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they decided to put him somewhere in safe 

 keeping until he could have some sort of trial. 

 Before morning he was horribly mutilated, 

 and hung up on a tree and riddled with bul- 

 lets. 



Those who have been watching this lynch- 

 ing business as one case after another follows 

 thick and fast, will notice there seems to be 

 a study on the part of those who take the law 

 into their own hands to make each case a lit- 

 tle worse than the preceding one. The de- 

 tails are so horrible I dare not put them in 

 print on these pages ; but at the end we are 

 told each bloodthirsty one in that crowd of 

 thousands carried away with him some frag- 

 ment of roast flesh or burned bones of the vic- 

 tim ; and I am just told that a white minister 

 of the gospel, who attempted to remonstrate 

 against this reign of mob law, received a piece 

 of the dead man's body as a warning to leave 

 that part of the country ; and, not satisfied 

 with this, the inside of his church was com- 

 pletely wrecked. I said these things are not 

 confined to our friends in the South. This 

 lawless element and this craze for scenes of 

 this kind exist everywhere. 



In our own State of Ohio, only a short time 

 ago, there was a case of lynching just because 

 the neighbors thought an old man had been 

 cruelly treated by one of his sons; and, if I am 

 correct, none of the perpetrators of the deed 

 have been punished by law. But God's pun- 

 ishment will surely fall upon us by something 

 more terrible than any thing that has happen- 

 ed yet, if we as a people decide to let lynch 

 lazv take the place of judge and jury. We are 

 all responsible ; and it is with the hope that 

 this little plea of mine may suggest to some- 

 body that Satan can never cast out Satan that 

 these words are sent out to you. One of the 

 sheriffs in this recent case tried his best to 

 pacify the crowd, declaring that the culprit 

 should be punished to the fullest extent of the 

 law if the law were allowed to take its course ; 

 but they would not listen. This vicious ele- 

 ment is looking on. It is watching keenly to 

 see whether those who take the law into their 

 own hands get punished or not ; and every 

 case that is dropped, and nothing done, only 

 hastens the time of the calamity to which we 

 are surely tending unless we wake up and 

 declare as a people that law and order, and 

 not mob law and disorder, shall govern our 

 land. 



There is only one way known, since the 

 world began, of casting out devils or devilish 

 work ; and this nameless crime that seems to 

 belong particularly to the colored man is cer- 

 tainly the work of the Devil if any thing is. 

 The power of Jesus of Nazareth alone can cast 

 out devils ; and even the devils themselves 

 seem to assent to this. In Mark 1 : 24 we read 

 that the unclean spirit said, " Let us alone ; 

 what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of 

 Nazareth ? Art thou come to destroy us ? I 

 know thee who thou art, the Holy One of 

 God." It is through the gospel of Christ 

 Jesus that the world must conquer all this 

 kind of work. 



Law and gospel always have gone and al- 

 ways must go hand in hand. 



ANOTHER SENSATIONAL "SCARE." 

 I think it was Artemus Ward who once said, 

 " What is the use of knowing so much when 

 so much that you know ain't so?**' Within 

 the last few days I have seen in three different 

 periodicals statements to the effect that pure 

 water is not wholesome. The first one came 

 from the National Druggist. Well, if drug- 

 gists are making money by selling alcoholic 

 liquors, I do not wonder they are glad to hunt 

 up some German scientist, or somebody else, 

 who cautions people against drinking too 

 much pure water, or water that is " too pure." 

 The argument seems to be that chemically 

 pure or distilled water is too strong a solvent. 

 Suppose we just for a moment grant this; then 

 what water shall we drink ? Almost all well 

 waters, and the water from many springs, con- 

 tain more or less lime, soda, and other mineral 

 salts; but the composition of no one well or 

 spring is like that of any other well or spring. 

 They all contain minerals, and different kinds 

 of minerals — that is, nearly all. Here and 

 there we find springs of soft water coming 

 from sandstone rock, that are almost perfectly 

 pure. If you evaporate some of it in a spoon, 

 little or no residue is left. Water procured 

 direct from the clouds, in a clean tin pan or 

 some other dish, is so much like distilled water 

 that no one could possibly tell the difference 

 by the taste. As both leave no residue what- 

 ever on evaporation, both are alike chemically 

 pure. Freshly fallen snow, when melted, af- 

 fords the same kind of water. Physicians 

 have for ages past recommended cistern water 

 for drinking purposes in preference to any 

 other water easily obtainable; and this thing 

 has been so well tested that it is too late in 

 the day to go back to it. Thousands of peo- 

 ple — perhaps I might say millions — have re- 

 covered their health by getting their drinking- 

 water from soft-water springs or from well- 

 made cisterns. The only objection to cistern 

 water is that it collects smoke from the roof 

 on which it falls; sometimes vegetable matter 

 from old shingle roofs, and oftentimes lime or 

 other minerals from the cistern in which it is 

 stored. Cistern water is acknowledged to be 

 very much better than the average well water. 

 Well, within a few years past, thousands of 

 people like myself have found distilled water 

 more wholesome and much more favorable to 

 digestion than even good cistern water. 



Manufacturers of the various sanitary stills 

 have received testimonials from not only peo- 

 ple all over the world, but from the highest 

 medical authority, in favor of distilled water. 

 You know I have discussed this matter at 

 great length; have hunted up springs all over 

 Uncle Sam's domain; have compared the wa- 

 ter, and talked with people about different 

 waters. Well, my decision is most emphati- 

 cally that the best mineral water in the world 

 is that which contains the fewest minerals. 

 While staying in Arizona, near Salt River, my 



