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???I??e??anaaaa BOAT OF RUSHES. ! DR. TALMAGE TAKES MOS'-S SISTER AS HiS: THEME. Ho Admires the Behavior OS JFalthfu), Brilliant and Stragetic Miriam- Exhorts Sisters to Bestow Care on Their Brothen, Home Thoughts. In this sermon of Dr. Iglmage rhe character of a wise, sympathetic and self denying sister is set forth as an example, and the story will set hundreds of men to thinking over old times; text Exodus ii, 4, "And his sister stood afar off tow.t what would be done to him." Princess Thermutis, daughter of Pharaoh, looking out through the lattice of her bathing house, on the banks of the Nile, saw a curious boat on the T* -naifViot* rsa.1* nor helm. fiver# 111 UAU UWtuv* and they would have been useless anyhow.. There was only one passenger and that a baby boy. But the Mayflower, that brought the pilgrim fathers to America, carried not so precious a lead. The boat was made of the broad leaves of papyrus, tightened together by bitumen. Boats were sometimes made of that material, as we learn from Pliny and Herodotus and Theophrastus. "Kill all the Hebrew children, iboro," had been, Pharaoh's order. Tc save her boy, Jochebed, the mother of little Moses, had put him in that queer boat and launched him. His sister Miriam stood on the bank watching that precious craft. She was far enough off not to draw +r? flip hnat. but near enough to offer protection. There she stands on the bank?Miriam the poetess^ Miriam the quick wittei, Miriam the faithful, though very humaD, for in after time she demonstrated it. Miriam was a splendid sister, but had her faults, like all the rest of us. How carefully she watched the boat containing her brother! A strong wind might upset if. The buffaloes often found there might in a sudden plunge of thirst sink it. Some ravenous waterfowl might swoop and pick ^ his eyes out witii iron Dea?. z>vlv.s crocodile or hippopotamus crawling through the rushes might crunch the babe. Miriam watched and watched until Princess Thermutis, a maiden on each side of her holding palm leaves over her head to shelter her from the sun, came down and entered * ^ her bathing house. When from the lattice she saw that boat, she ordered it brought, and when the leaves were P pulled back from the face of the child and the boy looked up he cried aloud, for he was" hungry and frightened and would not even let the princess take him. The infant would rather stay hungry than acknowledge any one of the court as mother. Now Miriam, the sifter, incognito, no one suspecting her relation to the child, leaps from 'the bank and rushes down and offers to sret a nurse to pacify the child. Consent is given, ana s.be brings Jochebed, the baby's mother, incognito, none of the court knowing that she was the mother, and when Jochebed arrived the child stopped crying, for its freight was calmed and its hunger appeased. You may admire Jochebed, the mother, and all the ages may admire Moses, but I clap my hands in applause at the behavior of Miriam, the faithful, brilliant and strategic sister. "Go home," some one might , have said to Miriam. "Why risk yourself out there alone on the banks of the Nile, breathing the miasma and in danger of being attacked of wild beast or ruffian? Go home!" No. Miriam, the sister, more lovingly watched ana bravely defended Moses, the brother. Is he worthy her care and courage? Oh, yes; the 60 centuries of the world's history have never had so much involved in the arrival of any ship at any port as in the landing of that papyrus boat calked with bitumen! Its one passenger was to be a nonsuch in history?lawyer, statesman, politician, legislator, organizer, conqueror, deliverer. He had such remarkable beauty in childhood that, Josephus says, when, he was carried along the road people stopped to gaze at him and workmen would leave their work to admire him. When the king playfully put his crown upon this boy, he threw it off indignantly and put his foot on it. The king, fearing that this might be assign that the child might yet take "" "* "* ? t down ms crown, appnea anamer icst. According to the Jewish legend, the king ordered two bowls to be put before the child, one containing rubies and the other burning coals, and if he took the coals he was to live and if he took the rubiss he was to die. Foi some reason the child took one of the coals and put it in his mouth, so that his life was speared, although it burned the tongue till he was indistinct of ut terance everafter. Having some to manhood, he spread open the palms of his hands in prayer, and the Bed sea parted to let 2.500,000 people es-j cape. And he put the palms [of ;his hands together in prayer, and the Red sea closed on a strangulated host. nr-_ l.-/ *,,-5. mis uie bu uuuireiauij burial must be on the same scale. Gcd would let neither man nor saint nor archangel have anything to j do with weaving for him a shroud or digging for aim a grave. The omnipotent God left his throne in heaven one day, and if the question ?- was asked, "Whither is the King of the Universe going?" the answer was, 4 *1 am going down to bury Moses." And the Lord took this mightiest of men to the top of a hill, and the day was clear, and Moses ran his eye over the magnificent range of country. Here the valley of Esdraelon, where -final Kotfl/a /-if oil T>atinn? ia tr> hq MUO UU(U Vi nu *s? HV w fought, and yonder the mountains Hermoii ana Lebanon and G-erizim aadthe hillsof Jud;ei, and tha vill age of Bafchlehem there, and the city of Jericho yonder, and the vast stretch of landscape that almost took the old lawgiver's breath away as he looked at it And then without a pang, as I learn from the statement that the eye of Moses was undimmed and his natu ral force unabated, God touched the great lawgiver's eyes and they closed, and his lungs and they ceased, and his heart and it stopped, and commanded, eft-uinw 4'Tn th#? skips thmi immortal spirit!" And then one divine hand was put against the back of Moses and the other hand against the pulseless breast, and God laid him sofetly down on Mount Nebo, and then the lawgiver, lifted in the Almighty's arms, was carried to the opening of a cave and placed in a crypt, and one stroke of the divine hand smoothed the features into an everlasting calm, and a rock was rolled to the door, and the only obsequies, at which God did all the offices of prieat and undertaker and gravedigger and mourner, were ended. Oh, was not Miriam the sister or Moses, doing a good thing, an j important thing, a glorious thing when she watched the beat woven of river plants and maed water tight with asphaitum, carry leg its one passenger ? Did she not put all the ages of time ana of a coming eternity under obligation when she defended her helpless brother from the perils aquatic, reptilian and ravenous? She it was that brought that wonderful babe and his mother together, so that he was reared to be tha deliverer oi xus nation, vraen owerwiao, u i saved at all from the rushes of the J Nile, he would have "been only one more of the God defying pharaohs; for Princess Thermutis of the bathing house would have inherited the crown of Egypt, and as she had no child of her own this adopted child would have come to coronation. Kad there been no Miriam there would have been no Moses. Wnat a garland for faithful sisterhood! For how many a ?>?>/} >>OTTT TTi 5 T1V a tie I'D 3.2(1 - how many a deliverer and how many a saint are the world and the church indebted to a watchful, loving, faithful, gocly sister? Come up out of the farmhouses, come up out of the inconspicuous homes, come up from the banks of the Hudson and Penobscot and xhe Savannah and tne Mobile and the Mississippi and all the other Niles of America, and let us see you, the Miriams who watched and protected the leaders in law and medicine acd agriculture and mechanics and religion ! If I should ask all physicians I and attorneys and mercants and ministers of religion and success ul men * " - ' <?- J -- ?i of ail proiessicns ana irauw> aic ? indebted to an elder sister far good i irfluences and parhajrs for an education or a prosperous start to let it be known, hundreds would testify. God knows how many of our Greek lexicons and how much of our schooling were paid for by money that would otherwise have gone for the replenishing of a sister's wardrobe. While the brother sailed off for a resounding sphere, the sister watched him from the banks of self denial. Miriam was the eldest of the family, Moses and Aaron, her brothers, were I younger. Oh, the power of the elder S AtmiAa +>!P hmther'schar ju.^xy acter for usefulness and for heaven! She can keep off from her brother more evils than Miriam could have driven back waterfoul or crocodile from the ark of bulrushes. The older sister decides the direction in which the cradle boat shall sail. By gentle ness, by good sense, by Christian principal she can turn it towards, the palace, not of a wicked Pharaoh, but of a holy God, and a brfchler princess than Thermutis should lift him out of peril, even religion, -whose ways are ways of pleasantness and all her paths are peace. The older sister, how much the world owes her! Bsrn while yet the family was in limited circumstances, she had to hold and take care of her younger brothers. And if there is anything that excites my aympathy it is a little girl lugging round & great fat child and getting her ears boxed because she cannot keep him quiet. By the time she gets to young wo manhood she is paie and worn out and her attractiveness has been sacrificed on the altar of sisterly fidelity, and she.is consigned to celibacy, and society'cails her by an unfair name, but in heaven they call her Miriam. In most families the two most undesirable places in the record of births are the first and the last?the first be cause she is worn out with the cares of a home that cannot afford to hire help, and the last because she is spoiled as a pet. Among the grandest equipages that sweep through the streets of heaven will be those occupied by sisters who sacrificed themselves for brothers. They will have the finest of the Apocalyptic white horses, and many who on earth looted down uDon them will have to turn out to let them pass, the charioteer crying: "Clear the way! A queen is coming!" Let sisters not begrudgethe time and care bestowed on a brother. It is hard to believe that any boy that you know so well as your brother can ever | turn out anything very useful. vVeJl, J he may not be a Moses. There is only J one of that kind needed for 6,000; years. But 1 tell you what your brother will be?either a blessing or a curse to society and a candidate for happiness or wretchedness. He will, like Moses, have the choice between rubies and living coal3, and your influence will have much to do with his decision. He may not, like Moses, be the deliver of a nation, but he may, after your father and mother are gone, be the deliverer of a household. What thousands of homes today are piloted by brothers! There are properties now well invested and yielding income for the support of sisters and younger brother because tne older brother was leader from the day tha father lay down to die. Whatever you do for your brothers will come back to you again. If you set him an ill natured, censorious, unaccommodating example, it will recoil upon you from his own irritated and despoiled nature. If you by patience with his infermities and by nobility of character, dwell with him in the few years of your companionship, you will have your ko/?lr "If r?r>v> TT/*i11 Crtmp UJUliOClO UJ/V/U JVVAWV^V, day by his splendor of behavior in some crisis where he would have failed but for j ox Don't snub him. Don't depreciate his ability. -Don't talk discouragingly about his future. Don't let Miriam get down off the bank of the Nile and wad a out and upset the ark of bulrushes. Don't tease him. Brothers and sisters do not consider it any narm to tease. That spirit abroad in the family is one of the meanest and most develish. There is a teasing that is pleasurable and is only another form of innocent raillery, bat that which provokes and irritates and makes the e;e Hash with anger is to be reprehended. It would be less blameworthy to tak3 a bunch of thorns and draw them across your sister's cheek or to take a knife and draw its sharp edge across your brother's hand till the blood spurts, for that would damage only the body, but teasing Is the thorn and the knife scratching and lacerating the dispoi cifion anH fhft <sr?lll It IS thfi CUrSS of innumerable households that the brothers tease the sisters and the sisters the brothers. Sometimes it is the color of the hair, or the shapa of the features or affair of the heart. Some times it is by revealing a secret or by a suggestive look or a guffaw or aa "Ahem!" Tease! Tease! Tease! For mercy's sake, quit it. Christ says, "He thathateth his brother is a murderer." Now, when you, by teasing, i make your brother or sister hate, you ! turn him or her into a murderer or u:a:uwvcc. Eren Miriam, the heroine of the j text, was struck by that evil passion of jealousy. She had possessed unlimited influence over Moses. and now he marries, and not only so. but marries . a black woman from Ethiopia, and Miriam is so disgusted and outraged at Moses, first becaases he had mar ried at all, and next because he had practiced miscegenation, that she is drawn into a frenzy, and th?n begins to turn white and gets white as a corpse and then whiter than a corpse. Her complexion is like chalk?the fact is, she has the Egyptian leprosy. And now the brother whom she had defended on the Nile comes to her rescue in a prayer that brings her ! restoration. Let there be no room in I all your i20u.se lor jeaiousy eimer 10 I sit or stand. It is a leprous abomination, Your brother's success, 0 sisters, is your success! Bis victories will be your victories. For while I Moses th?- brother led the vcc^l music ; after the crossing cf the R^d ses, Mi riam the sister, with two sneeis 01 [ shining brass upiited and glittering in the sun, led the instrumental music, | clapping the cymbals till the last j frightened neigh of pursuing cavalav i horse was smothered* in the wave and [the last E/yptian. helmet went uader. 1 BCBB?iIW^M1 ^taHge?mecaaRi^L-'^uvaaas; How strong i? makes a family when all the sisters and brothers stand together and what an awful wreck when : they disintegrate, quarreling about a far'npVs toiII and m ^klGP" the SUTrO prate's ciBse horrible with their wrangle : Belter, when you were little * children in the nursery,that with your playhouse mallets you had accidentally killed each other hghtiog across your cr&dls than that, having come to the age of maturity ar.d having in ( your veias and arteries the blood of 1 the same father a-d mother, you fight ] each other across the parental grave j in the cemetery. : If you only knew it, your interests 1 are identical. Of all the families of ] the earth that ever stood together per- 1 naps the most conspicuous is the fam- ! ily of the Rothschilds. As Mayer An- i selm Rothschild was about to die, in i 1812, he gathered his children about ' him?Acselm, Solomon, Nathan, ; Charles and James?and made them promise that they would always be : united on'change. Obeying that in- ' junction they have been the mightiest ; commercial power on earth,and at the ' raising or lowering of their scepter : nations have risen or laiien. 'inat illustrates how much, on a large scale 1 and for selfish purposes, a united fam i ily may achieve. But suppose that instead of a magnitude of dollars as i the object it being good and making salutary impression and raising this sunken world, how much mere ennobling: S.'s er, you do your part and brother will do his part. When father and mother are gone? and they soon will be, if they have not already made exit?the sisterly " ? T?ri]! ha 4 V* 1T7 &JLLwl X XCk fed. UUilU YTi.l UW bUU V/UJ-J ligament that will hold the family together. How many reasons for your deep and unfaltering affection for eacii other. Rocked in the same cradle; bent over by the same motherly tenderness; toiled for by the same father's weary arm and aching brow; with common inueritanca of all the family secrets and with names given you by parents who started you with the highest hopes for your happiness and prosperity, I charge you ba loving and kind and I orgiviag. If the sister see that the brother never wants a sympathizer, the brother will see that the sister never wants an escort. Oh, if the sister of a household knew through what terrific and damning temptations their brother goes in city lifi* thev wouIa hardlvsleen ni2hts in anxiety for his salvation. And if you would make a holy conspiracy of kind words and gentle attentions and earnest prayers, that would save his soul from death and hide a multitude of sins. But let the sister dash off in one direction in discipleship of the world, and the brother fiee off in another direction and dissipation, and it will not be long before they will meet again at the iron gate of despair, their blistered feet in the hot ashes of a consumed lifetime. Alas, that brothers and sisters though living together for years very often do not know each other, and that they see only the imperfections and none of the virtues. General Bauer of the Russian cavalry had in early life wandered off in the army, and ttxe family supposed he was dead. After he gained a fortune he encamped one aay m Jtiusam, nis native place, and made a banquet,and among the great military men who were to dine he invited a plain miller and his wife who lived near by and who, affrighted, came, fearing some harm would be done them. The miller and his wife were placed one on each side of the general at the table. The general asked the miller all about his family,and the miller said that he had two brothers and a sister. "No other brothers?"' "My younger brother went off with the army many years ago and no doubt was 'long ago killed." Then the general said, "Soldiers, I am this man's younger brother, ? ? *1 l.A - -1 J A I wnom ne mougai was aesa. aqu how loud was the cheer and how wirm was the embrace. Brother and sister, you need as much of an introduction to each other as they did. You do not know each other. You think your brother is grouty and cross and quser, and he thinks you are selfish and proud and unlovely. Both wrong. That brother will be a prince in soma woman's eyes, and that sister a queen in the estimation of some man. That brother is a magnificent fellow, and thit sister is a morning in June. Come, let me introduce you: 4 'Moses, this is Miriam. Miriam, this is Moses." Add 75 rxar ^Ant fn -nrpsflnt ftnnrpfiiation j *- "??- -re ? of each other and when you kiss good rooming do not stick up your cold cheek, wet from the recent washing, as though you hated to touch eac^i other's lips in affectionate caress. Let it have all the fonanes3 and cordiality of a loving sister's kiss. Make yourself as agreeable and helpful to each other as possible, re- ' membering that soon you part. The few years of boyhood and girlhood will soon slip by, and you will go out to homes of your own and into the battle with the world and amid ever changing vicissitudes and on paths crossed with graves and up steeps hard to climb and through shadowy ravines. But, O my God and Saviour, i may the terminu3 of fhs j Durney be tiia" came* ?<; t.hft start?namelv. at father's and mother's knee, if they 1 have inherited the kingdom. Tiien, i as in boyhood and girlhood days, we > rushed in after the day's absence with much to tell of exciting adventure, ' and father and mother enjoyed the re* i cital as much as we who made it, so 1 we shall on the hillside of heaven rehearse to them all the scenes of cur < earthly expedition, and they shall ' welcome us'home, as we say, "Father < and mother, we have come and ' brought our children with us." Th3 ' old revival hymn described it with < glorious repetition: J Brothers aad sisters there Trill meet, JLi rotners ana sisiers mere wiu meet, Brothers and sisters there will meet, Will meet to part no more. I read of a child in the country who was detained at a neighbor's house on ' a stormy night by some fascinating ( stories that were b;ing told him, and then looked out and saw it was so ] dark he did not dare go home. The incident impressed me the more be- 1 cause in my childhood I had much 1 the same expsriencs. The boy asked * his comrades to go with him, but they dared not. It got later and later?7 1 o'clcck, 8 o'clock, 9 o'clock. "Oh," [ Via "T roiaTi T wprfl home!1' As he . AJLO k?Cl4.VA) A If . i -- ? opened the door the last time a blind- J ing ]lash of lightning and a deafening roar overcame him. But after awhile ^ he saw in the distance a lantern, and, t lo, his brother was coming to fetch 1 him home, and the lad stepped out ? ana with swift feet hastened on to his 1 brother, who took him home, where 1 they were so glad to greet him and for a. long time supper had besa wait ing. So may it be when the night of c djath comes and our earthly friends j cannot go with us, and we dare not j go alone; may our brother, cur elder ' brother, cur friend closer than a 1 brother, come cut to meet us with the light of the promises, which shall be * a lantern to cur feet, and then we : *iil go in to join our loved ones wait r ing for us, supper all ready, the marriage sapper of the Lamb. . ] K)w ita Dance. "* ? t! - a.i__ .r &z a aancs nau on me uuLSiirts u* c Atlanta Wednesday night Charley i Brown, a 17-year old boy. shot and 1 silled Clint Buttles after being psr- < haps mortally cut by Suttles. SEPARATE COACH BILL. MASSES THE HOUSE BY A BIG MAJORITY. i. X,?Eg Fight ;s to Which of 1-\vo Bills Would be Sel?c:ed?X?xt of the Bill?!fhe Vota. Ia the House one day last week Mr. Daughman's seperate coach bill was ;aken up. He said the substitute bill provides identically th9 law of Georgia . It is what the railroad men want, aot the commissioners. The substitute was what the corporations wanted, [t provided for coops and only one little water closet. Furthermore the substitute bill says the rate shall be miform that the rich shall pay no more fare than the very poor man. rhey raise the rate on the poor man and "lower the rate on the rich man. They refuse to give a poor man any rights now. If you enact the substi tute bill you take the right of rate making from the railroad commission. If the South-Bound charges one rate it is m connict wun me itiw. Mr. Pollock was surprised at Mr. Caughman. He was surprised that hi) should speak of the railroad committee as a railroad corporation. He was surprised that it should be charged this was a railroad bill. Mr. Caughman said it was his opinion the railroad favored the bill. Mr. Pollcck said thft bill was offered by the committee to suit all interests. Mr. Caughman did not possess all the wisdom in the House. The committee realized that the ^members wanted separate coaches, and the committee went to work to set the best possible bill, and the substitute bill was the re suit. The substitute bill is largely after the Georgia law, where it has worked well. There is nothing wrong in getting good laws from Georgia. He says this is a law the railroads want ana noi ine commission, xne railroad companies want no railroad legislation at all they want no separate coaches at all. His friend seemed to be afraid of lawyers. He was a lawyer, and was proud of it. He defended himself and the committee. He did not care what the commission wanted, but was acting for the people. Mr. Caughman said he never said the commission did not want this bilL Mr. Pollock said the railroad commission did recommend the passage of the substitue bill. Mr. Caughman's bill does not touch on separate coaches for second class travel. That would necessitate a car for first-class whites and a second class coach. The committee substitute makes one class. The first-class rate is decreased 10 6 cenis from 314 rates, and the second class increased from 2 3 4 to 3 cents. He understood about 60 per cent of the travel was second class. The objection to coops is equally an objection fo Mr? Caughman's bill. These "coops," under the substitute bill can bs put in only by order of the railroad commission, but under Mr Caughman's bill the railroads can divide up a coach. The railroad committee was unanimous in favoring the substitute bill. Mr. Caughman said he was accused of being mad, and he wanted to say he had not been mad in ten years. When he was advocating any measure he was in earnest. If he had been mad he would have run Mr. Pollock out of town. He did not claim to have the brain of the House, and no one other than Mr. Pollock thought so. He did not care to bring any per ? ? - 1 li. il-. A Wl "N "Rjf* OOII 5>ULia.illies 1UIU lUBUiairoJ. 1U1. v^au?u. man said Mr. Pollock told him in private the railroads did not want his bill. Mr. Pollock said he told him the railroads wanted neither bill, and the commission wanted the substitute bill. Mr. Caughman said one member of '.he commission told him the substitute bill took away the.rights of the commission. He never claimed honor or credit. Hs was not seeking honor or glory. Mr. H J. Kinard thought this meas ure deserved more serious thought. He had heard that a Pullman car only cost $5,000, and it was no hardship to require separate coaches. Mr. Cusbman asked if it was not a V>orr?e>iirk tn ypmiire miv?H trains to carry separate coaches. Mr. Kinard didn't think so, as the extra cost would not be large. Mr. Magill moved 10 table Caughman bill. By a vote of 37 to 30 the the House refused to table the Caughman bill. Mr. Kinard moved to amend so that fir3t-class coaches shall be pro vided, and so as to prohibit division of the coaches. Mr. Garris said the amendment would kill the bill The idea was to separate the races at as little expense and inconvenience as possible. The amendment will only kill the measure. Mr. Cushman agreed with Mr. Garris. The amendment would do for 1. i; t l ? 1 Ji ~i mrougu lines, out wuuiu nut uu iur short lines. Mixed trains, it was said, would not come under the bill. Mr. Gadsden feared the personal is sua had somewhat obscured the real issue. He then explained the real purpose of the bilL A separate coach for each class would entail the hauling of separate coaches. No company could afford to haul four coaches for the travel it gets. It would mean ruin to the railroads. The committee thought it fair to compromise cn the rate. Tne Caughman bill requires four coaches, when tot a half dozan ride in each loach. As to the division of the coaches, it was shown that some small roads 30uld not even run t wo coaches, and lee substitute gave the commission the authority to allow the division of i coach. Some roads actually could not buy a coach. The commission is slothed with such power as it should aave. The commission has teen given luthority to permit a 3? cent rate tvhere the road absolutely needs it. rhe substitute bill is on the line of a jompromise. The rate would be three lents. Mr. Cushman: "That is what we dc aot want.5' Mr. Gadsden said all passengers ?rould be benefited. The effect on the ailroad companies was to give about ;he same results. Mr. Hydrick wanted to know if the its'; class fares at 3 ceut rate would sot benefit the Ion? lines, say the 3outhern against the Glenn Springs 3oad? Mr. Gadsden, said first-class passengers outnumbered second-class passengers. The Southern people did not ; ^ant the bill at ail. The plan of the substitute bill has worked successfully 1 n Georgia for ten years. There was 10 discrimination between lines. Mr. Smiih moved to indefinitely . lostpone ttie original bill. This was J sarried by a vote of 39 to 37, so the Uaughm^n biii was killed, Mr. Polock wanted to put the clincher cn the J Dill, Mr. Caughman objected, and so ; he clincher was not put on the bill. Mr. Winkler calied the previous jueslion on tae wnoie matter. Mrxleares moved to table the substitute ' jill. This was lost. The House ordered the question. Sir. Toole wanted to adjourn the debate on the bill. M*-. Gage wanted the bill to apply >nly to standard guage roads. The iorne people ran the roads and he wanted the narrow guage roads exjmpted from the bill. Mr. Mearea opposed the whole bill end opposed the amendment of Mr. Gage, as the matter of erpense should not aifect the bill. Mr. Williams thought it very unnecessary to exempt the narrow guage roads. Nobody but heme people were interested in tbe enterprise. The Lan- i caster road had only one coach and : that was divided. Mr. Meares said this is SDecial legis lation and the bill should be called a i bill to discriminate in favor of certain ; roads. Mr. Gage's amendment was killed. Mr. Rogers moved to amend to make : conductors peace officers, so as to give them full authority to make arrests. The amendment was lost. Mr. Kinard wanted to limit roads that should divide coaches, to roads of fifty miles or less. Mr. Pollock thought no arbitrary limit should be fixed. Some long roads had less travel than shorter ones. There was no use for the amendment, as there was no need for an arbitrary limit. Mr. iunara saia a any mue ruau could afford to haul separate coaches. He wanted a passenger train on the McCormack division, of the Charleston and Western Carolina Road. He said the question was whether to allow the coaches to be divided or have separate coaches. Mr. Pollock's motion to table the amendment was passed. Mr. Thomas said he was opposed to the substitute bill. Said the object should be to pass a bill satisfactory to the people of South Carolina. Said the substitute bill only did away with second-class coaches and second-class rates, and asked if this was the object to be attained that people desired. The bill in its present shape would entail discomfort and would not be satisfactory. Mr. W. 8. Smith: "Areyou in favor of any bill of this kind?" Mr. Thomas: "Yes, sir. I think refoim is needed in this direction," but he wanted a satisfactory bill, if any." Mr. Cushman offered an amendment that, when the railroad commission so directed, the railroad companies should put on extra c< ach for a smoking car open to both white and black?that passengers shall pay 2 J cents per mile to ride in this caoch. Mr. Kinard thought this amendment mot t>iA nhieetions to the bill. Mr. Gadsden objected to this amendment unless the whites and negroes were divided in the smoker. Couldn't see the difference betweeen consorting with a colored man in a smoker and on a fir3t-class coach. If the Jine was drawn in the first-class coach why not in the smoker. Mr. McCullough called for the previous question on the whole matter. Mr. Cushman's amendment was tabled by a vote of 30 to 40. Mr. Caughman moved to strike out all after the enacting words and substitute his original bill. This occasioned merriment Mr. Caughman said the skeleton of the whole matter was now left There was no longer any kernel or meat in the bill. The original bill was the only one that should pass, as that was ; the kernel and and not a skeleton. Mr. Kibler wanted the previous question on the whole matter. Mr. Dukes, of Orangeburg, said separate coaches were demanded by the white peopJe. Mr. Pollock said he was surprised at Mr. Thoma's speech. The House and the people want legislation for separate coaches. Mr. Thoma's view was that the bill onlv abolished distinction in the races. He also calls attention to defects. Why does he not offer to amend the bill? The House was altogether advised of the closet arrangements, and if objectionable it could be amended. The vote was then taken on Mr. Caughman's bill; this time an aye and nay vote was demanded. The motion was to accept Mr. Caughman's bill as an amendment to the substitute bill. It resulted: Yeas?Asbill, Austell, Bacot, Bedon, Bethune, Breeland, Carraway, Carson, Caughman, Cushman, George W. Davis, DeBruhl, DeLaach, Dukes, Edwards, Efird, Fairey, Fox, Garris, P. P. Goodwin, 0. P. Goodwin, Graham, Hamilton, Harvey, Hazelden, Henderson, Humphrey, Hydrick, Horace E. Johnson, Kibler, Henry J. Kinard, Lester, Limehouse, Mauldin, J. E Miller, Joel H. Miller, McCullough, McDaniel, McKeown, McWhite, Plyer, Prince, Rainsfoad, Rogers, Russell, Skinner, E. D. Smth, Spser, John P. Thomas, Jr., Toole. Wolling, Welch, Westmoreland, Wilson, Wingo, Withersooon, Yeldell?60. Najs?Speaker Gary, All, Ander son, Coicock, Crum, Gadsden, Gage, Hiott, Kennedy, J. D. Kinard, Lofton Magill, Mehrtens, Mitchell, McT.anrin Nettles. Phillhis. Pollock. Pyatt, Reynolds, Sinkler, W. S. Smith, Stevenson, W. H. Thomas, Whisonant, Williams?26. Mr. Meares said he could not select between two evils. The two bills were fraught with evil. It wculd tend to strain the relationship now so very pleasant between the races. The House refused to excuse Mr. Meares from voting, but on his appeal, excused him from voting. After the Caughman bill had been adopted, Mr. Gadsden wanted amendments ; so did Mr. Rogers and others, but they were not in order, in view of the tangle. Mr. Stevenson, Mr. Kinard and others offered amendments, but one ' objection made these amendments out or oraer. The bill was finally ordered to its : third reading exactly as pres9nted by Mr. Caughman, and as the bill had previously been killed. The bill as passed reads as follows: Section 1. That all railroad companies engaged in this State as common : carriers of passengers for hire shall 1 furnish separate apartments in first- ' class coaches for the accommodation < ut white and colored passengers: Pro- i vided, equal accommodation shall be : supplied to all persons, without dis- \ tinction of race, color or previous con- ; diiion, in such coaches. Section 2. That any first-class coach of such carrier of passengers may be divided into apartments, separated by & substantial partition, in lieu of sep- 1 arate coaches. Section 3. That should any railroad or railroad company, its agents or employees, violate ihe provision of this Act such railroad or railroad company shall be liable to a penalty of not more than five hundred dollar nor less than three hundred dollars for each violation, to be collected by suit of any citizsn of this State, and the penalty recovered shall be equally divided between the citizen bringing the suit and the State of South Carolina. section 4. mat me provision ui this Act shall not apply to nurses on trains, or to relief trains in cases of accident nor to through vestibule trains. Section 5. That the provisions of this Act shall not go into effect until July 1, 1898. Section 6. That all Acts and parts of Acts inconsistent with this Act are hereby repealed. Bloody Work in Texas. < A special from Bonham, Texas, says that in an attempt to arrest William i Q-reen and Bob Hunter near there, both men were killed and Officer Tom i Aistead and Charle3 Hill were so bad- i ly injured that they will likely die. ] JOHN BUTLER HUNGTli? Murder o! PcjJcmss Woif? Av;rg- ' fd Last Frklxy. -r>.-it... r_i - v: i ?JOim DUUCf, UUliU v> ftaJJUiig colored, about 22 years old, formerly residing at Mill Pond, in Aiken csuu ty, was hung in the Orangeburg jail < last Friday. Sheriff Dukes and bis ; deputies had every necessary detail so 1 admirably arranged that " net the slightest hitch occurred. About one hour before the execution. a few persons. including reporters, were permitted to see the doomed man. Butler said but little to ar>y ose He, of ' course, acknowledged tbe shooting, but claimed that te acted in self-defense. He said te hsd had no ill < feeling againt Mr. Wolfe, and hoped the family of the murdered policeman ' would remember him?Butler?as one : who, while having slain their friend, had repented, and made his peace with G-od. ana would when hung reach Heaven. He thanked particularly his spiritual adviser, Rev. W. L. Jchnsor, colored, who had constantly minister ed unto him, and who, up to a few ' minutes before the execution, had prayed and advised him. He asked in very solemn tones the strange question: "Why am I here?" to. which there was no response. A about 12 30 p. m . asButkr was taken from the edl, hand-cuffed and : guarded by deputies, be ascended witb steady tread the scaffold, and it was not until the black cap shut out forever from his vision all things earthly ; that he showed any signs of weakening. Then he asked to be supported. He said a few words of thanks, reiter- , ated his firm belief that hs had been forgiven by his Maker, and announc ed that he had nothing more to say. Then the spriDg was touched by a deputy, and the body of John Batier, with neck broken, swung between the , earth and sky. The hands of the clock pointed to 12 43 p. m. A few , minutes afterward Dr. T. C. Doyle , pronounced the man dead. John Butler, having about nine months ago committed a minor c fiance against the municipal laws and also an i />orri o n o ocioauib auubuci pviiwvuAau b warrant was sworn cut by the city authorities before Magistrate Brunson, and Policemen J. D. Wolfe and Joseph Lightfoot were appointed special con stables to execute it. They found But lar about seven miles from the city in a cotton field picking cotton. He appeared innocent enough until the officers got in reach of his pistol, which he had concealed in his cotton sack, when he quickly whipped it out and began firing at Wolf and Lightfoot. One bullet struck Wolfe, inflicting a wound in the throat, from the effects of which he died several days later. Butler is said to have been struck by one of the officers' shots. He went into hiding in Barnwell county near Bambarg. Rs wards were offered for his capture by State and city. A description of a totally different man was published?and it is bslieved that had the other man been caught instead nf Butler, -who eanfessed. that he would have been convicted. Butler was finally apprehended by Constable J. A Walker and a few others by the statements of a negro who knew his hiding plase, but not before Butler had attempted to take the life of one of the posi>e. Butler was brought to Orangeburg, j?nd owing to the advice and gocd management of the county and city authorities, escaped lynching. At the last term of court in January, he was tried and convicted and sentenced and Friday paid the penalty the law attached to his crime. The question he asked while over the death trap shouid be a warning to all who may be tempted to crime to stay their hand. The Dcdy of Butler was shipped to Denmark, several ol the colored min ' ? ? _ 3 1 isters at JD13 request naviog r^isea Dy subscription money to defray the expenses of burial, as he did not want the State to bear the expense. ?Stat3. Hilton's Iodoform Liniment is the "nee pluultra" of all such preparations in removing soreness, and quickly healing fresh cuts and wounds, no matter how bad. It will promptly heal old sores of long standing. Will kill the poison from ''Poison Ivy" or "Poison Oak" and cure "Dew Poison." W ill counteract the poison from bites of snakes and stings of insects. It is a sure cure for sore throat. ' Will cure any case of sore mouth, and is a supe rior remedy for all pains and aches. Sold by druggists and dealers 25 cents a bottle. A Myittory. A human thigh was found Friday floating in the wafer at the foot of Pa- : eific street Brooklyn. It is thoght that it ncay have some connection i with the dismembered body of a man j found in New York at the foot cf Rosevelt street. Grow More Hay ?The Southern Farmer and Horticulturist gives the < following good advice: "The heaviest yields ol hay per acre cn record are from the South, and yet vast sums of hard.earned money goes to the West for hay. Nearly every pound of hay consumed in Southern cities is brought from the West. Why should not the farmers of our Souther a States supply all of the hay consumed in the cities and towns and keep the mcnej in eirculation at hom?. We can never prosper so long as so much of the money received for our products goes away 'rota us to circulate eisewnere. Now is the time to prepare land to be sown in grass and clover next montb. It will pay better than cotton." Far.mers Should Insure ? Every farmer should see that bis barn, contents are well insured. Nearly every day the daily papers contain accounts of fires in rural districts, bar^s and contents and outouildmgs, and in some cases the whole season's crop going up in smoke without a cent of insurance, leaving the unfortunate farmer penniless. Fire and life insurance are t?ro things that should never be neglected. Tht cost is trifling compared with the benefits in case of accident. It looks as if the Teller resolution has knocked the gold Democratic organization into pie. The Washing ten correspondent of the Atlanta Journal says: "The geld Democratic organization has fallen to pieces, o^ing largely to the fact that Mr. B5 num of I&di ana, who was at the head of it did not possess the confidence of the men who wouM give it pesi'ion and digntty be- | fore the country. As Senator Bacon says, th9 vo'.e on tie Teller resolution practically unifies the party wbile it contributes to the disorder in the Republican ranks." j The Petersburg, Indiana, News Is j one Republican paper tbat has become 1 * -' -t -r~~i lireil Oi Lryiug vU luu;I wc JL14. a late issue it s3js: "During each month of the past year vre furnished our readers with Republican prosceri- J ty supplements? ro more supplements t will be sent out vnth our paper. 7he : supplements are a fraud, a delusion and a lie. We are ashamed, sick acd sore at the idea of sending out such 'Prosperity Supplements,' when at the 3ame "time we are unable to coilt ct i j enough m oney to meet our bills?after 1 having made themj 5 VH TLe Coming of Baby. When a baby comes to the house real aappiness comes. The care and anx^etj count for nothiu^ against the slirgirsg touch, of the little hands asd the soiird .of the little voice. The highest iunction given to human beings is bringing .healthy, happy chil iren into the world.- Oyer thirty years ago th8' needs of women appealed to Dr. Pierce, now chief consulting phj&iciaa to the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute, of Buffalo, N. Y. The rc-suli of his study improved by thirty yea?3 of practice is embodied in Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. It strengthens,. ? purifies and makes bealthy the organs distinctly feminine It gives weak women the strength asd health necessary for the production of healthy children and it makes the bearing of those children easy. It is sure to cure any weakness or derangement peculiar to women; stops cain, soothes inflamation, strengthens, purifies, invigorates. An E ileal Qaeatloru The principles cf justica require aB exact acd searching investigation into mwimctonflfli or/1 m^itiirAS nf every crime, in order that the facts may be brought out, and no innocent man condemned. But does thi3 justify a skinful lawyer, who knows his client's guilt, in making use of every trick, dsvice, delay and technicality; in misrepresenting the truth, in browbeating opposing witnesses, in taking advanisge of perjury on his own s.de, in order to shield the offender from Lhe righteous constquences of his acts? Potato Experdient ?T. B. Terry, of Ohio, made an interesting experiment with a potato this year. This potato he cut into 74 pieces, each piec9 having one-sixth of an eye. The pieces were platted in 74 hills 33 inches apart each way. The land was clover sod, the planting being done iate, after a crop of clover had been cut, and the crop suffered from lack of moisture, but by the time the pota toes had matured the vines covered the around, and from an exact sauare rod the yield was over five pecks of large tubers, at the rate of 200 bushels per acre. Mr. Terry does not recom* m nd the use of one sixtn of an eye in pas tin?, but he thinks that one eye to a hill is sufficient; hia experiment ought to prove this. He says only potatoes of strong vitality would be fto noWfi af tm o Itiyi rp o a a V* tc? uapauiQ ui xuaAijjg ouuu c* jwiu CM UIO potato made. Protect the Toads?The Southern Farmer and Horticulturist says: "The quantity of food that a toad's stomach can accommodate is wonderful. Ia one were seventy-five myriapods, in another fifty army worms, in another sixty-fi7e gypsy moth caterpillars, in another nine ants, six cut worms, five myriapods, six sow bu^s, one weevil and one wire worm beetle. In tweanty four hours the toad consumes enough food to fill his stomach feu r times. Feeding at the rate above mentioned, a single toad will in three months corsume over 10,000 insects. If every ten of these should do a cent's j worth of damage, the toad would thus effect a saving of $10. Do not kill the toad." / ary Line. 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