Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THE St -a~ i cam zarcar. dac.nz, :1raiht :romi tihe d of l Cght. In through a pon:- att;e xindow, ' trjeo ffi la biroken irrr Or ii An o 'llm . m;, I ith lope and :'.ns, 1-::: hi to sle-p v*ith biLh. visolS, W. -retd o. health an o. E INACOT" By ALBERT with g.toIs of every a dscrpti~i.Throughte open dors ol one side you lovked into the dark inmer iors of a line oAf empty cart througl sInilr doors on the von saw a row of loaded jigr :n XWexes wazgonS. 'C1Ueman Carr-u:ih. xvhose duty it was to bring ordi o: o all this confusion. seemed to b.. t .erywhere at once. directing, exihi:ing. reproving. his eyes. ears an: oIngue all busy at the same time. "Her'e. Jim. put those steel rods in the eorner of that B. & A. car: They're going up to Caribou. Come on with those tierces of lard, boys! If you don't move faster, they'll melt before you get 'em out of the shed. Hustle, everybody: These cars'll be pulled out at eleven." Down the steps from the office at 'e Uprper end of the shed came a biing clerk, with a small brown note book in his hand. This he passed to the foreman, who immediately raised his voice in a shout to a black-haired young Irishman, who was taking ac .count of the incoming freight two doors away. "*Here's a job of blind checking for you. Dan: Go down to track five with this cotton book, and count the bales in those eleven cars for the Leadbetter Mills. Get back as soon as you can. I'll take your place at the door while you're Zone. Daniel Harrigan received the book from the hand of his superior, walked rapidly down the shed, and stepped into the freight yard. It was quarter past eight on a foggy April morning, one of those drizzly spring days when everything is damp and sticky. A thick mist hung over the yard. Invisi ble shifting engines puffed here and tnere. with much clanging of bells and shrill of whistling. With senses on the alert, the freight handler crossed the tracks, carefully. avoiding the frogs and switches. His destination was the extreme end of the large yard, a full quarter mile from the shed. Presently the square end of the first ear that was to be tallied ap peared through the fog. Harrigan con sulted his book to make sure that he had the correct number, went tup to the door, and broke the little seal of lea~d and wire. The interior was filled with cotton bales, each weighing about five hun -dred pounds. They were covered with ~burlap. and encircled by steel bands lbut on under hydraulic pressure, typI cal specimens of the thousand sent yearly from Southern plantations to %'W Engliand mills. As the stape was quoted at twelve tsa pounid. and as from forty to sixty bales -rere loaded into each car, its contents had an average value of three thousand dollars. A mistake in the tally, resulting in the addition or omission of a single bale would mxake a difference of perhaps $G0. 'The teams from the Leadbetter Mills on the outskirts of the city would be gin to empty the cars that afternoon, and it was customary for the railroad to take careful account of all goods before delivery. Then, in c'ase a ship Inent ran short, the company would be :.hle to show that the blame must be plar'ed elsewhere. The task of counting the cotton was a rt spon-sible one, and Foreman Car ruth had put his best man on the Harrigan climbed to tbr. top of the bales. They were from ?.-ca e five and a half feet long. something under a yard wide. and twenty-two to twenty-six inches thick. They were set onr end, three abreast: and as the distance from floor to roof wvas ap proximately seven feet and a half. an empty space of two feet was left abovye their tops. FoYrward erawled the tallyman on huis hands and knees, taking note of eac'h separate bale with his~ lingers, anid registering it mentally at thle same By' the system of 'blind checking" under which lie worked, onlb the car numbers were set down in the note book handed to him, and lie was giv'en no iukling ais to how many bales he was expected to find. W'hen the re su!1 of his labors was reported at the citice. the clerks there comipar'ed it .with the way-bills. The first car' containedi fifty-fou:r b~ale. Harrigan dropped to the g:rm:1. ertered the nun:'ber ini his book and closed the door. H~e then broke the seal of the next car. In a few minutes he had finished his work in ti:2s car also, andi charged forty eightr against it. Five car's more were examined without sperial incident. With a strong .ierk Harrigan broke ii:e seni of the eighth ear. shoved the doo-r opent just enough to allow his body' toss,: and was soon sc-ramnblinag in the darkness ov-er the burlapped ends. As the roof was lower than those of -the othier e'ars, there was barely (eigh ta:; i::ehes of opcn space, and his pixagrss was mnuch slowe'r. On through the gloom c'rep t the frig t andler. tingering the rough edges, and counting in an undertone as he made his tally. --Sixteen-seventeen--ei.hteenl--" His head bumped against a cross-beamn of the roof, and he stooped lj', 10 pass b.uo~ath it. l1. die a.u.way in at mtihIel cry of sur ..p-s and conil-Isternu:nionl: for the twen Yh~-L a: ot there: Ti ltoinds ihait he thrust for we (\i.~ exp-t to strik' buarap. rNBEAM. to the land o dr litc !.,i st~ r I c a s. i t ta k wai over, To s 3. t in abve. ...X . I. 1ka 1 1.! in : ianapiv oils .Ir ON-CAR S W. TOLMAN. r' enough to admit his body. le i cau.:.:t unavailin:y with his fingers I at the coarse bagging, but so well had r lie hvdrdu lic press done its work that t le could ikDrasp no slack in his fraiiLcl clutchings. -nd his course was not ;r restedi till le struck the hard wooden floor. The sudden shock doubled un his finger tips and drove back lIs hands. His head came down "non the t planks with a stunnig crack that niade him for the moment half-in sensible. When the car was being loaded at Memphis. there had been found in the shipment one bale considerably broader a than the others. It was placed at or i end of the seventh row from the door, i and a bale of ordinary size was put at N the other end. The space between the I two was of necessity left vacant, as it I was not broad enough to admit an 6ther bale. This formed the cavity irto which, two weeks later. Daniel I Harrigan was unlucky enough to fall. 2 For perhaps thirty seconds the young Irishman remained inactive. 'ecover- 1 ing from the effects of the 1)12w upon 1 the top of his skull. His cap fad been pulled on so tightly that it had not t fallen off wheii he plunged downward; I hence it slightly broke the force of his fall. With returning consciousness, 0 however, he began to feel a shooting 1 pain in his temples. The second finger. too. on his right I hand had been severely sprained, and t the nail split down to the quick, so s that it was bleeding freely. The full t weight of his body resting upon the r crown of his head strained the neck muscles severely, and he struggled to raise himself on the palms of his hands. The change of position had a very unexpected result. All the contents of his pockets poured down upon the floor under his nose in a jangling cas cade. He could hear the copper and silver coins and his jack-knife clinking together on the planks. His watch 0 slipped from its place, and hung dang- 1 ling in his very face. The situation had a ludicrous as well as an unpleasart side. How should h" 'Sver pick up all that loose enange Lrom the floor? Evidently the first ~ thing, however, was to restore his ~ heels and his head to their normal positions. Harrigan did not anticipate any spe- f cial difficulty in doing this. But when 0 he strove to bend his body over, so r that he might stand upright, he found C that the cavity was too confined tot permit it. His shoulders almost ~ touched the bales on each side, while d the one over which he had just crepr projected so far forward that the open space was barely eighteen inches from front to bnek. It was. if anything, a little larger at the bottom than at the top, and this increased the difficulty ( o~ his undertaking. S He tried to push first one bale and C then the other a little farther away, to t< gain more room, but all to no avail. ai His efforts finally convinced him that a his only way of escape was to lift him-a self upward and backward, until he h 1 could regain a position on the top of 'I the cotton. b. The checker lifted hiimsel at arms' length ont the palms of his hands, and tried to stick the tips of his toes into b the space between the two bales be- T hind him; but he could not reach back o far enough. He van 'his fingers up and down the f rough burlap, seeking some loose place. ( but finding none. So long as he could t push with his hands against the floor o he could raise his body: but once at a arms' length, he had nothing to press o against, as the bales afforded no hand- c hold. His strength was of little ser- o vice, for it could he exerted only '. through a few inches of space. a By this time it had dawned upon l Hlarrigan that he was i':. a very serious a dilemma. The bloorl had flowed into his head and arms in such abundance that it had become positively paiinful. He seemed to be growing all pulse. s Once more he explored the surface p of the bales with his fingers. but foundv it absolutely unyielding. Those whos know cotton only as a soft, fluffy sub-u stance ean hatve no conception of the 1 hardness it assumes under the com-'l press. No, there wa ro hnc to C get hold of the burlap: but in one c place. where there was a slight ho! low, he was able to press his fingers tips down on the edge of a steel band. Insigniticant as the leverage was, it e enaled him to raise his body. Cau tiously he worked his way up andi backward. His knees were almost on the top of the bale: another effort, and he would be safely out of his predica ment. But as lie pushed with all his might on the sharp top of the steel. band his fingers slipped off. Down hie. fell, and again his hands rested on| the floor of the car. | Harrigan at last realized that his I life wvas actually in P'eril. If he could I not get out now, when his strengtth was priactically- unimpaired. whait chance would he have later! With numbi fingers, swelled by the~ inrush ing blood, lie fumbled once more u~p and down the cotton. He found the band on which he had raised imself before, and strove to repeat his at-r tempt: but he fell heavily baick, this time striking on his head. A train rumbled by. shakir~g the ground and making the car tremhie unider him. He heard two bra kemn~c calling out to each other, and ied~( to' attract their aten: ion: but his voice, was smothered in that narrow eavity. A heavy. painfuil dirowsiness5 was creeping over the freight handier, a I strange, dull apathy that f:-ightened 1 -nm. His strength was gradua!!y: eb'1- I n awayr The nart of his body below., Ir rather, as now situated. above his vais-t-t, was losing its fkeli:". The ootd surged through his brain so :tronigl y tha t it threat.ned to e'wlrive :im1 of con sii ". Insensibility %-.s wonig n and lsllldI mant leath. I :':an's m)es wtre almost on the Op of tho ha111e ov-r w 11".h hadl --pt. ie 1::d aniy to raise hin:'ie1f a ittle mr'e mian two feot to have his toot5ole's toucf:h the cili:: belinId the weami he had era vl(ii wimier. PBy press n; The hacks of his .eels hard against his bevam he could i-t sutivient lever tre to help himself jut. The distance vas triIin.-. but tlere seemed abso utely nothing he c"uld grasp to lift ilmself with. Again lie felt limily along the bale nI front of him. and thrust his fingers nto the spaces etweeii it and the ad acert bales ('on eacL .,ide. When cot oi leaves the compre!s, the burlap Im the edges that li:ve been lowest in he press is ight to tle point of burst ng, while that about the upper edges s much looser. Fortunate!y for Mar igan. the two corners turned toward im. as the bale stood on end, were hose round which thie covering was se. This apparenlhy trivial circui tance saved his life. The corners gave him something to rip. Numbed a nd swollen though his ingers were, he fond that by press ng them hard against his palms lie ould gather in a very respectable andful of the bagging. This gave him archase enough to lift his weight. lItaising his hands very gradually nd hardly daring to breathe. inch by neh he worked himself up and back a agony, clutching the coarse edges ith desperate caation. To slip back ow would be fatal. Little by little he ushed his toes back over the bale be and him. He lifted one of his heels, nd it touched the beam. In a moment t was pressed behind the firm wood. L little more, and he would he-safe! Shifting his grasp with almost in erceptible movements, he raised his iody slowly and painfully. Red lights anced before his eyes; the roaring of he ocean was in his ears. Up, up. up! f he could only keep his senses a few econds more! His body was now well ver the tops of the bales behind him, ut he did not dare to let go yet. One handful more, one hurried, vio ent thrust that sent him back from he edge of the dangerous cavity, and, afe at last. he faited dead away on he top of the cotton.-Youth's Con anion. SClENiP NICS A quite extraordinary combination of :erits, is claimed in France for a new xplosive, which consists of a mixture f powdered aluminum and nitrate of mmonium. It is not liable to spon aneous combustion, cannot be prema urely exploded by shock or friction, urns only with ditficulty, is not affect d by frost or dampness. and the gases rom its explosion are harmless. An inventor has hit upon a method of utting what are practically stone soles n boots and shoes. He mixes a water roof glue wvith a sumitable quantity of lean quartz sand and spreads it over Le leather soles used as a foundation. 'hese quartz soles are said to be very exile and practically indestructible, udl to give the foot a firm hold even n the most slippery surface.-Chicago Aluminium-coated paper.,- made in ;ermnyu for wrapping food sutb tances. is prepared by applying a thin oat of an alcoholic sointion of resinl artificial parchmcnt, then sprinkling humin ium powder over thd surface, nd tilally submitting te pressure. The rtieial parchmert is paper that as been u'eated with sulphuric acid. 'ie aulmnium nal cir is not attacked y the air or by fats. Ths cnmious dread of cats that has een stuied for three years by Dr. S. Voir Mitchell. of Philadelphia. may pen p) a wide fieli for investigation. .n advertisement brought L59 replies roi different countries - including hermany. Egypt and India-anid about wo-thrds of them mcntioned cases fear' of cats, the others referring to sthma from cats. This asthma, due to Ios. may be excited by the presence f orst s, dogs, cat; or sheep. or even f roses, apples, oranges or bananas. The ecatphobia comes instantaneously, d may be vecry se'7ere, catalepsy hay rig developtd in one case, and tempor ry blini&.:css in another. In the examination of food sub tanes and other materials, micro (oists often find it necessary to comn are iwo slides. This soon becomes cry tedious by the usual method of ubistituting one slide for another or sing duplicate microscopes, and a Ia or~ous study of starches, tibers, ece., as led two English investigators to evise a much simpier process. The v' idea is a pice of apparatus :non as the Ashe Finlaysor: comupara cope. The second slide is placed upon orizontal rod a-.tached to the side f tle nosepice of the mieroscope, and mirror andi hens p~roject the image nto the nosepiece. where an inclined efi'etor deflects the rays up the mi oso-oe tube. City vs. Country Eyes. In one of his delightful books Dr. SSOPp) remarks that whereas coun ry people look up, Londoners look tow: It is largely this habit that has uited their observing powers; but ~odoni huas itself to blame. I take it hat one can observe well only by the ower of taking large views. atnd in ondon this is impossible, even if one vould. partly t'om. tie circumscribing fea'ts of bricks aind mortar, partly rent the dim light of a London dis a1c. and partly from th? need of toidig collisions. One's eyes unconx :iously aeouire a habit of restricted isio:; mur obser'vation specializes. ike that of the little girl itn Mrs. Mey mell's book whlo h;eguiled the tediumn of ler' walks by collecting shopkeepers mmed .Tones. Pe'rhaps t hat is the kind if eervaioin it' wich we in London ire best stuited.-Lonidon Outlook. There Was a Leak'. 'I take my pen ir. hand--' lie wrote. It was a fountain pen. aud he got no -mrthn--new York Sun. 'he GoodI cads- Proposition. g H1E press of the cntry n 6 0 tention to the question (! national aid to good ro:10Z. Ole The proposition as onil:dJ !-d i% the Brownlow-Latinc Ilis has IOV been uder dislussion ion. enoiug.-h to be wevll udelstoolti. !IJd t deiiand for its adoption as a natio:n::tl policy is growilg ill ever'. uar!r. Tihe tirst of timse hills was imrmhi'l iI the House by Ion. W. P. Brown low. of Tenne.wee, and the o'.er in *he Sen-late by hon. A. C. Lati:ner. of South Carolina. The bills :- prci eally the same. both sehing to bring in the United States as a co-operative factor in tile systemtatie construction and improvelmnct of the highwvays. the (overlnent to supply a suil equal to the sum any State will suiply up t) the maximum provided for. In a speech in Congress on his bill Repre sentative Browinlow declared that a general plan of co-operation would have to be resortel to in order to fairly distribute the burden of taxation neces sary to adequately improve the high ways, and added this foreeii point: "So long as we pursue the original method of taxation the entire bur(den of cost for highway improvement falls upon the owners of agricultural lands and the persons living in the rural districts. When the great mass of the people lived in the rural districts this was a just and equitable distribution of taxes for such purposes. but with the clanged conditions of the present day. when one-half of the people live in cities, and much more than oie-halif of the wealth is concentrated in these cities and in the corpmrations that are -so powerful at the present time, it is absolutely necessary that some means should be devised wlhereby the reveil lies requisite for the great improve ment that is called for should be de rived from all of the people and re sources of the country as nearly as possible, and not rest. as heretofore. upon the farming classes. whi'o are the immediate losers by every failure of crops and sufferers by every decline ill price of agricultural products." About one-third of our people bear the total cost of the construe-tion and improvement of thze common roads. They are the people of the country dis tricts, who constitute the mud-sill upon which is built the political and indus tral development which is our boast. To them, in a lirgr degree than any other e1as, ve owe the magnitude of the posi::on to which we have attained alng all lin'-s. Upon themt the heavy hand of taxation fids relentlessly. They never doige the tax gatherer. but bear the iargest proportion of the burdens of government, and receive e smallest cf its benefits. It is in unjt'st and uncqual distributionl of the burdens and benefits of government, and it is to correct in a measure these inequalities and hardships that the bils under discussion are being urged by the lio'pic every where The Rtoad. A road is like a work of art-it in cites the imagination. In this I con tend that it is an educator of no mean worth. It promises a healthy interest in the brain, and scraps of wisdom may be found scattered along the way for those who will to pick up. There are as many sor-ts of roads as there are many kinds of books, eaceh sort filling its place. The grand turnpike, with its fine estates, speaking of wealth; the country byways hinting modest conte-itmncft and ease; the toll road, with its gate and its wayside inn for travelers; the river road, following the st-:cam,. now giv-ing glimpses of the broad sweep an~d now but sparkles of light through the foliage as the trees obstruct the vie-::. There is the billy road where onie loses the view of the highway ahead its it dips down into the valley, only to rise with a nar rowed gauge on a further hill. and the wood road wvithx its censiurnt paths ar-td Itrals. One of the strongest lutes is the road b-'ilt at a time when it was E:sier to go around or over a hill than througth it; bott'er to find a safe ford than to plunge anywhere into the stream or build a bridge. The high way whi ch goes straight fr-om one point to another is a secintist and niot a poet. It iray be a fine servant, but as a friend and companion give me the meanerinlg road, with its constant surprises, its up h1ll and down dale, its sunshine and shadow. One which nay be see:n a mtile ahead may he a fine seedway, brt it is ntot capable of rosing the imagination. - Walter Ih. Stone, in Recreation. Tho City Might Frofit. Oneida County has unan-mousiy apl pVoed~ the issue of .90,0JO000 bonds for imp;roving the country thorougn fares. Th le State meets the county half way, and all the highroads are prompt y implroved. As New York is located in counties, we are free to take advan tage of the same law. There are roads within the city limits that need repair ing quite a-s much as the worst muld hles in the Adironaks.-Townl Top rCad Road I~nlding. An exchange puts it this way: There ought to be a law to stop) fools build ing highways. This idea that the outer edge of a highway-sod, dirt and stone, all-should be thrown into the ent-e of the road, ought to entl'e the people who do it to ninety days im The Tyranny of fashin. -- have just come borne, and all the fashions -seem so queer.'' So r-emarkcd Mrs. Archibald Little, authoress and traveler, to the Society of American Women in Lo'ndon yesterday. "When," the speaker added. "I saw that every woman' s dress opened up behind, it seemed to me that another worry bad been added to life, even to that of poor man. Can't we women look beautiful in dresses that open in front? And must our, hats all require three pins or more. and must they always lbe set askew?' Mrs. Little appealed to American women as leaders of fashion to consider whether current feminine ttire was calculated to impilress the omehl,. ...th ,-sct .-Lond~onl Telc Thanks to "The Smart." The smuart woman, bitterly vilii-led as she is, always lias beei and alwvays will be. is the biggest of blessings in onle way. and that is her encourage illent of tra.de.-The Queen. Dead Work Much in Evidence. Read work of all sorts eome' u1p prisingly this season. Tley and tleir cousins. the spiigles. are used in pro fusion for all sorts of purposes. In Millinery hats atre' edged with beads both in jet a nd clors. and festoons- of heads; are muiigled with the Lice which is so imiiu ch employed for brims anid edgngs. Brcad embroideries done on velvet. siik or cloth are very snuart for all sorts of dress id millinery pur poses, while the short bead collar pieces and long bead lorgnette chains are very much worn by smart women here. The chains,. of course. are not At all the hideous things one sees on bar gain counters, but fine, artistic com binations specially designed. Aprons. Make a square of Persian lawn, twenty-four inches when finished, trined with tucks and lace around the edges. From the middle of each side make a diamond square of bead ing: eut six yards of ribbon into four lengths, and run them through the beading. leaving it very loose on three sides and drawing it quite tight on the fourth. to give a little fulness at the waist line of the airon. Make hard knots at all four corners. and then tie double bowknots. By lifting these bows you cani draw it up into a bag. But if you untie the bows, not the hard bows, at the ends of the shirred side, you have four long ribbons to tie about the waist. While sewing you have on what appears to be an ordinary apron with a pointed bib. When you stop you pile all your things into your lap, untie the ribbons about your waist, retie the bowknots, take hold of all four bows and drag it up into a bag. Boston Traveler. Bookbinding as Women's Work. Since the first woman took it up, bookbinding has received a curious im petus. Each year sees a few more dev otees of the art among -women, who are peculiarly adapted for the work by their delicacy of touch. It takes a strong wrist and a steady hand for some of the finer tooling-in fact. for most of the work-but when a woman's hand and wrist become trained she be comes more adept, as a rule, than a man. Nobody quite equals, after all, that great master bookbinder, Cobden Sanderson. who refuses all but a talent ed few of the many who apply to him for lessons. His pupils must agree to stay with him the iength of time he dictates, or he will have none of them. There's a -limited field for bookbinding. as there must always be with any art that takes great refinement and an almost scholarly taste to appreciate. Yet the wvomen who have made a suc cess of it, above all, those who are able to make their own designs for covers as well as execute them. have as much as they can comfortably do. And the work pays well.--Chicago News . The Dlnner Coat. There is more than a little to say in favor of the dinner coat, which has added itself to the long list of separate garments of the present day wardrobe. The dinner coat is essentially a varia tion or play on the Louis XVI. coat adapted to indoor usages. It is at its best, in fact, it is only consistently made, of brocaded silk. The long, tali, big revers, and courtly looking cuffs flaring upward from the elbow are salient charatcteristics. Th'e tails are narrow enough to just escape being seen, from the front. They fall nearly or quite to the hem of the gown, and are, perhaps, smartest when they are rounded at the einds into what has been described as a spoon shape. The scantiness of the sleeves ir' offset by the flaring elbow cuff and the wide r~vrs. Old silver or paste buttons are essential. The woman with a brocaded silk gown folded away, for many a day will find use for it now in these separate jackets. which are of divers shapes and kinds. With sleeves of different material from the bodice possible short lengths come into excellent employ mert. A dinner coat designed to accompany two skirts. one of plain amethyst vel vet. the other of palest mauve chiffon very fully pleated. is made of pale amethyst silk, brocaded with roses in a deeper shade of amethyst and bright ened by the inter-weaving of fine silver threads. The coat has a bertha of )oint de Venise lace, laid over ame thyst velvet. The waistcoat is of silver tissue. trimmed with fiat buttons of amethyst 'ryst:al, covetred with silver filagree. The coat is perfectly- suited to the matron who wears it. It is being copied in wvhite satin, brocaded with a pompadour design of pink roses for a debutante, who wvill wvear it over a white point d'esprit skirt and a white chifon skirt.-Philadelphia Telegraph. Who Sets the FashionR? "What is the use in our waiting around the anterooms of the great Idressmakers to see whether this or that fabric, and how much of it. is to be worn? Money can do anything. Let u show a proper sum to two or three of these satraps of the mode. tell them that we will 'stand in' with them, and publish to the world that certain fab ris-our fabrics-are to be fashion able: that skirts are to be longer, that has are to be more flamboyant. that trinnings arc to be more abundant. that ribbons must be continued in faovr: and that these little canons have come to stay. Is not business the heart of the world-amnd is it not a fact that the mor'e of our commtodities there are used the better will be our busi ness? Let us bribe a few of the lead ing actresSes anid singers'. alIso-and oters wvho atre con)tsidered tmu-rors or fhie-and then ourt nosition isa SEPTEMBER SEVENTEENTH. The Great Surrender. Acts 9: 1-22; Rom. 5: 13-23. Sauls blindness and his recovery v.:ere as nothing compared to the spir tual blindness in which he had been, 2nd the spiritual vision he received. The twe blindness is of the soul. There is no progress outside of Christ, but as soon as one thoroughly yields to Christ, his strength increases from day to day. Nothing promises finer wages than sin, and though Satan cheats us time ind again, how many go on working or him to the last "Heaven alone is given away." Dnly the greatest of blessings, eternal ife, is given freely, for no price that 2ould be paid would be adequate. Suggestidns. Christ wishes to yield Hirnself en irely to us, and that is why He wishes as to yield ourselves entirely to f im. It is not our surrender, it is our promotion--not our defeat, but our victory. We cannot be lod; we have only the chomce of service, either of God r of the devil. Can we hesitate? We do not surrender liberty; we surrender slavery, and enter into the "glorious liberty of the children of God." Illustrations. If a man, in selling you a field, re serves the farther corner of 'it; he also has the right of way thither. So if Satan yields all your heart but one little corner, he has the right of way to that corner through your whole heart. . An army, when it surrenders, lays down its arms. When we yield to Christ, we are to yield all that we have and are. A magnaminous victor returns the sword of his conquered foe. So Christ returns to us our surrendered pow ers. vastly enlarged and glorified. Christian Endeavor societies are springing up on ships of war and mer chant vessels, and in sailors' rests ashore. The sailors make splendid Endeavorers, sincere and earnest. These "Floating societies" need a close connection with the land forces, since they cannot in any other way get the staying 'Influences of the church. Every land society may have, and should have, some part in this work. You can correspond with some of the sailors. It is a wonderful help for a Christian sailor, amid a body of men, very few of whom- are Christian, to have the support of some Chris tian friend, though at a distance. You can greet the sailors when they come ashore, and make them at home in your society. You can send good lit erature to the ships. ENR L[AA UE LSO8F SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 17. The Gi-eat Surrender. Acts 9: 1-22; Romn. 6: 16-23. There is no contest more Interest lg and more important In Its results than the battle of a human soul with its convictions. Saul of Tarsus is a good type of the convicted sinner. The supernatural light, the audible voice, the outward phenomena are In cidental. The great fact is that-God met a soul and brought it faice to face with duty. Up to thIs hour Saul may have been deceived. But now he knew he ought to surrender to Christ. And he did. There comes to every soul the moment when he must decide. And there comes to many, as there came to Saul, the full, complete, absolute surrexder to Jesus which carries with it all future duties and service. Notice such elements of this great surrender: Paul never reserved anything. He gave up absolutely to Jesus. There was no reserve to his surrender. It embraced all his life-all of his time and all of his days. It took in all the future. To his death nothing moved him, for all was surrendered 'to Jesus. He delighted to subscribe him self as the "doulos," or slave, of Jesus Christ. There may have been after-moments of special consecra tion, but it was all embraced by his "What shall I do, Lord?" There was never a longing look backward, but a constant pressing forward. Some surrender their time, their money, or their services to God. Paul put t all in. ~a meant to him his time, his service, his thought, his all. It was a devotion to Christ as the de votion of a slave. He called nothing his own. It meant prison, stripes, joudneyings oft, sacrifices many, pov erty, pain, loss and death. God does not call all to such a life as he lived, but he does call on us for a surrender of the whole life to him. This surrender of Paul determined every action and service of the fu ture. It was the determining factor at every turn in life. Once so surrender ed, a soul has never a quarrel or ques tion with duty. Obedience becomes a habit. New details of consecration are easy. God's claims are never ques tioned. Such a great surrender makes Christian living easy. Only such a surrender can bring peace to the life and the soul. Every soul should at once make this great surrender. Bath in' Goldfield. -All trouble and inconvenience rowinlg out of the scarcity of water in the new mining camps of Nevada is .rapidly disappearing," remarked Oscar J. Smith, lawyer and capitalist of Reno. "They have quite as much water in Goldfield now as will satisfy the requirements of the camp. I was down .at Goldfield recently, and notic ing a' sign on a building which pro claimed the fact that baths were to be had there I went in and announced that I would like to get a bath. The fellow in charge handed me a ticket and took my motiey. 'Well, see here,' said I, '1 don't want a bath ticket. I want a bath.' 'Oh, you'll get a bath all right,' and the bathhouse manager. 'Let me see your ticket, No. 813. There are about 812 people ahead of you. Come around in about three or four weeks.' " -San Francisco Chronicle. There. is a telegraph box in every street cgr in NorwnY- Write mes sages, put on right cumber of stamps, sured. Prosperity-magiC word-shall wair *aponl our footsteps and right mer rily our spnidles shall whirl. Let the women groan under their masses of 4iripery. L'et their husbands scold at tie, bills. What does that matter? We hold the whipl-hanl. an-. whither we drive. the flock must go." How long are womien, the sensible and the intellectual as well as the silly al frivolous. to endure this sort of tyranny. who can tell?' There is a sort of a law. unwritten but binding, that the woman who does not follow the fashion is ''unwomaly. that she shall walk in the valley of h!,ni:iliation and cat thc- bread of sorrow. She may re fuse to don the de:ath-o.ealinlg corset. and give her digestion and her circu lation a fair chance to do their work, but she must not 111 in print how much better than other women's is her health in consequence-for commerce stands waiting to punish her just around the corner. During much of the time-though now for a little she has a respite-she must give up the use of one hand. in order that she may carry this mass of drapery which the manu facturer has forced her to buy. If she does not hold it up it drags through the mire. The microbes thus accumu lated, so the doctors tell us. have caused epidemics of grip and tubercu losis-but what matter? The great fashion trust must prosper. and as for zhe rest of us, a few of us more or ioss is immaterial (which word might lead to a pun by one of a jocular turn of mind, who was not smarting under the extortions of the trust).-Kate. Upson Clark, in Leslie's Weekly. Restricting Women's Clotbes. The opera management at Co'ent Garden regulates the dress of its male patrons. When is it going to do the same to the women?. On Saturday night I went to the op era. I wore the costume imposed on me by the regulations of the house. I fully recognize the advantage of those regulations. Evening dress is cheap, simple, durable, prevents riv alry and extravagance on the part of male leaders of fashion, annihilates class distinctions, and gives men who are poor and doubtful of their social position (that is, the great majority of men) a sense of security and satisfac tion that no clothes of their own choos ing could confer. besides saving a whole sex the trouble of considering what they should wear on state oc casions. But I submit that what is sauce for the gander is sauce for the goose. Every argument that applies to the regulation of the man's dress applies equally to the regulation of the wom an's. At 9 o'clock a lady came in and sat down very conspicuously in my line of sight. She remained there un til the beginning of the last act. I do not complain of her coming late and going early; on the contrary, I wish she had come later and gone earlier. For this lady, who had very black hair. had stuck over her right ear the pitiable corpse of a large white bird, which looked exactly as if some one *had killed it by stamping on its breast, and then nailed it to the lady's temple, which was presumably of sufficient solidity to bear the operation. I am not, I hope. a- morbidly squeamish person: but the spectacle sickened me. I presume that if I had presented my self at the doors with a dead snake round my neck, a collection of black beetles pinned to my shirt front i'nd a grouse in my hair, I should have been refused admission. Why, then. is a woman to be allowed to commit such a p)ublic outrage? Had the lady been refused admission. as she should have been. she would have soundly rated the tradesman who imposed the dis gusting headdress on her under the false pretense that "the best people" wear such things, and withdrawn her custom from him; and thus the root of the evil would be struck at: for your fashionable woman generally allows herself to be dressed according to the taste of a person whom she would not let sit down in her presence. I suggest to the Covent Garden au thorities that if they feel bound to pro tect their subscribers against the dan ger of my shocking them with a blue tie, they are at least equally bound to protect me against the danger of a woman shocking me with a dead bird. -G. Bernard Shaw, in London Times. 1FR~ILLS . Dress stuffs, organdies, and dimities and Swisses are selling. A parasol of blue silk-a strong shade, of blue-has a handle of blue-enameled wood. Hand-painted parasols are stunning, but the embroidered ones are still more popular. Japanese styles are less good in them selves (though they're stunning) than as inspiration for other parasols. For '-dress-up" gloves everything mousquetaire is liked-suede mousque taire being the newest of all. Nowadays the riding skirt reaches barely to the instep, and is lighter in weight than the average walking skirt. All Tile talk about returning to bus tIes and crinolines becomes nonsense when the increasing rationality of fash ion is observed. Several narrow silk ruffles stitched and corded in the hem have been found to fulfill the function of holding out the skirt (juite successfully. Such good looking outing hats as the mi!inrs are turning out! They're soft flt hats with soft wingsa-all paie 'ray or all1 white or gray and white to gether. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ The hiouse in which Iarriet Beecher Soe lived for a number of years in Ha'tford is now~ b)eing torni down to -a r.oom fne 1he advancing factories.