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of responsibility involved in these is sirs with perfect fairness. Candidates for the office of comptroller general spoke next. Messis. Brooker. Jones, Sharpo and Walker all being present. .Air. Sharpe was well received at liis home. I State Treasurer Jennings was prc-c:it and in a ono-minnta speech was as pleasantly received as are most speakers on much longer time. Short and decisive volleys from car. dictates lor ouice 01 acjurant g. in-.w were next attentively heard. Col. Pros*, spoke first .followed by Messrs. Patrick and Boyd. Messrs. Rouse and Aver being absent. The train was late, but candidates for office of railroad commissiun r were on schedule tinx? as usual. Mr. Evans was the first speaker, who ma le vigorous war on rates. "Honest Engineer" Jensen came next, then M ssrs. Kinard. Mobley. Wilborn and Wolling, "Cansler of Tirzah" waking up the crowd and being cheered loudly. Mr. Caughman closed. Messrs. Berry and Price being absent. This was a warmer race than usual. Col. Talbert was the first speaker among candidats for office of gover nor. ume loaay was oniy 10 minutes, and Col. Talbert at once addressed himself to the issues as previously discussed. While he was speaking of the dispensary a voice from the audience asked. "Don't you want a drink now, old man?" "You have one too much," said Col. Talbert. amid laughter. He advocated the income tax. which means taxes for the white schools, child labor hill and other issues; received applause. most at "white man's tax" reference. As much of an allianceman as ever, and closed amid cheers. Mr. Ansel was next introduced. He was glad to meet ladies and men of Lexington. "Minister." suggested old Uncle Dave Sox, "You ought to have said the blossoms of America." Mr. Ansel mads his speech to attentive listeners. gave his planks, all of which interested his hearers. Dr. Timmerman came next, making grateful acknowledgement of past favors and friendship here shown. Issues all the same. Ansel's gray mare already thrown him. Hey ward's flank movement iuo suuu. v>ui. itfjutrn ?m never reach stack of fodder. Assailed Col. Talbett's white man's tax scheme, showed It to he unconstitutional, and knows that Col. Talbert did not vote against it in constitutional convention and should not now try to ride into office on this fallacy. Dr. Timmerman stands on his record, only wants one term. An honest, solid speech from just such a citizen, and closed after most attentive hearing. Li. Gov. Tillman came next, stating his candidacy. His opponents have been awarded by* long office holding terms for all they have done. Tal'oert has been eating public pap so long he is founderod. He really expects to be born into office in next world. Afraid Ansel will find it cool when he gets to Piedmont section. As to "Farmer Heyward"?don't believe he ever saw a plow stock in his life. Very few, if any, issues. Will not appeal to your prejudices by play trap about white taxes. Assailed Col. Talbert's statements on this subject; challenged him to show plan to divide under the law. Referred in pot pourri style to sword incident and to his ruling as presiding ! officer of the senate briefly. All heard j with attention; very little applause. CapL D. C. Heyward was next introduced, the last speaker. Extended another invitati* n to Col. Tillman to visit his farm. J".iis his first political candidacy and wants office only on his merits. Issues discussed are more industrial than political. These needed for the upblidding of our State. Always a Democrat, will always remain a Democrat. Issues were discussed as before, speaker's position for and against being clearly stated. Capt Hey ward was heard with closest attention, made?an impression as was show? ? by a member of audience requesting chairman to "sit down and give Heyward more time" when his time was up. Candidates for lieutenant govornor now spoke?Mr. Blease first, then Messrs. Gary and Sloan. All heard attentively with uninteresting side remarks from audience. Mr. Gunter now opened the debate in candidacy for office of attorney general. five minutes being allowed each speaker. Stood on his record?a record subject to investigation and criticism. Mr. Gunter's speech was heard with closest interest and he closed with some hurrahs for Gunter. Mr. Stevenson next presented his reasons for wanting to be elected. Good county to live in. Why did not Gunter stay in such a good place? Both of us want the same office. Referred to his record and stood on his merits. Mr. Stevenson, too. had good attention and was followed by candidates for office of secretary of state. Col. Austin leading. Messrs. Gantt and Wilson closing. All of whom were attentively heard. It is due both Messrs. Stevenson and Gunter to correct a mistake made concerning a remark quoted in Mr. Gunter's speech at Saluda. Mr. Gunter said Mr. Stevenson's charges were based on false premises, and not on falsehood as was published today. Messrs. J. B. Wingard and D. F. Efird were indefatigable in rendering assistance to Chairman Efird, who letft nothing undone as a curteous and capable presiding officer. Voters faced the candidates undismayed until the very last moments and interested ones are all pleased with this satisfactory meeting. "That fellow makes mighty good money." "Indeed?" j "Sure; he works in the mint."? , Baltimore News. A DESTRUCTIVE FIRE Swift and Company's Packing Plant Burned WAS A MILLION COLLAR LOSS Lurried District Adjoined Largest Office Building in the United States? j Loss Covered By Insurance. Chicago, Special.?By a fire which broke out in their plant at the stock yards Saturday night, Swift & Co., suffered a loss whoch is estimated by the officials at $1,000,000. The fire was confined to one building standing at the intersection of Packers avenue and Broadway. This structure was four stories high, built of brick, and was 300 feet square. The first floor was occupied by the wholsesale meat market of the company, the second by the shipping de? xi.. r ?> A AV partment ana me imru iiuu luunu uj the general offices of the company. The latter are said to have been the largest single offices in the United States, more than 800 employes working on one of the floors in a single room. The cause of the fire is not known, but it was discovered near the engine room. It spread so rapidly through the building that it was found Impossible to save anything in the structure. The burned building adjoins portions of the plants of Armour & Co., and Libby, McNeil & Libby, and for a time the fire department had a desperate flght to keep these buildings from the flames. W. J. McGonigle, the superintendent of the plant, said tonight that the loss will aggregate fully one million. The loss is fully covered by insurance. After the Trusts. Oyster Bay, L. I., Special.?It has been ascertained that the President'3 speech at Pittsburg Friday in reference to the trust question was a forerunner of determined efforts bv him to have Congress take up that sub- \ Ject and enact definite legislation at its next session for the control or supervision of the trusts. Recently the President and Attorney General Knox held a conference with Representative Littlefield. of Maine, whose knowledge of constitutional law is admitted. at which Mr. Littlefield was invited to prepare a bill for the regulation and control of the trusts that will go before Congress with the endorsement and influence of the President back of it. The bill will be submitted at the beginning of the next session, but before this is done, the President. Attorney General Knox and Mr. Littlefield will have frequent conferences as to the details. In addition to this proposed action the President is going to talk upon the trust question a great deal on the several trips to be made by him in the fall. He has announced to mends tnai tne question is a. vuai one, and that he proposes to push it vigorously until there is some action by Congress. Duty on Cuban Vessels, Washington, Special.?The President has issued a proclomation of date July 3rd removing discriminating duties upon Cuban vessels entering United States ports. Under Spanish rule and also under the military occupation such duties were not imposed upon Cuban vessels, for It has been formally declared to the authorities that Spain imposed no such duties upon United States vessels. But when Cuba became an independent nation the law was self-acting and the duties began to run, until such time as the president should receive satisfactory assurance that there was no discrimination against United States vessels in Cuban ports. Now such assurance has been received through Mr. Squiers and the proclomation has been issued. The King Out Danger. London, By Cable.^-The following bulletin regarding King Edward's condition was posted at Buckingham Palace at 10 o'clock Sunday morning; "His Majesty had another excellent .light. He is cheerful and feels much stronger. We are glad to be able to state that we consider the King now out of danger. The evening bulletins will therefore be discontinued." Thirteen Now Dead. Gloversville, N. Y., Special.?MotorI man William Dodge, of the runaway car on the Mountain Lake Railroad, | died at Littauer Hospital Sunday night, making the thirteenth victim of the wreck of Friday night. It is purobable that George Fisher, whose skull was fractured, will die, and Edward Schell is Tn a very serious state. Coroner Palmer has commenced an investigation. It has developed that the frame of the truck of the runaway car was broken and may have caused the accident, but the death of the motorman will make it difficult </> determine the exact cause. ( k SOUTH CAROLINA CROP BULLETIN Temperature For the Past Week War Above Normal. Ths average temperature for tht week ending Monday. Jure 7th. was Se degrees, which is about S degrees abovenormal. It was the warmest week oi the season. Maximum temperatures cf 100 degrees, cr above, were general over the State f-om the 4th to the 7th. with an extreme maximum a:' 106 degrees at Florence on the 4th. 'the minimum of the week was 67 cegrces at Spartanhnre nn the 2nd. There was very little cloudiness, and the sky was practically cloudless except for short periods each afternoon. Fresh to brisk, parching winds prevailed. that were very injurious to vegetation. as the relative humidity was much below normal, causing crops to wilt and shrivel. The nights were practically dewless. Only six out of over two hundred points represented by correspondents reported any appreciable amount of rain, with the largest amount in Oconee and Lexington counties, making this the driest as well as the hottest week of the season. The drought has become serious over the eastern half of the State, where corn has suffered material injury, while over the western half, all crops have so far stood the trying conditions remarkably well, but are badly in need of rain. The earliest corn was too far advanced to be greatly hurt, but later plantings suffered from the extreme heat, dryness and parching winds, and some fields were Irretrievable damaged, over the eastern counties. Bottom land corn, and over the western counties generally, it has not yet been seriously injured, but soon will be with a continuation of the present weather conditions. Corn is firing in Orangeburg and Barnwell; chinch bugs are damaging it in Chester, Lancaster and York. Cotton which stood the unfavorable | weather fairly well, except that in places it is turning yellow and shedding its lower leaves, and has stopped glowing. Lice are still prevailent in a few localities. It is blooming profusely in places, and the plants are full of squares. The dry, parching winds had a deteriorating effect, but in places the crop continue to be unusually promising. Tobacco was hurt somewhat by the hot sun. and curing, that is now general, was hastened by the unfavorable weather that threatened further injury. In places the crop is very fine. Wheat threshing is practically finished. and late reports confirm previous ones as to the progress of the crop, and the uniform fine quality of the grain. Rice is doing very well, but like ail other crops, needs rain badly. Melons are being marketed, but th'e dry weother is detrimental. Peas have good stands. Pastures are poor. Apples are plentiful in York. Gardens aret failing. Five Killed By One Boll. Offerman. Ga., Special:?Three white men and two negroes killed, one wbito man and one negro injured, is the result of a severe thunder and lightning storm here Monday, me men weie employed in the construction department of the Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company, and were stretching wire when struck by the lightning. The construction force was working in two sections, about Ave miles apart. Three white men were killed and one injured in one section, two negroes killed and one injured in the other. One lightning bolt killed the five and Injuring the two. The white men killed were M. 0. Hawkins, F. B. Sluder and A. H. Rymer, all of Alexander, N. C. The former two are single; the latter has a wife and ten children in Alexander. Their bodies are being prepared for shipment. Bull Eight at Lawton. Lawton, Okla., Special.?The first of the series of bull fights to be held here came, despite the protest to Governor Ferguson, made Thursday by John P. Haines, secretary, in New York, of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. The fight wae witnessed by 5,000 people. It was devoid of cruel features and none of the animals was killed. The fight will be repeated daily nn tn and inrliidinur Julv 7. Returning to Work. Roanoke, Special.?The Norfolk & Western Railroad officials here stated today that from indications there was no strike, practically, in the coal fleld3, as all the miners in the fields are at work today. Many old men are going back daily, and new ones are being taken to the mines. It is believed that after the fourth of July all those who have left the fields will return and go to work. Another Town Captured. Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, B. W. I., By Cable.?News has reached here that after four days' fighting v.he town of Barquisimeto, in the State of Lara, Venezeula, has been captured by revolutionists under General Luciano Mendoza. President Invited to flacon. Washington, Special.?A committee of citizens from Macon, Ga.. headed by Bridges Smith, chairman, Thursday invited President Roosevelt to visit that city upon the occasion of the Farmers' National Congress, to be held October 7, 8 and 9. He promised to take the matter under consideration. THE WAGONS COMING DR. CHAPMAN'S SUNDAY SERMON Lessons From the Story of Jacob-* Its Application to the Problems of the Present Vkw York Citv ?The Rev. J. Wilbur Chapman, the nopular pastor of the Fourth Presbyterian Church, who is remarkably successful as an evangelist, has prepared an intc-sting sermon u?nn the subject of "The Wagons Are Coming." It is preached from the text. "And when he saw the wagons which Joseph, had sent to carry him. fhn srvirit of Jacob their father revived." Geneiss 4r>: 27. There is a fascination about the land of | Egypt which cannot be described in words. There are some particular features of th?s ancient land which impress you. First of all there is a peculiar haze over the country i which is unlike anything to be seen in any other part of fhe world. The sunsets are indescribable, but the most striking thing about Eevpt is the ruins; on every side of [ you are these r"ins telling of the splendors of past days. You pass up and down avenues that- are lined with sphinx and with obeb'sk. the exonisite carvings of which reveal the fact that there were giants in the days when these works of art were made. In the olden times the world's pomp and wealth seemed to have been noured at the very feet of this capital of Egypt, and here in all the days of its snlendor and power stood Joseph, next to Pharaoh in nower. There are some places vis[ ited by the traveler to-day which speak directlv of Joseph and his times, as. for example. the ancient obelisk at Helioapolis. where Josenh got h:s bride, and the most ancient snhinx standing near the pvramids beyond Cairo looking out to-dav over the waste of the des?rt as it has been doing *? ?-1"? '?" <f ito line ooilld move it IOF I'CIUUlirs, auu iw might sav trulv. "Before Abraham was I am." The story of the early life of Joseph ne?d not he told, for we are perfectly familiar with it. . We listened to the recounting of it in onr childhood's d\vs. and it was one of the fascinating stories told us hv our Christian mothers. The account of bis coat of many colors, the bowing sheaves in the harvest field, the anger of his brother, and the grief of his old father are facts too well known to need telling here, except that it is weT! for us to know that he is. to sav the least, an almost perfect illustration of our Saviour, or as some one has said. "Our Joseph." for the names of Joseph and Jesus are practically the same. Joseph was loved by his father, hated bv his brethren, and was exalted to the place of power in the then known greatest kingdom in the world. Our I Saviour was the beloved Son of His Fath| er, was hated hv those whom He came to save, sold for thirtv pieces of silver, cast I into the pit, is to become the Saviour of His brethren, and iV exalted to-day at the | right hand of t.he Father in majestv and in | power. All this is striking, to say the least, and makes the text to be of added interest. T. The story of Jacob. We cannot appre^ eiate this text without we nave ine story 01 this remarkable OH Testament character. He was a typical Jew. if we understand him as we may understand Israel; a oeople found in every country and belonging to none. Some one has said that Abraham was a hero, but Jacob a nlain man dwelling in tents. Abraham is above u?. but Jacob is one of ourselves, and the difference between Abraham and Jacob in the Old Testament is the difference between Paul and Peter in the New Testament, the one towering above us like some mighty mountain peak.^and the other our brother and companion in temptation and failure. There are several points in the history of Jacob which we would do well to have in mind. First, Bethel. It was a ble*k. barren place in the heart of Palestine, the traveler sees on every side of him great rocks and nothing but rocks, and long years ago ?1 T~ ?* >? floolnn arvnr from his brother Esan the swift Eastern night comes down upon him. and there was nothing for him to do but to lie down, make a pillow of stones for hi? head and try to sleep. fa) The Ladder. Did this not teach in the dava of Jacob what we have learned since the time of Christ that earth is not the binding star, but is bound to heaven not simnlv by a ladder in a man's dream, but by Him of whom the ladder is an illustration, and who said. "No man cometh unto the Father but hv Me." (b> The Angels. When we see them ascending it is an illustration of our nravers rising to God. and when we behold them descending it is an illustration of the answers coming down. It is certainly a comfort for us all to know that we are as tnilv united to God as in the night of Jacob's dream he felt himself to be. fc) The Voice of God. He said to the slefping man, "T will be with thee, I will keep thee, I will not leave thee," and this ' dream was an inspiration for many a long dreary day. Second, Jabbok. Jacob 1s on his way hack home when suddenlv he hears that Esau is ahead of him and he is afraid. He * * >? XI senas nis property over me nucaui ????. then his children and finally his beloved Rachel, and he himself is left alone. Around him the stillness of the midnight hour, beside him the murmur of the brook over the stones, above him the depths of heaven, and while he was left alone the thought of his past failure comes to him and he is depressed, when suddenly he finds himself in the grasp of the angel, and he struggles to free himself. Let it be noted that he is not wrestling with the angel. but the angel with him, and is this not God seeking to take from Jacob's life that which has hindered the development of God's life in him. There are three things to be remembered here. (a) The change of his name. His name was Jacob, which means "a suoplanter and cheat." and the angel gave him the name of T?r?p] which means "a prince," because he had prevailed. (b) Power with God and with men, but 'et it lie remembered that it is power with God first. So many of us are seeking for power to move men; if we could but learn that we can move men by the way of the throne of God it would be a lesson of unspeakable value. (c) The vision of God. Ever afterward as Jacob remembered Jabbok he said. "I have seen God face to face," and this was the secret in part of the transformation of his character. TMrd. Bethel. It will be noticed that Jacob is at Bethel again. He has had a dreary experience of failtve, and in the .15th chapter of Genesis God tells him to co back to Bethel. In itself Bethel is not much, it is just a long ranee of barren hills, but to Jacob it was a memorable snot for there he had seen God. It is an easy thing to understand how he might have been homesick for Bethel, for we lonr to see the old home so filled with sarred memories and the old land where we were born, the old church where first we camp to Christ, and so God said to Jacob. "Put away your idols." and he buried, V them near to the oak and hurried on t* Bethel. Is this not a lesson for some of ua in these days, we have spiritually declined, to have jo?t the peace that once we had, the power that used to be ours, let us go back to Bethel and pray as we used to pray, read the Bible as we used to read it, spend the Lord's day as we used to spend it, give ourselves to God again. I doubt not hut that blessing will be ours without measure. There are some other events which we ought to keep in mind in the life of Jacob to appreciate the text. One was the death of Rachel as lie came near to Bethlehem. I have seen the tomb in which it is said her body was placed, and this is of Genesis. the 16th to the 10tb verses. "And they journeyed from Bethel; and there was but a little way to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labor. And it came to pass as she was in hard labor that the midwife said unto her. Fear not, thou shalt have this son also. And it came to pass, as her soul was in departin?, for sne died, that she called his name Ben ont, but his father called him' Benjamin And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem." The other was his loss of Joseph. For twenty years he had mourned him. There are some cries that are crushed out of his heart which enable us to see and understand his grief, as, for example, "I shall go down to my grave mourning." and again, "Me ye have bereft of my children. Joseph is not, Simion is not and now yoa will take Benjamin from me." n. The meeting of Joseph and Jacob. We are familiar with the story of Joseph's revelation of peace to his brethren and now at Pharaoh's suggestion the wagons were sent for the old man and all his loved opea[ that they might come into the Jana or Egypt and dwell there while the famine raged in Canaan. I ean hear the wagons rumbling outside the palace door, and Pharaoh stands at his palace with Joseph beside him, the ring upon his hand and chain of authority about his neck. Wagon after wagon passes away ladened with corn and wheat and a change of raiment, and I can see Jacob a9 he sits in front of hie home thinking of his absent sons and of Joseph, I am sure, for whether our boye go out to the ends of the earth or heaven they never get away from us. Suddenly he sees a cloud of dust in the distance, and he knows that some one is coming. His heart begins to beat rapidlv when he imagines it to be his sons. When they are near enough to cry out to him they tefl him, "Joseph is yet alive."" A; this tne old man fainted. "But when he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him the spirit of Jacob their father revived." And he said. "It is enough. Joseoh my son is yet alive. I will go and see him before I die." From all of this beautiful Old Testament incident I learn these helpful Jessons. First, the wagons have come for us, bringing us the best blessings of heaven, containing a change of raiment, so that we need be clad no longer in the garments of our own righteousness, out in tne roDes ox His righteousness. In this garment there is the mark of the blood shed for oar redemption and the reflection of the glory of the throne of God, bringing i? food to eat that the world cannot give, and which if a man eat be shall live forever. Second, bringing us good news. These wagons shall come to us as thuy came to Jacob. The best of the newi; was that Joseph was yet alive. In the Old Testament when the day of atonement came the Eriest took off his garment of glory and eauty and clad in linen robes maae his way into the presence of the Ark of the Covenant, and then the service over he came out and put on again the garment of glory and beauty, on the hem of the robe of which there was a golden bell, and pomegranate the whole length of the hem round about, and as he moved around the people heard the ringing of the bells and knew that the priest was yet alive. Jacou knew that Joseph was alive because he saw the wagons, Third, the wagons took Jacob up to his lost boy, and one day the wagon will come for us to take us up to our friends who have gone from us. Jacob did not think of the Nile in Egypt, which he was to see, but of Joseph, and that is what heaven is to us, the presence of Jesus. If He is not there, there will be no music; if He is not there, there will be no glory; if He is not there, there will be no joy, bift thanks be unto God these wagons shall take us up to meet our loved ones to whom we L It tu: 1.1 1 nave saiu guuu-u>c IU LUIO nunu, auu vuau will be joy unspeakable. in. Home at last. The end has come for Jacob. His has been a great life, and his a great fight. We scarcely appreciate him until he is going. We have looked upon great buildings in process of construction and said, "That is the greatest building in the city," but never until the scaffolding is taken down do we appreciate the work of the architect or the skill of the men who carried out his plans, and now that the scaffolding is being taken down from about Jacob we see his real manhood. "I shall be gathered to my people," he said to those who were about him, and that settles for me the question as to whether we shall know each other in the other land. "Bury me with my fathers," he said, Genesis 49 : 29-31. "And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to be gathered unto my people; bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron, the Hittite. In the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron, the Hittite, for a possession of a bury-place. There they buried Abraham and Sarah, his wife; there they buried Isaac and ReKpL-ah his wife. ind there I buried Leah." and that must have been a great procession which started from Egypt to Canaan. I can think of c.nother procession a little like it. In 1881, not far from Luxor, a great find was made of kings and queens at a place called Del El Bahri. For a long time the tourists had been picking up pieces of jewelry and other valuables which the scholars knew belonged to the kings and queens of other ages, and at last after much work it was found that a discovery had been made of the greatest value, and when the representatives of the Government made their way to Dei El Bahri they really found the mummy of the great Pharaoh' and others who were buried with him. These bodies were taken out of the place of hiding, carried to the Nile and floated off to Cairo, and it is said as the procession moved along the celebrated river the Egyptians lined the bank all the way to the city, threw dust into the air, fell upon their faces and cried aloud, "Pharaoh the great has come again I Pharaoh the great has come again! It must have been like this when Jacpb was taken back to Canaan, "Jacob, the great, has come again," but at last they reach the cave of Machpelah, and they place him there to rest. Abraham is there with Sarah and Isaac with Rebekah and Jacob with Leah, and there they shall wait until the tomb is opened by the coming of Christ, and hand in hand they shall go forth to meet Him. May God speed the day. .