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fi' I I- - ' GLORY OF THE NAVY. | j Dr "faimage'sSai'rribri on Dewey's Home Coming. OFCFPTION TOIDEWEY. Naval Heroes Deserve Full Measure of Praise. Useful Lessons Drawn From Their Bravery and". Devotion. Heroic Deeds Lauded. ^ At a time when the whole nation is afcired with Datriotic emotion at the re turn of Admiral George Dewey and his gallant men on the cruiser Olympia and the magnificent reception acccrdsd to them, the Rev. Dr. T. DeWitt Talmage in his sermon, preaching to a vast audience, appropriately recalls for devout and patriotic purposes some of the great naval deeds of olden and more recent times. Text, James iii, 4, "'Behold also the ships." If this exclamation was appropriate about 1872 years ago, 'vhen it was written concerning the crude fishing smacks that sailed Lake Galilee, how much more appropriate in an age which has n ,T * -r\n launched, trom tee ar^uucft.? ivi purposes of pence the Oceanic of the White Star line, the Lucania of the Cunard line, the St. Louis of the Amer^ ican line, the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse of the North German Lloj -I line, Augusta Victoria of the HamburgAmerican line; and in an age which for purposes of war has launched the screw sloops like the Idaho, the Shenandoah, the Ossipee, and our ironclads like the Kalamazoo, the Roanoke and the Dunderberg, and those which have already been buried in the deep, like the Monitor. the Housatonic and the Weehawken. the tempests ever since sounding a volley over their watery sepulchers, and the Oregon, and the Brooklyn, and the Texas, and the Olympia, the Iowa, the Massachusetts, the Indiana, the New York, the Marietta of the last war, and the scarred veterans of war shipping, like*the Constitution or the Alii ance or the Constellation, tfcat nave swupg into the naval yards to spend their last days, their decks now all silent of the feet that trod them, their rigging all silent of the hands that cluDg to them, their portholes silent of the brczen throats that once thundered out of them. If in the first century, when war vessels were dependent on the oars that paddled at the side of them for propulsion, my text was suggestive, with how much more emphasis and meaning and overwhelming reminiscence we can cry out as we see the Keaesarge lay across the bows of the Alabama and sink it, teaching foreign nations they had better keep their hands off our American fight, or as we see the ram Albemarle of the Confederates running out and in the Roanoke and up and down the coast, throwing everything into confusion as no other craft ever did, pursued by the Miami, the Ceres, the SouthSeld, the Sassocus, the Mattabesett, the Whitehead, the Commodore Hull, the Louisiana, the Minnesota and other armed vessels, all trying in vain to catch her, until Captain Cushing, 21 years of age, and Ms men blew her up, himself and only one other escaping, and as I see the flagship Hartford, and the Richmond, and the Monongahela. with other gunboats, sweep past the batteries of Port Hudson, and the Mississippi flows forever free to all northern and southern craft, and under the fire of Dewey and his men the Spanish ships at Manila burn or sink, and the fleet rushing out of Santiago harbor are de molished by our guns, and the brave Cervera surrenders, I cry out with a patriotic emotion that I cannot suppress if I would, and would not if I could, "Behold also the ships." Full justice has been done to the men who at different times fought on the land, but not enough has been said of those who on ship's deck dared and suffered all things. Lord God of the rivers and the sea. help me-in this sermon! So, ye admirals, commanders, captains, pilots, gunners, boatswains, sailmakcrs, surgeons, stokers, messmates and'seamen of all names, to use your own parlance, we might as well get under way and stand :>ut to sea. Let. all landlubbers go ashore. Full speed now? Four bells! Never since the sea fight at Lep"nfco, wherft 300 roval-sallevs manned b^ SO, 000 warriors, at sunrise, Sept. 6, 1571. met 250 royal galleys, manned by 120,000 men,-and in tlie four hours of battle 8,0C0 fell on one side and 25,000 on the other; yea, never since the day when at Actium, 31 years before Christ. Augustus with 260 ship3 scattered the 220 ships of Mark Antony and eained universal dominion as the prize: yea, since the day when at Salamis the 1.200 galleys of the Persians, manned by 500,000 men, were crushed by Greeks with less than a third of that force; yea, never since the time of Xoah, the first ship captain, has the world seen such a miraculous creation as that of the American navy in 1861. In the cemeteries for Federal and Confederate dead are the bodies of most of those who fell on the land. But where those are who went down in the vessels will not be known nntil ''V set Jves up its dead. The Jack Tai-^new that while loving arms might carry the men who fell on the land and bury them with solemn liturgy and the honors of war, for the bodies of those who dropped irom the ratlines into tne sea er went down with all on board under the stroke of a gunboat there remained the shark and the whale and the endless tossing of the sea which cannot rest. Once a year, in the decoration of the graves, those who fell in the land were remembered. But how about the jcraves of those who went down at sea? ^Nothing but the archangel's trumpet shall reach their lowly bed. A few of them were gathered into naval cemeteries of the land, and we every year garland the sod that cover them. But who will put fiowers on the fallen crew of the exploded Westfield and Shawsheen and the sunken Southfield s nd the Winneld Scott? Bullets threatening in front, bombs threatening from above, torpedoes threatening from beneath, and the ocean, with its reputation of 6,000 years for shipwreck, lying ? all around, am I not right in saying it equired a special courage for the navy in 1S63 as it required special courage in 1S9S? It looks picturesque and beautiful to see a war vessel going out through the Narrows, sailors in new rig singing, A life on the ocean wave, A home on^the roiliDj: deep, the colors gracefully dipping to passing ships, the decks immaculately clean and the guns at quarantine firins; a parting salute. But the poetry is all gone out of that ship as it comes out of the t ingagement, its decks red with huu&n blood, wheelhouse gone, the cabins a *4i\mm i ? T; wmn " i ^"r '.* ** II - a? aw pile of shattered mirror? and destroyed j , furniture, Steeling wheel broksn, smoke- ; j stack crushed, hundred pound Whit- i worth ri8e shot having Jeft its mark \ i n^r!-, to starboard, the shrouds rent | ! away, ladders splintered and decks < plowed up and smoke blackened and < scalded corpses lying among those who : are gasping their last gasp far away from home and kindred, whom they love as much as we love wife and parents and children. On, men of the American navy returned from Manila and Santiago and Havana, as well as those who are survivors of the naval conflicts of 1863 and 1804, men of the western gulf squadron, of the eastern gulf squadron, of the south Atlantic squadron, of the north Atlantic squadron, of the Mississippi squadron, of the Pacific squadron, of the West India squadron and of the Potomac flotilla, hear our thanks! Take the benediction of our churches. Accept the hospitalities of the nation. If we had our way, we would get you not only a pension, but a home and a princely wardrobe and at equipage and a banquet while you live and after your departure a catafalque acd a mausoium of sculptured marble, with a model of the ship in which you wen the day. It is considered a gallant thing when in a naval fight the flagship with its blue ensign goes ahead up a river or into a bay, its admiral standing in the shrouds watching and giving orders. But I have to tell you, O veterans of the American navy, if you are as loyal to Christ as you were to the government there is a flagship sailing ahead of you of which Christ is the admiral, and he I i f a. watcnes irouu tue suryuus, auu veris are the blue ensign, and he leads you toward the harbor, and ail the broadsides of earth and hell cannot damage you, and ye whose garments were once red with your own blood shall have a robe washed and made white in the blood of the Lamb. Then strike eight bells! High noon in heaven! Sometimes off the coast of England the royal family have inspected the British navy, maneuvered before them for that purpose. In the Baltic sea the czar and czarina have reviewed the Russian navy. To bring before the A merican people the debt they owe to navy I go out with you on the Atlantic ocean, where there is plenty of room, and in imagination review the war shipping of our four great conflicts ?1776, 1812, 1865 and 1898. Swing into line all ye frigates, ironclads, fire rafts, gunboats and men-of-war! There they come, all sail set and furnaces in full blast, sheaves of crystal tossing ! from their cutting prows. That is Che Delaware, an old Revolutionary craft, commanded by Commodore Decatur. Yonder goes the Constitution, Commodore Hull commanding. 'There is the Chesapeake,, commanded by Captain Lawrence, whose dying words were, ''Don't give up the ship," and the Niagara of 1812, commanded by Commodore Perry, who wrote on the back of an old letter, resting on his navy cap,'"We have met the enemy, and they are ours." 1 onder is tne nagsnip Wabash, Admiral Dupont commanding; yonder, the flagship Minnesota, Admiral Goldsborough commanding; yonder, the flagship Philadelphia, Admiral Dahlgren commanding; yonder, the flagship San Jacinto, Admiral Bailey commanding; yonder, the flagship Black Hawk, Admiral Porter commanding; yonder, the flag steamer Benton, Admiral Foote commanding; yonder, the flagship Hartford, David G-. Farragut commanding: yonder, the Brooklyn. Piear Admiral Schley commanding; i -- '-I /"VI * J_: ^ yonaer5 tne viympis, auuiusi ^cncj i commanding; yonder, the Oregon, Captain Clark commanding; yander, tlie Texas, Captain Piiilip commanding; yonder, the New York, Rear Admiral Sampson commanding: yonder the Iowa, Captain Robley D. Evans commanding. According to his own statement, Farragut was very loose in his morals in early manhood and practiced all kinds of sin. One day he was called into the cabin of his father, who was a shipmaster. His father said, "David, what are you going to be anyhow?" He answered, "I am going to follow the sea." "Follow the sea," said the father, "and .1 L tV . ^ 0 US ikiUiiCU <1UUUI> t."C YVU..1U wu uic 1U a. foreign hospital?" "Mo," said David; "I am going to command like you." "2so," said the father: ''a boy of your habits will never command anything." And his father burst into tears and left the cabin. From that day David Farragut started on a new life. Captain Pennington, an honored elder of my Brooklyn church, was with him in most of his battles and had his intimate friendship, and he confirmed, what I had heard elsewhere, that Farragut was good and Christian. In every great crisis of life he asked and obtained the Divine direction. When in Moble bay the monitor lecumseh sank from a i J- J 1.1 4 | turpeuu a Liu tut; &ieu,L vtuxauip jluvwalyn, that was to lead the squadron, turned back, he said he was at a loss to know whether to advance or retreat, and he says: ''I prayed. '0 God, who created man and gave hica reason, direct me what to do. Shall I go on?' And a voice commanded me, 'Goon,' and I went on." Was there ever a more touching Christian letter than that which Le wrote to his wife from his flagship Hartford? "My dearest wife, 1 write and leave this letter for you. I am going into Mobile bay in the morning if God is my leader, and I hope he is, and in him I place my trust. If he thinks it is the proper place for me to die, I am ready to submit to his will in that as all other thiDgs. G-od bless and preserve you, my darling, and my dear boy,'if anything should happen to me. May his blessings rest upon you and your dear mother." Cheerful to the end, he said on board the Tallapoosa in the last voyage he ever took, "I would be well if I J.-.J ? ?? ? 1?V f V.K U1CU AiU V* 1U ild.lUs.^3. fJDU X. k/llll/U Episcopal service for the dead was never more appropriately rendered than over his casket, and well did all the forts of Xew York harbor thunder as his body was brought- *o the wharf, and well did the minute guns sound and the bells toll as in a procession having in its ranks the president of th j United States and his cabinet and the mighty men of land and sea the old admiral was carried, amid hundreds of thousands of uncovered heads on Broadway, and laid on his pillow of dust in beautiful Woodiawn, Sept. 30, amid the pomp of our autumnal forests. But just as much am I stirred at the scene on warship's deck before Santiago last summer, when the yictory gained for our American flag over Spanish oppression the captain took off his hat ~ii ?ij: a.uu an tii^ saixuis <*uu ouiAieis uiu. tuc same and silently they offered thanks to Almighty Gcd for vrhat had been accomplished, and when oa another ship the soldiers and sailors were cheering J as a Spanish vessel sank and its officers and crews were straggling in the wa'j ers and the captain of our warship cried | out, '"Don't cheer; the poor fellows are | drowning."' Prayers on deck! Prayj ers in the forecastle! Prayers in the I cabin! Prayers in the hammocks! i Prayers on the lookout at midnight! j The batlV ?l that war opened with prayer, pushed on with prayer and closed v,;th prayer, and today the ; u m i n^minihimm t?>" ii ii"~t? ^ "hi i n ii ii mi ' *?11 " "i A.mei1??2 nation recalls !bein ^kb | praych . j We hail $ith thanks the new gsners- i Lion of naTfil heroes, thoaC of the year 1898. We are too near their n:arvelDus deeds to fully appreciate them. A century from now poetry and sculpture and painting and history will do them better jastiee than we can do them now. A defeat at Manila would have been an infinite disaster. Foreign nations not overfond of our American institutions would have joined the ot"\er side, and the war so many months j-ASt would have been raging still, and perhaps a hundred thousand graves would have opened to take down our slain soldiers and sailors. It took this country three years to get over the disaster at Bull Ran at the opening of the civil war. How many years it would have required to recover from a defeat at Manila in the opening of the Spanish war I cannot say. God averted the calamity by giving triumph to our navy under Admiral Dewey, whose coming up through the Narrows of New York harbor day before yesterday was greeted by the cation whose welcoming cheers will noc cease to resound until tomorrow and next dav in the oaoital of the nation the jeweled sword voted by congress shall be presented amid booming cannonade and embannered hosts, "acd our autumnal nights shall become a conflagration of splendor, but the tramp of these processions and the flash of that sword and the huzza of that greeting and the roar of those guns and the illumination of those ?? UA rr? Q CJ 1 fi H 0" III ^ Li L 3 Villi Ut OtVU uuu uvmu ~ O as a page of American history remains inviolate. Especially let the country boys of America join in these greetings to the returned heroes of Manila. It is their work. The chief character in all the soene is the once country lad, George Dewey. Let the Vermonters come down and find him Older, but the same modest, unassumine. almost bashful person that they went to school with and with whom they sported on the playground. Ihe honors of all the world cannot spoil him. A few weets ago at a banquet in England some of the titled noblemen were affronted because our American minister plenipotentiary associated the name of Dewey with that of Lord Nelson. As weil might we be affronted because the name of Nelson is associated with that of our mo3t renowed admiral. The one man in all the coming ages will stand as high as the other. So this day, sympathizing " ' " 11 1- xi witn ail tne isstmties ana ceieorauous of the pa3t week and with all the festivities and celebrations to come this week, let us anew thank God and tho.'e heroes of the American navy who have done such great things for our beloved land. Come aboard the old ship, Zion, ye sailors and soldiers, whether still in the active service or honorably discharged and at home having resumed citizenship. And ye men of the past, your last battle on the seas fought, take from me, in God's name, salutation and good cheer. For the few remaining fights with sin and death and hell make ready. Strip your vessel for the fray. Hang the sheet chains ever the side. Send down the topgallant masts. Barriscade the wheel. Rig in the flying jib boom. Steer straight for the shining shore, and hear the shout of the great Commander of earth and heaven as he cries from the shrouds, "To him that overccmeth will I give to eat of the tree of life which is in the midst of the paradise of God." HosannalHosanna! MURDERED AT SUPPER. A Bride and Groom Shot by a Rejected Suitor. A special to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch from Montgomery, Mo., says: Frank Walker and his bride were murdered today by Charles Rankin, a disappointed lover, who then killed himself. A child was seriously wounded by the shots that killed the coupie. All concerned in the tragedy w<jre prominent residents of Montgomery county. The murder occurred at the home of James Cook, nine miles east of here, where the couple and their friends had gone to eat the wedding supper. Walker, who had no relatives, worked around the farm. Tuesday afterBoon he and Miss Maud Groshorn drove to Montgomery and were married. They then drove out to the Cook home, where a supper was prepared. A company of well-wishers gathered. The bride and groom sat sid$ by side at the head of the table in front of an uncurwin/lnw nrTifin T^antlW sTinf, thft I couple, firing with a shotgun through the window. Both were instantly killed, their heads being riddled with shot. A child, a member of the Cook family, was badly wounded. No one saw the murderer and his identity was unknown until his dead body was stumbled over outside the house. A letter left by Rankin revealed the fact that he was a rejected suitor of Miss Goshorn's and that he committed the murder because she married another. Praises a Southern Soy. The incident of Dewey's praise for the Charleston boy is reported in the New York World of Friday by Lavinia Hart, a young woman reporter who interviewed the admiral. Miss Hart had just referred to Dewey as a hero: " 'You really must not call me a hero," he said modestly, "after all I?I" "Was scared to death all through the battle,' I said timidly. " 'Exactly,' said the admiral, re!_ .? j <*r?> ?t.:? nevea. jow, uc uuuuuucu, comes one of the real heroes of Manila.' 'A lanky youth in uniform hove in sight. " 'That boy,' said the admiral, 'has worked himself up out of the ranks. Xow he's chief quartermaster. He'll be heard from some day. His name's Mehrtens and he steered the Olympia through the battle of Manila. i 4 " 'Mehrtens,' as the lad saluted, and was passing, "where do you come from?' " 'Charleston, South Carolina, sir.' "'What, another,' cried the admiral. 'Charleston may be proud of her contributions to this war.'" Parachute Didn't Opan. Marza Townsend of Decorab, la., about 20 years old, was killed on the Carnival circus grounds at Des Moines Wednesday evening while attempting a parachute leap. While up l.OUO feet in the air the parachute failed to open and he fell to the earth like a stone and was picked up dead and terribly mangled. A large crowd saw the accident. Don't Want Them. There has been some talk of estab- I risking a colony for Negro farmers in New Jersey. The scheme does not receive much encouragement from the newspapers of the section in which the colony is proposed to be planted. The New Jersey newspapers are always ready to give a word of advice respecting the Negro in the South; but they do not desire to have the Negro in New J ersey. ^'Tv- i Tin nr ?T>, n i*i^n .* f ' VHEOID FIHST BRIGADE. | An effort to Publish Dickert's Eiatory j | of Kershaw's Brigade. Mr. E II. Aull sends the State the ! following: 4,I will greatly thank The State if it | will take enough interest to publish the j circular below and make the statement contained therein. If there should be anyone wuose picture comes 111 tne list enumerated who is not willing to help the work by paying $31 would be glad to have him send the photograph desired and maybe some one else will help bear the expense so that the lilt will be complete. "The publisher would be glad to have the papers in Darlington, Marion, Marlboro, Fairfield, Kershaw, Chester Held, spartanourg, union, ureenville, Anderson, Abbeville, Edgefield, Saluda, Lexington. Orangeburg, Newberry, Charleston and Richland copy the circular as it was largely from these coun ties that the men who made the brigade came. I do not know to whom to write, but I hope those officers who are living will heed the request?and those who are dead I know have left some descendants who have enough interest io their own to help in this matter." ^ To the Friends, Relatives, and Surviv orsor the Uid rirst isrigade: The publisher or "Dickert's History of Kershaw's Brigade" takes pleasure iu announcing that this work has passed beyond its doubtfnl stage, and is now a reality. The work of printing is now well under way, and will soon be ready for the binder. It is the wish of those who have undertaken the publication of the history to make it as home-like, realistic, and attractive as possible, and nothing will add more to this purpose than having it embellished with cuts and engravings of those who led and commanded, for so long a time and under such trying ordeals, this noble band of immortals. They would even like to have the cuts of all were it possible or practical, but this not being the case, they will have to content themselves with only the illustrations of the captains (or company commanders), colonels, and brigadiers, and their field and staff officers. As we have said at the outset of this undertaking, the history is not written nor published for gain or profit, but more as a memorial volume, and the publisher does not feel warranted from c daancial Doint of view, in making this outlay of ready cash to Dieet these requirements. As the author has spent so much of his time, to say nothing of the expense, in getting up this memorial to the worth and' valor of his old comrades, without compensation; it is the hope of the publisher that the friends and survivors will come to his aid"; and he makes this proposition: Any of the friends of the above named officers, who will send the publisher a photo or picture of the officers named, enclosing five dollars?three dollars for n-wn f\r\CL TTAIT1 TT>A I IUC CUt dUU LYl KJ UU11A10 1V/1 iviuu.v of the history?he will have a nice picture or cut of such officer inserted in the book, and' one volume delivered without additional expense to the person furnishing the photograph and paying five dollars. This will about cover the actual expense ol the engraving and publication. Capt. Dickert has written a valuable history, and as a record of the events, a description of battles and camp life, sketches of officers, and the life of a soldier as seen from the ranks and the battle line, it stands unrivaled as a history from the Confederate -i.? j?:_i. __j HUillUpUlIlb, auu it 13 Liuvt a uuij tu.v^ friends and survivors of the Old First" Brigade owe to their children and to posterity to furnish these illustrations as a fitting tribute to the brave officers, orirl ali^o whsi an offpn led their troops to victory. Pictures of photos taken during the war, or just after and in uniform, are prefeired. They will be carefully handled and as carefully returned. No uneasines0 need be felt as to theirbeingdamagedorlost, as the publisher is well aware how these priceless relics of the past are treasured an no pains will be spared in having them safely returned. We wish photos of all captains (and lieutenants commanding companies), adjutants, quartermasters, commissaries, and chaplains, majors, lieutenant iJ ..1 i : coioneis, ana cuioueia, urigauici gciicials and their staffs. Write (if living) the name and rank of officer, in his own handwriting, under the picture, or paste on back the nane on slip of paper; and, to avoid delays and miscarriages in return, write the name of postoffice to which it is to be returned. Piease give this request prompt at? i ,1 _ _ v _ tention, as photograpm must De received within the next thirty days to insure having them inserted in the book. Send the three dollars along with photograph and the books can be paid for on delivery. Address llbert H. Aull, Newberry, S. C. Killed by Boiler Explosion. By the explosion of a boiler at Brace's saw mill near Trevilions, in Louisa county, A. Campbell, a well known farmer. and a Negro were instantly killed. AnOihur Xc^rrn was fataily injured, and the owner of the mill, Mr. Robert Bruce, so badly scxlded that he may die. She Deserves It. The sailors of Dewey's flagship are going to make Miss Heleu Gould a present that she will appreciate highly. It is in the form of two 4.7-incii shows from the wreck of the Reina Chrisiina, Admiral 3Iontojo's flagship, mounted in Leghorn marble. Upon each shell is a statuette of Liberty in ivory. The mounting and carving were done at ajjics. Fifteen Hundred Killed. It is estimated that fifteen hundred persons perished in the earthquakes in Asia Minor around Aidin. The first shock occurred at 4 o'clock on the morning of September 29th and lasted forty seconds. The effects were appalling. Whole villages were comp'etely destroyed. The earthquake * "? " C*.f. J was ieit as lar as ocio, iuityieme aau Symrna. He Was Disgusted. "No," tie c-jnvicted saloon keepor. '"I won't nave you to defend another case for me." "But," his lawyer protested, "you know you were guilty and you know, too, that the evidence against you was overwhelming." "Oh. I don't deny that, but after having the case postponed four times you run out of excuses. A lawyer what ain t got no more resources tnan tnat can't git fees from me." Killedthe Sing in As a result of a prize fight held at Valley Grass, Cal., Thursday night between Jim Pendergast of Sacramento and Chas. 'Hoskins of that place, the latter is dead. HoskiDS "was knocked out in the 10th round and although physicians worked upon the prostrate man all night they could not save his life. The referee, Pendergast and all the seconds were placed under arrest. x> 'ftt 1 ?' i ? .nr THE CAtTSE OF JBOSFEK IT?. ! I What a Prdlaineiit Republican Say About It. in The Review of Reviews for Oeto ber the Hon. Thomas L. James, formerly postmaster-general and now president of a New York national bank, essays an explanation of the causes which have led to the present prosperous condition of business. A Republican and a gold man, Mr. James does not, like many of his fellows, undertake to claim for Republicanism and the gold standard the sole credit for existing condi ticms, but, with an obvious purpose to tell the story fairly and explain it rationally, he shows the real influences which have been making for better times. We quote freely. "In order clearly to understand the rise and development of influences that i "1.1 "? 1 produced cue depressing conditions culminating between 1S93 and 189(>, it is necessary to go back to the time of the resumption^ specie payments in 1879. This country immediately after the government resumed payment of its obligations in coin entered an era of prosperity which has been compared with the one that now prevails, and yet the conditions characterizing it were entirely different. We had then, in comparison with our possessions today, little capital, and vet we undertook to open up the wheat belts of the west, to complete the Northern Pacific railway, to construct thousands of miles of new railroa'd in unsettled regions, so that in the coarse of three or four years we expended at least $500,000,000 in building new railroads. Much of this money was borrowed in Europe, and the railroads when built did not at first begin to earn their interest charges, and some of them with difficulty paid their running expenses. They were kept in op eration in many cases by borrowing more money to pay the interest upon bonds and at last became heavily burdened with mortgages and underlying mortgages, ultimately involving reorganization and heavy loss. All of this money we had to pay back, and the effect of those enormous payments was severely felt between 1835 and 1894. These new railroads, however, did a great service for the country, since they opened up the agricultural lands to the farmer and made possible the amazing crops which 'Were grown in 1891 and " 1S92. For about ten years, or say from the spring of 1831 until near the close of Mr. Cleveland's administration, the people of this country, both in their corporate and their individual relations, I ' J - - _ ? were engaged in payiug ueuia. mc farmers did that and were thereby compelled to practice the utmost economy, many of them finding even the most stringent self-denial inadequate, so that they were forced to submit to foreclosure. But stock holders in the railroad corporations were also ^suffering,' and there came fir many of them the same experA -po flro Wflf . TT77 fc The I icuv;c ujll.vu xai.mgiQ .ua.wv - t? x*** owners of the bonds exacted their interest or took possession of the property just as the owners cf the farm mortgages exacted theirs or foreclosed. We lived in a time of forced and great economy. Many men esteemed very rich were compelled to draw upon their principal in order to maintain in some measure their customary manner of life, and the wa^e-earners were either drawing upon their savings or else were compelled to live upon half pay so to speak? some of them upon credit. During Mr. Cleveland's second administration we were really getting into a heathful condition. We were paying our debts, reorganizing our bankrupt railroads on sound and economical bases, living with rigid economy, liquidating obliga1 tions long past due, and were at last in a condition that required only some tonic or stimulus in order to regain prosperity and industrial activity." He goes on to show how a check to 1*1113 V> UUiCOUUit rr aj uj the financial collapse of the Argentine republic and the resulting failure of Baring Brothers. The Bank of England interposed its resources. "One of I the ablest of the financiers of New York, when he read that report, said: 'The Bank of England has prevented a panic; but a failure like this will shrivel credits, benumb business everywhere, and its disastrous influence will be felt in every nation of the world for the next two or three years.' The prediction was justified in every respect." Mr. James recognizes the bad effect of *1 .0 it . ? ^2 tile suspension 01 me iree cuiuage ui silver in India which followed. "It was everywhere recognized as a remedy for certain evils from which Great Britain aDd her colonies were suffering, but it was a remedy so heroic that its immediate effect was harmful, at least to some lines of - trade." Other reasons for the depression and the panic of 1893 are given, but it is the revival which is our theme. As to the causes of the revival Mr. James barely mentions the defeat of free silver and the passage of * T\ 1 j r? 1 TT. xl , tne umgiey tann jaw. ne men proceeds: "Bat there is another influence which may be esteemed among the greatest of any that have caused these last years of the century to give industrial prosperity, content, happiness, and a wide distribution of wealth to our people. That influence was created by the recent amazing development of the gold mines of the world. Undoubtedly the action of congress in repealing the Sherman law induced capital to turn its attention to the American gold mines. Bat the same impulse existed all over the world. The discovery of cheap chemical methods of abstracting gold from low-grade ore was as momentous almost as that of Bessemer, to which much of the industrial activity of the last half of the nineteenth century can be traced. That process made it possible to utilize with commercial profit the low-grade ores in South Africa, and only a year after the Sherman law was 1 i xi _ i. i x i. _i.i repealed me mgnest expert aumunt> predicted that the South African mines would be adding yearly to the gold of the world from $75,000,000 to 8100,000,000, a prediction that has been almost justified already. Then Australia amazed the world with discoveries of unsuspected gold deposits and Colorado at;d Idaho and southern California began to report profitable mining operations, until at last it was reported by the director of the mintthatthe United States was producing nearly $60,000,000 of gold a year, the estimate for 1S99 being about $5,000,000 a month. Then. too, just as these inspiring influences were beginning to have their legitimate effect upon business, there came from the wilds of Alaska romantic tales of rich discoveries of gold, and since that news was first brought to this country the estimated output of that once desolate territory has been about $40,000,000 gold, almost all of which has come to the United States and re mained. nere. The director of the mint estimates that today there is in the United States almost a billion of gold, in coin and bullion, and whereas in Mr. Cleveland's administration the gold in the treasury had been drained so low that it seemed at one time as though the government would be CDmpelled to suspend gold payments, fiow the treasury possess * nearly $250,000,000 of gold and ths ; banks of New York nearlv ?175.000,- 1 J00. _ c In addition to the gold that came t from the mines, there came many millions of it in the year 1S9S to the United i States from Europe in liquidation of i trade balances, and with the exception < of $20,000,000 sent to Europe to pay i the Spanish indemnity, almost every ; dollar of the gold brought here from 1 mines and the payment of debts has re- ] mained her,j." This is an admission of the accuracy of the quantitative theory of money, held by the Democratic party and so vigorously pressed in the campaign of 1806. If the world's supply of gold had not increased so marvellously and if our rxports had not, through a remarkable concurrence of circumstances, run beyond all expectation and hope, in what condition would we now have been? "If, now, wo turn to another report vcr> Ha trt dis^.nvAr in it Der haps the most impressive of all the stories that tell of our revival and increase of prosperity. Ia 1S92 we exported oi agricultural products in tbe fiscal year ending June SO $799,000,000 in round numbers. We did not export as much in TT-jino as tliaf, aornin alfhnncrh in 1899 we exported $785,000,000 in round numbers. In the intervening years the export ranged from $650,000,000 in round oumbers in 1898 down to $553,000,000 in 1895. But if we turn to the figures that tell the story of the export of the products of our manufactories in the same yearsf we discover, set forth in the most emphatic manner the amazing story of our industrial expansion. In 1S92, fiscal year, we exported of manufactured products $158,000,000; in 1893, approximately the same amount; in 1S94, $183,000,000; in 1S95, approximately the same amount; in 1896, $22S,000,000; in 1897, $277,000,000; in 1898, $290,000,000: and in 1899, $338,000,000, with every indication that the export for thi? fiscal year of manufactured products will be as great as $375.0vJ0,000.. Therefore while we have gained in export of ag?u 1 L 1 CO'} ricuuurai pruuucis uui ac<uiaiut^ jlu^, we have gained more than 100 per cent in our export of manufactured products, showing how vastly our industries have expanded, and that while we are commanding our own domestic markets, we are surely reaching out in successful competition with other nations for the control of the markets of the world." We agree with the Columbia State, from which paper the above article is taken, that "these are explanations that explain. There is nothing in them which disproves,- and everything which confirms, the Democratic convention of 1S9G that the great need of the country was an increase in the supply of standard money. At that time it seemed impossible to secure this without the free coinage of silver; but Providence has been kind to tlie Amencan people ana saved them from the worst effect of one of their fTeatest blunders.*' The State adds to Mr. James's catalogue this further reason for the suddenness of the change: Eigteen months ago, while the signs of improvement- were of the faintest, the war with Spain began. Instead of proving financially destructive as was predicted by most of the spokesmen for gold and "business," it had precisely the opposite effect. As a smart blow is? rJ\/\frrmA OT?/3 UJJUil (X vratv;u v-ii.au 10 vi stopped may set it going again, so the jar to the country from the shock of war set the wheels of busines in full motion once more, and the revival was instant and complete. FREE MAIL DELIVERY. Bids for Star Route Contracts Must Include Free Delivery of Mail, The Postoffice Department has issued the revised instructions governing bids for Star Route mail contracts. It is --i. 1 11-, 1 LIUL JlfciiiiipS gCUCiclllJ' AUUIVU lUAl UUCOC contracts are given out for four years at a time and that this year is the time for new contracts. This service touches perhaps two-thirds of the people of this State; and it behooves them to see that responsible bids are put in from the neighborhood of oach route at the lowest practicable figures before Nov. 30th 1 next. These instruction contain a new and important paragraph in so far as bids in South Carolina are concerned. It re- ! quires all bids to include the free de livery of mail to persons living on or ; near the route. This is a practical adoption, so far as South Carolina is ' concerned, of Congressman Stokes : scheme which attracted such favorab'e ; attention last winter, and which was ' warmly advocated by The Times and Democrat. It was not generally known at the time that the one vote lacking in conference committee to fix the Stokes ] proposition as a "rider''on the appro- j priation bill, was lacking by reason uf i Senator Quay's absence on trial for 1 n} T\1 r? rr f-/\ TT"rG/^l- Q 1T1 T^h 11 9 ^ p! - I U1-'lnUS W TIAVVa - - phia. Having failed to get what lie sought by special bill and by a "rider" on the Supply Bill, through an unfortunate combination of circumstances, Congressman Stokes went to work to secure it through the department, under the discretionary power given for experimental purposes. General Sliallenberger was very favorably disposed and was anxious to incorporate the requirements in the contracts as suggested by Mr. Stokes, but at first hesitated, as congress had taken the matter in hand but had fallen short of authorizing it. ( Jb maliy nis scruples were overcome, ? and the recent order secures substanti- < ally all that Mr. Stokes strove to obtain i first through a special act and then ? through a "rider"' on the appropriation bill. At least it is secured so far as 5 South Carolina is concerned; for the 1 order applies specifically to South Caro- ^ lina. j Naturally Mr. Stokes feels much i frratifior! at flip rpsnlt and has nn doubt c ? 7 as to the permanency of the feature not f. only in the postal system of this State I but of the whole United States. He 1 also credits the press of the State and r of the country at large, with a large 1 share of the influence which brought about the result. Below is the regulation referred to which will be seen to follow closely the terms of the bill introduced by Mr. Stokes: "In addition to proposals for carry- s ing the mails on the routes and subject i to the conditions hereinbefore set forth, 1 proposals will also be received for car- E rying the mails on the same routes in [ the State of South Carolina, subject to t the same conditions, a-jd also subject t fn Pnrfliar rormiromonfc oc^nllntXTQ* f Any person living on or near any 'i Star Route herein described who desires his-mail deposited in a box on the line of the route by the carrier on said route .may provide and erect a suit- j able box on the roadside, located in { such manner as to be reached as con- 5 veniently as practicable by the carrier, a and such person shall file with the postmaster at the postoffice to which his mail is addressed (which shall be one 0 of the two postoffices on the route on E I-.II I?mi 11"| In??? IN ir ii I Si r either aide of and next to tbe box) a equest in writing for the delivery of lis mail to the carrier on the route for leposit in said mail box at the risk of :he addresse Ic should be the duty of the postnaster at every su ;h postoffice, upon a *r;tten order from any person living on ir near the Star Koute, to deliver to :he proper mail carrier for that route my mail matter, except registered mail, with-instructions as to tne proper mail box at which said mail matter shall be deposited; but do mail matter 30 delivered to a carrier for deposit shall be carried past another postoffice an the route before being deposited iu a mail box. The carrier on the Star Route * ill be required to receive from any postmaster on the route any mail matter that may be intrusted to him, outside the usual mail bag, and shall carry such mail matter to and deposit i'fc in the proper boxes placed on thejiiie of the route for this purpose; sucK-service by the carrier to be without charge to the addresses." gPSXTON FOR' BAD SAND." Ballroad Man's Mistake In Handling a Car of Crashed Gold Ore. , The average railroad official, from the President down to the section boss, i-?? ? +>,0 IS uiuruu?iu^ uuuvcisaui Ttiui work that comes in his department, but the following incident shows that even the higher officials can make mistakes. Several months ago a Kansas City, Mo., company bought a carload of crushed ore in Mexico. Adrlces were duly received that the ore had been shipped?twenty tons of it Weeks passed and the ore did not come. The smelting company politely asked the local agent of the railroad when the ore would arrive. The local agent said that he had never heard of it The smelting company tnen appeaieu iu lxiv general agent of the road. The general agent gave it up. Along the line the question was passed until it reached an official who started out a tracer for the carload of ore. A tracer is a document on which every agent, train conductor and every other person who *ia* had anything to do with the shipment must say whence he took it and where he laid it down From the mine in Mexico the car of ore was traced from innction noint to junction point until it "was well with {he rail- ' road company's local yards at Kansas City, and thence to a side track by the roundhouse and into the possession of 1 the master mechanic. A carload of crushed gold ore looks like a lot of yellow sand, and this particular carload had been knocked about and disrespected as a car of common sand should be. When the officials were notified that the tracer had chased the car into the master mechanic's track they sent him a note asking him about the disposition of the car, giving its number. The master mechanic turned the note over and endorsed it on the back: "The car contained a bad aualitv of sand. Some of it I used in the sand boxes of the engines, but it -was not servlcable, so I had it scattered along the right of way?' The railroad paid the smelter company $180 a ton for the "bad sand." Paris an Impregnable City. ( The French have been taught wisdom by past experience, and as a result have planned, and a few years ^ ago finished, a system of fortification . around Paris winch are probably unequalled for the purposes for which they are intended by any similar fortifications in the world. A well-informed military writer, a member of the general staff of the German army, has given it as his opinion that a successful siege of Paris would be, under present conditions, an impossible undertaking. i The new fortifications that surround i the French capital, says Pearson's, ( are some fifteen or twenty miles from the city, and are connected with Paris and with each other by a railway system which would enable t'ie French commander to quickly mass at one nninf a verv laree body ?f men. while the general of the besieging army, if he wished to prevent the citj from obtaining supplies and thus shut in the people and the army that was defending it, would have to occupy a line extending more than one hundred miles, and hence could not by any possibility collect a large number of his force at any one point to resist with even a shadow of hope an attack of the enemy. It required a German array of ap- 1 nrnvimatplv 500.000 men to lav siecre to Paris from September 19. 1870, to January 30, 1871; but the authority, we refer to Is of the opinion that to repeat the same operation a German besieging army would have to number more than 2,000,060 men, and the work of maintaining such a ferce and * properly handling its parts would be somthing which few Governments would care to undertake and few military commanders w?uld fe? abie to t efficiently perform. c The French have spent upon these < new fortifications an amount variously estimated at from $30,000,000 to >50,000,000, and hence can w?il afford to sell the land occupied by some of the now obsolete fortifications of a generation ago. A Little Luck at Most? Carlo. ' A short time ago a young man paid his first visit to tie Casino, and with > m absolute lack of knowledge of how j the game is played, threw down a " :ouis at the trente-et-quarante table, t [t chanced to fall on black. Lost in g rying to follow the game, h? paid no . uruici aueuuuu w it uuui i.uc uvup* er called his attention to the fact that S ie had staked the maximum and that j ie must remove his winnings. Entirey unheeded his twenty-franc piece c aad "doubled up" until it had reached t :he maximum. He obeyed the croup* jier, leaving on his stake, ard black , :ame up again. Now he began to take ?ome interest, and as he had chanced j >n a run of fifteen blacks he Bbortly ti ifterward left the table with sixty- ii Mgnt tnousana irs.EC? ior tne run over, a He seemed to have no desire to pursue Dame Fortune any further, and at lis first loss he left Moreover, It vould seem that on this particular occasion the plan of the temptress did lot seem to have succeeded, for the lext day the hero of the previous | jvening was to be seen contentedly staking single louis again, and he left Honte Carlo at night carrying his -win- C ling almost intact The name of this * nost fortunate, most wise young man vas the Baron Rolling. Prehistoric Man's Favorite Food. What was the favorite food of prelistoric man? According to Dr. Ma- ^ iegka, of Prague, it was his brother. w le proves from an examination of m :ome prehistoric remains at Knovlzc, ? n Bohemia, that the people who bur. J 4-1 ? * UJeiil >>cic ^auxiiuaia, liuc irUili n leed, but from choice, and that they (referred the flesh of their own rela- ives, especially if young and tender, o that of their enemies. He also conends, and most anthropologists seem o agree with him, that the eating of mman flesh in prehistoric times r pread all over Europe, tin practice C eing first induced by scarcity of other nod, next by preference, and was fin- s lly persisted in for religious, or, rath- ^ r, ceremonial reasons. The flesh was u every case prepared by cooking "J ometimes with flie juice of oranges ,nd lemons. Dewey kisse? no girls over ten 5 ears Id among those *ho come to see him. la is very fond of children. at?ttmm?*> What Would the Business World Do Without Us ? We know our ousmess aau we?iwojroua<? enjoyment. We secured ourtraioingatthe COLUMBIA BUSINESS COLLEGE, Columbia, S. C, and would advise you to do likewise if you desire the best ia the country. 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