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LESSONS OF MOVING Dr. Talmage Preaches on Spring time Changes of Residence. A TIMELY DISCOURSE In Which the Need of Patience an:! Equipoise is Set Furth. Moving into the Fa ther's House. This discourse. of Dr. Talmage is pertinent at this time of year when many people ar moving from house to house, end it teaches lessons of patience and equipoise in very trying circumstances; text, Philippians iv, 12, "1 know both how to be abased, and 1 know how to abound." Happy Paul' Could you really ac oommodate yourslf to all circumstances inlife? Could you go up without pride, and could you come down without exas peration? Teach the same lesson to us all. We are at a season of the year when vast populations in all our cities are changing residence. Having been born in a house, and having all our lives lived in a house, we do not have full appreciation of what a house is. It is the growth of thousands of years. The human race first lived in clefts of rocks, the beasts of the field uroving out of the caverns to let the human race move in. The shepherds and the robbers still live in caverns of the earth. The troglodytes are a race which to this day prefer the caverns to a house. They arewarm, they are large, they are very comfortable, they are less sabject to violent changes of heat and cold. We oome on along down in the history of the race, and we 3eme to the iodge, which was a home built out of twisted tree branches. We come further on down in the history of the race, and we come to the tent, which was a home built with a round pole in the center and skins of animals reaching out in all directions, mats on the floor for the people to sit on. Time passed on, and the world, after much invention, came to build a house, which was a space surrounded by b:oad stones, againa which the earth was heaped from the outside. The roof was made of chalk and gypsum and coals and stones and ashes pounded to gther. After awhile the porch was rn, after awhile the gate. Then hun dreds of years passed on, and in the fourteenth century the modern chimney was constructed. The old Hebrews had openings in their houses from which the smoke might escape if it pre ferred, but there was no inducement offered for it to leave until the modern chimney. Wooden keys opened the door, or the keyhole was large enough to allow the finger to be inserted for the lifting of the latch or the sliding of it. There being no windows, the people were dependent for light upon lattice work,.over which a thin veil was drawn down in time of winter to keep out the elements. Window glass was, so late as two or three huandred years ago, in England and Scotland so great a luxury that only the very wealthiest could afford it. A hand mill and an oven and a few leathern bottles and some rude pitchers and plates made up the entire equipment of the culinary department. But the home planted in the old cave or at the foot of a tent pole has grown and enlarged and spread abroad until we have the modern house, with its branches and roots and vast girth and height and Ahpth of comfort and ac commodation. Thank God for your home-not 'merely the house you live in now, but the house you were born in and the many houses you have resided in since you began your earthly residence. When you go home today, count ever the number of those houses in which you have resided, and you will be sur prised. Once in awhile you will find a man who lives in the house where he was born and where his father was born and his grandfather was born and his great-grandfather was born, but that is not one out of a thousand cases. I have not been more perambulatory than most people, but I was amazed when I came to count up the number of resi dences I have occupied, The fact is, there is in this world no such thing as permanent residence. From some houses the people hadi *been shaken out by chills and fever from some houses they had gone be. cause death or misfortune had occur red, and all those palaces and mansions had either changed occuDants or wanted to change. Take up the directory of any city of England or America and see how few people live where they lived 15 years ago. There is no such thing as permanent residence. I saw Monti cello, in Virginia, President Jeff ersen's residence, and I saw on the same day Montpelier, which was either Madison's or Monroe's residence, and I saw also the White House, which was - President Taylor's residence and Presi dent Lincoln's residence and President Garfield's residence. Was it a perma nent residence in any case? I tell you .that the race is nomadic and no sooner . getsin one place than it wants to change for another place or is compelled to change for another place, and so the race invented the railroad and the steamboat in order more rapidly te get into some other place than that in which it was then. Aye, instead of being nomadie it is immortal, moving on and moving on. We whip up our horses and hasten on until the hub of the front wheel shivers on the tomb stone and tips us headlong into the grave, the only permanent earthly resi dence. But, bless God, even that stay is limited, for we shall have a resur rection. My first word, in this part of my dis course is to all those who move out of small houses into larger ones. Now we will see whether, like the apostle, you know how to abound. Do not, because your new house has two more stories than the old one, add two stories to your vanity or make your brightly polished silver doorplate the coffin plate to your buried humility. Many persons moving into a larger house have become'arrogant and supercilious. They swagger where once they walked, they simper where once they laughed, they go about with an air which seems to say, "Let all smaller craft get out of these waters if they don't want to be run over by a regular Cunarder." I have known people who were kind and amiable and Christian in their smaller house--no sooner did they go over the doorsill of the new house than they be eaine a glorified nuisance. They were the terror of dry goods clerks and the amazement of ferryboats into whi(n lhey swept and if compelled to stand a moment with condemmautory glance tiurning all the people seated into criminals and convicts. They begsan to hunt up the family! or unicorn rampant On the 'arriag door: when, if they had the appropriate coat of arms, it would have been a but ter firkin or a shoe last or a plow or a trowel. Instead of being like all the rest of us, made out of dust, they would have you think that they were trickled out of heaven on a lump of loaf sugar. The first thing you know of them, the father will fail in business, and the daughter will run off with a French dancing master. A woman spoiled by a finer house is bad enough, but a man so upset is siakening. The lavendered fool goes around so dainty and so pre cise and so afected in the roll of his eyes or the whirl of his cane or the clickin& of the ivory handle his fron: tee 'h or his effeminate languor, and his conversation so interlarded with "oh's" and "ah's" that he is to me a dose of ipecacuanha. Now, my friends, if you move into a larger house, thank God for more room-for more room to ban your pictures, for more room in which to gather your friends, for more room in which to let your children romp and play, for more room for great b.okeases tilled with good reading or wealth of bric a-brac. Have as large and as fine a house as you can afford to have, but do not sacrifice your humili I ty and your common sense; do Dot lose your balance: do not be spoiled by your successes. Years ago we were the guests in an Eglish manor. The statuary, the ferneries, the botanical and horticul tural genius of the place had done all they could do to make the place attrac tive. For generations there had been an amassing of plate and costly sur roundings. At half past 9 o'elock in the morning the proprietor of the estate had the bell rung, and some 20 or 30 manservants and maidservants came in to prayers. The proprietor of the estate read the Scriptures, gave out the hymn, his daughter at the organ started the music, and then, the music over, the proprietor of the estate kneeled down and commended all his guests, all his family, all his employees, to the Lord Almighty. God can trust such a man as that with a large estate. He knows how to abound. He trusted God, and God trusted him. And I could call off the roll of 50 merchant princes as mighty for God as they are mighty in worldly successes. Ah, my friends, do not puffed up by any of the successes of this life, do not be spoiled by the number of liveried coachmen that may Ft)p at your door or the sweep of the long trail across the imported tapestry. Many of those who come to sour house are fawning parasites. They are not so much in love with you as they are in love with your house and your successes. You move down next year to 320 Low Water Mark street and see how many of their carriages will halt at your door. Timon of Athens was a wealthy lord, and all the mighty men and wo men of the land came and sat at his banquet, proud to sit there, and they drank deep to his health. They sent him costly presents. He sent costlier presents back azain, and there was no man in all the land so admired as Timon of Athens, the wealthy lord. But after awhile, through lavish hos pitality or through betrayal, he lost everything. Then he sent for help to those lords whom he had banqueted and to whom he had given large sums of money. Lucullus, Lucius, Sem pronius and Ventidias. Did those lords send any help to him? Oh, no. Lucullus said when he was applied to, "Well, I thought that Timon would come down; he was too lavish; let him saffer for his recklessness." Lucius said, "I would be very glad to help Timon, but-lhave made large purchases, and my means are all absorbed." And one lord sent one excuse and another lord sent another excuse. But, to the astonishment of everybody, after awhile Timon proclaimed another feast. Those iords said to themselves, "Why, either Timo-r has had a good turn of fortune or he his been deceiving us, testing our love." And so they all flocked to the banquet apologetic for seeming luke warmness. The guests were all seated at the table, and Timon ordered the cvers lifted. The covers lifted, there was nothing unde~r them but smoking hot water. Then Timon said to his guests, -"'Dogs, lap, lap, dogs!" and un der the terrific irony they fled the room, while Timon pursued them with his anathema, calling them fools of fortune, destroyors of happiness under a mask, hurling at the same time the pitchers and the chalices after them. Oh, my friends, I would not want to make you oversuspicious in the day of your suc ess, but I want you to understand right well there is a vast difference be tween the popularity of Timon the pros prous and Timon the unfortunate. I want you to know there is a vast differ ence in the number of people who ad mire a man when he is going up and the number of people who admire him when he is going down. But I must have a word with those who move out of large.- residences into smaller. Sometimes tne pathetic rea son is that the family has dwindled in size and so much room is not required, so they move out into smaller apart ments. I know there are such cases. arriage has taken some of the mem bers of the faawily, death has taken other members of the family, and af ter awhile father and mother wake up o find their family just the size it was when they started, and they would be onesome and lost in a large house, ence they move out of it. Moving day is a great sadness to such if they aave the law of association dominant. There arc the rooms named after the iferent members of the family. 1 suppose it is so in all your households. It is so in mine. We name the rooms after the persons who occupy them. And then there is the dining hall where the festivities took place, the holiday festivities took place, therc is the sitting room where the family met night after night, and there is the room sacred because there a life started or a life stopped, the Al pha and the Omega of some earthly existence. Scene of meeting and part ing, of congratulation and heartbreak! Every doorknob, every fresco, every mantel, every threshold meaning more to you than it can ever mean to any one else! When moving out of a house, I have always been in the habit, after everything was gone, of going into each room and bidding it a mute farewell. There will be tears running down many cheeks in the Maytime moving that the carmen will not be able to understand. It is a solemn and a touching and an overwhelming thing to leave places for ever-places where we have struggled and toiled and wept and sung and prayed and anxiously watched and ago nized. Oh, life is such a strange mix ture of honey and of gall, weddings and burials, midnoon and midnight clashing! Every home a lighthouse against which the billows of many seas tuble! Thank God that such changes Are not always going to continue; other wise the nerves would-give out and the brain would founder on a dementia like that of King Lear when his daugh ter Cordelia came to medicine his do mestic calamity. out Uf laft residences tnto :t-4ler through the t-versal of fortuna. The property must be sold or the bailiff will sell it, or the income is less and you cannot pay the house rent. First of all, such persons should understand that our happiness is not dependent on the size of the house we live in. I have known people enjoy a small heaven in two rooms and others suffer a pande monium in 20. There is as much hap piness in a small house as in a large house. There is as much sati:faction under the light of a tallow candle as under the glare of a chandelier, all the burners at full blaze. Who was the happier John Bunyan in Bedford jail or Belshazzar in the saturnalia? Con tentment is something you can neither rent nor purchase. It is not extrinsic; it is intrinsic. Are there fewer rooms in the house to which you move? You will have less to take care of. Is it to be stove instead of furnace? All the doctors say the modern modes of warm ing buildings are unhealthy. Is it less pier mirrors? Less temptation to your vanity. Is it old fashioned toilet in stead of water pipes all through the house? Less to freeze and burst when you cannot get a plumber. Is it less carriage? More room for robust exer cise. Is it less social position? Fewer people who want to drag you down by their jealousies. Is it less fortune to leave in your last will and testament? Less to spoil your children. Is it less money money for marketing? [ies< temptation to ruin the health of your family with pineapples and indigestible salads. Is it a little deaf? Not hear ing go many disagreeables. I meet you this springtim at the door of your new home, and while I help you lift the clothesbasket over the banisters and the carman is getting red in the faee in trying to transport that article of furniture to some new desti nation I congratulate you. You are going to have a better time this year, some of you, than you ever had. You take God and the Christian religion in your home, and you will be grandly happy. God in the parlor-that will sanctify your sociabilities. God in the nursery-that will protect your chil dren. God in the dining hall-that will make the plainest meal an imperial barquet. God in the morning-that will launch the day brightly from the drydocks. God in the evening-that will sail the day sweetly into the har bor. And get joy, one and all of you, whether you move or do not move. Get joy out of the thought that we are soon all going to have a grand moving day. Do you want a picture of the new house into which you will move? Here it is, wrought with the hand of a master, "We know that, if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens." How much rent will we have to pay for it? We are going to own it. How much must we pay for it? How much cash down, and how much left on mortgage? OurFather is going to give it as a free gift. When are we going to move into it? We are moving now. On moving day heads of families are very apt to stay in the old house until they have seen everything off. They send ahead the children, and they send ahead the treasures and the valu ables. Then, after awhile, they will come themselves. I remember very well in the country that in boyhood moving day was a jubilation. On almost the first load we, the chil dren, were sent on ahead to the new house, and we arrived with shout and laughter, and in an hour we had ranged through every room in the house, the barn and the granary. Toward night, and perhaps in the last wagon, father and mother would come, looking very tired, and we would come down to the foot of the lane to meet them and tell them of all the wonders we discovered in the new place, and then, the last wagon unloaded, the candles lighted, our neighbors who had helped us to move-for in those times neighbors helped each other-sat down with us at a table on which there was every luxury they could think of. Well, my dear Lord knows that some of us have been moving a good while. We have sent our children ahead, we have sent many of our valuables ahead, sent many treasures ahead. We cannot go yet. There is work for us to do, but after awhile it will be toward night, and we will be very tired, and then we will start for our new home, and those who have gone ahead of us they will see our approach, and they will come down the lane to meet us, and they wi'. have much to tell us of what they discovered in the "house of many mansions," and of how large the rooms are and of how bright the fountains. And then, the last load unloaded, the table will be spread and our celestial neighbors will come in to sit down with our reunited families, and the chalices will be fuill, not with the wine that sweats in the vat of earthly intoxication, but with "the new wine of the kingdom." And there for the first time we will realize what fools we were on earth when we feared to die, since death has turned out only to be the moving from a sm~i er house into a larger one, and the ex change of a pauper's hut for a prince's castle, and the going up stairs from a miserable kitchen to a glorious parlor. .0 house of God not made with hands, eternal in the heavens! Squalched by Tillman. Senator Tillman Lectured at Ann Arbor, Mich., one night last week, under the auspices of the Good Govern ment League, his subjiect being "The Race Question in the South." The in cident of the evening was his diatribe against the negroes. The audience was composed of students. Directly in front and alone sat a colored stu dent, and the senator looked at him in making his remarks. "You scratch one of these colored graduates under the skin," he said, "and you will find the savage. His ed ucation is like a coat of paint, like his skin." There were hisses from several parts of the house. Senator Tillman smiled and retorted: "You must excuse me for my frank ness. There is nothing of hatred in my nature for the negroes. When that man who hissed gets ready to give his daughter in marriage a negro and proves by his actions and not by hisses, that he means businers, I will apologize, and not before." The applause whe~h greeted this re tort was tremendous, and there was no more hissing during the evening. Gainesville, Ga., Decc. 8, 1899 Pitts' Antiseptic Invigorator has been used in my family and I am per fectly satisfied that it is all, and will do all, you claim for it. Yours truly, A. B. C. Dorsey. P. S.-I am using it now myself. It's doing me good.-Sold by The Mur ray Drug Co., Columbia, S. C., and all druggists.____t_____ A kingdom for a cure. You need not pay so muoh. A twenty-five cent bottle cf L. L. & K. Will drive all ills away. LABOR TROUBLES. Many Strikes Are Occuring All Over the North and West. MORE PAY IS THE CRY NOW. Thousand of Union Men Insist on Shorter Working Hours. There Seems to be Con cert of Action. About 3,000 stone masons and brick layers in Westchester county, N. Y., and a part of the Borough of the Bronx went on strike Wednesday. The stone masons demand $3.50 a day, in stead of $3, The masons' helpers want $2 a day instead of $1.50. The brick layers, who have been working nine hours a day, demand an eight hour day. Building operations all over West chester county are at a standstill on ac count of the strike. Twenty or thirty of the bosses have granted the men's terms. At Albany, N. Y., five hun dred carpenters and sixty plumbers went on a strike Wednesday. The struggle for an eight hour work day, which has been under considera tion by the labor unions of Philadel phia began in earnest Wednesday when according to Secretary Joseph B. Allen, of the Allied Building trades Council, workmen representing every branch of the building trades went on strike to enforce by a concerted movement the demands of the union. The movement for a working day of eight hours and a general increase of wages, averaging about 25 per cent., began some months ago by the amalgamation of all the trades connected with building. Re ports received by Secretary Allen at the council's headquarters in Odd Fel lows' Temple up to 10 o'clock show the following have stopped work: Plum bers and helpers, 650; hod carriers, 500; mill hands. 300; steam fitters and helpers, 300; sheet metal workers, 250; hardwood finishers, 200; mosaic tile layers and helpers; 102; floor layers, 128; mosaia woikers, 57. A strike of 300 men employed in the building trades began in Passaic, N. J. Wednesday. The men asked for h rtr hours and more pay. A(l the union plumbers in St. Paul, 'lich., went on a strike Wednesday in support of a demand for shorter hours And an increase in wages. Over eleven hundred union wood workers, practical I ly all the employes of the sash and door, rox fixture and show case factories of St. Paul and Minneapolis decided to strike Wednesday. A dispatch from Omaha says all the union carpenters in the city are idle to ,;ay and not a single contractor of any i.nportance is doing anything. The demand for an eight hour day and an increase from 35 to 40 cents an hour and the exclusive use of union label planing mill material. The contractors and employees of Kansas City, Mo., refused demands for increased wages, and as a result about 1,000 workingmen struck. They in clude tinners, sheet metal workers, hod carriers, plasterers and qu~arry workers. It is probable that the plumbers and steam fitters will also go out. Six hundred boilermakers and mold ers struck at the Stirling Boiler Works, at Barberton, Ohio, Wednesday morn ing for an increase of 15 per cent., in accordance with an ultimatum sent the company several weeks ago. An at tempt will be made to resume work with non-union men and trouble is ex pected. The company has several large orders for the Russian Navy. . A special to the Bee from Tiffin says that the section men on the Tiffin divi sion of tile Big Four Railroad struck to day for an increase in wages of from $1.15 to $i.25 per day. Tne company has refused to accede to the demand. The coremakers at the 0. S. JKelley Company of Springfield, Ohio, went out on a strike Wednesday, demanding a uniform schedule~ of $2.25 per day. Then men at the Architectural Iron Works, Grey Iron Foundry, E. W. Ross Company, Botiendorf Wheel Com pany and the Armstrong Foundry Com pany, about 250 in all, went out. MAD BUFFALO RUNS AMUCK. Peaceful Citizens Terrified by the Per formance of.Old Thunderbolt. "Old Thunderbolt," one of Paiunee Bill's stock buffaloes, went mad Wed nesday afternoon at Chester Pa., and for half an hour created the wildest con sternation. The stock wa grazing in the old baseball grounds at Seventh and Pennell streets, and five hundred peo pie were on the grounds wat Bhing the animals. Suddenly Old Thunderbolt bellowed, tore up the dirt with his fore feet and then, wildly tossing his mane, charged across the grounds. Men, women and children tiew for safety. Cowboys sprang on t heir horses and sought to encircle the w~ad animal, but nothing could stop his charge. With a crash he went into and through the stout board fence enclosing the grounds and gal loped down the Pennell street, charging right and left. Shorty Williams, a cowboy, ran for his lifg as the buffalo sighted his red shirt, and went into a barb wire fence, badly spraining his arm. Hector Quinn went down in the dust as the buffalo charged his pony, but for tunately escaped the mad animal's horns. A dozen cowboys swung their lariats in vain. Finally, just as the buffalo reached the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Bal timore railway tracks, a lasso settled oehihed and he was quickly tied up and towed, bellowing and snorting, back to the stables. For some days past the old buffalo has been acting queerly. He is about 25 years old and will be ordered killed by Agent Logan, of the S P. C. A. of his city. Editor and Alderman Shoot. Au aitereation occurred Wednesday morning between Albert M. William son, editor of the Florida Journal, a weekly paper published at Jacksonville Fla., and 0. W. Stansell, councilman from the fourth ward, which resulted in both being wounded. Williamson rode up Hogan street on a wheel and met Stansell, who, it is said, knocked him off with a cane, then fired three shots, one perforating the famoral artery of the right leg. Williamson fired two shots, one entering Stansell's right side. Neither is wounded necessarily fatal. The trouble arose over alleged charges printed in the Florida Journal. Wont Stop a Charge. A nong the reports from South Africa is one to the effect that Mauser bullets are ineffective in checking a charge of cavalry. Horses shot through the lngs and even through the breast were able to gallop 400 yards before they fll. THE CROPS. Weekly Bulletin of the United States Weather Crop Service. The following is the weekly report of the condition of the weather and the crops of the State during the past week, issued last week by Director Bauer of the South Carolina section of the United States weather bureau: The week ending Monday, April 30th was the warmest of the season to date, with thbe average temperature about four degrees warmer than usual. Al though complaints of cool nights, with consequent injury to young cotton, were common, the temperature was generally favorable on growing crops. There was sufficient sunshine, except over the extreme western counties, where cloudiness prevailed. Light showers were general on the 24th, and scattered showers on the 27th the latter generally confined to the southeastern portions of the State. While in places farm work was further delayed by the week's rainfall, it was as a rule beneficial in softening the crust that had formed on plowed lands following the heavy rains of the previ ous week. Planted fields are becoming grassy, and are in need of cultivation, and clay lands are beconing baked and hard as they are dry. Over the western half of the State, preparation of lands and planting were generally resumed on the 27th on uplands, but lowlands continue to be two wet to work. Corn planting is about finished in the eastern half of the State, where most of it is up to good stands and is being cultivated. In places it was in jured by two much rain. In the west ern counties there is still much upland, and all bottom land, corn to plant, although early corn is coming up to fair stands. Cut worms, birds and rats have injured stands, necessitating much replanting. Cotton planting is practically finish ed in the eastern counties, and it is coming up quickly to good stands. Some cotton is large enough to plow and is being chopped. Fields are be coming grassy. In the central and western counties, lands for cotton are not all prepared, and from two-thirds to one half of the crop remains to be planted. In places this work was bare ly begun before the rains of the previ ous week, but has been resumed and is being hurried. Tobacco transplanting made rapid progress, with plants fine and plenti ful, although scarce in places. This work soon will be finished. The first plants being cultivated. A number of correspondents report a reduction in the acreage devoted to tobacco. Rice planting continues, but is mak ing slow progress owing to high water and freshets in the rivers inundating rice lands and injaring the banks of the streams. Upland rice is doing well. All reports on wheat continue favor able, except that rust has appeared in spots. Oats are improving, and are be ginning to head, but are heading low in places. The oats crop will be larger than heretofore estimated, owing to the recent favorable weather condi tions. The ibdications are that the fruit orop will be the largest in a number of years. Apple and paar trees are blight ing badly. Peaches set a large crop everywhere, but there are complaints of the fruit dropping. Strawberries are ripening, and being shipped. Gar dens and truck have improved, and vegetables are becoming plentiful, ex cept over the western counties, where gardens are late. Melons and cane coming up to good stands. Pasturage abundant. Potato bugs are numerous and damaging. IS REMARRIED. Pathetic Story of a Man Who Had But One Week to Live. Down in Arizona a dust-clad man rode up to an adobe hut four days ago! He was a physician and the cowboy who brought him had travelled many miles over the sandy hills and shifting dry dust. The doctor entered the little cabin and looked at the man who lay there in the shadowy bunk. "You have one week more to live," he said. At that the man in the bunk stirred and raised himself on his elbow. "Seven days," he murmured. Then he sat up in the bunk with some effort and wrote a telegram. Wednesday this man, John Gray Stevenson, son of Kentucky's old gov ernor, was married to his former wife at his father's home at Woodlawn, Ky. The telegram he had sent from the cabin in Arizona, where he had gone to seek health, was sent to his old Mis souri sweetheart, who is now a clerk in the treasury department. He asked her to go to Chicago. The lack of words told that he was dying Wednesday she came and found her former husband. Hie was waiting out side tbe depot. The driver was told to go to the court house. And there a li cense permitting them to remarry was issued. The ceremony was performed at the home of David Stevenson, W~ood lawn. "Mr. Stevenson will not live another week," said his friend and physician. "It is doubtful whether he will live another day." Stevenson was born in Glasgow, Ky.. and his former wife in Marshall, Mo. They were married 11 years ago and went to Chicago to live. During the world's fair Stevenson made considera ble money in real estate. Six years ago he became ill from following the teachings of a sect which he had joined. The physician intimated that consump tion would follow unless he built him self up. Stevenson went to Arizona to im prove his health.. In the meantime Mrs. Stevenson had left her husband. Ile ad mitted that in his search after great problems he did not think of her as often as his duty demanded. She was le.ft without means of support and went to Washington, D. C., where she supported and cared for the two chil dren. The telegram was the first word Mrs. Stevenson had heard ..Irom her husband for four years. SPARE THE BIRDs-The News and Courier says farmers in South Carolina will find matter for reflection in the statement of the official ettomologist of [llinois that but for the birds that state would be "carpeted with insects," at bhe rate of one to every Equare inch of ground, in twelve years; and in the estimate of the United States depart nent of agriculture that one species of ,parrow "destroys 875 tons of noxious veed seeds in seven months in Iowa ilone." Neither noxious weeds nor 2oxious "insects" are scarce in this Campain Estimates. As we near the presideitial campaign the wise men of both the great parties are beginning to make estimates of the next elec toral vote. The New York World recently published the following table which gives the prediction of General Grosvenor, a very close friend of President -McKin ley as to the number of electoral votes he will receive: CERTAIN FOR MCKINLIY. Ca'ifornia ...s.... ... 9 North Dakota 3 Connecticut 6 Oio .... 23 Illiaois ............ 24 Oregon 4 Indiana .............15 Pensylvania . 32 Iowa . .......... Rhode Iland . 4 'Main ..........6 SouthDakota . . 4 Massacbusetts .. 15 Vermont.......4 Michigan .......... 14 Wahington..4 Minnesota . 9 West Virginia New Jersey.....10 Wisconbin.......2 New Hamp hire. 4 Wyoming .. 3 N ew York. . 3 Total ......... ... 260 CERTAIN FAR BRTA:. Alabama ..... Montana ............ 3 Arkansas . 8 Pebrasla . . 32 Colorado.. .....4 Nevada...... .. 4 Florida.........4 Noth Carolina . 11 Georgia.......13 South Carolina 9 Kentucky...-.-13 Tennestee .....12 Idaho......... ......... Louii.a W cn n ...... 8.... . 3a2 Marylandy....... m8 Virginia.. 12 ewi orsipPi ... lisouri.... ..t7 ITotal ........ 1. 4 Doubtful: Kansas and Dela ware. This is a liberal estimate for so extreme and enthusiastic par tisan as General Grosvenor. He considers McKinley sure of only 260 electoral votes, whereas he received 271 in 196. General Grosvenor concedes to Bryan Maryland and Kentucky, both of which went for McKinley in 1896, though Bryan got one of Kentucky's electoral votes. Delaware, which also went for McKinley, he places in the doubtful list. He also puts down Kansas as doubtful, though the Republicans carried it in 1896 by a pluralitye of 15, 134, The only states claimed by General Grosvenor for McKin ley in 1900, which went for Bryan in 1896 are South Dakota, Washington and Wyoming, All of these put together have only 11 electoral votes. The World publishes also the fol6wing esti mate of Senator J. K. Jones, chairman of the National Demo cratic committee: DEMOCRATIC STATS. Alabama . 11 Montana ....... Arkansas ... ..d..t ebraka....... Colorado .. ......... 4 Nevada . ......... 8 Delaware...h.ou North Caolin.... 11 Florida ........ 4 South Carolina . 9 Georgia .......13 Tennesse . 12 Idaho ......... *,3 Texas ...........15 K'anSai ............. 10 Utah ............... 8 Kentucky.. 13 Virgi .........12 Louisiana ......8 Vest Virginia kot6 Mryland....... 8 Wyoming .......8 Mississippi.......91 I Missouri ......17 Tot .........196 Total, 24 sure Democraic States. DEocTICA STATEs. Aorsa.9.................8 Cloradoi.. .........2 4 hd Iln . Deowae.......... 8 otDkt. Floie............6 4 emn.... Gera ............... 13 ahn u . KN s ash........ ......1 Nentucky.........10 Norh Dkot. Mon~taa..........8 Newebrakka6......sota .. . 8 Tennessea........... 1 Ohio..irgini Toa..........31 Total. 4esouirginiata.e6 hrman........ Joe Wyoives Bryan.... asctain 30 sueDmoratic8tals.e Jaors leaves... . B rgon ............ 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The average newspaper reader remember how often during the last fourteen months dispatches have been sent from Manila an nouning the approaching col lapse of the Fillipino insurrec tion. He recalls more or less definitely similar statements which from time to timehave em anated from the war department at Washington. Here is the Re publican's resume of the official peace dispatches and interviews: Before the Filipino war for in dependence against the United States broke out on February 4, 1899, it was common talk among American army officers at Manila that one good "licking" would settle Aguinaldo and his followers for all time to come. On February 12, 1899, an As sociated Press dispatch from Ma nila said that the "optimists" had "predicted that the terrible lesson just administered to the rebels would settle the question of Filipino indenpendence in short order." The "optimists" evidently wanted war because it was expected to settle things with such neatness and dis patch. Gen. Otis and the government at Washington shared this view in so far as they expected that hostilities would be brief. On February 11, six days after the first bloody battle, in which at least 3,000 Filipinos lost their lives, Gen. Otis in a dispatch to the war department put the feeling in this way: "Belief of old residents that Aguinaldo will be unable to gather in future any considerable force." Washington became very sure by March 17 that the end was near, for a dispatch of that date readw: "The officials believe that the climax may occur at any hou.r. The indications are that hostilities may end within a very short time." For some reason the "climax" did not just then occur, but on March 24 it was given out at Washington: "Itis is believed that after Gen. Otis has delivered his next. blow the insurgent army will have ceased to exist." Gen. Otis himself was very buoyant in his dispatch of April 3: "Present indications denote insurgent government in peril ous condition; its army defeated, discouraged and scattered. In surgents returning to their homes." The next day the war depart ment assured the country of its '"conviction" that "the back bone of the insurrection is broken, and that the main body of troops will surrender." Dur ing April. Gen. Otis was confi dent that only 30,000 American soldiers would be necessary to control the situation. He rather scorned the' idea of having more troops sent to him. Then came these dispatches from Otis in the usual optimistic vein: '-Manila, April 29.-Believe insurgents tired of war."~ "Manila, May .--Signs of in surgent weakness more apparent daily." "Manila, May 11.-Signs of insurgent disintegration daily manifested." The war department again took a hand in the public confi dence game on May 18: "The (official) belief was expressed that the end of the insurrection was at hand." President McKinley, it was announced on August 12, "be lieves that Aguinaldo is making his last play, and that the war will be over by November 1. EHe firmly credits this." During the summer, however, it was decided to raise another army of 30,000 men to fight the Filipinos, and this army was sent to Gen. Otis, making his total force about 63,000 men. About the same time Secretary Root announced (and most peo ple believed him) that such war s there might be in the Philip pines was confined to one-tenth >f 1 per cent. of one tribe in the one island of Luzon. Prof. Dean . Worcester explained the large army under Otis as compelled 2ot so much by the fact that here was any war as that the United States was carrying on he most humane military >perations known to mankind. And the nlajority of people be ieved him also. The rainy -sea on ended, and Otis's army of >ver 6i0,00'0 men started out, in ctober last, to deal the final ~rushing blows to the Tagal in ~urrection. O)n November 24 en. Otis seemed to have the memy pretty well "done for." Ee wired to Washington: 'Their generals and troops in mall band scattered through he provinces acting as banditti r dispersed." We had now reached the "rob er band" stage. It was re-. orted officially from Washing on on December 12: "Organ zed rebellion no longer exists, nd our troops are actively pur uing robber bands." On January 2d, Gen. Otis be ~an the glad new year of 1900 y wiring to Washington: "It s believed that the insurgents re widely dispersed. The coun ry is now covered by troops, nd our forces occupy Santa ~ruz. L1 POWDER - 1RE icious and wholesome MM eo., U om. pectations concerning the war in the Philippines, as compiled from the official standpoint. From week to week and month to month the American people have been told that the war would soon be over and that then we should begin our divice ly-appointed mission of the re generation of the natives of the islands. Let us now ask for the facts as they exist today: Another rainy season is soon to open, when chasing "robber bands" will be practically pro hibited by the condition of the country. The imperialist Outlook's special commissoner in the Phil ippines reports: "Let those who think that the Philippine war is over visit the islands and judge for themselves." "With the exception of a mere hand ful, too insignificant to be con sidered, every Filipino in his heart is an insurrecto and wishes to drive the Americans from the islands." - The list of dead and wounded cabled periodically by Gen. Otis shows as high an average of casualties among the Ameri can soldiers at the present time as at any previous period of the war. Last week, says a Manila dis patch, was one of the bloodiest of the war. There was fight ing all over Luzon. One thous and natives were killed. The New York Times, imperialist, admitted yesterday: "We do not hold a foot of the island be yond the range of ourguns." Those are the facts of today, nearly 15 months after the out break of war. If we should pro ceed to draw legitimate con clusions from those facts as to the responsibility therefor and the policy which has produced this welter of chaos and na tional crime, we should be ac cused doubtless of abusing the administration. We say noth ing of the administration's re sponsibility or its errors. The facts speak for themselves. The facts certainly tell the story most eloquently. SHOT THEN BOTH. One of the Most Touching Tragedies of the Santa Fe Trail. One of tihe most touching of the many tragedies of the old Santa Fe trait occurred at Newton, Kan., in ear ly days and the chief actor was an old man dwarfish In stature and deformed, who kept a saloon and gambling house. He had a wonderfully inteilli gent face and quick, shrewd eyes, and had only two apparent objects In life. One was to accumulate money, for he was a perfect miser, and a handy man at all games of cards, and the other was a watchful and tender solicitude for the welfare of his daughter, the only being for whom he ever showed any respect or affection. She was a beautiful girl, bright and intelligent, and apparently she loved the crooked old miser. The story werit that she was his on ly child, and that he had come West to make a fortune in order that when she grew to womanhood she~ might live like a lady In the States. The girl was about seventeen, and was so carefully guarded that she was discontented, and used to have sly flirtations with cowboys and other hangers-on at the camp, which would - have ended in murder had the old man discovered them. While he was at thle card table she was chattering at the rear of her tent with one of her many lovers. And one night she eloped. The old man used to gamble all night and sleep all day, and when he awoke one afternoon from his slumbers he detected her absence. A cowboy named "Bunny" was also missing, and the old man, by making inguiries, discoy ered that they had been seen togeth er during the previous evening. He crawled through the town like a wild cat, and borrowing a horse, buckled his revolver belt around him and started across the prairIe toward the ranch where "Bunny" was employed. The next day he returned to New ton, but sold out his traps and disap peared forever. Two days later travelers along the road reported that they had found in an abandoned mud hut near the riv er tivo corpses, those of a beautiful girl and a stalwart young man. They were on their knees, their right hands were clasped, and a prayer book, cov ered with blood, lay on the floor be side them. The old man had discov ered the betrayal of his daughter by "Bunny," had married them himself and then shot them both through the heart. Mounted policemaa Matt Faulds of Hghbridge Station, New York, was thrown from his horse and instantly killed. __ _ _ _ _ _ Democrat. Will Win. "Bryan will be nominated. I think the Demoarats will win. We shall go into this fight solid," says Win. L. Wilson, "the scholar in politics," the ablest member of Cleveland's second cabinet. And "the hope of the people is in the Democratic party this fall" says Governor Pingree of Michigan, in dependent Republican and the strong est political figure in his-State. These opiions, coming from leaders of ele ments so widely differing in the past, are signs of the ground-swell which has already set in for Democracy. Bryan has conquered the confidence of the men who once distrusted and bit terly opposed him. He grows greater in the public estimation month by month, while McKinley dwindles. - Columbia State. Rural Delights. These are the days When Johnny strays From school-the worst of Sinners; And hies him quick Down to the "crick," And fishes there for "mainners. -Indianapolis Press. The devil invented heresy so that the churches would be so busy They would let him alone.