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? X J~- - ?- - ? watering'Tlaces. i i t Dr, Taimage Draws Some Lessons i a From Summer Outings. \ r , ! t rkAwr.CDC: 4Nn TFMPTATIONS L unuuuiw ?? * *? > ..... i The Necessity For a Period of z c Inoccupation. No Surplus c of Piety at those i { Places. At this season of the'year, when all * who car. get a vacation are taking it, j this discourse of Dr. Talmage is sug- c gestive and appropriate. T ,e text is 2 John v, 2, 3: "A pool, which is called 1 *- ~ MnoT?et,hesda. hav- | 1 ill tilC LL</li/lVn i?vw^av j ing five porches. In these lay a great j multitude of impotent folk, of blind,' , halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water." J Outside the city of Jerusalem .there , was a sanative watering place, 'the popular resort for invalids. To this day " there is a dry basin of rock which sho*s , that there may have been s. pool there 360 feet long, 130 feet wide and 75 feet ; deep. This pool was surrounded by ] five piazzas, or porches, or bathing . houses, where the patients tarried until the time when they were to step into the o? n ; _ ^ ^ t water. &o rar as remv.gvianus ?t?.j , concerned, it must have been a Sarato, ga and a Long Branch on a small scale; * a Leamington and a Brighton combined " . t ?medical and therapeutic. Tradition s says that at a certain season of the year there was an officer of the government ? who would go down to that water and pour in it some healing quality, and 2 after that the people would come and J get the medication. But I prefer the plain statement of Scripture, that at a ] certain season an angel came down and stirred up or troubled the water, and " then the people came and got the heal- ra ing. That angel of God that stirred up 3 the Judaen watering place had his * counterpart in the angel of healing who, 1 in our day, steps into the mineral water ? of Congress or Sharon or Sulphur * Springs, or into the salt sea at Cape 2 May and Nithant. where multitudes 1 who are worn out. with commercial and * professional anxieties, as well as those * who are affiictcd with rheumatic, neuralgic and splenetic diseases, go andnre * cured by the thousands. These bless- ^ ed Bethesdas are scattered all up and * down our country. We are at a season of the year when rail trains are laden with passengers and baggage on their way to the mountains and the lakes and the seashore. Multitudes .of our citizens are away for a restorative absence. The city heats are pursuing the people with torch and fear of sunstroke. The long, silent halls of sumptuous hotels are all abuzz with excited arrivals. The antlers of Adirondack deer rattle under the shot of city sportsmen, the trout make fatal snap at the hook of adroit sportsmen, who toss tl I.?*1 A MTHO I ftaeir spw-ieu uinnauijo mtu tuv basket; the baton of the orchestral lead- ^ er taps the music stand on the hotel * green, and American life has put on festal array, and the rumbling of the ten pin alley, and the crack of the ivory 1 v balls on the green baized billiard tables, I and the jolting of the barroom goblets s and the explosive uncorking of the c champagne bottles, and the whirl and ^ the rustle of the ballroom dance, and ? the clattering hoofs of the race courses I and other signs of social dissipation at- ? . .1 . .1 !> j.1 A \ } test tnat tne season ior me giea^ -xmu- ican watering places is in full play. -1 Music! Flute and drum and cornet-a- s piston and clapping cymbals wake the J echoes of the mountains. Glad am I * that fagged out American life for the t most part has an opportunity to rest I and that nerves racked and destroyed * wili find a Bethesda. I believe in wa- t tj?rir?cr Thfiv recunerate for ac- 1 -W-.?0 ? A tive service many who were worn out ' with trouble or overwork. They are 1 national restoratives. * The first temptation that is apt to ' hover in this direction is to leave your I piety at home. You will send the dog * and cat and canary bird to be well cared * for somewhere else, but the temptation 3 will be to leave your religion in the I room with the blinds down and the doors bolted, and then you will come a back in the auiumn to find that it is i starved ana suffocated, lying stretched j c on the rug, stark dead. There is no v surplus of piety at the watering places, a I neyer knew any one to grow very rap- e idly in grace at the Catskill Mountain j House or Sharon Springs or the Fails of 5 Montmorency. It is generally the case a that the Sabbath is more of a carousal t than any other day, and there are Sun- i day walks, and Sunday rides, and Sun- I day excursions. Elders and deacons s and ministers of religion who are en- f tirely consistent at home, sometimes r when the Sabbath dawns on them at 1 Niagara Falls or the White mountains t take a day to themselves. If they go ' to the church, it is apt to be a sacred ' parade, and the discourse, instead of J being a plain talk about the soul, is apt f ^ to be what is called a -crack sermim? c that is, some discourse picked out of tk rfoor oc ATI & ! f tuc CUUOiVUJ Ui UiJ.V jVtti vuv v**v most adapted to excite admiration, and p in those churches, from the way the t ladies hold their fans, you know that o they are not so much impressed with t the heat as with the picturesqueness of t half disclosed features. Four puny v souls stand in the organ loft and squall I a tune that nobody knows, and worship- c ers, with $2,000 worth of diamonds on e the right hand, drop a cent into the i: poor box, and then the benediction is p pronounced, and the farce is ended, c The toughest thing I ever tried to do g was to be good at a watering place. The s air is bewitched with the "world, the t flesh and the devil." There are Chris- e tians who, in three or four weeks in A such a place, have had such terrible v rents made in their Christian robe that v they had to keep darning it until a Christmas to get it mended. I: Another temptation hovering around ^ nearly all our watering places is the 0 horse racing business. V.'e all admire ? the horse, but we do not think that its ^ beauty or speed ought to be cultured at ^ the expense of human degradation. ^ The horse race is not of such importance ^ as the human race. The Bible inti- " mates that a man is better than a sheep, and I suppose he is better than a horse, " though like Job's stallion, his neck be E clothed with thouder. Horse races in P olden times were under the ban of Chris- v: tian people, and in our day the same s: institution has come up under fictitious ?1 names. And it is called a "summer 15 meeting," almost suggestive of posi- u tive religious exercises. And it is 2 called an "agricultural fair," sugges- ? tive of everything that is improving in " the art of farming, but under these de- a ceptive titles are the same cheating, and the betting, and the same drunken- ^ ness, and :he same vagabondage, and 2 the same abomination that were to be a found under the old horse racing sys- S tem. I never knew a man yet who could ^ give himself to the pleasures of the ^ turf for a long reach of time and not be * mattered iHmoials, Tiifejr hc&J up their panking team and put on their SportDg cap ana light their" cigar and take he reins and dash down on the road to >erditioa! The great day at Saratoga .ad Brighton Beach and Cape May and icarly all the j)tbe? watering places is he day of the races. Another temptation hovering around he watering place is the formation of lasty and lifelong alliances. The catering places are responsible foi nore of the domestic infelicities of this icuntry than nearly all other things ombined. Society is so artificial there bat no sure judgment of character can >e formed. They who form companonships amid such circumstances gc nto a lottery where there are 20 blanks ;o one prize. In the seveTe tug 01 me ou want more-than glitter and splash. Life is not a ballroom where the music lecides the step, and bow and prance md graceful swing of long train can nake up for strong common sense. You night as well go among the gaylj minted vachts of a summer reeatta tc ind war vessels as to go rimoDg the ight spray of the summer wateriDe )lace to find character that can stand he test of the great struggle of humar ife. In the battle of life you ^ant s tronger weapon than a lace fan or a :roquet mallet. The load of life is sc leavy that in order to draw it you vant a team stronger than that made ip of a masculine grasshopper and a * v - u. i}_ T? J.1 emimoe Dutieray. n tuurt; is a,uy ?uo.l n the community who excites my conempt and who ought to excite the conempt of every man and woman, it is he soft handed, soft headed dude, who. >erfumed until the air is actually sick, ;pends his summer in striking killing rttitudes, ar.d waving sentimental adi :ux, and talking infinitesimal nothings, md finding his heaven ia the set of a avender kid glove. Boots as tight as m inquisition. Two hours of consu innate skill exhibited in the tie of a lashing cravat. His conversation nade up of uAhs!" and "Ohs!:' and :He hes!'' There is only one counterpart to such ? ? ? a^ A "pTAflitj I Hid 11 ClidL, auu Lixab iO wuv roung woman at the watering places; ler conversation made up -of French noonshine; wbat she las in her head >nly equaled by what she has on hei >ack; useless ever since she was born, md to be useless until she is dead uness she becomes an intelligent Christian. We may admire music and fail aces and graceful step; out amid the lejirfclessness.and the inflation and the antastie influences of onr modern ratering places beware how you make ifelong covenants. Another temptation that hovers over he watering place is that of baneful A 1 mAflf /rr?A-J*T7 AT)D fltftrtini* iJLUUVJM V * vx J uuv k/wv.. ~ >ff for the summer takes some reading natter. It is a book out of the library >r off the bookstand or bought of the >oy hawking books through the cars. I eally believe there is more pestiferous rash read among the intelligent classes nJuly and August than in all the other en months of the year. Men and wonen who at home would not be satisfied vith. a book that was not really sensible . find sitting on hotel piazza or under he trees .eadi'jg books the index of - - " J 1 T * fl i 1 Finch would mase tnem Diusn n mey mew that you knew what the book was. 'Oh," they say, "you must have inteligent recreation." Yes. There is no leed that you take along to a watering >lace ''Hamilton's Metaphysics" or ome ponderous discourse on the eternal lecrees or "Faraday's Philosophy.'" ["here are many easy book3 that are ;ood. You might as well say, "1 pro>ose now to give a little rest to my di;estive organs, and instead of eating leavy meat and vegetables I will, for a ?? 1 - Tlr?"U CI ^ 7 ^ V? 4-S\V* o llf.f.lo IbCiC VY 1111^5 i-ajxc ivvu ?. trychcine and a few grains of ratsbane." literary poison in August is as bad as iterary poison in December. Mark hat. Do not let the frogs of a corrupt >rinting press jump into your Saratoga ruDk or White mountain valise. Are here not good books that are easy tc ead?books of entertaining travel; iooks of congenial history; books of rare fun; books of poetry, ringing with nerry canto: books of fine engraving: >ooks that uill rest the mind as well as rarify the heart and elevate the whole ife? There will not be an hour beween this and your death when you can iftora to read a book lacking in mora] >rinciple. Another temptation horering all -rrmnrl rmr Tcai-Arimr nl?r>AS is intftTlftat ng beverages. I am told that it is becoming more and more fashionable foi romen to drink. I care not how well . woman may dress, if she has taken nough of wine to flush hfr cheek and nit a glassiness on her eye, she is drunk. >he maybe handed into a$2,500 carrige and have diamonds enough to asound the Tinanys?she is drunk. She Qay be a graduate of the best young adies' seminary and the daughter of orue man in danger of being nominated or the presidency?she is drunk. You aay have a larger vocabulary than I lave, and you may say in regard to her hat she is ''convivial" or she is 'merry" or she is '"festive" or she is 'exhilarated," but you cannot with all our garlands of verbiage cover up the >lain fact that it is an old fashioned ase of drunk. Xow, the watering places are full of emptations to men and women to tip* i. a-l- .1 _? i."L - i> ue. -At LUC UIU&C Ul Lilt teupiu U1 illiard game they tipple. At the close f the cotillon they tipple. Seated on he piazza cooling themselves off they ipple. The tinged glasses come around rith bright straws and they tipple, first they take "light wines," as they all them, but "light wines" are heavy nough to debase the appetite. There s not a very long road between champagne at $5 a bottle and whiskey at 10 ents a glass. Satan has three orf?ur rades down which he takes men to detraction, One man he takes up and hrongh one spree pitches him into tenia! darkness, ihat is a rare case, 'ery seldom indeed can you find a man rtio will be such a fool as that. Satan rill take another man to a grade, to a escent at an angle about like the 'ennsylvania coal shoot or the Mount Vashington rail track, and shove him ff. But this is very rare. "When a lan goes down to destruction, satan rings hin to a plane. It is almost a jvel. The depression is so slight that ou can hardly see it. The man does ot actually know that he is on the own grade, and it tips only a little tornwJ wl'? A P- r sncf A llffl A A f A aiu j use a ijlwcxc. auu tuc rst mile it is claret and the second lileit is sherry and the third mile it is unch and the fourth mile it is ale and he fifth mile it is whiskey and the isth mile it is brandy, and then it gets beeper and steeper and steeper, until it > impossible to stop. "Look not thou pon the wine when it is red, when it iveth its coloi in the cup, when it joveth itself aright. At the last it iteth like a serpent and stingeth like n adder/' Whether you tarry at home?which 'ill be quite as safe and perhaps quite s comfortable?or go into the country, rm yourself against temptation. The race of God is the only safe shelter, hether in town or country. There are atering places accessible to all of us. 'ou cannot open a book of the Bible 1 witiiOat finding Out soUie suck Watering place. Fountains open for sin and un: cleanness. Wells of salvation, i Streams from Lebanon. A flood , struck out of the rock by Moses. P . Fountains in the wilderness discovered i by Hagar. Water to drink and water to bathe in. The river of God, which is full of water. Water of which if a > man drink he sLall never thirst. Wells , of water in the valley of. Baca. Liv. ing fountains of water. A pure river i of water as clear as crystal from under 7 [ the throne of God. These are water. ing places accessible to all of us. We , do not have a laborious packing up be. fore we start?only the throwing away , of our transgressions. JN'o expensive . hotel bills to pay; it is "Withoutmon, ey and without price." No long and dusty travel before we get there; it i3 , only one step away. t] > In California, in five minutes, I walked a around and saw ten fountains all bub- ? bling up, and they were all different, w and in five minutes I can go through P this Bible parterre and find you 50 v* bright, sparkling fountains babbling 1 up into eternal life ?healing and ther- u apeutic. A chemist will go to one of these summer watering places and take r( the water and analyze it and tell you d that it contains >o much of iron and so i< much of soda and so much of lime and ti so much of magnesia. I come to this gospel well, this living fountain and analyze the water; and I find that its jinmredients are peace, pardon, forgive- ? ? * 'ft" ' ? yy . ness, hope, comfort, life heaven. '*Ho, . every one that thirsteth come ye" to i this watering place. Crowd around this Bethesda. 0 you sick, you lame, ? you troubled, you dying?crowd around jj this Bethesda. Step in it, oh, step in ^ it. The angel of the covenant to day stirs the water. Why do you not step t in it? Some of you are too weak to i take a step in tnat direction. Then we ' . take you up in the arms of prayer and , plunge you clear under the wave, hop- t. ing that the cure may be as sudden and as radical as with Captiin Xaaman, ^ who blotched and " cartuncled, stepped into the Jordan, and after the seventh ; dive came up, his skin roseate complex ioned as the flesh of a little child. The Cotton Crop. *( According to the New York Commer- n cial the cotton men in New York do b , not put much faith in Mr. Neill's esti- e] mate of the crop. They plaim that it p' is extravagant and*is not based on sub- ^ o+ow+iol -Portfo Tlio nnmmArfiial savs: iTUlUUiaA IUVCUI AMW w. v _ - tJ Mr. Xeill's yearly report on the c - i | 1 situation is looked forward to with k .r, interest both in this country and in England. Cotton operators in Engl r:d Cl - especially have great respect for his ^ judgment. Mr. Neill predicted the 'a enormous crops of 1894 95, 1897-93, ^ and 1S98-99. The accuracy of his pre- S( dictions in these years have given Litn t( a world-wide reputation as a cotton w crop expert. "Whatever he has to pay ? i j 1 / o1 concerning crop conditions or tne iu- t( ture of the growing crop is listened to e] with close attention. Bnt this year w the general opinion seems to be that cj he has overshot the mark and that the 2s crop will fall short of his predictions. ? He predicts a crop of 12,000,000 bales. 1 On the floor of the New York Stock ^ Exchange none of the traders seem to a, think that the crop will be over 10,500,- _ 000 bales at the highest. Mr. Neill a] i estimates the damage in the Brazos p river valley, the scene of the recent gi severe floods in Texas, at barely 100,- g I AAA u c TV Af tfco \J\J\J U<XiCE>. JLi* O. iiUii-LiVA*J V* wuxy statistical bureau of the Department of Agriculture, who has made a special report on the agricultural sitiation in the flooded section, states that a conserva- 3 tive estimate of the actual destruction ! includes about 277,000 bales. Thomas M. Robinson, president of the Cotton Exchange, when asked what ( he thought of the accuracy of Mr. j< Neill's prediction, said: *'I don't see s< ; how Mr. Neiil or any other man oaD tl , pretend to say this early in the year v . what the crop will b5. I have known e: 1 careful estimates male as late in the ^ season as November to be wrong by as si big a margin as 1,UUU,UUU Dales. i ne s. possibilities of the crop, when all condi- d ; tions are favorable, are almost infinite, ^ i but account must be taken of possible j droughts, scorching temperature, and . other things likely to hurt the crop. ^ t It is hard to say just what result Mr. IV [ Neill's report had on the market. Liver- C pool opened four points lower, but S whether that is to be attributed to Mr. ? Neill's report or other causes I don't know. It is probably a fact, though, . that as much or more reliance is placed in Mr. Neill's forecast in Liverpool b ' than anywhere else. English opera- b tors seem to have great confidence in r< him. In my opinion it is much too tl early to hazard an opinion as to how ii I large the crop will be this season." I in -r-r , , i p TT T1 J T> P, ?>. T. JtlUDDara OX xiuooaru jorus. vx/ oj ! Co. said: "The market tells the story. f< ! The estimate undoubtedly gave it a tl slight shock. But the report is believed p to be extravagant. A man who pretends o: : to say on August 14 what the crop will ; be and that it can't be hurt seriously , by frost, rains or drought enoueh to af- jN feet the ultimate yield is regarded as a ft rather loose prophet." Another prom- 0 inent trader said: "The estimate is a T big fake. The probable yield is gro?sly exaggerated and I don't think Mr. XT^.11 1?1 - ? ? it YITIitt I 1 jA&Lll lb UiUIOUll* TT LLJ 5 V/X VA\yJL O are being taken six months ahead for cotton cloths, both here and abroad, on a basis that would allow the spinner to pay S cents a pound for middling cotton, and we are selling middling in the V pit every day at prices about cents and 9? cents per pound. I would like, to know where Mr. Neill gets the information on which he bases his report. "We spend a good deal of money S for information and it is just as good as Mr. Neill's. I fail to see how he de- 01 duces the facts embodied in his estimate. The estimate had no effect on 11 the market." is Porto Kic in Sufferers. v, Gov. McSweeney has received a com- P: munication from Flihu Koot, secretary a of war, detailing the fearful destruc- c< tion wrought by the recent storm in ei Puerto Rico and calling for aid for the C1 unfortunates. He has already appeal- sc ed to the mayors of cities throughout the country, but has decided to extend b< the appeal to the governors of States. Sl Supplies and money are neede'L Sup- 3C -i;-? ?u v.. p -R K J-UIC3 S11UU1U UU O^uu IV vvi. X ? Jones, Army building, New York, and ? money to the National bank of North w America, New York. I, Times are getting better. Sis Pianos di sold in the last three weeks. Four for ri cash. Those in want of Pianos and d< Organs have found the place to get the ta best makes for the least money. A m nice x^Iathushek Piano now completes lo the furnishing of the new Odd Fellows ai hall, for the use of societies that meet se in hall. Call at my office or write in me for circulars and price. D. A. di -r? i -_ -\t i^ c n rressiey, manager v^ui umiua, o. ki. u The Iowa State Democratic Convention declared for Bryan ^ and free silver. The other states of will do the same thing. The ft Chicago platform will be re-af- ^ firmed and Bryan will be renom- ^ inated and elected. pi >. i ?*W"*V i'I DARIEN EXCITED." 5ace War Threatened atthis Georgia Town. THE MILITIA CALLED OUT. "he Rc , Started by the Murder of a Deputy Sheriff. Many Rioters Arrested by Militia. A dispatch from Darien, Ga., says bat Friday was a day of great anxiety nd intense excitement among the rhite people of that place. The disatch says an outbreak of the Negroes ras feared since the killing of Joseph 'ownsend, a prominent citizen and deptv sheriff Thursday night. At the jquest of the sheriff the Governor orered out the militia and declared D*lin and surrounding county under marial law, with Col. A. R. La^ton in ommarid. Jon Dellegal, the Negro who killed >eputy Sheriff Joseph Townsend and ounded Deputy Hopkins Thursday ight, connot be found. He is the son f Henry Dellegal, whose arrest for asurilf fVio raw war Tim fron eputies went to the house of Henry >ellegal to arrest his two sons, John as found at the house and Townsend otered. The Negro made no remontrance but showed his willingness to ccompany the officers. Hopkins who as in the moonlight outside was joined y Townsend and the two waited for lie Negro to come out. He came to tie door and af^Negro woman, handing im a gun, he fired on the officers. I -j J.--J . c J owaseuu uieu iu a icw miuutea auu as brought to Darien by Hopkins, who > badly, wounded. The sheriff and his deputies continue ) make arrests of the rioting negroes ad the jail has a large number in it otwilhstandiDg the fact that the town oat Iris left for Savannah with 25 riotre who had been arrested. This was a recautionary measure to prevent an attck on ihe jail by the Negro friends of lose imprisoned and to make room for iose who have been arrested since the jmoval. Nearly all the Negroes left town and 3ngregated in a swamp about twelve tiles from town. They are armed, and posse of armed whites went out to eep guard over them. A telegram was snt to Bruaswick urging all white men ) go to Darien. The presence of the hites is wanted to overawe the Neroes, who outnumber the whites five ) one. A conference was held at leven o'clock Friday night by the hites, and it was decided to take deisive action at daylight against the egroes who are massed and armed in ellegal's swamp. The citizens move from Darien on a pecial train for the swamp at 3 o'clock ad the militia?about 150 in number trrrni a oro Vllt, iiUUi Aatu. AUU ^ rmed in defiance of law, and the purose of the militia is to snrronnd the ivamp and relieve the blacks of their re arms and arrest them. A SIGNIFICANT TEST[ow Farmers-Voted on Certain Im portant uuestions, Farm and Home, ail agricultural jurnal, published in Chicago, recently jntout 20,000 postal cards to farmers imughout the country, asking them to ote on various questions bearing on xpansion. The first of these questions a3, "Should the Filipinos be held in abjection to tbe United States, or bould they be allowed to form an inependent government?" The replies rere as follows: For inde- For subpendence. jection. i"ew England 1,276 785 liddle States 2,867 2,343 lentral West 4,901 3,0S2 outhern States 1,792 1,083 'acific Coast 1,684 1,103 Total .....12,520 S,416 The next question was "Should Cuba e free and independent, or should it e annexed to the United States?" The t.A t.Ms 13.199 in favor of be independence of Cuba and 7,362 1 favor of annexation. The ninth question was, "In general hould the United States adhere to its )rmer policy of non-interference with le nations beyond the two seas, or deart from it?" And this was the result f the vote: Depart Adhere to. from. few England 1,578 291 [iddle States 3,946 1,003 entral West 6,179 1,204 he South 2,065 817 'acific Coast 1,856 572 Total 15,624 3,887 BEATS THE WORLD. Hiat Can Be Raised on a South Caro linaFarm. The recent meeting of the Georgia tate Agricultural Society at Quitman, lysthe Columbus Enquirer Sun, was ae of unusual interest. Among other lings the matter of diversified farmig was discussed. In order to show lat the South, and Georgia especially, i the best place in the country for di2rsifiea farming, the following list is rinted showing the products grown on single farm in one of the Georgia mnties: Hay, corn, hams, pigs, chickis, sea island cotton, casava pepper, ishaws, peanuts, millet, syrup, pears, ugum, wheat, peas, lard, rice, bacon, irkeys, cattle, geese, eggs, cotton, 2ggar weed, collards, oats, pumpkins, igar cane, rye, potatoes, grapes, John>n grass, pea vine?, wafermc!ous, Kaffir corn," That is doing very well >r Georgia. A South Carolina firm onld have a.-.litd, however, black irrio.s, rlcwbairies, cucumbers, squash, iaus, tigs, pomegranates, quinces, icks, guineas, Bermuda grass, partdges, cantaloupes, plums, maypops, )ves, sparrows, haws, crows, yams. ,nvas, peaches, lettuce, poke-salad, ilk butter, buttermilk, vetch, mellit, asparagus, maize, horses, cabbages id some nut grass here and there for ied. Surely, surely, there is no place oil flip wnrlrl lilrA firmfch flnrnlina fnr versified farming. Strikes it Bich. Coxey, who led a tramp army to rashington in 1S95, is now the head ' a mining company, which has just aJe a strike of lead ore that will m&ke jxey a magnate. He organized a comtny atMassillon, 0., and began operions on the Shoal Creek Mining cominy's lease last spring. m "On ???i irVitl I III II. -1 1 A Menace to the fiom6. XeW York is worse than Sodom and Gomorrah. The Mazet committee is still ferreting out badness in the bad portions of that city. The Charlotte Obsprvftr savs one of its detectives spent a night in the Tenderloin recently, with his pockets full of spurious money. He was robbed with lavish prodigality by the bad women of that section who thrust their viciousness into his face on the streets. He complairted to the police of that district, and they located the female thieves, but quar?/v11/n4 rtri+1, nc ivVia ICIICU. UliVlli U'J W r,?v should have the stolen money, themselves or the robbers, the despoiled victim evidently being supposed to be dead. Such robberies are of constant occurrence, the police evidently be*" ? - ? am i-rrZ 4-1^ tri a/\ +a r% >-? lllg ILL CUJLIUOJ.UU. ??iCJUL IV CIJUI appalling extent, and tliey are protected in that collusion by the municipal administration. Indeed, the supposed "guardians of the law'? are passing the point of merely winking at vice. They are becoming active criminals themselves. One of "the finest" held up a street car in the American metropolis and robbed everybody on it worth robbing. Profligate women from all parts of the country are pouring into the city, because flip, tnwn is "wide onen." and one of the Mazet detectives found thirty posts unpatrolled by the policemen in the worst part of the city. Such is disrespectable disreputable vice in !New York. Our attention is called to vice in somewhat less disgusting form and brazen openness by the Washington correspondence of the !New York Sun, which states that the United States Post-office department is con siaermg tiie JNew xorK Herald's ' "personal" advertisements, as to whether they are fit matter to be allowed in the mails or not. These "personals" ark barely cloaked with ingenious wording. Their evident impure intents and purposes are apparent to all but the absolutely guileless. The New York Sun hates Mr. James Gordon Rennet, proprietor of'The Herald, and hence it is just now making a noise about his paper's '-'personl" ads. It calls attention to the fact that the wealthy editor of the Chicago Dispatch, Joseph R. Dunlop, who printed '/personal" advertisements of a similar nature to The Herald's, was tried for the offence in the fed erai court, iouna guilty ana sentenced to two years in the Joilet penitentiary, in spite of all that money and lawyers could do to prevent the law's decree. The punishment after all was a mild one. But the fact of the publication of these ''personal" columns in the city's yellow papers shows the existence of vice to a very great extent. yet not so flagrant as in the Tenderloin. And yet thisds not all. The "four hundred/7 with their creme de la creme exclusiveness, <*? Y1A -Po 1~\ A1 V\ /"? W\ O /?nl rt f A CLl C X.CLL UOAJULi^ Hill liCtw> U.ICL tC; and brown-stone fronts on Fifth avenue are sometimes?nay, often?the haunts of vice, jewel bedecked, satin-clad "swell," elite vice, but vice all the same. The * millionaires of the great city tire of a wife very quickly, the courts grant divorces on the very slightest provocation, and glittering millions do not have to hunt for wife No. 2. These exclusive, soap-scented, millionaire, alleged aristocrats depose one wife and take up a neighbor's wife so suddenly sometimes that it almost amounts to a swap. The Norfolk Landmark used an apt term the other day, when it referred to the state of New York society as being truly "ISTeronian." An so in the tenement, in the flat and in the brown-stone front of New York the vice of impurity is sapping the foundation of the home, which is the basis of a pure church and an upright state. Other great cities like Chicago and San Francisco are no better than ISew York. There are thousands of good people who cry out against this state of society, but the truth remains that, with the highest development of art. with astounding strides in science and invention, at the high tide of the planet's progress, we are swinging into the twentieth century, permitting, and often nursing and caressing, the sin, which in its most frightful development and culmination, called down fire from heaven upon the cities of the plain. A judge in Ohicago the other day interrupted the unintelligible testimony of a witness in court by saying: "Take that ! stuff out of your mouth. How do you expect me to hear what you are saying when your mouth is filled with a wad of gunl? This practice of chewing gum on the witness stand must stop. If you talk as plainly as you cau the jury will have trouble enough hearing you, without your making it worse by rolling that great wad under your tongue.'' Without Competition. A newspaper recently started in Alabama is called "Spot Cash." The newspaper that tries to run on that basis in this latitude will be like Bob Toombs' man who was going to Atlanta ''to make an honest living?entirely without competition."?Augusta Chronicle. Afraid to Let Go. "Spain she had a little lamb, the slickest lamb around. She sold the lamb to uncle Sam for twenty millions down; then Sam he took it by the tail to lead it home, you know; the mutton rare turned out a bear, and Sam can't let it go." mSNTal pictures. Tbe Kistake One Man Made and tte Result. "Did you ever notice that when an idea becomes fixed in the mind it is ui.uicu.ao cuange it, espjxiiiiij' la the case of extremely sensitive and highly nervous persons?" asked a Brooklyn expert on nerves. "Not long ago I had a visit from a man who was afraid he was losing his reason because of a very simple persistence of a certain thought or idea which he could not shake off. The history of the case is one often found in cases of hypochondriasis developed from using the telephone. My patient for about a year's time had occasion to telephone every day to a trade customer in New York?Manhattan, if you like. The New Yorker had a peculiar high tenor squeak to his voice, and somehow my friend got to picturing him as a little chap with a thin face. This hahit grew day after day until the customer took a real shape and form in the mind of my patient, all based, of course, upon his voice. As he talked over the telephone there always was mentally pictured that little chap with. the thin face and squeaky voice. Well, one day my patient called at the office of his "nt pw "v nr'lr n /v ttj-y-irj V .. A viiv G.'~U. CLO 11G W CVIZV^LI into the place and saw a tall, fat man weighing nearly 300 pounds he co.:ld scarcely believe his eyes. When the fat man opened his mouth and talked, my patient says, the squeaky voice with which he was familiar sounded strange and unnatural. He told the owner of the absurd voice, in view of his size about having pictured him as a little thin person, and there was a good laugh over the odd difference of the reality. "But the next day when my friend used the telephone and the squeaky voice came to him, hie had to struggle to get away from thinking of his fat patron as being little and thin. He talked the matter over with his wife and laughed about It, but eoon there came a _Jime when he forgot all about the actual existence of his customer, and the little thin-faced chap was again talking to him over the wire. Then it was that he came to see me. He feared, hp said that his rnind was giving away, because of the persistence of the odd picture of the thin man. I thought the case was easily disposed of, and told my friend to go to New York every day for a week and visit his fat customer. This he did, but every time he telephoned the squeaky voice would oring up tne mental picture formed before he had set eyes on its owner. "I was in despair and my patient was growing gray from worrying when I bit upon the happy expedient of placing a photograph of the fat man on the telephone, where the eye of the patient could rest upon it as -he talked. The result was the disappearance forever of the thin chap. My patient, in looking at the picture of the owner of the squeaky voice, got his mind working upon the same lines that would have been followed had he met the fat man face to face the first time be beard bis voice. Tbese cases are common every day. We form queerly opposite pictures of men and -women we hear over the telephone and never see, but in the great majority of instances, the impression is a momen-_ tary one, and it is seldom that the mistake is ever forced upon us in the startling Vay described by the patient I_told of. "The telephone, by the -way, has produced very many queer cases of neurasthenia that remain unaccountable excepting on the hypothesis that the new habit brings them into existence. I have had very many patients who had to give tip the use of the 'phone altogether where it had been used to a great extent before." Failed ;o Saye the Child, Darling-ton is to have a peculiar case when court meets in that county next time. A correspondent of the State writes .Li- -J. 1 1? ),* + mat sevexai weeivb ugu mc im tie twelve year old daughter of Mrs. Lide was taken ill. No doctor was summoned, but "faith" was put in the powerand willingness to cure of the Great Physician. The little girl continued sick. Dr. R. L. Edwards called to see it, having been sent for by a friend or going of 1 * _t_-n TT? flis own wm. xie ?<xj> auxuibted to the sick room, but was not'aliowed to administer to or prescribe for the child. The girl was in a critical condition. I\o_other physician saw the sick one". The little one was reported better, but Friday it died. Arrangements for the interment were made and the body was placed in a coffin. Saturday morning the matter was brought to the attention of Coroner Darsran and he was asked to hold an inquest. A jury was empanelled and went to the Lide homestead to view the remains. As the jury reached the house, fVia -r\o 11 V-VC.O roro word 'nnttinO" t.Vlft UULV./ ?/CO 1J.UVCA/1 V>1 M ? ? V*. V vfc v ? little coffin in the hearse, but the coroner had all proceedings stopped, opened the coffin and allowed the jury to view the body: after which thecoffn was again fastened up and the funeral carried to an end. It is not known just what the status of th? case is. That the little girl was sick there can hardly be any doubt. That her death was the result of the illness is also manifest to one not versed in the sciences. Some say that an action under the head of criminal negligence may result, but this is mere speculation. The case is unique and the outcome will be watched with in tense interest. Fatal Bicycle EaceErnest Kinard, of Pelzer, S. C-, is desperately ill from internal injuries received from a fall he had in the bicycle race at Elberton Thursday. He is not expected to live. Lost, a Husband. | Mrs. James K. Jolly, 82 Oakridge street, Norwich, Conn., writes to Postmaster Ensor at Columbia for information of the whereabouts of her husband, formerly of the Third Connecticut, stationed at Summerville. She states that she heard of him in Columbia last. ':I have used yoar 'Life for the Liver and Kidneys' with great benefit, and for Dyspepsia or a ay derangement of the Liver or Kidneys I regard it as be- I ing without an equal." James J. Osborne. Attorney at Law, Boilston, Henderson Co., N. C, Five Lives Lost. The three-masted schooner Aaron Keppard. Capt. Wessell, lumber laden from Savannah to Philadelphia was totally wrecked off Guli Shoals, on the North Carolina coast Thursday. The schooner had been in distress nearly all day, and went to pieces toward night. A life saving crew from the Gull Shoals life saving station was sent out to rescue the schooner's crew, but of the eight men, only three were saved. It is not known whether or not C?pt. Wessell is among the five lost. i A NEW XAILfiOAD, ~" The Seaboard Air Line to Build from Charleston to Augusta. The "Charleston Air Line" is to be built in the near future. It will run j from Charleston to Augusta through Charleston, Colleton, Barnwell and Aiken counties. It will be part of the Charleston, Augusta and Chattanooga railroad, application for a charter for which will shortly be s:zde. The application for a charter. will shortly be made to Secretary of State Cooper. Under the law, advertisement I of the intention to apply for a railroad J 1 , i 1_ J. f.-i.'L'.i? J * cnaner muse oe maae iortmny uaysic -the papers of the counties through which it is proposed to run the railroad. Such advertisements will immediately be published and at the expiration of the thirty days the chai'c: will be asked for. . ' The proposed '"Charleston Air Line" will be 125 miles lone and will be capi-" talized at $3,125,000, or $25,000 to the mile. This route is about twenty miles A Cnn^l'iAwn r? Duuiici Uiau tug uuubuuuiauxuauiivui ^ Charleston to Augusta. Barnwell is ^ he largest town between Charleston and Augusta through which the new o road will run. ''*v The Charleston, Augusta and Chattanooga railroad will be embraced in the Seaboord Air' Line consolidation, j In Georgia a railroad will be built from j Augusta to Athens, which "will connect the -Charleston Air Line with the Seaboard's trunk line from the North <to Atlanta. The tracks of that trunk liae will be used between Athens and Atlanta by C. A. & C. R R. Later 'the connection between Atlanta and Chattanooga will be completed. * This new road will give Charleston a short and direct line to the coal, iron and mill districts of the West. Its construction will be rapidly pushed. The Seaboari is after business and will lose no time in completing the arrangements for getting it. Later on the Seaboard will build from Columbia to Augusta, thus completing its system in this State and putting iteelf in* condi- j tion to compete for the business, to Aiken and Augusta. Ginning UftiiliaviAPii maumnci y. -o The Smith Pnenm'atic Suction Elevating, Ginning and .. Packing ,$ysteai Is the simplest and most efficient on . the market. Forty-eight complete outfits in South Carolina; each one giving absolute satisfaction. Boilers and Engines; Slide Valye, Automatic and Corliss. My Light-'and Heavy Log Beam Saw ] Mills cannot be equalled in design, efficiency or price by any dealer or manu ! cajturer in the South. Writ* for prices aad catalogues. V. 0. Badkm, 1326 Main Street, COLUMBIA, S. C. inmtv muiik i j BLADDER, URINAR ' AND LIVER DiyEA? ES, DYSPEPSIA, INDIGESTION AND C )NSTIPATION POSITIVELY CURED BY THE USE OF DR. HILTON'S 1 LIFE FOR THE . t niirn inn i/inurvo ' Limn ARU MlllfCIO. >f I1" J A vegetate preparation, wherever known the m< et popular of all remedies, beciuse ihe most effectual. 1 Sold wholesale by? The Marray Drag Co. Columbia. Dr. H. Baer, Charleston, S. C. Macfeafs School of V SHORTHAJSD V ?A5D?x r ( TYPEWRITING , COLUMBIA, S. C. This School has the reputation of being the . beet business institution in tfee State. Grad uatee are holding reauaeraUre positions in I mercantile house*, banking, insurance, real estate, railroad offices, &c., in this and other etates. Write te W. EL Maefeat, Court StenographerComulbia, 8. C- for terms.toe Merits of the WINTHROP NORMAL AND Mr.. D. A. Pressley, Colur two Mathnshek pianos which w< Music House last year for our C satisfaction. The Mathushek piano is a * which I can cheerfully recomme Yours truly, Director Departmen MUSIC DII Mr. I). A. Pressley*?Havic both in concert and in teaching, strument; thoroughly well made in tune. And do not hesitate tc piano to those wishing a high gi Very truly, Director Music Dept. COLUMBIA FEM. To Mr. D. A. Pressley.?De thushek piano in use at the cc The instrument has a pleasing t< sive touch, and is in all respects pacity for staying in tune is "v passed by none. Yery respec I fi^Three more Mathusheks sc Address, D. A. P] Manager Lndden & Bates tf COLUMBI. ltisthe=== ==Custom Jut a very po<*r one, to w*it until the ginning season is on bifore lo -king to see what fix the gin is in 'Now is the time to HURRY % YOUR GIN 10 THE / ^ ELLIOT GIN REPAIR WORKS. Do not delay aed then ask us to let 700 iave it at once, for thorough work can^oi >e d'-ne ia a hurry The attention givet his matter now. will more than repay yoo ^ Then the cotton is wnite in the field* ind the gin house crowded. T"e workw iomiog in already, so ship at once to t mdersigned, located at the old electric ligbtfl ingine house. > w tr r > . V : Co , V C. B&'ih&m, Jno. A. Willis. fl Jgfifark jour same and shipping poififl m work seat and prepay t&e freight. Thp Fllinff Cin RsnairWnrksr ^ IIIU hlllVhh Will 1KI#|?WII II wi nvj W J. ELLIOTT, Proprietor, No. 1314 Gates Street, J COLUMBIA. S. (L M All We Ask of sryou T K3?ANYTHING [n -he Machinpry or * Mill Snpply Line Is thafcyou give usvx apportuaity to submit our prices an<l_ maite comparisous. We ask this - because We believe ire can make it to . YOUB advantage. TPRY .US. We make a specialty ef equipping . ^IMPROVED MOE)?RNT GIN- , . - NERIES OP, ANT GAPAOIir WITH THE -SIMPLEST AND MOST EFFICIENT . COTTON . HANDLING :APPABATUS IN EXISTENCE?THE MURRAY - -SYSTEM. / ; Correspondence with intending pur- jcaaers solicited. W. H. Glhbas & Co.. COLUMBIA, S: C. " SOUTH CAB0LI5A AGEXCT Liddell Co., Charlotte, N. C. A. B. Farqnhar Co., Ltd., York, Pa. Eagle Cotton, Gin Co., Bridge water, Mass. 3tranb Machinery Co., Cincinnati, 0. Mnrnhine IVI w I )#IIIIIV ?AND? , * Whiskey?^ rr i Tirmn mmnn > niimid ouiuju. HON. W. H. CLOUGH, Governor of Minnesota. "I have always said that the Keeley Iostiule of this country had done more good, in ny judgment, than any other institutions or. jrganizitions in the country. I have said it nany times, and I want to repeat it here, bat Dr. Keeley has doae more for the counry, has sa?ed more uuf-rtuna'e men than my one man in the Uniied States " (Extract from an address delivered in Minneapolis, Augis?, 1897.) Address Communications to The Keeley Institute, 126 8mith Street, Corner Vanderhorst, CHARLESTON, S. C. To get strong and healthy use rvno Knffln IVCTTD L/ULV^ H/VttlV ITAUAI" ray's Iron MixruRE. Price 50c Til HHBBAY BBflO 09., Mathushek. ? INDUSTRIAL COLLEGE Rock Hill, S. C. ubia, S. C.?Dear Sir: The e bought of Ludden & Bates lollege have given excellent rell made instrument and one nd for hard and constant use. Wade R. Brown, t of Music Winthrop College. IECTOR. Columbia, S. C. g used the Mathushek piano I find it a most excellent ini, wearing well, and staying ) recommend the Mathushek :ade instrument. ' G-. P. McCoy, . of S. C. College for Women. A.LE COLLEGE. Columbia, S. C. ar Sir: We have had a Ma>llege during the past year, one, an eves, light, respon5 a well made piano. Its carery great and. I believe, surtfully, Ernest Brockman, )irector Music Department. >ld to this college. ressley, Southern Music House, J S. C. .