ce—'The,Chris tian World Uu Ever Been LlvIng-ln the Hope of This Promise-lie Shalt So* Jem u Eternity; New Yobk Cirv,—The following ser mon is one prepared lor publication by the J. Wilbur Chapman, America’s best Rev. Dr. known evangelist, who is now preaching to overflowing congregations in this city. It is entitled "A Vision of His Face,” and is founded on the text. Rev. xxii: 4, "And they shall see His face. The Apocalypse, or Revelation, as it is more frequently called, is supposed to hare been written A. D. 05 to 97, and thus for 1800 years tbe Christian world has been Hr ing^in the hopeand inspiration of this text leripture. The glad cry, of the faithful everywhere hat been: “As for me, I.will behold Thy face in righteousness. I shall be satisfied when I awake with Thy likeness.”—Psalm xvii: 15. I wish we might see Him now. We have had hints of Hu beauty, and little glimpses of His glory, but oh, to behold Him! We are greatly indebted to tbe artists of the world for what they have shown us of their vision of His grandeur. "Christ Before Pliate” was a picture so real that a little girl, when she looked upon it wanted to be lifted up tbat she might untie His hands. Hoffman’s “Christ in the Garden” is such a masterpiece that one can not look upon a masterpiece that one can not loolc upon it without having his emotions stirred to the very-depthB. Paintings have certainly done their work. They have stirred the imaginations of the people. They have strongly impressed the beauty of His char acter upon hearts everywhere. They have fixed the thoughts of men upon Him. They have drawn ttie Christian nearer to Him, and they have done much to stimu late fellowship with Him always. 86me, indeed, have been won to Christ by simply looking upon them. Count Zinzendort, founder of the Moravian settlement, said He was not In symapthy with him. If He were known to be black the white man would certainly Mel a barrier between them. But aa it is. He is Jesus, the Light of tbe world, and the Caucasian, the Mon golian. the African, all can say together: 'Fade, fade each earthly joy, Jesus is mine.” And yet, there are phrases of .Scripture which seem to give us bints not to be passed by’ silently. I- HIS FACE SET TO JERUSALEM Luke lx: 51—"And it caine to pass when the time was come when He should be re ceived up, He steadfastly set His face to go to Jerusalem.” He loved tbe city of Jerusalem, but at the time He went toward it, it was a city of shadows, and every step He took was Into the -deepening shadow of Calvary* cross. I need not describe His going. He was like a conqueror. In the very way He trod tbe streets of the city, and walked the highway of the land He loved, He "lie ’ * ” ’ was Ijlled with courage, and when He he- it that the deepest impression that was ever . • • }j- ■ made on his life came to him when looking uqpn a picture of the sufferings of Christ. He saw these words underneath: “I did.all this for thee; what hast thou done for Mel” And yet, valuable as they are, they are not to be relied upon because they are not ancient enough. The early Christians shrank from any material presentation of a human Christ, and thus it is that art, as we have it to-day, has passed through cer tain definite stages. In the earliest age Christ was presented by the use of symbols. The representation of the fish' was to draw attention to Him who made men fishers of. other men. The drawing of a vine was la draw the atten tion to Him who said, “I am the vine.” The picture of the cross was supposed to fasten the thoughts of the people upon Him who was its willing victim. The second stage of art was the use ot Old Testament types. In the picture of Moses striking the rock, one could see a representation of Christ, who ■ said: “If any man thirst, let him Come qnto Me and held the city He wept over it. Take this as a picture and there is nothing finer in art. Take it as a sentiment, and there il nothing deeper in human pathos. Take if: as a revelation of God, and no one need bo afraid of Him. Philosophy may speculate about Him and try to reconcile His two natures; theologians may attempt to de fine Him as being infinite, eternal and uu changeable, but the common man grows confused, and all that he {an say is that the One to whom he has given his soul is the Son of God, who was divine enough to go to Jerusalem in the very face of death, and numan enough to be blinded with His tears ns He looked upon the city. He knew all about the suffering of Jerusa lem from all eternity, and yet He went on. When He site the Passover and snoke of the one who should betray Him, He knev- what was coming, and still He went on. When Pilate mocked Him He knew it was but the forshadnwing ot the sufferings nf the cross, but still He went on. When He endured tbe pain of the scourging He knew that this was but the beginning of agony with which the pain of the cross was not to be compared because, it was so great, and yet He wefit on. The world has never seen such a conqueror as the Son of God, "who died that we might live.” II. HIS FACE IN THE DUST. Matt, xxvi: 30-39—“Then cometli Jesus with them unto a place called Gethsemane, and saith unto the disciples, Sit ye here, while I go and pray yonder. And lie took with Him Peter and the two sons of Zebe-. dee, and began to be sorrowful and very heavy. Then saith He unto them. My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here and watch with Me. And He went a little farther, and fell on His face and prayed, saying: Oh, My Father, if it be possible, let this cun pass from Me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as Thoir wilt.” In the thirtieth verse we rend that when they had sang an hymn they went out. How simple, and yet how profound the meaning! There never had been auch a going-out drink.” In tbe sacrifice of Abraham both the love of God in the gift of His Son, and the love of the Son in the gift of Himself shone forth. In the three children in the fiery furnace there is a perfect representa tion of the Son of God seen in the form of the fourth, "which was like unto the Son of God Himself.” In the third stage of art New Testament allusions were used, and a shepherd be came a picture of Christ, who was "th« Good Shepherd/' the "Great Shepherd” and the "Chief Shepherd.” In the eighth century men began to paint His likeness as they conceived it, but it is easy to understand that these repre sentations could not be reliable because every trace of His physical appearance was lost. Not a syllable in the Go9i>ela or the Epistles tells us how He looked when He walked upon the earth. Why is this! Surely the disciples had not forgotten His appcnrance. It may be for several rea sons: First, because the first ages of the church were distinctly spiritual, and they would shrink from anything that would make Christ even seepi to be material. Second, they never thought of Him after His departure-ns the afflicted one or the suffering one, but they saw Him at the right hand of God in tho glory, and as they had no power to present a picture of Him there, so they had no inclination to pre sent Him in His humiliation. Third, be cause they still felt His presence with them. They had no need to put His face upon canvas. I would a thousand times rather have the picture I carry about with me of Christ, which no artist has ever painted, or ever can paint, which I could not de scribe to you in words, even if I had the tongue of an angel. It ia far beyond any earthly art. The early disciples must have | felt this. Fourth, it may be that because I when they saw Him after the Resurrection 1 Ho was so different from what He was be- i fore that they could not paint the first I picture, and they would not try to paint the second. And yet wo do know much about Him. i It would not have been difficult to tell how Stephen looked. We have but to read l Acts vli: 55, GO—"But he, being full of the If the distinguished Baron Munchau- son had lived ln these days he could easily have written a book of marvels goiy '(JhMt.l^ked" up H^afrastlAnto from real life that would have matched heaven, and saw the glory of God and « t . . . _ _ • Jeiu* standing on the right hand of God. hid own and would not have earned for * * * And he kneeled down, and cried Himself the unenviable reputation ot ^Vir'’"ha^’A^when 7 hfhnd'Jid being the classic and monumental liar ; this he fell asleep.” So it is with Jesus ot tho ages. For example, his tale V d * om ,o hints of His . , . , , | beauty in ths legends of old. The story about being stranded on a supposed is- 1 of St. Safronica; of the handkerchief used land in the sea which proved to be a 1 i® wen .U? P»lv«ry, monster fish that transported him safe- „ .... lv for manv days Is a weak and naltrv the presence of Mary, His moth- ty tor many uays, is a weaK anu paltry w> Thu u Romish, and has no foundation Invention by the side of Marconi’s in fact. The story of one Publius Lentulus, achievement in flashing a wireless mes- j pl^oTje^MmX^e^Romtn‘senate! •age across the Atlantic, to say noth*. ru , , ?". 1 ‘hu*: , . .... . . . . .1 There came one among us. tall m stat- tng of the still more astonishing do- are, beautiful m appearance. Hi* hair Vice ascribed to a Tennessee man by wavv and crisp and falling down over Hi* ... , shoulders. Hu brow, broad, smooth and Which, it Is claimed, we shall soon b* most serener Hu face without spot or Able to scold our cousins in England ^\° u r U ^.%VbiS?d abundsm Ind Via the atmospheric route and without haze! color like His hair. His eyes promi se aid of wires. It Is also given out “lS* « that a learned Chicago professor Is never seen to laugh, but. often to ween. close upon the tract ot the secret prin ciple of life, and is likely to spring it upon the wor.o now almost any day. An Englishman wrote a book a tew His hands beautiful to look upon. In speech, grave, reserved, modest. Indeed, He was fairer than all the sons of'men.” All this is'beautiful and interesting as a legend, but it is said that there was no such office as President of the peo- years ago showing ”How to Be Happy, ^1^^"'“'’ #nd Though Married,” and it only remains,'. .Why all this absence of Christjn mae- , . ., hie and Christ upon-the canvas* Whv is it therefore, for some one to discover the that the pen has never described Him so before; there never has been such a going- de ” out since. From the supper He made His way. with the faithful few to Gethsemane, where tbe agony was so great that Gethsej mime has stood for suffering ever since. “Oh, My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from Me!” I wonder why the cry? Some one has said it was be cause He was about to be branded as a sinner, treated ns a sinner, put to death as a sinner, and it was His horror of sin that wrung the cry from His soul. Yet we have trifled with it, and sin has always been the same, is to-day, and shall be till the end of time. Dr. Gregg tells of a story in Fox's Book of Martyrs, where a Christian was to liie a most horrible death—being placed in a sack filled almost-with venomous reptiles. As he looked nt it he said: “I can stand this for Jesus’ sake.” Yet when they put him in the sack and he felt the first touch of the reptiles upon his face he gave a shriek of agony that could not be described. It is said that no one lias ever really known what prayer la until he has learned of tbe Spirit to put into prnctice this one offered in Gethsemane. It is not the kind that is offered to the congregation, or that is said at the bedside before we close our eyes in sleep: it is the kind that is crushed out of us. It is the cry of the Syrophenoecian woman, “My daughter is greviously vexed cf the devil.” It is the cry of Jesus in Gethsemane, “My Father, let this cup pass from Me.” You say, “What! His Father and all His suffering!” Yes, His Father, still, and yours, also. In tho midst of an agony that may have almost broken your heart, you might have cried: “My Fatner!” When there was not Jesus Himself, and thej smote Him and a hope in your life you might have whis- d, “My Father!” And. if the cry had pered spit u^on Him, they, never touched Him. HIS FACE HEREAFTER, We have hints as to what He is to be like in the hereafter., “For God, who commanded tbe light to shine out of dark ness. hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the . ” ' in the face of Jesus Christ.”—2 God iv: 6.) We are told how He will appeal to the sinner: “For the .greit day of His wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand!” —(Rev. vi: 17.) There was a time when as they smote Him they covered His fnee: “And some began to spit on Him, and to cover His face, and to buffet Him, and say unto Him, Prophesy: and the servants did strike Him with the palms of their hands.” (Mark xiv: 05.) But not now. His eye* pierce His beholders through and through, and their unforgiven sins in awful proces sion pass by. The cry of the lost soul is "Mountains and rocks, fall upon us, and hide us from His face.” "And I saw a great white throne, and Him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no nlitPA 4-Vi am ” (Row • 11 \ ll'L in nn a. ORATION CRITICI5ED. place for them. (Rev. xx: 11.) This pas sage gives another touch to the picture, and what a change there is! Once there was in that fa:e that which brought little children to Him, and made womqn love Him; and now the very earth and the heavens have fled away from Him. “For the eyes of the Lord are ov'er the righteous, and His ears are open unt^ their prayeri: but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil.'*—(1 Peter iii: 12.) God’s words are always true. Let him that hath ears take heed. v We are told just a little as to how ne shall appear to the saint. “For Thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt Thou suffer thine Holy One to see corrup tion. Thou wilt shew me the path of life; in Thy presence is fulness of joy; at Thy right band there are pleasures for over- more.” (Psalm xvi: 10,11.) We have hints of this joy* here. We have left this pleas ure because of His fellowship in this world. We have had these experiences, which have been like single notes dropped from the songs of heaven. But they shall be gathered all together there in one grand anthem of praise, and we shall be filled with the peace of God for evermore. V. Wc have also, gome hints as to how this vision shall affect us when we see Him. John says: "I fell nt His feet as dead.”— Rev. ii: 17. It is supposed that the vision was so startling, the face so sublime. Just as men in this world are overpowered be cause of some wonderful experience, so John fell before Him in the skies. The transfiguration scene is another, rep resentation. “And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James and John Isis brother, nnd bringeth them up into a high mount- tain apart, and was transfigured before them: and His face did shine as the sttn, and His raiment was white as the light. And behold, there 1 appeared unto them Moses and Elias, talking with Him. Then answered Peter and said unto Jesus, Lord, it is good for us to be here: if Thou wilt, let us make here three tabernacles, one for Thee,-' and' one for Moses, and one for Elias.”. (Matthew xvii: 1-4.) Peter said, “Let: us lire hero forever.” - In this he was but expressing tlie longing of every Chris tian heart that beat after his, and what Peter longed for God had promised to give us. Jesus nt the transfiguration is an exact picture of Jesus as He stands in glory, and as we shall sec Him in eternity. come fronf the heart you would have got ten as quick a response: "Be still, and know that I am God.” III. HIS FACE SPIT UPON. But there is still another picture of His face in the New Testament. Matthew xxvi: 02-08—“And the high priest arose, and aaid unto Him, Answerest Thou noth ing? What is it which these witness against Thee? But Jesua held His pence. And the high priest answered and said unto Him, 1 adjure Thee, by the living God that Thou tell us whether Thou be the Christ, the Son of God. Jesus saith unto him, Thou has said; nevertheless 1 say unto you, hereafter ahall ye sec the Son of Man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven. Then the high priest rent his clothes, ray ing, He hath spoken blasphemy; what fur ther need have we of witnesses? behold, now ye have heard HiR blasphemy. What think ye? They anawered and said, He is guilty of death. Then they did spit in His face and buffeted Him, and others smote Him with the palms of their hands, say ing, Prophesy unto us. Thou Christ, who mg, Prophesy unto us. is ne that smote Thee!” Have you noticed how qniet He was in all the mockings and the scourging! ? It must have been because of the Gethsemane experience. There are scenes in our lives that make talk a sacrilege. When you came back from following your child to tbe grave, or reached your home after being at the new-made grave of your moth er, not a word was spoken; the house was as still is the tomb where they rested. A ’night with God would have the same ef fect. They may spit upon Him and strike Him, but He feels it not, for while He walks the earth He fives in heaven. Paul found this out: "I knew a man in Christ above fourteen year* ago ;(whether -in the -body-I cannot tell, or whether out of .the body,- 1 cannot tell; God knoweth) such Bn one caught up to the third heaven. And I knew 1 such a man (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth) how that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable word*. trliinli if ta nat Iab a awan Asa lilfow " > ert of making money without work and {•v*. w * mi * h A 11 cer- * > , . . . . tamly mu*t *11 be of Goa; One reaiton mar paying bill* without Income to bring be in order that we might know that He belongs to the wide world- and to no race of men in psrtienlar. If He were known the world right into ths millennium at one jump, remarks Leslie's WeeklX .. to be whke; the black man might frel that which it la not lawful lor a man to utter.' 2 Cor. xii: 24. And yet in point of fact Paul was lying at tbe cate of Lystra. Peo ple though him dead. His back was bleed ing. His whole oody was bruised. It is a possible thing fog us to be transfigured by the power iff God, and become insensh ble to every earthly ’experience. Just as the hell-hounds were let loose Self-Cultivation. It happens to many a man and woman that in tne absorbing demands of business or professional life, of home duties or the claims of society there is a gradual failure of moral purpose or religious convictions, and while the life grows in one direction it aa surely degenerates in another. We can cultivate any part of our natures we will, just as the gardener or horticulturist by selecting certain qualities gradually, de velops a new kind of potato or corn, a new variety of strawberry or apple. We can make ourselves new kinds of men and wom en by giving attention to business or pleas ure, books or mUBic, athletics or religion. Spiritual things arc not of interest to us where we do not cultivate them, just as business' becomes dull if we do not give at tention to it and try to make it interest ing. As no man can be strong unless he takes much exercise, so no man can be de vout who does not wrestle with God in prayer, early and late. Every kind of cultivation leads to growth in manhood, and we are the kind of men we make ourselves by our toil and our play, our hopes and our fears, our President’s Referer.ee to Lynch ing® in Memorial Address riuch Adverse Talk. A Washington special says: Demo crats ure inclined to severely criticise President Roosevelt for what’ ,they term his political speech at Arlington, on Memorial day. They say the presi dent was guilty of bad taste, to say the- least of It, in his reference to lynch- ings in his Decoration day address, which, they assert, could have beets made for no other purpose than to have p6lltical effect. The view of the Independent press • upon this speech of the president’s is reflected.in The New York Herald of Saturday morning in this way: “In tne essay on ‘discourse’ penned three hundred years ago. Sir Fran cis Bacon lays stress upon the fact that ‘discretion of speech Is more than eloquence/ President Roosevelt In his address at Arlington yesterday lost sight of, this Important truth. He was eloquent in his tribute to the men who fought for the union and in his defense of the troops in the Philippines, but in discreet' ln makng needless reference to things scarcely In keeping with the sentiment of the occasion, and calcu lated to stir up unpleasant feelings. “It was doubtless resentment against Senator Tillman for his bitter speech on the Philippines that led him on to an untimely reference to lynchlngs ln this country—’Carried on In circum stances of Inhuman cruelty, and bar barity—a cruelty infinitely worse than has ever been committed by our troops ln the Philippines’—and to say: ‘The men who fail to condemn these lynchlngs and yet clamor about what has been done in the Philippines are indeed guilty of neglecting the beam in their own eye, while taunting their brother about the mote in his.’ “More unfortunate was the presi dent’s citation of the charges of ‘law less cruelty/ and worse made against. union troops by the confederate con gress ln 1802. “It Is deplorable that he should have been led to revive unpleasant memo ries of forty years ago, and his' friends must feel that they would. be better pleased with a less eloquent address marked with that discretion which, tha great .English philosopher says, la ‘Mere than eloquence.”’ HUNDREDS ARE BEREAVED. Number of Widows, Orphans and Others Resulting From Mine Horror. Official statistics given out by tho cLizens’ relief committee and prepared at the scene of the terrible Fratervllle mine horror at Coal Crekk, Tenn., show that 216 persons lost their lives ln the horrible accident. Of this num ber 121 were married or had near rela tives dependent upon them for sup port. Those left without support from tho .above mentioned 121 are as foUows: Ono grandmother, aged 70; one moth er ln law, one auntl eleven mothers, ninety-nine wives, 142 daughters, 102 sons, eleven children, age and sex not given; one niece, two grandsons, one granddaughter, two brothers, nine sis- uui [Jin/) uui uujiua anu wui tvais, was , fidelity of mind^and our loyalty of heart. ^ ers # & total of 383, persons left with- out support. Nine children are lett without either When tbe mind is open and alert, the heart gentle and loving, the conscience firm and unfailing, the will strong and steadfast, we are sure to grow into larger manhood and womanhood, and there is nothing else for the sake of which life is worth living. Truly it is a good and ac ceptable saying that “the only object in life is to grow. —Christian Register, God’s Gifts and Blessings. God’s gifts and blessings, valuable as they are, are never set before us to rejoice We may make idols of them. And the idolatry which rests in God’s gifts in’ stead of God _ Himself, is the worst and moat prevalent form of idolatry. The heart suspects the less on account of its being 1 Goa’s blessings, whereas it ought to suspect it the more. Jacob would have worshiped tbe Baal of the idol na tions, but he had worshiped another idol. The affections of his heart had for long enough fallen down before bis Joseph, and when God removed him, so little did he suspect his idolatry he prostrated bis heart before the idol of Benjamin. Oh, tbe de- ceitftilness of the human heart! Who would trust it! This is th^ reason why “in the Lord’’ it so often set before us; "only in the Lord.” One hair's breadth below Christ, and there may be idolatry, worse than the images of Rome or the Juggernauts of India, because done under greater light. God keep us from this spe cious form of idolatry! God keep us from the danger to which oar hearts are hourly exposed!—F. Whitfield. when t ’against Kinship In Kindness. Kindness is recognizing another's kin ship. It is first kinned-ness to our own, and then kinned-ness to everyone. When we recognize that God’s relation to us, we all become relatives, and must be kindred to each other, even as God in Christ is re vealed kinned to us. The kind man does not say merely what he feels like saying; that would be adaptation to his own moods, and only self love. He says what he think* another needs to hear. Kind ness relates you not to your own mood, but to the mood of the other man. To say a pleasant thing because you feel pleasant may be an accidental kindness, for it ms/ meet another’s need, but. though good, it is not highly virtuous. Genuine kindness oftenest comes from self-repression — a cheerful message from a sad soul, a brave word from a trembling heart, a generous gift from a slender purse, s helping hand from a tired nan. It is not your mood, but the other .man’s, need; tbat determined kindness.—Walter Davenport Babcock. . father or mother, six being sisters in one family. Forty-three of the chil dren are under one year of age. Thir ty-six are between 2 and 3 years of age. In one Instance a mother and seven daughters are left, the ages of the latter being 14, 13, 12, 11, 10, 9 nnd 8. GRADE CROSSING FATALITIES. Train Crashes Into Baggy Dealing Death and Deslructlnn. A shocking fatality occurred at an. Erie railroad grade crossing, near Su gar Grove, Pa., Saturday evening which will result In the almost bat ting out of one family and the maim ing for life of every member of anoth er. Three are dead and three badly injured. The party occupied a double-seated carriage on their way to visit relatives at Jamestown, Pa. The carriage was struck by train No. 3, which was run ning about sixty miles an hour. CLOSE OF CHARLESTON SHOW. Exposition Goes Oat ln Firing Salutes- and Sonnding Taps. At midnight Saturday night Presi dent Wagener turned off tho electric- lights, the buglers, sounded “taps,” a. salute was fired, and the South Caro lina Interstate nnd West Indian expo sition of Charleston had passed into- history. The exposition opened on the 1st ot December Inst, nnd the six months of its existence have made a most bril- *A“°“ for Charl «ton. The first naif of the time was not to prosperous for the fnlr but during the last threw months great crowds visited IL f \