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nmu OF WEALTH,! *mm? Eminent Divine ?ays too Many i Riches Cause Misery. * USELESSNESSOFTHE GIANT. e^!$*L'" * V - Services of the Commonplace. They Who Do the World's Work. Divinity of ? Service. From a passage of Scripture that ^ probably no other clergyman ever preached from Rev. Dr. Tallage in this discourse sets forth a truth very appropriate for those who have unhealthy ambition for great wealth or fame. The text is I Chronicles xx, 6, 7: " A mon A? (rrmf ctnfnrf* whnsn fitlST ers and toes were four and twenty, sis on each hand and six on each foot, and he also was the sou of a giant. But when he defied Israel, Jonathan, the son of Shimea, David's brother, slew him." Malformation photographed, and for what reason? Did not this passage slip by mistake into the sacred Scriptures, a r\n rrT-.-i rvV* llff Arl \7 aK- I SUUiCWlIIUI) u> uvwv?*j vw noxious to the editor gets into his newspaper during his absence? Is not this Scriptural errata? No, no; there is nothing haphazard about the Bible. This passage of Scripture was as certainly intended to be put in the Bible as the verse. "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." or uGod so loved the world that he gave ~ his only begotten Son." And I select it for my text today because it is charged with practical and tremendous meaning. By the ]>eople of God the Philistines had been con / auered, with the exception of a- few giant3. The race of giants is mostly C;",, c. extinct, I am glad to say. There is no use for giants now except to enlarge svrr. the income of museums. But there were many of them' in olden times. GoliaJ&jwas, according to the Bible, 11 r~*"fSet4l inches high, or if you doubt 31 ? this, the famous Pliu;, declares that at Crete by an earthquake a monument j; was yruKeu opeu, uiswvciwg ?? mains of a giant 46 cubits long, or 69 feet high. So, whether you'take sacred or profane history, you must come to $?- ihe conclusion that there were in those times cases of human altitude monstrous and appalling. David had smashed the skull of one of these giants, but there were other giants that the Davidean wars had not yet subdued, and one of them stands in my text. He was not only of Alpine stature, but had a surplus of dig ~ its. To the ordinary lingers was annexed an additional finger, and the foot also a superfluous addendum. He had 2-i terminations to hands and feet, where others have 20. It was not the only instance of the kind. Tavernier, the learned writer, says that the emperor of Java had a son endowed with the same number of extremities. Yolcatius, the poet, had six fingers on each hand. Maupertuis, in his celebrated letters, speaks of two families near Berlin similarly equipped of hand and foot All of which I ean believe, for I have seen two cases of the same physical superabundance. But this* giant of the text is in battle, and as David, the stripling warrior, had dispatched one giant the nephew of David slays this monster of my text, and there he lies aftei the battle in G-ath, a dead giant. His stature did not save him, and his superfluous appendices of hand and foot ^ did not save him. The probability was chat in the battle his sixth finger on his hand made Mm clumsy in the use of i his weapon^ and his sixth toe crippled his gait. jBehoId tiie prostrate ana malformed giant of the text: "A man / of great stature, whose fingers and toes were four and twenty, six on each - _ hand and six on each foot, and he also was the son of a giant But when he defied Israel, Jonathan, the son of Shimea, David's brother, slew him." Behold how surperfluities are a hindrance rather than a help! In all the battle at Gath that day there was not a man with ordinary hand and ordinary foot and ordinary stature that was not better off than this physical curiosity of my text. A dwarf on the right side is stronger than a giant on the wrong sid e, and all the body and mind and estate and opportunity that you canncr use for God and the betterment of the world are a sixth finger and a sixth toe and a terrible hindrance. The most of the good done in the world and the most of those who win the battles for the right are ordinary people. Count the fingers of their right hand, and they have just five?no more and no iess. One Br. DuS among missionaries, but 3,000 missionaries that would tell you - they have only common endowment. ' One Florence Nightingale to nurse the sick in conspicuous places, but 10,000 women who are just as good nurses, though never heard of. The "Swamp Angel" was a big gun that during the civil war made a big noise, but muskets of ordinary caliber and shells of ordinary heft did the execution. President Tyler and his cabinet go down the Potomac one day to experiment with the "Peacemaker," a great iron gun that nv>o offricrVit- unfh ifc t-T>nndf>r foreign . navies. The gunner touches it off, and it explodes and leaves * cabinet ministers dead on the deck, while at that time,, all up and down our coasts, were cannon of ordinary bore, able to be the defense of the nation and ready at the touch to waken to duty. The curse of the world is big guns. After the politicians, who have made all the noise, go home hoarse from angry discussion on the evening of the first Monday in November, the next day the people, with the silent ballots, will settle everything and settle it right, a million of the white slips of paper they drop making about as much noise as the fall of an apple blossom. Disraeli says that a king of Poland >- abdicated his throne and joined the ? people and became a porter to carry "... burdens. And someone asked him '. ' why he did so, and he replied: "Upon my honor, gentlemen, the load which I cast off was by far heavier than the one you see me carry. The weightiest is but a straw when compared to that weight under which I labored. I have slept more in four nights than I have ?H mr roiwn T Kpcrirt to llVft uunug axx iuj IVA^U* ? ?. _ ^ and to be a king myself. Elect -whom you choose. As for me, I am so well it would be madness to return to g^ourt." |. '?*' "WelF', says somebody, '"such overloaded persons ought to be pitied, for their worriments are real, and their in">Sj>mnia and their nervous prostration * a?5 genuine-'" I reply that they could get rid 0/ the bothersome surplus by giving away. If a man has more S ^e- can carr'* wit^10uc vex" let him drop a few of them. If ytate is so great he cannot manage ncuuui, geiuug uunuiLs lujpiyju Hbhaving too much, let him divide te^vrho have nervous dyspepsia n^inot get enough. No, ^kLJnger with more ^^jdnal fiycJl gout aad kftsw fiot ^bat} )iKe the giant 1 of i??y test- they are famed &>' a super-: j { fluGas tee. A of'them brevities | /) bleed themselves of this fiutfneial obe: j f sity aad monetary plethora, but many i j of them hang on tp the hindering su'; j i perfluity till death and then, as the.. ; ? are compelled to give the money up < anyhow, in their last will and testa- ? merit thev senerouslv civc some of it to ] the Lord, expecting no doubt that he j i will feel very much obliged to them, j Thank God that pnce in awhile we j have a Peter Cooper who. owning an < interest in the iron works at Trenton, i said to Mr. Lester: "I do not feel quite ( easy about the amount we are making. ] "Working under one of our patents, we hav& a monopoly which seems to me t something wrong. Everybody has to i come to us for it. and we are making 1 money too fast.'? So they reduced the ( price, and this while our philanthropist s was building Cooper Institute, which t mothers % hundred institutes of kind- < ness and mercy all over the land. But -.t./m-I/J + #? ir-i ? f n S00 vr>ar<? for I ] I n V/iiU nu.u vv/ Iiutv v.v/^v v Peter Cooper. i I am glad for the benevolent institu- J tions that get a legacy from men who ( during their life were as stingy as ; death." but who in their last will and testament bestowed money on hospitals ? and missionary societies, but for such ! testators I have no respect. They would < have taken every cent of it with them ] if they could and bought up half of 1 heaven and let it out at ruinous rent ( or loaned the money to celestial citi- * zens at 2 per cent a month and got a ] "corner" on harps and trumpets. Tiiey j lived in this world 50 or 60 years in ! , the presence of appalling suffering and ! want and made no efforts for their re- ! lief. The charities of such people are ' in the ':Paulo-post future" tense. 1 The probability is that if such a one in his last will by a donation to benevol- 1 ent societies tries to atone for his lifetime closefistedness the heirs at law : will try to break the will by proving that the old man was senile or J crazy, and the expense of the litigation will about leave in the lawyer's hands ; what was meant for the Bible society. 0 ye overweighted, successful business men, whether this sermon reach your ear or your eyes, let me say that if you 1 are prostrated with anxieties about ! I keeping or investing these tremendous fortunes I can tell you how you can do more to get your health back and your spirits raised than by drinking gallons ' of bad tasting water at Saratoga, Homburg or Carlsbad?give to God^humanity and the Bible 10 per cent of all your income, and it will make a new man of you, and from restless walking of the 1 floor at night you shall have eight hours sleep without the help of bromide of potassium, and fiom no appetite you will, hardly be able to-wait for your regular meals, and your wan cheek will ? -V .1 11 ? till up, wnen you cue ine Diessings 01 those who but for you would have perished will bloom all over your grave. Sir Charles Bell was so impressed with the wondrous construction of the human hand that when the Earl of Bridgewater gave $40,000 for essays on the wisdom and goodness of God, and eight books were written, Sir Charles Bell wrote his entire book on the wisdom and goodness of God displayed in the human hand. The 27 bones in the hand and wrist with cartilages and ligaments and phalanges of the fingers all made just ready to knit, to sew, to build np, to pull down, to weave, to write, to plow, to pound, to wheel, to battle, to give friendly salutaion. The tips of its fingers are so many telegraph offices by reason of their sensitiveness of thouch.. The bridges, the tunnels, the cities of the whole earth are the victories of the hand. The hands are not dumb, but often speak as distinctly as the lips. With our hands we invite, we repel, we invoke, we entreat, I <nrr? rryi /v*> />loTk in \VC ni 1U5 t/UOJUU 1U 511V* VI Viuy AAA joy, or spread them abroad in benediction. The malformation of the giant's I hand in the text glorifies the usual ; j hand. Fashioned of God more exquisI itely and wondrously than any human I mechanism that was ever contrived, I I | charge you to us e it for God and lifting ! j of the. world out of its moral predicament. Employ it in the sublime work of gospel handshaking. You can see , the hand is just made for that. Four ' fingers just set right to touch your neighbor's hand on one side, and your , thumb set so as to clinch it on the other , side. By all ::ts bones and joints and , muscles and cartilages and ligaments ; the voice of nature joins with the voice , of God commanding you to shake hands. ; The custom is as old as the Bible, any- ' how. Jehu said to Jehonadab: "Is thine heart right as my heart is with thire heart? If it be, give me thine hand.;' When hands join in Christian , salutation, a gospel electricity thrills across the plam from heart to heart, and from the shoulder of one to the shoulder ( of the other. "With the timid and for their encour- ^ agcment, shake hands. With the * troubled in warm hearted sympathy, j shake hands. With the young man ; just entering business and dis- j couraged at the small sales and large shake hand??. With the child who is now ' from God and started on unending journey, for which he needs to gather great supply of strength, and who can hardly reach up to you now because you are so much taller, shake ] hands. Acrss cradles and dying beds and graves, shake hands. With your enemies who have done all to defame and hurt you, but whom you can afford t to forgive, shake hands. At the door j of the churches where people come in, s and at the door of churches where peo- c pie go out, shake hands. Let pulpit t shake hands with the pew and Sabbath o day shake hands with weekday, and i -? i -ill At eartn snaice nanas witn neaven. vii, s the strange, the mighty, the undefined, g the mysterious, the eternal power of aa ? honest handshaking! The difference $ between these times and the millennial r times is that now some shake hands, but f; then all will shake hands, throne and t footstool, across seas, nation with na- 3 tion, God and men, church militant and a church triumphant. e Yea, the malformation of-this fallen f: giant's foot glorifies the ordinary foot, ii for which I fear you have never once n thanked God. The 26 bones of the e foot are the admiration of the anato- 0 - i 0,i /?. j. O J mist. me area 01 me ioot, iasmonea i; with a grace and a poise that Trajan's t' arch or Constantino's arch or any other is arch could not equal. Those arches ^ stand where they were planted, but t' this arch of the foot is an adjustable d arch, a yielding arch, a flying arch aiid } ready for movements innumerable, s The human foot, so fashioned as to en- s able a man to stand upright as no other is creature, and leave the hand that would t otherwise have to help in balancing the v body free for anything it chooses. The "5 foot of the camel fashioned for the sand t the foot of the bird fashioned for the i tree branch, the foot of the hind fash- a ioned for the slippery rock, tneloot 01 I g the lion fashioned to rend its prey, the r foot of the horse fashioned for the solid t earth, but the foot of man made to cross a the desert, or climb the tree, or scale s the cliff, or walk the earth, or go any- i where he needs to go. a fej^ith that divine triumph of anatomy i Bfabiiossession where do you walk? i v*~* Y.'* '' :'" n? Html,-jjgrtfV>I-|| I._jt??wiiui^>s?i.?aai [a wha; j,??th of i-jghteqi^cess of what >ath '6$ iin have' you set It ^otfqV iVij&re have you toft the mark of your ootstevjs? Amid the patrifaettans i'q ;he roeks have }>3?p found the mark* >f thafeetof birds aud boast of ihous^ inds of years ago. And God eau trace >ut all the footsteps of your lifetime, tnd tfcose you made ou years ago are as )lain as those made in the last soft veather. all of them petrified for the udgment day. Oh. the foot! Give ne the autobiography of your foot from ;he time you stepped out of the cradle mtil today, and I wiij tell your exact character now and what are your prospects for the world to come. That there might be no doubt about ,he fact that both these pieces of di;ine mechanism, hand and foot, bcong to Christ's service both hands of Jhrist and both feet of Christ were spiked on the cross. Right through :he arch of both his feet to the * hollow )f his instep went the iron of torture, md from the palm of his hand to the aack of it, and there is not. a muscle or lerve or bone among the 27 bones of iiand and wrist or among the 26 bones )f the foot but it belongs to him now md forever. That is the most beautiful foot that joes about paths of greatest usefulness, ind that the most beautiful hand that Joes the most to help others. I was reading of three women in rivalry about the appearance of the hand. And the 3nc reddened her hand with berries and said the beautiful tinge made hers the most beautiful. And another put her iiand in the mountain brook and said as the waters dripped off that her hand eras the most beautiful. And another plucked flowers off the bank, and under hlio hlrt<vm that hsr hand was the most attractive. Then a poor old woman appeared, and, looking up in her decrepitude, asked for alms. And a woman who had not taken part in the rivalry gave her alms. . And all the women resolved to leave to this beggar the question as to which of all the hands present was the most attractive, /\ mAcf Kaontifnl nf ALIU SilC JLJXts XUV/OV WV.uuWAt ui v* them all is the one that gave relief to my necessities." And as she so said her wrinkles and rags and her decrepitude; and her body disappeared, and in place thereof stood the Christ, who long ago said, "Inasmuch as ye did it to one of the least of these ye did it unto me," and who to purchase the scr vice of our hand and foot here on eartn badh:~ wn hand and foot lacerated. WILL OPPOSE TILLMAN ' The Prohibition State Chairman to Bun for the Senate. Mr. A. C. Jones, 'chairman of the State executive committee of the prohibitionists, gives out the following signed announcement to the Democratic votexs of Sonth Carolina. His race, it seems, all depends upon the endorsements of the prohibition Democrats: To the Prohibition Democrats of the State: Believing that Senator Tillman is largely responsible for our defeat in the late primary election; that he is more r^S^'UXiSiUiC vu.au au(y vwuvi muu a** vuw State for the opening of the State dispensary and the trouble and bloodshed thai; have been caused by forcing it upon the Democrats of South Carolina, 1 have decided to ask the prohibition Democrats of the State to endorse me as a candidate before the Democratic primary in 1900 for United States senator to succeed Senator Tillman. And if they do so, I will then discuss the merits of the dispensary before the people, and endeavor as a Democrat who is deeply interested in the welfare of the ^ J -AAil n/ivnA rr? T7 Sffjfo p60pi6 (ILiU tUC UAll'.O VA ilij k> mww to convince them that the "State disj pensary should be closed to the sale of whiskey as a beverage and that South Carolina as a State should wash her hands of this infamous business and the men who inaugurated this corrupt political machine vituin her borders. I favor a prohibition law for the whole State, but would be willing after the State had passed tms law to exempt such counties as by, a two-thirds vote of the Democrats of the county, would ask to be permitted to sell under county control, according to the provision of the present State constitution: Provided, such county would assume all the expenses of the enforcement of the -rocru-incil-iiKtr r?nmieeted 1(1 vv auu iuu svith its sale after it was exempted from the State law. If tlie prohibition Democrats decide that they think best to endorse some other Democrat for the position, I will cheerfully abide their decision and support loyally whomsoever they endorse. From a business standpoint I could not afford x> give up my present position for that )f United States senator, and I l ave 20 desire for political honors unless I ;an by enjoying them honor the peo Die who confer them upon me, but ;here is no sacrifice that I could make or the good people and name of my State that I would not willingly make f called upon to do so. A. C. Jones. Newberry, Sept. 24. A FIGHT Iff THE PARTY. ?lans for Sinking the Bryan Influence aid Restoring the Cleveland Faction. A dispatch from "Washington says here is a fixed determination on the >art of some of the democratic congresional leaders to force an investigation f the war by a congressional commitee, regardless of the result of the work f the commission now in session. The ndications are that there will be a torny session from the hour that confess meets. There is a secret fight on rithin the democratic lines which, the ampaign this fall will probably bring Qto the open, and the contention of actions in that party will be added to he general activity along party lines. Ir. Bryan is still here, detained by an ttack of malaria, and perhaps disturbd by the conflicting opinions of his If TO nn/Horsfrnnf] fTiaf, his own Lig.'JUO. JLW Ui*v*ww qcI ination is to remain with his regilent and go wherever it may be orderd, but those who want him to get out f the army at any cost say that there 3 a secret movement on foot to overhrcw his influence, and that while he 5 being restrained from active political rork by his commission in the army, he anti-Bryan element in the party, irected by the hand of Croker in ?ew York, and having substantial as istance in Illinois ana Maryland. Deides the general sympathy of the east, 5 making progress. In this connecion it is asserted that a democratic ictory has been arranged for in New fork for the purpose of re-establishing he influence of the New York element n directing the course of the party nd that the eastern contingent in confess. which now amounts to practically tothing, will be increased by the clecion this fall so as to insure its having . voice in deciding policies. A loss of eats in the house from certain quarters n the west is predicted, and this, it is jgued, will make more potential the ? - c iT- j. i.:: i ;p nnuence Oi me eastern cuiihujcikh it s materially increased. ' I) u.Trwc ? ?r I )I m I |P?| w<nn? r?, r,? ?ii ] anew postal segtfutios. | ?cr^ae^a<jco*u I libjiortact Instructions tc Uew i Money Order System. ! | The postofficc department has just j issued an order through the pestnjaste- j general, relative to the issuing of monr i ey orders. According to thq new regu lation the orders are authorized to be drawn on the office of issue. The only | condition imposed on the prjJer to be drawn upon the office at which it is issued ;s that it shall not be a. "limited money order office." In order to bring about the. change Section 1246 was amended, and the new order of'things will tend to convenience those who use < the money order system. The follow- " I ..1 y.'IN ? t lUg bLclLClUUli to Sliuw LU v*.uab U3C IUC ^ new money orders may be put: * This chaDge in the practice of the service has been introduced in order to ' widen the scope of the money order , system, and is in ^keeping with the pol icy of the department to make it a j more popular and useful adjunct of the postal service. It is believed that this < modification of the regulations will re- ' . 1 O 0,1 11* T.I ceive tne iavor 01 tne puDiic ana tnere- s by result in a marked addition to the ' transactions of the money order systern. It is requested that, so far as it r may be done without expense, the wid- j est publicity be given to this matter, j to the end that the public may be ( acquainted with the fact that money orders may now be used for a variety t of purposes, at moderate cost and with { absolute security. Some suggestions i that follow as to the practical use to j which these orders may hereafter be j placed are as follows: 1. As a savings banks, at places j where banks are not in operation, when ^ persons desire to deposit temporarily j funds for safe keeping. Orders may be j drawn in their favor, the amounts of j which will be refunded on demand," or the order may be endorsed to another j person, at any time and payment made * to the endorsee, on presentation of or- f der. If lost, duplicates will be issued j without cost. j 2. To pay bills of tradesmen,"etc.; as_ T . a matter of convenience to persons who 1 have no bank account and are therefore ( unable to draw checks. 3. In settlement of accounts, at small i expense, between persons who reside at distant points. The farmer, for exam- ? pie, who is indebted to another resid- j ing say 10 miles distant, may obtain an ( order payable to the individual to whom j he is indebted, which the latter will re- i ceive through the person who procures ( and delivers the mail for the neighbor- , . hood.- The'expense and time-required : for a personal visit are avoided; the cost , is but a trifle; the payment "be regarded ' as absolutely safe. 4. In cities, for payment of accounts or settlement of dues to all kind? of -organizations, a money order may be ordinarily procured and sent to the payee, without loss of. time and at a cost of : less than car fare. The additional advantages which are 1 now offered the public might be enum- J erated at greater length. They will ] suggest tnemseives, nowever, tne em- ( ployees of the money order system, and will be expected that, as opp'ortu- ; nity offers, some pains will be taken to ( acquaint the public with these advantages, and to suggest the use of money , orders as a method preferable because " of cheapness, safety and convenience, j The department will appreciate and ^ commend the efforts thus made to se- , cure from the public its practical ap- ' oroval of the improved service. Hugging Must Cease. The boys and girls are much concerned in the proposed changes in the rules for the dancing of the waltz, and some of them seem 10 fear the correction of certain abuses "will remove all ' the pleasure from the dance. It has ( denrAfid in the ur> to date dancincr * schools that hugging must stop, and 1 the (lancing masters have been evolv- * ing ideas as to the proper manner in ( which the waltz should be danced. The ' waltz is not to be banished from socie- 1 ty programmes, but it will be regulated and made to conform to rules adopted k by the dancing teachers. Henceforth t the young man who slides over the j waxed floor holding his fair partner * like a grizzly bear may be ruled out of j society. At any rate, the x^merican j Society of Professors of Dancing ha decided to apply a remedy that will re- 1 move all objectionable features of ths v round dance; in fact, the professors v have decreed that hugging while dance ) ing must stop. The question of how to j correct the objectionable features of ^ the waltz is one that has been discussed * and studied by the teachers of the s terpsichorean art for many years. But * this season the criticism became so severe all over the country that it was r necessary to change things without de- I lay. There is but one proper position to assume while waltzing, says an au- ? thority, and that is the right one. The * j T?u c ,.i, 1 uauuers suuuiu lutccdtu uwci) vum ia\iv standing a little to the right. The v man's right hand should be placed at s his partner's back just above the waist v line. * b Death, of Bayard. ri Thos. Francis Bayard, of Delaware^ t died at Dedham, Mass., lastWednes- I day afternoon at 4 o'clock, after an ill- s< ness of about six weeks. Mr. Bayard v was born in "Wilmington, Del., on An- ^ gust 29, 1828. He entered public life C i_ - - J J. :J "K eariy ana. muue rapiu. ^lugxcss. uc * was elected to the United States Senate 1 in 186S with his father for a colleague, I the only circumstance of the kind that si has occurred in the history of the fi country. He was a presidential candi- a date in 1880, and was second to Han- p cock, who was nominated at the second c: ballot. In 1881, he was called to the position of secretary of state by President Cleveland, and during Mr. CleveI land's second term, served as ambassa- di [ dor to the court of St. James. The ii 1 funeral was held Thursday in Wilming- si i i.? TV.1 f; I iAJll: X/Cl. His Ashes Exhumed. ' ^ A dispatch from Havana says at nine o'clock Wednesday morning the official CI exhumation of the remains of Colum- ri bus took place in the presence of Gen. w Blanco Secretary Govin, the civil c< govornor, the bishop and the dean of ^ the cathedral. The general public were ordered out of the cathedral, and no ^ one was allowed inside after that hour. The entrance to the cathedral was rc guraded by a forcc of the Orden Pub- P] lico. which kept back the crowd which ^ US5UIII UiUU XIX iiuiil V* VUV, VU1UW. , remains of Columbus had lain in their resting place since January. 1796. when : they were brought from Santo Domingo, ^ that island having been ceded to France by Spain. Killed the "Wrong Man. At Camp Shipp near Aoniston, Ala., rc Friday, Private Syphe, of the Third a Alabama, (colored), shot and killed p< Corporal Oliver, Syphe and another 4< i soldier were quarrelling when the form- p: I er grabbed his Springfield rifle and put- sj I tino- 9 rarfxidire in it. fired at his oddo- d: p ~ - / A A * nent. He missed the man he shot at, ir but the ball hit Corporal Oliver in the d: head, killing him instantly. The mur- ii derer was arrested and turned over to p the civil authorities. t( . ... A HUREiry fJess Great p&mage ep. the Be*? j ^ coast of Georgia. RACED EIGHTEEN HOURS, m tv Marrow Escape from Drowning as is ru a Result of the Sudden Floods.. pi Apprehensions as to the cc pi Shipping at Sea. For eighteen hours from t&re? o'clock ^ Sunday morning till six o'clock Sunday ? light Savannah. Ga., was in the grasp J? )f a West Indian cyclene. During 1 :hat time the win'd blew steadily from W( >0 to 70 miles an hour, While the city H1 jscaped with comparatively little damige, the loss of property among the sea ,, slands of the Georgia and South Caro- 1 ,ina coasts is believed to be heavy. , For miles in every direction around 1 savannah the low lands along the rivers Lrc submerged. Only one fatality has m. ;o far been reported?the drowning of j?1 t negro while attempting to reach the nainland from a small island near 0 rhunderbolt. But heavy loss of life is ?11 'eared on the South Carolina sea is- _0 ands, where such fearful loss of life ^ )ccurred during the great tidal storm of , L893. fbe conditions now are similar 1 ;o those during that -corrn. Owing to V' ;he submerged country and the isolated , ocation ot the islands, no news can be j lad from them until the water subsides. , For eight miles north of Savannah the ^ mtire country is a lake, with only the lummocks visible. At noon the water ^ vas eight feet above the highest 'tide, Driven on shore by the northeast storm, . r t piled up on the islands, swept over ;>anks and dams, carrying away the -emnant of the rice crop that was left ^ Dy the August stornl and had not been gathered, and wiping out farm crops. ^ rh<> loss to rice growers alone will be 7 from $50,000 to $75,000. Of the entire ^ ice crop along the Savannah river, > valued at $250,000, all but 15 percent. yas lost in this and the preceding storm. ' The damage to shipping is consideraale. The schooner Ames, which was jn her way to sea with a cargo of 1,- ^ 300,000 feet of lumber, went adrift in ^ the river, but was finally anchored | safely. The wharves at tie quaran- ' tine station at the entrance to the river ? here wore partially carried away. The j( luarantine officer and his family and j servants were rescured early in the day by a tug. Four vessels, which were at anchor at the station, were torn t'.om their moorincs and driven into the _ marshes. Three of these were the British schooncr Syanara, boun/i for St Johns, N. B., the American schooner Millcville, for Millcville, N. J., the Fannie L, Child, for Boston, all lum- sa ber laden, and the Italian bark Frank- m [in. How badly these vessels are dam- T aged is unknown. No news has been tt received from Tybee since early in the in morning, and nothing is known of the se damage- there. At Thunderbolt and P< tsle of Hope, suburbs of Savannah, all the boat houses on the banks and hun- lo ireds of small boats were carried away, ar The extent to wkieh the railroads ec suffered is not fully known. The naval w: stores and cotton and lumber yards of w the Plant system are submerged, and so the tracks of the Central of Georgia P< md Alabama roads around the city hi 3 OTL- 1.1.1 J n-f ire covered. jLiie uurujuuuuu express )n the Florida, Central and Peninsular th railroad, due here from Flrorida and at ly loon, has not yet arrived. Telegraph el vires except one wire over the West- er jrn Union lines, are down, and the cl ;ondition of the railroad tracks is un- hs cnown. A special train will be sent be )ut at daylight over the Florida, Cen- it ;ral and Peninsular route. All othe- se oads are operating; the Florida, Cern ge ;ral and Peninsular is running north di )f Savannah. The telephone, police, th ight and fire alarm wires are down, wi ;nd the city is in darkness. ni Off Hutchinson's plantation, opposite Savannah, and separating the city from th ;he South Carolina shore, there were nany negro familes rescued by boats be * ? i . ^ oa rom tne revenue steamers ay nee ana -?Soutwell. One man .with a child in re lis arms, holding the little one above m' lis shoulders started to cross the dams so vdth the water up to his body. His mi rife with another child, stood' in the window of their house, the floor of so vhich was already covered by the ris- be og flood, and watched her husband th 'eeling his way step by step along the & op of the treacherous dam, one false itep from which or a caving bank would hrflw him into a swift moving eurrent. hi: finally he was sighted from across the be iver on the city side. A boat was ?0: >ut off and after half an hour's effort th( he family was rescued. Upwards til if a hundred people were brought ho rom - the island to the ctty in boats. ar< in day rescuing parties were at ho rork. Tonight the wind has sub- ly ided, but the water which receded *h< rith the ebb of the tide during the th< fternoon has again risen. Considera- tn( >le anxiety is felt for shipping at sea. ta^ 'he steamer Nacho for New York, and he Merchants' and Miners' steamer, ). H. Miller, for Baltimore, went to p ea Saturday night. The City of Macon 5l? 'as due Sunday morning from New rork, but has not arrived, and the ! lity of Augusta sailed from New York riday and was duo here Sunday night, 'he extent of the storm is unknown. s^( Intil telegraph communication is re- auJ bored, or until news is received by rail so 4-1%^ /tAnniwtT Qornnnoli I .Ulli. tliC WUUUJ UCbVTCCU KJt* Tttuuwu rpt ad Jacksonville over which the storm <, assed the full extent of its damage innot be told. * 1C^ sol Has Been Saved- ^is The wrecking company engaged uner Lieut.. Hobson in the work of sav- ^ lg the wrecked Spanish warships has lcceeded in floating the cruiser In- , mta Maria Teresa. The a^uiser after sing got afloat was taken in tow by ic Potomac, and. conveyed by the uiser Newark, the Scorpion and Alvaido, proceeded for G-uantanamo bay, ( here she arived last night. The sue- (jn issful issue of the attempt was greeted ]?j( ith the blowing of whistles, the firing cej, I national salutes and by cheers, in fui hich the Cubans joined, disturbing 0f ic noon siesta. Off Siboney the ba- 2a innflfpr nnrl fJiA ar> ~ ? ? "r ILlil. roach of a hurricane and the towing ma; Dwer was increased. Tfie Newark, ?U( ader Capt. Goodrich, rendered valu- jxa jle assistance in the work of saving w|1( le Maria Teresa. The cruiser is be- 30 ig put in condition for her trip north W0( Y the repair ship Yuloen. p0S ed Cotton in Texas. anc; One day this week Ho*ston, Texas, $3(j iceived 41,847 bales of cotton?1,500 me] irloads of it, wheighing 21,000,000 -vn-nrJc vnlnArl it. 000 000 ()v(>r J IA **** ** * *** **v *f V V v www* V ' *** ),000 acres of land were required to roduce this cotton, the Rouston Post T tys. and it cost ?165,000 to pick it, the in I icking representing the labor of 2,400 tha ten for one month. Such were one cofl ry's receipts in a Texa? town;> yet we ma: 1 South Carolina go on trying to com- qui ete with Texas in the growing of cot- are m-when Texas fixes the price.?State, whi " -r. ' ' ' ^ . ; . ; . .. y WlMXS DAVIS 2EEM0SY, r~tzy-J>r^z- ->^y^ & Ohio Han 6ivet liberally tQ t&5 Monument Fund. A spieiitli<l contribution to the Wi?r e Davis monument fund comes from a au who wore the blue in the war be AT 4.1. 1 4.1. 'PL - 4. rUCil Llic I1UIIU UIIUMJUU1. i IIU itUIUUIIfc $100 and the contributor is Mr. Harson T. Chandler, of Cleveland, 0., esident of the Chandler & Price impany, manufacturers of printing esses and printing machinery. Mr. Chandler has written a letter to r. TV. C. Dodson, of this city, in hieh he begs the honor of contributg $100 to the fund and at the same me pays a fine tribute to the noble Dman whose name the shaft will comemorate. The following is a copy of ie letter: Cleveland. 0.. Sept. 26, 1898. r. W. C. Dodson. Atlanta. Ga. Friend Dodson: I have learned rough the daily papers that the kind jople of the south purpose erecting a . 1 O C* TTT" onument to tne memory ox miss yv me Davis, the 'Daughter of the Conderacy. and in token of my esteem r her as a loving, devoted daughter, td in appreciation 0/ her womanly veliness in all her acts, north, as well the south, showing to the world that ere was one woman so pure and true at the public clamor of approval, or 3rship even, could not lead her to inilge in expression of hatred and centre against the former supposed foes of ?r loved ones and her beloved south, l v r . i . j _ __ j. _ _i r . 11 . men naa aaopcea ner as especially :eir own. I desire the honor of being emitted to contribute my mite toward ie erection of that monument. ''Ana inasmuch as in all probability i opportunity to contribute will not be esented to me here in person' I desire herewith authorize you to pledge me r the sum of one hundred dollars 100), and request that you notify me i soon as a committee of your city is appointed to receive contributions so tat I may, through you, honor the ... i?i. ait. Respectfully yours Harrison T. Chandler." Mr. Dodson says of the donor: "Mr. Chandler and myself have frelently discussed the war from our reactive standpoints?he as a brave Barer of the blue and I as a humble earer of the gray?but no hint or sugistion of a contribution to this cause as ever made by me, and his handsome jnatiou comes purely and freely from is own biff heart."?Atlanta Journal. FURLOUGHS ARE GRAFTED. Line for Returning Expires on the 28th of October. The Columbia Register, of Thursday lys: "The soldiers of the First regient are wearing a happy smile today, his morning furloughs were granted to le'volunteers and consequently a feel-. C 1 J il .11 1? :g 01 juj passeu over uiern au. r or :veral days they have been in susmse, anxiously awaiting an opportuitv to go to their homes. The fcrughs expire on the 28th of October, id on that day every soldier is requirl to be in camp. If he is not there ill be trouble in store. He of course ill receive his discharge, but may have me penalty to pay. He will also exirience no little difficulty in getting s pay, owing to his absence on the day 1 mustering out. But it is presumed tat all the soldiers will return promptin order to get their papers of distarge and thus quit the service. Seval have asked for an immediate dislarge, and consequently their requests ive been granted. About 50 have :en examined and discharged today, is thought that a few more will preil 1 A _ J.T. . nt inemseives w me examining sur:on and then ask Capt. Fuller for a scharge. It is safe to say, however, at the total number in this category ill not exceed 100. The entire xegient with the exception of these who ill be kept to do guard duty during e next 30 days is at liberty to go aere it pleases, the only condition :ing imposed is that all return on the Ith of October. The guards will be quired to remain here until the final aster out. Just how many of the ldiers who are on furloughs will renin is not known, but owing to a lack funds some of them are experiencing me difficulty in getting away. It may CililU IUC) Will waitiui IUC WlUIllg Ui e paymaster. But here another ques>n arises, how long will they have'to lit? The paymaster is due here on e first, but no intimation concerning 5 coming has been received. He has en wired for, but no response has me. The soldiers did not receive eir pay for the month of August unthe 18th of September, and they pe to fare better this month. There s about 25 soldiers who are ill at the spital m Jacksonville, but are rapidimproving. On Thursday nine of Bm were discharged. The health of 2 soldiers here is very good, and ire are only a few cases in the hospihere." Killed by Mistake. A. dispatch from San Juan says that a rto Rican residing at Aguadilla, near tyaguez, asked protection ~ol potn i American and Spanish troops ainst depredations by outlaws which was predicted would occur. In re>nse to his request the American thorities sent to his residence two diers of a Kentucky regiment, who ived there Sunday evening after dark, e resident had not notified the aniards that he had requested Amern protection, and some Spanish ^i^rc Kofin annf +r\ amaril VjL X O . nuv XMU>\JL JU W ^UMiiVt i house arrived after the Americaus 1 mistook the latter for outlaws. Ia s confusion resulting the Spaniards id, unfortunately killing one of the lericans. The name of the dead dier has not yet been ascertained, e incident is greatly regretted by. i Spaniards. . Foiled the Robbers. )fficials of the Denver and Rio inde railroad and of the Denver and > Grande Express company are rering congratulations on the successresistance of*an attempted robbery the Western Express train near"" sted, Col., Thursday four or five sked men. Engineer Henry S. Hinn T? i fAYii o ? V m n 1*- TT r? off ^An _ LI2 i i;cuian jl iaurv ju. xjuuuvh-^ vvu:tor 0. B. Craft, Train Porter Harry rt and the brakemen are the men o put the robbers to flight. About shots were fired. Expressman Sher)d, formerly a cowboy, stuck to his t while dynamite was being explodunderneath and on top of the car [ fired on the robbers. A reward of i0 has been offered for each of the q captured. A posse with a bloodind is on thier trail. Can This be True. 'he Rev. Henry Bryan, who has been ./->? ' *ir?i /*? the service at uamp \\ ikoh, says t soldiers are thrown in plain pine ins, naked, and the coffins are only rkfd with lead pencil, wb.ich is ckly obliterated. He says paupers much more respectfully handled en buried. ' ><i?iHi,Tii i Ii1.T?i l?a?? A Soldier's Bomance. i The Cohmbia Rssor^, cf Friday saysi j "Magistrate Smith lase night was | called upon to perform anotna? mar! riagu careraqny. ttosides (dispensing i iiiHtii.e with an ciual balance, he* can tie thi! marital knot with such grace and despatch that his services iu this particular line are frequently called upon. In the present incident there is some little romance. The couple married was Mr. Jackson C. Rice, a private of Orangeburg in the First Regiment, and Miss Mafctie Thornton, of Alabama. The young lady has been on a visit here for some time and before the regiment left Mr. "Rice met her. It was a case of love at first sight and a correspond_ i a. t A. ii J.:I ence was *epi up Detween mem uiuu the regiinent returned here. The}' decided to marry and had made arrangements with a minister to perform the> ceremony, but he being unwell Magistrate Smith was called upon at his residence. He performed the ceremony, bid the couple Godspeed in life, got his fee and three souls were made happy at once. Mr. Rice has been farloughed and it is understood that he and his bride have gone to Orangeburg county, which will be their future home." There Was But One. A large number of the members of the Confederate Memorial Literary Society, which some time ago-purchased the old "White House of the Confederacy. at Kichmond, Va., and established therein a large Confederate museum, held a meetiDg at the museum and discussed in animated tones the action of some of the Southern and Chicago Confederate Veterans in suggesting Miss T.n/>T7 T,00 TTill fVtd en/v><>asAr Af thp late Winnie Davis, Daughter of the Confederacy. They decided unanimously that there could be no successor to Miss Davis, who was the only -woman who was born in the White House of the Confederacy, and therefore she alone was entitled to the distinction. They all agreed that Miss Hill is one of the most popular and highly esteemed of ail the Southern girls, but could not accept the suggestion regarding her. XIU -L i.lilvipJ.C iiiVUlVCU. "We do not feel andwe do not profess much interest in" the success, of the Democratic State tickets in New York, , New Jersey and Connecticut The 1 party managers there have run away Prom the national platform in the be-, i lief that by ignoring the silver issue they can win. It doesn't-.make the 1 least difference to us of the~s5utfe-^. whether Democrats or Republicans get the local offices in the northern States. , What we are interested in is the pro- , motion of the national policies rc ..resented by the Chicago platform. If * Democratic victory in a State is to mean no more than the filling:?f the, -] offices of that State with a~new set of politicians, if the elections^are not to test the sentiment of the.pepple asx to proposed legislation, we * snli-^not; | have joy or sorrow in theresnlt, | ever it may be.?State. - = : A We Should Take It i-.; j There is a fine, large steel floating dock at Havana. It was towed there shortly before the outbreak of the war. { It is large enough to accommodate the largest af our warships. Since the dock is not automobile, it is claimed tnat it must be surrendered with the other stationary public property in Cuba, and will become the property of the- new government of Cuba, or of the United States as protector of Cuba and administrator of the affairs of the island, pending the establishment of a permanent Cuban government. A dock of the kind in the Caribbean is needed by the navy. Hartman Withdraws. Hon. Charles S. Hartman, nominee of the Silver Republicans and Populists for congress, in Montona, has withdrawn and asks that the name of Hon. A. J. Pom Who 11 fVio T5<vmTTi<><? hp ' placed on those tickets and supported 1 by all who believe in free coinage of } silver. Hilton s. Iodoform Liniment is the "nee plus * ultra" of all such preparations in re- f moving soreness, and quickly healing fresh cuts and wounds, no matter how t_ . 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