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&rf:' * .*.->. . wmmm^" '> '.' - ' ' -. ' AMOTHER'S POWER. ... . Rev. Dr. Talma^e Preaches on r v~ Influence of Heridity. ALL GOOD IS HANDED DOWN. Mother Responsible for Future of Her Children. Woman's Qualities Are Transmitted to h Her Offsprings. The argumentation of parental influence as the centuries go by Dr Talmage here sets forth while discoursing about one of the grandmothers of Bible times. The text is ii innotny i, o, "The unfeigned f-.ta that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois." In this pastoral letter which Paul, the old minister, is writing to Timothy, the young minister, the family record i? brought out. Paul practically says: grandmother you 0 0 had. You ought to be better than most folks, because not oily was yo?r mother good, bnt your grandmother was good also. Two preceeding generations -of piety ought to give yon a mighty push in the right direction," The fact was that Timothy needed encouragement. He was in poor health, having a weak stomach, and was a dyspeptic, and Paul prescribed for him a tonic, ;?a little wine for thy stomach's sake"? * not ranch wine, but a little wine, and only as a medicine. And if the wine then had been as much adulterated with logwood and strychaine as oui modern wines he would not have prescribed auy. But Timothy, not strong physically, sniritnallv bv the recita] of grandmother's excellence, Paul hinting to him, as I hint this to you, that Ood sometimes gathers up as in a reservoir, away back of the active generations of today, a godly influence and then, in response to prayer, lets down the power upon children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren. The world is woeful in want of a table of stac?*!.*; is regard to what is the protractedness and immensity of influence of one good woman in the church and ?U TIT? 1-~0/w.Annfs rvp )inU7 TOTinTl VTUfiU* )Y C iiATC avvvuuwo vj. mvt. ? e7il has been wrought by a woman who lived nearly a hundred years ago, and of how many criminals her descendants furnished for the penitentiary and the gallows, and how many hundreds ol thousands of dollars they cost our country in their arraignment and prison rapport, as well as in the propel ry they burglarised and destroyed, but will not seme one come out witn Dram comprehensive enough and heart warm enough and pen keen enough to give us the facts in regard to some good woman of a hundred years ago and let us know how many Christian men and women and reformers and useful people have been found among her descendants, and how many asylums and colleges and churche s they built, and how many millions of dollars they contributed foi humanitarian and Christian purposes? The good, women wnose lomustuucj were planted in the eighteenth century are more alive for good in the nineteenth century than they were before, as the good women of this nineteenth century will be more alive ior good in the twentieth century than now. Mark you, I have no idea that the grandmothers were any better than theii granddaughters. You cannot get very old people to talk much about how ^ ' things were when they were boys and girls. They have a reticence and a noncommittalism which make me think they feel themselves to be the custodiers of the reputation of their ^ early comrades. "While our dear old folks are rehearsing the follies of the present, . ... r1-. if we put them on the witness stand - and cross examine them as to how - tlings were 70 years ago the silence becomes oppressive. The celebrated Frenchman, "Volney, visited this country in 1796, and he says of woman's diet in those times, "if a premium was offered for a regimen most destructive to health, none could be devised. more efficacious for these ends than that in use among 1 these people." mac eclipses uui iw ster salad at midnight. Everybody talks about the dissipation of modem society and how womanly health goes down under it, but it was worse 100 years ago, for the chaplain of a French regiment in our Revolutionary war wrote in 1782 in his ''Book of American Women," saying: "They are tall and well proportioned; their features are generally regular; their complexions are generally fair and without color. At 20 years of age the women have no longer the freshness of youth. At 30 or 40 they are decrepit." In 1812 a foreign consul wrote a book endtled, {'A Sketch of the United States at the Commencement of the Present Century," and he sajs of the women of those times, "At the age of 30 all their charms have disappeared." One glance at the portraits of the women 100 years ago, and their style of dress makes us wonder how they ever got their breath. All this makes me think that the express rail train is no more an improvement on the old canal boat or the telegraph no more an improvement on the old time saddlebags than the women of our day are an improvement on the women of the last century. Do not let the grandmothers any lontror fhinV tli?t, thev are retired and sit clear back out of sight from the world, feeling that they have no relation to it. The mothers of the last century are today in the person of their descendants, in the senates, the parliaments, the palaces, the pulpits, the banking houses, the professional chairs the prisons, the almshouses, the company of midnight brigands, the cellars, the ditches of this century. You have ' 1 * 1 1 L i-L I L . Deen tnimang sdouc me impuruiuuc ux having the right influence upon one nursery. You have been thinking of the importance of getting those two little feet on the right path. You have been thinking of your 'child's destiny for the nest 80 years if it should pass on to be an octogenarian. That is well, but my subject sweeps a thousand years, a million years, a quadrillion years. I cannot stop at one cradle. I am looking at the cradles that reach all around the world and across all time. 1 am not talking of Mother Eunice. I am talking of Grandmother Lois. The only ^ way yon can tell the force of a current is by sailing up stream or the force of an ocean wave by running the ship against it. Running along with it, we cannot appreciate the force. In estimating maternal influence we generally run alone>with it down the stream of time, a^a so we don't understand the full force.~nb^us come up to it from the eternity side,~ after it has been on for centuries, and see all ?good it has done and all the evil it K accomplished multiplied in magRficent or appalling compound interest. ^tFhe difference between that mother s Silence on her children now and th< Hfiuence when it~na>feiien multiplied ifeundreds of thousandsof4ises is the pRrence between the Mississipprrivei th^top the eonti^^ mgmm i ggagggg SS5B5SBSSSBS5SSSSSS 5835 j atarting from the little Lake Itasca, ti j seven miles long and cne wide, and ita t j mouth at the gulf of Mexico, where u j navies might ride. Between the hirth y of that river and its burial in the sea t the Missouri pours in. and the Ohio t pours in. and the Arkansas pours in, 3 1 "i i n J i ,3 V?,?,v/v t. ana tne juea ana ? nue aim uic x amu o rivers pour in, and all the states and d territories between the Alleghany and s i Rocky mountains make contribution, v Now, in order to test the power of a s mother's influence, we need to come in I off the ocean of eternity and sail up to- f ward the one cradle, and we will find *1 A AAfi + ow'flc r\? Tnflnon^ 1"? j 1V}WV UiUwvaiivo v*. ?- -~0 ? in and pouring down. But it is. after s all, one great river of power rolling on s and rolling forever. Who can fathom p it? Who can bridge it? Who can ?top n it? Had not mothers better be intensify- o ing their prayers? Had they not bet- t ter be elevating their example? Had ( they not better be rousing themselves s with the consideration that by their faithfulness or neglect they are starting an influence which will be stupendous after the last mountain of earth is rj fiat, and the last sea has dried up, and the last flake of the ashes of a consumed | world shall have been blown away, and all the telescopes of other worlds di. rected to the track around which our c world once swung shall discover not so t ; much as a cinder of the burned down c and swept off planet? In Ceylon there is a granite column 36 square feet in wbifh is thought bv the natives to a decide the world's continuance. An j* " angel with robes spun from zephyrs is ! once a century to descend and sweep d ; the hem of that robe across the granite, and when by that attrition the column ? ; is worn away they say time will end. k But by that process that granite column e would be worn out of existence before ? mother's influence will begin to give j 1 |v way. if a mother tell a child if he is not g good some bugaboo will come and catch ^ him, the fear excited may make the child a coward, and the fact that he t finds that there is no bugaboo may make a him a liar, and the echo of that false alarm may be beard after 15 generations have been born and have expired. If a mother promises a child a reward for good behavior and after the good 5 behavior forgets to give the reward, the k" ; cheat may crop out in some faithless- ? noaa Kolf a fTirtneand v#??rs farther on. , If a mother cultivate a child's vanity and eulogize ' his curls and extol the | night black or sky blue or nut brown , of the child's eyes and 3all out in his presence the admiration of spectators, ! pride and arrogance may be prolonged g , after half a dozen family records have - been obliterated. if a mother express ; doubt about some statement of the Holy . . Bible in a child's presence, long after the gates of this historical era have , closed and the gates of another era have ; opened the result may be seen in a champion blasphemer. But, on the t other hand, if a mother walking with a | ehild see a suffering one by the wayside and says, "My child, give that 10 cent piece to that lame boy," the Tesult may , be seen on the other side of the follow- ? ^ n M,_n . mg century in some vreurge m unci ^ building a whole village of orphanages. , . If a mother sit almost every evening by . the trundle bed of a child And teach it , . lessons .of a Saviour's love and a Sav- j iour's example, of the importance of . L truth and the horror of a lie and the , vritues of industry and kindness and s sympathy and self sacrifice, long after J ! the mother has gone and the child has , . gone and the lettering on both the tomb. stones shall have been washed out by 1 . the storms of innumerable winters , there may be standing as a result of those trundle bed lessons flaming evan gels, world, moving reformers seraphic Summerfields, weeping Paysons. thun- ? dering Whitefields, emancipating WasMngtons. Good or bad influence may skip one. a generation or two generations, but it r will be sure to land in third or fourth j ! generation, just as the Ten Command- ] ments, speaking of the visitation of God ] on families, says nothing about the j i second generation, but entirely skips j the second and speaks of the third a and fourth generation?"visiting the j : iniquities of the. fathers upon the third and fourth generation of them that hate ; me." Parental influence, right and wrong, may jump over a generation, but it wiU come down further on as sure as i :j. 2.1 j T _i J 1 rp;, you sit mere anu jl isi-aiiu ucic. xiluuthv's ministry was projected by his grandmother, Lois. There are men and women here, the sons and dangh- g ters of the Christian church, who are f such as a rusult of the consecration of a great-great-grandmothers. Why, who t do you think the Lord is? You talk as p though his memory was weak. He can 0 as easily remember a prayer offered five a centuries ago as a prayer offered five v minutes ago. This explains what we often see?some man or woman distin- D guished for benevolence when the father r and mother were distinguished for p penuriousness, or you see some young c man or woman with a bad father and a J hard mother come out gloriously for f; Christ and make the church sob and ^ shout and sing under their exhortations, t. "VVe stand in corners of the vestry and ? whisper over the matter and say, "How <] is this, such great piety in sons and ^ J Otlrtll r?Al?Anfol TTTAvl/^linACCI uauguicio UJL ou^/u nviiunuwoo 2] and sin?" I will explain it to you if ^ you will fetch me the old family Bible n containing the full record. Let some a septuagenarian look with me clear upon 'D the page of births and marriages and ? tell me who that woman was with the c old fashioned name of Jemima or Betsy ]j or Mehitable Ah, there she is, the j old grandmother, or great-grandmother, ^ who had enough religion to saturate a (; century. $ You must see those women of the ii early part of the nineteenth century f and those of the eighteenth century, o fliA *nsw?>r <vf whnsp nrnvprs is in vnnr T welfare today. God bless all the aged f; women up and down the land and in all p lands! What a happy thing for Pom- n ponius Atticus to say when making the b funeral address of his mother, "Though t: I have resided with her 67 years, I was r; never once reconciled to her. because n there never happened the least discord a between us, and consequently there was p no need of reconciliation." t' Make it as easy for the old folks as f, you can. When they are sick, get for t: them the best doctors. Give them your arm when the streets are slippery. Stay TTTlfT* + 11 f-imn Tr/vn /van fin I mi/JU. t/UV-ULL VlAV utiuv jvva. vuu. V home and see the folks. Find the c place for them in the hymnbook. Never 1; . be ashamed if they prefer styles of ap- i: parel which are a little antiquated, e ' Never say anything that implies that 1 > they are in the way. Make the road f for the last mile as smooth as you can. f Oh, my, how you will miss her when e she is gone! How mueh would I give a A- ~ A*l T O OA >Y? Or?T' i LU 5CU ill J- UiUUiCi. JL uaig ov xjucbuj v l things I -would like to tell her. things c i that have happened in the 30 years since a . she went away. Morning, noon and t ; night let us thank God for the good in- s fluences that have come down from good 1 mothers all the way back. Timothy, c ; don't forget your mother Eunice and { i don't forget your grandmother Lois, j i And hand down to others this patrimony ^ ! of blessing. Pass along the coronets, g Make religion an heirloom from genera- a ; tion. Mothers, consecrate yourselves \ 3 God, &r.d you wi?l help-oonsecrate all j be ages following, Do not dwell so luch on your hardships that you miss j our chance of wielding <in influence ! hat shall look down upon you from the Dwcrs of an endless future. I know Iartin Luther was right when he conolcd Lis wife over the death of their anghter by saying: "Don't tklzeon o, wife. Remember that this is a hard rorld f Dr girls.*' Yes, I go further and ay it is a hard world for women. Aye, go further and say it is a Hard woria or men. But for all women and men rho trust their bodies and souls in the iand of Christ the shining gates will oon sv/ing open. Don't you see the ickly pallor on the sky? That is the >a!lor on the cold cheek of the dying light. Don't you see the brightening f the clouds? That is the flush on he warm forehead of the morning, /heer up! You are coming within ight of-the Celestial City.' "EACH MAN FOR HIMSELF." | .'he Board says the Santiago Naval i Battle Was a "Captains Fight." Although the American fleet in the attle off Santiago on July 3 obeyed he general orders of Rear Admiral iampson, given in advance to meet ust such an emergency, it was essentilly a "captain's fight." This is the ubstance of the report of the naval >oard. which has been investigating disputed points in the battle. T)..- U..LJO ~ xiear-auimrai oamysuu was uut pxcsnt, and the two orders signalled by >chley, "close in," and "engage the nemy," did no good, and were unnecssary, for the ships had already closed n and were engaging the enemy when he orders were run up. The board inds in a more general way that each hip in the fleet knew exactly what to lo should Cerrera come out, and did it rhen he actually came out. Each capcliin An nlono UiU X\J UwU.C U1J Jiiij.' VIA ?/A \s?Sl*A V>N* ,nd orders given by Sampson. The findings of the board are sumaarized as follows: 1. The battle was fought and won ipon plans prepared by Rear Admiral >ampson. 2. The directing of the movements of hips done by Schley during the battle vs.3 inconsiderable. 3. The New York had no active part a the fight. 4. The Brooklyn was not engaged at o close quarters as had been repreented "by the first report. On an averse she was two miles away from the en:my. 5; The brunt of the fighting was >orneby the Oregon, Texas and Iowa. r* mi xr tt i _ - i i_ _ o. ?ne j.\ew iotk .was aDout nine oiles from the Colon when that ship urrendered and between four and five eiles from the nearest sister ship engaged (from which signal distance is aken.) 7. The average range of the ships nost engaged was about a mile and a talf. . The New York, the board finds, did icthing to affect the issue of the batle. At the time of the hottest fighting t- -a 1 A J in.IK _ \ T> uefcweeu xu auu a. m.j tue jjiuuh.yn was in line with tlie Oregon, but hree-fourths of a mile farther out to ea. The -Oregon at that time was touring fire into the Maria Teresa. Che Oqttendo was about 3,000 yards dismt, wit;h the Texas and Iowa a half nile to i;he rear of her. The issues of the tattle, the bo?frd earned, was not affected by any signals hat Schley made from the flagship. The Oregon dashed out from the rery beginning of the engagement and :ept witixin range of the enemy until he fight ended. : 1 The board was made up of Lieuten.nt Commander Richard "Wainwright if the- Glouchester. presiding officer; jjent. Samuel Comly of the Indiana/ jieut. lewis G. Heilner of the Texas, jieut. Trm. H. Schuetze of the Iowa, jieut. Alben C. Hodgson of the Brookyn, Lieut. Wm. Allen of the Oregon .nd Lier.t." Edward rE. Capehart of the sew York. A n AAt\ omoTiV A. \XWV DJLVXk X. XThicli illl Partners Who Euy their Supplies Shonld Read. At the close of the war in 1865 the >outh w23 too poor to engage in mannacturing, and its people turned their .ttention very generally to agriculture, hough, with an unfortunately - large proportion, politics became the chief ccupaticn. Since then the South has ccompliahed wonders in industral aeelopment. But has it reaHy done its est? As a people we are prone to lament the fact that we are not growing i ;ji- -- ?J--:? ?a icn as npiuiy as we ucouc, <mu. politicians are finding all sorts of exuses for this. The Greenville, Texas Janner tells an interesting story of a armer near that place which well illusrates the condition of many of them hroughout the South. It is as follows: 'A certain farmer in Texas not a hunred miles from Greenville sat down rith his family to breakfast. They sat a chairs made in Indiana, the table ras made it St. Louis, the dishes were lade in New York, the knives, forks nd spoons were imported from England, 3 - .fj ir iscuits weremaae 01 uuur nuui-xva,iio<x3j hortened "with lard from Missouri, ooked on a stove made in Chicago, and is coffee was served with sugai from iOuisiana. When breakfast was over e drove to town in a wagon made in )hio, while his son went out with a 40 gun made in Pennsylvania and an mported $10 dog to kill five cent birds or dinner. His daughter went ri'ding n a $75 bicycle made in Massachusetts, lis wife swept the floor with a broom rom Cincinnati, took up the dust in a an made in Vermont with a brush iade in Khode Island. The farmer rought a plow made in Illinois, a cul ivator made in Michigan, hoes and akes made in Indiana, and a reaper lade in Chicago. He took these home nd set them out on a vacant lot, exosed to the rain and sunshine, where hey were ruined in one year. That armer is always compaining of hard imes." A Delusive Hope. If Chairman Tolbert of the Republian State committee is a man of inteligence he must know that he is hold g out to the negroes of South Caroli** '* JAImoitta TllA "RATM-.1W Id <L UAK/OL UCiUailC JULV^^- JL JU^ L?.i>y ican party of the north has finally and orever abandoned the policy of interering with the suffrage in the southrn States; it has finally and forever .bandoned the negro to the control of he white men of the south. Public ipiionn in the north sustains all legal ,nd constitutional methods by which he intelligence and the property of the outh maintain ascendancy, and it is leartily sick of the complaints that ;ome from this section. JLnat is the )lain and proven truth. Any negro >arty in this State exists merely to provide government placas for its mana;ers and a supply of delegates to be suitibly bribed at national Republican conrentions.?Columbia State. - - - - A NEW SCANDAL. | j ,j Tremendous Sensation Sprung i by the New York Journal. CUBA TO BE G03BLED UP. \l I - . \h L Qnflnic'h.4morir>!)n M ftnflv Diner I a .. "OWi.w?.. I.'V.VJ ^ to Have the United States e to Assume the Pnili- a t pine Debt. u A cable dispatch from Paris to the t New York Journal says it is possible 0 that the scandal about the mismanagement of our army during the war may be ? succeeded by a greater scandal about the negotiations for peace in Paris. -a The precautions taken to prevent the t American public from getting at the . secrets of this extraordinary and pic- 11 turesuue conclave of Americans who ? do not speak Spanish and Spaniards ' who do not speak English are "almost ^ incredible. The dispatch says: ^ It was Day. a country lawver. and ? next door neighbor and family frien<? . of President McKinley, who made the 1 motion in joint session of the Spanish- 0 American Commission that the pro- ? ceedings be kept an absolute secret. This secrecy is maintained not only * with respect to the joint sessions, but 'i also covers seperate meetings of the [ Will IHilJJlVUgi J? Already a vast financial conspiracy, 0 or series of conspiracies, has been 0 hatched in the bosom of this 'elaborate- ^ ly contrived mystery. Not only is the 2 American public to be kept in utter ig- , norance of what the United States will -r propose to Spain as a basis of peace ifc , order that the pending congressional elections may not be affected, but a few a choice spirits have been let into the 11 secret of the situation so rigidly guarded v from the public. In consequence a ring has been formed to buy Philippine , bonds, and the market is being scouTed , for them. I discovered a few days ago that powerful friends of both Spanish ? fl/nd AmAriftflTl OrtTnrmeairtna V>?/3 ed inside information that the United States would insist upon annexing the * whole Philippine Archipelago, and a would assume responsibility for the 1 Philippine debt, although the interest c on the bonds might he reduced from 6 per cent to 4 or even 3 per cent. I know that communications on the subject of t these bonds had been passing between Paris and Madrid. In order to test the situation, I tried to buy some Phil- ^ ippine bonds in Madrid through French | agents. .1 at once discovered that a powerful ^ WAVflmAnf xrrtsa A? - uiuiviu&ui, \im uu iuuii w gamer up ine Philippine bonds. This is one of the ^ most suggestive results of former Secretary Day's scheme of secrecy. Under t its shelter gigantic combinations seem to be forming sinister enterprises that would be impossible were the air and * sunlight of publicity let into the main features of negotiations. The situation = is curiously like that which existed in ( TAJ Qol?lr?<Tf AT. X?? -? 1 it aouiugwu nucu lwu senators arranged the sugar schedule of the tariff , in secret session, while their friends made millions of dollars in the stock ? market on the basis of private informa- t tion, I cannot yet ascertain how far ? there may be a Wall street end to this ugly intrigue, but there is certainly a j Madrid Bourse end to it. No wonder thare is a strong, almost irresistible, ( pressure on the commissioners to keep such valuable secrets from the general public. The blackest element of the situation is the masterful craft which is now be- " ing" employed to defeat the principal object of the war department by sup- ^ pressing the Cuban republic, which has ; gallantly fought for three" years in the' field of liberty* and annexing the island , 1 to the United States. ? This scheme of national dishonor is. / being pressed by a gigantic combina- , turn of Spanish capitalists backed by the Spanish government and aided by 5 the very Americans who tried to pre- k vent the war and sympathized with , Spain in her merciless campaign of murder in Cuba. Spaniards and their _ American accomplices know that an- 1 nexation to the United States means an c enormous and immediate rise in the ? value of Cuban property, which would ? not take place under native rule; They have even secret hopes that with annexation the United States might guarantee some fraction of the ^ immense Cuban debt. But in this they , will surely Be disappointed, for I know of a certainty that every American commissioner is determined to resist ^ every responsibility, direct or indirect, _ for the so called Cuban debt, a debt ? which in realitv has nothing t.n do with Cuba or its people, but is properly . chargeable on the Royal Treasury at , Madrid. Every effort will be made to t induce the United States to annex Cuba, or in some way to prevent the peo- g pie of Cuba from ruling the island. It Q is said that Whitelaw Reid is strorgiy ^ opposed to any idea of a permanent . Cuban republic and ihe Spaniards claim ^ that he will side with them in their / efforts to persuade the United States to ^ violate its public pledges or honor by ? stamping out the Cuban republic by rr annexing the island or Egyptianizing ? it. o Men like Atkins, of Birton, who long ' aided Dupuy De Lome to baffle the i American people in their effort to put a j stop to the barbarous struggle in Cuba, are frantic with a desire to force annexation, but this is a purely Spanish ? ~ Ti. l- : 11 dwjlcjulic. JLU3 uujuuu i? tu increase the value of Spanish property and en- \ hance Spanish interests. It has behind c it all the cunning and power of the f wealthiest men in Spain. It is dirty 1 and treacherous in its origin and in its purpose. I draw the veil aside thus far in order that the American people , may understand the kind of rascality ' which is to he attempted under the n cover of Mr. 'Day's carefully thought- a out scheme of secrecy. Mr. Day, it is Sl well known here, is acting under direct e instructions from, McKinlev. iust as ? Alger was when he created a graveyard ( for the American army. Paris hotels 0 are filled with the members of the vast s' Spanish ring, bnt in spite of all their ^ plans I shall try to keep the-light turn- ? ed on until the American people really ' understand what secreey means just now. Getting, Tired of It. o 3ir. j>lcJS.iniey is said to be very 11 much disgusted at the position taken a by Teddy Roosevelt, that his election e to be governor of New York is necessary a as an indorsement of the administration ? and the war, and it would not be sur- y prising if he should take some way of i IaH-itxt if, Kpf.nmp Vnnwn flint, lip dkytiIiT cr not consider Roosevelt's defeat an af- d front to himself or his administration, fc although pressure is being brought to h keep his mouth shut. Soaked Uncle Sam's Gnus. Col. Wm. H. Robertson, commander f of the national guards in Charleston, j was arrested one day lsst week for o pawning four rifles belonging to the y United States and obtaining money on I them. Col. Robertson and his com- a mand are all colored. . I ?a<a?wwwmmm STORES' ASTI'OJTION FIGHT. !he Congressman Will Push His Bill ] in Congress. Congressman Stokes and Mrs. iStokes j otnrned Thursday from a visit to Glenn j Iprings, both feeling much improved in 2 :ealth. The congressman has a fe^ 1 ngagements for addresses to fill and hen he purposes to concentrate his enrgies npon his anti-option fight for the pproaching session of congress. He alked quite interestingly of his measre to the Orangeburg correspondent of he Columbia State and the prospects f f its success. s "This measure," he said, "is not 1 roposed as a panacea or as a substitute or free silver. Bat its importance as < factor in bringing about better condi- ] ions is tco little appreciated. All fu- 1 lire dealings are not obnoxious. There ( 5 a legitimate future business that hould not be interfered with. My Qeasure seeks to limit future dealings o actual products and thus eliminates he speculative trading in wind cotton, n order to appreciate the injurious efects of speculative dealings in futures t must be understood that the sellers f futures must make money by a deline of price. The seller of real cot- i on makes money by an advance in 1 >rice. Their interests are diametri- ] ally opposed. The buyer of cotton < or manufacture usually inaugurates ? lis buying operations by large selling i irders. The effeet of large selling \ irders for future delivery is to deireas flip nriV.p nf fnfcnrAS. Tim en- J ,bles the manufacturer to make a pro- < it on his future transaction and then '< >uy his real cotton at the decline, i f a Manchester mill wants 100,000 ' ?ales of cotton to spait it would prob- ( ,bly cable an order to New York, but 1 lot to buy 100,000 bales. The order t rould probably be to sell large future < ontracts for the account of the mill. ?he price of futures being forced down >y the large sales, the mill would then iuy back its own future contracts at a ^ >rofit. So far no one but the speculaors arc hurt' or helped. But the price ^ >f real cotton has declined with even >ace and the mill buys its real cotton j ,t the decline. Thus the foreign man- : Lfacturer uses the machinery of our J otton exchanges to the detriment of 1 iur cotton growers." "Are you opposed to the exchange?" * "No. There is a legitimate field for hem, too. I cordially approve and j econd all the editor of The State so veil said on this subject a few days go when advocating a cotton exchange ' or Columbia. But legislation is needid to prevent the prostitution of such organizations to gambling purposes." * "Do you think such legislation can 1 >e made effective?" '' "TTndnnbtedlv. The Louisiana lot- ' ery was driven out by legislation and ( ts pernicious influence upon the peo>le scarcely surpassed that of the cotton j xchange. The State has several times x ;iven strong support to this fight and I ] rust it will continue to lend a hand, j )ne of the most interesting and valu- j ,ble features of your paper to my mind, las been the notes of Editor Gonzales ( n his campaign in Cuba. These notes < hould be put in permanent for. I hink a publication in book or pamphlet ? orm would meet ready sale." < LIGHTING AMONG THEMSELVES. j < )ne Cavalryman Killed; Two Fatally j and Two Seriously "Wounded. A special dispatch from Huntsville, Ua.. says that one soldier was killed, 3 wo fatally wounded ^nd two seriously j rounded at Camp "Wheeler Tuesday. ] Che Tenth cavalry (colored) arrived ] rom Montauk that morning and had | tot been off. the train an hour before < ome of its members became involved j n a difficulty with the provost guard. ] Jne man was killed and five wounded, ] wo fatally. t Killed: Corp'l McLaughlin, Co. L, j Sixth infantry. < Fatally wounded: Private James rleeton, Troop M, .Tenth cavalry % and . trooper of the. Tenth cavalry, name ' mknown. Wounded: Prvate E. Willis, Co. M, * Sixth infantry; Private Larkin," Co. L, Sixteenth infantry, and a trooper of J he Tenth cavalry, name not known. ' Soon after the men left the train one ( f the cavalrymen went to a house fre- J uented bv white men and attempted ( o clean out the place. He was arrested 1 iy a corporal's' detail of four men of 1 he provost -guard. The arrest was uickly noised about and the negro ayalrymen attempted to rescue the risoner. The first man who advanced oward the guard was halted and as he j; urned to run was fired upon. Firing hen became almost general and con- s inued several minutes. Corp'l Mc- c ^aughlin, Co. L, Sixth infantry, com- * landing the detail, was killed at the 1 rst fire. Private E. "Wiles, Co. M, I ' -T- _ i.*L . 1 } iixtn mianiry, was snot in une xnee nd Private Larkin, Co. L, Sixteenth afantry, received a ball in the leg. g Viles' leg was amputated later at the a ospital. Private James Gleeton, troop a I, Tenth cavalry, received a bullet in 1 lie spine and will die. Two other r 'enth cavalrymen whose names are not c nown, were wounded, one of them i; atally. The affair would have been t ttended by more serious consequences t ad not a mounted platoon from the } 'enth cavalry scattered the beligerent t egroes with drawn sabres. The white v oldiers Here entertain a very Diuer. c ;eling against the negro troopers and y i is feared trouble will occur whenever t he two races meet. The Tenth was c iven a camp situated more than a mile rom any other regiment. p Smothered With Cotton Seed. While playing hide and seek in a J irge pile of cotton seed Sunday after- * oon, a little child of Mr. Robt. Pruitt, ? prominent fanner living five miles auth of Anderson, S. C., was smoth- * red to death with the help of other 1 hildren. A large hole had been hoi- 2 jwed out in the seed, and this little 1 ne fell in and was buried beneath the * eed. "When rescued the body was * rarm and covered with perspiration, j lit all efforts to resusitate the child ^ liled. The Way to Act- jj A rural bridal couple boarded a train j. ut west the other day. Their "spoon- r 3g" attracted the attention of the pasengers and caused some auditable | riticism, where-upon the burly groom ? rose and said: "We are married. It mo a moo of lnv Wo smrk<?H for seven I CfcO at VMUV VA. AW.X r . v ? ? - - - ? ears. She's my vilet. and I'm her owerin' oak. We've got 180 miles to ( o, and we are goin' to spoon every ? urned rod of it, and if thar's any crit- g er here who thinks he can't stand it, 3 ie can git out and walk!" i A Good Specimen. Mr. Jacob Simon, the new senator rom Oregon, Is. rather an interesting >erson. He is a (ierman Jew. 4i years J Id, and has lived in this country 46 r ears of his life. He is a lawyer, a t lepublican, a gold standard advocate, \ .n expansionist and an adherent of the s lanna machine. j A Titil EXPLOSION. | ^ V ftve Men Killed and Eleven Wounded P h in a Colliery. j, Five men were killed and eleven narea by an explosion of gas Thurs ay I ifternoon in colliery No. 8, atCoalc ,le, f r*a. The dead are: J Fire Boss Thomas Smith. ? "William P. Beese. I Mattis Olarkey. of Coaldale. ? William Cook. ? John Konika, of Lansford. Konika died after he had been taken , 'rom the mine, but the others met instant death. All were married and 2! eave large families. The colliery is the largest producer . )f four in that valley, owned by the \s Lehigh Coal and Navigation company, [t has a capacity over 300,000 tons of Ci ;oal and employs five hundred hands. ^ In consequence of fire which origi- C( lated in the left span of the mine some u nonths ago, shifts of meD were put to york driving holes from the gang way, ,( :hrough which water was to be forced ipon the flames. While the gang of 1 nen was building a dam to back up the rater this atternoon the gangway iaught fire. Nearly a hundred thous- 0 ind gallons of water was turned into the c< loles and almost instantly a terrific explosion occurred, followed in quick sue- ^ ;ession by four lighter explosions, of >uch force that the gangway was torn a lp for over 300 feet and the workmen w vere blown about in ill directions. Rescue gangs were put to work and c' in hour later it was thought that all w ;he dead and injured had been found, s ilthough the search was under way to- T light, when the "fire was still bnrning. ^ rhe supposition is that the great body )f water sent into the holes forced w rolumes of escaping gas from some of ^ :he old workings back upon the flames jausing the explosion. e Both. Were Killed. o Howard Clark, who was wanted in b Louisville for murder and burglary and " ais girl, Hattie Mahoney, were both tilled while resisting arrest on the Inliana side of the river near Owensboro, " K.y., "Wednesday. Clark was wanted s" :or the murder of officer Hefferman, of r< Louisville last August and was attempt- 81 n? to escape by rowing down the Ohio H :iver in a skiff. Word had been sent ^ ilong the river by telegraph to arrest ? aim. Officers from Owensboro were in e1 pursuit when Clark tied up his skiff on ? ihe Indiana side and took to the woods " ^Vhen detected at burglary in Louis- ^ rille he killed the officer who caught c< trim. When the officers came upon him 2 Jlark and the girl both opened fire in lesperate resistance. Clark was weJl irmed and the girl also. Both Clark md the girl were shot dead. In the a ight that ensued the escape of the offi- C( jers was miraculous. 31 rt Hilton s. Is [odoform Liniment is the "nee plus u lltra" of all such preparations in re- ei noving soreness, and quickly healing ii :resh cuts and wounds, no matter how t< sad. It will promptly heal old sores d< )f long standing. Will kill the pois- a >n from "Poison Ivy" or "Poison ic 3ak" and cure "Dew Poison." Will h counteract the poison from bites of is makes an stings of insects. It is a c< rare cure for sore throat. Will cure ii my case of sore "mouth, and is a superior remedy for all pains and aches. Sold by druggists and dealers 25 cents a p jottle. ... n si A Bright Outlook. i Nothing conld sTinw more fincnnraire- o! Bent for Democrats in the Congress- tl onal campaign than the fact that Re- <?< Dublicans acknowledge their, fear of 1 osing four out of the eleven Iowa dis- ci aicts, now all represented by Republic n jans. A gain of thirty seats is all that Is needed by the Democrats to put the Republicans in a short minority in the I iext House, and the prospects of get- c. ;ing them and many more?is very s. bright at this time. ti After Eight Years. ^ A reward for $50 which has been f1 standing for eight years has recently 1C jeen won by Police Officers McCarrell ^ ind Hatcher of. Greenville. In March, L890, the reward was offered by G-over- w lor Richardson for the arrest of Henry jrriffin, colored, accused of the murder ? )f Tite Carson in Abbeville. For eight " rears the negro has evaded the officers )f the law, but is now in safe confine- u nent. The two officers will receive the eward of $50 ?Columbia State. , :? fc Populism Dead. el The Atlanta Journal invited the Populists back into the folds of Democacy on Saturday. The Augusta Tri- ^ >une, the only Populist daily in the ? outh, yesterday advised the acceptance / if the invitation, admitting that the >opulist party is dead nationally, and ai 10 reason to keep a separate State or:anization. All eyes are now on Tom IVatson. The Chicago Tribune, that radical .. ;old standard paper, says that the' 'rank lL file nf the Demneracv of the countrv ,reas ignorant as dumb driven cattle." ^ ?o say that over six million of voters, epresenting nearly one-half of the 123 ntire population of the country, are as gnorant as dumb driven cattle because hey refuse to become the slaves of g he "Wall Street money power which I lussel Sage says now absolutely ccnrols the country, simply illustrates to rhat desperate straits the great finan:ial trust is driven to. - But as vinegar rill catch no flies neitacr will abuse of he farmers and laborers of the country atch votes. "South Carolina is sending campaign orators and other assistance to forth Carolina to help in the good rork of freeing the Old North State a rom scalawags and negro domination," | ays tne savannan :>iormng news. eg 'Twenty-two years ago North Carolina w ,nd Georgia performed similar services 9 or South Carolina. . Can it ever be for- 1 ;otten how, on eleetion day, in 1876, nquiries in South Carolina as to how 9 he ballot was going would be met with 3 he response, 'Everything going for if lampton; and four more counties in * Jeorgia to be heard from!'" g( Dr. Sochheimer. the /eteran Rabbi _ n Baltimore, puts men in the following -? ive classes, according to their charita >le instincts: First, those who give aore than you ask; second, those who ~~ ;ive something, but give it unwillingly; ourth, those who don't give anything; "I ifth, those who refuse to give and in ult you at the same time. ^ For the first time in its history, Quebec recently cheered the Stars and Strines. borne at the head of American oldiers in its streets. Uncle Sam and tfjss Canada are having a rapproche- jD nent these days, but a coolness geneally springs up when the Bering sea is lluded to. iq Ma. Joshua Levering, president of the Tl Baltimore board of trade, in his annual " eport, says: "This country is today in he midst of a prosperity the like of rhich it has probably never before een." Oh, Joshua! How can you ^ rarn so? Tie tow Price of Cotton, The low price of cotton and ite de? ressing effects suggests an immediate alt on the part of our farmers. It is ist simply impossible to raise cotton ( t present prices, andjit will cventualruin any farmer who attempts it. Lfter the guano and picking is paid >r as well as the expense of making be crop the farmer has nothing left ut groans and tears. Some say that j ver prodnction is the real canse of the >w price of cotton, but we do not be!eve a word of it simply from the fact ie great masses of the people if they ad the money to invest could soot Dnsume the world's supply of cotton, he editor of the Fair Bluft Times avels around a great deal and to sat- l >fy his mind on the theory of over prouction he has frequently asked this uestion: "Suppose money was as lentiful as in by gone days how much Dtton goods or homespun could you se in your family?'' The almost uniersal response to this question is as -II t.T 1 1.-1.1. I i .mows. l couiu use several uuius ux ? omcspuo in my family and not be ex-avagant; our bed sheets and pillow uses are worn as well as other useful rticles and we need more." If any ne will take the trouble to canvass the ountry he will find that the editor is tating facts which cannot be denied. Jotton is the great money crop of the 1 outh and it is one of those necessary rticles which cannot be dispensed ith, therefore the price of cotton ught to guarantee its production. "We annot live without cotton goods and e cannot expect our farmers to toil in immer's heat and winter's cold to proide the world with cotton and at the j ime time starve themselves in its pronrtfiAn T-P if o uuuuu* JU AW a'J uuv tuau *M uouu vi icked gamblers in New York and elsewhere is regulating the price of cotton, lis den of infamy should be broken p by the strong arm of just and rightous law. It is not right that millions f farmers should be driven to the wall " y gambling in futures and other unIghteous methods of handling cotton, f law will not come to the assistance f the farmers and put a stop to aisonest speculation, the farmers themslves can soon change the situation by jducing the cotton crop down to the mallest point. A vast reduction in ie acreage will soon settle the queson of over production and help the inner to locate the cause of the pres- j at trouble. But if cotton should in inety days bring seven or eight centsr >ok out for next year. A large crop ill be planted again and next fall four 11 .1 r i gnts cotton win cause tne iarmer to roan in spirit again. < A Bad State of Affairs. A respectable white woman who was rrcsted by a Negro constable in Craven Dunty, N. C., and taken before a Negro lagistrate for trial for some "rnisdea leanor," was prosecuted by a Negio iwyer at the instance of a Negro wo- ( lan who had been in the white woman's mploy, ;She was required to give bond 1 the sum of $250 and was not allowed ) leave the magistrate's "office" in or- ] rt ? a? TV>A 1 Y> ' A Ci LU 11UU UVUUOUiCUl JL11V V1UUQ 1*1 } uestion was a filthy barber shop where j i lie Negroes drank and cursed to their eart's content. If the North Carolin- j ins fail to free themselves from tlr's audition, they will deserve the horrid ite that has overtaken the State. The New York Tribune and Philadelhia Press, in their market reviews, adlit continued falling prices, but try tobow that there is prosperity. The , 'ribune, however, says that this krinlro<rfl in rvviA-ao to ca fumnff fi\ cnmp iat they piteously.wonder whether the j ounlry really has any prcsperifcy# 'he Press advises business men to inrease the volume of business and so take some small profit. Joseph Stuerfczbach, of ; Steven's \ 'oint, "Wisconsin, has come to the conlusion thatrawoodshe^ is not the best ind of a place to deposit money. He , *ied it. He had a nice hole dug in ae floor, put his money in a tin box ad covered it so that no one would >ok for lucre there. V/hile he was one from Lome the other day proapec>rs struck the lead and lifted the box ith the $16,500 it contained. Lieutenant Hobson has recovered 'om the Maria Teresa, the Oquendo ad the Yiscaya, guns valued at $300,)0. This is about the value of the )llier Merrimac which Hobson sank in antiago's channel, so that he has paid >r his little fun out of Spanish pockJS. Begging pays in Italy. "WTien Tori, well known Italian professional men- I icant. died last year, there were >und hidden away in his rooms bank x)ks, securities and gold and silver mounting collectively to the value of pward of 2,000.000 francs, or $100,)0. ' That citizen of Connecticut who juldn't have a monument during his fe time determined to enjoy that luxry after he was dead, and provided in is will that his whole fortune of $12,)0 shonld be used in erecting a m.onuient to himself. I HILTON'S Bjj s &ID> SYS, as its nameimpartof^K; * ?p 1* *.4tLuiiator ?nd r^uJator te^E * ^?%Kiuu. L? Me best vter^H f I me?te medicine co aid dlgu5&"& I m Prevent? tiet-i-ciiaa. Vvrec^K- J ft cJiiLiouwie~?* Axte oo 5fc* J g 01 yt vcittin Thu^y minutes ?f ?erHT ? ^norine vsaee je j ji flj track txcffi dic?.' de. A Ci-cs eor i j B i*w, -'W;icVf- ?iom&r<- 9 | e K acottbie*. is OPtiryiy fegwt?ck. 9 M vc, dOc and $i Qo a bo^clb. >j, W[ J f H j d-raje. -' generally, ane t>> XL m l B iiurra> l:rug Co, Columbia, k mj * Hp Lo E Bear, Ch?;le tor V J ^ ''""low /TOT, *11 I ^ ot>/? w I J 1\A UJ uvaivi O ^vuviunj ?*uv? HB MURRAY DRt'G CO., Columbia, S. C. | THE CITY BY THE SEA. 'he Keeley Institute, t . E. Comer Yanderhorst and Smith ], Streets, CHARLESTON, *SO. CA, g n Atlantic Ocean_Surf Bathing, Yatch- _ g, JBoating and Fishing. Trolley ana | erry Rides, 1, 18 and 23 miles. Sulli- j in Island and The Isle of Palms all i be enjoyed while under treatment for Whiskey or Morphine Addic- * tion. pens 3rd October and lill be the only Kecley Institute in the State. i - i'.-"- >% :"' ^sSSfcsi A Happy Home J io *r?vs ^ teq-fol<i by gqo-i Mo^ic. "5g ibe moat qf life by procuring a co?d P AX)OB ORG * h tf ?dc has a refiaimg iufiaeooe, and keopt jour children at some. \ ? * . nt?it l\ AM HiJl DHift U" 'laP fou only invest omce u. ? iut-time, pmu'' =jji d you felect a gooa instrun ? J I CHALLENGE Inyhoase in America to beat aj price* TERM. . Ipfl lO thofe not prepared te pay cm*i. I *W pre reaaozukkle time. *t a flight differ?n<33 Warranty,' ' fully guarantee my ?n?ru aenl* ?oid *j . . ;j?s rtpre*?r>u*d. DON'T FAIL i9 write fcT prioea an?* tenas, and for III i< * trated catalogue*. YOURS FOR ?J fi "*"*"* ?- a v - r ??f ; ' V M. A. MALONE, 1509 MAIN STREET, <1 * . "j?? Take Care of Your Property. | Save money by keeping your Gins in thorough repair. You get better results please the public and save your 3WN TIME AND LABOH. Fourtaen years practical er-? perience in the ELLIOTT GUSf SHOPS at Winnsboro, S. C., is a guarantee of good work. Send yonr gins at once to :iie undersigned, J V W. J. ELLIOTT, "J cowmbia, s. c. .. Located adjacent to the Is ser Engine Work. Jnly27 3ro Saw Mills. If you Med a miiL %ny she, irriw ' ibs 1k?? bojioi ??????. 1 ut9 the most compkU line ef mill a ef %*y dealer or m*nafactaw in the South. ' Corn Mills. Very fcigituMtgrule Roues at aanaxJ* It low price* Wood-Working Machinery. Planers, Mouldm, Ed*?f, ; Bud 8a??, LatJB, etc. Engines and Boilers, T&lhott tad Iidde!',. Bngieberg Rioe Holler, in ctock, quick delivery, tow prices. " V, C. BADH A M. ^ 1386 Main fl3flBSS6Bi3SEStevlitis^Ly5*i^ie5tii6KtiC]5S88ttSB$^ From Maier Diivci to Purchaser. ? | A Good I fi u i j. iauu ? BBS3SBBi?t > n EmH li fetl m 25 K Haitnd glv mi ? ^kssb9bh eadlm? m- ?; _ S M /oymwtf. ?| fi 1Q I A? l^rtaSr fi y*?rs and gl^endlew ! Bile vexatitm. . gB I Mathushek ? ? Is always Good* always Bettabtoi SI '"?K B always Satis factory, always Last- ML tag, You take no chanccs in bay* 3B? Bing it, . ink l H it costs somewhat more than a 9R :ga;Pl cheap, poor piano, bat Is maeh MSI R cheapest In the end. Wf No other HtehGradeRano sold so m reasonable. Factory prices to retail WS - - ~'?3 K boyers. Easy payments. Writ* vs. JH B5 UiODEH * BATES, S?r.?a*h, Go_ u< 5ew T?rt CHy. Address; D. A. FRBSSLEY, Agent ~ Columbia, S. C. . COME INS SEE IT! ?Ve will exhibit at the State Fair to be held here !N"ov, 13th to 19th, in oper ation a 1 iomplete uukray fi inning complete itlueray u inning System, m ystem, >uilt by Liddell Co , Charotte, N. C. This will afford all intested aa opportunir of seeing the most modern ahd simp est of inning Machinery, Yon can't afford to _ iiM it. IT. H. SIBBES & CO. Machinery and Mill enjply Eeadqoartera /}g5 Columbia, 8. C.t iiwu uaivu Colombia. S. C. s?j - C, Agents Liddell Co,, ChuirtU, N. C. ~^7i sang