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8PPr K-~. ' gjjS 1 S'-- ' - ? . =a A BRIGHT RELIGION, | REV. DR. TALMAGE TAKES PLEASURE FOR HIS THfcME. He Has No Sympathy With Stxsltjscketir, Tat Points Oat tbe Dancers o* Unre tralsea Amusement?R?creation That Lead to Sin, From an unusual standpoint Dr. Talmage in this discourse discusces amusements and applies tests by which they may be known as good or bad. The text is Judges xvi, 25: -And it came to pass when their hearts were merry that they said, Call fer Sanson, that he may make us sport. And they called for Sam>on out of the prison house and he made them sport."' There were 3,000 people assembled in the Temple of Dagcn. They had come to ma*e sport of eyeless Samson, i They were all ready lor the entertain- j ment. They began to clap and pound, j impatient for the amusement to begin, | and they cried: "Fetch him cut! Fetch .him out!" Yond6r I see tne! blind old giant coming, led by the I hand of a child in the very midst o 1 j the temple. A; his first appearance i there goes up a shout of laugnter ana derision, Tne 1'olind old giant pretends he is tired and wants to rest iim self agains: the pillars of the hou^e, sohe says to the lad who leads him, "JfcJriag me wnere tae maw pu.cxa are." The lad does so. Then the strong man puts his hands on one of! the pillars and, with the mightiest j push that mortal ever made he tnrows j himself forward until the whole house comes down, in thunderous crash, grinding audience like grapes in a wine press. ''And so it came to pass, when their hearts were merry, that they said, Call for Samson, that he s may make us sport And tney called IT?for Samson out of the prison hcu3e, f w and he made them sport." Inotner words, there are amusements that are destructive and bring down disasier and death upon the heads of these who practice them. While they laugh and I cheer they die. The 3,000 who per-1 ished that day in Gaza are nothing I compared with the tens of thousands I who have been destroyed, body, mind and soul by bad amusements and by | good amusements carried to excess - x In my sermons you must have no ticed that I have no sympathy with ecleaiastical straitjackets or wuh that | wholesale denudciation of amusements to which many are pledged. I beiive ; the church of God has made a tremendous mistake in trying to surpress the sportfulness of youth and drive out from men their love of amusement. If God ever implanted anything in us, he implanted this desire. But instead of providing for this demand of our native churcn of God God has for the main part ignored it. As in a riot the mayor plants a batter at the end of the street and has it fired off, so that everything is cut down that happens to stand in the range, the good as well as the bad, so tnere are! urhn tifant their batteries of condemnation and fire away indiscriminately. Everything is condemned. They talk as if they would like to have our ycuth dres3 in bine uniforms, like the children of an orphan asylum, and march down tte patn of life to tne tuna of dead march in "Saul." They hate a blue sash, or a rosebud in the hair, or a tasseled gaiter, and think a man almost ready for tne lunatic asylum who utters a conundrum. Young Men's Christian associations of the country are doing a glorious - work. Tney have fine reading rooms, and all the influences are of ihe bess kind and are now adding gymnasiums >v.wlinc allevs. -where without > ^ _ any evil surroundings our young men! may get physical as wall as spiritual improvement. We are dwindling away to a narrow chested, weak armed, feeble voiced race, wnen God calls us to work iu which ne wants physical as well as spiritual athletes. I would to God that the time might soon come when in all our colleges and theological seminaries, as at Princeton, a gymnasium shall be established. "We spend seven years of hard study in preparation for ;iie ministry and come out with broncnitis and dyspepsia and liver complaint, and then crawi up into the pulpit ana the people say, "Doesn't he look heavenly!" because he looks sickly. Let the church of God direct rather than attempt to suppress the desire for amusement. The best man that the world ever knew have had their sports. William Wiiberforce truncQed hoop with his children; Martin T ViaIvno/) +V>a (I'n^ictwQc tree. Ministers haye pitched quoits; philanthropists have gone a skating; prime ministers have played ball. Our commu2iities are filled with men and women who have in their souls unmeasured resources for sportfulness and frolic. Show me a man who never lights up with sportfulness and has no sympatny with the recreations of others, and I will show you a man who is a stumbling bJock to the kingdom of God. Such men are caricatures of religion' They laed young people to thin* that a man is good in proportion as he groans and frowns and sighs and looks sallow, and that the height of a man's Christian stature is in proportion to she length of his face. I would trade off SCO such men for one bright faced radiant Christian on whose face are the words 4'Rejoice evermore!" Every morning by his cheerful face he preaches 50 sermons. I will go further and say that I have no confidence in a man who makes a religion of his gloomy looks. That kind of a man always turns out badly. I would not want him for the treasury pi an crphan asylum. The orphans would suffer. Among 40 people whom I received into the church at one communion, there was only one applicant of whose piety I was suspicious. He had the longest story to tell, had seen the most visons and gave an experience so wonderful that all the other applicants were discouraged." I was not surprised the year after to learn that he nad run off with the funds of the > bani witb winch ne was connected. Who is this black arjgle that yon call region-wings black' feet black, fethers black 1 Our, religion is a bright angle?feet bright,eyes bringht,wings bright, taking her place in the soul. She pulls a rope that reaches to the skies and sets all the delis of heaven s chiming. There are some persons who, when talking to a minister, always feel it polite to look lugubrious. Go forth, O people, to your lawlul asmusment. Cod means you to be happy. But when there are so many sources of innocent pleasure why tamper with anything taat is dangerous and polluting! Wiy stop our ears to a heaven full of songsters to listen to the hiss of a dragon? Why turn back from the mountain side all a blocom with wild ilcwers and a dash with the nimble torrents, and -with blistered feet attemp: to climb the hot sides of Cotopaxi I Now, all opera houses! theaters, bowling alleys, skating rinks and ail styles of amusement, good and bad, I put on trial today and judge of them by certain cardinal principles. First, youmusi juege oi tuiy aiiAucciXACii. cj its hurtful result or by its baneful reaction. If an amusement sends yen home at night nervous so you cannot ileep, and ycu rise in the morning not ? w-J - ..-- yvi-l ZLJLC.?*~~~ -?-^==ri--^rr becauso you arc slept out, but because i your duty drags you from your slumbers, you have been where you ought not to to have been. There arc 8musemen ts that send a man next day to his work bloodshot, yawning, stupid, nauseated, and they are wrong kinds of amusements. There are entertainments that give a man disgust with, drudgery of iife, with toois, because L r. rrvyrh TrrnrLr- I inej are col iswurua, onu ing aprons because they are not rcbes, with rattle because they are cot infuriated buils c? the arena. If any amusement sends you home longing for a life of romance and thrilling adventure, love thai takes poison and ahocts itself, moonlight adventures and hairbreadth tscapes, jou may depend upcn ii tea: ycu are suicided | victim of unsanctined pleasure. Our recreations are intended to build usuo and if tney pull us down as to oar moral or as to cur physical strength you may come to ;he conclusion mat they are obnoxiou?. Still further tnose amusements are wrong whicb lead into expenditure be yonlyour means. Money spent in recreation is not thrown away. It is all folly for us to coma from a place of amusement leering teat we have wasted our money ana time. You may by it have made an investment ; worth more than the transaction thai ! yielded you $100 or $1>000. Uat how many properties have oeen riddled by costly amusemenis? Tile taole has been robbed io pay the club. Tte champagne has caeated the children's wardrobe. The carousing party has burned up the boy's primer. Tte tablecloth o! tie corner saloon is in debt to the wife's faded dress. Excursions that in a day make a tour around a whole month's wages, ladies whose lifetime business it is to "go shoppiag" have their couaterpart ia uneducated children, bankruptcies that shock the money market and appall the church and that send drunkenness staggering across the richly figured carpet o? the mansion and dashing into the mirror and drowning out tne caroi of music with the whooping of bloated sons to came home to brers their old mother s heart. When men go into amusements that they cannot aft'oid, they first borrow what they cannot earn, and then they steal what they cannot borrow. First they go into embarrassment and then into theft, and when a man gets as far on as that he does not stop snort of the psnitentiary.- There is not a prison in the land wnere there are not victims of unsanctinec amusements. How often i have had parents come to me and as/c me to go and beg their boy off from the const quence of crimes tnat be had committed against nis employer?the taking of funds out of tiie employer's till, or the disarrangement of the accounts. Why, he nad salary enough to pay all lawful expenditure, but not enough salary to meet his sinful amusements. And again and again I have gone and implored for tne young men?sometimes alas, the petition unavailing. Again, judge of. the places of amusemeat, by the companionship into which tney put you. If you belong to an organization where you have to associate witn the intemperate, with the uncleanj with the abandoned, however well they may be dressed, in the name of God quit it. They will undermine your moral character. They will drop you when they are destroyed. They wili not give 1 cent to support your children when you are dead. Tney wili weep not one tear at your bririaL Tney wili chuckle over jour damnation. But the day comes whn the men who have exerted evil influence upon their fellows will be brought to judgment. Scene, the iast nay. Stage, tne rocking earth. Enter uukes, iords, kings, beggars, clowns. No sword. No tinsel. No crown, b'or footlights, the kindling iiames of a world. For orchestra,'the ' At- - J 2 T7I uuuupcwi uxa. wai.c ueau. rurs gallery, the cioulds filled withacgel spectators, For applause, the clap ping floods of the sea. For curtains, me neavens rolled together as a scroll. For tragedy, the doom of the de stroyed, For farce, the effort to servt the world and Gcd at the same time. For the last scene of the fifth act, the tramp of nations across the stage, some to tJtie Ujjhi, otners to the left. Again, any amusement that gives ycu a distaste for domestic life is bad. fiow many bright domestic circles have been broken up by sinful amusements'* The father went cff. the child went off. There are all around us the fragments of blasted households. Oh, if you have wandered away, I would like to charm you back by the sound of that one word, ,lHome." Do you not know that you have but little more time Jo give to domestic welfare? Do you not see, father, that your children sre soon to go out into the world and ail the iniluerce for good you are to have over them j ou must have now ri Death will break in on your conjugal relations, ana, alas if you have to stand C7?r the grave of one who perished from ycur neglect. I saw a wayward husband standing at the deathbed of his Christian wife, and I saw her point to a ring on her finger and heard her say to her husband, "Do you se? that ring?'' He replied, "Yes, I see it." "Well," said she, '"do vou remember who put it there-." "Yes," said he, "I put it there." And all the past seemed to rush upon him. By the memory of that day when in the presence of raen and angeis you promised to be faithful in joy and sorrow and in sickness and in nealth; by the memory of those pleasant hours when you sat together in your new house talking of a bright future; by *lie cradle and the excited hour when one life was spared and another given; by that sickbed, when the little one lifted up the hands and called for help aaa you knew he must die, and he put one arm around each of jour necks and brought you very near together in that dying kiss; by the little grave in the cemetery that you never think of without a rush of tears; by the family Bible, where in its stories of heavenly love is the brief but expressive record of births and deaths; by the neglects of the past and by the agonies of the future; by a iud^ment dav when husbands and wives, parents and children, in immortal groups will stand to be caught up in shining array or to shrink down into darkness?by ail that I beg you to give to home and your best aifec tions. I look in your eyes todav, and I ask you the question that Gehazi asked oI the Shunammiie: "Is it well with thee? Is it well with thy husband? is it well with thy child? God grant that it may be everlastingly well! Let me ssy to all young men your style of amusement will decide your eternal destiny. One night X saw a -j. ? young man si a sT.reet,cuiner eviucuily doubtiog as to whicn direction he had better lake. He had his hat lifted High enough so jtu could see he had an inteiiigem lorehead. He had a stout chest; he had a robust development. Splendid young man. Cultured young man. Honored young man. Wby did he step there while so many crnir-.cr in and down? The f&Ct is ! thai every man has a good angel and J a bad angel contending for the maste- j ry o! ills spirit. And there was a good | angei and a bid angel struggling with \ that young man's soul at the corner! ; ot the street. j "Come with me/' siid the good an- j | gel. *"1 will take ycu home. I will j < spread my wing over your pathway, I j j will lovingly escort you all through I life, I will bless every cap you drink ! out of, cv;;ry ccuch you rest on, every ! doorway you enter; X will consecrate your tears when you w(eo, your sweat when vou toil, and a: the last I will hand over your grave into the hand of tse bright angei of a Christian resurrection. Ia answer to jour fathers petition and your mother's nFOT-cv T hatrsk rppn Q?"nf. r>f 1 Vl & TiO.Yc\ c"";-1 * ? ? ? out cf heaven to be your guarcian spirit. Come with me!'' said the good angei in a voice cf unearthly symphony. It was music like that which drops from a J ate cf heaven when a seraph breathes on it. "No, no.;' said the bad an^el, "come wilh me! I have something better to offer. The wine3 I pour are from cnnalices of bewitch ing carousal, tne dance I lead is over floor tessel?ted with unrestrained indulgences. Tnere is no God to frown on the temples cf sin where I worship The skies are Italian. The paths I tread are through meadows daisied and primrosed. Come with me!'' The joung man hesitated at a time when hesitation was ruin, and tne bid angel smote the good angel until it departed, spreading wings uircugh the starlight upward and away untii | a nnsn in the slfTT AtH I Ck uuu; uaougu au ?uv ? ? I forever the wings vanished. Tnat was ; the turning point in thatycuag man's j history, for ice go^d angel tiotfn, he | hesitated no longer, bus. slartta on a i pathway which is beautiful at tne opening, but blasied at the Jast. The bad angel,leading the way.opened gate after gale, and at each gate the road became rougher ana tne sky more lurid, and, what was peculiar, as the i gate slammed shut it came to with a jar that indicated that it wouid never uperi. 'Passed each portal, there was s. grinding of locks ana a shoving of ooit:>, and the scenery on either side the changed from gardens to deserts, and the J une air oecome a cutting December blast, and the bright wing* of the bad am>el turned to sackciotn and thft evfis of iifht became hollow i -?- ? j o witi, nopeless grief, and the fountains that at tne start had tossed wine pour- j ed forth bubbling tears and foaming j blood, and on the right side cf the j road mere was a serpent, and the man j said to the bad angel, "What is that i serpent?" And the answer was, "That is tne serpent of stinging remorse." Oil ihe left side of ihs road there iras j a lion, and the man asked the bad an- j gc\i, "what is that lion?" And the answer was, "Ihat is the lion of all devouring despair." A vulture flew througn the sU:y, and the man asked the bad angel, '*Wnat is that vulture?" Ana the answer was, "Ihat is tne wulture waiting for the carcasses of the slain." And then the man began to try to pull off of him the iolas of sometning that nad wound him round and round, and he said to the bad angel, "What is it that twists me in this awful convolution?" And tne answer was, ?uat is tuo wuiux mau never dies." And then the man said to the bad angel: "Wbat does ail this mean? I trusted in what ?ou said at the corner of the street that night. I trusted it aii, and why have jou thus deceived me?'' Then the last deception fell oif the cnarmer, and it said: "I was sent forth from the pit to destroy your souL I watched my chance for many a long, year. WHen you hesiiated tJaat night on the street, 1 gained my triumph. Now you are nere. Ha, ha! You are here! Come, now, let us fill tiiese two chalices of fire and drinic together to darkness and woe and deatn. Hail, hail!" O young man, will the good angel sent xorth oy Cnrist or the bad angel sent fortn by sin get the victory over jour soul? Their wings are interlocked this moment above you, contending Tor your destiny, as above the Apennints eagle and candor tight midsky. I'his hour may decide your destiny. God help you! To hesitate is to die. O.N TO WASHINGTON. Annual Sleeting e( the National Edcca tlonal Association Jaly 7-12,1S98. T.ie National Association is now recognized as one of the moat powerful agencies of educational development in America. The vital questions concerning education are tnere dis cussed by the ablest men and women in the nation. Every kind of institution is there represented ?the university, the college, the academy, the pub- j lie school, the kindergarten, the nor-1 ma] school, the tecnnical school.! These meetings are attended by thousands of teachers from every state in! the Union and from Canada. A visit to the '"Paris of America" is J cne of peculiar interest. No other city in America offers such a variety of objects cf interest ana instruction. The Capitol building is a magnificent stor.e structure 750 feet long. In this massive pile are the chambers of United States Senate, House of Representatives, Supreme Court and various other rooms, such as the Presi dent's room, the mabie rooro,t tne ladies'parlor and siatuary hall.' Near by is the new congressional library, the best equipped in America.. Scattered over tlie city of nearly 300,000 inhabitants are tiie state, war and navy building, the tieasury, the patent office, the agricultural building, the bureau of engraving, the Smithsonian institution and national museum, the ordnance museum, the White House, the Corcoranari gallery, the tosanical gardens, the Washington monument, the arsenal, the cavy jard, the soldier's home, the general postoffice, Fori's theatre, etc. Just across the Potomac is the famous Arlington, the former home Hubert E. Lee. Fit teen miles down the river is historic Mount Vernon. It is probable that Congress wiil be in session during the meeting of the Association. Washington has more than twenty-five hotels. Board per day, Eu ropean plan, ranges from 75 cents upward. Board, per day, American plan, ranges from $1.50 upward. Boarding houses clfer rates from 75 cents to $1.50 per day for rooms only, and $1 25 to $2.00 per day for rooms and board. The railroads will sell round-trip tickets at one fare plus$2 membership fee in the Association. Tickets will be on sale July 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th, limited to July 16 :h. If, however, the tickets are depositen with the joint ticket agont in Washington, at an expense of 50 cents, cn or before July 12th, the limit will be extended to August 31st. I'ha S.->nth rbmlinft Stfltft Tear.hftrs' Association meets at Harris Springs July 1-5. A party of teachers and their friends in company with the State Director will leaye Harris Springs immediately after the ad j ournmeni of the State Association. Persons going in this party will have choice of ail rail to Washington, or rail to Norfolk and beat up tne Potomac. Ail who desire to join this party will please notify the Director as early as possible, that ne may make proper arrangements for them. Arrangements for board should be made before July 1st- No one is required to join any party cr to travel by any route save thai of his own cnoice. The Director would be glad to have the names of all wi*o intend to take the trip, whether ss one of his party A" n?t_ Wrjtp fnr acv further infor iiiation desired. Yv. H. Hand, Chester, S. C., State Director N. E. A. ! A FIGHT OS FUTURES. {' jCONGRESSMAN STCKSS TAtKsj, ABOUT THE WAR HE IS WAGING. j< 3e strocg Si.ppcit All National As- ' ( xJcaitaril ozjgacj/.ttio?? Kadorte BJ? : Bill? Lelte.'s Wheat Deal Barefits It. Newspaper agents of Wall street j and kindred interests are starring Jop ] Lsiter as the "farmers' friend," aid incidentally p.re sayiug much about the alleped benefit this young mans gambling in wheat has been to th9 ' grower. Of course these suggestions 1 will not bear analysis for the very ; good reason teat in ail such cases the ' rise in the price comes after the t tuff, . whether it be wheat or corn or cotton, has left the hands of tho producers. But these claims made for Leiter have ' had the good effect of drawing the at- . tention of the country to the evils of the s-y?tern which makes speculation in agricultural products ^possible, and will, in ail likelihood, lead to action by congress in the not for future. stokes fights option gambling. ! 1 Perhaps the most active man in eith i I er house in ODnosition to option gam- : [ b'ing is Congressman S:okes. of the j Seventh district of South Carolina. Dr. Stokes enjoys the distinction of ! being the first in recent Tears to take < up tnis light, and he is looked upon as the leader in it. He introduced a bill i early in December last which proposes : to abolish this evil. His speech de- j: livered April 12th on this subject, is j the only one deliver* d in either body ? of the national legislature during this j. congress. In that speech he make3 an j i exhaustive arraignment of the option gambler in agricultural products with ! especial reference to gambling in cot i ton. While the growers of wheat ana : other products are defended his appeal i in behalf of the cotton growers was j particularly strong. While his work i | has been in behalf cf all producers of I agricultural commodities, the cotton growers especially should rally to : Congressman Stokes in his fight for , this bill. The South Carolina congressman i talks interestingly of thesubject which is closest to his heart. In talking with me about the general subject of option j gambling, and with especial reference to the Leiter wheat deal, he said: ; "The Lsiter coup has given a tremendous imDulse to the demand for j national legislation against gambling in the necessaries of life. Hitherto i this demand has come principally from the farmers who nave been the chief sufferers from option gambling. Now the great masses vf commoners i are having their fuss. If the iniquity of LeiterVmonstrous gambling deals ; in wheat shall result in bringing the cnnsnmprs and producers together in an irresitible assault upon this sort of robbery, the C3st to the country at large will not be too great." Replying to a suggestion that a further explanation of the "iniquity" and "robbery" referred towoulc, be of interest to the Constitution's readers, he said: "Well, I may say that all gambling is robbery. The man who gambles on cards roos only himself or < his antagonist The man who gambles in bread or clothing stuffs robs hu , manity. I am one .:of those who dare , to say that all immorality may properly and ought to be attacked and stamped out by law. Tnat is the pur- , pose of society in organizing govern- , ment. I have no patience with the hypocritical dccirine that you can't legislate morals into people. You can't make people good by law, but < you can make evil so costly by la* that it pays to be decent, if not good, j OPTION BETS ADROITLY CONDUCTED. "The misery about tiiese option bsts ? ? - * * AO I is iney are au auruiuj u avoid the state statues against gambling?in fact, they keep inside the law, The laws now on the statute books prohibit^ man betting on cards, where the gambler "only robs himself i or his autagonist They are not framed ; so as to catch the miscreant who bets upon the price of food and clothing stuffs and thereby robs millions of hone3t people. How does the option dealer rob people?" "I am just coming to that. It is likathis: Take that Leiter deal for illustration for the method is precisely ; the same on the cotton exchange. Leiter placed what were practically : bets to the amount of millions that wheat would be above 70 cents on a certain date. He called it selling ( wheat at 70 cents, to be delivered on the given date. His antagonists bet ( that wheat would below 70 cents on , that date arrived if wheat was q ioted at 73, Leiter would be the winner by r*r r>tc nri KusHaI 1 f thfl nuntatiou < was oS. then Loiter would be ihe leser by 2 cents on the bushel. , "But who fixes the quotations? How ' La that done? Is it fixed by the Gffer- , ings and talkings of actual wheat? Not a bit of it' There is a committee ; of expert exchange gamblers whose \ duty it is to fix the quotations. You will see at once, then, that tha ( question o* who will win the bet resolves itself largelyinto another ques tion and it is this?who shall fx the committee?'' j "You do not mean to say that the ( quotations arefixed by the committee ( arbitrsrilj V . "Well; they are supposed to take ' the average of the operations of each day on the exchange. But who would feel safe in the hands of any committee in the gambling atmosphere of the exchange? Given a gambling in- | stinct, a gambling training and a , Mmhli'nff nnnwtn nitv flnH what ?- | should happen? Precisely what does happen?gambling beside which the wildest orgies of Monte Carlo are tame and insipid( Well, if I understand you, that man stands to win who can fix the committee on quotations?" , "That is undoubtedly true. But I do not say that all quotation commit- 5 tees are invariably fixed. I was pointing out the immense power for evil ; entrusted in the hands of a few men? J all whose training and instinct is speculative. The committee may be perfectlj honest and refralD from specu ' ktion themselves, and yet the result be a purely fictitious quotation. They , work it this way. Go back to Leiter: Having placed his bets on wheat going about 70 cents, Leiter formed a clique to go on tne eicnange. uae member of the clique would offer : wheat at prices above 70 cents to another member of the clique. They would offer and take, back and forth, miLions upon millions of bushels in this way?neither of them having a bushels of wheat; but all these tran sactions are reported to the CDmmittee 1 on quotations ana go to make the average for the Cay. They are called 'wash sales' on the exchange. The , members of the clique have a perfect ' understanding that no demand will ce made either for margins or for commodities sold." "Excuse me, but you have not yet shown how this robs the people." "Oh, ye3. I. was coming to that : when jou asked your other question. Ycu see how these quotations are 'fixtd,' either by 'fixing' the committee or by 'fixing' the average price through 'wash sales.' For an outside party to try to cope with the ganib- ; ! lmg ring is about like a greenhorn ! batting against the 'bank' in a faro I game or against a 'gang' with loaded | dice or 'stacked' cards. The outsider I is dead sure to lose. "Wei], the exchanges have pushed | their ratifications throughout thpj whoie csuntry and every pound of j cotton or bushel of wheat or corn sold i ' =3ch day is sold absolutely by :he exchange quotations. And hence the | ootioa garnbters, by thimble-rigging I i Either the committee or tsequotations i levy a tribute upon the stomach or] tbe back of every consumer in the i lard at the same time that they take j away from tbe .'armer the fruits of j bis honest tcil." I LE ITER'S TRANSACTIONS. j ' Bat it is claimed that Lsiter merely bought sc:uai wheat and a./ain ' at a nrofit, as he had a r-ght to do." "He did buy and sell nctuai wheat i ?that is true. That he only did ] what honest tiacesmen do every day J is disingenuous as well as false. He -j bought actual wheat only alter it be- , came necessary in order >o secure the ' winnings on bis outstardiug bets and ' to multiply his winnings. After he < bad forced the price up to 77 cents by ! 'fixing' the quotations, it occurred to * bim to buy up all the actual wheat in , sight and then take advantage of his ; antagonists. Ha had a corner on * gambling contracts. If he should get " a corner on actual wheat and then ue mand wheat instead of the winnings agreed upon; he could force the price ( up indefinitely. Tnat is precisely $ what he did; and tnei cry of hungry: ] children was heard in tbis land of t pleniy because they couid not pay the demands of this option gambler. The t same is true in every respect of deals i in cotton and other subjects of option i gambling." i "Don't the farmer get the benefit of i high prices when the bulls get cDiitrol ' of the ezchangef' c "Probably one out of a hundred 1 iocs, and he is apt to be the one who s couid best get along without it. It is c a fact burntd into the memory of our i cotton growers every year that tne i gamblers in cotton force the price down m the faJl after tilts balk of tbe j j farmers have sold in the spring, up gc J x Lhe prices. Tne same is true year in | i and year out of all the crops that are < gambled down to suit the interest ot s the option dealers. You noticed I j suppose that Leitter got out of the i wheat pit and lei the prica collapse 1 before the first carload of new wheat t got to Chicago? ? J ' But suppose the farmers were to J get the benefit of high prices every J time the bulls get in control. Tbe j history shows tnat there has no such 'i thing occurred on the grain exchange c since the lime oT 'Ola Hutch,1 and t none on the cction exchance since In- ) man operated a similar deal in cot- 1 ton. All these other years tne ex- i changes have oeen in the hands of bears in the fail and the bulls in the spring. The mass of the farmers have ? to sell m me laa. rney cant noia. "And so in this instance, the cotton farmer Ls ground between the upper and the nether millstone. The bears are in control of what he has to sell, while the bulis are in control of what he has to buy. This is the culminating infamy of the system, and it shoula be stamped out utterly. t4I introduced a bill last December that is the result of several years' study of this question. If all the people interested m fair prices based upon actual supply and actual demand will get behind this bill it will be made ft law. When X say people interested, that means both consumers *nd producers, both are robbed under thi? vicious system. "It is an outrage that any man or body of men should ha7e absolute jontrol of the prices of the product of another. It is infamous when such power is permitted to a gang of option gamblers. The mere possession ol that power is a menace to the business a?- J fected by it. The possession of power J is the guarantee of the exercise of that i power. It will be so as long as water 1 runs down hill and avarice abides in 1 the human breast. The law of the 1 land should make the possession of ] such power impossible. If both con- J sumers and producers?the honest < toilers of the land?will combine to i this end it will be accomplished be i yond a doubt. Ohl. j *-: J Some Now Taxes. 3 Among the many items that will be 2 taxed under the war revenue bill, there ( are a number that will affect the people directly. Bat the classes as well I is the masses will have to bear the -1 burdens- ] 1. There is a pretty still tax of ten J Mats a pound on tea. ( 2. A beer and tobacco tax will un- 1 icubtediy make lhese article deartr, 1 ur tne consumer must ba content witn * less or an inferior ariicie. * 3. Life insur^cca policies will cost i * an rta n rc o ? 1 i ion 11 J\J twUU m VijUVU. 4. Patem medicines and chewing ) gum will come in also for tneir share, 1 5. Bankers and brokers wiil pay a * 3pecial tax. \ 6. Boards cf trade and the issue ef J new securities must pay something to j [he government. 1 7. Telegrams and long distance tel- [ ephone messages. i 8. Wine and sleeping car tickets. 1 9. Sugar and oil refiners. 10. Inheri;ances must also pay a " tax, beginning at 3-4 cf 1 percent, on ( directs inheritances of more than $10,- 1 000 and less than $25,000; this tax 1 goes all the way up to 15 per cant, on j legacies cl over $1,000,000 inherited ; bv remote relatives or not connected J with blocd. < Besides these provisions, there ij a ' tond feature, but it is not thought 1 that it will be necessary to issue all 1 tbe bonds authorized under the exigencies of the war. j , How to Succeed. i An exchange has the following ad- J iress to business me a. If you expect < to conquer in the battle of today you 1 will have to blow jour trumpet in a steady way. If you toot your little * whistle and lay aside your horn, 1 there's not a soul will know that you * were ever bcrc. The man that owns ( bis acres is the man that plows all * day, and the man that keeps things ic+>ia rr.a.Ti that's hfirfl to 1 LI LLULLJOJL.J_Ug ******* ._ jtay. Bat the man who advertises < with a sort of sudden jerk is the man J who blames the printer because he 1 didn't work. The man who gets the ] business uses brainy printer's ink, not ' a clatter or a sputter, but an ad, that makes you think; ani he plans < his advertisement as he plans a 1 well built stock, and in the future of 1 his business is as solid as a rock. 1 i Tried to Ran ths Blockade. A two-masted vessel, the Amapala < f Trujillo, Honduras, was brought in 1 I'm Wact mnrnins' f] vine' I J r* ?J o the American flag and in charge of ( EnsisnZ;en of the Vicksburg. She t was captured Friday afternoon at i <uaset, while leaving Habana and attempting to run the bicckade. She 1 was quickly overhauled by the Vicks- ( burg and was found to have over 30 ! women and children and a number cf J men on board, crew and passengers, ] all refugees. There was no sickness bsard the Amapala, but she is detain- 2 ed in quarantine. ? ???????? y Oze HaadrCl sal TairCy Drowned. 1 lafcrmation has jas; reached here to the effect that during a recent typhoon at Port Arthur a Chinese torpedo boat destroyer was driven ashore there and ] 130 men were drowned' The Russian 1 o: ih* < WUrbilif v cixa-jr WWJM* ? i Great was also damaged during the < same storm, 11 \ J CONDITION OF CROPS. 'FGUL^R WEEKLY VVEAT^ ?R *ND CROP BULLETIN sSSOED. Yonajj rop* *ro Doing WiJ.it t'ae Obseneera Ail Ovdt ttse itve Report tc Be*dq'iT.r:*rs Tijf I&fortrat'.cn Consolidate. The first three dajso? the wetk endxjj June 20:h were warmer than lsual, and ibe last four days hadabou! icrmai temperature. The highest leoiperature fcr the freak was 100 decrees on the 14th, 15th ird IGth, reported from Beaufort, Dakiand, Hedges. Greenwood aca Poverty Bill as having occurred on 3Ee or more of the above dales at each place. The night temperature ranged be ;ween 75 arid 01 degrees, the latter beng the minimum for the State and )ccurred at Greenville on the 20th. Che weekly mean temperature for the State was SO, and the normal for the ame is approximately 78 degrees. PRECIPITATION. Showers occurred in some portions )f the State each clay of the week, jeneraliy light and scattered until thc L6th, on which day showers were gen;ral, and in places v*ry heavy. At Wiunscoro 3 26 inches fell in ,wo and a half hours, and at Trial on he sime date 3 92 feil in htt'e over an lour. The drought is now thoroughy relieved except over limited areas n Aiken and Abbeville counties, ,vhere the need of more rain is indi:ated. () 7er limited areas, lands were jadlv washed by the heavy rains, and ;ome bottom land crops damaged or lesiroyed by llcoding. The smallest ainfaii measaremen! for the week n&< U.t)6 inch reported from Trenton, tfhile 19 places regorted amounis anging from i to 2 inches, 17 places eporlmg amounts between 2 and o ncnes; and la places amcanis in ex;ess c( 3 inches. Tie following execs ive measurements were 'received; iVlcoiu 3.00, Society Hill 3.33, Shiloh T ^ fi Wmncnirn A. QD T?i Trprtrip w A Of) Bamberg 3 37, Oakland 4.S7, Bowman I 00, Eiia 4 00 Darlingtou 3 11, Little ilountain 3.09, Trial 4.38, Cheraw 1.66, Charleston 3.01, St. Georges 3 38, 3t. Matthews 3 70. Spartanburg 3 20, Allendale 3.14. The average cf 56 neasurements representing everj jouniy in the State was 2.53 inches arid ,he normal tor the same period is approximately 1.00 inch. In most secions there still remains a seasonal de iciency cf from 1 to 10 incites. SUNSHINE, HAIL, WIND. There was mora than the usua] imcunt of cloudiness during the week although no entirely cloudy dajsoc juried. The average percentage ol jright sunsaine was 4S per cent, oi i . t rr , . . .3 ii.. ;ne possioie- nan accsmpaniea me Jhunderstorms in many counties with ocal damage to cotton and fruit. Severe wind slorms occurred in Green rille, Spartanburg and Berkeley coua;ie3, damaging corn and fruit trees, [njury by hail and high winds was jonfined to limited areas. CROP CONDITIONS. Needed moisture having been sup plied in abundance, and the soil hav ng bean well caltivated and fields ires 'rom weeds, staple crops all made rapid improvement during the week, ind with the exception of permanenl jajury, of no considerable extent, tc jorn and tobacco by the late drought, ;roFS are all in fice growing condition. Early planted corn is tasseling low, with spindling stalks, and is noi promising, out later planting is now Looking fine and growing fast. Up land corn is being "laid by," and is aearly all ready to ''lay by." Bottom ands, as well as wheat end oats stub' Die lands, which have heretofore been Af-rr trt nlnnr ow> mnxxr haino nvA |UV WAJ HV j-'-V f! J M^w -UU Jl VVA" pared and planted to co:rn. Various localities report serious injury to the iorn prospects from the drought, and i few from the effects of bud worms, dtnough generally corn has made a narked improvement. Some bottom lands have been flooded by excessive rains and the corn drowned. In many sections it has been too wet to work :orn during the last of the week. Tue condition of cotion is now very jcod over the entire State, and particuarly line on sandy lands. Over the vestern counties, and notably in Sauda county, cotton seed that lias lain lormant in the grounds since it was jlanted in May, is nov coming up to iae stacd?. Fields are wtll cultivated, ilthough cultivation interrupted durag the week by the heavy rains. Sarly cotton is fruiting on squares leavily, and bicoms are noted everywhere throughput the State. Cotton, s growing very rapidly no97. Lice ire fast uisappaaring, except in Ciarindon county, while in portions of Etampton some fields are alTected, and hat plant dying from an apparent jlighi: otherwise cotton is in a neaithj socdition. Saa island cotton has improved very much during the week, jut is very small for the season. The general condition ot tobacco vas greatly improved by the suppiy )f needed moisture, and this crop is low growing vigorously. Early jlantec/ tobacco was materially injured >y the drought, and cannot recover uily, notaDly so in Williamsburg and Marion counties; in the latter county jutting and curing has begun. Tojacco worms are less numerous and .roublesome than /or a number of past seasons. Rice shared in the general improvenent but not to the same extent, as ;he rivers are still salty or brackish, which causes planters great annoyance, and where breaks occur in the lams, injury to the growing rice as well as delaying planting. Oats were practically all harvested *nd housed before the rains set ir?, as was wheat. Threshing continues with iverage yields cr better, except in Ibonee county wheat is not up to an iverage. Sweet potato draws are being Dlanted over the entire State in large 5 u an ties under very favorable weathei icd soil conditions. Ir;3h potatoes were too nearly matured,'or the vine* prematurely dried up, to be benefitted oj the rains. Peaches are ripening, but it is gen ;rally reported that the fruit is smaL with exceptions especially in Edge 5eld, Lexington and G-reenwoodcoun ;ies, -where fruit of fine quality is be ng shipped in large quantities. .apples vary with the locality, ai;hough less dropping is noticed since ;he rains. Wild berries are more abundant anc )f better quality, due to more mois,ure, planted gardens look very pro nising. Pastures are greatly revived and will sooa afford excellent grazing, jxardens were too nearly ruined to be benefitted by the rains except thai aewly planted gardens loou verv aromising. for "?t?m animals is now nore available although the largei streams remain at low stages, and jvelis yield but liitle more than last ivesk. J. W. Bauer, Section Director, Columbia, S. C. Tse New York Herald printsa large picture of Lieutenant Victor Blue, ol ;he fc'uwanee, the brilliant young South Carolinian who has distiuguishUimcolf in i-iqtto 1 comitinc rintv r?r> the Cuban coast. \ AN ALU AROUND MIX-UP. : Dorn-rCrit*: Fojjullato and'SU?e- Itepub licacn of Michigan Comblnr. f For <?ovprr>or. ex Congressman Ju3* tin R. Whitiug of St. Clair, Deiao1 cr^t i For Lieaterant Governor?Michael F. McDonald o?Sault St. Marie, Dem'! ocrat. For Secretary of State?L E. Lockwood of Ooldwater, Populist. Fcr Auditor Geueral?John L. Fris bie of Hillsdale, Silver Republican. ; For StateTreashrer?Dr. Edgar B. Smith ol I>?troit, Democrat. i F?r Attorney General?Royal A. . Haw lay of Ion a, Silver Republican. ! For "Land Commissioner?Cariton Feck of Laper, Populist. l For Superintendent of Public In. struction?Mis. Florence Renkes of Barry county, Silver Republican. For Member State Board of Education?George E Willets of Calhoun . county, Populist. The above ticket was nominated > Wednesday by the State convention : of th* Democrats. Populists and Sil ver Republicans of Michigan. It repy#>s#mts nn pnual riiKtrihiitirm hetween . the three parties. The ticket was rati fied in joint convention. The platforms do not conflict on aay essential point. Tnat adopted by the Populists is, perhaps, less radical than heretofore; and, at the request of the Populists a plank was inserted in the Democratic platform favoring the initiative and referendum. The Silver Republicans also modified their declaration to make it more in accordance with the Democratic platform. The latter closes with a message of greeting to W. J. Bryan. A joint convention ratified the ticket and arranged for an aggressive plan of ' campaign. ' A THIRTY HOURS BATTLE. Bf.'.voiiu tbe OabaD Iciarx?Dt3 *ud the tfpasludi. A gunboat arrived at Key West Saturday afternoon from the blockading squadron off Cardenas. She had a small cat boat in tow with six Cu. bans from Gomez, camp aboard. They . left the camp of the insurgent leader June 20, with dispatches and are the first direct messengers from ms camp ; j since the beginning of the war. They . reported that Gen, Gomez is en jojing splendid health and spirits, and that ; the health cf the Cub%ns in the field is excellent. Tae headquarters cf the insurgents is someplace batween Re medios and S&nctiSpiritus and is unmolested by Spaniards. The messengers are under orders Irotn Gomtz to . ke?p secret military, movements .and : the strength of the Cuban army, bat they admit that ths insurgents still ' lack* arms and ammunition. The : messengers will leave at once with i dispatches for Gen. Thomas Estrada i Paima in New York. On June 14 an oviooffflmorit trwiV hat.meATi tVi a ' Cuban and Spanisa forces at Panta Algere, lasting 30 hours. Over 200 i Spaniards were killed. The Cubans j lost nine men. They were unable to follow up their victory, owing to lack of ammunition. German Ship Held Up. The steamer Francia Capt. Schrct| ter, of Hamburg,bound from Samtma, ! Santo Domingto, for San Juan, with passengers only, w#s stopped six : miles north of the Porto Rican coas; 1 at noon on Friday bv the American. > auxiliary cruiser St. Paul, which fired blank and solid shots across tne Fi-ao" cia's bows. An offiser of the St. Paul boarded the Francia and told her captain not to enter San Juan- Captain Schrotter continued on his cruise, 1 whereupon the St. Paul signalled, 1 "Obey orders or I will fire into you.': ' The Francia obeyed and was followed 1 for four hours by the St. PauL Sbe at ftt. Thnmas .Tnn? '?R Kabv. 1 ing tv70 Spanish passengers destined 1 for San Juan. A letter from Vieguez 1 states thai American warahip3 have been s?en for the last tea days off 1 Porto Rican coast. ; I Killed the Engineer. Train No.49, northbound expres?, on the Burlington was delayed at 10:30 Saturday night one mile north of White Hall, I1L, by an attempted" hold-up. Tne robbers crawled aboard the engine and shot the engineer. Tne robbers were frightened off and secured no booty. As the again stopped at; the C & A erasing, a masked man climbed over tne tender witn a leveled revolver. Fireman George Savage jumped from the engine jost as the robbsr fired, the bullet taking effect in the engineer's side. The robber then sprang from the en-; gine and flsd. Engineer Dampsey was carried intn the hacror&^a rar lin conscious and died within 20 minutes. Bloodhounds were immediately puti on tne trail of the murderer. Z*tiro Ordered to Le?*. A special cable from Hon* Kong says: 'The American supply ship' Z-ifiro,- which was S3nt here from'Ma>. nila by Admiral Dewey to prccore; provisions and other necessaries for. the fleet, and which anchored a few-' miles from here in Chinese waters, has baen compelled to leave by the Chinese authorities. The Chinese notified United States Consul Wildman, at Hong Konj7, to take the Zifiro out of the jurisdiction of the emperor at once, and refused to allow her even the customary 24 hours stay, or a pound of coal or provisions. - >3^ / \ \ Love in the Scale. /i\ "How much doc? the baby f]\ weigh" is only another way Ac asking, " I? lir healthy and if A\ strong?" When a baby is // . V~ \ welcomed into the world with ( loving care and forethought, h*s chances of health ana strength are increased a hundred-fold. A prospective mother cannot begin too early to look after her: o-vn health and physical'condition. This -:!re to be reflected in the baby. 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