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HOME LIFE LESSONS, j ! Dr. Talmage on the Duties of f. Parents to Children. DUTIES OF ALL MOTHERS. ? The Dangers and Temptations Which Surround the Young. * Necessity of Wise Training and Proper Discipline. This disconrse of Dr. Talmage will interest youDg men, while it is full of advice and en courage merit to parents who are trying co bring np their children aright; text, Proverbs 10, i, "A %ise son maketh a glad father; bat a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother." In this graphic way Solomon seta forth the idea that the good or evil be iaTior of children blesses or blights the parental heart. 1 know thero are persons who seem to hare no especial Interest ia the welfare of their children The father says: t4My boy must take the risks! took in life If he turns out well, ail right; if he tutus out ill, he will hare to bear the consequences. Ba has the ^auie ebacee that 1 had. He must take care of himself." A shepherd might just as well thrust a lamb iuto a den of iioas and say, "Little lamb, take care of yourself." Nearly all the brute creation are kind Bough to look after their youDg. 1 was going through a woods, and I heard a shrill cry in a nest. 1 climbed up to the bird's nest, and I found that the old bird had left the brood to starve. J5ut mat is a very rare occurrence. Generally a bird will pick your eyes oQt rather than surrender her young to jour karpitg or your touch. A lion will rend you if you come too near the whelps; even the barnyard fowl, with it> clumsy foot and heavy wing, will eome at you if you approach its young too nearly, and God certainly intended to hare fathers and mothers as kind as the brutes. Christ coincs through all our households today, and he says: ''You take eare of the bodies of your children and the minds cf your children. What are you doing for their imtnortal souls?" I read of a ship that foundered. A lifeboat was launched., Many of the pas? iengers were in the water. A mother witn one hand beating the waves and the other hand holding her little child out toward the lifeboat cried out. "Save ?y child!" And that impassioned cry is the one that finds an echo in every parental heart of this land today. "Save my child!" That man out there says: "I have fought my own way' through life. 1 have got along tolerably "* II 1 wen. me wona nas uuueieu mo, ?uu 1 have had many a bard straggle. It - doesn't make much difference what happens to me, but save my child." You see, I have asubjectof stupendous import, and 1 acn going, as God ma; help me, to show the cause of parenial polfcitJiHe and then the alleviations of that solicitude. 'J He nr?t cause of parental solicitude, I think, arises l'rom the imperfection of parents on their own part. We all somehow want our children to avoid our faults. We hope that if we have > any excellences they will copy them, but the probability is they will copy *r faults and omit our excellences. Children are very apt to be echoes of the parental life. Some one meets a lad in the back street, finds him smoking and say'* 4'Why. I am astounded at you. What would your fat&er say if he knew this? Where did you get that cigar?" "Oh, I picked it up on the street." "What would jour father say and your mother say if they knew this?" ,kOh," he replies, "that's nothing. My father smokes." There is Bet one of us today who would like to . ha>e our children copy all our example. And that is the cause of solicitude on the part of all of us. We have so maoy j faults we do not want them oopied and stereotyped in the lives and characters of those who come after us. Then solicitude arises from our conscious insufficiency and unwisdom of discipline. Out of 20 parents there say be one parent who understands how thoroughly and skillfully to discipline; perhaps not more than one out of 20. We, nearly all of us, err on one side or on the OLher. Here is a father who says: "I am Kci-g to bring up my ohildren 'right. My sods shall know nothing but. religion, shall see nothing but religion ana hear nothing but religion/' They are routed out at_ 6 'clock in the morning to recite the Teu Commandments. They are wakened *o from the sofa on SuucUy night to re < cite ihe Westmiaster catechism. Their badroom walls are covered with religious pictures and quotations of Scrip- ; tare, and when the boy looks for the < day of the month he li-oks for it in a i religious almanac. If a minister comes ; to the house, he is requeued to take the boy a->ide and tell him what a great , iinner he is. it is religion morning, , uoon and night. Time parses on, and the parents are , waiting for the return of the son at , "sight. It is 9 o'clock, it is 10 o'clock, ( it is 11 o'clock, it is 12 o'clock, it is , kalf past 12 ovclock. Then they hear J a rattling of. the night key, and George < comes in and hastens up. stairs lest he ( be accosted. His father says, "George, ( where have you been?" He says, 4,1 , have been out." Yea, he has been out, and he has been down, and he has , Started on the broad road to ruin for : this life and ruin for the life to come, I, and the faiher says to bis wife: ( "Mother, the Tea Commandments are < a failure. No use of Westminster J eateobism. 1 have done my vefy best , for that boy. Just see bow he has turned , out." Ah! my friend, you stuffed that boy with religion. You had no sym--> paihy with innocent hilarities, You ( bad no comrnom sense. Aman at mid- . life said to me: , "1 haven't much.deaire for religion. My father was as Rood a man as everlived, but he jammed i religion down my throat when I was a boy until 1 got disgusted with it, and I ' baven't wasted any of it since." That father erred on one side.. * Then the discipline is ah entire failure in many households because the father pulls one way and the inoiher pulls the other way. The father ^sftys, . "My swv.I. tola you if I ever found you guilty of falsehood again .1 wouM chastiaeyou, and 1 am uoiog to keep my : promiie." The mother says: ".Don't. : f Let him off this tiuce." A father says: "i baTe seen so many that mate mistake by too great severity : in the rearing their children. Now, I i will iet my boy do as he pleases. He shall have full swing. Here, xn? son, are tickets to the theater aad opera. If yon want tc play cards, do so. If you don't wan: to play cards, you need Dot to play them. Go when you want and : come back when you want to. Have a good time. Go it!". Give a -boy plenty < of mouey and ask niai not what he does j vith it, and you pay his way straight i " V ' ' ' ' * V a a wi i iimi n^ffri i 11 ii inn11 ii in 11ni ii n i iiT-iii to perdition. Bat after awhile the lad thinks he ottgbt to have a still larger supply. He has been treated, and he must treat. Be must have vrine suppers. There are larger and larger expenses. After awhile one day a messenger from the bank over the way calls in and r?t* to th? father of the household of which lam speaking: "The officers of the bank would like to lave you step over a minute." The father steps ovvr and a bank officer says, "Is ihat your check?" "No," he says, "that is not my check. I never make an 'H' in that way. 1 never put a curl to the *Y' in that way. Tbat is not my writing; that is not my signature; that is a counterfeit. Send for the police." "8top," says the bank officer, "your son wrote xbat." Now ths father and mother ars waiting for the son to come home at night It is 12 o'clock, it is half past 12 o'clock, it is 1 o'clock. Tht son oomes through the hallway. The father says: "My son, whit does all this mean? 1 gave j on erery opportunity. I gave you all the money you wanted, and bore in my oid days I fiod ihat you have become a spendthrift, a libertine and a sot." Tfae son sa3i: "Now, father, what is the use of year talking that ?V/>r? tnM TO a ti\ *A Ik arid r iust took jour bu?rg?.?tioa." Aod bo to sinke the mediae betweee severity &r>d tjo great Iceiesey, le strike the happy medium between the tire and to train our children for Crod aod for hearen i* the anxiety of erery intelligent parent. Bat for the most, part tke children that live sometimes get cross and pick up bad word* in the street or are disposed to quarrel with brother or sister shd show that they are wicked. You see thcE in the Sabbath school class They arc so sunshiny and bright jou wculd think they were always so, but the mother looking over at them remembers what an awful time she had to get them ready. Time passes oil. They get considerably older, and the sen comes in from the street from a pugilistic encounter, bearing oa his appearance the marks of defeat, or the daughter practices some little deception in the household. The mother says, "I can't always be scolding and fretting and finding fault, but this must be stopped." So in many a household there is the sign of sin, the sign of the truthfulness of what the iSible says when itQdeolares, "They go astray as - ? V- 1 K " seon as tney lkj uuru, nco. Some go to work and try to correct all this, and the boy is picked at That always is ruinous. There is more help in one good thunderstorm than in fire days of oeld drizzle. Better the old fashioned stjle of chastisement if that be necessary than the fretting and the scolding which hare destroyed so many. ' .The statistic has never been made np , in these great cities of how many hare been destroyed and how many beautiful homes hare been overthrown. If the statistio could be presented, it would freeze your blood iu a solid cake at your heart. Oar great cities are full of temptations, and to vast multitudes of parents these temptations become a matter of great solicitude. ? 1? ? ?)l.tit.hAm 7irof DUl OUlf 1\J1 iu? iifiuiivuti of all, you. save yourself a great deal of trouble. 0 parent, if you can early watch the children and educate them for God and heaven. "The first five years of my life made me an infidel," said Tom PaiDe. A vessel put? out to sea, and after it has be^n fire days out there comes ?a cyclone. The vessel springs a leak. The helm will not work. What is the matter? It is not seaworthy. It never was seaworthy. Can you mend it bow? It ia too late. Down she goes with,250 passengers into a w*tery,grave. What was the time to fix that vessel? What was the time to prepare it for the storm? In the drydock. Ah, My friends, do not wait until your childrea get out into the j world, beyond the Narrows and out on , the great voyage of life. It is too late * > ? - -i -111- J a.l_ I tnen to mena ineir morais ana sneir maaaers. The dry dock of the Chris tian home is the place. Coxreet the sin no r, correct the evil now. Just look at the ckaraeter of your children now aod get an intimation of what the; are going to be. Yon ean tell by the way that boy divides the ap pie what his proclivity is and whit his sia will be and what style of discipline yon ought to bring upon him. You see how he divides that apple? Be takes niae tenths of it f?>r himself, and he gives one-tenth to his sister. Well, let that go, aod all his life he will want the best part of everything, and he will be grinding and grasping to the day of his death. People hurl their scorn at theJife of Lord Byron. Lord Byroa was not half 10 much to blame as his mother. The historian tells us that when her ehild wmmtm Itmrvlniv t k A fl.iAP VI f ^ kit n ao avi vaj ?uv M.a unsound foot, instead of acting like any other toother, she said, 4,Get out of my way, you lame bratl" Do aot denounce his mother. All the scenes in Venice, all the scenes in Greece, ail the scenes of outrage wherever he went an echo of that bad mothe's heart and that had mother's life. Begin early with your children, i on stand on the banks of a river and you try to ehasge its course. It has been rolliug now for 100 miles. Tou cannot ohange it But just go to the source of that river, go to where the water just Irips down on the rocks. Then with pour nife sake a channel this way and i channel that way, and it will take it. Dorse out and stand on the banks of shilds life when it was SO or 40 years :>f age, or even 20. and try to change the course of that life. It is too late! [t is too late! Go father up at - the source, of - life and nearest to the mother's heart, where the character starts, and try to take it in the right direction. But, oh. my friend, be careful to make a line, a distinct line, bei 1 ?. .t_ _ _ _ V _ _ 3 iween mnoceni nu&my on cue one nana ind vioieas proclivity on the other. Do act thiok jour children are going to ruin because they make a racket. All healthy children make a racket. But io not laugh at your child's sin deeause it is smart. If yon do, yon will cry sifter awhile because it is malicious. Remember it is what you do more than what yen say that is going to affeet your children. Do yon suppose Noah would have got his family to go into the ark if he staid out? No. Bis sons would have said: "lam not going into the boat. There's somethiog wrong. Father won't go in. If father itayi out, I'lfc stay out." An officer may stand in a cattle aod look off upon an army fighting, but he cannot be much of an officer, he cannot excite much enthusiasm on the part of his troops standing in a. castle or on a hilltop looking off upon the fight. It is a Garibaldi or a Napoleon 1 who leaps into tbe atirraps and dashes ahead. And yon stand outside the Christian life and tell jour children to go in. They will not go. Bat you dash on ahead, you enter the kingdom of God, aad they themselves will become socd soldiers of Jesus Christ. Lead if you would have them follow. Have a family altar. Do not with long prayers wear out your children's knees. Do not have the prayer a repulsion. If you hare a piano or an. organ or a melodeon is the house, have 9 it open labile you are havifcg prayers. If you Say, "I caooot construct a praj erj I am slow of .speech and never could Construct a prayer," then take Matthew Henry's prayers or take the Episcopal church prayer book. There is nothing better than that. Put it down on the chair, gather your children about you and com nead them to God. You fay it wiil will not amount to anything. It wiil, long after you are under the soil. That son will remember father and mother at morning and evening prayers, atd it will be a mighty help to him. And above all, in private commend your children to God. Say: "Here, Lord, I am?all my imperfections of dij-ciplioe and government?' here are those immortals?make them thine forever. The angel that redeem f IT :i LI ?? eiQ us irom an evn, uicss uuo nvs. Are your children ?afe? I Know it if a stupendous question to ask, but 1 must ask it. Are all your children safe? A mother when the house was on fire got the household goods, many articles of beautiful furniture, but forgot to ask until too late, "Are the chiJdrcn safe?" When the elements are melting with fervent heat and God shall burn the world up and the cry of ' Fire, fire!" shall resound amid the mountain* and the valleys, will your children be safe? I wonder if the sabjse* strikes a chord io the heart of any man who had Christian parentage, bus ha< not iired as he ought? Grid brought jou here this mornirg to have your memory revived. Did you havo a Christian ancestry? "Oh, yes," says one man. i 4 If there ever was a jcood woman, my mother was good." How she watched ! .?L? ? -:~i.i i\ JOU WUOU J uu nao sivai wearied. If she got weary, she nevertheless was wakeful, and the medicioe was given at the right time, and when the pillow was hot she turned it. And, oh, thee when you began to go astray | what a grief it was to her heart! All the seene eomcs baek. Tou rani ember the chairs, your remember the table, you remember the doorsili where you played, yon remember the tones of hear voice. She seems calling you now, not by the formal title with which we address you saying, "Mr." this or "Mr." that or "Honorable" this or ^Honorable" that.. It is just the first name, yoar first name, she calls you by this morning. She bids vou to a better life. She says: "forget not all the counsel I gave you,. my waodering boy. Turn into paths of righteouanosa. I am waitingfor you at the gate." Oh, yes. God brought you here this morning to "have that memory revived, and I shout; unward the tidings. Angels of God, send forward the newt! Ring! King! The dead is alive again, and the lost is. found! HIBED TO KILL QJ32L The Testimony of a Republican Who Was in the Secret. "John Powers told me they had two Niggers here to kill Goebol. They were Herr Smith and Dick Coombs." This statement was made Saturday by C. F. Wharton Golden, a frail, consumptive looking Kentucky mountaineer, while on the witness staad in the preliminary examination of Secretary of State Powers, at Frankfort, Ky., charged with conspiracy to kill Goebel. Golden told a story of the events leading up to murder, that if substantiated will in the minds of those connected with the prosecution at least, probably go far toward proving the contentions of the commonwealth that the murder was the result of a plan in wjiich several prominent men were involved. Whether the defense will seek to impeach n -i j i- ;_ | VTOlUea B t?3umuujf 1U tU13 J/lCiiuiiuni j examination is Dot. inown, as the attorneys for the defense will not ta'k on the subjeet, but unless such attempt is made the commonwealth will rest its case, both County Attorney Polfgrove and Attorney Campbell being satisfied that enough evidence has been presented to hold the defendant on the charges. Golden, whe claims to ha7e been a friend to Secretary Powers and his brother, John Powers, for years, gave testimony that wis particularly damaging to John Powers, but he also broucht in the names of many others, including Charles Finley, W. H Culton and 6k)V. Taj lor in his story ft the bringing of the mountaineers to Frankfort previous to the assassination. Gov. Taylor, however, wai netdireetly implicated, and the attorneys for the commonwealth intimated today that they do not expect to have his name brought forth prominently in the story of the alleged conspiracy. Golden was not UU/99'CA?UiiUCU IVUe*J , auu aujvMi u ment wa-t taken at an early hour on aoooaot of hi* physical cooditioo, the witness having a slight hemorrhage during the morniog, beootniog so weak under the strain of the examination in the afternoon that he begged to be allowed a respite. He was quite nervous at times. Golden's testimony tended to show that a plan was made to bring several hundred "regular mountain feudists" to Frankfort, who would if necessary, is Golden expressed it, "go into iu? legislative hail and Icill enough of the Democrats to make it our way." The testimony did not show that the alleged plot to kill Gocbel was a pare of the original nor did it contain the names of those who conceived the idea. But the commonwealth sought to show by Golden's conversations with various people that not only John and Caleb Powers bat others as well had full knowledge of the alleged plan of assassination. Died of Smallpox. Barraeemaster Morse of the Southern railway, who was found in a boariiag house out oq Laurel street early last week with a genuine case of smallpox, is dead. Ge passed away at the pest house at 7 o'clock Thursday morniig, and that night the remains, all sanitary precautions being taken, were interred not far from the Bpot where the man died. Later on thoy may be removed, after all danger is gone. The man evidently contracted somewhere on hit travels a more maligEant form of the disease than has been prevalent in this State. He had beoa vaccinated, but the vaocination did not r'take," and he did not try second time. When the case was first dihcovered the house was quarantined and all who had been about the place were vaccinated. S'x days before bis deatb tbe patient wsg removed to the pest house, out of ?h? city, and the boarding hones was thoroughly disinfected. So corapl?to wa? the work of the board of health that no other ca?e developed. At the pest house the patient was placed in charge of an immuoe nurse and attendant, and every attention was given the unfor tunate man, but without avail. The case seemed to be of the variety described as prevalent in New Orleans, and was probably contracted from contact on the train w'th some one from that section.?Columbia State. A kingdom for a cure . J"' * You need not pay so much. A twenty-five cetfTbottle of L:X?& K. Will drive all ills away. Sec ad. and try ii?never fail*. | j II I ~ I fl I Stt TEE CLARK CASE. The Array of Evidence Against the Montana Senate. BUYING A LEGISLATURE it Came High, But Clark Had to Have If, and Ht Bought It for Cash. Counsel for the memorialists in the case of Senator Clark of Montana have submitted their brief to the senate committee on privileges and elections. They present the following as established facts in the rase from the evidence adduced: First. That at least Id members of the legislature were paid by Mr. Clark aDd his agents for their votes. Second. That at least nine others were offered money for their votes and that the to a! amount of effera proved aggregate $175 <>00 Third. That $1,000 vu ofered Toy Dr. Tracy, a friend and agent of Mr Clark, to bribe the attorney general bo dismiss the proceedings im the Wellcome. Fourth. That the same agent of Mr Clark offered Justice Hunt of the supreme court $100,000 to disi&i&f the Wellcome case. Fifth. That Mr. Clark and his friends engaged in wholesale bribery of members of the legislature to secure the election of Mr Clark. Of the 95 members of the legislature (including Mr. Whiteside) 26 were bworb before this committee.' Of these the memorialists say, nine have taken oaths that they were offered money to ote for Senator Clark. Two, they claim, hire admitted the reeeipt of money, $5 000 each, after voting for Mr. Clark, but* tried to ezeuse it Either by direct testimony or otherwise they claim that the acceptance of bribes is fixed upon 15 others. The testimony of both Mr. Clark and Mr. E C. Day established conclusively the payment by Mr. Clark to Mr. Day a few days after the election of $5,000. which sum Mr. ,Day says he aoeepted in compensation for his services as a friend of Mr. Clark ^hile he was in the city of Helena as a member of the legislature and leader of the Clark forees upon tbe floor or tne nouse. air. Clark testifies as to this transaction as follows: "It was in eonsidoration of my friendship for Mr. Day and for the work performed by him in trying to organise the legislature to be eleeted speaker, and is order to control our forces, in which however, we failed. 1 reoogoized that he was worthy of this consideration." "Mr. Day admits that bo part of this $5,000 went to the other members of the law firm of which he is a partner. The contention on the part of Mr. Day and Mr. Clark that this was a gift will deceive no one. It was received in direct violation of his oath of office." On the general question of fact the following deductions are made: First. That general corruption was practised by Mr. Clark's agents. Second. That such corrupt practices were known to and authorised by him. Third. That he personally made efforts to secure votes by biibery.^ Fourth. That through corruption by means of bribery of members of the legislature his election was s< euro J. Fifth. That while the laws of his State prohibit the use of more than ? AAA \ 1'J .1 a. $i,uuu Dy a canataate xor me senile to secure his election, Mi. Clark employed for this purpose, by his owe confession, at least $139,000; and that the committee appointed by him to expend this money violated the laws of the State by failing to make a report thereof as required by the statutes. The following five preposition of law are submitted as properly eentrolling in this cause: First. That proof of these general and extensive corrupt practices is lufioient to require a judgment of the senate that the eleetion was void. Second. That Mr. Clark if just as much affected by praetises of kis ageats as if he had himself dose the same ihiog. Third. That he was bound te know what means of accomplishing his eleo lion were being resorted to. Fourth. That if the committee is satisfied that?Votirs wire eorruptly influenced and procured Co rote for Mr. Uiark, without whose votes he could qoc have received a majority, then 'the election was void without regard to the question of whether such votes were obtained bj himself, kit agents tr by atrao^er*. Filth. If Mr. Clark employed the means and used the money which the Montana statute! prohibit the election is absolutely void, as much as if direct bribery had been practiced. In summarising, the memorialists say: "That after the general election his agents traveled about the State to se cur* votes for birn; that during the 28 days of the (session of the legislature before his paction he maintained in Helena from 200 to 400 men called in frnrn all narts (if the Stat* to infln?n?ta members and that he paid at least their expends, these amountiag to sot less than $43,000, at admitted; and that it was common knowledge in Helena that votes were boaghtinhis interest." 'it is proved beyond question that he paid: To the committee of three $136,000 To sundry persons 2 8H0 To Representative Day BjOOO To Representative Fine 6,000 To William McDermott 5,000 To John B. Wellcome ' 6,000 To Senator D. G-. Warner.... 7 500 To Rept've McLaughlin 16,000 To Senator Whiteside 6,000 To Senator Meyers 10.000 To Senator Clark of Madison. 10.000 Total $207,390 "Direot and circumstantial testimony establishes the further payment of $105,500 as follows: To Representatite H. H. Carr.$ 5,000 To Rt-presentatlve Tierney 15,000 To Representative Bywater 15.000 To Representative Jaeqmeth... 10,000 To Representative Wo$ds 8 000 To Kepro*entativ? Sotlin 9.500 To Kcpreatataave Parker 2 000 To Representative JJeasley 6,000 To liepreaentative ifiversolo 6.UUU To Senator Hobson. 25,OOo To Senator Geiger B,00O The brief of the defame is a diaeussion of the facts and law in the ease from Senator Clark's standpoint 1c asserts that those who originated this prosecution were controlled only by sentiments of the bitterest personal and political hostility. It is then declared that the sentiment in Montana is so universal for Mr. -Ciark that the leading spirit of the protes?.ants whose wealth has supported and whose prejudice has animated this prosecution, has found it neoessary to invest large sums of money in the purchase of the press of the Stats and in oilier casea by the establishment of newspapers with the hope of checking and dividing the sentiment of the people of Montana. It says the ostensible objects of the contest are used to eover the cloven foot of personal malice. The brief names Marcus Daly as the chief instigator of the contest. "Every member of this prosecuting committee/7 it says, "was either one of the conspirators in the attempt to defeat Mr. Clark's election or an employe of Mr. Daly or an adherent of his faction in the State." The defense says out of the 37 names of members who were bribed there is an absolute failure to introduce any proof of any character, by Whiteside, or sny one else that they knew of one act by which any 20 of these men was bribed or hate beard of any friend* or Senator Clark in am; conversation olaimed that they were bribed." The contention is then made that the prosecution of the ease is the result; of a conspiracy, former State Senator Whiteside being represented as the chief -eonspirator. Mr. Whiteside's Statements, it is deolar. d cannot be ?ccepted as true "became of their improbability and inconsistency when taken iu eonneetion with uncontradicted facta." After especially denying charges in a number of transacting, she defease ears the checks to Day, Wellcome aad McDermoit were in re cognition of their friendly support and that this should net ereate erea a bad impression on iuo somnmiee. It is claimed the evidence shows that Senator Clark personally did not know ot the corrupt use of any money to ia fuenee legislators. A series of legal propositions are then laid down, mainly as to the insaffieieaey of the testimony. d&iaeiville, <Ja.. Deo. 8, 1899 Pitts' Antiseptic Inrigorator has been msed in my family and I am perfectly satisfied that it is all, aid will do all, yea claim for it.. Tours truly, A. B. C. Dersey. P. 8.?I am using it bow myself. It's doing me good.?Sold by Hie Marray Drag Co., Columbia, S. C., and all druggists. tf A Paying Business. It is astonishing the number of people there are in the world who apparently bite at every fraud ,tnat come along. A recent Boston dispatch says that Francis Truth, head of the Divine Healing Association bearing his name, and whose advertisements have been spread over the whole country, was arrested in that city charged with using the mails for fraudulent purposes. The dispatch goes on to say that after Truth had been taken away a thorough search of his premises was instituted. * ? 1 - 1 _ ? xne place waseiaooraieiy niiea up. On the first floor in one room there were at work about a dozen girls, typewriters and copyists, whose wages are said to have ranged from $3,00 to $8,00 per week. In the next room therewas a "printing press, which turned out, circulars and the magazine known as "The Divine Healer." Across the hall, which was richly furnished, are the parlors used by Truth and his wife. They are all elaborately furnished. On this floor there is the crutch room, where are displayed the crutches which the "Divine Healer" claimed were cast aside by those who had been cured by his treatment. There was nearly a wagon load of let- * ters, which had evidently been accumulating for some time. These were either orders for a course of treatment, absent or otherwise, as the case might be,, or else inquiries as to the wonderful promises that had been so liberally advertised. In all there were twenty-three girls employed to look after the extensive correspondence. The warrant for Truth's arrest was issued at the solicitation of the district attorney's office. It charges that by means of his representations he secured many paying members of the association, to whom he gave what he called his "absent treatment." The blanks for these "absent treatments" called for a first payment of $5,00 for one month's treatment. Truth has been conducting the establishment for about six months and has had all the business he could attend to. The dispatch says the business brought in thirty thousand dollars a week regularly. Truth certainly had a paying business, but the whole story goes to prove the correctness of what we said in the beginning that there are numbers of persons all over the country who are just itching to be swindled and who bite at all frauds, big or little. The New York World aays the JKe publican leaders had only $18,000,000 to elect McKioley in 1896, bat have started this year to rai^e a campaign fund of $30,000,000. Y?t the World did what it eould for McKioley in 1896 Farm Seeds. f 0?r burfaess in Parm Seeds la f 9 to-day one of the largest la this f | Country. A result duo to tae &?t ? i that qgalitr has always been onr 4 1 first sonsidwatloiu We supply i i afl Seeds required for the Farm, i # GRASS & CLOVER SEEDS, # # Cow Peas, Cotton Seed, 9 # Seed Oats, Seed Cora, r i Soja, Navy & Velvet r i Beans, Sorghums, r i Broom Corn, Kaffir r ) Corn, Peanuts, r \ met Seed, # 0 Raoe. etc. r f Wood's Descriptive Cats?3?a* f i elTM the fnltet inforsutlom ftbont Q \ these sad&Q otterSeed*; b<*tmethods \ A of culture, soil best adapted for differ- f \ erest oropg and practical hints as to T J irb&t arc likely to prore most profitable a ; \ to gwr. Gatalogxie mailed free upon \ ? request. - G f T, W. WOOD & SONS, \ ^ SEEDSMEN, Richmond, fa j / i i Ail Honest Admission. The Charleston Post says "a New Yorker who has just return pH from ft. visit to Mexico says that many Americans are making fortunes out of the mines throughout the republic. Already there are 5,000 silver mines and over 1,000 gold mines being operated, and last year the value of these metals exported was nearly 40,000,000. j In no other country in the world are cotton mills paying such dividends on the capital invested as those in Mexico, and new manufacturing plants of every description are going up all over the republic. It has a ' good future, and in developing itself it is benefiting the business men of the United States. The , importation of machinery from this country in the last year amounted to over $6,000,000" j This is a most remarkable statement to be published by a goldbug paper about a silver "debased" country as the Post, no doubt, has declared Mexico to be more than once in discussing the fine silver issue. As the Post publishes the paragraph without comment we presume it accepts the statements it contains as true. "If in no other country in the world are cotton mills paying such dividends on the capital invested as those in J Mexico, and new maufacturing plants of every description are ' going up all over the republic," j what becomes of the Post's j argument against free silver? Mexico is a free silver country j and if she prospers so under it, ( why should free silver ruin the 1 United States, as the Post has j proclaimed time an again it ^ would? Is a small republic like s Mexico more capable of manag- J ing its own finances than a great ^ republic like the United States? ^ Why do the cotton mills of free j silver Mexico Day larsrer divi- / dends than the cotton mills of the gold standard United States? Will the learned editor of the Post, who refrained from demolishing Bryan's arguments only because they contained nothing to. demolish, enlighten a poor benighted silverite on the above questions? The fact that Mexico is so prosperous with a "debased" money standard is one of the causes of our being one of the "deluded" believers in the free and unlimited coinage of silver- in the United States. Will the Post give us light? Thi Jem Ckow Cae Act.?In a very shorv time the new Jim Crow ear aet becomes effective and the railroads are preparing to make the necessary changes The Columbia State says several railroad officials were before the State commission Friday seeking an exact construction by that body of the terms of the act. The change from the present law means the carrying of more coaches on the trains and some of the roads will find it difficult to comply at the proper time. Cah You Solvi This.?Here is a problem a number of Charlestomans have been trying to solve, says the L> .... 4 1 U .1 OAA jlusl. a auu u wgcunci puiuuasc ?w < aor?s of land, each paying $200. Some < of the land worth $2.2 j per aore, the j rest $1.75 per acre. A agrees*-to- take all the poor land is allowed enough' of '* the rich land to make his share worth * the $200. To thii ? agrees. ., What i does eaeh get? ] Accused of Wire-seating. An edict has been issued by the Bight ' Rev. Bishop Huntingdon suspending J the Rot. R. Eugene Griggs, an Epts- i copal minister of Binghamton, N. 7., , pending the investigation by an eoclesl* Actic&l court into charge* of wife-beat* ( ing and desertion made by Mrs. Griggs. I Mr. Griggs has already been lined $21 j In the police eourt for wife-beating, ( and was compelled to give security to . support his wife for a year. Other charges effecting his moral standing J will come up before the ecclesiastical court. While Chaplain J. W. Comfort of the manna, neiorui&ivr; ?.L In<3., was appealing for sympathy and better reform measures for criminal! at the First Methodist Church, some j thief stole his overcoat, hat and gloves. < Robert M. 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MacFeafc, Court 8 Terms reasonable. / mi. - 1UO XtSW otuuuucu. The'Atlanta Journal says the jontention that the several states lannot devise anyway of dealing ;ff ectively with the trusts is' completely smashed by the recent iecision of the Uuited States suDreme court which sustains the Texas an ti-trust law, one of the nost extrene statutes of the rind that has been enacted. The )oint decided is that a state has ;he right to prescribe conditions >n which a foreign corporation nay do business within its limts, and that it may withdraw ;he permit to do business when >uch corporation violates the conditions on which the permit vas granted. The offender in ;his case was a concern which lad by grant from the Standard 3il company a monoply of the >il business in Texas. Justice HcKenna, who delivered the >pinion of the court, said: "The transactions of local comnerce which were held by the state courts to be violations of statutes consisted in contracts with certain merchants by which ;he plaintiff in error required ;hem to buy of it, exclusively :rom it and from no other source >r to buy exclusively from plaintiff in error and not to sell a any person handling competng oils, or to buy exclusively Tom plaintiff in error and to sell at a price fixed by it." These acts were clearly in vioation of the statutes, and the question, therefore wa# whether ;he statutes were constitutional, rhft nniirfc that thev f^ere. It said: "The statute of 1889 was a jondition on the plaintiff in error within the power of the state o impose, and., whatever its imitations were upon the power. )f contracting, whatever itsdis;ri ruinations were, they became jonditions of the permit, land were accepted with it." 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