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S . ~ =============== YOL. XLV. WINNSBORO, S. 0., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1888. NO. 10. MM CURSED WITH GOLD. TAJLKAGE SCORBS THOSE WHO BEMD BENEATH THEIR WEALTH. Tiey Would Take Every Cent with Them, Buy Up Half of Heaven and Rent It Oat ?Loans at Two Per Cent, a Month and Corners in Harps and Trumpets. The Brooklyn Tabernacle was crowded Sunday when the Bev. Dr. Talmage preached on "Superfluities a Hindrance." For his text he took Chronicles, xx,, 6 and 7: "A man of great stature, whose fingers and toes were lour and twenty, six on each hand and six on each foot; and he also was the son of a giant. Bnt when he defied Israel, Jonathan, the son of Shimea, David's brother, slew him." "The race of giants is mostly extinct, lam glad to say," said the reverend preacher. "There is no use for giants now exoept to enlarge the income of museums. But there were many of them in olden times. Goliath was, according to the Bible, eleven feet four and a half inches high. Or, if yon do not believe the Bible, the famous Pliny, a secular writer, declares that at Crete a monument was broken open by an earthquake disclosing the remains of a giant fortyirix cubits long, or sixty-nine feet high. 3o, whether you prefer sacred or profane history, you must come to the conclusion that there were in those olden times cases of human altitude monstrous and appalling. David had smashed the bM of one of these giants, bat there were other giants that the Davidean wars had not yet subdued, and one of them stands in my text. \Behold how superfluities are a hindrance rather than a help!' In all the battle at Gath that day there was not a man with ordinary hand and ordinary foot and ordinary stature that was not better ofi than this physical curiosity of my text. As physical size is apt to zon in families, the probability is that this brother of David who did the work was of an abbreviated stature. A dwarf on the right side is stronger than a giant on the wrong side, and all the body and mind and estate and opportunity that you cannot use for God and the betterment of the world is a sixth finger and sixth toe, and a terrific hindrance. The most of the good done in the world, and the most of those who win the battles for the right, are ordinary people. Count the fingers of their right hand and they have just five, no more and no less." In illustration of his text Dr. Talmage spoke of the "Swamp Angel." It was a big gun, he said, that during the war made a big noise, but uskets of ordinary calibre and shells of ordinary heft did the execution. "PresidentTyler,"hecontinued, "and his Cabinet go down the Potomac one day to experiment with the Peacemaker, great iron gun, that was to affright with-its thunder foreig** _ By^oatK^ives - Cabinet Ministom^ead on the deck, while at that time all np and down our coasts were cannon of ordinary bore, able to be the defense of the nation, and ready at the first touch to waken to doty. The curse of the world is big gtm.wAfter the politicians who iave mado ainhe noise go home hoarse from anfgv discussion on the evening of the first Monday in November, the next day the people with the silent ballots will settle everything, and settle it right, 4 million of the white slips of paper they drop making about as much noise as the -fall of an apple blossom. "Clear ba? in the country to day *here are mothers in plain apron, and 1 shoes fashioned on a rough last by the shoemaker at the end of the lane, 'rock-inc babies that are to be the Martin Luthers, and the Farad&ys, and the Edisons, and the Bismarcks, and the Gladstones, and the Washington?, and the George Whitefields of the year 1938, and who will make the twentieth century so bright that this much lauded nineteenth in comparison will seem a part of the Dark Ages. The longer I live the more I like common folks. They do the world's work, bearing the world's burdens, weeping the world's sympathies, carrying the world's consolation. ^ Among lawyers we see rise up a Rufus SChoate, or a William Wirt, or a Samuel Southard; but society would go to ipieoes to-morrow if there were not fthouands of common lawyers to see khat men and women get their rights. |A Valentine Mott or Willard Parker Irises Tip eminent in tne mecuc&i proiesjsion, but what an unlimited sweep would fcj^JpnetiirioLia and diphtheria and scarlet ^*??Wver have in the world if it were not lor for 10,000 common doctors." Dr. Talmage then bitterly assailed the principle of grasping for money. To provide for one's family, he said, was commanded by Scripture, but to accumulate millions, a curse instead of a blessing, a hindrance instead of a help. "It was once said by D'Israeli," he -continued, "that a King of Poland abdicated his throne and joined the people and became a porter to carry burdens. Andjome one asked him why he did so and he replied: 'Upon my honor, gentlemen, the load which I quit is by far heavier than the one you see me carry. The weightiest is but a straw when compared to that world under which I labored. I have slept more in four nights than I have during all my reign. I begin to live and to be a king myself. Elect whom you choose, for me who am ao well it would be madness to return to court' "* well,'says someDoay, *eucn overloaded persons ought to be pitied, for their worrimente are real and their insomnia and nervous prostration are genuine.' I reply that they could get rid of the bothersome surplus by giving fj itAway. If a man has more houses than hecStL carry without vexation, let him drop a few of them. If his estate is so great he cannot manage it without getting nervous dyspepsia from having too much, let him divide up with those who [ have nervous dyspepsia because they cannot get enough. "No! they guard their sixth finger | with more cars than they did the origi?~aal five. They go limping with what fcey eall gout, and know not that, like tie giant oi my texs, tney are l-ameti oy \ .tenpt-rfln.ous toe. A few of them b> '*?? charities bleed themselves of this arinm) obesity and monetary plethora, f; many of them hang on to the hint ,ing superfluity till death, and thee ^ey are compelled to give the money p? tfwiyhow, in their last -will and testasnt they generally give some of it to Ba 3 Lord, expecting no doubt that He '1 feel very much obliged to them. ML :'Thank God that once in a "while we Ifk ;e a Peter Cooper, "who, owning an & srest in the iron works at Trenton, to Mr. Lester: 'I do not feel quite about the amount we are making. Working under one of our patents, we have a monopoly which seems to me h something wrong. Everybody has to I come to us for it, and we are making j money too fast.' So they reduced the ! price, and this while our philanthropist was building Cooper Institute, which mothers a hundred institutes of kindness and mercy all over the land. But the world had to wait 5,800 years for Peter Cooper. "I am glad for the benevolent institu tions that get a legacy from men who, during their life, were as stingy as death, but who, in their last will and testament, bestowed money on hospitals and missionary societies," said Dr. Talmage, warmly; "but for such testators I have no respect. They would have taken every cent of it with them if they could, and bought up half of Heaven and let it out at ruinous rent, or loaned the money to celestial citizens at 2 per cent, a month and got a corner on harps and trumpets. They lived in this world fifty or sixty years in the presence of appalling suffering and want and made no effort for their relief. The charities of such people are, for the most part, in panlo-post future tense, and they are going to do them. The probability is that if such a one in his last will by a donation to benevolent societies tries to atone for his lifetime close-fistedness, the heirs at law will try to break the will by proving that the old man was senile or crazy, and the expense of the litigation -mil about leave in the lawyer's hands what was meant for the American Bible Society. "O, ye overweighted successful business men, whether this sermon reach your ear or your eye, let me say that if you are prostrated with anxieties about keeping or investing these tremendous fortunes, I can tell you how you can do more to get your health back and your spirits raised than by drinking gallons of b3d tasting water at Saratoga, Hamburg or Carlsbad?give to God and humanity 10 per cent, of all your income and it will make a new man of you, and from restless walking of the floor at night you shall have eight hours' sleep without the aid of bromide of potassium, and from no appetite you will hardly be able to await your regular meals, and your wan cheek will All up, and when you die the blessings of those who but for you would have perished will bloom all over your grave with violets, if it be spring, or gladioli, if it be autumn." Continuing in this style for some time, Dr. Talmage Bpoke of the gifts with which nature endowed man, and how they should be employed. "T woe Toodintr nf +.Vit<?a tmrnftn " Via said, in conclusion, "who were in rivalry about the appearance of the hand. And the one reddened her hand with berries, and said the beautiful tinge made hers the most beautiful. And another put her hand in the mountain brook, and said, as the waters dripped off, that her hand was the most beautiiul. And another plucked Sowers off the bank, and under the bloom contended that her hand was the most attractive. Then a poor old woman appeared, and, looking up in her decrepitude, asked for alms. And a woman who had not taken part in the rivalry gave her alms. And all the women resolved to leave to thia.bf^ggar tha.-anesr... -ryf.'S-v-li ui lili tXieilaUUB pfCbBUO was the most attractive, and she said: 'Tha mnafc ViAwnfifn} r>f f-.tipm all is: fh? one that gave relief to my necessities,' and as she so said her wrinkles and rags, and her decrepitude and her oody disappeared, and" in place thereof stood the Christ who long ago said: 'Inasmuch as ye did it to one of the least of these, ye did it to Me,' and who, to purchase the service of our hand and foot here on earth or in resurrection state, had his own hand and foot lacerated." The Sharpshooters oI SIcGovrau's Brigade. The following letter has been written by Captain W. S. Dunlop, State Auditor of Arkansas, to Mr. David Moore, of Columbia: I have been engaged for some time in writing up the campaigns of the Battalion of Sharpshooters of McGowan's Brigade, and have about completed the first draft, which will have to be revised and re-written before publication. I regret, at every step, that I cannot recall the names of the gallant corps, and have concluded to write to you and every T nnr* r\-f ir> /\?/^av Uiau JL V>QuLL i?<OOiL Vi U1 U1UW to supply this deficiency. I want you to put on your studying-cap and gather up every name you can, and send the list to me, with the rank and post-office address of each, if living; and the date and circumstances of death, if dead, that I may be able to make a roll of the whole command. Every man of the Battalion was a hero, and his name should be embalmed in the history of our struggle. Do this, and let me hear from you without delay. If you remember any incidents connected with our campaigns where any of our men behaved with distinguished gallantry or performed any feat of daring in any of our numerous fights, I would like to have them. Sergeant B. K. Benson, of Branson's company, calls to see me very often. He is a drummer, and lives in Dallas, Texas. Dr. L. K. Robertson, another member of the Battalion from Abbeville, is living in Scott county, this State. I spent two nights and a day with him iast May. He is a successful physician and* has accumulated a good property in Scott county. These are the only Sharpshooters 3 know of in Arkansas; I would like to have a re-union of the Battalion, what do you think of it? Any information responsive to the above may be sent to Mr. David Moore, Columbia^ S. C., or to Captain "W. S. Donlop, Little Rock, Arkansas. Kettiug (hi the Campaign. K"ew York, Sept. 25.?Colonel Thomas P. Ochiltree, late of Texas, wants to find somebody who will bet him $200 on Cleveland against $ll>0 on Harrison. Ex-Senator John J. Kiernan, of Wall street and Brooklyn, will back the Democratic nominee to the tune of $10,000. Mr. Edward H. Somborn made what he considers a safe bet at an up-town hotel last night. He wagered $5,000 to $3,000 with a Western man, whose name could not be learned, that Cleveland would carry New York State by over 15,000 majority. Tlie sum wagered by Mr. Somborn is said to have been put up by a well-known Caiifornian who "does not care to figure in the transaction. John Chamberlin was made stakeholder. Out in Pittsburg an oil broker known as "i>:irncy" Frost offers to put up $100,000 or: Cleveland's re-eleclirn. Last week, it is s\;*.Mr. F.v.st liiMilt i-iL-r on the floor oJ i:ic iV.iabuig Petroleum Exchange. .Note of tiie members appeared 10 BunKer after that $100,000, so Mr. Frost asked takers in New York, Philadelphia and Chicago. "What is it that makes the rich man richer and the poor man poorer?"' shouted | a Socialist orator, the other evening. The | proper answer to this question would have j i been "Monopoly," and the orator waited for some ono to give it. lie was thercfoie i yery much disgusted when a newly fledged member who had not been properly posted got up and yelled, "Beer!" Dr. R. M. Smith has been nominated for Senator from Spartanburg. CHURCH OF THE FIR8T BORN. Faith Curtate Tell of the Wonderful Care* of Believers. (From the New York Star.) The tabernacle at Mont Zion Sanctuary. New York Bay, Greenville, where the faith curists of the Church of the First Born, Jersey City, have been holding their summer encampment, was crowded Sunday to its fullest capacity. Sister Antoinette Jackson and Brother Eobert Jackson, were the principle speakers and much religious fervor was was aroused during the meeting. Brother Jackson, in response to a reporter's question, said the six weeks' conference had been better attended they could have hoped for, considering the weather. Much good work had been done, and 80 persons babtized and 50 anointed in the period. Among the attendants the reporters noticed a young man whose body was twisted, and who walked with difficulty. He is Willie Bezyman, whose parents live on Jersey city Heights, and an usher said he had been much worse. Tor thirty years he was terribly distorted, and his feet were so "kinked" that he was obliged to wear his shoes in bed, not not being able to remove them daily, but having to keep them on until they were worn out. His sufferings, had been lessened, and he was able to have have his shoes removed, since coming to the sanotuary. Brother Jackson said they came to the tabernacle for a definite purpose?not to look at each other nor hear each other's voioes, but to hear the voioe of the Lord. Mr. Jackson said many could not understand the fourfold gospel until they let Jesus have his own way with them, and all TrftTA in a tott rlftnoprnnn r>la/\Pi fchftv did. Christ 'will have nothing to do where Satan is. Mr. Jackson mentioned a Jewess who had been converted during the past week and left asking that prayer j be said that her nation might be reached and brought to Jesus. Sister Rosendall told of a Jewess she knew in San Francisco who was brought to love Christ. Her husband finally refused to live with her, he was so bitter, away, but that night was the happiest of her life, and Jesus sustained her. Mr. Jackson said that there was one among them whose case had not been understood. She had been so ill that her body shrunk, and No. 1$ shoes were large for her, and even after her body was nearly healed her feet were shunken. Now, the healing power was permeating her entire body, her feet wert) growing in proportion to the rest of her body, and she wore No. 4 shoes, and though she was still feeble, her friends knew she was going to walk in God's time. TWO PICTURES OF FAKM LLFB. Old Homes In New Hampshire, and the Xew In the Northern Wheat Belt. (From the St. Paul Pioneer Press.) I have just returned from a brief visit to my old home among the mountains and granite hillsides of New Hampshire. The average farm in that country is, say 100 acres, of which perhaps fifteen or twenty acres may be called, in a sense, arable. On the old homestead on which aiifa<irf<o? oato^S^-quanera'oiimacre ox corn, one-quanrar wj uue-uau an acre of wheat, a few potatoes and a small garden. Not to exceed twenty acres had been mown, and the hay nicely stowed away in the barn. The buildings were in excellant repair, and both inside and outside were as neat as oould be desired. In the woodshed I noticed nicely stored away a year's supply of fueL The man who now owns the pla?e did not inherit it, nor, if I remember rightly, any other farm. The farm is a sample of the average in that township, twelve miles from the nearest railway station and no manufacturing village in the vicinity. It is pure and agricultural district and not by any means considered first class, even in that State. There are no mortgages on these farms, and almost every proprietor has some little money at interest. The world is led to believe that the wheat capaci of the Northwest is inexhaustible. The fact is that northern Minnesota and Dakota are passing through the same state that southeran Minnesota and Iowa have suffered; where as the average wheat yield used to be twenty bushels to the acre, and farms produced as high as forty bushels in Bed Biver Valley, the average yield in the State now is but twelve bushels. It costs ?8 to raise an acre of wheat. Where is the profit? The history of wheat fanning in other sections of the country is this: The prairie lands the first year they are broken, will yield twenty bushels. This perhaps, pays for the machinery and" the buildings. The third year it falls off somewhat. The fourth year it is still worse. The sangaine farmer says: "Well, this is a bad year," and tries it again. It is still worse, and so on until the farms are actually mortgaged for the living expenses. To Feed a Horse from one Acre. Maj. Miles H. Ferguson, who is one of the best of the many good farmers of Laurens, related his experience to the Advertiser, by which he made a crop of sorghum on one acre of ground, which, when turned into money, will feed a horse one year. He has gathered from this acre 877 bundles of fodder, 40 bushels of cane seed and 150 gallons of syrup. The cost of cultivation was $4.00, and guano, $3.25. How many men have made an acre more profitable??Laurens Advertiser. A Brutal Crime. A negro man named Pink Shell, who lived on Mr. Millard Wright's place, near Houea Path, was committed to jail on last Wednesday night to await trial at the next term of court on a charge of murder?the killing of his stepdaughter, Corrie Lee Cilnkscalcs, aged two years. The crime was committed on Tuesday morning, and aa inquest was heid by Trial Justice J. J. Trussell, acting coroner. The testimony taken at the inquest has not yet been filed in the clerk's office, and consequently we are unable to give the full facts of the case. From what we can learn, it appears that in a fit of anger Shell seized the child and struck her two blows with his hand, and in fifteen minutes the child was dead. Drs. Hudgens and Shirley made a thorough examination of the body, but could find no evidence of violence, and it is deemed probable that the child died from nervous: shock caused by the blows received. Pink Shell is said to be of a very brutish nature, and other children are said to bear scars as the evidence of his bad treatment.?Anderson Journal. The arrest of La Blanche, the Marine, by a detective oftlcer from Buffalo will, it is hoped, result in the prevention of such revolting affairs as the prize fight between two women which was managed by La Blanche and others. Such degrading exhibitions as women unsexing themselves ly pugilistic encounters disgrace what is properly called "the manly art of selfdefense" and disgust every lover of honorable sport. All who were concerned in this miserable business should be severely punished,?N. T. Star, Sept. 27. A piece of zinc placed on the liye coals in a hot stove has a good effect in cleaning out a chimney that is filled with soot. THE CI.EMSON BEQUEST. A Statement from Col. R. W. Simpson, to Correct a Misapprehension. The following card from Col. R. W. Simpson, executor of the Clemson estate, was published in the Anderson Intelligencer: Mr. Editor: In your issue of September 6th you copied an article written by a correspondent from Columbia to the Ancnfita Chronicle, under date of Au gust 31st, purporting to give some interesting facts in regard to the late Mr. Ciemson, of South Carolina. One of these interesting faots stated therein I quote: "Years after Mr. Calhoun's death, Mrs. Oalhoun became financially involved. Mr. Ciemson assisted her by lending her money on Fort Hill, taking a mortgage therefor. This was afterwards foreclosed, and the property thus came into Mr. Ciemson's possession." The writer adding at the close of his article these words: "This is the property now known as the Ciemson bequest." Mr. Ciemson died seized and possessed of three-fourths of the original Fort Hill tract of land, amounting to 814 acres. Any one interested in knowing how he came into possession of these 814 aores can easily do so by examining the reoords at the Court House at Walhalla. The facts stated briefly are as follows: Some years after the death of the Hon. John 0. Calhoun Mrs. Oalhoun sold the T* --* TT-n J J_ 1 j .3 ^ -Eore run trauL vi i&uu tuiu a uiuuuct ux negroes, she being the legal owner thereof, to her son, CoL Andrew P. Calhoun, and to secure the purchase money Colonel Calhoun executed to his. mother a mortgage of all the property so purchased by him. This debt being unpaid, Mrs. Calhoun, in 1865 or 1866, ! executed a codicil to her will, previously ! made, in which she devised to Mrs. Thomas G. Clemson, her daughter, . three-fourths of the mortgage debt due to her by her son Col. A. P. Calhoun, and the other one-fourth she devised to her grand-daughter, Mrs. Gideon Lee, ! and directed that if the mortgaged premises (Fort Hill) should be taken for the debt, it should be divided between Mrs. Clemson and Mrs. Lee, in the same 1 proportions. Mrs. Calhoun died July 25th, 1866. ! An action to foreclose this mortgage was j I a train of. fWI A P flftlhriTm in the Court at Walhalla, but whether it ( was commenced by Mrs. Calhoun in her ^ lifetime, or by Mrs. Clemson and Mrs. ( Lee, alter her death, I do not at this moment remember, and eventually j reached the Supreme Court. The Court gave judgment against Col. Calhoun for ( j about $40,000, and ordered the land to , be sold, and the proceeds to be applied } : to the payment thereof. In obedience to this foreclosure the land (Fort Hill) ] was sold at Walhalla, and was purchased , by Thcmaa G. Clemson as trustee for his wife. Mrs. Lee having died in the meantime, Mrs. Clemson and Mr. Gideon Lee, acting as guardian for Floride, i ! Mrs. Lee's only ohild, bad the land i "partitioned by commissioners, in accord- j ance with the terms of Mrs. John 0. J Calhoun's will above referred to, Mfs. < Clem son receiving 814 acres, three- \ 'ionrths of the value olthe whole. tzapfc*. nu65 ju6ti oo*j ana oaa acres, one- j fourth of the value of the whole tract, and each immediately went into posses- j sion of the parts awarded them. j Mrs. Clemson died September 22nd, 1875, leaving of force her last will and ] testament, in which she willed, bequeathed and devised all of her estate, ] real and personal, to her husband, < Thomas G. Clemsom, in fee simple. ] This is the real estate in the Clemson j bequest. Mr. Clemson in willing this j 814 acres, a part of the original Fort ; Hill tract, to the State for the purposes i of erecting an Agricultural College there- < on, carried into effect not only his own ] wishes, but also a promise to the end made to Mrs. Clemson, who also desired the establishment of an AgrirtnlfriTftl fJnUoorA r>r? "Pnrt "FTill. On? other erroneons statement currently re- i ported I take this occasion to correct, < that is, that Mr. Clemson received his 1 money also from Mrs. Clemson. It is a 1 fact that no part of the money be- 1 queathed by Mr. Clemson to the State ] came to him through his wife; it is all j his individual propety. < B. W. Simpson. j The Dow&nger German Emprew. Dr. Mackenzie declares she is the i cleverest woman he has ever met, and her numerous friends in the literary and i artistic world are no less prompt in their j expressions of admiration for her brill- ; iancy and genius. But with all her ; brilliancy her case is a sad one. One i way or another her life was one of dis- < appointment, with, however, the im- < | mense satisfaction of a leal, loving i husband, who was her ideal of a man i and who, even in dying, developed such < grand qualities as to render him a source j of greater pride and an objeot of deeper < love. 1 The fearful affliction which came upon ] them lifted up their hearts, and made i her capable of writing that immortal ; telegram in which she announced his i death to the Empress Augutta. She was i always right-minded, but self-willed. The i pride of spirit was for years brought out < by her drop down from England, where, j in her youth, every one was loyal to the i Queen and her children, to prosaic, j UAX19U) UMIUUO&~VA~AMVV M) w j bereft of poetry, without antiquity, and i having no tradition but thai of drill- < sergeantism. Women we?re not held in i honor, although the princesses of the i house of Hohenzollern had for gener- < ations shown fine mental qualities. This to Queen Victoria's daughter was : unendurable. She respeoted her mother, j herself and her sex, and she set before her the task of ameliorating the condition , of girls, as a way to the future elevation 1 of Prussian women. She is very rich. As Princess Royal of England, Empress ( Dowanger, Empress Mother, a wife of ; sorrows, a woman of a right mind and an I upright heart, she is perhaps a better , instrument for doing good than were she the Empress-Consort, fettered with officialities, and a butt to the hatred of j baffled intriguers. With her rank, money, intellect, experience, prestige and mind, she may win for herself a glorious name in patronizing arts, and promoting works of charity and social reform.?Cosmopolitan. Grounds for DIvoroc. A certain Chicago husband, who has begun proceedings for a divorce, would appear to have ample grounds for such action. Although his wife was in the habit of dousiuj; hitn with dishwater, hitting him with a wet mop and pounding him with a rolling pin, he docilely continued to live with her. But when later she refused him food, took the hair mattress from his bed and put a wooden one in its place ana removed me oea ciouung ana carpet, he got angry and fled. The vigorous use of the utensils of the kitchen as weapons with which to assail a husband, the substitution of a wooden for a hair mattress and the removal from his bed chamber of bed clothing and carpet, are all undoubtedly inconsistent with a perfect enjoyment of marital existence, and the unhappy victim in this case, if his story be true, would seem to have good grounds for i complaint.?Chicago Herald. *5 THOUSANDS OF 8P0RE8 DULY. They Arrive Done Up In Packages In the Baggage of Florida Refugee*. (From the New York Herald.) Dr. Robert T. Morris of 133 West 34th street said yesterday when called upon that he worried very little about the introduction of yellow fever into the city. But he said tlmt thousands of the spores are coming daily done up neatly in packages with the baggage of Florida : refugees. "As a matter of faot," said the doctor, i "yellow fever is not at home here in is ew York, and not being quickly in- i fectious, as infectious diseases go we i feel in the profession that our present effi- < cient health board will easily prevent any epidemic of importance. There will ' be a few more cases probably, but there ] is not enough danger to cause any alarm. 1 xeiiow lever is well Known nowadays, i as a germ disease. The microbes re- ' produce themselves pretty rapidly in a 1 warm, moist atmosphere, but they are i quite heavy and settle near the ground, i so that -Jie winds do not carry them any i great distance. Besides, it is necessary 1 for a person to take into the lungs an 1 enormous number of the microbes in I order to become infected, I wouldn't i mind taking in a few hundred of them i this afternoon, but if I were in a heavily j infected neighborhood and coming into ' hourly contract with millions of the i microbes, I should be as badly frightened as any nervous old bachelor who has ] nothing to live for. 1 TH3 SYSTEM A MBNAGEKIB, ^ "Why," said the dootor, "don't you j know that your system is daily a perfect ' menagerie of .different disease spores that are entering and passing through it? A person in ordinary health is not apt to be troubled by any of the spores stopped ' to feed upon him, but i? his health is bad , they may attack him just as spores of , fugisprout in decaying trees. "Yellow fever spores," continued the doctor, ."must be concentrated in order } to be dangerous. Why is* it that they ) beoome concentrated in a certain street ? or a certain yard, it is hard to say; which ! but they sot something like the spores that cause 'rust' on salt codfish. Go into a storehouse in whioh 'red rust' is grow- ( ing, and you will find it very abundant 1 by a certain box or upon a certain table, y ind the bales of dried fish in one corner ? Df the room may be all red, while those . in the middle of the room are not attaokA "So, again, you will see in the woods that the spores of a certain species of * mushroom are abundant along one path oi near one bill, while in similar ground * round about there are few toad-stools? y vnn the spores of the microbe which produces yellow fever are distributed unequally for some reason best known ? to themselves. WHAT MEDICDTE OAH DO. a These microscopic vegetables that * jrow in the blood and cause yellow fever t ire pretty small, but their growth and ? propagation are governed by natural 1 laws as definite as those which rule the s sabbage an^ ' ^e cucumber. Can I de 301 ibe the Bjmptoms of yellow fever for zc.i2 Why, certainly I But I shall not, ' ?C1 CTSr^" x tha ** would discover that he was a sutierer t Erom the disease in about twenty-four 1 fciours." t "Con medicine help the yellow fever * patient any?" < ' 'Of course it can; in the way of making him more comfortable and in avoiding dangerous complications, but cannot j Limit the disease. The disease is not as fatal as most people suppose it to be myway. In the 1878 epidemic in Lousiana only about sixteen per cent, of the cases proved fatal, and in the practice a \ f a * %! % wrra a* ^vi#n ha1a4iwa ?% JL a gwu. ?ruj BivieuiD luoxcia^YO ? percentage was much less." <= m c The Country Newspaper. 1 It is only a country weekly 1 Yes, r that is all, but do those who allude to it g with an intentional sneer ever reflect g apon the duties and mission performed j. by the poor, obscure county weekly which is as much, nay more, to its few a hundred readers in the country, as is the ^ great metropolitan daily to its thousands of readers in the city? Oh, no, they j. never think of placing an estimate upon e the worth of a country paper; it has r none within the narrow limits of their j. superficial and contracted brains. They E will not admit the utility of any form of E & newspaper save one which is crammed j( foil of telegraphic dispatches, giving the + minute details of some revolting and ^ nauseating social scandal, or containing j an infinite variety in detail of foreign g events. But the financial, agricultural, f commercial, religious and social condi- c tion of his fellow-citizens residing within a the boundaries of such an individual's ^ own county, are to him as a sealed book; he has never opened the pages of hia 0 county paper to inquire within; put him r to the test and you will find that he t knows more about the Hottentots of Central Africa than he does about the people of the surrounding country. "We n turn away from the contemplation of ^ this human superfluity, of which there ^ ure thousands, and view the practical, j( common-sense man, who wishes to be informed as to the pursuits, condition and prospects of the people of his own immediate S'cate and county. He finds in the home paper the information he <3 seeks. The country organ is to him the q camera lucida whicn faithfully t>orfcrare _ all that occurs; it is, in a great measure, the reflex of the character of the people comprising the country wherein it is * published. But what is the interest which even the practical, oommon-sense ? man derives from it, compared to that t which is felt and entertained by the ^ oountry people themselves? It is every- E fching to them. In it ia found news which they alone, probably, can appre- a ciate and understand; information re- r garding their friends and neighbors, the 2 condition of the crops and the market ^ quotations, matters of local considers- t fcion in which they are interested, and a hundred and one different things which c affect and interest them, both privately ^ and publicly. The county newspaper is to a county what nutritious food is to a convalescent?it helps to build up all that is good in it The oounty that is without one is like a waste plain without \ elevation from which a person desiring t to examine the surroundings can 1 make no observation.?Southern Trade 1 Gazette. 1 ? Wom?n on tb? Stump. i ?teien M. uouger a strong minaea c woman, has thallenged Anna Dickinson < to a joint political debate. It was assert- J ed that Miss Dickinson, who has just 1 opened her campaign for Harrison at < Biehmond, Ind., had refused to accept the gage of battle, but the Bepublican Joan of Aro, with a strength of expres- . sion worthy the most experienced stump speaker, nails this report as "a pointblank lie." The "blank" can be filled in . to suit the taste of the individual. It is reported that John L. Sullivan is better and thaj he has begun to eat. The next telegrams' will probably contain the announcement that he has begun to drink. at BURNING AN INDIAN WITCH. A Young Squaw Suffer* Two hours of Torture Before Beleaced by Death. The story oomes on good authority at Los Angeles of the burning of a young squaw by Mcjave Indians because she was accused of practicing witohoraft. The scene of the torture was near the Colorado River in the eastern end of San Bernardino county. For the last two months a strange disease has attacked members of the tribe. Its spread at last became so alarming that the Indians became panic-stricken and slaughtered their dogs and burros as a sacrifice to appease the anger of the Great Father. This proving of no avail a council was held. Every buck in the tribe was present. The medicine men sat around a huge pot, which was filled with herbs, while the bucks were squatted in a 3e mi-circle, some distance away. The medicine men watched the steaming of the herbs until the mess had been boiled down to a teasup full of liquid. Then a mftle pigeon and his mate were taken from a basket wid held by the mcdicine man while the liquid from the herbs were poured down their throats. The male bird, when reLeased, flew away. The female bird fluttered a few yards and fell helpless md dying on the ground. The medicine nen now seemed orazedwith excitement. Ehcy leaj>ed to their feet and danced, while the bucks sat in sullen silenoe. While the medicine men were in the nidet of their incantations they declared shat there was a witch in the tribe. The 'emale bird had died while the malefeirdi iad flowa^away into the night.- Tftm ;est determined the sefc of the evil ifrer; When the bucks heardjhe wprcOs-ipf^e nedioilce men they Ceoame ssdl^wittr rage. Each brave suspected the ojfeer 5 )f harboring the witch in his tepee/oe. jabin. But a final test was to ba^c&de. ' With yells and imprecations tferaenzied [ndians drove their women to the place vherethe council had been held and vhere the white pigeon still lay among he herbs and grasses. The squaws were Iriven in single file, the medicine men matching with nervous excitement the lace of each as she passed the bird. Finally, a young squaw, the daughter >f Croso, a sub-chief, stepped out of the auks and was about to pick up the bird, ^hen the medicine men with loud yells leized the girl and pinioned her aims. Che unfortunate squaw pleaded piteoosly or her life, which she seemed to foresee yas in peril, but her cries were of no wail, her own relatives assisting in dragging her to the council place. The death >f the female pigeon was conclusive >vidence that a squaw was the witch. L'he first squaw to touch the bird was to >e the guilty one. rm :_1 1 -- - 1 L 1 O - ~ xne poor giri, WflU was uut 10 jreara >ld, was stripped of her clothes, tied to i stake and a'alow fire built under her. ?or two hours she lingered in awful kgony, and while her death screams filled he air the braves danced about and the Ire and the medicine men muttered incantations. When morning came nothng but the whitened bones of the girl ind the black embers of the fire remained about the stake. The disease from which so many of he Mojave braves died is believed to be aaii Jianttyiiiioid.iever. The details of his strange story were brougM~W~Jjor Angeles by ranchers who had been attracted to the camp of the Indians by he noises which attended the terrible leath of the girl. THE KBW COTTON BAGGING. jiverpool 1m Willing to Accept Sheeted Bales. From the H. Y. Dally Commercial Bulletin, Sept 26.) The following dispatch was received it the New York Cotton Exchange from he Livepool Cotton Association yeeterlay: "Cotton sheeted bales are good Lelivery. Besolution will be moved to , uake such actual tare." , This was an answer to a dispatch sent ecently by the Exchange asking the entimentof Liverpool buyers on the ubsutution of cotton (or other) bagging n place of the regulation jute wrapping. Vhile considerable doubt is expressed ; jXLong members of the Exchange as to he desirability of changing from jute to ' otton, yet nearly all are in favor of do og something that will place the market { mtirely independent of the jute combi* : lation. No official action has as yet j >een taken by the Exchange in the i natter, but now that the Liverpool oarket has expressed a willingness to i and its support to the new movement : estsof the three materials that have ] >een offered by different firms to the j Exchange will be urged. Still the sub- , titution is a very serious matter, affecting s ne entire traae, ana among tne more ; autious the sentiment is to move slowly , nd wisely. Whatever substitute is made : rill be first subjected to a very severe | est, though the leaning is to the new otton fabric, as if adopted it will mate- J ially increase the domestic consump- , Lon, especially in the line of low grade ] otton, which would be utilized and 1 rhich now quite often goes a-begging. , 'he three substitutes offered for jute j sagging are cotton, wire cloth, and a j sbric manufactured from the needles or j eaves of the pine tree. i 9100,000 Reward For a Core. Senator Plumb has introduced in the lenate a bill offering a reward of $100,00 for the discovery of the cause, remedy nd treatment of yellow fever. The bill equests all persons who reoover from ellow fever after treatment by some 1 opyrighted method to notify the Sur- ! ;eon-tieneral of the recovery, and that 11 physicians who have under treatment 1 iy any copyrighted method any person 1 rhr> mn fmm Tflllnw favai* shall 1 lotify the Burgeon-General of the death nd the method of treatment; and when i record shall have been had of some emedy which shall have cured 981 of ,000 cases treated, then the inventor or lisooverer of that method shall be paid he reward of $100,000. Under the terms >f the bill all remedies entered for this ompetition shall have been copyrighted pith the Librarian of Congress. Revolt of Pait Traveling* A Af fVa T TimflA XX. Wlicoyviiuwt Vl vuv AA/uuvu A1UJVO) writing on the subject of the daily race beween the two fast English trains to the STorth, say8: "There is one point of which ; have seen no notice taken?the increa?ed vear and tear, mentally and bodily, of the irlver and stoker on these special trains. L friend of one of the drivers told me that ie saw a marked effect on his health. The iriver told him his anxiety was greatly inireased. On one occasion his stoker, who lad gone along the engine to oil a valve, jeeame paralyzed with fear, so that he ?uld not move forwards or backwards, rhe driver had to leave his place and folow his stoker and seize his hand, and so ;hey regained the standing place. The distances run are so great and the pace bo mnW that ariTT nlHntr efrv. ifl done with In :reased risk. The force of the wind Is so great that when the stoker creeps along the tootplace alongside of the engine he haa to bold by the rail like grim death, and has been carried off his feet." A lemon cut in half and rubbed over the kitchen table will remoye the grease, WANTED TO GET OUT. | A Voice that Startlrxl an Espressmaa 'Who VCu Besting on a Coffin. (From the Kansaa City Journal.) He was an express messenger on the' Santo Fe a few days ago. It was a night ran, and there were two passengers in the ear. Just as it began to grow dusk the trained stopped at a small station and a dead body was taken aboard. Nothing particular was thought of this, however, and as there was nothing to do, and the train would not stop again for a long distance, both messengers prepared to go to sleep. One of them decided that the box containing the body would bea good place to rest on, so he arranged himself oomfortably thereon and went to sleep. How long he slept he has no idea, bat suddenly, as if in a dream, he heard a voice say: "Let me out." The messenger, startled, half awake for a moment, when in no uncertain tone came the words, apparently from within, the head of the box on which he slept:' "D n you, let me out!" It is quite a distance from where the box lay to the other end of the car, but the messenger is positive he cleared, it in two jumps. Trembling with fear, ue shouted to his companions, but before he had a chance to tell his story the selfsame voioe exclaimed: "I want to get put of here." Neither of the men spoke for a moment, and then the man who had first heard the voi<5a-$aid: "Jim thai oorpee wgnts to get ott?" _ ? ' (j^TimUtought^oA^n^ment%nd then "ffell^V reckon ii? wouldn't be right to kefet> him in there if he wants to &et *7 v.-? ".'SotJjb tpnjap'trtinTinfjft mad e - ih'eir way* tcUhe ite head oLthe. Box acd^lebflte^ whattodo, wherthAamfevoice was SK?U?|d teffiaikrv ?M1 "Pofiy wants aftfrackeOT* Then the mastery ^a^^splained. Some one at Denver had expressed A parrot to a friend in Kansas City. Its cage had been sent away and forgotten, and the bird had naturally become hungry and thirsty. So it waited as long as it could and then made itself heard in the manner that so horrified the express messenger. YELLOW FEVER MICBOBK8. They Look Like 3agar-Gane Joints and Billions Inhabit a Drop of Blood. urrom uiq aiftcon, ua, xoie^rapnj Said Dr. Clifton; "A yellow fever microbe has the appearance of three joints of sugarcane. I got them from Washington in a glass tube that somewhat resembles a gourd. The tiny microbes are placed in the big end, but by looking at it you could never tell that there was anything but air in it The small end is sealed up and the microbes are in there, though apparently dead. Some microbes live in such plaoes for twenty years. We will suppose now that we want to look at some of them under the microscope. Upon the little glass side we put a drop of gelatine of the consistency that will not run. We take a cambric needle, and after heating &-4o destroy all microbes that may be in the nix, quickly break the seal of the glass tube and insert the needle, drawing it out quicklv and resealing the neck of the tube. Wo insert the needle in the drop of gelatine on the slide and quickly put on the little oover to shut srmh c#vmH or miflWihftfi that mav h* floating about in the air, Then we place the elide under the microscope. In forty-five minutes the micro bee have fully aroused from their Rip Van Winkle sleep, and now you see what curious thiugs they are. As I said before, they resemble three joints of sugarcane, but the joints are not straight, but at opposite angles. Take this fellow, for instance, and you see a joint drops of? leaving him with two joints. Presently another joint joins on to the dropped joint, and by this time a third joint appears on No. 1. Now look at No. 2, and there is a third joint. Now a joint drops from No. 1, and by the time it gains another joint No. 2 drops a joint, and this, with the joint from No. 2, join together, and there is microbe No. 4. Another joint grows on Nos. 1 and 2, and one drops from No. 3, and, these joining together, make microbe No. 4, and so they go until the little drop of gelatine is a working, seething mass of microbes. Now, these microbes are in the blood of a yellow Fftwr nafcion+. and thAre'd whftrn thov live. 5?hey get into a blood corpuscle and eat out all the red part, aa a darky eats out the red meat of a watermelon, and the blood is then a drop of clear fluid. To give yon an idea of how many can crowd into a corpuscle of blood, let me say that it takes 3,200 corpuscles strong together to make an inch. Well, you can string just 150,000 microbes across the diameter of one corpuscle, consequently you can guees billions after billions of microbes in a drop of blood. The theory is that these microbes eat up one's blood so rapidly as to take it all away from him in a very short time. Some men can stand the letting of more blood than others, and consequently some men reoover from yellow fever." A BEE STORY. A. Swarm of Bee? that Fought Indians and Whipped Them. (From tha Xapa (Cal.) Register.) Many readers are familiar with Wall's extraordinary feat, in 1849, in driving, according to his statement, a swarm of bees across the plains. A day or two since, as one of our business men was coming down town, he happened to discover a huge bee quietly resting on Wall's shoulder as preparations were being made for sprinkling the Court House lawn. "Say, Wall, what are you doing with that bee on your shoulder?" Wall was started for a moment, but, recovering his usual oomposure, spoke with gravity, carrying conviction of untarniahabie trutb. "i ll tell yon, ana it's the solemn truth, if ever I spoke it m my life. That bee is the queen of the swarm that I drove across the plains. She has been hunting me for years, and knew me the moment I called ner name. Yon see, she is getting a little gray, bat I knew her on sight She piloted the swarm, and I used to feed her from my own molasses ean. That bee is the last of her race, and I shall take care of her in her old age. I tell yon, John, that was a memorable trip. Several times that swarm stood by me in an hour of peril. They could scent an Indian several miles away, and they got to really enjoy an Indian attack. The fact is thoy understood tactioe as well as the best trained soldiers. When the queen sounded an alarm every bee was under arms ready to fight. First a ptrirmiwh line was thrown out, and you oould see more or less uneasiness among the redskins as one and another would claw at Jus ears, eyes or nose, oat wnen the order to charge was sounded, and the bee battalions began to move in 'double quick,' a route and stampede always followed. It is a fact, John, if ever I told the truth in my life. What I am saying is true, Those bees fought all my battles across the plains, and this is my 'old queen' sure enough," SHE MARRIED A MULATTO. THE SAD FATE OF A PRETTY GIRL IN BROOKLYN. Annie Travers vat Wedded Several Konthe Before She Discovered That Her Hand* some Boy-Husband wm of the Race of Ham-She Seek* Divorce. (Xew York Star, Sept. 28.) A broken-hearted girl bride in Brooklyn mourns the loss of a husband. She is not a widow. She would giye half of her life if she was. Her case Is far more pitiful than desertion or death. Onlv a vear a<?n nr#>Jlv Annfa Tp*vam was as blythe as the day was long, and little dreamed that ere this she would pray for death. But so It is. The story is a romantic one. Passionate love, a short courtship and a secret marriage form the opening chapters. It closes with the startling discovery by a confiding beauty that she had married "a gentleman -efreoior." His exposure and flight follow, "while the unfortunate girl Is seeking the ~ poor consolation the divorce courts can give. Annie's parents are long since dead, and for many years she has resided with her aunt, Mrs. Moore, for whom she acted as housekeeper. A year ago Mrs. Moore was living on Third street near Tenth. Her husband had been for many years a trusted clerk in one of the municipal departments. After his death, Mrs. Moore thought she would add to her income by taking in boarders. ' Among the number who answered her advA-ttement was Eugene Travers. Sha acceptqi him," He was quiet, affable ma most industnous. He took particular pains js make hfcafelf agreeable. His face had 2d' -rich olive tint which is so much adt&eti In Spaniards. and%reek&_ His hair <jf jetty blafckness harmonized with* his 'piercing blacE^ea. H& upper lip was adorned with. th98uspicion of a mustache, between his handsome, rich red lips gfeamed teeth of perfect ivory. Eug^ie^ dressed in good taste and hi* clothesjpbwed well the perfect symmetry^ oi majeure. Me was gentlemanly in manner and Mrs. Moore soon learned to regard him very highly. There was a piano in the parlor and Eugene soon showed that he had a good tenor voice and was conservant with all the current popular airs. He was a graceful and versatile dancer and a good chess and card player. He soon became the social lion of his little circk. Pretty Annie and the olive complexioned young Adonis were much in each other's company. They sang and played and attended parties and theatres together. People began to believe that the handsome young pair regarded each other with feelings deeper and stronger than mere friendship. Annie's Ufa had been monotonous and uneventful. The advent of this brilliant boy stirred the hitherto placid depths of her nature, and^,-? loved?loved wildly and passionately?and he?well, perhaps he returned her love with a passion as fervid as her own. But hardly a ripple on the surface of their lives betrayed their precious secret. Mrs. Moa-e may have suspected the actual state of affairs, but she said nothing. Perhaps she was not averse to the course of true love. One thing troubled her, however. Eugene was very reticent about his antecedents. He always evidently avoided talkiug of his past and of his parents and rela- ^ tives. When occasionally he was foreed " by a direct question, she noticed that he answered confusedly, and often contradicted himself. But time wore on and love waxed apace. These were halcyon days for the lad and lassie. There wer? romantic moonlight walks and jolly tripe to Coney Island. Stolen visits were paid to the ice cream man around the corner. They danced together at picnics and parties, and occasionally they enjoyed the raptures of the theatre. The young couple lived a life of blissful hope, and Mrs. Moore led a life of as blissful ignorance, or perhaps her greater experience told her the true state of affairs, and she was nothing loth. But if this be true, she did not dream of the raDidlv airoroach ing climax. One Sunday, about five months after Eugene was admitted to the family, he and Annie had been out together all day. They returned late and found Mrs. Moore waiting for them. Eugene went to his room, but Annie rushed to her aunt, threw herself on her knees, and sobbing violently,, confessed that she had been married during the evening. To say that Mrs. Moore was shocked would be using a mild phrase. Still, like a sensible woman, she made the best of a bad job, and made arrangements for the young couple to live with her pending such time as Eugene could provide a home of his own for his bride. The juvenile husband was at this period employed as a clerk in a handkerchief factory in New York at small wages. At about this juncture the family removed to Greenpoint. With a woman's weakness, Mrs. Moore, who was really fond of the young man, did not object to Eugene's idleness. He had ioat his employment. And now occurred an event of a startling nature. One day the young wife, in over looking her husband's clothes, found carefully sewn in the inner lining of a vert pocket a tin-type. It represented the face of a mulatto, who, in his general features, bore a striking resemblance to Eugene. Almost simultaneously with the discovery there came to Mrs. Travers the recollection of a number of incidents trivial in themselves, but confirmatory of the suspicion which was now freezing her veins with its horror. With a memory sharpened by her discovery, she remembered how, on several occasions, eer nuaoana naa maae use 01 expressions which are supposed to characterize negro conversation. He had said to her at times: "You're the meanest white gall" He often unconsciously lapsed into a broad negro dialect, and on several occasions, when colored folks had been disparaged in his presence, he had flown into a violent rage. Once he threatened to draw a razor on a calumniator of the negro. Almost wild with shame and sorrow, Mrs. Travere accused her husband of having negro blood in his veins and of having grossly deceived her. The scene that followed was britf. Tr&vers ran up to hit room, packed up some clothes and left mi 1 i .1. i# m t ine omy.ming mat jjub. iraveras Husband left her was a note cursing her. Annie is now taking steps to have her marriage annulled. Nothing has been heard of J2ugene. Anna Dickinson as a Boomerang. Indianapolis, September 28.?Anna Dickenson is proving a formidable elephant to Indiana Republicanism. Her harangues are doubtless injuring her cause. She alludes to the President as "the hangman of Btfialo," and says the bloody shirt is a live issue, with a good deal more such nonsense. She made an address at Richmond, and the Register, the Republican organ, savs: "Anna Dickinson should stick to the lecture platform. She is capable of doing no good in politioo, and the best advice we ceuld give to Chairman Quay would be to call her in at once. The Republican national committee surprises people by sending such speakers as Miss Dickinson here without knowing what she is going to say." A man got a pair of rubber hip boots, I and when his monthly bill came from the saoeaeaier was nornnea to ana mmseii charged with "one pair baptismal pants." It seems the dealer always supposed he wag n/thing better than a Sunday fisherman.