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gS^I DISPLAYED iN ITS I^NSTR'JGTICN. HFr?iinsj;t; 3-ya tho Stsse cf Hsar- | j^P'S Gott'a Gr< a:esi Glft-The Gateway ^Tn Hnni_STmn'ionT f>t the Sllllanclal ll BHy jane. In this discourse Dr- Talmage sets ^ forth the goodness and wisdom of God In the construction of the human ear and extols music and encourages prayer; text. Psalms xciv, 9, ''He that planted the ear shall he not hear?" Architecture is one o? the most fascinating arts, and the study of Egyptian, Grecian, Etruscan, Roman, Byzantine, Moorish, Renaissance styles of building has been to many a man a sublime life work. Lincoln and York " "? rii -n 1*_ x Ot , camearais, ci. jraui s anu o.. * cicj a and arch of Titus and Theban temple and Alharebra and Parthenon are the monuments to tbe genius of those who built them. But more "wonderful than any arch they ever lifted or any transept window they ever illumined or any Corinthian column they ever crowned or any Gothic cloister they ever elaborated is the human ear. Among the most skillful and assiduous nhysiologist of our time have been those who have given their time to the examination of the ear and the study of its srches, its walls, its fioor, its canals, its aqueducts, its galleries, its intricacies, its convolutions, its divine machinery, and yet it will take another thousand years before the world comes to any adequate appreciation of what G-od did when he planned and executed the infinite and overmastering architecture of tbe human ear. The most of it is invisible, and the microscope breaks down in the attempt at exploration. The cartilage which we call the ear is only the storm door of the great temple clear down out of sight, next door to the immortal soul. Such scientists as Kolmhoilz and Conte and De Biainville and Bank and Buck have attempted to walk the Appian way of the human ear, but the mysterious pathway has never been fully trodden but by two feet?th? foot of sound and the foot of GkxL Three ears on each side the head?the external ear, the middle ear, the internal ear?but all connected by most wonderful telegraphy. The external ear in all ages adorned by precious piones or precious metals. xne tempie 01 Jerusalem partly ouiu by the contribution of earrings, and Homer in the "Iliad" speaks of Hera, "the three bright drops, Ircsr glittering gems suspended from the ear," and many of the adornments of modern times were only copies of her ear jewels found in Pompeiian museum and Etruscan vase. But while the outer ear may be adorned by human art, the middle and ths internal ear are adorned and garnished only by the hand of the Lord Almighty. The 3troke of a key of yonder organ sets the air vibrating, and the external ear catches the undulating scund and passes it on through the bonelets of the middle ear to the internal ear, and the 3,000 fibers of the human brain take up the vibration and roll the scund on into the souL The hidden machinery of the ear by physiologists called by the names of things familiar to us, like the hammer, something to strike; like the anvil, something to be smitten; like the stirrup of the saddle with which we mount ^ - lilwA 4-l^A 4*1*0 (HO OVCCU , iiAC IOJLO UjLUjJJ.) UZCkWJJL 4U bUO march; iike the harpstrings, to be swept with music. Coiled like a "snail shell" by whi<Sh one of the innermost passages of the ear is actually called; like a stairway, the sound to ascend; like a bent tube of a heating apparatus, taking that which enters round and round; like a labyrinth with wonderful passages into which the thought enters only to be lost in bewilderment A muscle contracting when the noise is too loud, just as the pupil of the eye contracts when the light is too glaring. The external ear is defended by wax which -with its bitterness discourages insectile invasion. The internal ear imbedied in by what is far the hardest bone of the human system,a very rock of strength and defiance. The ear so strange a contrivance that by the estimate of one scientist it can catch the sound of 73,000 vibra tions in a second. The outer ear taking in all kinds of sound, whether the crash of an avalanche or the hum of a bee. The sound passing'to the inner door of the outside ear halts until an* other mechanism, divine irechanism, passes it on by the boneleis oi the middle ear, and, coming to the inner dcor of that second ear, the sound has no power to come farther until another divine mechanism passes it on through into the inner ear, and then the sound come3 to the rail track of the brain branchlet and rolls on and on until it comes to sensation, and there the curtain drops, and a hundred gates shut, and the voice of God seems to say to all human inspection, "Thus far and no farther." In this vestibule of the palace of the soul how many kings of thought, of medicine, of physiology, have done penance 01 iiieiong siuay ana got no farther than the vestibule. Mysterious home of reverberation and echo. Grand Central depot of sound. Headquarters to which there come quick aispatches, part the way by cartilages, part the way by air, part the way by bone, part the -way by nerve?the slowest dispatch plunging into the ear at the speed of 1,C90 feet a second. Small instrument of music on which is played all the music you ever heard, from the grandeurs of an August thunderstorm to the softest breathings of a flute. Small instrumentofmusic, only a quarter of an inch of surface ana the thinness of one-two hundred and fiftieth part of an inch and that thinness divided into three layers. In that ear musical staff, lines, spaces, bar and rest A bridge leading from the outside natural warld to the inside spiritual world; we seeing the abutment at this end the bridge, but the fog of an uniifted mystery hiding the abutmenl on the other end the bridge. "Whispering gallery of the soul. The human voice is God's eulogy the ear. That voice capable of producing 17,592,186,044,415 sounds, and ail that variety made not for the regalement of beast or bird but for the human ear. About 15 years ago, in Venice, lay down in death one whom many considered the greatest musical composer of the century. Struggling all the way on to 70 years of age to conquer the world's ear. In that same attempt to master the human ear and gain supremacy over this gate of he immortal soui, great battles were fought by Mozart, Gluck and Weber, and by Beethoven and Meyerbeer, by Kossini and by all the roll of German and Italian and French composers, some of them :u the battle leaving their blcod on the keynotes and the musical scores. Great battle fought for the ear?fought with baton, >;ith organ pipe, with trumpet, with ccrnet-a-piston, with all ivory and brazsn and silver and golden weapons of the orchestra; roval theater and cathedral and academy of music the fortressts for the contest for the ear. England and Egypt fought for the supremacy of the Suez canal,' and th? Spratans and the Persians fougM for the defile at Therrnopy1:;1, bvt the musicians of a*! ages have fc.Ugat for the mastery of tbD auditory canal and the dtfile ot the i^imortal j soul and the Thericopyho of struggling J cadences. For the conquest of the ear Haydn j struggled on up from the garret where j he bad neither fire nor tcoct, on ana on until under the too great nervous strain of hearing his own oratorio of the "Creation" performed he was carried out to die, but leaving as his legacy to the world 118 symphonies, 163 pieces for the baritone. 15 masses, 5 oratorios, 42 Germ an an d Italian sod gs, 39 canons, 365 English and Scotch songs with accompaniment and 1,536 pages of libretti. All that to capture the gate of the bcdy that swings in from the tympanum to tbe ''snail thell" lying on the beach of. the ccean of the immortal soul. To conquer the ear Handel struggled on from the time when his father *ould not let him go to school lest he learn the gamut and become a musician, and from the time when he was allowed in the organ loft just to play after the audience had left to the time when he left to all nations his unparalleled oratorios of "Esther," "Deb ora," "Samson," "Jephthah," "Judas Maccalarjs," "Israel In Egypt"" and the "Messiah," the soul of the great German composer still weeping ic; the dead march of our great obsequies and triumphing in the raptures of every Easter morn. To conquer the ear and take this gate of the immorial soul Schubert composed his great ''Serenade," writing the staves of the music on the bill of fare in a restaurant, and went on until he could leave as a legacy to the world over a thousand magnificent compositions in music. To conquer the ear and lake this gate of the soul's castle Mczart struggled on through poverty until he came to a pauper's ! grave, and one chilly, wet afternoon j ihe body of him wno gave to the world the ''Requiem'7 and the "Gr Minor I Symphony" was crunched in on the i top fo two other paupers into a grave | which to this day is epitaphless. TTl... j., ' .Dor me ear everyuxmg aidLiMu^uj, from the birth, hour wfien our earth was wrapped in swaddling clothes of light and serenaded by otner worlds, from the time when Jubal thrummed the first harp and pressed a key of the first organ down to the music of this Sabbath day. Yea, for the ear the coming overtures of heaven, for whatever other part of the body may be left in the dust, the ear, we know, is to come to celestial life; other wise, why the ''harpers harping with their harps ?" For the ear carol of lark and whistle of quail and chirp of cricket &jd dash ol cascade and rear'of tides oceanic and doxologyof worshipiul minstrels v. cherubic and archangelic. For the ear ail Pandean pipes, ail flutes, all clarinets, all hautboys, all bassoons, all bslls and all organs?Luzerne ana Westminster abbey and Freiburg and Berlin and all the organ pipes set across Christendom, the great Giant's Causeway for the monarcbs of music to pass over. For the ear ali chimes, all tickings of chronometers, all anthems, all dirges, all glees, all choruses, all lullabies, all orchestraion. Oh, the car. the God honored ear, grooved with divine seulnture and noised with divine grace fulness and upholstered with curtains of divine embroidery and corridored by divine carpentry and pillared with divine archiectureand chiseled in bone of.divine masonry and conquered by processions of divine marshaling. The ear! A perpetual point of interrogation, asking How? A perpetual point of apostrophe appealing to God. None but God could plan it None but God could build it. None but God could work it. None but God could keep it. None but God cou.d understand it. None but God couid explain it. Oh, the wonders of the human ear! How suroassingly sacred the human ear! You had better be careful Viom TTI\-11 laf tJio onnnil of TilQCTiVlAmV iiy TT JUW AVU MUW HVMMW V* or uncleanness step into that holy uf holies. The Bible sajs that in the ancient temple the priest was set apart by the putting cf the blood of a ram on the tip of the ear, the right ear of the priest. But, my friends, we need all of us to have the sacred touch of ordination on the hanging lobe cf both ears and on the arches of the ears on the eustachian tube of the ear, on the mastoid cells of the ear, on the tympanic cavity of the ear, and 0:1 everything from the outside rim cf the outside ear clear in to the point where sound steps off the auditory nerve acd rolls on $lown into the unfathomable depths of the immortal eniil TJia R!Vil(mnooVc nf pars ' '1 and of "uucircumcised ears," and of 'itching ears," and of "rebellious ears," and of "open ears,"and of those who have all the organs of hearing and yet who seem to be deaf, for it cries to them, "He that hath ears to hear, let him bear." To show how much Christ though'!; of the human ear, he one day met & man who was deaf, came up to him and put a finger of the right hand into the orifice of the left ear of the patient and put a finger of the left hand into the orifice of the right ear of the patient, and agitated the tympanum, and startled the bonelets, and with a voice that rang clear through into the man's soul cried, "Ephthatha!" and the polyphoid growths gave way, and the inflamed auricle cooled off. and that men who had not heard a sound for many years that night heard the wash of the waves of Galilee against the limestone shelving. To show how much Christ thought of the human car, when the apostle Peter got msd and with one slasi of his sword dropped the ear of Malchus into the dust Christ created & new external ear for Malchus corrsepqnding with the mid die ear and the internal ear that no sword could clip away And to show what God thinks of the ear we are informed of the fact that in the millennial June which shall roseate all the earth the ears of the deaf will be unstopped, all the vascular growths gone, all deformation of the listening: organ cured, corrected, CUctU^tU. Hd V CI'J USJUUg ULL CAHU ?i.ii. have*a heading apparatus as perfect as God knows how to make it, and ail the ears will be ready for that gseat symphony in which all the musical instruments of the earth shall plsy the accompaniment, nations of eartn and empires of heaven mingling their voices, together -with the deep bass of the sea and the alto of the wood?, and the tenor of winds, and the barritone of the thunder, "Halleluiah'"surging up meeting the "Halleluiahdescending. Ob, jes, my friend?, we have been looking for God too far away instead of looking for him close by and in our own organism! We go up into the observatory aid look through the telescope and see God in Jubiitrand God in Saturn and God in Mars, but we could see more of him through the microscope of an auris1-. No king is satisfied with only one residence, ana in France it has been St- Cloud and Versailles and the Tuileries, and in Great Britain it ba3 bsen Windsor and Balmoral and Osborne. A ruler does not always prefer the larger. The King of eaith and heaven may have larger castles and greater palaces, but T ^n YiAf ya oxt? otia curiously wrought than the human ear. The heaven of heavens cannot contain him, and yet he says he flrds' i room to d well in 3 contrite heart, aid, | I thick, la " Christian ear. We have been looking for God in the infinite?let us look for him in the infinitesimal. God walking the corridor of the ear, God sitting in the [ gallery of the human ear, Gad speak ling along the auditory nerve of the ear, God dwelling in the ear to hear that which comes from the outside, and so near the Drain and the soul he can hear all that transpires there. The Lord of hosts etcimpinc: under the curtains of membrane. Palace of the Almighty ia the human ear. The rider on the white borse of the Apoc alypse thrusting his foot into the loop of bote which the physiologist has be:en pleased to call t&e stirrup of the ear. Are you ready now for the qu3st'on of my text? Have you the enaurarce iobear its overwhelming suggestiveness? Will you take hold of some pillar and balance ycuself under the semiomnipotent stroke j k'He that planted the ear, shall he not hear?" Shall the God who gives us the appa ratus with which we hear the sounds of the world himself -not be able to catch up sodg and groan and * bias pfcemy ana worship? Does he give us a faculty which he has not himself? Drs. Wild and Gruber *?na Toynbse invented the acoumeter and other instruments by which to measure and examine the ear, and do these instru ments know more than the doctors who made them? "He that planted the ear, shall he not hear?15 Jupiter ^ ^^^ olrTTftTTo von>floonfor] in UJ. Uicuo woo airrajo a.*wv. statuery and painting as without ears, suggesting the idea that he did not want to be bothered with the affairs of the world. But our Gcd has ears. ' His ears are open to their cry." The Bible intimates that two workmen on Saturday night do not get their wage?. Their complaint instantly strikes the ear of God, -'The cry of those that reaped ha:h entered the ears of the Lord of Sabboth." Dia God hear t hat poor girl last night as she threw herseif on the prison bunk in the "city dungeon and cried in the midnight, "God have mercy ?" Do you really think God could hear her? Yes, just as easily as when 15 years ago sne was sick with scarlet fever, and her mother heard her when at midnight she asked for a drink of water. "He that planted the ear, shall he not heat?'' Wnen a soul prays, God does not sit bolt upright until the prayer travels immensity and climbs to his ear. The | Bible says he bends clear over. In j more than one place Isaiah said he | bowed down his ear. In more than | one place the psalmist said he inclined ; his ear, by which I come to believe * - ' ~ ' "? - - 1 _ __1 J tnac (?30. puts jus ear so cioseiy cown j to your lips that he can hear ycur faintest whisper. It is not God away off up yonder; it is God away down here, close up, so close up that when you pray to him it is not more a whisper than a kiss. Ah, yes, he .hears the captive's sigh and the plash of the orphan's tear, and the dying syllables of the shipwrecked sailor driven on the slferries, and the infant's "Now ; I lay me down to sleep" as distinctly $ as he hears the fortissimo of brazen bands in the Dusseldor festival, as easily as he hears the slave of artillery when the 13 squares of English troops open all their batteries at once at Waterloo. He that planted the ear can hear. .Tust as sometimes an entrancing strain of music will linger in your ears fcr days after you have heard it, and just as a sharp cry of pain I once heard while passing through Bellevue hospital clun? to my fkt for weeks, and just as a horrid blasphemy in the street sometimes haunts one's ears for days, so God not only hears, but holds the songs, tho prayers, the groans, the worship, the blasphemy. Eow we have aLl wondered at the phonography which holds not only the words, ycu utter, but the very tones of your voice, so that 100 years from now, that instrument turned, the very woras you now utter aau me very tone of your voice will be reproduced. Amazing phonograph! But more wonderful is God's powers to hold, to retain. Ah, what delightful encouragement for our prayers! What an awful fright for our hard speeches! What assurance of warm hearted sympathy for all our griefs! "He that planted the ear, shall he not hear?'' Better take that organ away from all sin. Better put it under the test ?Oand. Batter take it away from all gossip, from all slander, from all bad influence of' evil association. Bet ter put it to school to church, to phil harmonic. Better put that ear under the blessed touch of Christian hymnology. Better consecrate it for time and eternity to him who planted the ear. Rousseau, the infidel, fell asleepamid his skeptical manuscripts lying all around the room, and in his dream he entered heaven and heard the song of the worshipers, and it was so sweet he asked an angel what it meant. The *ngel said, "This is the paradise of God, and .the song you hear is the anthem of the redeemed." Under another roll of the celestial music Rousseau wakened and got up in the midnight and, as well as he could, wrote down the strains of the music that he had heard in the wonderful tune called "The Songs of the Redeemed." God grant that it may not be to you and to me an infidel dream,,but a glorious reality. When we come to the night of death and we lie down to our I last sleep, may our ear3 really be awakered by the ciniicles of the heavenly temple, and the soisgs and the anthems and the carols and the doxologies that shall climb the musical ladder of that heavenly gamut. M/iJOR GENERAL L^E Will La?d * Yolaateer Diplalon or Coxps In Outa. It, is understood in Richmond, Va., that General Lee will uc questionably be made & msjor general in the United States volunteer army, and will lead a division or corps in Cuba. He will leave for Washington on Sunday, if not ordered there sooner, and immediately upon receiving his commission will select his stiff of nine men. When asked if the Virginia troops would be attached to his command, ha stated unhesitatingly that they would be, and it has leased out that he wired to Secretary Alger today, suggesting: thai the troops destined for Cuba be uniformed in the lightest possible clothizg. When asked if he would accept anything less than a major general's commission, General Lee referred to his telegram sent to the Washington authorities, from Key West, offering his services for any duty he might be called upon to perform, and said. "Ism anxious to return to Cuba to put to rout the Spanish, troop?, and I would accept a lieutenant s commission if it permitted me to lead as much as a squad in Cuba." Th? Cable W?s Oct. The cable between Key West and Havana was cut about a mile south of Fort Taylor, and evidently by some one familiar with cable -work. The strand, which is of the double armor, [ heavy, shore end tjp3, was not cut in twain, but merely cut opsn. The con! ductor was then pulled out and cut in I two near the shore. The cable is now [ repaired and the who'e matter is under ' investigation. m^vvn,r \vi\ in mubi;-ntn i ,-nui d rr.saa CROP CONDITIONS. THE WEEKlY BULLETIN OF THE PRESENT SEASON A Glance at tie We*tte* AJao-What the Bojorts Frcm tfce C. 9. ObseiYers All O\erito State show a i to Existing Conditions. The second -weekly bulletin of the condition of the weather and crons of the State of the present season was is sued Tuesday; it is as follows: The week was cool and generally unfavorable for growing crops, owing to the prevailing low night tempeperatures. Lr'ght frost was observed on two mornings, over the greater portion of the State and thin ice in the extreme western portion, but no perceptible damage was done by tbe ^rost. The mean temperature was 56 degrees which is 8 degrees below the normal. Tne weekly range of temperature was between a maximum of 79 on the 11th. at Biackville and on the loth at Central, and a minimum of 33 on tne 13th at Walhalla. The j last two days of the week were warm and pleasant. The week's rainfall was quite evenly distributed over the entire State and penerallv li?ht. although sufficient for the needs of all crops and to put tne ground into good condition for working. In Laurens and portions of surrounding counties farm work was hindered and delayed by the wet condition of the soil, fcut elsewhere the rain did not interfere or interrupt work to any extent, while over the southeastern portions the ground was dry and the rain needed and proved very beneficial. Eleven places, representing all sections of the State, reported one inch or more of rain, and 30 less than one iDch. The average for the State was 0,77 and the approximate normal for the same period is 0.82 inch. The week gave 61 per cent, of the possible bright sunshine, ranging from 33 to 93 per cent, of the possible, but cloudiness varied greatly over the State. The prevailing winds were cold westerly, and from light to brisk in force. On the 14fh thunder suuwera uuuuxrou at a uuuiucr ui places, accompanied by small hail, which, however, did no,damage. On the same day a flurry of snow was observed in Greenville county. The week was characterized by ceol, windy weather and some rain, the firtwo conditions were unfavorable and the last favorable. Vegetation made little growth except on the immediate coast, and even there the TTrmm Irvrt ( *rr&y +V?a Aan. UligUlO TT OIU WW WW1? \/ fWl VUU |/wU tral and western counties frost formed on two nights, which while it did not freeze anything, did materially check all growth of vegetation. However, the weex ended with good, growing weather and a noticeable improvement in the appearance of field crops. Except where interrupted by rain, planting operations advanced rapidly during the week, and up'aud corn is about all planted in the more easterly counties, and from half to two-thirds finished over she mora westerly portions. Germination has been slow gen erally and stands poor except in Edgefield, where excellent stands are the rule. Corn that was cut down by frost shows signs of recovery, but neverthe less mucn repianung is necessary on that account and because of seed rotting in the ground, and also on ac count of the ravages of cut worms and birds in places. Early planted corn is receiving its first workings. It appears that a somewhat larger acreage will be devoted to corn this year than last. While some cotton has been planted long enough to come up it germinates slowly, and that that was ud last weak will need to be replanted. Planting of cotton has been fairly begun, over the whole State, but the bulk of the crop will be planted bet ween this and the 25th, if the weather permits, as the ground is generally prepared for it. In the more easterly counties planting is generally less than half finished over the central and western counties. Reports vary as to the area to be planted in cot ion, but it appears that a full crop will be planted and that it is highly "manured. Sea-island cotton is coming up well, growing nicely, and more being planted. The work of transplanting tobacco has been begun in Kershaw, Clarendon, DirJington, Florence, Wiliamsburg and Horry counties, and will become general this week. Plants are plantiful and large. More com me r aioI moMnwflo trti 11 Wo aw faia UAi uiauuiM nxu uo bucu uu uuauuu lands thaa in previous years, and the acrage is considerably enlarged, especially in Florence county, and probably over the whole tobacco district. The outlook for a heavy oats crop is very promising, and from three locali ties only were unfavorable reports received. The frosts, of last week and the cool weather, of this made oats look yellow in places, but it has a good 1 stand and is stooling well. The wheat , prospects are good. Eye is heading and is being cut for forage in places. The reports on the fruit prospect are more definite this week, but do not ; change the conditions as stated in the : previous bulletin. In Oconee, Pick- 1 ens, Q-reenville, Snartanburg, Gaffney and portions of York and Lancaster 1 the bulk of the peaches and plums are J killed, but there are localities where a I fair crop is left on the trees; in the J next tier of counties the bulk of the 1 fruit is safe, but there are many lo- ( calit:e3 where it is almost entirely de- I stroyed; still further eastward it was ( only in exceptional cases that fruit j was damaged. Figs may De an excep- j tion to that statement, but it cannot j yet be determined. Tne peach crop is ! practically safe; appies, peara, grapes : and wild berries were unharmed. In the Florence truck district about ? one-thrid of the early vegetables were 1 destroyed by frost and some fields are being plo wed up. Large shipments of seasonable vegetables continue from Charleston, and more northorly truck districts. Melons are growing poorly and reports from Barnwell indicate a reduced acreage in that county. Seed are scarce there. Gardens are growing slowly and need warmer weather; pastures are very poor generally. Ribbon cane was not hurt by last week's frost Considerable sorghum being planted. J. W. Bauer, Section Director, Columbia, 8. C. Cadst* Teaser Services. The following message from the Superintendent of the South Carolina ^ Military Academy was sent to Gov. ^ Elierbe Wednesday: His Excellency, Gov. W. H. Elierbe. * Declaration of war with Spain being * now an assured fact, I am authorized s to tender to you the services of the t officers and of the 56 cadets who have remained loyal to duty, for such military work in the State as the exigencies of the times may render necessa- I ry. Their predecessors have done the 6 same in two wa^s. 1 Asbury Coward, Supt. < Governor Elierbe replied as follows: ] Col. Asbury Coward, Superintendent ' Citadel Academy, Charleston, S. C. e Your telegram received. Tender ? accepted. Will call upon officers and } cadets of the South Carolina Military ? academy if exigency shall demand. * Your patriotic and spirited action ap- 1 predated. W. H. Ellerbk, Governor. '< 33BPBBM????c* ^1"' "i* I ?rmk-n i iT~s I 11 It -I - - ? ^ - I ] II I I I I nil ,mm THE COAL Q^ESTtCN, EDClafcil Gives t 5 .-pa'c t>ar if la Cdtr-?b?ijd oT War. Ooe of the greatest difficulties Spa'n will have to conterd with in this war is her weak facilities for a coal supply. She has little coal in Cuba, snd ccula not get it wun her ream fleet it see had much. Her coal supply at Porto Rico is very limited. There is plenty of coal in Spain, but to transport enough of it safely across the sea and to find a secure coaling station is a very difficult problem. A warship cannot carry enough coal to serve it for any great length of time, and Spain will have a hard task in finding places where she can refresh her coad supply. The British colonial c ffije has notified^all the British colonies that coal must be considered contraband of war. txtqC o I .L.UXO wvviaivu T*?O \J i VAWU u j a ? L quest for Information forwarded by toe British colonies in West India. They are so near Cuba snd Porto Rico that they are lia Die to be called on for coal by the Spanish warship?, and they want to know how to act. The ruling of the British authorities in this case follows the precedents since coal has become the motive power of warships. Under international custom a beJligerani ship may take cn in a neutral port only enough coal to carry her to the nest friendly port, and it must be taken avowedly for that purpose. This ruling operated strongly against tne Confederate cruisers which would have been even more effective than they were if they could have always obtained coal. We have the best facilities for suppljiDgour ships with coal and great suppMes of it will crwn lift rklarpri K? tVi? onvfti'nmo'nt in in the south Atlantic and Gulf ports. If Spain should fine! herself en this side the Atlantic -without ;coa! or the chance to get it in sufficient quantities her ships would be at our mercy, and this is a continue acy not unlikely to occur. MILITIA MAY FIGHT. Yolan'.esra Will bs Apportion el in Pioportlon to Popu'atlon. Adjutant General Watts Thursday afternoon received a letter from Secretary of War Alger through Senator Tillman, reassuring him that not only would South Carolina be given a chance to fight but that every state in the union would be given a place in the picture. Seeing in the papers a few cays since that troops would be ordered from New York to Charleston and that regiments from Massacbu setts, Illinois and Pennsylvania had also been called upon. General Watts wrote to Senator Tillman saying that the South Carolina Militia were ready to help defend the nation and especially were they anxious to protect their own state. It is probably from this that the report that the governor and the adjutant general would tender the president the services of the state militis, originated. Following is the letter General Watts received Thursday afternoon: War Department, Washington, D. C.. April 19,1898. Hon. B. E. Tillman, U. 8. Senate. Dear Sir: I have your letter of t!?e 16th instant, inclosing the patriotic letter from Gen. J. Garv Watts, The first call for an increase in the army will be made upon the national guard of the states, each being allowed to furnish of its militia a number proportionate to its population of the to tal number required. You will see how necessary this is in view of the fact that the entire national guard throughout the country is anxious to serve. You can rest assured that there will be no favoritism in this matter, and every state in the Union will to giyen an opportunity to serve under the flag in event of war. Very truly yours, R A. Alger, Secretary of War. Spare The Birds. r ' Feathers and Fashion" is the title of an excellent article by J. Carter Beard in Demorest's Family Magazine. He says that future generations will wear lhe fuis of domestic animals and the plumage of barnyard fowls, for there will be no other furs and feathers to wear. Through the wholesome alftu&hter of birds of beautiful ulum age, they are fast becoming extinct. We quote: "England imports more than twenty-five million of dead bird a every year in order that their corpses and feathers may adorn fjs'ijnable women. In all Europe, three Hundred million are annually sicrafictd fjr this pu:p>se. In Chicago one dealer has received in one season thirty-two million humming birds and three hundred thousand other birds of different varietits" The beautiful egrets, or snowy white herons, whicn furnish the fashionable aigrette, dwelt formerly in thousands of the swamps of our Southern States, but are now almost exterminated. The delicately beautiful plumes, so much prized in millinery, are worn by the birds only during the nesting reason. Thus every aigrtt'.e stands for a home broken up, parents slaughtered and little ones left to starve. But sentiment is not all. There is a practical view to be taken. We quote igain: ' kThe natural and only effective check for insects is the birds. Every average insectivorous bird de strojs at least two thousand four hunired insects every year of its life. The great majority ol birds are insectivervifl Thrtnalvona condemned as ac >ually usel?J3s and pernicious is the English sparrow." All others are the iriends of mankind?especially of the 'armer, gardner and fruitgrower. It s said that insect life is already on the ncrease because of the wholesale ilaughter of birds, and ia places makes luman life almost unendurable. Porto K'.cj. It is probable that Spain's loss of Duba, which is now inevitable, will )s followed speedily by the loss of Porto Rico. Though we hear very ittle of this island it is a very valuable md attractive place. It is the fourth n s:z3 of the Greater AntiUies and 1 q rnr> ?,;un Tha HJUUVLUO V, U\J\J C^uax <J UiJLiOO. xuu jopulation is between 800.000 and 130,000, about one-third of whom are isgroes, while nearly all the others ire of mixed blood. Porto Rico is luite as fertile as Cuba and produces is great a variety of crops. The clinate, however, is not as good as that >f some of the provinces or' Cuba and or a great part of the year is very , varm. Of the 18,000,000 square miles vhich Spain once owned in the west>rn world she has lost all but Cuba md Porto Rico And these will not be lers much longer. E istory does not ihowan equal instance of rapid naio lal dec ine. Tie Fleet Closely Guarded. Additional precautions have been jut in force at Key West lo insure the lafety of the big ships since the resoutions of congress were adopted. All kcklights on board the New York, [owa and Indiana, which lie out of West harbor, are now extinguish }d until 8 p. m., when the battle ports , ire screwed on and the formidable mahips can hardly be seen from sach othera's deck, except when an ; jccasional searchlight flashing around evea.J their dark outlines. Besides his precaution, the night patrol has >een doubled. uKCCBBB i ir'i i aaaa^??B?H?? Tbe 81E8W8 ol W?r. The Republican members of ihe wajs aid means committee of the bouse bave Tactically complete d tbe preparation cf tbe revenue measure wbich will fce passtd to r*ise revenue su ffi cient to prosecute tbe war. Tbe members propose that tbe present generation shall bear tbe burdens of "the war ard prcceedin? upon tbat theory they have nrfttiarpfl a hill tViat will ?ioo 1^-. L r ^ VUMW VT ill xoiog W-" tween $100,000,000 or $120,000,000 additional revenue per annum. The biil will provide for an additional tax of $1 per barrel upon beer. On manufactured tobacco ard snuff thi internal revenue^tax *ill be increased from six to twelve cents. Tte increase on cigars ard cigarettes has not been absolutely fixed, but it probably will b? $1 on all classes. The proposition which the senate placed on the tariff bill, but which went out in conference to all stocks ar d transfers of corpora tions is embodied in the measure together with practically all the scheme of internal revenue taxation of the act of 1866, which includes a stamp tax on q!1 /?Viar?fcrc fl wfto or/I oil tMAWMvvau) ?* .*?* Ui.u(UX lU?>l?J.UUUCUVa cf business?(mortgages, loans and bonds); a tax on patent ar d proprietary medicines and a tax on ttlear&pb. messages and express packages is also incorporated in the'bill. Thissckeme. of taxation is estimated to raise $35,000,000. The tax on proprietary ar.d patent medicines will be two centson packages cr bottles retailing at 25 cents or under anafcur cants on those retailing above that price, The tax on telegraph messages will oeone cent cn all messages wh;cn cost 25 cants or lets a ad 2 cents on all above 25 cents. A duty of 10 cents per pound is placed upon tea and 3 cents par pour d upon coffee. Bottled waters are to bear a tax similar to patent medicines. For the pressing needs of the government the secretary of the treasury is given the general power to issue certicates of indebtedness payable in one year and to bear interest not to exceed 3 per cent. The secretly of ihe treasury is also authorized io borrow on the credit of the government by popular subscription a loan of $500,000,000/ This lean is to be placed through the nrstnffi/?oa of tha (irnnrra r??rvuv?~ >UV _ WO CUU~~ j treasuries and government depositories in low rate bonds which, are to j to be sold at par. They are to bear three per cent interest and to be redeemable after five years at the option of the government and to be: due in twenty years. The principal and interest are to be payable in coin. ?oath Osrollxa'a shore. Secretary of War Alger is reported as saying that if war is declared there will be an immediate call for 50,000 of the voluntary soldiery of the country. It is interesting to know what this call would mean to e^.ch sta'e1 based upon enlisted militia of the 1 country. According to a table recent-? I ly prepared by Adjutant General Austin Corbin, of the United States army, a call for 50,000 volunteers' would demand from Alabama, 1,060; Arkansas, 633; California, 1,623; Colorado, 465, Connecticut, 1,226; Delaware. 194; Florida, 493; Georgia, 1,- j 973; Idaho, 229, Illinois, 2,550; Indiana, ],190; Iowa, 1,075; Kansas 561; 1 Kentucky, 594; Louisiana, 1,229; Maine, 656; Marjland, 920; Mi^sachusetts, 2.290; Michigan, 1,305; Minnesota, 840; Mississippi, 790; Missouri, 1,164; Montana, 227; Nebraska, 540; Nevada, 162; New Hampshire, 703; New Jersey, 1,897; New York, 5,706; North Carolina, 708; North Dakota, 38; Ohio, 2,644 ; OregOD, 634; Pennsylvania, i,047; Rhode Island, 452; South Dakota, 278; South Carolina; 2,662; Tennessee, 6l3; Texas, 1,244, Utah, 193; Vermont, 344;. Virginia, 1,205; Washington, 324; West Yireinia. 386: Wkcansin. l 20?; ing 205; Arizona. 223; Dislnct of Columbia, 521; New Mexico, 159, and Oklahoma, 220. This will be the first installment. Should the war last any length of time there will be other ca'ls. So none of our troops who are spoiling for a fig at need ge uneasy. routed Paragraphs, In time of peace prepare for war scare heads. The Easter egg is seldom as fresh as it is painted. Grasshoppers and grass widows jump at the first chance. The farmer who raises poultry is always sure of good crops. . ; The doorbell never asks questions, but it requires many answers. When a widower courts a widow they are both in favor of a new trial. There is no limit to the age at which a man can make a feol of himself. Men may come and men may go, but the L:nt-umbrella jake goes on forever. The majority of the world's idols will be shattered at the crack of doom. Painters are seldom of a military turn, but thej always stand by their colors. A bid toy seldotfi gets his badness from his fattier; the old man generally hangs on to all he has. Love isn't blind. A girl in love can see ten times more in the object of her affections than any one else can. History repeats itself. Joseph of the many-colored coas cornered the corn market, and now our Joseph follows suit on Wheat.?Chicago News. Amtier fte?mer Captured, A dispatch from Key West says it is believed there that the prize captured by the flagship New Yo?k is the Alfonso X11., the mail steamer due a; Havanna today [aot the warship of that name). The Spanish ship tried to run away, but the New York gave chase, firing shot after shot, until the O 3 V- * 3 opauaru uuvo tu auu surrendered. Supposed to ha Lost. The Lokdon Daily Mail of Friday says that it is stated in Falmouth shipping circles that the American cruiser Topeka, formerly the Diogenes, which left Falmouth on the evening of Tuesday, April 19, foundered in collision with tue bark Albatross at midnight on the same day. . Tbe panlah Fleit. The Spanish fleet which is reported to have sailed from the Cape "Verde Islands for the United States Thursday is composed of twelve vessels, including four armored ships, three i. J ~ J iT A J uurpcuu uu?ai* ucatrujcra, blircG Uii pcUU boats and two transport ships. When any part of the body isn't doing the work that nature intended it to do, it puts the whole system out of tune?out of harmony. Sickness in one part of the body is likely to run into all parts cf the body. When children stand a row of bricks on end, they knock the whole row down by upsetting one b-ick. That is exactly what happens to the health when the bowels fail to perform their proper function. 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It is a book of 1008 pages, profusely illustrated. * A G*t t FOR VOLUNTEERS : I; WlJl b 1 Author z -d by Congress Tew Dsjr. i Repre^entJitive Hull of Iowa, chairJ man of tbe ncusscommiltfe on ooili; tary affair.?,' introduced Tuesday an administration bill authorizing tfce President to issue a call for volunteers to tha number of 60,000 or 70,000 men. It was considered at once by the committee and its pss-aze will be expedited as rapidly aW-possible and will take efftct* immediately: upon the Presi 1 f /? "will WCUVO Af/(/;UVAl. IbO ICA'lUia WlUAUtUUt ' iz-i the PreiKisleat.-to call oa the vari cms States for quotas in making up the aggrefcattf, By . reading ia this way instead of specificially locking to calling out the various State militia, will avoid several embarrassing technicali ties, a main one being the constitutional inhibition on sending State militia out of the country, while volun teers so called for can be ordered anywhere. It is likely that if the situation develops into such grave proportions as is now expected, a second call for ICO,000 volunteers -will be issued by the President. Secretary Alger, now that we are pn the verge of war, has deciied not to make public movements of troops or any news that might be of advantage to'an enemy. % Spain as a Sea Fowtr. Sofarasiea fighting is concerned Spain has been a complete failure fcr more than three hundred years, and it is not likely that she will cut much of a figure in a naval war with the United States. She has not won a light with any other nation on the sea since the battle of L?panto, when joined with the Yenetiaos and Genoese, she overcame the Turkish fleet. Three hundred and ten yeirs ago Francis Drake annihilated what the storm had lift of the Invincible Armada, Nelson struck Spain another terrific Wow when he met the combined Spanish and French fleets at Trafalgar. Since that time there have been several 3ti iking instances of Spanish incompetency in naval 4*kft rmArt W1A naiiaiw) vuo iuv/ak uuias/ig MCUX^ iiidV 1 which was shown in her expedition against Peru, in 1866, on account of alleged mistreatment of some Spanish subjects. : The Spanish squadron .an -that expedition consisted of seven vessels, mounting twentjservenguns, and to oppose it the Peruvians borrowed three crafts from Chili, one a vessel carrying forty two smooth bores, one a small one-gun monitor, and the third- a diminutive Merrimac, carrying two guns. The result of the engagement was the utter discomfiture of the Spaniards. The Esmejalda captured a Spanish gunboat in twenty minutes without the loss of ft man, wnereupon the Spanish admiral retired to his cabin and blew out his brains. His successor -retired from acticn and took vengeance oi? of Chili by bombarding defenseless Valparaiso and causing a fife that destroyed $10,000,000 worth of proper ty. in attaching uauao, nowever, the Spaniards were badly worsted, and their ships crawJed back to Spain in a dilapidated condition. It is believed by experts that today the Spanish navy is as higly deficient in gunnery as for two centuries past, and it is as true of modern warships as in the old wcodenones that in action all depends upon the man behind the gur. In comparing the relative strength of our navy with that cf Spain the difference between the m?n in the ships of the two nations is is a big factor to be taken into the account. As we have also an advantage in the number and power of ships, it will be seen that in na^al engagement with us Spain would have little show. Suffering In Cuba. The last, repor ts sent from Cuba to tie state department by our consuls give information which confirms the most distressing reports of suffering among the people. The country believed for a long time that the newspaper stories.of the conditions in Cuba vrere greatly exaggerated, but Senator Proctor's power.ut statement of what he observed in the unhappy island and subsequent reports Jrom trustworthy sources .have convinced the public that the worst had not been old. * .. The number of the destitutes in the province of Havana alone is placed at 150,000 by General Lee. The number of people who were driven from their homes and deprived of means of subsistence by Weyler's infamous order is probably one fourth of Cuba's entire population. The only aid our government has given these starving people was an appropriation of $12;500 for food, but much more than that has been contributed by private charity. Tae newspapers nave been very active and efficient in this work, and it is due to them more than any other ageccy that the cours8 of starvation in Cuba has been _^_i 3 rriL t__ z ^ - cuec&tu. xuuse wiiu are in ^position to know declare that at. least 200,000 people have died of starvation and diseases that famine brings since Weyler's murderous order was issued. A government which inflicts such misery upon its people should bj wiped from the face of tne earth. On tie Lookout Ships which have just arrived at St. John's N. F;', repbrt navingr sighted a mysterious steamer off Caps Race. She is schooner rigged, has two ma?s without yards, and is not.showing any signals. Current rumor has it that . she is a Spanish warship looking fpr American vessels. _ a. woman fells /W?. ,??>w ovf-rhnarrl slip mmp. times drowns when there is a life b::oy just ?$&*$?&&' m a ^ev?" s-Tr *:es of her ?all becau e she doesn't happen to see perish in t?e same way'. 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