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t * VOL. XLVI. WINNSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 1890. NO. 49.
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MEETING IN HEAVEN.
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I^WE SHALL RECOGNIZE EACH OTHER
/ IN THE OTHER WORLDThe
Eloquent Discourse of Dr. Talmase 011 j
the Recognization of Friends and Relatives
in Hear n.
Dr. Talmng-.) preached to an enormous
outdoor gathering at Wa a,
tlio OIlKl/irtf Tiro c
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'"Meeting Our Friends in Heaven."
" he eminent clergyman took for his
xt 2 Samuel, xii, 23: "I 6hall go to
ii.v His sermon was as follows:
Tiere is a very sick child in the
of David, the king. Disease,
' ^wki^stalks up the dark lane of the
poor and puis its smothering hand on
the lip and nostril of the wan and
wasted, also mounts the palace stairs
and. bending over the pillow, blows
into the face of a young prince the
frosts of pain and death. Tears are
wine to the king of terrors. Alas!
for David the king. He can neither
sleep nor eat, and lies prostrate on
his face, weeping and wailing until
the palace rings with the outcry of
woe.
What are courtly attendants, or
victorious armies, or conquered
provinces, under such circumstances?
What to any parent are splendid surroundings
when his child is sick?
Seven days have passed on. Then in
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gently closed, two little hands folded,
two little feet quiet, one heart still.
The servants come to bear the tidings
to the king, but they cannot make up
their minds to tell him,and they stand
at the door whispering about the matter,
and David hears them and he
looks up and says to them, "Is the
child dead?" "Yes, he is dead/'
David rouses himself up, washes himself,
puts on new apparel, and sits
down to food. What power hushed
that tempest? .Thai- strength was it
that lifted up that king whom grief
had dethroned? Oh, it was the
thought that he would come again
into the posession of that darling
child. No grave digger's spade could
hide him. The wintry blasts of death
could not put out the bright light
I There would be a forge somewhere ;
that with silver hammer would weld
. the broken links. In a city where :
the hoofs of the pale horse never
strike the pavement he would clasp :
his lost treasure. He wipes away the 1
tears from his eyes, and clears the :
ehoking grief irom Jus tnroat, ana i.
_ exclaims, "I shall go to Mm."
Was David right or wrong? If we :
part on earth will we meet again in
the next world? "Well," says some ;
f one, "that seems to be animpossibili
ty. Heaven is so large a place, we 3
never^fould find our kindred there." 5
rw>C?bing into some, city, without having
appointed tt fime and place for meet- }
ing, you might wander around for :
weeks and for months, and perhaps
for years, and never see} each other, *
and heaven is vaster than all earthly 1
I cities together, and how are you go- !
ing to find your departed friend in J
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Itnas country.' it is su vast u. jlcohxi.
John weno up on one mountain of !
inspiration, and he looked off upon
the multitude, and he said, "Thou- '
sands of thousands." Then he came
upon a greater altitude of inspiration 1
and looked off upon it again, and he ]
said, "Ten thousand times ten thou- 1
sand-"' And then he came on a high- :
er mount of inspiration-, and looted "
off again, and he said, "A hundred '
and forty and four thousand and I
thausands of toousand." And he
came on a still greater height of in- J
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spirauon, hiiu. nv iws.eu uu. agtuu, ouu
exclaimed, "A great multitude that ]
no man can number." Now, I ask. ,
how are you going to find your friends
in such a throng as that? Is not this 1
idea we have been entertaining, after :
all, a falsity? Is this noctrine of fu- !
ture recognization of friends in heav- 3
en a guess, a myth, a whim, or is it 3
a granitic foundation upon which the 1
soul pierced of all ages may build a
glorious hope? Intense question! i
Every heart in this audience throbs '
right into it. There is in every soul i
here the tomb of at least one dead.
Tremendous question! It makes
the lin auiver. and the cheek flush,
and the entire nature thrill: Shall
we know each other there? I get
letters almost every month asking me
to discuss this subject. I get a letter
in a bold, scholary hand, on gilt-edge
paper, asking me to discuss this question,
and I say, "Ah! that is a curious
man, and he wants a curious question
solved.'' But I get another letter.
It is written with a trembling hand,
and on what seems to be a torn-out
leaf of a book, and here and there is
the mark of a tear: and I say, "Oh,
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LilUl IS It UrOiveJLL llCJVi li {tliu. IK ncuibs iu
be comforted."
. '*[ The object of this sermon is to
take this theory out of the region of
surmise and speculation into the
region of positive certainty. People
say: "It would be very pleasant if
that doctrine were true. I hope it
may be true. Perhaps it is true. I
wish it were true.'' But I believe
that I can bring an accumulation of
Koor nnnn ?his matter
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which will prove the doctrine of future
; recognition as plainly as that there is
\ any heaven at all. and that the kiss of
reunion at the celestial gate will be
as certain as the dying kiss at the door
v of the sepulchre.
Now, when you are going to build
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timber. You lay the keel and make
the framework of ihe very best materials,
the keelson, stanchions, plankshear,
counter timber-knee, transoms,
all of solid oak. You may build a
ship of lighter material, but wken
the cyclone comes on it will go down.
Now we may have a great many beautiful
theories about the future world,
built out of our own fancy, and they
thay do very well as long as we have
smooth sailing in the world, but when
me storms of sorrow come upon us,
nn/l fViA Vmrrcane of death, we will
be swamped?we will be foundered
AY e want a theory built out of the
Dlid oak of God's eternal word.
The doctrine of future recognition
is not so often positively stated in
the TV ord of God as implied, J&nd you
snow, my friends, that that is, after
all, the strongest mode of affirmation,
^our friend travels in foreigP lands.
He comes home. He does begin
by arguing with you to pi^ve that
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there are such places as London and
Stockholm and Paris and Dresden
and Berlin, but his conversation implies
it. And so this Bible does not I
so positively state this theory as, all
up and down its chapters, it takes
it for granted. What does my text
imply"? "I shall go to him." What con"
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soiafcon would it oe to i>?aviu tu yu lu
his child if he would not know him.
The Bible indicates, over and over
again, that the angels know each other;
and then the Bible says that we
are to be higher than the angels, and
if the angels have the power of recognition,
shall not we, who are to be
higher than the}' in the next realm,
have as good eyesight and as good
capacity? What did Christ mean,
in his conversation with Mary and
Martha, when he said, "Thy brother
shall rise again?" It was as much
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&S to say, "i/ou u uiy. l/uii t v> cox
yourself out with tliis trouble. You
will see him again. Thy brother
shall rise again." The Bible describes
heaven as a great home circle.
"Well, now, that would be a very
queer home circle where the members
did not know each other. The
Bible describes death as a sleep. If
we know each other before we go to
sleep, shall we know each other after
we wake up? Oh, yes. We will
know each other a great deal better
then than now, "for now," says the
apostle, "we see through a glass
darkly, but then face to face." It
will be my purified, enthroned, and
glorified body gazing ?n your punned,
enthroned, and glorified body.
Now, I demand, if you believe the
Bible, that you take this theory of
future recognition out of the realm of
speculation and surmise into the re- <
gion of positive certainty, and no
more keep saying, '*1 hope it is so; I
have an idea it is so; I guess it is so."
Be able U say, with all the cencen- <
trated energy of body, mind and
soul, "I know it is so."
There are, in addition to these Bi- !
ble arguments, other reasons why I <
accept this theory. In the first ;
place, because the rejection of it im- '
plies the entire obliterati?n of our
memory. Can it be possible that we ]
shall forget forever those with whose i
walk, luok, manner we have been so ]
Long familiar? Will death come and 1
with a sharp keen blade hew away 3
this faculty of memory? Abraham :
saia to iJives, "Son, rememoer. xi
the excited and lost remember, will
not the enthroned remember?.
Again: I accept the doctrine of
future recognition because the world's
expectancy affirms it. In all lands
and ages this theory is received.
What form of religion planted it?
No form of religion, for it is received
under all forms of religion. Then,
E argue, a sentiment, a feeling, an !
anticipation, universally planted, <
must have been God-implanted, and 1
if God-implanted, it is rightfully im- i
planted. Socrates writes: "Who 1
would not part with a great deal to <
purchase a meeting with Orpheus and ]
Homer? If it be true that this is to
be the consequence of death, I could ]
even be able to die often." Among ;
the Danes, when a master dies his ]
?prv&nt sometimes stabs himself that i
tie may serve his master in the future j
world. Cicero, living before Christ's :
coming, said: "0 glorious day when i
[ shall retire from this low and sor- i
3id scene, to associate with the di- vine
assemblage of departed spirits, 1
md not only with the one Ihave just 1
aow mentioned, but my dear Cato, 1
Lhe best of sons and most faithful of <
men. n 1 seemea to Dear ms ueuiu 1
ivith fortitude, it was by 110 means !
that I did not most sensibly feel the 3
Loss I had sustained. It was because ;
C was supported by the consoling re- <
lection that we could not long be 1
separated." The Norwegian believes J
it The Indian believes it. The j
Jreenlander believes it. The Swiss 1
believes it. The Turk believes it. Un- ]
ier every sky, by every river, in every !
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zone, tne tneory is aaoptea; ana so x
say a principle universally implanted
must be God-implanted, and hence a
right belief. The argument is irresistible.
Again: I adopt this theory because
there are features of moral,
temperament and features of the
30ul that will distinguish us forever.
How do we know each other in this
world? Is it merely by the color of 1
the eye, or the length of the hair, or <
the facial proportions'? Oh, no. It i
is by the disposition as well as by '
natural affinity, using the word in the :
very best sense and not in the bad ]
sense, and if in the dust our body
should perish* and He there forever? and
there should be no resurrection?
still the soul has enough features and i
the disposition has enough features <
to make us "distinguishable. I can :
understand how in sickness a man
will become so delirious that he will
notknow hisown friends but will we be
blasted with such insufferable idiocy,
that, standing beside our friends for
all eternity, we will never guess who
they are?
There is a mother before the throne
of God. You say her joy is full. Is
it? You say there can be no augmentation
of it. Cannot there be?
Her son was a wanderer and a vagabond
on the earth when that good
mother died. He broke her old
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wilderness of sin. She is before the
throne of God now. Years pass and
that son repents of his crimes and
gives his heart to God and becomes
a useful Christian, and dies and enters
the gates of heaven. You tell
me that that mothers joy canrot be
augmented. Let them confront each
other, the son and the mother. ''Oh."
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joice "with me! The dead is alive
again, and the lost is found. Hallelujah!
I never expected to see this
lost one come back."
The Bible says nations are to be
born in a day. "When China comes
to God will it not know Dr. Abeel?
When India comes will it not know
Dr. John Scudder? When the InrJians
come to God will thev not
know David Brainerd?
I see a soul entering heaven at last
with covered face at the idea that it
has done so little for Christ, and feeling
borne down with unworthiness,
and it says to itself, "I have no right
to be here." A voice from a throne
says, "Oh, you forget that Sunday
school class you invited to Christ! I
was one of them." And another
voice says, -'You forget that poor
man to whom you ga~e a loaf of
bread, and told of the heavenly
bread. I was that man." And another
says, "You forget that sick one
to whom you gave medicine fov the
body and the soul. I was that one."
And then Christ, from a throne overtopping
all the rest, will say, "Inasmuch
as ye did it to one of the least
of these, you did it to me." And
then the seraphs will take their harps
j from the side of the throne and cry,
"What song shall it be?" And Christ
bending over the harpers, shall say,
"It Shall be the Harvest Home!"
One more reason why I am disposed
n/^orvf fVlic rtafirine of till: A: -
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recognition is that so many in
their last hour on earth hare confirmed
this theory. I speak not of persons
who have been delirious in their
last moments and knew not what
they were about, but of persons who
died in calmness and placidity, and
who were not naturally superstitious,
often the glories of heaven have
struck the dying pillow, and the departing
man has said he saw and
heard those who had gone away from
him. How often it is in the dying
moments parents see their departed
children and children see their departed
parents! I came down to the
banks of fcJtie MoHa\v? river, it was
evening and I wanted to go over the
river, and so I waved my hat and
shouted, and after awhile I saw some
one waving on the opposite bank,
and I heard him shout, and the boat
came across, and I got in and was
transported. And so I suppose it
will be in the evening of oar life.
We will come down to the river of
death and give a signal to our friends
on the other shore, and they will
give a signal back to us, and the boat
comes, and our departed kindred are
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day tinging the tops of the paddles.
Oh, have you never sat by such a
deathbed? In that hour you hear
the departing soul cry, "Hark! look!
You hearkened and you looked. A
little child pining away because of the
death of its mother, getting weaker
and weaker every day, was taken into
the room where hung the picture of
her mother. She seemed to enjoy
of if onrl fhpn fiVip wos taken
away, and after awhile died. In the
Last moment that wan and wasted little
one lifted her hands, while her
face lighted up with the glory of the
next world, and cried out, "Mother!"
You tell me she did not see her
mother ? She did. So in my first
settlement at Belleville a plain man
said to me, "What do you think I
heard last night ? I was in the room
where one of my neighbors wa3 dying.
He was a good man, and he said he
heard the angels ot (jod singing Defore
the throne. I haven't much
poetry about me, but I listened and
I heard them too.' Said I, 'I have no
doubt of it.' "Why, we are to be taken
up to heaven at last by ministering
spirits. Who are they to be ? souls
that went up from Madras, or Antioch,
Dr Jerusalem? Oh, no; our glorified
kindred are going to troop around us.
Heaven is not a stately, formal
place, as I sometimes hear it described,
x very frigidity of splendor, where
people stand on cold formalities and
go round about with heavy crowns of
gold on their heads. No, that is not
my idea of heaven. My idea of heaven
in more like this: You are seated in
the evening-tide by the fireplace, your
svhole family there, or nearly all of
them there. While you are seated
fiallri-nof and pnif>vin? the eveninsr hour
there is a knock at the door and the
loor opens, and there comes in a
brother that has been long absent.
He has been absent for years, you
aave not seen him, and no sooner do
you make up your mind that it is
certainly he, than you leap up, and
the question is who shall give him the
first embrace. That is my idea of
heaven?a great home circle where
they are waiting for us. Oh, will you
not know your mother's voice there ?
She who always called you by your
first name long after others had given
you the formal "mister ?" You were
aever anything but James, or John,
"vi* Georsre. or Thomas, or Mary, or
Florence to her. "Will you not know
pour child's voice ? She of the bright
zye, and the ruddy cheek, and the
juiet step, who came in from play
rnd flung herself into your lap, a very
shower of mirth and beauty ? "Why,
the picture is graven in your soul. It
cannot wear out. If that little one
Bhould stand on the other side of
3ome heavenly hill and call to }*ou,
Fou would hear her voice above the
burst of heaven's great orchestra.
Know it? You could not help but
know it.
Now I bring you this glorious consolation
of future recognition. If you
could get this theory into your heart
it would lift a great many shadows
that are stretching across it. When
I was a lad I used to go out to the
railroad track and put my ear down
on the track, and I could hear the express
train rumbling miles away, and
coming on; and today, my friends, if
we only had faith enough we could
put our ear down to the grave of our
dead, and listen and hear in the distance
the rumblinsr on of the chariots
of resurrection victory. 0 lieaven!
Sweet heaven! You do not spell
heaven as you used to spell it. You
used to spell it h-e-a-v-e-n, heaven.
But now when you want to spell that
word you place side by side the faces
of the loved ones who are gone, . and
in that irridiation of .light and love,
and beauty and joy you spell it out as
never before, in songs and hallelujahs.
Oh, ye whose hearts are down under
the sod of the cemetery, cheer up
at the thought of this reunion! Oh!
how much you will have to tell them
when once you meet them! How
much you have been through since
you saw them last! . On the shining
shore you will talk it all over. The
heartaches. The loneliness. The
sleepless nights. The weeping until
you had no more power to w?ep, because
the heart was withered and
dried up. Story of vacant chair, and
empty cradle, and little shoe only
half worn out, never to be worn again,
iust the shape of the foot that once
pressed it. And dreams -when you
thought that the departed had come
back again, and the room seemed
blight with their faces, and you
started up to greet them, and in the
f.Vip drpftm broke and tou found
yourself standing amid-room in the
midnight?alone. Talking it all over
and then, hand in hand, walking up
and down in the light. No sorrow,
no tears, no death. Oh, heaven!
beautiful heave^^^^enw^^ oui
friends are. Heaven where we expect
to be.
Oh, how different it is on earth
from the way it is in heaven when a
Christian dies! AVe say "Close his
eyes." In heaven they say, "Give
him a palm." On earth we say, "Let
iiin-1 /Ir.\VD in flip OTmillfl:' In heav
en they say, "Raise him 011 a throne.'?
On earth it is, "Farewell, farewell.'' |
In heaven it is, '-Welcome, welcome."'
And so I see a Christian soul coming
down to the river o* death, and he
steps into the river, and the water
monies to the ankb. fee says, "Lord
.j.'sus. is this death?" "No," says
Christ, "this is not death." And he
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wades stiii deeper aowu into uie waters
until the flood comes to the knee
and he says, "Lord Jesus, tell me.
tell me. is this death?" And Christ
says, No, no, this is not death.'" And
he wades still further down until the
wave comes to the girdle and the
soul says, "Lord Jesus, is this death?"
"No," says Christ, "this is not." And
deeper in wades the soul till the billow
strikes the hp. and the departing
one cries, "Lord Jesus, is this death?"
"No," says Christ, "this is not." But
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throne of glory, and the pomp and
joy of heaven came surging to its
feet, then Christ says: "This, oh
transported soul! This is death!''
A WILD ^IDEPassengers
on an Express Have a Sensa
tlon?An Engineer Locked la a Mad Fire
man a Arms-A l nrniin}; "mury wi ?
Breadth Eacape from Death.
Jaxesville, Wis., July 16.?Tlie
passengers on the Chicago and Northwestern
express had a wild ride yesterday
while a struggle for life and
death was going on between the fireman
and engineer. On the lioor of
the locomotive cab lay Engineer
Steve Hobetting, powerless in the
grasp cf a maniac. The insane'man,
his face blackened by coal dust, his
clothing: stripped from his body, in
the life and death struggle, brandished
a wrench, which he had clutched
from the engineers tool box. Both
his arms were in the grasp of the despairing
man beneath him, but the
men on the depot platform at Clyman,
one of the towns through which
the train passed, could see that he
had nearly freed himself, and that
in another moment, unless some help
should come, the murderous blow of
the wretch would fall.
The maniac was Fireman C. L.
Hastings. Near Watertown he had
stepped from the cab to the tender
to cool off. He did not return, and
Engineer Hotetting reached back
from his seat, pulled aside the cab
curtain, and looked out. As the curtain
moved aside Hastings bounded
in from the tender and clutched the
engineer about the neck, and threw
Viinri frt tlio oTvoTrinfT fnnf
board. There the two struggled as
the train dashed on at a full rate of
speed.
The engine left without fresh fuel,
was slowly losing steam, but rushed
on at a rate that could mean nothing
less than a fearful tragedy at the first
switch.
As the train swept past Clyman
without stopping the passengers and
train crew realized that something
was wrong, and a party hurried forward.
Writhing and struggling
among the blocks of coal on the tender,
they saw the engineer and his
maniac assailant. The latter was
overpowered and taken to the baggage
car. A moment after he fainted.
Consciousness did not return
until twelve hours had elapsed. The
hot weather is given as the cause of
his insanity, and there arc fears that
he cannot recover.
IN BATTLE ARRAYThree
Hundred Blacks Armed With Win
cheaters Threaten to Clean up the Whites
in Revenge for the Recent Trouble...Quiet
Restored.
Bamberg, July 15.? News from
Kearse, a township in Barnwell county,
where the race trouble occurred
some months ago, is to the effect that
there is more trouble between the
racGS. A man just in from Kearse
states that over 300 negroes, armed
with new Winchester rifles, had
gathered, and that serious trouble
was anticipated. One negro had
been killed, and several of both races
were injured. At 9 p. m. a white military
company left this place for the
scene of the trouble, and the whites
will be reinforced by those from the
surrounding counties. No cause is
assigned for the trouble ' eyond the
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Oacl Diooa oetween tne races, causeu
by the riot some time ago.
Blackyille, S. C., July 16.?.Tlie
prompt and determined action of the
wliite people of Barnwell county prevented
any further trouble at the
Kearse settlement. Most of tlie detachment
of militia who went to
Kearse's at the pleading call from
the people, have returned from the
scene of the trouble: An Associated
Press representative saw the Captain
of the relief squad, and from him obtained
the latest information from the
scene. He said:
"I have not the slightest doubt but
that there would have been very serious
trouble at Kearse's had not our
squad arrived promptly on the lielci.
The news that aid had been sought
and was coming was diffused and the
negroes, if they at any time had desperate
intentions, abandoned them,
for the present at least. The fight
and show of determination on the
part of the whites of the county it is
thought by all, had its effect upon
the negroes and no further trouble
is inticipated. The negroes have all
returned to their work. Eleven negroes
ambushed several young white
men but they all left and cannot be
found. The body of G-antt, the negro
who was riddled with bullets,
was viewed by many of the negroes.
There is no excitement in the neighborhood.
The colored women, who
are generally the most boisterous,
talk quietly about the conflict. If
possible the ambushers will be arrested.
Several white men were
wounded, but ihey are getting along
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, is probably fatally wounded. Medical
assistance from Charleston has
been telegraphed for the wounded.'
A MOONSHINE MURDER.
APPARENT CLEARINC UP OF THE ASSASSINATION
OF. BEN ROSS' little
Bill" Howard Makes a Confession?
His Cousin the Man Who Fired the Fatal
Shot?Ross Killed for Treason to Blockaders.
(Gr enville News.)
The mystery surrounded the killing
of Ben Ross, in February, 1888>
has at last been cleared up by the
confession of William L. Howard,
who was arrested last week charged
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wim me muraer ana is now m jau.
Ben Ross, the murdered man, was a
moonshiner and was a member of
one of the strongest and most secret
moonshine organizations in the
world. It is not known whether a
regular organization exists, but it is
known that it is next to impossible
to convict anyone arrested for reve
nue uueuses, iuiu liiul a criminal oaii
hide from the officers for years ill the
mountain fastnesses. The fate of a
traitor is death and this is so well
known that not a man dares to communicate
with a revenue officer, and
if once seen talking to one he is under
the ban of suspicion forever.
Every stranger entering the county
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is a suspect iuiu lie jiuu wetter quickly
prove himself not a revenue officer
or a detective. The sheriff and other
county officers are received with
hospitality and the people have often
assisted Sheriff Gilreath in making
arrests for offenses against State law.
On the most serious charges the man
wanted has been known to c?me to
the sheriff and surrender, and if there
were others implicated, the arrested
man would go out and bring them in.
A revenue officer is most bitterly hated,
and the people consider that the
making and selling of whiskey is a
privilege that the United States government
has no right to interfere
with. They resort to any desperate
measures to protect themselves.
C\m +Via dorr tt/ViAn "R*yn T?nco tpoo
V/ AX ?UJULV/ V*WJ ;IJUVU JL?VWM If UIW
killed he had been to the city as a
witness in a revenue trial before
Commissioner Hawthorne. There
were a number of people from the
same section in the commissioner's
office. Some of them heard Ben Ross
say that he was getting tired of the
old ring and if things did not go better
he intended to break it up by telling
the whole thing to the revenue
officers. It seems that Ross had
been suspected, and his remarks in
the court room reached his seoti on
ahead of him. "While sitting in front
of the fireplace at his home that
night, he was instantly killed by a
shot throuph a window. Several arrests
were made, but it was impossible
to unravel the mystery, and all
those arrests were dismissed at the
preliminary hearings.
"Little Bill" Howard's confession
was made freely and voluntarily a
few days ago and was written down.
He was advised not to make it, but
said he knew what the consequnces
would be. Howard confesses that
he was present when Eoss was killed
and that William M. Howard,
-r-r -i _ /* ?
alias "Jtsig JBLLi nowarci, a nrsi
cousin, was the murderer. He says
that "Big Bili*' spoke to him a dozen
times about killing Ross and that he
refused to have anything to do with
it. "Big Biilv told him that if he
did not go along with him he would
kill him (Howard.) ''Big Bill" had a
double-barrelled shot gun and wanted
him to take a weapon, but he refused^
They went to Boss's house,
and "Big JtSiLL' went up on tne piazza
wliile "Little Bill" stood near by.
After the shooting the two men walked
about a hundred yards and then
separated, "Big Bill" going home
and "Little Bill" to the house of Mr.
Moon. As the two men walked
away from Ross' house "Big Bill"
said to his companion that he thought
he "got him that time."
Deputy Marshal Fisher has been
working up the case. "Big Bill"
Howard is hidinsr in the neighbor
liood of his home and could not be
found by Sheriff Gilreath on Sunday,
jt is said, however, he will surrender
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A "Wonderful Stone.
Kingston, Ga., July 14.?Mr. John
McCraney, living near here, has found
a most wonderful stone. While
yVImrrincr on o QnnrlVinr in f.hft Btowah
river, he saw something shining
with the most brilliant of lights just
to one aide of him. He stopped his
plow and went to pick it up. It was
a clear white stone, the size of an
egg, reflecting in one way all the colors
of the rainbow. Turning it over
the colors took on the character of a
spirit level, following each other up
through the centre of the rock till all
were gathered in one end. Mr. McCraney
has been_offered ?1,000 for it
but refused it. He will take it to
Atlanta to have it tested. It may be
a diamond. It emits a perfectly
white light in the dark.
What Congress Has Done.
The present Congress cannot be
charged with not having done anything.
It has done much. Much
that will have to be undone, and
much that the people will have cause
to regret. It has doomed to destruction
all that has been accom
plished by half a dozen wars and the
wisdom of 100 years of statesmanship.
It has done too much. The
people should , give it an eternal rest,
if they are ever again, permitted to go
to the polls and vote.?Cincinnati
Enquirer.
?During a marriage ceremony e
cently in a church at Christians ourg,
Va., a goat deliberately walked n
and interrupted the ceremony by giving
the groom a grand send-off wi'ik
his head. The bride fled to the pulpit
for safety.
?A special to the Louisville Evening
Times from New Albany, Indiana,
says: The Gosport accommodation
train on the Menon route collided
with a freight train at Smithviil.
a flag station eight miles south
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oi -Dioommgxoii at o:ou u uwa. jlcw
lives are lost.
?A lett?f from Pension Commissioner
Raurn sent to the Senate in
response to a resolution of inquiry
shows that the total number of pensions
at all the agencies was 537,479
in May 30 last.
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WOMEN LAID BRUIN OUTBrave
Fight of Two Molus River Matrons?
Both Unhurt.
Vaxcebor?, Me., July 17.?There is
still a little of the old time pioneer
spirit to be found among the women
of the oresent day who live in the
[ sparsely settled regions in this section.
It has cropped out no more plainly
than in a thrilling incident at Molus
River, a provincial town, a few nights
since, in which two women were the
heroines. Roderick McDonald, who
lives in one of the remote parts of the
settlement, was absent from home,
leaving his wife and sister as the sole
defenders ot ins nousenoid, and mosr,
successfully did they show that they
were able to cope with the task.
Just at dusk the two women, who
were busy about their household
duties, were suddenlj' attracted by a
bellowing ampng the cattle in the
barnyard, Tliey listened for a moment
and were convinced that the
noises were those of terror among the
animals.
"Without the slightest hesitation
the women armed themselves with
the only weapons at hand, an axe and
a pitchfork, and sallied forth to meet i
the foe, and a most formidable opponent
they found.
Only a few steps had been taken
before they saw an enormous black
bear, who stood aggressively await- ;
ing them. At either side of him lay
an ox, which had fallen under his
heavy blows, while the rest of the
cattle were huddled closely in one
corner of the yard, bellowing piteously
in their fright. The women lost
no time.
Mrs. McDonald, excited at the
sisrht of the dead animals, rushed at 1
the bear "with a pitchfork and thrust
it deep into his neck. A roar of
mingled anger and pain followed, and
with a sweep of his paw he struck the 1
weapon from her hands and sent it '<
rattling on the other side of the
yard. ]
The other woman had not been idle
in the meantime, and as the bear ^
made this movement she struck at ]
him with an axe, disabling one of his !
forelegs, Mrs. McDonald ran for her
pitchfork, recovered it, and the two }
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?Y \yiOJL^/JJL UAAVyJ-L ?T VA1UWU W1 UXU TIAl/u
hammer and tongs. Mrs. McDonald ;
worried him with the pitchfork in (
while her companion did deadly exe- !
cution with the axe j
The battle was short and sharp, I
and the bear was dead in a few mo- ^
ments. He was very large and old, {
and two hunters with rifles would
have considered him a good capture. 1
The women had their clothes badly '
torn, but beyond a few scratches and
the fright, suffered no injury. 1
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HIS DYINC CONFESSION. 1
Dick Haire's Statemeut About Killing ?is ,
Wife and Daughter.
The written confession of Dick
Hawes, the notorious wife and child I
murderer, will never be published in 1
book form, as was expected. The <
following details, which are contained 1
in the confession, clear up some of i
the mysteries of the crime, and are I
nrwtr mode nnWi/? f.VlP -firsf, timP.
Hawes states in the confession '
that he did not contemplate the mur- :
ders until Friday night before they 1
were committed on Saturday night. .
It was then his wife refused to leave '
the city, as she had promised to do, 1
and the plan of putting her out of
the way for good was quickly decided
on.
Detectives have hunted in vain for
the conveyance Hawes was supposed
to have used to remove her body to
tne lake, ana ms coniession ciears up
that part of the mystery. His wife
and children were induced to drink
liquor until both were intoxicated,
and then, under some pretext, they
were taken to the lake and murdered
on the banks, and their bodies were
thrown in.
They were not killed at the house,
as it has always been supposed. He
says the negro woman, Jb'annie -Bryant,
who was convicted as his accomplice,
assisted him from beginning to end,
and when the bloody work was finished,
they swore a terrible oath never
to betray each others secret.
The confesfion admits that Fanny
Bryant told the truth in her testiXTatttac
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LLLKJLiy LU.<JLU JLLa YV CO bvv/A JU.UWA-W
from her house on Monday night.
May would have been murdered on
Saturday night, but they could not
induce her to drink the liquor, and
another plan had to be adopted to
get rid of hor.
In concluding the confession Hawes
wrote that he fully deserved the late
in store for him, and he wanted no
one else to die for his crime.
A Dangerous Trick.
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VJOLUMBIA, O. OUiy JL*.?WiJL ulujlday
night a party of younsr Degroes
finding John Kobinson, a fifteen year
old boy, asleep on a bridge near the
outskirts of the city, they determined
to play a trick on him. A quantity
of heavy paper was procured and
saturated with kerosene oil. and secnvplv
tied around the naked legs of
the sleeper. A lisht was then applied.
The bey sprang up and the
flames ran up his legs. He screamed
for assistance, and a white man living
near by, with his hands, tore the
burning paper and clothing off. The
> 1?
Doy is very dangerously uujuicu,
and hisjrescuer had his hands seriousy
burned.
?Two freight cars loaded with sixteen
tons of powder exploded at
Kings Mills, 0., Tuesday afternoon,
causing the explosion of the cartridge
factory, which set fire to the* lrrounding
buildings, about ten of which
were destroyed, and killing six persons
and wounding twenty men and
women.
'"xfl on/1 V>ia
U^U JJ1LUUOOC) Ui^LVt t/v/j uuu AJLA.V
two sons, Hugo, aged 6, and Max,
aged 12, were struck by a train at
the crossing at the comer of Pauliva
and Kinsie street, Chicago, on Tuesday
night and fatally injured. The
sudden closing of the guard gates
penned the unfortunate trio helpless
ly on the tracks in front of tHe coming
train.
?The President has signed th
silver bill, and it is now in full force
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DEATH FLEW FAST.
SUDDEN AND AWFUL STORM ON A
WISCONSIN LAKEA
Cfnowoi* Aroitfalrm orxl ransi 7.wl?Men. !
Women and Children Thrown Struggling
into Raging Water?Awful Scenes of the
Tempest?Rescuing Partie* at Work.
Lake City, Mnrc?., July 16.?Sunday
night just before dark a disastrous
cyclone bore down upon this community,
and in a few minutes nearly
two hundred people were killed.
What appeared to be an ordinary
electric storm was noticed coming
from the west, but in half an hour
the whole heavens were converted
into a lightning lined black canopy
of death. A little before dark a terrific
wind struck the village, driving
every one in doors. Trees were uprooted,
buildings wrecked and much
damage done in the short time the
storm lasted. In a few moments
news was abroad that an excursion
boat with over two hundred people
\J1? XL V>ao AJ-L Uli.v <illUV41V VA I
Lake Peppin. The boat was tlie
steamer "Zawing," which came down
from the Lake Diamond Bluff, a
small place about seventeen miles
north of here, on an excursion to the
encampment of the First Regiment
of National Guards, which is being
held a mile below the city.
The steamer started back on the
homeward trip about eight o'clock
and although there -were signs 01 an
approaching storm it was not considered
in any way serious and no
danger was anticipated. *
The boat was crowded to its fullest
capacity, about 150 men, women and
children from KedWing and Diamond
Bluff being on board and about fifty
people on a barge which was attached
bo- the side of the steamer. "When
about opposite Lake City the boat
began to feel the effects of the storm
but the officers kept on their way.
The storm increased as the boat continued
up the lake and in fifteen minutes
was at its height. Nearing Central
Point, about two miles above
Lake City the steamer was at the
mercy of the waves which were washing
over the boat, and all was confusion.
The boat momentarily ran*
3ii a bar ana me uo rge was cut loose
and the steamer again set adrift into
the like. A number jumped overboard
and swam ashore. As the barge
floated again into deep water those
3n the barge saw the steamer as, it
jjas carried helplessly out into the
middle of the lake and as they were
being tossed about on raging
waters were horrified to see the
steamer capsized and its cargo of 150
people thrown into the lake.
The' barge remained there until
1 #!. 3
tney were arutea near snuie, ua
swam ashore. There were a number
of ladies who were brought to the
beach by strong and ready swimmers.
As soon as the storm struck the
boat Captain Weathem gave instructions
to run the boat into the Wisconsin
shore, but it was too late.
The waves were too strong to permit
the working of the rudder. After the
I ~ nrrotr if TTTO C /">O TV10/1 f.A
was tut anaj j.u vuii..w. ,v
the middle of the lake and boats
were lowered by the crew and the
more cool headed passengers were
devoted to preparations for the worst.
A. dozen or more secured the few
life preservers that were to be found
and jumped into the water, preferring
to take their chances. In five minutes
more the waves began to wash
into the boat and fill the lower decks
while hailstones as large as hen's
? /3svrmi I1TV1T1 of
tggs V^iVU-lC UU1TU u^fvu
the people, -while a huge wave struck
the craft on the side at the same
moment that a terrific blast of wind,
more horribly forcible than the
others, came up and earned the boat
over.
All of the people on board. 150 or
more, were thrown into the water,
some beiite caught underneath and
others thrown into the water. The
boat turned bottom upwards, and
only about twenty-five people were
observed floating on the surface.
These caught hold of the upturned
bottom, those first securing a position
assisting others. In fifteen minutes
more twenty-five or thirty who
had obtained safety on the boat could
observe no others.
After the crew and passengers had
made a thorough search in the immediate
vicinity of the boat they began
a more extensive search. After
" " -a?u
ward, However, as a nusu ui li^umins ;
lighted the surface of the lake,by the J
brilliant light the dress of a drowning
woman or child was observed,
but it was impossible for those who
witnessed the horrible sight to render
any aid. Those remaining began to
call for help from the shore.
Soon the storm began to abate and
in a half hour lights were observed
flitting about on the shore near where
the steamer had been drifted before
help coizld reach it. The poor creatures
who remained to tell the horrors
of the night were again compelled to
suffer farther horrors of the elements.
A hail storm burst with no word of
warning, and as they were just beginning
to hope that they would be
? * t
taken off by tnecntzensoi ju?*e
the boat again turned over, this time
on its side and all of the twenty-five
passengers were hurled into the water
and drowned before they cor,11 be
brought to the boat by those who
succeeded in remaining afloat and
holding on the ship's side.
It Requires a Head.
a - /VUin <t dnn'f rennirp rrmoll
JL VIV1A V * VV^H 'W m ... ~? W?
head -work.*'
B.: "That's what I thought until I
read in a paper the other day that a
colored preacher had conquered a
stubborn mule by butting him."
Very Illiterate.
Policeman: "Excuse me. Major,
but isn't that your dog.'"
Major B.: "Certainly."
Policeman: "You see what the sigi
says?'No dogsallowed in this park?"'
Major B.: "Yes, but that dog can":
read: he is very illiterate. Gooc
morning, sir."
?Nicholas Costello, the oldes
citizen of Massachusetts, died o]
. Sunday, aged 108 years. He was ai
Irishman and a stalwart Democrat
Effect of Heat Upon Crops. A
T3ie weather is beyond man's control.
He can neither make it hoi or
cold, wet or dry. But he can modify
these in part or more strictly speaking,
can modify their effects, and he J|
can arrange and regulate his operations
with reference to them. In this
i ? t t 1 Ml f? il. .
consists me real skill oi sue iarmer,
and upon it depends his success. Attention
is called to tins matter now,
because the wide-spread heat of late
has bome heavily on the crops, and
farmers have a most excellent opport
tunity of noting the effect that dis
tance or tiie lack of distance between
plants has had upon the crops. Not
only his own crops but those of his
neighbors are open to his inspection.
As he travels along the road, on any
mission whatever, let him keep his
eyes open and look carefully for facts
bearing on this matter. People must
look for ideas, as well as for things,
if they expect to find them. The observant.
man has no better eyes than
other people, but he has an active
brain'behind his eyes that is constantly
interpreting the facts he sees,
bringing them together and establishing
their relations. "When he sees
a stalk of corn or cotton suffering -
from heat, he does not stop with the
thought simply that Iieat Has done it,
but proceeds to inquire whether the effect
of the heat has been increased
by the character of the soil, by the
manner in which it was prepared
and was cultivated?by the kind of
manure applied and by the manner
in which it was applied, by the greater
or less quantity >i soil from which
the plant could draw moisture to replace
that which the heat is taking
from its leaves.
? . >
He notes tiiat plants growing oythe
side of streams or on damp soils
make finest growth when the sun is
hottest. Mere heat alone then is not
the trouble; heat is good when accompanied
with other needed things.
Among all these other needed things
attention is now directed to the distance
given plants. As you pass
about note the condition and appearance
'of crops that have been planted
at different distances. Note the ef
* * 3 .f
feet of wide and narrow rows ana 01
different spacing in tlie rows. The
most advanced farmers now plant in
wide rows?three and a half to four
feet. The old timers plant in two
to two and a half feci lows. Probably
both classes exist iu your neighborhood.
Note how their respective
crops have stood the intense heat. V:
All the different modes of planting
and cultivating crops which you may
cfp- hta so m.'inv experiments that
you may study to adv;mtage. Neighborhood
clubs, that hold meetings
at farms of members, that inspect
and catechise, aie most admirable
agencies for increasing knowledge.
If not a member of such a club, inspect
for yourself every farm along
the roads you travel and pump the
owner whenever you have opportunity.?"W.
L. Jones in Atlanta Constitution.
A Modern Need for Sleep.
There is not one man or woman in
10,000 who can afford to do without
seven or eight hours" sleep. All
those stories written about great
men and women, who sleep only
three or four hours a night ruake
very interesting reading, but I tell A?^
you, my readers, no man or woman
ever yet kept health in body and
mind for a number of years with less
than seven hours' sleep. Americans
need more sleep than they are get1
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TiUlg. JL ILLd iiltbilCO uu^juu ov uvjl v ous,
and the insane asylums so populous.
If you cannot get to bed till
late then rise late. It may be as
Christian for one man to rise at 8 as
it is for another to rise at 5. *1 counsel
my readers to get up when they
are rested. But let the rousing bell
be rung at least thirty minutes before
your public appearance. Phy- J
siciaus say that a sudden jump out
of bed gives irregular motion to the
pulse. It takes hours to get over a
lie fi-imo _
LOU &U.U.M I llg lioiiig. viiiv .11..^ ^ after
you call us to roll over, gaze at ~-~
the world full in the face, and look
before you leap.?Talmage in the
Home Journal.
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The Old Man Looked Ahead.
Chicago clerk?I would like to
have the day off tomoirow.
Employer?Why, you are rather
soon about asking for holiday. vou *
haven't been working here but a
'week.
Clerk?I would not ask, but I'm to
be married.
Employer? Tut! Take two hours
at dinner to-morrow: that's plenty of
time. If you can do that I won't
mind letting you off a week when you
go to get your divorce.?Memphis
Avalanche. '
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All the Comforts ?f Home.
"Now. here is an advertisement
that looks promising," said a young
man who was looking for lodgings.
"What is that
"It says 'all the comforts of home.'"
"Don't chance it. It means that
you can smell onions frying in the
kitchen, be invited to help amuse the
baby and have the pleasure of hearsome
weak-voiced girl play and sing
hymns on an organ all Sunday afternoon.'
' ?Louisville Courier-Journal.
?Dr. Charles K. Barlow, one of
the leading dentists ofPoughkeepsie,
N. Y.. has taken no food of any kind
except a glass of milk or a cup of coffee
-each day for forty-five days.
"When he began 'fasting he weighed
245 pounds and measured forty inches
around the body. He no ,v weighs 201
viAnTt^c onrj mpnsiirAstHrtv-sixincheS
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around the body.
?Jay Gould has given about two r
. acres of land in Broadway, Irvingtonom-the-Huason,
to the Protestant
Episcopal and Presbyterian churches.
For a long time these churches have
vainly endeavored to get possession
of this property. Mr. Gould bought
? it and gave it to them in equal
parts, as it lies between the two
churches.
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?Two freight cars loaded with six,
teen tons of powder exploded at
1 -?/rrn r\
JLSiITIg" 8 JJJLIJL.U J.cite JL oiici'
noon, causing the explosion of a
cartricfee factory, burning several
t housefand killing six persons and
1 and wounding twenty men aid woa
men. Four of the wounded have since
died. \
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