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f SEPTEMBER. The fields and meadews paling | Lie 'neath the hazy sky; The thistle-down is sailing i>y zepnyrs siowiy uy. The stales of stubbie bleaching Beneath September's sun, Seem silently now teach ing Of rest when labor's done. . The golden-rod, bright gleaming Above the parched sod, Is surely sent, the seemiDg Of the golden things of of God. The katj-dids are calling, In a sccial sort of a way, To leam what is befalling j The neighbors cross the way. I Communist like, the blackbirds r: : Hold meetings every night, As though the world went backwards, h; And they must set it right. The apples fast are falling From heavy laden boughs; > The milkmaid's faintly calling 'Cross the meadows for the cows. Tr " The milking-stool is ready Astride the barnyard gate; The cows come slow and stea dy, Like messengers of Fate. And soon, in silence sleeping, Master and maid and herd Beneath Cxod's Kincuy Keepu-g Will rest?as on his word. sg: So may this mild September I With its pictures passing fair Make each of us remember God's mercies, rich and rare. j HE SEES EVERY SIDE. ifer-i- I Z': Dr. Talmage's Eloquent Plea for Christian Toleration. Brooklyn, Sept. 9.?Bev. Dr. Talmage, who is now in Australia, whence She will shortly sail for Ceylon and India, has selected as the subject for today's sermon through the press "Communion of Saints," the text chosen being Judges xii, 6: "Then said they unto him, Say I now shibboleth, and he said sibboleth, for he could not frame to pronounce it. right. Then they took him and slew him at the passages of Jordan." % Do you notice the diflerence of pronunciation between shibboleth and sioboJeth? A very small and unimportant diflerence, you say. And yet that difference was the difference between life and death for a great many people. The Lord's people, Gilead and Ephraim, got I * " J TTTOO into ft great* uuu xipuiaiui nud worsted, and on tl ? retreat came to the fords of the river Jordan to cross. Order was given that all Ephraimites coming there be slain. But how could.it be found out who were Ephaimites? They were detected by their pronunciation. Shibboleth was a word that stood for river. The Ephraimites had a brogue of their own, and when they tried to say "shibboleth always left out the sound of the "h." fVhen il was asked that they say shibboleth they said sibboleth and were alain. 'Then said they unto mm, say now shibboleth, and he said sibboleth, for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him and slew him at the passages" of Jordan." A very small difference, you say, between Gilead and Ephraim, and yet how much intolerance about that small difference! The Lord's tribes in our time?by which I mean the different denominations of Christians?sometimes magnify a very | small difference, and the only difference . between scores of denominations today is the difference between shibboleth and sibbolesh. The church of God is divided into a great number of denominations. Time would fail, me to tell of the Calvini3ts, and tbe Arminians, and the Sabbatarians, and tbe Baxterians, and the Dankers, and the Shakers, and the Quakers, and the Methodists, and the Baptists, and the Episcopalians, and the Lutherans, and the Congregationalists. and the Presbyterians and the Spixitualisis, and a score of other de nominations of religionists, some of them founded by very good men, some of them founded by very egotistic men, . some of them founded by very bad men. But as I demand for myself liberty of conscience I must give that same liberty to every other man, remembering that he no more differs from me tban I difier fiom him. I advocate the largest liberty m all religious belief and form of worship. In art, in politics, in morals and in religion let there be no gag law, no moving of the previous question, no persecntion, no intolerance. You know that the air and the water ? * keep pure by constant circulation, and I think there is a tendency in religious discussion to purification and moral health. Between the fourth and the sixteenth centuries the church proposed to make people think aright by prohibiting discussion, and by strong; censorship of the press and rack and gibbet and hot lead down the throat tried to make people orthodox, but it was discovered that you cannot change a man's belief by | tWISting OU IlltS usau uyt uuuo a tuou Bee differently by putting an awl through his eyes. There is something in a man's conscience which will hurl off the mountain that you threw upDn it, and, unsinged of the firp, cut of the iime will make red wings on which the martyr will mount to glory. In that time of which I speak, between the fourth and sixteenth centuries, people "went from the house of God into the most appalling iniquity, and right aloDg by consecrated altars there were tides of drunkenness and licentiousness such a3 the world never heard of, and the very sewers of perdition broke loose and flooded the church. After awhile the """? printing press was freed, and it broke the shackles of the human mind. Then there came a large number of bad b^oks and where there was one man hostile to th? fhrioHan r?1icnnn th*r? ware 20 men ready to advocate it. So I have not any nervousness in regard to this battle going on between truth and error. The truth will conquer justa3 certainly as that God is stronger than the devil. Let error run if yon ODly let truth run along gc with it. Urged on by skeptic's shout and transcendentalisms spur, let it run. God's angel's of wrath are in hot pursuit, and quicker than easle's beak clQtches out a hawk's heart G^d's vengeance will tear it to pieces. I propose to speak to you of sectarianism?its origin, its evils and its cures. There arethose who'would make us think that this monster, with herns and hoofs is religion. I shall chase it to its hiding place and drag it out of the caverns of darkness and rip oft its hide. But I want to make a distinction between bigotr y and the lowfol fondness for peculiar reli^iuus belief and forms of worship. I have no admiration for a nothingarian. In a world of such tremendous vicissitude and temptation, and with a soul that must after awhile stand tefore a throne of insufferable brightness, in a day when the rocking of the mountains, and the flaming of tbs heavens, and the upheaval of the seas shall be among the least of the excitements, to give account for every thought, word, action, preference and dislike, that man is mad who has no religious preference. But our early education, our physical temperament, cur mental constitution, will very much decide our form of worship. A style of psalmody that may please me may displease you. Some would like to have a minister in gown and bans and surplice, and others prefer to have a minister in plain citizen's apparel. CI ? J ?~ OUUIC sue iiiuiQ uupicaacu n l>^u. a ubug child is presented at the altar and sprin_ ... kled the waters of a holy benediction 4tin the name of the Father and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost," ana others are more impressed when the penitent come3 np ont of the river, his garments dripping with the waters of a baptism, which signifies the washing away of sin. Let either have his own | way. One man likes no noise in prayer I not a word, not a whisper. Another man, just as good, preiers by gesticulation and exclamation to express his devotional aspirations. Oae man is just as good as the other. 1 'Everyman fullv persuaded in his own miod." George Whitefleld was going over a Quaker rather roughly for seme of his religious sentiments and the Quaker said: "George, I am as thou art. I am for bringing all men to the hope of the gospel. Therefore, if tuou will not quarrel with me aboui; my broad brim, I will not quarrel with thee about thy black gown. George, give my thy hand." In tracing out the religion of sectarianism or bigotry I find that a great deal of it comes from wrong education in the home circle. There are parents who do not think it wrong to caricature and jeer the peculiar forms of religion in the world and denounce otnersects ana otner denominations. It is very often ;he case that that kind of education acts iuat opposite to what was expected, and the children grow up and after awhile go and see for themselves, and looking In those churches and fiading that the people are good there, ap.d they love God and keep his commandments-, by natural reaction they go and j sin those very churches. I could mention the names of prominent ministers of the gospel who spent their whole liie bombarding other denominations and who lived to see their children preach the gospel in those very dsnominations. But it is often the case that bigotry starts in a household, and that the subject of it never recovers. There are ten thousands of bigots 10 years old. I think sectarianism and bigotry also rise from too great prominence ui aaj one denomination in a community. All the other denominations are wrong, and his denomination is right became his denomination is the most wealthy, or the most popular, or the most influential and it is "our" church, and "our" religious organization, and "our" choir, and "our" minister, and the man tosses his head and wants other denominations to know their places. It is a great deal better in any community when the great denominations of Christians are about equal in power, maiching side by side for the world's conquest. Mere outside prosperity, mere worldly power, is no evidence that ll? n.inar\foMa frt drvl I LUG UUULVsLL lO v? w\?. ^v..v. a barn with Cbrist in the niaoger than a cathedral with magnificent harmonies rolling through the long drawa aisle and an ansel from heaven in the pulpit if there be no Christ in the chancel and no Christ in the robes. Bigotry is often the child of ignorance. You seldom Sad a man with a large intellect who is a bigot. It is the man j who thinks he knows a great deal, but [ does not. That man is almost always a ! bigot. The whole tendency of education j and civilization is to bring a man out of that kind of state of mind and heart. There was in the far east a great obelisk i and one side of the obelisk was white, another side of the obelisk was green, I another side oi ihe obelisk was blue, and travelers went and looked at that [obelisk, but they did not walk around it. I One man looked at one side, another at another side, and they came home, each one looking at only one side, and they happened to meet, the story says, and thftv .wet into a rank auarrel about the j O - color of that obelisk. One man said it was white, another man said it was green another man said it was bins, and when they were in the very heat of the controversy a more intelligent traveler came and said: "Gentlemen, I have seen that obelisk, and you are all right, and yon are all wrong. Why didn't you walk all around the obelisk?" Look out for the man who sees only one side of a religious truth. Look out lor the maD who never walks around about these great theories of God and eterninty and the dead. He will ba a bigot inevitably?the man who only sees one side. There is no man more to be iiion whn has in his head iust [ one idea?no more, no less. More light I less sectarianism. There is nothing that will so soon kill bigotry as sunshine? ! God's sunshine. S:> I have set before you what I consider to be tbe causes of bigotry. I have set before you the origin of this great evil. What are some of the baleful effects? First of all. it cripples investigation. You are wrong, and I am right, and that ends it. No taste for exploration, no spirit of investigation. From the glorious realm of God's truth, over which an archangel mgiht fly from eternity to eternity and not reach the limit, the man shut3 himself out and dies a blind mole under a coroshock. It stops all investigation. - 1 t iL Anotner great damage aono Dy me sectarianism and bigotry of the church i3 that it disgusts people with the Christian religion. Now, my friends, the church of God was never Intended for a war barrack. People are afraid of a riot. You go down the street, and you .see an excitement and missiles flying through ibe air, and you hear the Bhock of firearms. Do you, the peaceful and iadustrious citizsn, go through that street? Ob, no, you will say; "I'll go around the block." Now, men come and look upon this narrow path to heaven and sometimes see the ecclesiastical brickbats flying every whither, and they say: "Well, I guess I'll take the broad road. There is so much sharpshoDting on the narrow road I guess I'll try the broad road!" Francis I so hated the Lutherans that he said that if he thought there was one drop of Lutheran blopd in his veins he would puc.cture them and let that drop out. Just as long as there is so much hostility between denomination, and denomination or between one professed Christian and another, or between one church and another, so long men will lie disgusted with the Christian religion and say, "If that is religion, I want none of it." Again, bigotry and sectarianism do gr*,at damage in the fact that they hinder the triumph of the gospel. Oh, how much wasted ammunition, hov many men.'of splendid intellect have given their whole life ;o controversial disputes when if they hac; given their life to something practical, they might have been vastly meful! Sappose, while I speak there were a common enemy coming up the <-11 4 ViA f/wfo orAnn/^ t.fiA VmrViAr uay) auu cui uiv iui uo hlvuum HUV ?v? began to fire into each other?you would cry out: "National suicide! Why don't those fort blaza away in one direction, and that against the Common enemy?" And yes I sometimes see in the chixch of the Lord Jesns Christ a strange thing going onchurch against church, minister against minister, denomination against denomij nation, firing away into their own fort or ' * r- * - * * l-i- 4.U A me lore vnica cugm iu uc uu tw oauuo side mster.d of concentrating their energy and giving ens mighty and everlasting volley against the navies of darkness riding up through the bay! I go ou'; sometimes in the summer, and I find two beehives, and these two hives are in a quarrel. I come near enongh, not to be stung, but I come jast near enough to hear the controversy and one beehive says, "That field of clover is the sweetest," and another beehive pavs. klThat field of clover is the sweetest." I come in between them, and I say: "Stop tins quarrel. If you like that Held of clover best, go there. If you like that field of clover best, go there, but let me tell you that that hive which geis the most honey is the best hive!" 80 I come out between the churches of the Lord Jesus Christ. Oue denomination of Christians says, "That field of Christian doctrme is best, and another says, "This field of Christian doctrine is best." Well, I say, "Go where you get the most honey." That is the best church which gets the most boaey of Christian grace for the heart, and the most honey of Christian usefulness for the life. Besides that, if ycu want to build up any denomination, you will never build it up by irying to pull some other down. Ietoierance never put anything down. How much has intolerance accomplished, for instance, against the Methodist church? For long yean> her ministry were forbidden the pulpits of Great Britain. Why was it that so many of them preached in the flslds? Simply because they could not get in the churches. And the name of the church was given in derision and as a sarcasm. The critcs of the church said, tvThey have no ord^r; they have no method in their worship," and the critics therefore in irony called them ''Methodists." I am told that in Astor library, New York, kept as curiosities, there are 707 books and pamphlets against Methodism. Did intolerance stop that church? No. It is either first or second amid the denominations of Christendom, her missionary stations in all parts of the world, her men not only important in religious trast, but important also in secular trusts. Church marching on, and the more intolerance against it tne jaater n marched. What did intolerance accomplish against the Baptist church? If laughing scorn and tirade could have destroyed the church, it would not have today a disciple left. The Baptists were hurled cut of Boston in olden times. Those who sympalhizjd with them were imprisoned, and when a petition was offered asking leniency in their behalf all the men who signed it' were indicted. Has intolerance stopped the Baptist church? The last statistics in regard to it showed 25,000 churches and 3,000,000 communicants. Intolerance never put down anything. In England a lav was made against the Jew. England thrust back the Jew and thrust down;the Jew and declared that no Jew should hold official position. What came of il? Were the Jews deAtrm?u39 Was thfiir rftlicrinn overthrown? No. Who became prime minister of England? Who was next to the throne? Who was higher than the throne because he was counselor and adviser? II israeli, a Jew. What were we celebrating in all our churches a3 well as synagogues only a few years ago? The one hundredth birthday anniversary of Monteflora, the great Jewish philanthropist. Intolerance never yet put down anything. Bat now, my friends, having shown you the origin of bigotry or sectarianism, and having shown you the damage it does, I want briefly to show you how wo are to war against tb is terrible evil, and I think we ought to bsgin our war by realizing our own weakness and cur imperfections. If we make so many mistakes in the common afiairs of life, is it not possiDle that we make mistakes in regard to our religious affairs? Shall we take a man by the throat or by the collar because he cannot see religious truths just as do? In the light of eteruU tv if-, will ha found cut. I think, thsre was something wrong in all our creeds, and something right in all our creeds. But since we may make mistakes in resard to things of the world do not let uj be so egotistic and so puffed up as to have an idea that we cannot make any mistake in regard to religious theories. And then I think we will do a great deal to overthrow the sectarianism from our heart and the sectarianism from the world by chiefly enlarging in those things in which we agree rather than those on which we differ. Now, here is a great gospel platform. A man comes up on his side ot the plat* form and says,,"I don't believe ia baby springling." Shall I shove him off? Here is a man coming up on this side of the platform, and he says, "I don't believe in the perseverance of the saints." Shall I shove him off? No. I will say: "Doyou believe in the Lord Jesu3 as your Savior? Do you tru3t him for time and for eternity?" He says, "Yes." "Do you take Christ far time and for eternity?" "Ye3," 1 say. "Come on brother. One in time, and one in eternity nnw hrnt-hAr fnrAvar." Blessed be God for a gospel platform so laree that all who receive Christ may stand on it! Moreover, we may also overtho* the feeling of severe sectarianism by joining other denominations in Christian work. I like when the springtime comes and the anniversary occasions bigin and all denominations come upon the same platform, That overthrows sectarianism. In the Young Men's Christian associations, in the Bible society, in the Tract society, in the Foreign Missionary society, shoulder to shoulder all denominations. Perhaps I might forcefully illustrate this truth by calling your attention to an incident which took place about 20 years ago. Oae Monday morning at about 2 o'clock, while her 900 passengers were sound asleep in her berth3 dreaming of home, the steamer Atlantic crashed into Mars Head. Five hundred souls in 10 minutes landed in eternity! Oh, what a scene? Agonizid men and women running up and down the gang ways and clutching for the rigging, and the plunge of the helpless steamer and olapping of the hands of the merciless sea over the drowning ana the dead threw two continent into terror. Butsee this brave quartermaster pushing out with the life line,until he gets to the rock, and see these fishermen gathering up the shipwrecked and taking them into the cabins and wrapping them in?the flannels snug and warm, and see that minister of the gospel, with three other men, getting into a lifeboat and pushing out for the wreck, pulling away across the surf and pulling away until they saved one more man and then getting back with him to the shore. Can those men every forget that night, and can they every forget their companionship in peril, companionship in awful | catastrophe and rescue? Never! 2S"sver! i In whatever part of the earth they meet | they will be friends whan they mention j the story of that night wnen toe .auauuc i struck Mars Head. Well, my friends, our world has gone into a worse shipwreck. Sin drove it onthe rock. The old ship has lunched and tossed In the tempests of 6,000 years. Oat with the life line! I do not care what denomination carries it. Oat with the lifeboat! I do not care what denomination rows it. Side by side, in the memory of common hardships and common trials and common prayers and common tears, let us be brothers forever. We must be. One army of the living God, To his command we bow. Part of the host have crossed the flood, And part are crossing now And I expect to see the day when all denominations of Christians shall j Din hands around the cross of Chri3t and recite the creed: "I believe In God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and inj2su3 Christ, and in the onramnnion of saints, and in life evjr* lasting. Amen!" \?llful Hard ere. London, Sept. 12.?A dispatch from Paris says: Montevideo advices of September 11 say that fifty-eighi Brazilians were executed last spring at. President Peixoto's orders without the semblance of a trial: They were arres*?d on April 21, aod were executed on the morning of April 25 at the fortress of Santa Cruz, harbor of St. Catharina. An even larger number of respectable citizens had been shot under similar circumstances in Curity Bay. Throughout the month of May the volleys were heard nightly in the cemetery, whore the bodies were immediately buried. A condition of the cropsDlLcc'or liiuer'a Weefc)y li'Part on the Weather and Field Prodncts. Columbia, S. C., Sept. 12.?The week ending September 10?h was a very hot one with an average daily excess over the normal, of from 4 to 0 degrees. The highest temperature reported was 96 at various places;' the lowest Go at Longshore on the 4th and 6 th. There was about 80 degrees of the possible sunshine; the sky having been almost clear during the four last days of the week and partly cloudy on the previous days. There were light sbowers. quite general over the State, on the 4th and 5th, scattering showers on the Gth and in the extreme Northwestern counties on the 8;h. The weeks rainfall was less than the usual amount In all sections, and a general rain would be benefi 3ial; Spartanburg and Union Counties s.ave especial need of it. High winds are roported from Kershaw County with some damage to cotton and corn. Cotton picking has become general over the entire State, and was favored by the hot, dry weather which permitted uninterrupted labor, as well as causing the bolls to open rapidly. The yield continues to appear disappoint ing and the general opinion of correspondents is, for causes already stated, the crop will not come up to the early estimates. In addition to the reports of shedding and rust previously given, boll worms have appeared in Newberry and Edgefield Counties. There will be no top crop on sandy land; at other places a small middle crop, while iu general the c^op is from one week to ten days late. The hot sunshine seems to have effectually checked rotting. The corn crop is all made and is being housed in places; the new corn is now used generally for feeding. The heat i3 favorable, as it thoroughly ripens ana naraens tne grain on tae stalk. The fodder has about all been secured in fine condition and is an abundant supply. Other forage crops, su?;h as pea-vine hay and grasses, are also heavy crops and are being cut under favorable weather conditions. The rice harvest is said to b3 well in hand now, and In some counties the largest crop ever known is being harvested, while the yield in general is very satisfactory. So far tba weather has been all that could be desired for securing the crop and it will soon b3 beyond danger of injury from unfavorable weather. Early peas are ripening and being picked, The pea crop will be a large one in acreage and prospective yield. The turnip crop has, generally, attained a good stand and is growing off nicely. Sweet potatoes are not uniform in regard to condition, being an abund ant crop in sections while other places report a plenty oi vine,- hut lasfe; of tuber growth. Garden products continue plentiful, except cabbages which are rotting badly. The truck farming industry, in the coast counties, wa3 affected favorably by the pasc week's weather and the fall crop of vegetables, fruits and berries are doing very well. Sorghum is being gathered and made into syrup, the yield, as reported, is from fair to very good, running au average of 90 gallons to the acre in Fairfield County. J. W. Bauer, uirecsor. KoT>b 3d bcOffl :crj . New York, Sept. 12.?At to-day's session of the Lexow police investigation committee the mo3t important witness was Mrs. Cala Urchlttel, who came to this country from Russia six jears ago. She had SGOO and opened a small cigar store and cried as she toll how a detective she thought his name was Forgan, had said she made what money she had by improper means and demanded that he be paid S50. She gave him S25. He arrested her after that. "He didn't take me to the station house.' she said. The station house was in Attorney street. Her store was on the corner of Ridge and Broome streets. Continuing, the witness said: "Ha walked with me around the 3treets until 3 o'clock in the morning. Then he pulled down my stocking to see if 1 had any money. Isaw-the policeman divide the money with another man. He took: me to Essex Market and let me go there. The next morning he told me I must raise the other $25. He told me that my children would be tais.eu irom ma ulucss x kivo aim cue S50. I was locked up four days and was then taken to court." Mrs. Urchittle did not know what was going on in court. The complaint was that of keeping a disorderly house. The charge was untrue. She was fined $50, sent to jail and her children were sent to an orphan asylum. Sae has been trying to get her children back, but has not succeeded. Mr. Moss told the committee he had investigated the case thoroghly and was convinced of its entire truth. Mr. Goff thought it would be a gracious act on the part of the majority to adjo:rn until after the Democratic convention and so an adjournment wa3 had until Monday, October 4. Sagsr Planters S?csda. New Orleans . Sept. 13.?Su^ar planters of the First Congressional District met at Plaquemine Parish court house at Pointe La Hache yesterday. There were about four hundred persons present, all sugar and rice planters orange growers and all former Democrats from the parishes of Orleans, St. Bernard and Plaquemine, which constitute the district. H. M. Kernochau, ex-United States naval officer at Xew Orleans under Cleveland presided. Speeches were made by Kernochan. State Senator Espinal, ex-District Attorney Wilkinson, George P. Anderson and George Mann, all planters, who advocated acting with the Republicans, while ex-Congressman Wilkinson, now collector of Customs at ?few Orleans, and JLtepre3entative mmond called upon the planters to support the Democratic ticket. The vote showed that the supporters of a Republican alliance had three-fourths majority, and resolutions strongly Republican and protectionist in tone were adopted. The president was instructed to appoint a committee of twenty-one to select a candidate for Congress to run cn the Republican platform. Chained Up. Gkeensbug, Pa., Sept, 8.?Complaint has been made to the State B^ard ot Charities and to Humane Agent Doreute of Pittsburg of the eonfiaemeut, in an outbuilding, of a thirty-year-old son of Riuben Harrold, a farmer here. Farmer Harrold admits the truth ot the charge, and says his sou is insane and is confined in a comfortable shed, fastened with a chain to an iron ring around hi3 ankle. Mr. Earrold says that when his son first beiam? insane eighteen years ago, he wa3 confined in a sylum, but begged so piteouly to be taken home that the father acquiesced, and since then the demented man has lived in his present hut. Tiie son's hallucination ia that some one is trying to abduct him, and he resents any intrusion of strangers by attempts to do tham violence. He is entirely nude, refusing to wear clothing. The complaint is that thecrazy man's condition ia objectionable in the extreme, and that he should be properly cared for. Another son of Harrold'a was recently sent to D xnonfc insane asylam, near Rasbar?. A joint circular lias been issued Dy all tbe railroads in the State instructing agents not to handle packages of intoxicating liquors for shipment either from point to point in this State or from outside points into this State except such as bear the permit label of the State dispensary. The express company is also operating under the same instructions. EE????? iniBWB??? ? I A JOKE THAT LEAD TO DEATH Philip Keavos Hangs BiuiseH Atrer BroCfJinx Over a Letter. Seabright, N. J-.Sept. 12.?Philip Heaves, a summer resident here hanged himself yesterday. He was confidential man and bookkeeper for W. Bayard Cutting, and came to Seabrigbt June 20 to pas3 his vacation. He secured accommodations witb a Mrs. Frank Martin. Reaves was exceptionally quiet and had little to say to guests of the house. His principal amusement was bathing, and hardly a day passed but what he was seen on the beach or in the water enjoying himself. Strange as it may seem, his bathing suit was the cause of his suicide. It was not of the styles seen at Asbury Park, which often bag at the knee3 and bave everv' appearance of bein;? made from a bloomer pattern. Heaves' suit fitted as closely to his well developed body as a pair of tights on a shapely chorus girl in in an opera troupe. It was made of light weight flannel. About three weeks ago several of his friends secured a note-head from the office of P. Hallaeker, secretary of the Seabright; Borough Commission. Mr. Packer's name and title wa3 on the note head. Then they wrote Reaves a letter arid signed J. D. Bardo. The contents were to the effect that hi a bathiog suit was disgraceful and if he had any regard for himself he would not wear it in the presence of the women with whom tie had been in the habit of bathing. The letter worried the bookkeeper. He took it to Air. Packer and asked him if he knew the writer. Mr. Packer [did not, and said he be lieved the name to be a fictitious one. He made light of the whole affair and tried to impress upon Heaves the fact that his friends were playing a joke on him. Besides being secretary of the Borough Commission Mr. Packer is also a justice of the peace. Bsaves was anxious to bring suit against the au LLlUi UJL bUO lObliCl, UUli lie tuuiu uuu prove who sent it. Then he wanted the matter brought to the attention of the commissioners, and Mr. Packer directed him to Mayor J. J; Reed. Of course, the latter could do nothing. It worried Reaves considerably and when h9 talked a&out it he became very much excited. However, he did not cease wearing the suit whenever he went in bathing. Yesterday morning he arose at his usual hour and after taking a bath returned to his room. Wnen Mrs M tin's chambermaid began her duties she went to Reave's room, but found the door iocked. When noon time came he had not made his appearance Mr. Martin told her husband and he started to investigate. On looking over the transom Mr. Martin was horrified to see the body of hi3 lodger hanging from the closet door. He brofce Into the room and seat for a doctor, but life had been extinct sever;.! hours. Reaves had procured a ciotti as line and fastened one end to the knob. He threw the rope over the top of the door, taking care to put a small piece of cloth under it in order that it might not scratch the wood. Then he stood on a chair, and knocking it rrom w* w? /-{fP infA of ornIf xr UUUCl LULLL O vv ULLg luuv bWiutij . Coroner Oliver was notified. The dead man's effects weie searched, but there was nothing to show why he committed suicide, except the worry over the anonymous letter. Several tags were found addressed to him at N o 54 West "Forty eighth street, New York care of Dr. Maloney. W. Bayard Cutting, who has an office In the Mutual Life Insurance Building in this city was telegraphed for.?N. Y. World. A Sid Suicide. Atlanta,Ga., s^pt. 12?The coroner's jury this afternoon returned a verdict of suicide In the case of Miss Sara Singleton, and recommended further investigation by the grand jury. It was decided to give tbe letter written' by the unfortunate girl to her mother to the public, and thus set at rest the many sensational rumors that have been afloat concerning the case today.. This letter corroborates the accounts already sent out, showing that the girl killed herself because she was jealous of her younger sister. It also establishes the identity of the man who betrayed her and whose desertion of her for her sister's favor was the cause of her suicide. This man is M. T. Whitlock. After telling her mother that her sister Eve was at toe *xaie \jity Hotel with Whitlock, Miss Singleton wrote: "He is a married man with one child and has been married eighteen years. You need not bury me. Times are too hard. Eve and Whitlock have got big ttmes planned . Don't let her come to Atlanta any more. Keep your girls at home." She says she and Whitlock lived together for three months as man and wife. "I loved that man better than anything on earth. I knew he wa3 married all the time, but couldn't help it. Tell Eve I forgive her." Of her visit to Atlanta, the letter is most sensational. "I came to Atlanta today to kill Whitlock and then myself, but one sui clde will do. I have two bottles of laudanum. I will take them. As I - - " ? * - * * am bound for hen, taee my aavice auu live for God and none other. I lived a Christian life for nine years." When made acquainted with the cmtents of the letter Whitlock was greatly affected. He evidently thought he had had a narrow escape with his life. "It is a good thing I did not go to S9e her when she wrote those notes," he remarked, but would not discuss the affair. The girl's body was taken to her old home in Norcross by her brother tonight. Water Your Horses Oftea. Feeding a horse principally on grain and driving it five hours without water is like giving a man salt mackerel for dinner and not allowing him to drink before supper time?very unsatisfactory for the man. If you know anything about the care of horses and have any sympathy for them, water them as often as they want to drinkonce an nour if possible. By doiag * " - "11 ? ?f/\ ID1S yOU Will UUU uuiy uxj ujci^uut w your animal, but you will ba a benefactor to yourself, as they will do more work,look better, and live longer. If. you are a skeptic and know more about horses than any one else, you are positive that the feregoiDg is wrong, because you have had horses die with watering them too much, and boldly say that the agitators of frequent watering are fools in your estimation,and you would not do such a thing. Just reason for a moment and figure out whether the animal would have overdrunk and overchilled his stomach if it had not been allowed to become overthirsty.- A driver who sits in hi3 wagon and lashes his wornout, halfcurried, half-ted and half-watered team dtS3rve3 to be puuished as a cnmiual. L'ghtnlns'd Work. The weather bureau gather statistics from all available sources of the damage done by lightening, and from the report of Alex McAdie, who has the matter in charge, it is learned that in the United States, during May, 1894, forty-five persons were killed by lightning; thirty-four persons were struck and several injured; twelve barns were set on fire, with an estimated loss of ?35,000; thirty-seven dwellings, four churches and one school house were struck and damaged to a greater extent fifty-eight horses and twentv-two cows were killed. Baring Jui^e, 1894, ninetyQi'-sr nPirsons wf-re killed and 102 severe ly injured;sixty-nine barns were struck with an estimated loss of $49,000; fortynine horses,- thirty cows aQd fifteen sheep were killed; eighty dwellings were struck and more or less damaged; twenty-two churches, one railroad depot, one oil tank, one grain elevator, and six mills and factories were struck, the damage in the case of the eight last named being not less than 3257,1500. REFUTING A SLANDER. The Story ol Mr, Scbubert and the New Y >rk Sli^ts Z^tung Charleston, S. C., Sept. 13?In its issue of last ilooday the Deutsche Zeitung prints a long and interesting story regarding a Mr. W. Schubert, of Yorkville. The D3utscheZ9itung sajs that its readers have frequently heard of Mr. Schubert, as he is one of those unlucky people who are never out of trouble. Some time ago Mr. Schubert lost his house by fire and the Deutsche Zeitung took up a subscription in nis behalf. More recently Mr. Schubert was raided by dispensary constables, and later still he came before the public with a still- more serious grievance. Ee alleged that his wife had been unfaithful to him, and in consequence he instituted legal proceedings against county commissioner of York county, whose name is not given. Xbe public official, however, was rich and influential and Mr. Schubert was poor and had few friedns, so that he never succeeded in getting any satisfaction from the courts; A month or so ago Mr. Schubert came to Charleston and appealed totbeZ3itung for aid. The editor of the Zeitung provided him with lodgings and appealed to some of the influential Germaus of the city to aid him. These gentlemen, however, declined to do anything in the matter until they had some guarantee of Mr. Schubert's gooil character and proof of the story which he told, so he returned to his home in Yorkville. Mr. Sshubert ha3 recently come to the front again with a letter which was published in the New York Staats Z^ltung. In it he goes over all of bis troubles and puts up a very pitiful story. The Staats Zeitung immediately started a subscription in his interest which was headed by the paper with one hundred dollars. Thus far the Staats Ziitunar appears in a very good light, but not content with aiding Mr. Schubert that paper makes his letter the occasion for a bitter and violent attack upon the South. It pretends to think that all of Mr. scnuoert s irouDies grew out or a prejadiee existing ia this State against people of foreign birth. The StaatsZeitung says editorially that It has always warned Germans not to settle in the South, and it now gives Mr. Schubert's case as a proof of the wisdom of its advice. It indulges in quite a tirade along this line, characterizing the people of the State as "those scoundrels." It is just here that th3 editor of the Deutche Zaitungof this city has come to the defence of the South in general, and of this State in particular, in a very excellent article. He refutes all of the charges made by the Hew York paper and asserts that in no part of the Union are foreigners more respected or more kindiy treated than they are in the South. He explains that in this citv of 60.000 inhabitants. of which about 2,000 are Germans,' the Mayor, several members of Council, the chief of the fire department and other officials are of German extraction. He says that South Carolina offers one of the best homes in the world for Germans, and he advises as many of them as possiole to come here. The article is an excellent one, and is a complete refutation of the charges and denunciation of the New York Staats Zsitung.?News and Courier. The Money Qaestloni With the tariff question disposed of for the present, at least, the money question will continue to grow in importance until it is settled in the interest of equity and justice to all, rich and poor. - While Congress was discussing the former matter, the people have been discussing the latter, and the result is that the money question is the naramount. issue in our Dolitics at this time. It is a question that will not be settled either until silver is restored to its plsce as money by the side of gold. Toe Atlanta Constitution says selfish interests have tried in rain to ignore it, and ignorance has done its bsst to muddle it, but all to no purpose. It overlaps and overreaches party lines. The Eepublicans are trying hard to put themselves in line witn the people on this great issue. The Populists have adopted it. And even the prohibitionists, who have heretofore dealt only in questions of morals, have taken it up and in two States of the northwest they have declared for the free coinage of silver. In a great many States the politicians have succeeded in smothering the money question with other issues, and in momentarily diverting attention from it, but it has grown and is still growing and by the time the next congress meets it will have complete possession of the country. All other issues will be subordinate to it, and for the best of reasons. The people will discover as me aays rou uy uiat 110 tariff measure, no matter bow radical, can afford any relief so long as the standard money of the country?which is gold?continues to increase in value as compared with the products of human labor. People will discover that there can be no relief In tariff measures so long as falling prices compel th03e who own money to keep it out of business. The cheapening of products by means of tariff reduction is a healthy and wholesome process so far as the people are concerned, but the cheapening of products by means of the constantly increasing value of standard money is a process that kills all enterprise and depresses all business. There has been a little flurry in the stock market as the result of the passage of the tariff bill, but this is purely speculative, being based wholly on the expectations of those who are waiting for a turn in the tide that the settlement of the tariff question will restore good times. We do not believe that the tariff bill will at this time tend to restore prices and business to the old level of prosperity. That result can only be brought about by trie settlement; or me financial question?the restoration of silver to its old place as a part of the standard money of the country. In this direction only will producers find good prices, laboring men good wages, and merchants good business. The single gold atandard means European wages, European prices, Earopean conditions, and the enslavement of the people by the money kings. Death 01 Dr. S. B. Jones. Charleston, S. C~ Sept. 8.?Rev. S. B. Jones, JD. D., died at Spartanbnrg today. He was born in Charleston fiftyeight years ago. He was graduated from the Citadel Academy in 1847. From his graduation till 1851, when he joined the South Carolina Confereuce, he taught in Female College in Anderson. He traveled only three years when his voice failed. For many years he taught in the Cokesburg Conference School, and in the Masonic Female College at that place. In 1869, he took charge of the Spartanburg ? emaie uoilege upon its reopening. Ia 1872, he was chosen president of the Columbia Female College, in which position he continued for three years. In 1875, he again entered the active work and was presiding elder of the Greenville District. He was again elected president of the College four years ago, which position he resigned at the clo3e of the last session on account of ill health. Negroes Lynch a Negro. Natchez, Mis3., Sept. 13.?There was a murder and a lynching in the lower portion of Concordia parish last Monday. A negro named Bod Williams employed as a foreman on the Excelsior plantation, started after two of the hands on the place who had absconded. He overtook them and in aa alterc*sion that followed Williams shot and killed one of the parties whose name is not known. Williams was arrested and while still in the custody of the officers he was taken by a mob an<J hanged after being brutally maltreated. The affair created much excitement in the lower part of the parish, but news only reached this city today. All the parties were negroes. ????a?? Maa?B??? Wll'On's Hard FJghr. Representative William L. Wilson of West Virginia will have the hardest fight be has ever had to retain bis seat m Congress. Jast as Governor McKmley was looked upon as the special cnampion or protection ana iae euer' gies of the Democrats of the whole nation were concentrated to accomplish his defeat, so Mr. Wilson is regarded as the champion of tariff reform and the Republicans will bring their heaviest guns to bear to compass his defeat this fall. The action of the Republicans in pressing ex-President Harrison into service to open the campaign for them recently at the convention which nominated Mr. Dayton as Mr. Wilson's opponent, and Mr. Harrison's declaration that the contest was not to be local but national in its significance, show the estimate the Republicans put on the lm portance of the fight, and the extraordinary efforts they will make to win. The KapuDiican committee will have all the money it can spend in the district, and the heaviest guns of the party, including ex-Speaker Reed, will be called upon to make campaign tours in the counties. The Democrats will make a hard fight to reelect Mr. Wilson. They, too, will concentrate money and able speakers in the district, and, though Mr. Wilson has been compelled to leave the country for a short time there will be no lagging in the fight. A plan is on foot to induce President Cleveland to take an altogether unprecedented step for a President and go on the stump in Mr. Wilson's behalf. Senator Faulkner, chairman of the Democratic Congressional committe, says he would not be surprised if the President would do this. He said the fact that Mr. Wilson stood as the special representative of the Democratic idea of tariff reform and the national character of the contest would j ustify the President in his re-election. Ssnator Faulkner, who resides in the district does not think the Republicans have nominated their strongest man agaiDst Mr. Wilson, and he is getting some consolation out of .that opinion. FAimers Starring. Omaha, Neb., Sapt. 9.?As a result ol the many exaggerated reports in circulation as to drouth dsstiiution in Nebraska, the Bae has secured and published an accurate statement in e&c*i county from the county commissioners. These reports indicate that the actual condition of the people in the drouth stricken counties is not, and does not promise to become as serious as heretofore predicted. Only in the westero. porfcion of the State are tier^Jikciy"to be urgent demaDd?j?r~akrf~ In Lincoln."county, the situation is worafi^rian elsewhere. The report frem there says: "Oa every hand abandoned homesteads and whitened or withered fields of corn tell the story ot discouragement and despair. Along the streams wnere irrigation nas iurmaucu moisture, farmers have succeeded in raising crops. Elesewhere everything has burned. Many farmesrs are too poor to move away. With chattel mortgages on all their possessions, they must leave bare banded or stay and starve unless outside help is furnished. Every day new applications for county charity evidence the growing distress. State aid is absolutely necessary." To indicate the urgent need of assistance, may be said that correspondece looking to the calling of a convention to consider the best methdos for securing and rendering aid has been carried on recently between many county cincials in these Western counties. Ga)l?nt Swimmers. Atlantic City. SeDi. 12.?Miss So phie Ashton and Mi3s Annie Thompson, daughter of the well known Philadelphia physician, went tc bathe at the point of the beach where the Great Egg harbor inlet joins the ocean at Longport, five miles from here. They were carried out by the strong undertow. Both girls are fairly good swimmers, but it was all in vain that they struggled to regain the shore. They were rapidly becoming exhausted when with all their remaining strength they cried for help. There was little hope they would be heard, for Longport has no life guards and the lower portion of the beach is usually deserted. It so happened that Artie and Percy Remington, sons of a prominent Longport cottager, arere fishing in the vicinity. They ran to the rescue. Both are powerful swimmers and impeded as they were with their clothes, they experienced little difficulty in reaching the completely exhausted and drowning I irirls though none too soon. The re turn journey taxed their powers to the utmost. When the shore was finally reached the rescuers as well as the rescued girls were so weak that they could nos stand. Percy Remington staggered into the little village and told the story. A party of friends hurried to the scene and found the remaining trio so weak that they could not move. They were stretched motionless on the sand. They were conveyed to their homes where Miss Ashton soon recovered. Miss Thompson and Artie Remington were so exhausted that it took some time to revive them. Lightering Played Eavoc. Dftcattr. Tt.t, . Sent. 8.?L'shtnins played havcc among the various small towns of this section last night. As a result the business portion of Malta, a small town of 600 inhabitants, is in ashes wi ih losses aggregating $50,000. The little settlement of Henrietta was also visited by lightning and completely wiped oat. The loss will not prove very extensive. At Caledonia .four buildings were struck at different times and each were destroyed. At Elmhurat a big barn was struck and totally destroyed. The people had hard work to save the school house, situated near by. Sockford came hi Cor its "share of the flame3 and in that town three fires were caused by lightning. At Belividere a physician's stable was .struck and consumed, together with two horses. Huntley suffered the loss of three buildings, one of which was a stable. Ia the latter instance four horses were cremated. At Herbert two buildiaas were burned. The Northwestern Pail way track for l o oJrotph nf son n.t Tront Park 18 washed cut by the-heavy fbod. At Geneva a washout occurred-on the time carrying away a large section ot the roadbed. Lynched. Jacksonville, FJa., Sspt. 12.?a special to the Times-Union from Starke, Fla., says: A negro named Jim Smith was lynched near here early this morning by masked men. The negro attempted to ravish Miss Wiley, a young white girl. Sunday night the negro entered Miss Wiley's room while the family were at chureh and hid under the bed. After the girl retired the negro ccowled out and attempted to assault her. Miss Wiley screamed and her father ran in and recognized the negro. The negro escaped, bnt he was captured this morning,an4 while being taken to jail a mob overpowered the officers nad swung the brute to a convenient tree. Sam: Jones says "the trouble with the Populist party is that it can't delive the goods. The rank and file of the party are clever lauows, dux me uemocratlc party can run a mile while they are putting on their boots, and they will have tfre rabbit twisted out of the ho'e before the Populist dogs are on the groutfd." h * I + Jk ''-%k V "-if J l^l?M?p?????? Three Murder*; _ TT a ir Codiwc Qanf 11 WlfMn fhft 2 JLiAl k J. AAt f T >iM VWV ? last three months three men have been mysteriously shot down In the sand hills in tbe southern part of this and Cfcerry counties. Bat no man has been arrested?Dave Tate?for the killing J of Mr. Morchfelt. Tate, soon after the :M killing, went to Bushville, and while under the influence of liquor made a confession of the killing, and intimated that some wealthy cattlemen hired him ~1 to do the deed. However, on the hearing he was acquitted. One of the ranchmen in this county within the last week has been notified through the mail that unless he quits the bills he will be dealt with summarily. People are aroused, and are determined that life must be protected, and a close inmill YCOUgaLlUU villi. lVilWIli Bad ghow|ojr. W^ ' "Lansing, Sept. 11.?The Michigan crop report for September says. The average rainfall in the State in August did not exceed three-fourths of an inch. With a drouth practically unbroken during the two principal crop growing months of July and August it is not difficult to estimate the condition of crops. They are dried up. Corn, potatoes and garden truck are damaged beyond recovery, the yield will be but a J small per cent! of an average, and pas* tures offer little or no feed for stock. There is little doubt that wheat will be largely fed to stock the coining winter. Threshers returns of more than 68,000 acres of wheat threshed show that the average yield per acre in the State is 16 M 6-10 bushels. fADGETF PATS TfflS FRElGffl Wfc? Ec^msc Print fcr Mri "esd fe Ca&iogw sad Set WW YaiCa Sal ^ j for Mils Suit*, ail price*. ??-. $69?*"J5r?$37 4 Just ic introdac* them. ffinESnS No ftreleht paid on this Orgaa. unknotted to b? ft rood^octftn. ?r money M 0|UM I Elegant Plcsh PARLOR SUITS, oonttttBfl of Sofa, Arm Chair, Rocking Chair, Biu% S and 2 aide Chairs ?worth *46. WilideKr. 't to your dsfct tor $38. w A $88 8HOS8 fl -with all attachment*, for delivered to y ^ar depot, !* CC mm H . The regular price of this fl BUGGY is 65 to 75 dollar*. HT^W fl| fhe manufacturer pays all VRy,^! the expenses and I sell them ' fl ( IB to too for <48.78- yfl v ?cd guarantee every one a aarg&ln^ No freight paid f9Q|^j |^F H itelivered at your depot? fflf ' freight paid for taB Jfl S*nd for cattlocBM of Furniture, OaoMf toves, Baby Cfcnisctt, Btcyeta, Ona, PI ^ ^ J L. F.PADGBTT ISStST J I ;:pmN?sTl^ I MID-SUMMER BARGAINS. |;l V Special Sal? Summer 1894b Tbm' i J v time to bay Cheap and KMtf, Six i v Special Summer Offers that boat the i1 V record. ji' 6 $50 saved every Piano parehaMr. < j 1 'h; $10 to $20 011 every Organ. 111 a Sir Sped.il Offer* on our Popular MM-11, q Summer Plan. Bay In Augusi, Sspteaber <11 /) and October, and pay when Cotton eoaMi 0 Siot Cash Prices. No Interact. Onlya^ B O Small Cash Payment required, $35 on a ',1 0 Piano, $10 on Organ, balance next Noran- 1, > ' O ber !5tb. Linger time If wanted. 1,1 X Payments to snlt alL Pianos $6?o$w9 ^ monthly. Organs $2 to $5. Q uur mu^juuiuta vmwo mv . . < mm Q on nil plans of payment. i i . O Sew Fall Leaden ready. Btntf* < ft fal and Cheap. Tempting Bargains.1 i (: Write at once for MM-Snxamer Of-1. i Q fern. Gojd only nntll Xorcmber 1. <, i (> Don't wait. 111 g| UDDEN & BATES ijl J ]| uS0UTHERN MUSIC HOUSE,!;! j| S SAVANNAH, 00. " NOW IS THE TIME ? TO PLAGE YOLTK OBDKBS FOB Threshers! rV And I^Sell the Best in the Market Write te me Before Baying. - .;.r: Shingle Machines, Stave Machines, M Brick Machines, -M Planing Machines, ?*m,Swing Saws, Band saws, Gang Kip Saws, and all kinds of wood working machines Irist Mills 3115 to $250. Saw Mills $190 to $400. g Watertowir Engines and Briers. 4| xaioou Jtagines ana .Doners. "Tl^B Seed Cotton Elevators. * Cottoh Gins and Presser^ jfl HIGH and LOW GRADE. M V, f. BABHAM, COLUMBIA, S.C. ;l