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DANGER OF WEALTH. Eminent Divine Says too Many Riches Cause Migery. USELESSNESS OF THE GIANT. Services of the Commonpiace. They Who Do the World's Work. Divinity of Service. From a passage of Seri, x that probably no other clergyman ever preached from Rev. Dr. Taliage in this discourse sets forth a truth very ap propriate for those who have unhealthy ambition for great wealth or fame. The text is I Chronicles xx. 6, 7: "A man of great stature, whose fing ers and toes were four and twenty, six on each hand and six on each foot, and he also was the son of a giant. But when he defied Israel, Jonathan. the son of Shimea. David's brother. slew him." Malformation photographed, and for what reason? Did not this passage slip by mistake into the sacred Scriptures. as sometimes a paragraph utterly ob noxious to the editor gets into his newspaper during his absence? Is not this Scriptural errata? No, no; there is nothing haphazard about the Bible. This passage of Scripture was as cer tainly intended to be put in the Bible as the verse. "in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." or "God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son." And I select it for my text today be cause it is charged with practical and tremendous meaning. By the people of God the Philistines had been con quered, with the exception of a few giants. The race of giants is mostly extinct, I am glad to say. There is no use for giants now except to enlarge the income of museums. But there were many of them in olden times. Goliath was, according to the Bible, 11 feet 4j inches high, or, if you doubt this, the famous Pliny declares that at Crete by an earthquake a monument was broken open, discovering the re mains of a giant 46 cubits long, or 69 feet high. So, whether you take sacred or profane history, you must come to the conclusion that there were in those times cases of human altitude monstrous and appalling. David had smashed the skull of one of these giants, but there were other giants that the Davidean wars had not yet subdued, and one of them stands in my text. He was not only of Al pine stature, but had a surplus of dig its. To the ordinary fingers was an nered an additional finger, and the foot also a sunerfluous addendum. He had 24 terminations to hands and feet, where others have 20. It was not the only instance of the kind. Tavernier, the learned writer, says that the em peror of Java had a son endowed with the same number of extremities. Vol catius, the poet, had six fingers on each hand. Maupertuis, in his celebrated letters, speaks of two families near Berlin similarly equipped of hand and foot. All of which 1 can believe, for I have seen two cases of the same physi cal superabundance. But this giant of the text is in battle, and as David, the stripling warrior, had dispatched one giant the nephew of David slays this monster of my text, and there he lies after the battle in Gath, a dead giant. His stature did not save him, and his superfluous appendices of hand and foot did not save him. The probability was that in the battle his sixth finger on his hand made him clumsy in the use of his weapon, and his sixth toe crippled his gait. Behold the prostrate and malformed giant of the text: "A man of great stature, whose fingers and toes were four and twenty, six on each hand and six on each foot, and he also was the son of a giant. But when he defied Israel, Jonathan, the son of Shunea,' David's brother, slew him." Behold how surperfiuities are a him drance rather than a help! In all the battle at Gath that day there was not a man with ordinary hand and ordinary foot and ordinary stature that was not better off than this physical curiosity of my text. A dwarf on the right side is stronger than a giant on the wrong sid e, and all the body and mind and estate and opportunity that you cannot use for God and the betterment of the world are a sixth finger and a sixth toe and a terrible hindrance. The most of the good done in the world and the most of those who win the battles for the right are ordinary people. Count the fingers of their right hand,and they have just five-no more and no less. One Dr. Duff among missionaries, but 3,900 missionaries that would tell you they have only common endowment. One Florence Nightingale to nurse the sick in conspicuous places, but 10,000 women who are just as good nurses, though never heard of. The "Swamp Angel" was a big gun that during the eivil war made a big noise. but muskets of ordinary caliber and shells of ordi nary heft did the execution. President Tyler and his cabinet go down the Po tomac one day to experiment with the "Peacemaker," a great iron gun that was to atright with its thunder foreign navies. The gunner touches it off, and it explodes and leaves cabinet minis ters dead on the deck, while at that time, all up and down our coasts; ..iere cannon of ordinary bore, able to be tik defense of the nation and ready, at the fis touch to waken to duty. The curse of the world is big guns. After the politicians, who have made all the noise, go home hoarse from angry dis e ussion on the evening of the first Monday in November, the next day the people, with the silent ballots, will settle everything and settle it right, a million of the white slips of paper they drop making about as much noise as the fall of an apple blossom. Disraeli says that a king of Poland abdicated his throne and joined the people and became a porter to carry burdens. And some one asked him why he did so, and he replied: "Upon my honor, gentlemen, the load which I cast off was by far heavier than the one you see me carry. The weightiest is but a straw when compared to that weight under which I labored. I have slept more in four nights than I have during all my reign. I begin to live and to be a king myself. Elect whom you choose. As for me, I am so well -it would be madness to return to court." * "Well", says somebody, "such over loaded persons ought to be pitied, for their worriments are real, and their in somnia and their nervous prostration are genuine." I reply that they could get rid of the bothersome surplus by giving it away. If a man has more houses than he can carry without vex ation, let him drop a few of them. If his estate is so great he cannot manage it without getting nervous dyspepsia from having too much, let him divide with those who have nervous dyspepsia because they cannot get enough. No. they guard their sixth finger with more care than they did the original five. hey go limping with what thoy call gout and kr,;n Wnet i:t. Wlie the ziant of my text. they .r lemduby a guper fluous toe. A fa o" thm Uy ciiIties bleed themn.wves of this tinancial obe s it n minetary plot'ora. but many of them hang on to tho hiudering su perfliaity till death. aiid then. as they are compelled to give the money up anyhow. in their last will and testa ment they generously givc sonic of it to the Lord. expecting no doubt that he will feel very much obliged to them. Thank God that once in awhile we have a Peter Cooper. who. owning an interest in the iron works at Trenton. said to Mr. Lester: -I do not feel ouite easy about the amount we are making. Working under one of our patents. we have a monopoly which seems to me something wrong. E:erybody has to cone to us for it. and we are making money too fast." So they reduced the price. and this while our philjanthropist was building Conner institute. which mothers a hundred institutes of kind ness and mercy all over the land. But the world had to wait 5.800) years for Peter Cooper. I am glad for the benevolent institu tions that get a legacy from men who during their life were as stingy as death. but who in their last will and testament bestowed money on hospitals and missionary societies, but for such testators I have no respect. They would have taken every cent of it with them if they could and bought up half of heaven and let it out at ruinous rent or loaned 'the money to celestial citi zens at 2 per cent a month and got a "corner" on harps and trumpets. They lived in this world 50 or 60 years in the presence of appalling suffering and want and made no efforts for their re lief. The charities of such people are in the "Paulo-post future" tense. The probability is that if such a one in his last will by a donation to benevol ent societies tries to atone for his life time closefistedness the heirs at law will try to break the will by proving that the old man was senile or crazy, and the expense of the litigation will about leave in the lawyer's hands what was meant for the Bible society. o ye overweighted, successful business men, whether this sermon reach your ear or your eyes, let me say that if you are prostrated with anxieties about keeping or investing these tremendous fortunes I can te!l you how you can do more to get your health back and your spirits raised than by drinking gallons of bad tasting water at Saratoga, Hom burg or Carlsbad-give to God, humani ty and the Bible 10 per cent of all your income, and it will make a new man of you, and from restless walking of the floor at night you shall have eight hours sleep without the help of bromide of potassium, and fiom no appetite you will, hardly be able to wait for your regular meals, and your wan cheek will fill up, when you die the blessings of those w'io but for youwould have per ished will bloom all over your grave. Sir Charles Bell was so impressed with the wondrous construction of the human hand that when the Earl of Bridgewater gave $40,000 for essays on the wisdom and goodness of God, and eight books were written, Sir Charles Bell wrote his entire book on the wis dom and goodness of God displayed in the human hand. The 27 bones in the hand and wrist with cartilages and ligaments and phalanges of the fingers all made just ready to knit, to sew, to build np, to pull down. to weave, to write, to plow, to pound, to wheel, to battle, to give friendly salutaion. The tips of its fingers are so many telegraph offices by reason of their sensitiveness of thouch. The bridges, the tunnels, the cities of the whole 'earth are the victories of the hand. - The hands are not dumb, but often speak as distinct ly as the lips. With our hands we in vite, we repel, we invoke, we entreat, we wring them in grief or clap them in joy, or spread them alroad in benedic tion. The malformation of the giint's hand in the text glorifies the usual hand. Fashioned of God more exquis itely and wondrously than any human mechanism that was ever contrived, I charge you to use it for God and lifting of the world out of its moral predica ment. Employ it in thc sublime work of gospel handshaking. You can see the hand is just made for that. Four fingers just set right to touch your neighbor's hand on one side, and your thumb set so as to clinch iton the other side. By all its bones and joints and muscles and cartilages and lip ments the voice of nature joins with thle voice of God commanding you to shake hands. The custom is as old as the Bible, any how. Jehu said to Jehonadab: "Is thine heart right as my heart is with thine heart? If it be, give me thine hand." When hands join in Christian salutation, a gospel electricity thrills across the plain from heart to heart, and from the shoulder of one to the shoulder of the other. With the timid and for their encour agement, shake hands. With the troubled in warm hearted sympathy, shake hands. With the young man just entering business and dis ouraged at the small sales and large expenses, shake hands. With the child who is now from God and started on unending journey, for which he needs to gather great supply of strength, and who can hardly reach up to you now be cause you are so much taller, shake hands. Acrss cradles and dying beds and graves, shake hands. With your enemies who have done all to defame and hurt you, but whom you can afford to forgive, shake hands. At the door -f the churches where people come in, and at the door of churches where peo ple go out, shake hands. Let pulpit shake hands with the pew and Sabbath day shake hands with weekday, and earth shake hands with heaven. Oh. the strange, the mighty, the undefined. the mysterious, the eternal power of an honest handshaking! The difference between these times and the millennial times is that now some shake hands, but then all will shake hands. throne and footstool, across seas, nation with na tion. God and men, church militant and church triumphant. Yea, the malformation of this fallen giant's foot glorifies the ordinary foot, for which I fear you have never once thanked God. The 26 bones of the foot are the admiration of the anato mist. The arch of the foot. fashioned with a grace and a poise that Trajan's arch or Constantine's arch or any other arch could not equal. Those arches stand where they were planted, but this arch of the foot is an adjustable arch, a yielding arch, a flying arch and ready for movements in numnerable. The human foot. so fashioned as to en able a man to stand upright as no other creature, and leave the hand that would otherwise have to help in balancing the body free for anything it chooses. The foot' of the camel fashioned for the sand the foot of the bird fashioned for the tree branch, the foot of the hind fash ioned for thie slippery rock, the foots of the lion fashioned to rend its prey, the foot of the horse fashioned for the solid earth, but the foot of man made to cross the desert. or elinib the tree, or seale the cliff, or walk the earth. or go any~ where lie needs to go. With that divine triunmph of anatomy in your possessiutn where do vou walk? in wh4t pat oA- riohtu or viWat path of ig h.zve yoi _t it d5wn? Vhari, havo yoi left th. iark of oIur footste1. Ara:d the pe'rifactions in the rocks have been i ound the imarks of the feet of birds and ast of thou ands of years ago. And God can trace out all tIe footsteps of your lifetime. and those you nade 50 years ago are as plain as those made in the last .oft weather. alI of them petrified for the judgment day. Oh. the foot! (Gi.ve me the autobiography of your foot from the time you stepped out of the cradle unti today. and L will tell your exact character now and what are your pros Ipects for the world to come. That there might be no doubt about the fact thaIt both these pieces of di Vinle mechanism. hand and foot. le long to Christ's service both hands of Christ and both feet of Christ were spiked on the cross. Right through the arch of both his feet to the hollow of his instep went the iron of torture. and from the palm of his hand to the back of it. and there is lot.a muscle or nerve or bone among the 27 bones of hand and wrist or anong the 26 bones of the foot but it belongs to him now and forever. That is the most beautiful foot that goes about paths of greatest usefulness. and that the most beautiful hand that does the most to help others. I was reading of three women in rivalry about the appearance of the hand. And the one reddened her hand with berries and said the beautiful tinge made hers the most beautiful. And another put her hand in the mountain brook and said as the waters dripped off that her hand was the most beautiful. And another plucked flowers off the bank, and under the bloom contended that her hand was the most attractive. Then a poor old woman appeared, and, looking up in her decrepitude. asked for alms. And a woman who had not taken part in the rivalry gave her alms. And all the women resolved to leave to this beggar the question as to which of all the hands present was the most attractive. and she said, "The most beautiful of them all is the one that gave relief to my necessities.~ And as she so said her wrinkles and rags and her decrepi tude and her body disappeared. and in Ilace thereof stood the Christ, who long ago said. "Inasmuch as ye did it to one of the least of these ye did it unto me," and who to purchase the ser vice of our hand and foot here on earth had his own hand and foot lacerated. WILL OPPOSE TILLMAN The Prohibition State Chairman to Run for the Senate. Mr. A. C. Jores. chairman of the State executive committee of the prohi bitionists. gives out the following sign ed announcement to the Democratic voters of Sonth Carolina. His race. it seems. all depends upon the endorse ments of the prohibition Democrats: To the Prohibition Democrats of the State: Believing that Senator Tillman is largely responsible for our defeat in the late primary election; that he is more responsible than any other man in the State for the opening of the State dis pensary and the trouble and bloodshed that have been caused by forcing it upon the Democrats of South Carolina. I have decided to ask the prohibition Democrats of the State to endorse me as a candidate before the Democratic primary in 1900 for United States sen ator to succeed Senator Tillman. And if they do so. I will then discuss the merits of the dispensary before the peo ple, and endeavor as a Democrat who is deeply interested in the welfare of the people and the good name of my State to convince them that the State dis, pensary should be closed to the sale of whiskey as a beverage and that South Carolina as a State should wash her hands of this infamous business and the men who inaugurated this corrupt political machine within her borders. I favor a prohibition law for the whole State, but would be willing after the State had passed this law tg exempt such counties as by. a two-thirds vote of the Democrats of the county, would ask to be permitted to sell under coun ty control, according to the provision of the present State constitution: Pro vided, such county would assume all the expenses of the enforcement of the law and the responsibility connected with its sale after it was exempted fr'n the State law. If the prohibition Democrats decide that they think best to endorse some other liemocrat for the position, I will cheerfully abide their decision and support loyally whomsoever they endorse. From a business standpoint I could not afford to give up my present position for that of United States senator, and I 1.ave no desire for political honors unless I can by enjoying them honor. the peo ple who confer them upon mc, but there is no sacrifice that I could make for the good people and name of my State that I would not willingly make if called upon to do so. A.. C. Jones. Newberry. Sept. 24. AFPIGHT IN THE PAETY. Plans for Sinking the Bryan Influence and Restoring the Cleveland Faction. A dispatch from Washington says there is a fixed determination on the part of some of the democratic congres sional leaders to force an investigation of the war by a congressional commit tee, regardless of the result of the work of the commission now in session. The indications are that there will be a stormy session from the hour that con gress meets. There is a secret fight on within the democratic lines which the campaign this fall will probably _bring into the open, and the contention of factions in that party will be added to the general activity along party lines. Mr. Bryan is still here, detained by an attack of malaria, and pcrhiaps disturb ed by the conflicting opinions of his friends, it is understood that his own inclination is to remain with his regi ment and go wherever it may be order ed but those who want him to get out of the army at any cost say that there is a secret movement on foot to over throw his influence, and that while lhe is being restrained from active political work by his commission in the army. the anti-Bryan element in the party. drccted. by the hand of Croker in New York. and having substantial as stance in Illinois and MIaryland. be se the general sympathy of the east. i making progress. in this connec tion it is asserted that a democratic itory has been arranred for in Ncw Y ork for the purpose of re-establishiing the influence of the New York element in directing the course of the party and that the easterni c ntingent in cou gress, which now amounts to practically nothing, will be increased by the elec tion this fail so as to insure its hav~ingr a voice in declicng policies. A loss of seats in the h use fromi certain quarters in the west is predicted. and this, it is argued, will make more I otenitial the infuence of the eastern contingenit if it is materially increased. N'W PCSTAL REGUILATION. suiportant Instractions as to New Money Order System. 'FL nestetiie ,h-partment ha, ju.t isued' an rdr thr-ouhl the postmaste eneral. rlative to the issnin, of ulour ey orders. According to tho new regu lat ion the orders are atuthorized to be drawn on the ofiee of issue. IheI onI condition im:n posed on the "rd; . he drawn upon the ofilce at which .t is is sued is that it shill not be a *limited money order olice. In ordor to bring about the chanL'e .Section 124C was amenieu. and thi new orler of things will tend to convenience those who use the money order svstei. The follow in- statements show to what use the new money oruers may be put: This change in the practice of the service has been introduced in order to widen the scope of the money order system. and is in :keeping with the pol icN of the department to make it a more popular and useful adjunct of the postal service. It is believed that this modification of the regulations wili re eeive the favor of the public and there by result in a marked addition to the transactions of the money order sys tenm. It is requested that, so far as it may be done without expense. the wid est publicity be given to this matter, to the end that the public may be acquainted with the fact that money orders may now be used for a variety of purposes, at moderate cost and with absolute security. Some suggestions that follow as to the practical use to which these orders may hercafter be placed are as follows: 1. As a savings banks. at places where banks are not in operation. when persons desire to deposit temporarily funds for safe keeping. Orders may be drawn in their favor, the amounts of which will be refunded on demand. or the order may be endorsed to another person, at any time and payment imnade to the endorsee. on presentation of or der. If lost, duplicates will be issued without cost. 2. To nay bills of tradesmen. etc., as a matter of convenience to persons who have no bank account and are therefore uinable to draw checks. 3. In settlement of accounts, at small expense. between persons who reside at distant points. The farmer, for exam ple, who is indebted to another resid ing say 10 miles distant, may obtain an order payable to the individual to whom he is indebted, which the latter will re ceive through the person who procures and delivers the mail for the neighbor hood. The expense and time -required for a personal visit are avoided; the cost is but a trifle; the payment be regarded as absolutely safe. 4. In cities, for payment of accounts or settlement of dues to all kinds of or ganizations. a money order may be or dinarily procured and sent to the payee, without loss of time and at a cost of less than car fare. The additional advantages which are now offered the public might be enum erated at greater length. They will suggest themselves, however, -to the em ployees of the money order system, and will be expected that, as opportu nity offers, some pains will be taken to acquaint the public with these advan tages, and to suggest the use of money orders as a method preferable because of cheapness, safety and convenience. The department will appreciate and commend the efforts thus made to se eure from the public its practical ap proval of the improved service. Hugging Must Cease. The boys and girls are much con cerned in the proposed changes in the rules for the dancing of the waltz, and some of them seem to fear the correc tion of certain abuses will remove all the pleasure from the dance. It has been decreed in the up to date dancing schools that hugging must stop, and the dancing masters have been evolv ing ideas as to the proper manner in which the waltz should be danced. The waltz is not to be banished from socie ty programmes, but it will be regulated and made to conform to rules adopted by the dancing teachers. Henceforth the young man who slides over the waxed floor holding his fair partner like a grizzly bear may be ruled out of society. At any rate, the American Society of Professors of Dancing ha decided to apply a remedy that will re move all objectionable features of ths round dance; in fact, the professors have decreed that hugging while dance ing must stop. The question of how to correct the objectionable features of the waltz is one that has been discussed and studied by the teachers of the terpsichorean art for many years. But this season the criticism became so severe all over the country that it was necessary to change things without de lay. There is but one proper position to assume while waltzing. says an au thority, and that is the right one. The dancers should faceceach other, the lady standing a little to the right. The man's right hand should be placed at his partner's back just above the waist line. Death of Bayard. Thos. Francis Bayard, of Delaware, died at Dedham, Mass., last Wednes day afternoon at 4 o'clock, after an ill ness of about six weeks. Mr. Bayard was born in Wilmington, Del.. on Au gust 29, 182S. lie entered public life early and made rapid progress. lie was elected to the United States Senate in 1868S with his father for a colleague, the only circumstance of the kind that has occurred in the history of the country. H e was a presidential candi date in 1880, and was second to Han cock, who was nominated at the second ballot. In 1884, he was called to the position of secretary of state by Presi dent Cleveland. and during Mr. Cleve land's second ternm, served as ambassa dor to the court of St. .James. The funeral wvas held Thursday in Wihning ton. Del. ____________ His Ashes Exhumed. A dispatch from Havana says at nine o'clock Wednesday morning the official exhumation of the remains of Colum bus took place in the presence of Gen. Blanco Secretary G3ovin. the civil covornor. the bishop and the dean of the cathedral. The general public were ordered out of the cathedral, and no one was allowed inside after that hour. The entrance to the cathedral was curaded by a force of the Orden Pub lico. whmich kept back the crowd which assembled in front of the edifice. The remains of Columbus had lain in their reting place since .January, 17%., when they were brought from Santo Domingo, that island having been ceded to France by- Spain._____________ Killed the Wrong Man. At C'amp Shipp near Anniston. Ala.. Friday, Private Syphle. of the Third Alabama. (colored), shot and killed Corporal Oliver. Syphe and another soldier were quarrelling when the form er grabbed his Springfield rifie and put ting a cartridge in it. fired at his oppo nent. lie missed the man he shot at. but the biall hit Corporal Oliver in the head. killing him instantly. The mnur dert was arrested and turned over to tie civil authorities. ?WIZNI DAVIS MEMIORY. Art Oio 1a Giva3 Liberally to the M :oment Fund. .v.9.,el l int 1:1"ldill ll if) lh,-- W in nie Da\'is llllU iln Elld vollies f1'ol1i a man who wo!r the bl)u in] the war be tween tle north alid s olth. The ainount is I lo and tile contributor is Mr. iar rison T. thaidler, of' Cleveland. 0.. president of the Chandler & P)rice company. manufacturers of printing presses and printing machinery. 31r. Chandler has written a letter to Mr. W. C. Dodson. of this vity. in which lie beans the honor of contribut ing~ 810 to the fund and at the same time pays a fine tribute to the noble woman whose name the shaft will conh memorate. The following is a copy of the letter: -Cleveland. 0.. Sept. 26, 1S93. Mr. W. C. Dodson. Atlanta. Ga. Friend Dodson: I have learned through the daily papers that the kind people of the south purpose erecting a monument to the memory of Miss Win nie Davis. the 'Daughter of the Con federacy. and in token of my esteem for her aA a loving, devoted daughter, and in appreciation of her womanly loveliness in all her acts, north. as well as the south, showing to the world that there was one woman so pure and true that the public clamor of approval, or worship even, could not lead her to in dulge in expression of hatred and cen sure against the former supposed foes of her loved ones and her beloved south, which had adopted her as especially their own. I desire the honor of being permitted to contribute my mite toward the erection of that monument. .And inasmuch as in all probability an opportunity to contribute will not be presented to me here in person' I desire to herewith authorize you to pledge me for the suni of one hundred dollars ($100). and request that you notify me as soon as a ecinmittee of your city is is appointed to receive contributions so that I may, through you. honor the draft. Respectfully yours Harrison T. Chandler." Mr. Dodson says of the donor: .Mr. Chandler and myself have fre quently discussed the war from our re spective standpoints-lie as a brave wearer of the blue and I as a humble wearer of the gray-but no hint or sug gestion of a contribution to this cause was ever made by me, and his handsome donation comes purely and freely from his own big heart. "-Atlanta Journal. FURLOUGHS ARE GRANTED. Time for Returning Expires on the 28th of October. The Columbia Register, of Thursday says: -The soldiers of the First regi ment are wearing a happy smile today. This morning furloughs were granted to the volunteers and consequently a feel ing of joy passed over them all. For several days they have been in sus pense, anxiously awaiting an opportu nity to go to their homes. The fur loughs expire on the 28th of October, and on that day every soldier is requir ed to be in camp. If he is not there will be trouble in store. He of course will receive his discharge, but may have some penalty to pay. He will also ex perience no little difficulty in getting his pay, owing to his absence on the day of mustering out. But it is presumed that all the soldiers will return prompt ly in order to get their papers of dis charge and thus quit the service. Sev eral have asked for an immediate dis charge. and consequently their requests have been granted. About 50 have been examined and discharged today. lIt is thought that a few more will pre sent themselves to the examining sur geon and then ask Capt. Fuller for a discharge. It is safe to say, however, thlat the total number in this category will not exceed 100. The entire regi ment with the exception of these who will be kept to do guard duty during the next :30 days is at liberty to go where it pleases, the only condition being imposed is that all return on the 28th of October. The guards will be requir'ed to remain here until the final muster out. Just how many of the soldiers who are on furloughs will re main is not known, but owing to a lack of funds some of them are experiencing some difficulty in getting away. It may be that they will wait for the coming of the paymaster. But here another ques tion arises. how long will they have to wait? The paymaster is due here on1 the first, but no intimation concerning his coming has been received. He has been wired for, but no response has come. The soldiers did not receive their pay for the month of August un til the 18th of September, and they hope to fare better this month. There are about 25 soldiers who are ill at the hospital in Jacksonville, but are rapid ly improving. On Thursday nine of them were discharged. The healith of the soldiers here is very good, and there are only a few cases in the hospi tal here." Killed by Mistake. A dispatch from San Juan says that a Porto Rican residing at Aguadilla. near 3Iayaguez. asked protection of poth the American and Spanish troops a gainst depredations by outlaws which it was predicted would occur. In re sponse to his request the American authorities sent to his residence two soldiers of a Keaitucky regiment, who arrived there Sunday evening after dark. The resident had not notified the Spaniards that he had requested Amer icanl protection, and some Spanish soldiers, who had been sent to guard his house arrived after the Americans and mistook the latter for outlaws. In the confusion resulting the Spaniards fired, unfortunately killing one of the Americans. The name of the dead soldier has not yet been iiscertained. The incident is greatly regretted by the Spaniards. Foiled the Robbers. Officials of the Denver and Rio Grande railroad and of the Denver and Rio Grande Express company arc re ceiving congratulations on the success ful resistance of an attempted robbery of the Western Express train near Hausted, Col.. Thursday by four or five masked men. Engineer Henry S. Hlin nian. Fireman Frank HI. Bennett, Con ductor 0. B. Craft. Train Porter Harry Hart and the brakemen are the men who put the robbers to flight. About 311 shots were fired. Expressman Slier wood, formerly a cowboy. stuck to his post while dynamite was being explod ed underneath and on top of tihe car and fired onl tile robbers. A reward of $3UI0 has been offered for each of the men captured. A posse with a blood hound is on thier trail. Can This be True. The Rev. Ihenry Bryan. who has been in the service at Camp Wikoff, says that soldiers arc thrown in plain pine coffins, naked, and the cotfins arc oniy marked with lead pencil, which is quickly obliterated, lie says paupers are much more respectfully handled when buried. A SZidier's Roirn'e. tie ha mrla!kniet with so-b no and <1_.,iespa h that hlis ;r.cInL particular line are freuientlyv calh-d um. In the pre-ent incident t here is on!ttle rulalce. TIe couple mar riei was Mr. Jackson C. lice. a private of Orangeburg in the First Regiment. and Mis! Mattic Thornton. of Alabama. The young lady has been on a visit here for smue time and before the regiment left M1r. Rice met her. It was a vase of love at first sight and a correspond ence was kept up between them until the regiment returned here. They de cided to marry and had made arrange ments with a minister to perform the ceremony. but he being unwell Magis trate Smith was called upon at his resi dence. Ile performed the ceremony. bid the couple Godspeed in life. got his fee and three souls were made happy at once. Mr. Rice has been furloughed and it is understood that he and his bride have gone to Orangeburg county. which will be their future home." Wants to Educate the People 03Mr. G. Walt Whitman has sent out the following from Jonesville: "To the People of South Carolina: I hereby sighify my determination to leave the political field. and for the next 20 months devote my entire time to traveling throughout the State and addressing the people on their educa tional and moral interests. I have been in politics for 15 years for this purpose above every other; I have sacrificed all that I have been able to make and all that I had accumulated in one supreme effort to bring about good to the peo p!e. I ask you. fellow countrymen. and especially those of you who are wealthy and philanthropic, to give me your help in every way possible. I shall make my own appointments; but, at the same time. will take pleasure in responding to any special calls for addresses that may be made upon me. The press of the state please extend this notice. Hester as to Cotton. Secretary Hester's New Orleans cot ton exchange statement issued Friday shows a dcrcase for the month in round figures of 114,000 bales. The total for September was 955,350 against 1,609,439 last year. Receipts at all ports for the month were 6S7,524 bales against 773.407 last year; Southern mill takings exclusive of amount con suied at ports,107,356 against 103.570 last year. American mills have taken during the month 181,533 bales against 249,984 last year. Foreign exports for September were 294,838, showing an increase over the same period last year of 975. Stocks at the seaboard and the 29 leading Southern interior markets at the close of September were 746,542 against 642,115 last year. Includirig stocks left over at ports and interior towns and the number of bales of the new crop brought into sight during September the supply to date is 1.252, 916 bales. There Was But One. A large number of the members of the Confederate Memorial Literary So ciety. which some time ago purchased the old White House of the Confedera cy. at Richmond, Va., and established therein a large Confederate museum. held a meeting at the museum and dis cussed in animated tones the action of some of the Southern and Chicago Con federate Veterans in suggesting Miss Lucy Lee Hill as the successor of the late Winnie Davis, Daughter of the Confederacy. They decided unani mously that there could be no success or to Miss Davis, who was the only woman who was born in the White House of the Confederacy, and there fore she alone was entitled to the dis tinction. They all agreed that Miss 1Hill is one of the most popular and highly esteemed of all the Southern girls. but could not accept the sugges tion regarding her. No Principle Involved. 'We do not feel and we do not profess much interest in the success of the Democratic State tickets in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. The party managers there have run away from the national platform in the be lief that by ignoring the silver issue they can win. It doesn't make the least difference to us of the south whether Democrats or Republicans get the local offices in the northern States. What we are interested in is the pro motion of the national policies repr3 sented by the Chicago platform. If Democratic victory in a State is to mean no more than the filling of the offices of that State with a new set of politicians, if the elections are not to test the sentiment of the people as to proposed legislation, we will not have joy or sorrow in the result. what ever it may be. -State. We Should Take It. There is a fine, large steel floating dock at Havana. It was towed there shortly before the outbreak of the war. It is large enough to accommodate the largest af our warships. Since the dock is not automobile. it is claimed that it must be surrendered with the other stationary public property in Cuba, and will become the property of the new government of Cuba, or of the United States as protector of Cuba and admin istrator of the affairs of the island. pending the establishment of a perma nent Cuban government. A dock of the kind in the Caribbean is needed by the navy. Will Join His Company. MIaj. MIarcus B. Stokes, of the First South Carolina volunteers, but first lieutenant in tihe tenth United States infantry, will not return to Columbia permanently, much to the regret of his friends in the city and state. Lieu tenant Stokes has been stationed here morc than two years. being detailed by the government to remain here for the p)urpose of instr-ucting militia, i~e states that as soon as he is mustered out of the volunteer service he will re join his company which has been or dered, or will be. to go to Cuba. Lieutenant Stokes deserves to go there withl them. -Columbia Record. This is Good News. L. P. MIitchell. acting comptroller of the treasury. has rendered a decision on the question of the reimbursenient of governors of States and territories for costs and expenses which may have incurred in aiding the United States to raise a volunteer army. Ie bolds that tihe governors may be reimbursed for reasonable costs incurred before the ac eptalnce of the troops into the service of the U nited States. iHrtman Withdraws. of tihe Silver liepublicanis and Populists for congress. ir 31ontona. has withdrawn and asks that the name of lIon~. A. . Campbell. the Democratic nominee. be placed onl those tickets and supported by all who believe in free coinage of A HURRICANE Does Cieat Damage on the Sea -cast of Georgia. RAGED EIGHTEEN HOURS. Narrow Escape from Drowning as a Result of the Sudden Floods. Apprehensions as to the Shipping at Sea. For eighteen hours from three o'clock Sundav morning till six o'clock Sunday night :avatnah. Ga.; was in the grasp of a West Indian cyclone. During that time the wind blew steadily from 50 to 70 miles an hour, While the city escaped with comparatively little dam age, the loss of property among the sea islards of the Georgia and South Caro lina coasts is believed to be heavy. For miles in every direction around Savannah the low lands along the rivers are submerged. Only one fatality has so far been reported-the drowning of a negro while attempting to reach the mainland from a small island near Thunderbolt. But heavy loss of life is feared on the South Carolina sea is lands. where such fearful loss of life occurred during the great tidal storm of IS93. The conditions now are similar to those during that storm. Owing to the submerged country and the isolated location of the islands, no news can be had from them until the water subsides. For eight miles north of Savannah the entire country is a lake, with only the hummocks visible. At noon the water was eight feet above the highest tide, Driven on shore by the northeast storm, it piled up on the islands, swept over banks and dams. carrying away the reninant of the rice crop that was left by the August storm and had not been gathered, and wiping out farm crops. The loss to rice growers alone will be from $50,000 to $75,000. Of the entire rice crop along the Savannah river, valued at $250.000, all but 15 per cent. was lost in this and the preceding storm. The damage to shipping is considera ble. The schooner Ames, which was on her way to sea with a cargo of 1, 500,000 feet of lumber, went adrift in the river, but was finally anchored safely. The wharves at the quaran tine station at the entrance to the river here were partially carried away. The quarantine officer and his family and servants were rescured early in the day by a tug. Four vessels, which were at anchor at the station, were torn f.om their 'noorings and driven into the marshes. Three of these were the British schooner Syanara, bound for St Johns. N. B., the American schooner Milleville, for Milleville, N. J., the Fannie L, Child, for Boston, all lum ber laden, and the Italian bark Frank lin. How badly these vessels are dam aged is unknown. No news has been received from Tybee since early in the morning, and nothing is known of the damage there. At Thunderbolt and Isle of Hope. suburbs of Savannah, all the boat houses on the banks and hun dreds of small boats were carried away. The extent to which the railroads suffered is not fully known. The naval stores and cotton and lumber yards of the Plant system are submerged, and the tracks of the Central of Georgia and Alabama roads around the city are covered. The northbound express on the Florida. Central and Peninsular railroad, due here from Flrorida and at noon, has not yet arrived. Telegraph wires except one wire over the West ern Union lines, are down, and the condition of the railroad tracks is un known. A special train will be sent out at daylight over the Florida, Cen tral and Peninsular route. All other roads are operating; the Florida, Cen tral and Peninsular is running north of Savannah. The telephone, police, light and fire alarm wires are down, and the city is in darkness. Off Hutchinson's plantation. opposite Savannah, and separating the city from the South Carolina shore, there were many negro familes rescued by boats from the revenue steamers Tyhee and Boutwell. One man with a child in his arms. holding the little one above his shoulders started to cross the dams with the water up to his body. His wife with another child, stood in the window of their house, the floor of which was already covered by the ris ing flood, and watched her husband feeling his way step by step along the top of the treacherous dam, one false step from which or a caving bank would throw him into a swift moving current. Finally he was sighted from across the river on the city side. A boat was put off and after half an hour's effort the family was rescued. Upwards of a hunared people were brought from the island to the city in boats. All day rescuing parties were at work. Tonight the wind has sub sided, but the water which receded with 'the ebb of the tide during the afternoon has again risen. Considera ble anxiety is felt for-shipping at sea. The steamer Nacho for New York, and the Merchants' and Miners' steamer. D. HI. Miller, for Baltimore, went to sea Saturday night. The City of Macon was due Sunday morning from New York, but has not arrived, and the City of Augusta sailed from New York Friday and was due here Sunday night. The extent of the storm is unknown. Until telegraph communication is re stored, or until news is received by rail from the country betwecn Savannah and Jacksonville over which the storm passed the full extent of its damage cannot be told. Has Been Saved The wreeking company engaged au der Lieut. Hobson in the work of sav - ing the wrecked Spanish warshiips has succeeded in floating the cruiser In fanta Maria Teresa. The cruiser after being got afloat was taken in tow by the Potomac, and, conveyed by the cruiser Newark, the Scorpion and Alva rao. proceeded for Guantanamo bay, where she arived lanr night. The suc cessful issue of the a' tempt was greeted with the blowing of whistles, the firing of national salutes and by cheers, in which the Cubans joined, disturbing the noon siesta. Off Sibuoy the ba rometer and the wind indicated the ap proach of a hurricane and the towing powr was increased. The Newark. under Capt. Goodrich. rendered vahi able assistance in the work of saving the Maria Teresa. The cruiser is be ing put in condition for her trip north by the repair ship Vulcan. Cotton in Texas. One. day this week Ilouston. Texas, rccived 41.S47 bales of cotton-1,500 erlads o it. wheighing 21.000,000 pond'- and valued at $1,000'000. Over 40.000 acres of land were required to prdulce this cotton, the Houston Post say. and it cost $165,000 to pick it. the pickng representing the labor of 2,400) men tor one month. Such were one drys receipts in a Texas town, yet we in South Carolina go on trying to com pete with Texas in the growing of cot The Royal is the highest r.%de Dkag por* koa. Actuci taeta ahow 'L goa cr.* thrd further tmi any otthor 6:-apd. AKil POWDER Absolutely Pure RCYAL DAK?.G POWOCR CO., NEw YORK. A FamilyRow. The Republican party in nearly every State is having a regular monkey and parrot time. The Atlanta Journal has taken the trouble to investigate the matter, and it finds that ir, New York the feud between the Platt and anti Platt factions seems to lose none of its bitterness. A large numberof Pean sylvania Republicans are in open revolt againgt Quay and are very ably led by John Wanamaker. If these seceders would concentrate their votes upon Mr. Jenks. the Democratic candidate for governor, Quay's man would probably be-beaten. Most of them have gone off after Mr. Swallow, the independent candidate, and Quay is smiling over a division of his enemies which means certain victory for him The Republi can convention in Connecticut last week defeated Mr. Porter. President McKinley's secretary, for the guberna torial nomination. and left seeds of discord which will sure bear fruit. The Porter element denounced the 'ring" which they say now controls the state, and the 'ring" in reply defied Porter and his friends in- very strong language. If what each of these fac tions says about the other is true, hon est Republicans in either cannot afli ate with the other crowd. The Repub licans of Massachusetts are quarreling, and in Maryland, they seem to be all to pieces. In Ohio the feud between the two Republican factions is so bitter that Governor Bushnell has left the state to avoid participation in the cam paign; John Sherman is pouring hot shot into the administration, and prom inent Republican leaders are declaring that Hanna shouldbe in the penitentia ry instead of the senate. All is not lovely among the Indiana Republicans, 2nd in Illinois Governor Tanner is tbused by men who wear the same po. litical livery as he more bitterly than by Democrats. The recent Wisconsin Republican convention broke up in a row. the defeated faction going home with threats of vengeance at the polls in Colorado there are two Republican tickets in the field, and there was at a state convention an actual battle be tween the supporters of the rival candi dates, in which one man was killed. There are other states in which the Re publicans seem hopelessly divided. The administration has everywhere Re publican assailants. The silver ques tion seems to have made a permanent rent in the party. Great as was Presi dent McKinley's plurality in 1896, we doubt he would not have been elected except for the almost solid vote of the Independents and of a host of Dolting Democrats. The Republican party is far worse divided now than it was then. and the chances of the election of a Democratic house of representatives in November~are growing better every day. Bryan and Wheeler. Hon. John Wesley Gaines, the bril liant young congressman -from Tennes ee, when in Washington the other day was approached regarding the De mocratic ticket for 1900. He is of the opinion that he can name a ticket that will win in a canter, and maybe he is right, as he names Bryan and Wheeler as his choice. "My ticket is Bryan and Wheeler." he said, "and I don't believe the lRepublicans can possibly beat them. There is William J. Bryan whom the masses love and regard as their champion, and there is the fight ing general who has covered himself with laurels. The Democrats are going to carry the country in this year's con gressional elections, but the victory is only a prelude to what is going year af - ter next. By that time there will be no goldbugs in the party, and all who bolted in 1896 will be working in per fet accord with those of us who sup ported Bryan and the Chicago platform. I opposed the annexation of Hawaii, nd considered the method by which that act was accomplished-aresolution of congress-was simply outrageous. I ear we will live to rue the day it was done. I am also eternally opposed to the acquisitisn of the Philippines. Such a policy is utterly at variance with our scheme of government, and f hear ti ly endore the position that Hon. J. W Bailey, of Texas. has taken in that matter. I have not always agreed with Bailey, but I think that his bald declara tion thiat he would rather resign his commission than become an advocate c f this expansion doctrine, does him i'i finite credit as a legislator and a pr t riot. Whatever may be said of hi-n there is no denying that he has. the ourage of his convictions and the in telligence to maintain his views before any audience on earth. On this ques ion of acquiring territory in distant seas I think there is bound to come a reaction of sentiment. Some of the greatest lights in the Republican par ty are opposed to it, and 11 believe that when the sober second thought of the nation reaches a cor~elusion, the majori ty of our people will be willing enough to admit that we have territory enough at home. and that an adherence to the time-honored princip~les of the 31onroe doctrine is wisest and safest." Put Up or Shut Up. A writer in the News and1 Courier mentioned a farmer who after mneasur ing a field of corn from which he said he gathered 22 bushels an acre last year, made a careful estimate of what that orn had cost him. counting taxes, in terest on the value of the land, labor, sced, fertilizers, farm implements. etc., and found that it came to a little less than ten cents a bushel. Col. L. W. You mans of Barnwell, throws down a chal lege to the News and Courier. ile says: 1 desire to say that I will furnish the land and stock and the implements. place the labor handy. and house it and Iay ten cents for every bushel, that practical farmer, the Editor of' the News and Courier, or anybhody else can produce; provided, they bring a certifi cate of ordinary intelligenee and of sound mind." The News and Courier r.fers tie matter to the geatleman who reported the cheap crop. Killed on the Rails. An unknown girl about seven teen years of age was killed while walking the railway track near Newburgh, N. Y. Friday. The engine whistled, and she became frightened in fact par alyzed..