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i-immfW.1'1- im II nui r urn .1 ritmni-mi SEPTEMBER. The fields and meadows paling Lie 'neath the hazy sky; The thistle-down is sailing By zephyrs slowly by. . . The stalks of stubble bleaching Beneath September's sun, Seem silently now teaching Of rest when labor's done. The golden-rod, bright gleaming Above the parched sod, Is surely sent, the seeming +v..? haMoti tViinac of of Rod. VI biiU t^v/iuvu Vutu^v v?. The katy-dids are calling, In a sccial sort of a way, To learn what is befalling The neighbors cross the wav. ? Communist like, the blackbirds Ho;d meetings every night, As though the world went backwards, And they must set it right. The apples fast are falling From heavy laden boughs; Tho milk maid's faintly cailing 'Cross the meadows for the cows. The milking-stool is ready Astride the barnyard gate; The cows come slow and steady, Like messengers of Fate. And soon, in silence sleeping, Master and maid and herd Beneath God's kindly keepirg Will rest?as on his word. So may this mild September With its pictnres passing fair Make each of us remember Cod's mercies, rich and rare. HE SEES EVERY SIDE. Dr. Talmage's Eloquent Plea tor Chitsttan To! eras Ion. Brooklyn, Sept. 9.?R?v. Dr. Talmage, who is now in Australia, whence he will shortly sail for Ceylon and India, haaR*i*pted as the sutiect for today's sermon through the press "Communion I ot Saints," the text chosen heme: Jud$e3 xii, 6: "Then said thev unto him, Say now shibboleth, and he said sibboietb, for he could not frame to pronounce it. right. Then they took him and slew him at the passages of Jordan." Do you notice the difference of pronunciation between shibboleth and sinboletfc? A very small and unimportant difference, yon say. And yet that difference was the difference between life and death for a great many people. The Lord's people, Gilead and Ephraim, got into a great fight, and Ephraim was worsted, and on the retreat came to the fords of the river Jordan to cross. Order was given that all Ephraimites coming there be slain. But how could it be found out who were Ephaimites? They were detected by their pronunciation. Shibboleth was a word that stood for river. The Ephraimites had a brogue of their own, and when they tried to say "shibboleth always left out the sound of the "b." When it was ask9d that they say shibboleth they said sibboleth and were slain. "Then said they unto him, Say now shibboleth, and he said sibboleth, for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him and slew him ot th? nansa.p'Bs of Jordan." A very small difference, you say, between Gilead and Ephraim, and yet how much intolerance about that small difference! The Lord's tribes in our time?by which I mean the different denominations cf Christians?sometimes magnify a very small difference, and the only difference between scores of denominations today is the diflerence between shibboleth and sibboleth. The church of God is divided into a great number of denominations. Time would fail me to tell of the Calvinists, and the Arminians, and the Sabbatarians, and the Bsxterians, and the Dunkere, and the Shakere, and the Quakers, and the Methodists, and the Baptists, and the Episcopalians, and the Lutherans, and the Ccngregationaliats. and the Presbyterians and the Spiritualists, and a score of other denominations of religionists, some of them founded by very good men, some of them founded by very egotistic men, some of them founded by very bad men. ^ . But as I demand for myself liberty of conscience I must give that same liberty to every other man, remembering that he no more differs from me than I differ ficm him. I advocate the largest liberty in all religious belief and form of worship. In art, in politics, in morals and in religion let there be no gag law, no moving of the previous question. no perB*r>r?t?r?n no intolerance. You know that the air and the water keep pure by constant circulation, and I think there is a tendency in religious discussion to purification and moral health. Between the fourth and the sixteenth centuries the church proposed to make people think aright by prohibiting discussiOD, and by stroDg censorship of the press and rack and gibbet and hot lead down the throat tried to make people orthodox, but it was discovered that you cannot change a man's belief by twisting ofi his head nor maxe a man see differently by putting an awl through his eyes. There is something in a man's conscience which will hurl off the mountain that you threw upon it, and, unsinged of the fire, cut of the uame will make red wings on which the martyr will mount to glory. In that time of which I speak, between the fourth aDd sixteenth centuries, people went from the house of God into the most appalling iniquity, and right along by consecrated altars there were tides of drunkenness and licentiousness such as the world never heard of, and the very sewers of perdition broke loose and flooded the church. After awhile the printing press was freed, and it broke th* nf the hnman mind. Then I there came a large number of bad books j and where there wa3 one man hostile to ' 1 the Christian religion there were 20 men ready to advocate it. So I have not any nervousness in regard to this battle going on between truth and error. The truth will conquer just as certainly as that God is stronger than the devil. Let error run if yon only let truth run along with it. Urged on by skeptic's shout and transcendentalist's spur, let it run. God's angel's of wrath are in hot pursuit, and quicker than eagie'3 beak clutches cut a hawk's heart God's vengeance will tear it to pieces. I propose to sneak to you of sectarianism?its origin, its evils and its cures. There arethose who'wculd make us think that this monster, with hems and hoofs is religion. I shall chase it to its hiding place and drag it out of the caverns of darkness and rip cfi its hide. But I want tn makft a distinction between bisotr v and the lowful fondness for peculiar religious belief and forms of worship. I have no admiration for a nothingarian. In a world of such tremendous vicissitude and temptation, and with a soul that must after awhile stand before a throne of insuflerable brightness, in a day when the rocking of the mountains, and the flaming of the heavens, and the upheaval ot the seas shall be among the least of the excitements, to give account for evety thought, word, action, preference and dislike, that man i3 mad who has no religious preference. But our early education, our physical temperament, cur mental constitution, win very muca decide our form of worship. A style of psalmody that may please me may displease you. Some wculd like to have a minister in gown and bans and surplice, and others prefer to have a minister in plain citizen's apparel. Some are more impressed when a little \ child is presented at the altar and sprinkled the waters ot a holy benediction lnn the name of the Father and cf the Sen, and of the Holy Ghcst," and others are more impressed when the penitent comes up out of the river, his garments dripping with the waters of a baptism, which sigmiies the washing away of sin. Let either have his own way. One maa likes no noise :n prayer J not a word, not a whisper. Another man, just as good, prelers by gesticulation and exclamation to express his devotional aspirations. One man is ju3t as good as the other. ' 'Everyman fallv persuaded in his own mind." George Whiletield was gorng over a Quaker rather rcughly for seme of his religious srntiments and the Quaker ssid: "George, I am as thou art. I am for bringing ail men to the hope of tfce gospel. Therefore, if thou will not quarrel with me about my broad brim, I will Dot quarrel with thee about thy black gown. George, give my thy hand." In treeing out the religion of sectarianism or bigotry I lind that a great deal of it comes from wrong education in the home circle. There arc parents who do not mink it wrong to caricature and jeer the peculiar forms of religion in the onr? ^annnncfiother spnts and other denominations. It is very often the case that that kind of education act3 iust opposite to what was expected, and the children grow up and after awhile go aDd see for themselves, and lookiDg in those churches and fhdiDg that the people are pood there, a?.d they love God and keep his commandments., by natural reaction they eo and j ?in those very churches. I could mention the names of prominent ministers of tne gC3pel who spent their whole life bombarding other deDomiua ticn3 and who lived to see their children preach the gospel in those very ddnomiDations. Cut it is often the case that bigotry starts in a household, and that the subject of it never recovers. There are ten thousands of bigots 10 years old. I think sectarianism and bigotry also rise from too great prominence of any one denomination in a community. All the other denominations are wrong, and bis denomination is right because his denomination is the most wealthy, or the most popular, or the most influential and it Is "our" church, and "our" religious organization, and "cur" choir, and "cur" minister, and the man tosses his head and wants other denominations to know their places. It is a great deal better in any community when the great denominations of Christians are about equal in power, marching side by side for the world's con auest. Mere outside prosperity, mere worldly power, is 110 evidence that the church 13 acceptable to God. Better a barn with Christ in the manger than a cathedral with magnificent harmonies rolling through the long drawn aisle and an angel from heaven in the pulpit if there be no Christ in the chancel and no Christ in the robe3. Bigotry is often the child of ignorance. You seldom fiad a man with a large intellect who is a bigot. It is the man who thinks he koows a great deal, but do?3 not. That man is almost always a bigot. The whole tendency of education and civilization is to bring a man out of that kind of state of mind and heart. There was in the far east a great obelisk and one side of the obelisk was white, another side of the obelisk was green, another side oi the obelisk was blue, and travelers went and looked at that obelisk, but they did not walk around it. One man looked at one side, another at another side, and they came home, each one looking at only one side, and they happened to meet, the story says, and they get into a rank quarrel about the color of that obelisk. One man said it was white, another man said it was green another man said it was blue, and when mey ivcro .u mo vtty ucai w ius uuuuvyersy a more intelligent traveler came and said: ''Gentlemen, I have seen that obelisk, and you are all right, and you are all wrong. Why didn't you walk all around the obelisk?" Look out tor the man who see3 only one side of a religious truth. Look out tor the man who never walks around about these great theories of God and eterninty and the dead. He will be a bigot inevitably?the man who only sees one side. Tnere is no man more to be pitied than he who has iu his head iu3t one idea?no more, no less. More light less sectarianism. There is nothing that will so soon' kill bigotry as sunshine? God's sunshine. So I have set before ycu what I consider to be the causes of bigotry. I have set before you the origin of this great evil. What are some of the baleful effects? First of all. it cripples investigation. You are wrong, and I am right, and that ends it. No taste for exploration, no spirit of investigation. From the glorious realm of God's truth, over which an archangel mgiht fly from eternity to eternity and not reach the limit, the man shuts himself out and dies a blind mole under a corn shock. It stops all investigation. A neither crrp.flt damage done bv the sectarianism and bigotry of the church is that it disgusts people with the Chrisj tian religion. Now, my friends, the church ot God was never intended for a war barrack. People are afraid of a riot. You go down the street, and you eee an excitement and missiles flying through the air, and you hear the shock of firearms. Do you, the peaceful and industrious citizen, go through that street? Ob, no, you will say; "I'll go around the block.', Now, men com6 and look upon this narrow path to heaven and sometimes see the ecclesiastical brickbats flying every whither, and they say; "Well, I guess I'll take the broad road. There is so much sharpshooting on the narrow road I guess I'll try the broad road!" Francis I so hated the Lutherans that he said that if he thought there was one drop of Lutheran blood in his veins he would puncture them and let that drop out. Just as long as there is so much hostility between denomination, and denomination or between one professed Christian and another, or between one church and another, so long men will be disgusted with the Christian religion and say, "If that is religion, I want none of it." Again, bigotry and sectarianism do gr*at damage in the fact that they hinder the triumph of the gospel. Oh, how much wasted ammunition, hov many man'rif onlan^i/1 infr?ll#pf-. hftVP CrivPTI tflP.ir LJLL\^ LJL JL. O piVUUiU 4U WV44W w -? t* T w -j. . w ? -? ? ? whole life to controversial disputes when if they had given their life to something practical, they might have been vastly useful! Suppose, while I speak there were a commoaenemy coming up the bay, and all the rorts around the harbor began to fire into each other?you would crycul: "National suicide! Why don't those fort blaze away in one direction, and that against the (Jommou enemy?" And yet I sometimes see in the church of the Lord Jesus Christ a strange thing going on? church against church, minister against minister, denomination against denomination, firiDg away into their own fort or the fort which cught to be on the same side instead of concentrating their energy and giving one mighty and everlasting volley against the navies of darkness^ riding up through the bay! I go out sometimes in the summer, and I find two beehiveB, and these two hives are in a quarrel. I come near enough, not to be stung, but I come just near enough to hear the controversy and one beehive says, "That field of clover is the sweetest," and another beehive says, "That field of clover is the sweetest." I come in between them, and I say: "Stop this quarrel. If you like that Held ot clover best, go mere. If ycu like that field of clover best, go there, but let me tell you that that hive which gets the most honey is the best hive!" So I come out between the churches of the Lord Jesu3 Christ. One denomination of Christians says, "That field of Christian doctrine is best, and another says, "This field of Christian doctrine is best." Well, I say, "Go where you get the most honey." That is the best church which gets the most honey of Christian grace for the heart, and the most honey of Christian usefulness for the life. Besides that, if jcu want to build up anv denomination, you will never build it up by trying to pull some other down. Intolerance never put anything down. How much ha3 intolerance accomplished, for instance, against the Methodist church? For long years her ministry were forbidden the pulpits of Great Britain. Why was it that so many of them preached in the fields? Simply because they could not get in the. churches. And the name of the church was given in derision and as a sarcasm. The critcs of the church said, ''They have no order; ihey have no method in their worship," and the critics therefore in irony called them "Methodists." I am told that in Aator library, New York, kept as curiosities, there are 707 books and pamphlets against Methodism. Did intolerance stop that church? Xo. It is either firstor second amid the denominations ot Christendom, her mi3 siouary stations m all parl3 of the world, her men not only important in religious trn3t, but important also in secular tru3ts. Church marching on, and the more intolerance against it the faster it marched. What did intolerance accomplish against the Baptist church? Ii' laughing scorn and tirade could have destroyed the church, it would not have today a disciple left. The Baptists were hurled cut of Boston iu olden times. Those who sympathized with them were imprisoned, and when a petition wa3 offered asking leniency in their behalf all the men who signed it were indicted. Has intolerance stopped the Baptist church? The last statistics in regard to it showed 25,000 churches and 3,000,000 communicants. Intolerance never put down anything. In England a law was made against the Jew. Engbnd thrust back the Jew and thrust down.the Jew and declared that no Jew should hold ctibial position. What came of ii? Were the Jews destroyed? Was their religion overthrown? No. Who became prime minister of England? Who wa3 next to the throne? Who was higher than the throne because i he was counselor and adviser? EIsraeli, J a Jew. What were we celebrating in all our churches as well as synagogues only a lew years ago? The one hundredth birthday anniversary of Monteflore, the great Jewish philanthropist. Intolerance never yet put down anything. But now, my friends, having shown you the origin of bigotry or sectarianism, and having shown you the damage it does, I want briefly to show you now we are to war against tb Is terrible evil, and I think we ought to begin our war by realizing our own weakness and cur imperfections. If we make so many mistakes in the common aflair3 of life, is it not possible that we make mistakes in regard to our religious affairs? Shall we take a man by the throat or by the collar because he cannot see religious truths just a3 do? In the light of eternity it will be found out, I think, there was something wrong in ail our creeds, and something right in all our creeds. But since we may make mistakes In regard to things of the world do not let us be so egotistic and so puffed up as to have an idea that we cannot make any mistake in regard to religious theories. And then I think we will do a great deal to overthrow the sectarianism from our heart and the sectarianism from the world by chiefly enlarging in those things in which we agree rather than those on which we differ. Now, here is a great gospel platform. A man comes up on his side ot the platform and says, "I don't believe in baby springling." Shall I shove him off? Here is a man coming up on this side of T-vIa f f/\rnn "hck o-> T70 "T rl A rv ' h lievein the perseverance of the saints." Shall I shove him off? Xo. I will say: "Do you believe in the Lord Jesus a3 your Savior? Do you trust him lor time and for eternity?" He says, "Yea." "Do you take Christ for time and for eternity?" "Yes," 1 say. "Come ou brother. One in time, and one in eternity. Brother now, brother forever." Blessed be God fcr a gospel platform so lame that all who receive Christ may stand on it! Moreover, we may also overthow the feeliag of severe sectarianism by joining other denominations in Christian work. I like when the springtime comes and the anniversary occasions begin and all denominations come upon the same platform, That overthrows sectarianism. In the Young Men's Christian associations, in the Bible society, in the Tract society, in the Foreign Missionary society, shoulder to shoulder all denominations. Ferhap31 might forcefully illustrate this truth by calling your attention to an incident which took place about 20 years ago. ?ae Monday morning at about 2 o'clock, while her 900 passengers were sound asleep in her berths dreaming ot home, the steamer Atlantic crashed into Mars Head. Five hundred souls in 10 minutes landed in eternity! mLftf r% ftAAntO \ rvr\v^ mftn o n Vdj VY UU'u tX Z>UOUC. JU luv/U u.iu women running up and down the gangways and clutching for the rigging, and the plunge of the helple33 steamer and dapping of the hands cf the merciless sea o^er the drowning ano the dead threw two continent into teiror. But see this brave quartermaster pushing out with the life line until he gets to the rock, and see these fishermen gathering up the shipwrecked and taking them into the cabins and wrapping them in the flannels snug and warm, and see that minister of the gospel, with three other men, getting into a lifeboat and pushing out for the wreck, pulling away across the surf and pulling away until they saved one more man and then get-1 ting back with him to the shore. Can those men every forget that night, and can they every forget their companionship in peril, companionship in awful catastrophe and rescue? Never! Never! Iu whatever part of the earth th\.y meet they will he friends when they mention the story cf that night when the Atlantic \faro tTaqtI Wftll. mv frienda. OtiUWA iXvMv* . . ? - - j ?^ . our world has gone into a worse shipwreck. Sin drove it on the rock. Tne old ship has lunched and tossed In the tempests of 6.0C0 years. Out with the life line! I do not care what denomination carries it. Out with the lifeboat! I do not care what denomination rows it. Side by side, in the memory of common hardships and common trials and commoQ prayers and common tears, let U3 be brothers forever. We mu3t be. One army of the living God, To his command"we bow. Part of the host have crossed the flood, And part are crossing now And I expect to see the day when ail dencm:nation8 of Christians shall j )in hands around the cross of Chri3t and recite the creed: "I believe in God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and inJasu3 Christ, and in the communion of saints, and in life everlasting. Amen!" Wilful Murders. London, Sept. 12.?A dispatch from Paris says: Montevideo advices of September 11 say that lifty-eigbi Brazilians were executed last spring at President Peixoto's orders without the semblance of a trial They were arrested on April 21, and were executed or the morning of April 2? at the fortress cf Santa Cruz, harbor of St. Catharina. An even larger number of respectable citizens had been shot under similar circumstances in Curity Bay. Throughout the month of May the volleys were heard nightly in the cemetery, where the bodies were immediately buried. I SBTTtH i if~ 1??fco? BBMiliMii* HI.ILi i i i' CONDiTiON OF THE! CROPSDirfc'or iSaaor's Weekly K?P3rt on tii? I Weather and Field Products. Columbia. s. C., Sept. 12.?The week ending September 10:h was a ] very hot one with an average dally i excess over the normal, of from 4 to t degrees. The highest temperature re- v f tnoo O*! of roriniiQ rilnf?PQ* ?hp ^/Vi l/tu >? OO 1"/ UU f (?1 1VHW ^Ai?v>vw f rj lowest Go at Longshore on the 4th and c Gih. * ] There was about 80 degrees of the i possible sunshine: the sky having been ( almost clear during the lour last days t, of the week and partly cloudy on the 1 previous days. c There were light showers, quite general over the State, on the 4tu and 5th, s scattering showers on the 0:h and in \ the extreme Northwestern counties on 1 the 8:n. The weeks rainfall was le3s ? than the usual amount In all sections, i and a general rain would be beneii cial; s Spartanburg and Union Counties have c especial need of it. I High winds are roported from Ker- 1 shaw County with some damage to cotton and corn. i Cotton picking has become general ( over the entire State, and was favored ? by the hot, drv weather which permit- i ted uninterrupted labor, as well as i causing the bolls to open rapidly. The 1 yield continues to appear disappoint- < ing and the general opinion of corre- 1 spondents is, for causes already stated, 1 the crop will not come up to the early i estimates. In addition to the reports i of shedding and rust previously given, ! boll worms have appeared in Newberry t and Ldgetield Counties. There will be J no top crop on sandy land; at other < places a small middle crop, while in general the c^op is from one week to 1 ten days late. The hot sunshine seems J to have effectually checked rotting. * The corn crop is all made and is be- ( ing nouseu in places; me new piu ya > now used geuerally for feeding. The J heat is favorable, as It thoroughly i ripens and hardens the grain on the * stalk. The fodder has about all been secured in line condition and is an abundant supply. Other forage crops, su .h as pea-vine hay and grasses, are also b ,vy crop3 and are being cut under favorable weather conditions. The rice harvest is said to be well in hand now, and In some counties the largest crop ever known is being harvested, wnile the yield in general is very satisfactory. So far the weather has been all that could be desired for securing the crop and it will soon be beyond danger of injury from unfavorable weather. Early peas are ripening and being picked. The pea crop will be a large one in acreage and prospective yield. The turnip crop has, generally, attained a good stand and is growing off nicely. Sweet potatoes are not uniform m regard to condition, being an abundant crop in sections while other places report a plenty oi vine, but lack of tuoer growth. Garden products continue plentiful, except caobage3 which are rotting bauly. The truck farming industry, in the coast counties, was affected favorably by the past week's weather aud the fall crop of vegetable?, fruits and berries are doing very well. J oorgaum is ueiug g-uuereu <tuu maue i into syrup, the yield, as reported, is from fair to very good, running an v average of 90 gallons to the acre ia I Falrlield County. J, W. Bauer, < Director. < 1 Kibbid b7 01H;?ri. ? New York, Sept. 12.?At to day's | session of the Lexow police investiga- j tion committee the most important , witness was Mrs. Cela Urcbittel, who came to this country from. Russia six >ear3 ago. She had ?000 aad opened a small cigar store and cried as she toll . how a detective she thought hi3 name , was Forgan, had said she made , what money she had by im- j proper means and demanded that he be paid S50. She gave him ; ?25. He arrested her after that. "He didn't take me to the station house.' she said. The station house was in A*"- , torney street. Her store was on the . corner of Ridge and Rroome streets. Continuing, the witness said: "Ha , walked with me around the streets . until 3 o'clock in the morning. Then j he pulled down my stocking to 3ee if 1 j had any money. I saw the policeman , divide the monev with another man. He took me to E33ex Market and let me go there. The next mornlDg he 1 told me I must raise the other ?25. He told me that my children would be : lasen irom me unless i give mm cue ( S50. I was locked up four days and , was then taken to court." Mrs. Urch- ; ittle did not know what was going on J in court. The complaint was that of keeping a disorderly house. The charge was untrue. She was fined SoO, sent 1 to jail and her children were sent to an ( orphan asylum. Sae ha3 been trying to ; get her children back, but ha3 not succeeded. , Mr. Moss told the committee ne had invesiigated the case thoroghly and i was convinced of its entire truth. Mr. Golf thought it would be a gracious act on the part of the majority to adjourn until after the Democratic convention and so an adjournment was had until Monday, October 4. Sag *r Planters Speeds. New Orleans, Sept. 13.?Sugar planters of the First Congressional District met at Fiaquemlne Parish court hou3e at Pointe Da IIsche yesterday. There were about four hundred persons present, all sugar and rice planters orange growers and ail former Democrats from the parishes ot Orleans, St. Bernard and Plaquemine, which constitute the district. H. M. Kernochan, ex-United States naval oilicer at New Orleans under Cleveland presided. Speeches were made by Kernochan, State Senator Espinal, ex-District Attorney Wilkinson, George JL\ Anderson and George Mann, all planters, who advocated acting with the Republicans, while ex-Congressman Wilkinson, now collector of Customs at New Orleans, and Representative Dimond called upon the planters to support the Democratic ticket. The vote showed that the supporters of a liepublican alliance had three-fourths majority, and resolutions stroDgly Republican and protectionist intone were adopted. The president w,i3 instructed to appoint a committee of twenty-one to select a candidate for Congress to run cn the Republican platform. Chained Up. Greensbug, Pa., Sept, 8.?Coraplaint has been made to the State Board ot Charities and to Humane Agent Doreute oi Pittsburg ot the confinement, in an outbuilding, of a thirty-year-old son cf Rsubea Harrold, a farmer here. Farmer Harrold admits the truth ot the charge, and says his eon is insane and is confined in a comfortable shed, fastened with a chain to an iron ring around his ankle. Mr. Harrold soy3 1 that when hi3 son first tciame insane eighteen years ago, he wa3 confined in a svlum, but begged so piteouly to be taken home that the father acquiesced, and , since then the demented man ha3 lived in his present hut. The son's hallucination is that some one is trying to abduct him, aud he resents any intrusion of strangers by attempts to do them violence. lie is entirely nude, refusing to 1 wear clothing. The complaint is that : thecrazy man's condition is objectionable : in the extreme, and that he shcu'd be | properly cared for. Another son of Har- ' rold's was recently sent to D x nont insane a3ylam, near IUsburg. A joint circular lias baen issued by all the railroads in the State instructing agents not to handle packages of in- i toxicating liquors for shipment either from point to point in this State or i from outside points into this State except such as bear the permit label of j the State dispensary. The express com pany is also operating under the same 1 instructions. A JOKE THAT LEAD TO DEATH. 'hll'p litavos Hang* Himself After lircoctlng Over a Letter. Searktoiit, X.J,Sept. 12.?Philip leaves, a summer resident here hanged limself yesterday. He was contidenial man and bookkeeper for W. l>ayird Cutting, and came to Seabright fune20to pass his vacation. He "se ured accommodations with a Mrs. r'rank Martin. Heaves was exceptiond ly quiet and had lit tie to S3y ro guests >f the house. His principal amusement vas bathing, and hardly a day passed )irt what he was seen on the beach >r in the water enjoying himself. Strange as it may seem, his bathing in it was the cause of his suicide. It vas not of the styles seen at Asbury .'ark, which often bag at the knees md have every appearance of being nade from a bloomer pattern. Reaves' mit fitted as closely to his well devel>ped body as a pair of tights on a shapey chorus girl in in an opera troupe. It vas made of light weight flannel. About three weeks ago several of his Tiends secured a note-head from the ulice of J'. Hallacker, secretary of the Seabright Borough Commission. Mr. backer's name and title was on the lote head. Then they wrote Reaves a "r.H oinrvitirl T II ThP CWICI CtUVA X/ . ?- ? w . contents were to the effect that hl3 Dathlng suit was disgraceful and if he ind any regard for himself he would iot wear it in the presence of the wo nen with whom ne had heen in the labit of bathing. The letter worried ne bookkeeper. lie took it to Mr. Packer and asked him if he knew the writer. Mr. i'acker aid not, and said he be ieved the name to be a fictitious oue. lie made light of the whole affair ana .ried to impress upon Heaves the fact that his iriends were playing a joke on Mm. Besides being secretary of the Borough Commission Mr. Packer is tlso a justice of the peace. Heaves was mxious to bring suit against the author of the letter, but he could not Drove who sect it. Tnen he wanted the matter brought ;o the attention of the commissioners, md Mr. Packer directed hun to Mayor I. J. Heed. Of course, the latter could lo nothing, it worried Heaves con3idjrably and wheu he talked about it he Decume very much excited. However, he did not cease wearing he suit whenever he went in bathing. Testerday morning he arose at his lsual hour and after taking a bath returned to his room. Wuen Mrs M in's chambermaid began her duties she went to Heave's room, but found the loor locked. When noon time came he lad not made his appearance Mr. Martin told her husband and he started to nvescigate. On looking over the transom Mr. Martin was horrified to see the Dody of his lodger hanging from the jloset door. He broue Into the room and sent for i doctor, but life had been extinct several hours. Reaves had procured a jlothes line and fastened one end to the mob. He threw the rope over the top )f the door, taking care to put a small piece of cloth under it in order that it might not scratch the wood. Then h9 stood on a chair; and knocking it rrom mder him swung off iato eternity. Coroner Oliver was notitied. The lead man's effects weie searched, but ;here wa3 nothing to show why he jommitted suicide, except the worry iver the anonymous letter. Several :ags were found addressed to him at 2s o >1 West Forty eighth street, New York lare of Dr. Maloney. W. Bayard Cutdog, who has an ollice in the Mutual Life Insurance Building ia this city was telegraphed for?N. Y. World. A Sid Suicide. Atlanta, Ga., Sjpt. 12?The coroner's jury this afternoon returned a rerdicc of suicide in the case of Miss Sara Singleton, and recommended fur:her investigation by the grand jury, [t was decided to give the letter writlea by the unfortunate girl to her mother to the public, and thus set at rest the many sensational rumors that lave been ailoat concerning the case today. This letter corroborates the iccounts already sent out, showing that !-Ko rwi b-illoa horaolf <lhp W3S jUC gill Dklii wU UCJlklVlki VV^VMVNWW M ? W WW ~--w jealous of her younger sister. It also rstablishes the identity of the man who betrayed her and whose desertion of her for her sister's favor was the cause of her suicide. This man is M. T. Whitlock. After telling her mother that her sister Eve was at the Gate City Hotel with Whitlock, Miss Singleton wrote: "He is a married man with one ohild and ha3 been married eighteen pears. You need not bury me. Times are too hard. Eve and Whitlock have got big times planned . Don't let her some to Atlanta any more. Keep your girls at home." She says she and Whitlock lived together for three months as man and wife. "I loved that man better than anything on earth. I knew he was married all the time, but couldn't help it. Tell Eve I forgive her." Of her visit to Atlanta, the letter is most sensational. "I came to Atlanta today to kill Whitlock and then myself, but one sui cide will do. I have two bottles of laudanum. I will take them. As I am bound for hell, take my advice and live for God and noDe other. 1 lived a Christian life for nin? years." When made acquainted with the contents of the letter Whitlock was greatItt TTo pviripnt.lv thoufftlt he bad had a narrow escape with his life. "It is a good thing I did not go to see her when she wrote those notes," he remarked, but would not discuss the affair. The girl's body was taken to her old home in Norcross by her brother tonight. Water Your Horses Often. Feeding a horse principally on grain and driving it five hours without water is like giving a man salt mackerel for dinner and not allowing him to drink before supper time?very unsatisfactory for the man. If you know anything about the care of horses and have any sympathy for them, water them as'often as they want to drinkonce an nour if possible. Fy doing thi3 you will not only be merciful to your animal, but you will be a benefactor to yourself, ?.s they will do more work, look better, and live longer. If you are a skeptic and know more about horses than any one else, you are positive that the feregoing is wrong, because you have had horses die with watering them too much, and boldly say that the agitators of frequent wateilng are fools in your estimation,and you would not do such a thing. Just reason for a moment and ligure out whether the animal would have overdrunk and overchilled his stomach if it had* not been allowed to become overthirsty. A driver who sits in his wagon and lashes his wornout, halfcurried. half-fed and half-watered team deserves to be punished as a crimiual. L'^htnlnj'd Work. The weather bureau gather statistics from all available sources of the damage done by lightening, and from the report of Alex McAdie, who has the matter in charge, it is learned that in the United States,during May, 18U-1, forty-live persons were killed by lightning; thirty-four persons were struck and several injured; twelve bams were set on lire, with an estimated loss of 535,000; thirty-seven dwellings, four churches and one school house were 3truck and damaged to a greater extent tifty-eight horses and twentv-two cows were killed. During June, 1894, ninety six persons were killed and lu2 severely iDjured;sixty-nine barns were struck with an estimated loss of-519 000; fortynine horses, thirty cows and lifteen sheep were killed; eighty dwellings were struck and more or less damaged; twenty-two churches, one railroad depot, one oil tank, one grain elevator, and six mills and factories were struck, the damage in the case of the eight last named being not lees than ?257,500. ?rr ifriT " ~r ?~- ?? REFUTING A SLANDER. The Story or Mr, Schubert and the New Y ?rkS;i,?ts / itnoz Ci i A11 l est on, S. C., Sept. 13?In its issue of last Monday the Deutsche ZeituDg prints a long and interesting story regarding a Mr. W. Schubert, of Yorkville. The Deutsche Zaltung says tnat its readers have frequently heard of Mr. Schubert, as he is one of those unlucky people who are never out of trouble. Some time ago Mr. Schubert lost his house by tire and the Deutsche Zeiturtg took up a subscription in nis behalf. More recently Mr. Schubert was raid ed by dispensary constables, and later still he came before the public with a still more serious grievance. lie alleged that his wife had been unfaithful to hi no, and in consequence he instituted legal proceedings against county commissioner of York county, whose name is not given. The public ctlicial, however, was rich and iniluential and Mr. Schubert wa3 poor and had few friedns, so that he never succeeded ia getting any saiistaction from the courts. A month or so ago Mr. Schubert came to Charleston and appealed totheZiitung for aid. The editor of the Zeuung provided him with lodgings and appealed to some of the influential Germans of the city to aid him. These gentlemen, however, declined to do anything in the matter until they had some guarantee of Mr. Schubert's good character and proof of the story which he told, so he returned to his home in Yorkville. Mr. Schubert has recently come to the front again with a letter which was published in the New York .Struts Zdtuug. In it he goes over all of his troubles and puts up a very pitiful story. TheStaafs Zeitung immediately started a subscription in his interest which was headed by the paper with one hundred dollars. Thus far the Staats Zdtung appears in a very good light, but no' conteut with aiding Mr. Scnubeit that paper makes his letter the occasion for a bitter and violent attack upon the South. It pretends to think that all of Mr. Schubert's troubles grew out of a prejudice .existing in this State against people of foreign birth. The StaatsZ.dtung say3 editorially that it has always warned Germaus not to settle in the South, and it now gives Mr. Schubert's case as a proof of tne wisdom of its advice. It indulges in quite a tirade along this line, characterizing the people of the State as "those scoundrels." It is just here that the editor of the Dcutche Zeitungof this city has come to the defence of the South in general, and of this State in particular, in a very excellent article. He refutes all of the charges made by the New York paper and asserts that in no pare of the Union are foreigners more respected or mora kindiy treated than they are in the South. He explains that in this city of 60,000 inhabitants, nf whir.h ahnut 2 000 are Germans. the Mayor, several members of Council, the chief of the lire department and other oflicials are of German extraction. He says that South Caroli na clfers one of the best homes in the world for Germans, and he advises as many of them as possible to come here. The article is an excellent one, and is a complete refutation of the charges and denunciation e? the New YorkStaats Zeitung? New.> and Courier. The Money Qaeitlon. With the tariff question disposed of for the present, at least, the money question will continue to grow in importance until it is settled io the interest of equity and justice to all, rich and poor. While Congress was discussing the former matter, the people have been discussing the latter, and the result is that the money question is the paramount issue in our politics at this time. It is a que3tiou that will not be settled either until silver is restored to its place as money by the side of gold. Tne Atlanta Constitution says selllsh interests have tried in vain to ignore it, and ignorance has done its best to muddle it, but ail to no purpose. It overlaps and overreaches party lines. The liepublicaus are trying bard to put themselves in line with the people on this great issue. The Populisrs have adopted it. And even the prohibitionists, who have heretofore dealt only in questions of morals, have taken it up and in two States of the northwest they have declared for the free coinage of silver. In a great many States the politicians have succeeded in smothering the money question with other issues, and in momentarily diverting attention from it, but it has grown and is still growing and by the time the next congress meet3 it will have complete possession of the country. All other issues will be subordinate to it, | and for the best of reasons. The people will discover as the days roll by that no tariff measure, no matter bow radical, can afford any reiiefso long as the standard money of the country?which is gold?continues to increase in value as compared with the products of human labor. People will discover that there cao be no relief in tariff measures so long a3 falling prices compel tnose who o wn money to keep it out of business, The cheapening of products by means of tariff reduction is a healthy and wholesome process so far as the j people are concerned, but the cheapen! ing of products by means of the conj stantly increasing value of standard i monev is a Drocess that kills all enter prise aud depresses all business. There has been a "little ilurry in the stock market as the result of the passage of the tariff blli, but this is purely speculative, being based wholly on the expectations of those who are waiting for a turn in the tide that the settlement of the tariff question will restore good times. We do not believe that the tariff bill will at this time tend to restore prices and business to the old level of prosperity. That result can only be brought about by the settlement of the financial question?the restoration of [ silver to iis old place as a part of the standard money of the country. Ia this direction only will producers find ! good prices, laboring men good wages, | and merchants good business. The single gold atandard means European wages, European prices, European conditions, and the enslavement of the people by the money kiDgs. Death ot Dr. S. B. .J jnee. Charleston, S C., Sept. 8.?Rev. S. B. Jones, D. D., died at Spartanbnrg todav. lie was born in Cnarleston fifty eight years ago. lie was graduated from the Citadel Academy In 1847. | From his graduation till 1854, when he joined the South Carolina Confereuce, I ne taught in Female College in Anderson. He traveled only three years when his voice failed. For many years he taught in the Cokesburg Conference School, and In the MaroDic Female College at that place. In 18G0, he took charge of the Spartanburg Female College upon its reopening. In 1872, he was chosen president of th9 Columbia Female College, in which position he continued for three year3. In 1875, he again entered the active work and was presiding elder of the Greenville District. lie was agiia elected president of the College four years ago, which position he resigned ar; the close o? the ' last session on account of ill health. Negroes Lynch ? Negro. Natchez, MiS3., Sept. 13.?There was a murder and a lynching in the lower portion of Concordia parish last Monday. A negro named Boo Williams employed as a foreman on the Excelsior plantation, started after two of the hands on the place who had absconded, lie overtook them and in ao altercasion that followed Williams shot and killed one of the parties whose name is not known. Williams was arrested and while still In the custody cf the oilicers he was taken by a mob anc hanged after being brutally maltreated. The affair created much* excitement in the lower part of the parish, but news only reached this city today. All the parties were negroes. Wi'.?on's Hani FJghr. Representative William L. Wilson of West Virginia will have the hardest JJ light he ha3 ever had to retain his seat in Congress. Just as Governor McKin- th ley was looked upon as the special De champion oi" protection and the ener- ^' gies of the Democrats of the whole th nation were concentrated to accom- de plish his defeat, so Mr. Wilson is re- ne zarded as the champion o! tariff* reterm and the Republicans will bring ne their heaviest guns to bear to compass ca his dele-it this fall. The action of the Oii Republicans in pressing ex President ve Harrison into service to open the cam- ~ paign for t^em recently at the convention which nominated Mr. Dayton i as Mr. Wilson's opponent, and Mr. Harrison's declaration that the contest was *: not to be local but national in its sig- s nilicar.ce, show the estimate the Re- " publicans put on tbe lm portanee of the ugnt, ana toe txiraoramarv euoris they will make to win. The Republi- ;* can committee will have all the money it can spend in the district, aod the heaviest guns of the party, including ex-Speaker Reed, will be called upon to make campaign tours in the counties. The Democrats will make a hard fight to reelect Mr. Wilson. They, too, will concentrate money and able speakers in the district, and, though Mr. Wilson has been com pellet! to leave the country for a short time there will be no lagging in the light. A plants on foot to induce President Cleveland to take an altogether unprecedented step for a President and go on the stump in Mr. Wilson's behalf. Senator Faulkner, chairman of the Democratic Congressional commttte, says he would not ' be surprised if the President wouid do this. He said the fact that Mr. Wilson stood as the special representative of the Democratic idea of tariff reform ?! and the national character of the contest would justify the President in his re-election. Senator Faulkner, who resides in the district does not think the ? Republicans have nominated t.heir _ strongest man against Mr. WilsoD, and j he is getting some consolation out of V that opinion. ?1 yStarving. Omaha, Neb., Sept. 9.?As a result oi me mauy cxiggerated reports ia cir- M cuiation as to drouth destitution in -Nibraska, the ilea has secured aca puolimbed an accurate statement iu etich county trom the county commissione'8. These reports iudicate that the actual / condition of the people in the drouth ? stricken counties is not, and doe3 not ? promise to become as serious 33 herr - ^ tofore predicted. Only m the western ? portion of the Slate are ciere likely to be urgent demands ior a:J, i' In Lincoln ounty, the situation is worse than elsewhere. The report from ^ there says: "On every hand abandon- * ed homesteads aud whiUned or with- r ered fields of corn tell the story of discouragcment and despair. A'ong the streams where irrigation has furnished moisture, farmers have succeeded in raising crops. Elesewhere everything ? has burned. Many farmesrs are too poor to move away. With chattel mortgages cn all their possessions, they must leave bare handed or stay ana starve unless outside help is lurnished. | Every day new applications for county 'charity evidence the growing distress. [ State aid is absolutely necessary." To indicate the urgent need of assis- i tance, m ay be said that correspondece Irtnl/in t tr> fhi? r>v?ll,n/ fif ft P "in V ftntion to consider the bc3t ruethdos f>r aecur- , iag and rendering aid has been carried on recently between many Cointy uncials in these Western counties. v G*:l*nt Swimmer*. Atlantic City, Sep'. 12 ?Miss Sophie Ashton and Miss Annie Thompson, daughter of the well known Tailadelphia physician, went to bathe at the p] point of the beach where the Great ft] Egg harbor iDletjMns the ocean at a LoDgport, Qve miles from here. They se were carried out by the strong under- ai tow. Both girls are fairly good swimmers, but it was all in vain that they struggled to regain the shore. They were rapidly becoming exhausted when with all their remaining strength they n cried for help. There wa3 little hope ^ they would be heard, for Longport has no life guards and the lower portion of fa the beach is usually deserted. It so pj happened that Artie and iVrcy Item- p< ington, sons of a prominent Longport k cottager, were ashing ia the vicinity. It They ran to the rescue. Both are powerful swimmers and impeded as they were with their clothes, they experi- " enced little difficulty in reaching the completely exhausted and drowning girls though none too soon. The re- . turn journey taxed their powers to the utmost. When the shore wa3 Unally ! reached the rescuers as well as the rescued girls were so weak that they could rot stand. Fercy IlemiDgton staggered Into the little village and told the story. A par'y of friends hurried to the scene and found the remaining trio so weak that they could not move. They were stretched motionless on the sand. They were conveyed to their homes where Miss Ashtoa soon recovered. MiS3 Thompson and Artie Item- ^ icgton were so exuausted that it took some time to revive them. Uad yhowjng:. Lansing, Sept. 11.?The Michigan crop report for September says. The average rainfall in the State in August did not exceed three-fourths of an inch. With a drouth practically unbroken during the two principal crop growing months of July and August it is not difficult to estimate the condition of crops. They are dried up. Corn, potatoes and warden truck are damaged ue yond recovery, the yield will be bur, a j, small per cent, of an average, and pastures offer little or no feed tor stock. There is little doubt that wheat will be largely fed to stock the coming winter. Threshers returns of more than 68,000 -ores of wheat threshed show that the average yield per acre in the State is 16 610 bushels. ^ Sam Jones says "the trouble with the Populist party is that it can't delive the goods. The rank and lile of the ^ party are clever fellows, but the Demo- * cratic party can run a mile while they 11 are putting on their boots, aad they will have the rabbit twisted out of the hole before the Populist dogs are on the ground.'' fpTSvosTl ||| ?RGHNS.l | MID-SUMMtK HAKbAiro. ij j Ii) Spocl.il Sale Snmraer 1894* The V I 1/ time to buy Cheap and Easy. Six V 1? Special Summer Offers that beat the V f record. V 1 $50 saved ever}' Piano purchaser. <\ ) $10 to $20 on every Organ. ) Six Special Offers on our Popular Mid-A J Summer Plan. Buy in August, September A 1 , ) and October, and p?7 when Cotton comes X (in. * V m > Spot Cash Prices. No Interest. Only a O > Small Ca.>h I'avment required, $25 on & O sp I () Piano. $10 on Oriran, balance next Norem- O ou O ber 15th. Longer time II warned. w i jj k Payments to suit all. Pianos $5 to $10/! itit monthly. Organs $2 to $3. V ^ X Our Mid-Summer Offers save big money X X on all plans of payment. A " (J New Fall Leaders ready. Beaatl- 01 1} ful and Cheap. Tempting Bargains. LI Or (> Write at or.co for Mid-Summer Of- (J A O fere. Good only until November 1. (J 0 L)im't w.iit. <(l f > I UDDEN & BATES ft D ""SOUTHERN MUSIC HOUSE,;!' *i J SAVANNAH, QA. jjj ad 1 I __ I Lynched. Jacksonville, Fla, Sept. 12.?A ecial to the Times Union from arke, Fla., says: A negro named Jim ^ ith was lynched near here early is morning by masked men. The 'gro attempted to ravish Miss Wiley, young white girl. Sunday night the gro entered Miss Wiley's room while e family were at chureh and hid unr the bed. After the girl retired .the gro crowied out and attempted to saulther. Miss Wilev screamed and r father ran in and recognized the gro. The negro escaped, but he was ptured this morning,and while being ken to jail a mob overpowered the 4 ' icers nad swung the brute to a connienttree. AD6STI' PA?S TSS FREIGH1 ' **rr\ te Gwfcl U: yj?:om Sa ft tat T&j Ca S? I ?gr_ $69?'?f?$37 ^53Jr^*!=5j Just to introduce them. 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