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WOMAN'S WORK. | Talmage's Stirring Sermon on the "Queens of Home." HEROINES OF THE FIRESIDE. Ministering Angels. In the Sickroom. What Her Chief Desire Should Be. la this discourse the opportunities ?f usefulness for women are set forth by Dr. Talmage, and many sympathies are stirred and memories recalled. The ~ ' ?- ^ 1 Q i'TV.oro text is Solomon s ooDg >i, o, are threescore queens." So Solomon, by one stroke, set forth the imperial character of a true Christian woman. She is not a slave, not a hireling, not a subordinate, but a queen. In a former sermon I showed you that crown and courtly attendants and imperial wardrobe were not necessary to make a queen, but that graces of the heart and life will give coronation to any woman. I showed you at once at some length that woman's position was higher in tiie world than man's, and that although she had often been denied the right of suffrage, she always did vote and always would vote by nermnuence, aau that her chief desire ought to be that she should have grace rightly to rule in the dominion which she hasalread won. I began an enumeration of some of her rights, and now I resume the subject. In the first place woman has the special and the superlative right of blessing and comforting the sick. "What land, what street, what house, has not felt the smitings of disease? Tens of thousands of sickbeds! What shall we do with them? Shall man, with his rongh hand and clumsy foot, go stumbling around the sickroom, trying to soothe the distracted nerves and alleviate the pains of the distressed patient? The young man at college may scoff at the idea of being under maternal influences, Dut at th? first blast of typhoid ' * ? ? inn fever on ins cneeic ne says, vv xiere is mother?" Walter Scott wrote partly in satire and partly in compliment: Oh, woman, in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy and hard to please, When pain an anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou! I think the most pathetic passage in all the Bible is the description of the lad who went out to the harvest field of Shunem and got sunstruck?pressing his hands on his temples and crying out: "Oh, my head! My head!" And they said, "Carry him to his mother." And then the record is, ''He sat on her knees till noon and then died." And so it was also through all of our war with Spain?women heroic on the field, braving death and wounds to reach the fallen, watching by their fever cots in the West Indian hospitals f-Trt/MiaTii'na nr in <vnr smitten home camps. Men did their work with phot and shell and carbine and howitzer; women did their work with socks and slippers and bandages and warm drinks and Scriptvre texts and gentle strokings of the hot temples and stories of that land where they never have any pain. Men knelt down over thewonnded and said, "On which side did you fight?" Women knelt down over the wounded and said: "Where are you hurt? What nice thing can I . make for you to eat? What makes 'you cry?" Tonight while we men are sound asleep in our beds there will be a light in yonder loft; there will be groaning down that dark alley; there will be cries of distress in that cellar. ' "?- mi j -L Men will sleep, anaywomen win waicn. Again, woman has a special right to take care of the poor. There are hundreds and thousands of them all over the land. There is a kind of work that inen cannot do for the poor. Here / 'comes a group of little barefoot children : to the doer of the Dorcas society. They /' need to b^ clothed and provided for. / Which of these directors of banks would . ' know how many yards it would take to ' xua&c bjuai UlUC 51x1 a. uicss* 11U1V11 of these masculine hands could fit a hat to that little girl's head'? Which of the wise men would know how to tie on that new pair of shoes? OChristion young woman, if you would make yourself happy and win the blessing of Christ, go out among the destitute. A loaf of bread or a bundle of socks may make a homely loa-i to carry, but the angels of God "will c :ns out to watch and the Lord Alravhty will rive his messenger hosts a cL .rse. saying, "Look out for that wo:aan, canopy her with your wings and sh .Iter her from all harm," and while you are seated in the house of destitution and suffering the little ones around the room w?U whisper: "Who is she? Ain't she beautiful?" And if you will listen right sharply you will hear dripping down through the leaky roof and rolling over the rotten stairs the acgel chant that shook Bethlehem, "G-lory to God in- the highest, and on earth peace, good will to men." Can you tell me why a christian woman going down among the haunts of iniquity - on a christian errand^never meets with any indignity? I stood in the chapel of Helen Chalmers, the daughter of the celebrated Dr. Chalmers, in the most abandoned part of the city of Edinburgh, and I said to her as I looked around upon the fearful surroundings of that place, "Do you come here nights to hold a service?" "Oh, yes," she said. Can it be possible that you never meet wJth an insult -while performing this christian errand? "Never," she said, "never." That young woman who has her father by her side walking down the street, armed police at each corner is not so well defended as that christian woman who goes forth on gospel work into the haunts of iniquity carcyiDg the bibles and bread. God, with the red right arm of his wrath omnipotent, would tear to pieces any one who should offer indignity to her. He would smite him with lightnings and drown him with floods and swallow him with earthquakes and damn him with eternal indignations. Some one said: "I dislike very much to see that christian woman teaching those bad boys in the mission schools. I ana afraid to have her instruct them." "So," said another man, "I am afraid too." Said the first, "lam afraid they will use vile language before they leave the place." "Ah," said the other man, "I am not afraid of that. "What I am afraid of is, that if any of those boys shnnld use a bad word in her nrespriof the other boys -would tear him to pieces I and kill him on the spot." That woman is the best sheltered who is shei- I tered by the Lord God Almighty, and you need never fear going anywhere where God Ulls you to go. It seems as if the Lord had ordained woman for an especial work in the solicitation of charities. Backed up by barrels in which there is no Sour, and by stoves in which there is no fire, and by wardrobes in which there is no clothes, a woman is irresistible. Pass ine on her ai'raad, God saja to her, i "You go into that bank or store or 6hop i and'get the money." She goes in and i rr" -- 1 J 2? J L..4 . gets it. xrte man 13 naru usueu, uui 1 she gets it. She could not help but get . it. It is decreed from eternity she 1 should get it. No need of your turn- ] ingyour back and pretending you don't ; hear; you do hear. There is no need of 1 your saying you are begged to death. j There is no need of your wasting your ( time, aad you iright us well submit ] firci- nti last You had better right away I take down your checkbook, mark the I Dumber of the check, fill up the blank, 1 sign your name and iia'ud it to her. 3 There is no need of wasting time. Those i poor children on the back street have 1 been hungry long enough. That sick J man must have some farina. That con- 1 sumptiTe must have something to ease 1 his cough. I meet this delegate of a ] relief society coming ou-; of the store of i such a hard fisted man, :mdl say, "Did 1 you get the money?" "Of course," she 1 says, "I got the money; that's what I l went in for. The Lord told me to go in I *iAT?6r cAn^c mA on 5 4 auu XV) auu liL i-l V, t WM w , fool's errand." j Again, I have to tell you that it is a 1 woman's specific right to comfort under | the stress of dire disaster. She is call- ed the weaker vessel, but all profane as well as sacred history attesta that when the crisis comes she is better prepared '< than man to meet the emergency. Ho* often you have seen a woman who seem- s ed to be a disciple of frivolity and in- \ /JnlnTrlirt nnnor nnn strnlcfi of Ca- ' uvicuvtj nilVj Muvtv* v ? v ~ ~ ? lamity, changed to a heroine. Oh, < what a great mistake tho-e business men make who never tell their business troubles to their wives' There comes t some great loss to their store, or some < of their companions in business play 1 them a sad trick, and they carry the J burden all alone. He is asked in the 1 household again and again: "What is the matter?" But he bo- ! lieves in a sort of Christian duty to keep J all that trouble within his own soul. * Oh, sir, your first duty was to tell your ( wife all about it! She perhaps might \ not have disentangled jour finances or J extended your credit, but she would ! have helped you to bear misfortune. ' You have no right to carry on one shoul- * der that which is intended for two. J 1 T--.lT TV,?.a I i .Business men scow wuaoxiucau. iuuc . came a crisis in jour affairs. You strug- ' gled bravely and long, but after awhile ? there came a day when you said' "Here 1 I shall have to stop," and you called in 1 your partners, and you called in the 1 rbost prominent meD in your employ, and you said, "We have got to stop." 1 You left the store suddenly. You * could hardly make up your mind to pass * through the street and over on the fer- * ryboat. You felt everybody would be c looking at you and blaming you and de- 5 -rr? T a J 1, 1 nouncing you. iou uasieueu uumc. Ycu told your wife all about the affair What did she say? Did she play the ^ butterfly? Did she talk about the * silks, and the ribbons, and the fash- c ion?? s No. She came up to the emergency. 1 She quailed under the stroke. She of- ij fered to go out of the comfortable house ^ into a smaller one and wear the old 1 cloak another winter. She was the one t who understood your affairs without c ' -v ? v iaaita^ titnad nrliof. v U13.LLlIlIi? )UU. JL V U iuuavu U|/VU nuwv | you thought was a thin, weak woman's I 8 arm holding you up; but while you look- c ed at that arm there came into the fee- J ble muscles of it the strength of the u eternal G-od. Xo chiding. No fret- T ting. No telling you about the beautiful ^ house of her father from which you ? brought her 10, 20 or 30 years ago. ' You said: "Well, this is the happiest ^ day of my life. I am glad I have got ^ from under nay burden. My wife don't * care?I don't care." at the moment t you were exhausted God sent a Debo- * rah to meet the host of Amalekites and e +V>am KL-o nvpr flip nlain. ^ luviu 11AV V ? V* VMV There are sometimes women who sit ? reading sentimental novels and who 1 wish-that they had some grand field in r which to displlay their Christian pow- e ers. What grand and glorious things they could do if they only had an oppor- * tunity! My sister, you need not wait ^ for any such time. A crisis will come T in your affairs. There will beaTher- * mopylae in your household where God ^ will tell you to stand. There are * scores and hundreds of households to- a day where as much bravery and courage are demanded ot women as was exni oiled by Grace Darling or Marie Antoin- . ette or Joan of Arc. Again, I remark it is a woman's J right to bring to us the kingdom of hea- ^ ven. It is easier for a woman to be a * Christian than for a mau. "Why? Yon v say she is weaker. No. Her heart is 13 more responsive to the pleadings of di- s 1 m _ _ q vine love, one is in vast majority. The fact that she can more easily be- c come a Christian I prove by the state- ? ment that three-fourths of the members * of churches in all Christendom are wo- r men. So God appoints them to be the f chief agencies for bringing this world ^ back to Gol. I may stand here and ? say the soul is immortal; there is a man ^ who will deny it. I may stand here * and say we are lost and undone without c Christ; there is a man who will contra- j| diet it. I may stand here and say there } will be a judgment day after awhile; 1 vn-nrW is snme one who will disnuts it. ^ But a Christian woman in a Christian a household, living in the faith and con- ? sistency of Christ's gospel?nobody can 1 refute that. The greatest sermons are ? not preached on celebrated platforms. They are preached with an audience of s two or three and in private home life. * A consistent, consecrated Cnristian ser- ? vicft is an unanswerable demonstration c of God's truth. ? A sailor came slipping down the rat- > lines one night, as though something had happened, and the sailors cried, "What's the matter?"' He said, "My mother's prayer haunts me like a ghost. i. Home influences, consecrated home in- j fluences, are the mightiest of all influ- a ences upon the soul. There are men j, who have maintained their integrity 0 not because they were any better nat- D urally than some other people, but be- ^ cause there were home influences prayj t ing for them all the time. They got a y good start. They were launched on a the world with the benedictions of a t Christian mother. They may track Si- ^ berian shows, they may plunge in Af- j ncan jungles, they may flee to the j earth's end?they cannot go so far and j so fast but the prayers will keep up with p them. e I apeak'to women who have the eter- ^ nal salvation of their husbands in their ^ right- hand. On marriage day you * took an oath before men and aDgels that you would be faithful and kind until death did you part, and I believe you are going to keep that oath, but * after that parting at the grave will it be c eternal separation? Is there any such a thing as an immortal marriage, making I the flowers that grow on the top of the ^ sepulcher brighter than the garlands r which at the marriage banquet flooded s the air with aroma? Yes, I stand here t an embassador of the most high God to d proclaim the banns of an immortal union for all those who join hands in the grace a of Christ. 0 woman, is your husband, f your father, your son. away from God? t The Lord demands their redemption at i: your hands. There are prayers for you h to o.Ter, there are exhortations for you I to give, there are csamplea for you t< set, and I say no*, a9 Paul said to th< Corinthian woman, "What knowe3i thou bat thou shaltsave thy husband?" A. man was dying, and he said to his wife: "Rebecca, you wouldn't ]et m< have family prayers; you laughed abou' ill that, and you got me away intc irorldliness, and now I'm going to die. ind my fate is sealed, and you are the iause of my ruin!" 0 woman, whal inowest thou but thou canst destroy :hy husband? Are there not some of-you who have cindly influences at home? Are there lot sorae who have wandered far away :"rom God who can remember the Chris;i/,n influences in their early home'.: Do not despise those- influences, mj brother. If you die without Christ, ivhat will you do with your mother's prayers, with your wife's importunities, -i-i?oi pV'itu yuur sisters euucaucs. n um will you do with the letters they used :o write to you, with the memory oi Jiose days when they attended you sc iindly in times of sickness? Oh, il :here be just one strand holding you 'rom floating off. from that dark *sea, 1 ;rould just like to take hold of that strand now and pull you to the beach! For the sake of your wife's God, for the sake of your mother's God, for the sake )f your sister's God, come this day and md be saved. Lastly Iwish'to say that one of-the specific rights of woman is, through the rrace of Christ, finally to reach heaven. 3 what a multitude of women in heav313! Mary, Christ's mother, in heaven. ^ T?? T Cjuzuoeiu rry iu umvcu, Elizabeth in heaven; the'mother of Aujustine in heaven: the Countess of Hun;iugton, who sold her splendid jewels to 5uild chapels, in heaven, while a great xiany others, who have never been leard of on earth or known but little, lave gone into the rest and peace of leaven. What a rest! "What a change t was from the small room, with no ire and one window (the glass broken >ut) and the aching side and wornont jyes, to the "house of many mansions!'5 So more stitching until 12 o'clock at light, no more thrusting of the thumb jy the employer through the work, to ihDw it was not done quite right. Plenty of bread at last! Heaven for iehing heads, heaven for broken heart?, leaven for anguish bitten frames! No nore sitting until midnight for the comng of staggering steps! No more ough blows across the temples! No nore shaip, keen, bitter curses! Some of you will have no rest in this vorld. It will be toil and struggle a^d suffering all -the way up. You wH lave to stand at your door fighting back ,he wolf with your own hand, red with :arnage. But God has a crowi for rou. I want you to realize this mornng that he is now making it. and whensver you weep a tear he sets another * TTTl ;em in tnat crown, wnenever you lave a pang of body or soul he puts an>ther gem in that crown until after iwhile in all the tiara there will be no oom for another splendor, and God will ay to his angel; "The crown is done, jet her up, that she may wear it." ind as the Lord of righteousness puts he crown upon your brow angel will :ry to angel, "Who is she?" and Christ will say: "I will tell you who he is. She is the one that came up iut of great tribulation and had her obc washed and made white in the >lood of the Lamb." And then God rill spread a banquet, and helwill in ite all the principalities of heaven to it at the feast, and the tables will >lush with the best clusters from the ineyards of God and crimson with the .2 manner of fruits from the tree of ife, and waters from the fountains of he rock will flash from the golden ankards, and the old harpers of heav in wm sit mere, making wuaiv mm. heir harps, and Christ will point you mt amid the celebrities of heven, eayng, ''She suffered with me on earth; tow we are going to be glorified togethr." And the banqueters, no longtr ,ble to hold their peace, will break ortli with congratulation, "Hail, hail Lnd there will be handwritings on the rail not such as struck the Babylonian toblemen with horrow, but fire tipped ingers, writing in blazing capitals of ight and lore, ' 'God hath wiped away 11 tears from all faces!" A New Counterfeit. There is a new $10 counterfeit bill n circulation, and the money handlers lave been warned of its appearance, ^he note should not deceive anyone -r\oy\clt mnnflTr fTionorV? if auiuiai TT ivii yMyvi jr J WUVM^U. *v rould scarcely ever be detected by tbe nan who is not familiar with a "ten pot." The following circular decrying the counterfeit has been reeivcd here: "New counterfeit $10 ilver certificate, series of 1891, check etter D, plate number 14, B. K. Bruce, egister: Ellis H. Roberts, treasurer; lortrait of Hendricks. This note is a ithograph, printed on two sheets of 'apanese tissue paper, between which ery coarse red and blue silk fibre has ?een distributed. The lathe work in ounters in face is creditably executed; ettering in border so blurred as to be llegible; color of ink is a reddish brown, nstead of carmine. The number of he note at hand is E20,394,345; color nd formation of numbers is good, but lignment bad. The back of the note s more deceptive than the face. The lumber of the back plate is 36. Line Bureau of Engraving and Printing' is o blurred as to be illegible, and all of he ornamental work is so blurred that .etail is lost. The note will not deeive anyone familiar with money. The red it for the discovery of the note is /tie the cashier of National Park Bank, iew York." Merited Success. Special attention is called to the arge advertisement of the Columbia Jusiness College, which appears in nother column of this paper. There s no school in the country that turns ut more successful graduates, or i3 acre progressive, more alive to the .emands of the times or that has a beter business or shorthand course. No oung man or lady who is thinking of ttending a business college should fail o send for one of their catalogues. ?he college makes a specialty of securng good positions for its graduates and t often has more calls than it can fill. Svcry graduate of the college and many rominent business men of Columbia ndorse the school as one of the very >est. A postal addressed to Prof. W. I. Newberry, the president will bring ull particulars. A Butterfly Visit Thousands of butterflies invaded Kingston, 2s. Y., the other day. They overcd the streets and sidewalks, and t times the air was filled with them, t is thought that the butterflies were ilown in from the far "West, and the esidents of the town fear that the inects will lay their eggs in the maple rees and thereby give rise to a great .eal of trouble nest summer. "I have used your 'Life for the Liver nd Kidneys' with great benefit, and or Dyspepsia or any derangement of he Liver or Kidneys I regard it as beng without an equal." James J. Osiorne, Attorney at Law, Boliston, lenderson Oo., X. C. p OUR NOBLE DEAD t i i Who Gave Up Their Lives at * t Chickamauga. > > THPY ARF'NIOT PnRfiOTTEN. t r An Effort'Being Made to Place a ; Suitable Memorial to South Carolina Soldiers in the Park. An effort will be made to erect a ' monument to the South. Carolina Con' federate dead in Chjckamauga Park, i The following memorial is being circu. lated throughout the State for signa' tures: ' To the Honorable the Senate and llouse oi;Jttepreseniauves or -tiie state of South Carolina: The undersigned ; respectfully call to your attention that | by a joint resolution passed on Decem; ber 22,1894, provision was made for [ the appointment of what is known as ' the Chickamauga commission; pursuant to which a commission was appointed by the Governor, consisting of Gren H 1 L Farley, Capt 11F McCaslin, OaDt ! Perry Moses, Capt A C Appleby, G-en C I Walker, Capt C K Henderson, L P Harlin?, Capt E J G-oegins, Major J I D McLucas and Capt Culpepper, to inquire into and report what suitable monuments should be erected to com memorate the dee.!s of the Confederate 1 soldiers of South Carolina upon the ' Chickamauga battlefield. Said com1 mission was duly organized, visited the battlefield and made their report, recommending the erection of suitable monuments for said purpose at proper places on the field. Vioq ViAPn t.Aurari^ci cnn. plying the commissien with means to carry on this laudable end, and we earaestly urge that the General Assembly appropriate at its next session at least the sum of $10,000 for said pur, pose. It is due by the people of South Carolina to the heroic dead who perished at Chickamauga that said monu| ments should be erected, and we are caficfiprl t.lint. t.Vi a fcaYnavers nf t.liA Sf.at.A will sustain the General Assembly in such action. In addition the following order has ' Won issued to Confederate Veterans: Charleston, S. C., Sept. 5, 1899. General Orders No. 45. At the Chester Convention the fol, lowing resolutions were unanimously adopted: Resolved, 1st. That this Convention memorialize the Legislature toappropri ate the sum necessary to erect proper monuments on the battlefield of Chickamauga to the valor of the sons of Carolina who participated in that glorious victory. 2d. That the accompanying memorial be adopted, and that copics be sent to each camp, which shall secure from Veterans, Sons of Veterans and citizens signatures to the same, and that these memorials be returned to the division commander before January 1, 1900. 3d. That the division commander shall appoint a committee of five, who, witli shall nnnstitnt#? a f?om mittee to present the memorial to the Legislature. Camps will please secure signatures to the accompanying memorial; not signatures of Veterans alone, but of all citizens of South Carolina who would endorse the memorial. Most of the Northern States, and many of the Southern States, have erected such monuments, and it is due to the matchless bravery of South Carolina's sons that the places consecrated by their heroism shall be marked in common with those of other States. As the memorials on the battlefield now stand South Carolina had no part in that glorious victory. Shall this remain so? Shall the magnificent valor of her sons be still unmarked? The comrades of this division are urged to secure so many signatures that ' n 11 1_ 1 Ml 1_. 1 J tne general iissemoiy win oe uuuuu tu respect theirrequest to do honor to the splendid achievements of the sons of South Carolina. By order of C. Irvine Walker, Commander S. C. Division, U/C. V. James Gr. Holmes, Adjutant-General, Chief of Staff. HIGHWAY ROBBERY. Stage Held Up by Solitary Robber, Who Took the Box A dispatch from Napa, CaL. says the Caligtoga and Lakeport stage was held up Thursday by a solitary highwayman, who made off with the express box. At the scene of the robbery the road runs through a heavy undergrowth, and coming suddenly around a curve the stage driver was confronted by a masked robber, who covered him with his shotgun and ordered him to stop. The 3 . 3 A _ passengers were tnen commanaea to dismount from the stage and were drawn ur> in a row while the highwaymen ab&tiacteH the box of Wells, Fargo & Co., but left the United States mail bag. The highwayman then turned his attention to the tow of eight frightened passengers, whom he commanded to deposit on the ground their money and valuables; Rev. C. F. Coy, pastor of the Methodist church at Middleton, handed the bandit $5 remarking: "I am a poor preacher and that is all I have." Upon this statement the high i J-J i si wa^inau na.uu.eu. iiie imuistvi ustun. in change. "All right, pard," he said, "here's one simoleon for luck." Newton Stiff, an old resident of Miadleton, had a considerable sum in his purse, but slipped the wallet inside his long boot, giving the robber only the loose silver in his pocket. In all about $75 in cash was secured from the passengers in addition to watches, chains and trinkets. The robber then plunged into the thicket which adjoins the road, and the last heard of him was a report, wnich probably indicated the blowing off of the lock on the express box. MO HE THAN HALF BILLIONMutual Life Insurance Co. Has ReI J- J Ti. XT. 1 ORAA OTA UOI lumeu. iu lib mcijuuexB $><jw otv,ioi, New York. September 16.?More than half a billion dollars paid. Up to July 1 of the current year the Mutual Life Insurance Company, of New York, has returned to its member? $500,870,737, or over half a billion dollars, and its accumulated assets on that date were $2S8,536,471. This shows that the company has practically paid out as much money to the insuring public as any other two companies of like character, and that by holding a larger amouat in assets than any other company it is beyond question the largest and strongest institution of its kind in the world. Allan Forman. C^yh<?wa^awy; 'Nfaa'jo SFEEADISG OUT. ! r The Atlantic Coast Line Sailroad's ! New Purchase. According to the Augusta Chronicle of Thursday the Atlantic Coast Line paid one million dollars for a half interest in the Georgia railroad lease. Says the Chronicle: "This is a fact which the Chronicle has learned since the meeting in Atlanta of the Atlantic and West Point and Western of Alabama roads. Thursday morning the half million of securities of the Coast Line were passed upon by tUe Georgia railroad directors and accepted. There are more reasons than one why the Coast Line wanted a share of this lease as is shown in the annual statement of r J vjreUJ5icl i^Liiuau CAIUIU^ IUI tug uaoi year which are no secret, and upon which Col. T. K. Scott, general manager, has been receiving very warm congratulations. These earnings show that for'the second time in the history of the road under the lease it has earned enough money to pay the rental. The earnings, including interest from the securities under the lease, are $614,179.60, or $14,179.60 over and above the rental, the rental being $600,000 a year. The other occasion on which it earned its rental was during the management of Major Greene. But , this is not all the profit to the lease 1 holders under their contract. The . Georgia road owns other very valuabl e railroad property. It has a controlling interest in the Atlantic and West Point and a half interest in the "Western of Alabama. Of course the Coast Line under the purchase fall heir to one quarter . interest in these two properties during ] the lifetime of the lease. The Chroni- i cle published Thursday that the Atlantic and West Point declared a divi- . dend of 25 per cent, on the capital j stock. By the declaration of this divi- ] dend the lessees of the Georgia came ( into possession of $123,605. This . amount added to the income of last j year?$614,179.60?makes a grand total of $737,7Si.60, or $137,804.60 in clean cash over and above the annual rental of $600,000 f*r the Georgia rail- , road. 1 THE WEATHER AND CROPS. Weekly R3view of TJnited States Weather Bureau for this State. j The following is the weekly bulletin : of the condition of the weather and creps of the State issued Wednesday by ( Director Bauer of the South Carolina ( section of the United States Weather Bureau's climate and crop service: The mean temperature, during the week ending September 11, 1899, averaged about 83 degrees, which is nearly 7 degree? per day above the normal. A maximum of 101 was recorded at Cheraw, and a minimum of 62 at Temperance. There were local showers over the entire State, light along the coast and over the Pee Dee region, heavy over the central and western counties, wnere many localities had weekly amounts in o ? _ . i rr.L j .1? I excess 01 two mcnss. xae neea. ui ram is indicated for the two regions ffrst * named, while dry weather is needed to 2 permit gathering crops over the greater x portion of the State. c Army worms either have already dis- . appeared or are fast disappearing. 1 Corn has recently come into silk and 2 tassel, and on bottom lands, looks- I promising, but generally the crop has 1 not improved and is a poor one. Fod- 2 der pulling is nearly finished and the 2 fodder has been secured in good condi- J won. Locally heavy rains and high winds 2 damaged open cotton, and a few re- * ports of rotting and sprouting were re- 8 ceived. Picking was retarded in a few , western counties by wet weather, but 1 generally it made rapid progress, as from * half to two-thirds of the bolls are open, * caused by the continued excessive heat. J In sections, about all the cotton will be * gathered during this month. There will be no top crop over most of the State, although late cotton is still growing and c blooming, as it is improbable that fruitage now being put on will have time to maturft before frost. Also, much cot* - -- i A -11 ?1 i._ll T > toil IS not growing at an, tiie auuis.3 Having reached full maturity. Poor yields are reported from all sections, and as picking advances, the tendency is to reduce previous estimates. Sea island ^ cotton has improved slightly,, although it is rusting and is opening slowly. Second growth is also a damaging prevailing condition. The weather was ideal for harvesting rice, and about half the crop has been , cut and stacked, while the remainder is ripening fast. Sorghum is being pressed and boiled j with fairly good jields of excellent quality of syrup. Grass for hay and t pastures is making rapid growth. Pea- t vines being cut for forage. Peas have improved except in Marlboro and Chesterfield counties, where hot, dry weather ruined them. The general prospect for minor crops is now quite promising, especially so for s^eet potatoes. In the truck regions, fall crops are being planted, and the second crop of Irish potatoes being gathered. B A Brutal AssaultFour or five men went to the alms * housa in Transylvania county C. about ten days ago and entered the room of Brazil Chappel, a weak minded white woman, choking her to prevent * an outcry. The men carried her to the bushes and assaulted.her, keeping her ^ c/n'aro 1 linnra A proTrlOf! haf?|r ^ lugjg J-LV/IAJL kJUV VAWU?V%* M?VM to the house about 3 o'clock a. m and r told her story. The matter was kept quiet till the officers could secure clues. r On Sunday the first arrest was made, the suspect being Tillman Anderson, r a negro, John Gather, another negro e suspect, was arrested in Asheville and f taken to Brevard, the county seat of 0 Transylvania. John Gaston, a negro, 0 and John Stancill, white, are also suspected and warrants are out for them. McKinley's Religion. t The Omaha Herald reports Dr. leader's temperance lecture, and includes the following: there's President McKinleV." E he said, "he's a Methodist, and we used 2 to be proud of it. But we're not proud t of Mr. McKinley since his stand on n that canteen business. Are we?" I "How many of you are proud of him t now?" f Not a sound. S "How many of you are ashamed that Mr. McKinley is a Methodist?" One woman in a far corner murmured "I." _ v "is that all?" asked JL>r. Jttaaer. Ana s then the response came from all over t the church. . \ He Was Dead. " Gov. "Wolcott of Massachusetts recensly appointed e dead man to the of- g fice of medical examiner in District No. 3, Barnstable county. The appointee not unnaturally failed to qualify, and the Governor's attention having been I called to this fact he renominated the e deceased physician. The executive has t just learned that the ma,n whom he in- 1 tended to hoaor died in April last. d THjb COTTO# RECEIPTS White Staple Pouring on Market. A Heavy Demand. Secretary Hester's New Orleans cotton exchange statement shows the amount brought into sight for the week ending Friday i3 230,705 bales, against 152,197 for the seven days ending September 15th last year, 227,046 year before last and 302,386 same time in 1896. This makes the total amount for the 15 days of the new season 40S,404, against 239,221 last year, 372.593 year before last and 508.374 same time in 1896. The statement shows receipts at all United States ports since September 1st of 280.019, against 153,754 last year and 232,599 year before last; overland across the Mississippi, Ohio and Potomac rivers to northern mills and Canada, 18,279, against 8,314 last year, and 3,290 year before last; interior stocks in excess of those held at the close of the commercial year 49.029, against 22,076 last year, and 8G,765 year before il- *11 J..!- S*1 A*TPT last; soumern 111111 ladings agaiDst 55.077 last year, and 50,939 year before last. Foreign exports for the 15 days have been 114,215, against 68,535. The total takiDgs of American mills, north and south and Canada, thus far for the season have been 104,561 bales, against 75,271 last year. These include 43,484 bv northern spinners, against 18,194. Since the close of the commercial 7ear stocks at American ports and the 29 leading southern interior centres have been increased 189,628 bales, against an increase for the same period last season of 97,415, and are no* 443,545 more than at this date last year. Including amounts left over in stocks it ports and interior towns from the Last crop and the number of bales hrrmphf-, intn sio-Tit, thns far for the new )i me administration, ana moreover ue ias a very high opinion of the chief exscutive. The senator stands very well it- the White House, and the president 3 isually seems disposed to grant his reLuests in the matter of State patronage. Senator McLaurin says that politics n South Carolina just now is not trousing any great interest. The peo)le of the State are naturally interested n the Philippine question and hope for l solution of the difficulties as speedily is possible. The senator thinks that ~ ^ ?:n t? j: j j. jongress win ue uisposeu iu he President in his efforts to bring ibout such termination of the war on he islands, and will grant him all the ' iid necessary for this purpose. In regard to State affairs, Senator j VIcLaurin says that business in South Carolina has been very good, and that he farmers as a rule are contented." The senator will likely be in Washingion several days before returning home. The Mortgage. The mortgage is a self-supporting institution. It always holds its own. It calls for just as many dollars yhen cotton is cheap as when itis dear. It is not affected by the drouth. 8 It is not drowned out by heavy rains, t It never winter kills. c Late springs and early frosts never rouble it. 1 Caterpillers never disturb it. 1 Moth and rust do not destroy it. 1 It grows nights, Sundays, rainy days J tnd holidays. t It brings a sure crop every year and :ometimes twice a year. T f n rtrtc nd aTi ATror fimo JLU ?S1,VSVAIA\JU\J AJk VT V4 v^uivi It does not have to wait for the marret to advance. It is not subject to speculation of he bulls and bears of the board of rade. 1 It is a load that galls and frets and :hafes. It is a burden that the farmer can lot shake off. ? It is with him morning, noon and , light. i It eats with him at the table. I It gets under his pillow when he t ileeps. 1( It rides upon his shoulders during 1 he day.* b It consumes his cotton crop. It devours his cattle. L T4- "AIaa^ *U c finncf nrcoe or A +T10 I _ XL ZC1CLIO UXO UUVJV UViiJUd 6*u\? vuks Y attest steers. a It stalks into the dairy where the >usy housewife toils day after day, and c uonth after month, and takes the c licest cheese and the choicest butter. 8 It shares the children's bread, and obs them of half their clothes. It stoops the toiler's back with its t: emorseless burden of care. It hard- o :ns his hands, benumbs his intellect, irematurely whitens his locks, and ^ iftentimss send him and his aged wife 0 'ver the hill to the poor house. It is the inexorable and exacting ? ask-master. 0 It is a menace to liberty, a hindrance c o progress, a curse to the world. y 0 Ravish er Hanged. o A Negro was arrested at Ty-Ty, Ga , 6 ositively identified as one of tho cwo 7 Negroes who assaulted Miss Johnson at a hat place last Tuesday. Two hundred aen heavily armed assembled at Ty-Ty. ^ople passing on a train at 2 o'clock his morning saw a Negro suspended 20* <2 eetin the air from a telegraph poles search for the other Negro continue. ^ Kills Herself and Daby. Mrs. J. M. Williams, of Sedatia, Mo., ^ fife of a Missouri Pacific breakeman, ^ aturated the clothing of herself and wo-months-old babe with kerosene Wednesday and then set fire to the garments. She was burned to death and a: he babe was fatally burnedr Mrs. Villiams has for some time been con idered of unsound mind. Thirty-two Dead. Advice from Ivalisch, in Russian 'oland, say that 32 persons were crushd to death in a panic in a synagogue here caused by the upsettiagof a lamp, .'he victims were all women and chilren. Many others were injured. griegt jKarrles His Nurse- "'"1 Father Charles Brady, a priest of the Catholic church, was taken sick in Quincy, 111., three weeks ago, and was nursed back to health by Miss Addie Gwinn, a Protestant nurse. It is an nounced that Father Brady and the nurse were mairiod in St. Louis a few days ago by a Protestant minister. The marriage means the retirement of the priest from the church. Father Brady, who is wealthy, was educated for the priesthood at Rome. Something About a New Insurance Contract W ritten by the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York, Richard A. McCurdy, President, which is Attracting Much -a.*.ten uon -ci-inong Business Men. The general public attention 'which has been concentrated upon the new policy of tne Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York has demonstrated the feet that V a liberal and attractive contract its equal has ntver been offered to the public; it is po ?siMe that some of its advantages may have been overlooked by you, and it is to this end that we des.re to call your attention to the following comparisons with the guarantees of other companies, which ?will prove conclusively that this policy is not equalled'by that of any other company. For comparison we will use a $10,000 Limited 20-Payment Life Policy. 20-Year Distribution, at see 35. which is the kind of srop. the supply to date is 1,027,302, igainst 506.7S7 for the same period last year. HE HAS A PULL. Senator McLaurin on Good Terms With McKinley. The Washington correspondent of the Charleston Post says Senator McLaurin }f South Carolina is among the distinguished Southern statesmen in Washington. He is here on business before ;he War Department, trying to secure ;ommissions for some of his constituents, and also in relation to the matter )f the State claims growing out of the Spanish-American war. The senator called at the executive nansion the other day in relation to ^lacing some applications before the ^resident for commissions, and was revived very cordially. President Mckinley and Senator McLaurin are, as is Tell known, on very good terms, politicly, notwithstanding the political afiliations of the junior senator from south Carolina. On several occasions he se nator has supported the politics n , i J _ policy usually illustrated by different ?ompanies: ** MUTUAL LIFE. ** Premiums $368.70 Guaranteed Cash Value at end of 20 years, $6,310 00 NEW YORK LIFE. Premium $383.40. Guaranteed Cash Value at end of 20 years 6,090.00 Mutual Life returns over New York Life $220 00 Mutual Life saving in premium $14.70 for 20 years compounded at 4 per cent - 454.97 Net saving in favor of Mutual Life * $674.97 MUTUAL LIFE. Premium $368.70. Guaranteed Cash Value at end of 20 years $6,310.00 EQUITABLE. Premium $383.40. Guaranteed Cash Value at end of 20 years 6,100.00 \fnfriol f.ifo r?ini?na atai* TJVmif* able - $210.00 Mutual Life saving in premium $14 70 for 20 years compounded at 4 per cent- 454.97 Net saving in fi.vor of Mutual Life .$ 664.97 MUTUAL LIFE. Premium $368.70. Gua-anteed. Cash Value at eai of 20years$6, 310.00 MUTUAL BENEFIT. Premium $339.70. Gaar?nteed Cash Value at end of 20 3 ears $4,809.20 Mutjal Life returns over Mutual JBenefit $ ,600.80 Mutual Benefit saving in premium $29.00 for 20 years p.nmn'MinHAH at.4 CH\ ?r ^ vv4*?- * ?w Net saving ia favor of Mutual Life $633 60 SdUIUAL LIFjE. Premium $368.70. Guaranteed ( ash Value at end of 20 vea-s?$6,310.00 lETNA. Fr-miura $319.7-) Guaranteed . Cash Vilue at end ?f 20 yeard $4,044.82 Mutual Life returns over Aetna ..$2,265 18 Aetna saving in pr?mium3 $49.00 for 20 years compounded at 4 per cent 1,437.48 5 Net eaviug in favor of Mutual Life $777 70 All of the above figures are taken at the snd cf a 20 yiar period, although the goarmtees given by this Company all through he diSereat years are larger than those of ither companies. It should be remembered that the surplus esults are not taken into consideration in - . nese comparisons, wnicn, vita tae Tact tnat he Mutual Life dividends on. distribution >oliciea are very large, proves conclusively hat there is no policy like this new conract, THE MUTUAL LIFE POLICY PROVIDES FOE, iOans at 5 per cent, per annum at any time after three yeaw. fash value after three years. Automatic paid up insurance. Extended insurance'hirty dajs' grace in the payment of pre miums. The New York Life and Equitable policies irovide for loans only on the anniversary of he Dolicv *nd within thirtv davs thereafter: rhile loans will be granted at any time dur g the year on the Mutual Life policy. To oan on a policy only one month out of twelve ruld be something like a bank making oans to its customers o?ly once a month out f the year, a limitation which would offer >ui little accommod6tion to the depositor. Neither loan nor cash value is Riven on the ifctna policy until after ten years, and at he expiration of any policy year thereafter; rhile The Mutual Life gives both at any time Iter three years." In the New Fork Life and the Equ'.table ash dividends cannot be applied to pur. 1 base additional insurance, thus makiDg the ' mount more than the face of the policy, 1 nleas the insured furnishes a certificate of ' ood fceilth The Mutual Life will make he dividend additions without re examinaion, if so elected two years before the end , f the distribution period. The severest criticism which rival compile* and agents have made on the new policy 1 f the Mutual Life is that "it it too liberal," rhich is really the highest indorsement that ny pol:cj has ever received, and ore that rill obtain for it the preference over any ther offered by anj co upany. With such a i ontract, issued by ihe Great Mutual Life, | riih assets of $277 000,000.00, and a surplus I $44,000,000.00, with an income in 1898 cf ver $55 000 0:X>.00, there can be nothing J urer, ra'er or belter either aa a financial in- ' esiment or as a protection for the family j&iast the pDSSibil ties of future disaster. I was born on the ay of. - and year 18 1 ly full name i?~ Iy address is .mount of insurance desired $ larried or single ? For further particulars fill out this cout>on ad send to j F. H. HYATT, J GENERAL AGENT FOR THE CAROLINAS COLUMBIA, S. C. < - 39 MACHINERY AND MILL SUPPLIES Of EVERY DESCRIPTION. T4> vi /\*tt > ? ?-> A ?s rt T\ 7 /-v 4"A j.t i:> LL\jyy uiiocao<jiiciuj.c w "Talk" Cotton Ginning Machinery, but it is the time for you to place your orders for? RICE IIULLEBS, RICE THRESERS, V GRIST MILCiS, 8 \.W MILLS, WOOD WORKING MACHINERY, ENGINES AND BOILERS. And many other usefal and nesessary machine wa miffM mpnliftn If you want tfce best value for your money, consult your ir teres! by writing or calling on us for prices and estimates before j placing your orders. Large Stocks. Prompt Shipments. Lowest Prices Consistent "With "Honest Goods." W. H. 8ftlns & 60.. COLUMBIA, 8. C. KIDNEY, BLADDER, UBINARf AND IIVCR SLI Vft.ll DISEASES, DYSPEPSIA., ISDIGT8TI0N AND CONSTIPATION POSITIVELY" CURED BY THE USE OF DR. HILTON'S LIFE FOB THE LIVER AND KIDNEYS. : A vegetable preparation, wherever known the meat popular of all remedies, because the most effectual. Sold wholesale by? The Mirray Drug Co. Columbia. Dr. H. Baer, Charleston, S. C. It is the= | =uustom Bat a very poor one, to wait until the ginning season is on before locking to see what fix the gin is in. New is the time to HURRY TOUE GI5 TOTEE ELLIOT BIN REPAIR WORKS Do not delay and then ask as to let yon have it at once, for thorough work canto* be dene In a hurry The attention gir?? his matter now will more than repay yen when the cotton ;s wiut? in the He tea and the gin house crowded. T?e work:* coming in already, so ship at once to th* uadereigned, located at tho old electric ligfct engiae house. Reference by pefoiijjioa:?W". H Gi1) _ & Co, V. C. Badh&m, Jno. A. Willis. 5?*ilsrk your name and shipping point on work sent and prepay the freight. The Elliott Gin Rejsair Works, W. J. ELLIOTT, Proprietor, No. 1314 Gates Street, COLUMBIA, 8. C. Sinning a Macmnery. j 0 The Smith. Pneumatic Suction Elevating, G-inning and Packing Bysteia Is the simplest and most efficient on the market. Forty-eight complete outfits in South Carolina; each one giving absolute V satisfaction. Boilers and Engines; Slide Valve, Automatic and Corliss. My Light and Heavy Log Beam Saw Wilis cannot be equalled in design, efficiency or price by any dealer or manu cajturer in the SouthWrite for prices and catalogues. V. C. Badham, 1326 Main Street, COLUMBIA. S. C. . % Morphine ?AND? Whiskey i HABITS CURED. | Hon. W. H. CLOUGH, Governor of Minnesota. 'I hare al *ayd sail that the Keeiey Insti lute of ibis country bad done more good, ia * -n v 1 nrl(Tm?n f f Kin anv inotifntiAAa a* uLAJ J U\4^UlVUWj ^UV>U J WUW* IU?lfll>UMVUQ Vt ^ organizations in the country. I have said it many times, and I want to repeat it here, Lat Dr. Kealey has doae more for the coan*-^ ;ry, has sa^ed more unf.-rtuoae men than my one man in the United States (Extract from an address delivered in Minneapolis, Augaa\ 18V7.) Address Communications to The Keeley Institute, 126 Fmiih Street, <A>rner Vanderhorat, CHARLESTON'. 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