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. A ^ .rr? ,k After it ? ranged *** RIGHT VIEW OF THE FUTURE-1 I We Will Have a New Earth | Wherein Wiil Dwell JRighteousnessBy a novel mode Dr. Talmage in this discoarse shows how the world will look -a t- - ~ T-m-n mi t inn? 7on for alter ic uas ? good; test, II Peter iii, 13, "A new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness." Down in the struggle to make the ! world better and happier we sometimes get depressed with the obstacles to be j oveicome and the work to be accom- j plished. Will it not be a tonic and an I inspiration to look at the world as it j will be when it has been brought back to paradisaical condition? So let us tor a lew moments transput uuuu>M into the future and put ourselves forward in the centuries and see the world in its rescued and perfected state, as we will see it if in those times we are permitted to revisit this planet, as I am sure we will. We all want to see the world after it has been thoroughly gospelized and all wrongs have been righted' We will want to come back, and we will come back to look upon the refulgent consummation toward which wa have been on larger or smaller scale toiling. Having heard the open- j ing of the orchestra on whose strings j some discords traveled, we will want to ! hear the last triumphant bar of the perfected oratorL*. Having seen the picture as the painter drew its first outlines upon canvas, we will want to see it when it is as complete as Reuben's "Descent From the Cross" or Michael Angelo's "Last Judgment/' Having seen the world under the gleam of the star of Bethlehem, we wiii want to see it when, under, the full shining of the sun r?f righteousness. the towers shall strike 12 at noon. There wili be nothing in that coming century of the world's perfection to hinder our terrestrial visit. Our power and velocity of locomotion will have been improved infinitely. It will not take us long to come here, however far off in God's universe heaven may be. The Bible declares that such visitation is going oil sow. "Are tney not. uiiuisteriag ipirifcs sent forth to minister to those who shall be heirs of salva tion? Surely the gates of heayea will not be bolted after the world is Edenized so as to hinder the redeemed from descending for a tour of inspection and congratulation and triumph. You know what interest we look upon ruins?ruins of Kenilworth castle, ruins of Melrose abbey, ruins of Home, ruins of Pompeii, So this world in ruins is an enchantment to look at, but we want to see it when rebuilt, repiilared, retowered, realtered, rededicate^. The exact date of the world's moral restoration I cannot foretell. It may be that through mighty awakenings it will take place in the middle of the nearby twentith century. It may be at opening of the twenty-first century, but it would not be surprising if it took more than 100 years to correct the ravages of sin which have raged for 6,000 year3. The chief missionary and evangelistic enterprises were started m tLis century, and be not dismayed if it takes a couple of centures to overcome evils that have had full swing for 60 centuries. I take no responsibility in saying on what page of the earthly calendar it will roll in but God's eternal vAranitv is sworn to It that it will roll in, and as the redeemed in heaven do as they please and have ail tfce facilities of transit from world to world yon and I, my hearer or reader, will come and look at what my test calls "A new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness.'' I imagine that we are descending at that period of the world's complete gospelization. There will be no peril in such a descent. Great heights and depths have no alarm for glorified spirits. We can come down through chasms between worlds without growing dizzy and accross the spaces of half the universe without losing our way. Down and father down we come. As we approach this world we breathe the perfume of illimitable gardens. Floralization that in centuries past was here and there wallod in lesi^reckless and dishonest hands pluck or despoil it surges, its billow of <.ok>r across the field aad up the hillsides, and tha: which was desert blossoms as the ro-c. All the foreheads of crag crowned with flowers, the feet of the mountains slippered with flowers! Oh, this perfume of the continents, this aroma of hemispheres! As we approach nearer and nearer we hea-songs and laughter and hosannas, but not one groan of distress, not one sob of bereavement, not one clank of chain. Alighted on the redeemed earth, we are first accosted by the spirit of the twenty-first century, who proposes to guide and show us all that we desire to see. Without his guidance we would lose our way, for the world is so much changed from the time when we liyed in it. First of all, he points out to us a group of abandoned buildings. We as this spirit of tlie twenty-first century, ''What are those structures whose walls are falling down and whose gates are rusted on the hinges?'' Our escort tell U3: "Those were once penitentiaries filled with offenders, but the ciime of the world has died out. Theft and arson and fraud and violence have quitted the earth. People have all they want, and why should they appropriate the property of others even if they had the desire? The marauders, the assassins, the buccaneers, of Herods, the Nana Sahibs, the ruffians, the bandits, are dead or, transiormed oy the power of' the Christian religion, are now upright and beneficent and useful. ''Hospitals and almshouses must have been a necessity once, but they would be useless now. And you see all the swamps have been drained, sewerage of the great towns has been perfected, and the world's climate is so improved that there are no pneumonias to come cut of the cold, or rheumatisms out cf the dampness, or fevers out of the heat. Consumptions bamsnea, pneumonias banished, aiphthe-ia banished, ophthalmia banished, neuralgias banished. As near as I can tell from what I have read, our atmosphere of this century is a mingling of the two months of May and October of the nineteenth century.'' And we believe what our escort says, for as wo pass on we 2nd health glowing in every ch^ek and beaming in every eye and springing in every step and articulating in every utterance, and you j and I whisper to cacii other as our es- j cort has his attention drawn to some ! new sunrise upon tne sk^-, i we say, each to the other: "'Who J would believe that this is the world wo lived in over 100 years ago? Look at | those men and women wc pass on the I road! How improved the human race! j Such beauty, snch strength- nch gracc ( fulness, such geaia.itv i ra^es wituout : the mark of one sorrow; Cheeks that j seem never to have been wet by one j tear! A race sublimated! A new world born!" But I say to our escort: ''Did all this merely happen so? Are all the good here spontaneously good? How did ycu get the old shipwrecked world afloat again, out of the breakers into the smooth seas?" uXo, no!" responds our twenty-first century escort. "Do ! you see those towers? Those are towj ers of churches, towers of reformatory j institutions, towers of Christian I Walk with me, and let us en ter some of these temples.We enter, and I find that the music is in the major key and none of it in the minor. I "Gloria In Eseelsis'' rising above I '"'Gloria In Excelsis." Tremolo stop in I the organ not so much used as the trumpet stop. 3Iorc of Ariel than of Xaomi. More chanrs than dirges. Not a thin song, the words of which no one understands on the lip of a soloist, but mighty harmonies that roll from outside door to chancel and from floor to groined rafter as though Handel had come out of the eighteenth century j into to the twenty-first and had his foot on tbe organ pedal, and Thomas Hasti "hnnmp; out of the early part of j the nineteenth century into the twenty first and were leading the voices. Music ! that moves the earth aid inakes heavj en listen! i But I say to our twenty-nrst century escort: "1 cannot understand this. Have tcese worshipers no sorrows, or i have they forgotten their s orrows? Our escort responds: "Sorrows! Why, they had sorrows more than you could A<vr,nf- fint-, nv a divine illumination that the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries never enjoyed they understand the uses of sorrow and are comforted with a supernatural condolence such as previous centuries never experienced." "Well," I say to our escort, "where I are Tom Paine's ;Age of Reason' and i Ingersoll's 'Mistakes of Modes' and David Hume's and Voltaire's celebrated tirades against the Bible?'' "I never heard of them," says our escort. "What are you talking about? A bigger bontUn tViof- wliiflTi in anns UIU Ui UUUa.O l uu ?i k;*iuv >1 ?x tolic time was kindled in the streets of Ephesus was lighted in all our citics and the corrupt literature of the world turned into ashes many years ago. I saw the last loaf curl up in the flame and scatter." In response to my quesiion as to what had wrought all this change?obliterated all the evil and fully inaugurated all the good?our escort, the spirit of the twenty-first century, tells me ftiof wrtcnoliration knrl ilirectlv Or in directly done it. It was a practical gospel that not only changed the heart, but made the man honest. A practical religion which did not expend all its energy in singing. "Fly abroad, thou mighty gospel," but gave, something to make it fly. The good work was helped on by the fact that it became a general habit anions millionaires and multimillion aires to provide churches and schools and institutions of mercy, not to be built after the testators were dead, but built so that they might be present at the laying of the cornerstone and at the dedication and leave less inducement for the heirse-at-law to prove in orphans' court that when the testators made their last will and testament they I were crazy. They telegraphic wires in ''? ? ? J AAKIAO ^nr tlia QAO me air auu me uuu^x wv thrill witk Christian invitation. Phonographs charged with gospel sermons stand in every neighborhood. The 5,000,000,000 of the world's inhabitants in thatccntury are 5,000,000,000 disciples. "But," I say to our escort, the spirit ?f the twenty-first century, "you have shown us much, but what about international conditions? When we liyed on earth, it was a century that bled with Marengo and Chalons and Lodi Bridge and Lucknow aad Solferino and Leipsic and Waterloo and San Juan." Our escort replies. "Come witn me to this building of white marble and glittering dome." As we pass up and on we are taken into a room where the mightiest andbe?f representatives of all nations are ambled to settle international controversies. As we enter I hear the presiding officer opening the council of arbitration, reading the sec--J -e T? ;?l, . UUU cuauiex Ui xsaiciu. luc; auaAi beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more." Questions which in out long past ninefw:th century caused quarrel and bloodshed, as when Germany and France were deciding about Alsace and Lorraine, as when the United States and Spain were deciding about Cuba? such questions in this twenty-first century settled in five minutes, one drop of ink doing more than once could have been accomplished by a river of blood. But we cannot stay long in this hall of arbitration, for it is almost time for us to retrace our way heavenward. I'll is voluntary exile muse soon ena. i .And, passing outuf this hall of arbitra- | tion, we go through a national museum, where we are shown among the curiosities an Enfield ride, a Howitzer, a Hotchkis? shell, an ambulance?curiosities to that but, alas! no curiosity to us of the nine-teenth century, for some of our own kindred went down under their stroke or were carried off the field by those wheels. ;'But," I say to our escort, the spirit of the twenty-first century, and you and 1 say to each other, "we must gc home qow, back again to heaven. We have staid long enough on this terrestrial vi^tation to see that all the best things loretold in the Scriptures and which we read during our earthly residence have come to pass, and all the Davidio, Solomonic and Paulinian and Johannean prophecies have been fulfilled, and that the earth, instead of being a ghastly failure, is tne migntest success in tbe universe. A star redeemed. A planet rescued! A world saved! It started with a garden, and it is going to clese with a garden. What a happiness that we could have seen this old world after it was righted and before it burned, for its internal fires have nearly buraed out to the crust, according to the geologist, making it easy for the theologian to believe in the conflagration that the Bible predicts. One element tak^n from the water and that will burn, and another element taken from the air and that will burn, and surrounding planets will watch this old ship of a world on fire and wonder if all its passengers got safely off. Before that planetary catastrophe, hie us back to heaven. Farewell, spirit of the twenty first century! Thanks for your guidance! We can j stay do longer away irom aozoiogies that never end in temples never closed, iu a day that has no sundown. We must report to the immortals around the throne the transformations we have seen, the victories of truth on land and sea, the hemispheres irradiated, and Christ on the throne of earth, as he is on the throne of heaven."' And now you and I have left our escort a9 weasccnd. for thelawof gravi- | ha? 'ao power to detain ascend- j ifcg. spirits i'p through immensities | and by stellar and lunar and solar I splendors, which cennot be described J by mortal tongue, we rise higher and higher, till we reach the shining gate j as it opens for our return, and the ; questions greet us from all sides: j '"What is the news? What did you j find in that earthly tower? What have you to report in this city of the sun?" Prophetic, apostolic, saintly inquiry. And, standing on the steps of the LLUUSe Ui LUJ.L Divua, nc vij ftivuu the news: "Hear it, all ye glorified Chsistian workers of all the past centuries! We found your work was successful, whether on earth you toiled with knitting needle, or rung a towel on a rising wall, or smote a shoe last, or endowed a university, or swayed a scepter; whether on earth you gave a cup of cold water in the name of a disciple, or at some Pentecost preached 3.000 souls into the kingdom. "In that world we have just visited the deserts are all abloom, and the wildernesses are bright with fountains. Sin i3 extirpated. Crime is reformed. Disease is cured. The race is emancipated. 'The earth is full of the knowledge of God, as the waters cover the ' "TVio nf tliR Lord have j- w- ?? ? come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads.' 'The Lord God Omnipotent reigneth, and the kingdoms of the world have become the kingdoms of our Lord Jesus Christ.' Let the harpers of heaven strike the glad tidings from the strings of their harps, and the trumpeters put them in the mouth of their trumpets, and the orchestras roll them iato the grand march of the eternities, and all the cathedral towers of the great capital of the universe chime them all over heaven. And cowl look up and see the casting down at the bejewe.ed and radiant crowns at the sacred feet of the enthroned Jesus. Missionary Carey is castiDg down before those feet the crown of India saved. Missionary Judson is casting down the crown of Burma saved. Missionary Abeel casting down the crown of China saved. David Livingston casting down at those feet the crown of Africa saved. Missionary Brainerd casting down the crown of this country's aborigines saved. Souls went up from all the denominations in America in holy rivalry, seeking which could soonest cast down the crown of this continent at the Saviour's feet, and America saved. But often you and I, who were companions in that expedition from heaven to earth, seated on the green bank o^ I n'vpr that, mils throuerh the Dara- ! dise of God, will talk over the scei^ we witnessed in that parenthesis o' heavenly bliss, in that vacation from the skies, in our terrestial visitation? we who were early residents in the nineteenth century, escorted by the spirit of the twenty-first centuay, when we saw that my text describes as "a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness." "Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost, as it was in the beginning, it now and ever shall be, world without end. Amen." Will Run Into SavannahIt is announced that, oommenoing December 10, 1899, the Southern Railway Company will opperate through train service over its own line via Columbia, Perry, Blackville and Allen dale, S. C., into and out of Savannah, Ga. Commencing that date its through car service will be opperated in connection with the Plant System south of Savannah. Ga.. and the Florida East Coast Railway, to and from points on the east cost of Florida, with direct I connections to and from Key "West, Fla., Havana, Cuba, andJS'assau, X. P., via Miami, Fla., in connection with the Florida East Coast Steamship Line; and in connection with the Plant System south of Savannah to and from other points in Florida, including points on the west coast, with direct connections to and ftom Key West and Havana, via Tampa, Fla., in connection with the Plant Steamship Line.? Washington Post, Nov. 10, 1899. TlpRflrved Success. The Murray Drug Company, of Columbia, furnishes one of the proofs of the proposition that well directed efforts, sound business methods and perfectly fair dealing will lead to success. Starting some years ago, in an untried field, under circumstances not the most encouraging, this company has extended its business all over South Carolina, and finds its customers steadily increasing in number and in the size of their orders. It is one of the established institutions of Columbia, and bj its example has contributed no little to the spirit of enterprise ?vrnwrrft/lfta s\rti* AT f T7 Willi; U li'JYY putauco uu: Viv;. The company is under the management of its president, Dr. W. J. Murray, who was its founder, and to his energy and constancy the success of its business is very largely due. In The Lead. The Augusta Chronicle says. "South Carolina is setting tne ern states a splendid example in the building of cotton mills." And though they follow her example, she expects to keep ahead of them. Before long South Carolina will be pushing Massachusetts close for the honor of being the greatest cotton manufacturing state in the Union.?Columbia Recoad. To Corner Rice. It is said a movement is on foot in New Orleans, backed by eastern capitalists, to control the rice industry. A circular letter has been issued to mill owners, asking for 90-day options on their plants. There are 13 mills in New Orleans. Those who are interested in the undertaking decline to give out details. Preacher Killed by a Train. Rev. George Peterson of Rome, Ga., was killed Thursday at Pencadcr, near Wilmington. Del. He was crossing the railroad at that place and was struck by a swiftly moving train. He died in a. few minutes. "I have used your 'Life for the Liver and Kidneys' with great benefit, and for Dyspepsia or any derangement of the Liver or Kidneys I regard it as being without an equal." James J. Os borne, Attorney at l>aw, Houston, | Henderson ?o., X. 0. Fireworks for Christmas. The Columbia Stationery Coiupauy in its new advertisement, would call the attention of dealers to its stock of fireworks?ready for shipment in full time for the Christmas holidays. Read what they have to say. Buchu. Gin and Juniper is a combination of curatives to which The Murray Drug Company, of Columbia, call attention in their newj advertise ment. JK.eaa it. Molasses boiling is now in full blast all over the county. " DOUTHII ON TOP. " The State Board Exonerates Him From 3!ame. HIS POSITION WAS RESTORED Mr. Robinson, of the Committee Which Brought Charges Against Him, Offered the Resolution. The State board of control has reversed its former action in discharging Mr. J. B. Douthit, commissioner, and that official was reinstated Friday when it met at 11 a. m., and took up the consideration of the case of Commissioner Douthit, all members of the board being present. The pending question before the board "was the consideration of the resolution offered by Mr. Haselden Thursday evt-r.^ng, to the effect that, iaasmueh as j uage Aldrich had decided that the removal of Commissioner Douthit was illegal, the charges against that official be withdrawn and that the entire matter be referred to the general assembly at its appraching session. Mr. Robinson stated that he wasun willing to support me resoiuuon, inasmuch as he thought the board was competent to handle the matter, and that he felt indisposed to shirk any respcn sibility, and that he thereafter offered the following as a substitute for Mr. Haselden's resolution: ''Whereas, certain charges have heretofore been made against J. B. Douthit, commissioner; and whereas the board of control has since become thoroughly convinced that the charges cannot be sustained; be it, therefore, "Resolved, That tLe said charges be, and they are hereby, withdrawn." In support of his resolution, Mr. Robinson stated that, acting with Mr. Haselden as a committee of investigation, he had joined in a report to the board of control making a number of charges against Mr. Douthit. This re port was based upon ex parte testimnmr submitted alonsr with the reDort to the board, and that he had voted to remove Mr. Douthit from office, believing the charges preferred to Le true. Since that time, however, he had investigated for himself, and found that ; ' it charges could not be sustained, and t.iat he then considered it his duty to himself, to Mr. Douthit and to the public to say so by proposing this 'resolution Mr. Williams said _ that Mr. Douthit was either guilty or innocent of the charges preferred against him, and insisted that the charges be either proven to he true or that the board should confess that he is innocent. He could cot support Mr. Haselden's resolution, because, if Mr. Douthit was guilty and i n rr . i ^ t j not removed irom omce oy me uoaru, he (Mr. Williams) could not continue to serve as his superior officer, and he stated that if the charges were not abandoned by the committee who preferred them, he (Mr. Williams) would himself press an investigation of them. He said, however, that Mr. Haselden, being the chairman of the investigating committee, and having withdrawn the charges, and Mr. Robinson proposing by resolution to do so, he (Mr. Williams) could have no objection to its beiDg done, and that he was willing to vote for Mr. Robinson's resolution or t'j procecd with the trial. He said: "Now, let us take ud the charges seriatim and examine them. The first charge is that Mr. Douthit placed XXX labels on X corn liquor, thereby perpetrating a fraud upon the consumer." The facts in the case, he declared, were as follows: One Mr. Groves of North Carolina offered to the State board eight barrels of old corn liquor at a certain price. This was not offered as X, or XX, or XXX corn liquor, but simply as corn | liquor. It was at once recognized by I the board as a bargin, and it was purchased. Mr. Douthit stated, in the presence of the board, that he would label and sell it as aaa. Mr. Williams stated further that Mr. Haselden asked that he be permitted to take the sample home to his father, who was fond of good corn liquor, which request the board 'granted. He said that under this condition of affairs, there could have been no deception practiced by Mr. Douthit. Therefore, this charge must fall to the ground. He said that the other charge was that Mr. Douthit had retailed liquor at the State dispensary, contrary to law and in violation of the rules of the board of control. It was unnecessary, he said, f-.n Tfimtp. in detail the various resolu tions of the board upon this subject. Mr. Williams stated that he himself introduced the resolutions under the terms of -which it was proposed to convict Mr. Douthit on this charge, said resolution designing to expressly order him to sell goods at the State dispensary, and to invoice such sales to some local county dispenser monthly, turning over the cash eollected along with the invoice, intending by this means to unmtilv with the reouirement of law that sales nf liquor should only be made to the consular. '"I am convinced now," he said, "that tlii3 proceeding was contrary to law, but that if any party was guilty, the State board was more so than Mr. Douthit." Mr. Williams said, further, that if Mr. Douthit's case was up for trial by a jury, Mr. Douthit would not nesd 3ny other evidence than that of the im-labors of the board of control to secure his 1 acquittal; and that having this personal knowledge of the facts, he was willing ' to support Mr. Robinson's resolution, j Mr. JBoykin stated that Mr. Williams * had fairly, clearly and fully related 1 the facts in the case, and that he was willing to support the Robinson reso- ! lution, or that the board should pro- ] ceed to the trial of Mr. Douthit; that < he had no inclination to shirk any duty ' ? xl- xx J I i or responsiointy 111 mc matter, ana ne < therefore seconded Mr. Robinson's ; resolution. J Mr. Miles said that he could not sup- ] port Mr. Robinson's resolutions because he had previously voted to remove Mr. Pouthit upon the charges preferred by the committee of jrw.-iigation. and that no eviaeacc since been presented <o disj-ruvj ' charges: anu u.,;ii ilidt was done he coul?i r-. position. He had \ aeVvf accused Mr. Douthit of dishon- - esty, and he did not now believe that ? he was dishonest, but that he could not vote to vindicate him from the charge of violation of the rules of the board of control until evidence to that effect had been presented. He was perfectly willing that all charges of wrong-doing against 31r. Douthit be withdrawn, and that he would not, himself, prefer any charges. Mr. Miles fN-irt^or if ATr Dnnthit wp.rff OV-AWlrV* iWAVUV* v exonerated he ^vould do his best, as 1 chairman of the board to hold up Mr. J Douthit's hands and make his admin- i istration a success. 1 Mr. Haselden stated that he had but ] little to say in regard to the matter. He said that the resolution proposed by him fully explained his position. He deprecated any further discussion of the subject as being entirely unnecessary, and insisted upon an immediate.vote upon the Robinson resolution. The resolution was thea adopted by the following vote: Ayes?Messrs. Robinson. Wiilaias and Boykin. Xay?Mr. Ilaselden. Chairman Miles did not vote. A petition tortlie estaDiisnment 01 a i dispensary in Bayboro township Horry I county, -was refused; after which the board took a recess untill 4 p. m. Col. George Johnstone and Hon. George E. Prince, counsel for Mr. Douthit, were present when the board met, but. as subsequent events proved, thoir services were not called into requisition. At the eveniog session of the bo^rd, on motion of Mr. llobiason, iu view of the action of the board yesterday in the ca?e of Commissioner Douthit, ail resolutions adopted and action taken in the ca;e at the November meeticg of the board were resciaded, so tha. Mr. Douthit is no.v fully restored to his duties as commissioner, in fact as well as in law. IS HE THE EOBBER? A Young White Man Arrested on Suspicion. The News and Courier of last Wednesday says: As the cveniug train fromTCoIumbia and Augusta rolled into the Southern Railway depot last night, a few minutes after 9 o'clock, a well-dressed man, carrying a cloth-covered valise and accompanied by a lady, descended and walked briskly towards the line street entrance. The man was about medium height, wore a checked suit of light materials, soft, white hat and tan shoes, and his companion was quietly dressed in a dark-colored gown and a travelling hat. Except to a tew the movements of this pair were not notec, but as they neared the street Detcctives James Miller and James Hogan stepped quietly from the shadow and, approaching the pair from either side, stopped them and placed the man under arrest. The stranger faced his captors with a look of astonishment, feigned or genuine, and asked what was the cause of his detention, but he was told that all this would be explained later. He was then taken to Central Police Station. His companion followed him to the Station, although told that she was under no obligation to go there. A f thA nrvlip.A station flip man ?ra7p. tbe name of Bartow Warren. He expressed the most profound ignorance of anything which could have caused his arrest. He was searched and upon his person was found a .3S calibre revolver and $81.15 in money, a portion of which was in gold. Later in the night a warrant was sworn out against him, charging him with'"robbery, grand larceny and railroad car breaking." It was made before Magistrate Kou3e, and upon this Warren was placed in a cell and told to make himself comfortable pending an early morning trip to Orangeburg. The companion of Warren, after waiting for a short time in hopes of his release, went out and last night could not be located. As is, of course, understood, Warren was arrested on suspicion of being the highwayman who recently boarded the express car on the Southern Jttaiiway, :it Jfittyeight, aDd held up the two messengers, taking from them an amount of money between $1,200 and $1,300. Warren is said to have belonged in Barnwell or Bamberg counties, and some little time ago was in business in that section. He had, however, sold out quite recently. He could not be interviewed last night, and the officers who made the arrest also were not prepared to give out any information as to the reasons for suspecting Warren of the deed. He boarded the night train at Branchville and the officers here were advised of the fact. This morning Messrs. Miller and James Hogan will take him up to Orangeburg and deliver him to the sheriff of that county. The steps to follow could not be learned last night. Both of the agents who were held up are out of the city, and it seems more than probable that they will go to Orangeburg today also. The evidence against Warren was worked up at Branchville, and while it is all circumstantial, it is believed by the express officers that they have enough proof to convict him. The sledge hammer, which was found on the platform of the express car after the robbery, served as a most valuable clue in the arrest of Warren. On the hammer was noticed a private mark and upon inquiry at all of the hardware stores in the city it turned out that it a f A*rr /^nnn V*a^ay?o ^ h A Wits uuc wiiiuu. a icvi ua/s ueivic wv robbery had been purchased from Lazarus on King street. Mr. Simons, a clerk in the store, remembered having sold the hammer, and Tuesday night he identified Warren as the man who made the purchase. What connection the woman who was with Warren last Tuesday night when he was arrested has with the robbery, if any, is not known. She, it is said, was traveling with him as his wife, but it is not believed that they are lawfully married. She ifcft the station house Tuesday night in company with two men, unknown to the police, and where she to was not eriven out bv the nolice. I The Orangeburg correspondent of The State says the robbery occurred in Orangeburg and not Dorchester county, as has been generally believed. The place where the highwayman left the car is a mile from the dividing line bei?>ecu the two counties, cons?|J luently the man suspected of having sommitted the crime was imprisoned here. The correspondent of The State succeeded in seeing the prisoner but he politely declined to make a statement jf any kind bearing on the case. He 3:ated that he is 24 years old and was Dngagea in tne mercantile Dusmes? in Branchviile till a few weeks ago. He is in good spirits and feels confident that tie will soon be out of this difficulty, [n appearance he is anything but a des- ; perate individual and one cannot help , Dut oe favorably impressed after con- j >ci.Siug with him. He is very intelli- j gent, well educated and his bearing is ' .lidi of a well-bred person. < It has been learned from other sources 5 :hat Warren sold out his business at < Branchviile some time ago for about \ 5500, and the money found on him ' when arrested was a part of the pro- \ leeds of this safe. W. M. Warren, brother of the accused, has endeavored j ;o obtain this money (SSI and some I lents), claiming that, as it cannot be dentified, the authorities have no right :o keep it, but the authorities think )therwise and and are .holding the noney. As it is already generally known lere it will do no harm to say some* ? "'1 - -Li-- J? OU :mng 01 " me woman in me case, ouo .3 Mrs. Felicia Edwards, a pretty and veaithy young widow, residing in the c ower part of this county, near Branch- j ville. It is reported that Warren ana Mrs. Edwards were contemplating a matrimonial alliance, but owing to objections by his people, they thought best- to go elsewhere and arraDge the matter, hence the uip to Charleston, at which place Warren was arrested immediately upon his arrival. Mrs. Edwards is quite wealthy and it is hardly probable that she would he implicated in such an undertaking as the robbery of an express car. Public sentiment is considerably is tho prisoner's favor. Warren is only allowed to see his counsel in private, all other interviews iLust take place in the presence of ti e sheriff or one of his deputies. MAKING PEARLS TO ORDER, Mms?1 and Oyster Being Domesticated and Taught the Jewelry Buslnes*. Diamonds, rubies, emeralds and sapphires have all been produced in the laboratory and It is now the turn of the pearl. The chemist, however, I? *- 1 A TIATtr o noi juiiiiseu uie Luae-ci u.l uuc <> ?.*?ficial pearls; lie is only the collaborator. It is true that false pearl are made from mother-of-pearl, but their lustre is not up to the mark. The Chinese have long introduced grains of sand and little knots of wire into the shell of the pearl oyster in order that the animal, to relieve itself from the irritation so caused, may coat the foreign substance with pearl. If this matter be inserted between the shell and th? mantle the oyster can eject it by contractions of his body. To prevent this M. Boutan, a French experimenter, has trenanned the shell and introduced s | small bead of nacre, which might, how ever, be a true pearl of a small size, through the hole, and fixed it by means of cement to the shell. This bean was in course of time covered with nacre by the oyster, and a fine large pearl was the result Dealers cannot distinguish it from an Oriental pearl. The question of making pearls in this way was recently discussed at a meeting of the Acedamies des Sciences, Paris, and M. Berthelot, the famous chemist, observed that such a pearl could only be considered a true pearl If it had at least a hundred layers of the pearl nacre; otherwise it would only be a foreign substance covered with nacre. Of course, if the foreign matter is a pearl itself this objection disappears, and we have the means of producing pearls at will. According to M. Lacaze Duthier, some two years would be required for a haliotide to produce a big pearl. The artificial pearl of the trade, fabricated from nacre, could also be coated in the same way. Evidently the pearl mussel and oyster axe about to be domesticated for the production of pearls, as the spider for silk. reari divers may oecome a xegeuu ot the past Tha FIr?t I'ott Office. The fact that there is a regular mail route through Alaska, and that even remote towns in Africa are not without postal facilities, Is In these progressive times accepted quite as a matter of course. Yet this wonderful system, which has reached out until it includes every country on the face of the earth, had its beginning In the mind of an ingenious Frenchman who lived less than two hundred and fifty years ago. Tn 1 finft psrlv in the rei<m of Louis XIV.' M. de delayer established a private penny post, says the writer !n Harper's Round Table. Boxes were set up at the street corners for the reception of letters. Offices were opened in various quarters of Paris; collections were made once a day from the street boxes, followed many hours later by a single delivery, and thus the first Post Office in the world wasjfestablished. M. de Valayer was so greatly encouraged by the succcss of his enterprise that, in order to develop it still further, he printed certain forms of billets or notes which were intended to cover all the ordinary requirements of business * ? A- A /lAn+oi'no^ lLf. ? I Celt JLJiCi7C iVi iUO vvuuiiu\;u blanks "which were intended to be filled up by the pen with such special matter as might be necessary to complete the -writer's object The idea at once became popular, and the printed forms accompanied the expansion of the postal service throughout the larger cities of France, and it was many years before they fell into disuse. Snakes Do Swallow Their Tonntj. I met with a curious incident some vears a<ro while hunting snakes in the swamps at Melrose. I came across a male and female striped, with numerous young ones. The parents were near " each other, the family crawling over and around them. I was going for them, when, on second thought, I concluded to watch them. They did not appear to be frightened, but went on gamboling about for some time. I weijt a little nearer when both snakes turned toward me, making a faint noise, and placed their heads flat on the ground. It was a curious sight to see these snakes, not long born, some nf thom n fnnt or two awav. turn at the noise, and instantly seek refuge In their parents' wide-open mouths. I am certain it was a note of warning of danger. I caught both snakes and put them in separate bags. The female had ten young and the male had swal- ; lowed five. This is the first Instance of any notice of a male snake performing this affectionate duty for its young. I placed the whole family in a box, where they lived peaceably a long time. ?From Forest and Stream. The Typewriter's Spread. There are probably few even among those who use the typewriter who have j any proper conception of the variety and universality of the ingenious substitute for the pen. Although only In Its very early i youth, it has already penetrated into every corner of the earth. It has gone with invading armies and explorers into the very heart of Africa. Lieutenant Peary has introduced it to polar ice and it has travelled thousands of mile* over Siberian snows. It travels with every army and fleet, and it was one of the first things rescued from the sunken Maine. Two of the most costly typewriters belong to the Queen and the Czar of Russia. They are exquisite machines of white enamel and gold, with keys of ivory. The Queen Regent of Spain ncoa fnr her corresDondence. the Khedive possesses one, and, in fact, there is scarcely a court in Europe where the typewriter has not a place. Electric Plant. A German proressor Dy tne name or Leipsic has discovered in India a tree which Is a natural electric battery. When the dark green leaves of the tree I were touched with the fingers a tiny j spark was emitted, and a distinct elec- j trical shock was felt. Professor Leipsic found that even at a distance of iMgJLiiy ieci cue uw uau r iu3uence upon the magnetic needle, i rhese magnetic variations varied according to the time of day. Ti?j were strongest at noon, but almost entirely Jisappeared at midnight. The electr!- ' ?ity also disappeared in wet weather. 1 \*o explanation of this strange phen>menon is attempted. MET TO LOAN On improved real estate. J Interest eight per cent., i payable semi-annually. \ Time 3 to 5 years. g No commissions charged Ino. B. Palmer & Son, - IENTRAL NATIONAL BANK BUILDING, J 1205 Plain St., Columbia, S. C. J \ . -- " 1 P f\TT - U. *1 ts GROWING IN PC SIMPLY J It is vermin-proof. It will never become lumpy. It ig the only Perfect Maitre^s. It is sbsoluteiv ncn-absorbent. Ol'it GUARANTEE:?Morej will b? refi use, jou are not entirely satisfied. Oar booklet, with full description, will be If your local dealer does u?t sell thein; 1 Took the Premium at Colun of $40.00 Hair Mattresses, Respect full j, Royall & Bor Deal HAVE YOU B( FiREKW Drop us a postal and the next mai Best Goods at. ? ? ? Aa _ uoiamoia sia ^Wholesalers of Bags, J. Wilson Gibbes, Manager, CHANCE EOR THE CHILDREN. To Aid in Raising the Jefferson Davis Monument. The following letter from a teacher occosions the appeal herewith made to those in whose power it lies to make contribution clubs for small amounts for the children and others to aid the Confederate women in erecting the Uavis monument: L?, Nov. 25, 1899 Dear Mrs. Taylor, President S. C. Division, D. C. If you think it advisable will you bring to the notice of the Daughters of the Confederacy a matter which interests me? A pupil in our school who had two years before studied United States history under me suggested that she would like to contribute a little to the monument to be erccted by the southern people to Mr. Davis, even if * ? t A ^ _ xl. sue only gave a nicxei. a. Doy in me i class ridiculed the idea of a nickel beiDg worth giving. I said to them, that if every boy and girl throughout the State gave even 1 cent it would make a magoificent contribution, That started a movement in our school to get every student who was studying or had ( studied about the Confederacy to give i something for the Davis modument. I decorated the mite box with the Con- i federate bolors?red and white?and a miniature battle flag, and also a likeness of Jeff "son Davis. Almost every child gave something. Some of the lit- j tie ones at home heard their older brothers and sisters speak of it, and i sent their mites. Indeed the first coin | dropped in the box was given by a boy ^ years old whose grandfather had < been killed at Charleston. The children want me to suggest to you that our example of a small contributisn be followed by s chools , throughout the State. Truly yours etc. Columbia, S. C., Xov. 29, 1899. To ths teachers and scholars of the < public and private schools of South Carolina, the girls of the Methodist, Presbyterian, Converse, Greenville and , i v n xi _ J oilier cojueges, tue convents, fi.mue.rgiuteD and all other schools, to tne moth- , ers and sisters of the wee people who are to grow up into our great ones, to I the little people themselves this letter is addressed. The writer is induced to make this communication because the < wise suggestion comes to her from the lips of "babes and sucklings." 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