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|Kf-Tf-r ' ' ? 6,.' ..% . . g' I I w I ' I .11.. I I -J?l . ... I. ? SPtSIT OF CREED i I Dr. Talrr.age Tells of its Sighting j Effect cn Mank nd. STRONG DENUNCIATION Of These Who Worship the Golden Calf of Modern Idolatry and Sacrifice Themselves on its Altar. In this discourse Dr. Talmage shows how the spirit of greed destroys when it takes possession of a man and that money got in wrong ways is a curse. Text: Exodus, xxxii, 20, And he took the calf which they had made and burnt it in the fire, and ground it to powder, a 2d strewed it upon the water, and made the children of Israel drink of it." ' People will have a god of some kind, and they prefer one of their own making. Here come the Israelites, breaking off their golden earrings, the" men as well as the wcrnen, in those times there was masculine as well as feminine decoration. Where did they get these beautiful gold earrings, comiog up as they did from the desert? Oh, they ^ ^ 1 ^ rrrrnfi one I ocrruwcu tJiciu ui yv<?uk/ i? *?? they left Egypt. These earrings are piled up into a pyaraid of glittering * beauty. "Any more earrings to bring?" says Aaron. None. Fire is kindled, the earrings are melted and poured into a mold, not of an eagle or a war charger, but of a silly calf. The gold cools down the mold is taken a war, and the idol is set up on its four legs. An altar is built in front of th9 shining calf. Then the people throw up their arms and gyrate and ahriek and danoe vigorously and worship. Moses has been six weeks on Mount Sinai, and he comes b&ok and hears the howling and sees the dancing of these golden calf fanatics, and be loses his patience, and he takes the two plates of stone en which were written the Ten. Commandments and fiings them so hare against a rock that they split all to pieoes. When a man gets angry, he is apt to break all the Ten Command ' " ? -31 ments! Mcses rusnes m, ana ue uutes this calf god and throws it into a hot fire until it is melted all out of shape and then pulverizes it, not by the modorn appliance of nitromuriatic acid, but by the ancient appliance of niter or by the old fashioned file. He stirs for the people a most nauseating draft. He takes this pulverized golden calf and throws it in the only brook which is accessible, and the people are oompelled to dring of that brook or not brink at all. But they did not drink all the glittering stuf thrown on the surface. Some of it Sows on down the surface of the brook to the river and then flows on down the river to the sea, and the sea takes it up and bears it to the month of all the rivers, and when the tides set back the remains of this golden calf T?rv infrt til a Pfttftnun O nf? AlO iuwv ? ? the Hudson and the Thames and the Tiber, and men go out, and they skim the glittering surface, and they bring it ashore, and they make another golden calf, and California and Australia break off their golden earrings to augment the pile, and in the fires of financial excitement and struggle all these things are melted together, and while we stand looking and wondenng what will come of it, lo, we find that the golden calf of - Israelitish worship has beoome the golden calf of European and American worship. Pull aside this curtain and you see the golden calf of modern idolatry. It is not, like other idols, made out of stocks or stone, but it has an ear so sensitive that it can hear the whispers on AMi) TkiT/1 cSfotA IT All OUCCb) auu xmiu auu uvauv street, and lootfalls in the Bank of England, and the flattter of a Frenchman's heart on the Bourse, It has an eye so keen that it can see the rust on the farm of Michigan wheat and the insect in the Maryland peach orchard and the trampled grain under the hoof of the Russian war charger. It is so mighty that it swings any way it will the world's shipping. It has its foot on all the merchantmen and the steamers. It started the American civil war and , under God, stopped is, and it decided the Turke-Russian contest. One broker in September, 1869, in New York, shouted, "One hundred and sixty for a million!' and the whole continent shivered. The golden calf of the text has, as far as America is concerned, its right front footrin New York, its left front foot in Chicago, its right back foot in Charleston, its left back foot in New Orleans, and it shakes itself the world. Oil, this is a mighty god?the golden caif of the world's worship. But every god must have its temple, and this golden calf of the text is no exception. Its temple is vaster than St. Paul's cathedral in England, and St. Peter's in Italy, ai>d the Alhambra of the Spaniards, and the Parthenon of the Greeks, and the Tsj Mahal of the Hindoos and all the cathedrals put together. Its pillars are grooved and luted with gold, and its ribbed arches are hovering gold, and its chandeliers are decending gold, and its floors are tessellateu gold, and its vaults are crowded heaps of gold, and it? spires and domes are soaring gold, and its organ pipes are resounding gold, an i its * * * 1 1 . _ A peaaisare tramping goia, ana its stops pulled out are are flishing gold, while stand at the head of the temple, as the piasiding deity, are the hoofs and Bhoulders and eyes and ears and nostrils of the calf of gold. Further, every god must have not only its temple, but its altar of sacrifice, and this golde* If of the text is no exception. I' * ritzi is not made out of itone as other Attars; but out of counting room desks and fireproof safes, and it is a broad, a long, a high altar. The victims sacrificed on it are the Swartouts and the Ketchams and the Fisks and 10,000 other people who are slain before this golden calf. What does this god care about the groans and o triAfimo it ? With cold, metallic eye it looks 011 and yet lets them suffer. What an altar! What a sacrifice of mind, body and soul! The piysical health of a great multitude is iiang on to this sacrifical altar. They cannot sleep, and they take chloral and and morphine and intoxicants. Some of them struggle in nightmare of stocks and at 1 o'cleck in the morning sud danly rise up, shouting, "A thousand s'aares of .New York Central?10S*? : lake it!" until the whole family is affrighted, and the speculatorsfals back < on their pillow and sleep until they are < awakened again by a "corner in Pacific < Mail or a sudden "rise" ci island. i Their nerves gone, their digestion gone 3 their brain gone, they die. The gown- < ftd eociesiastic comes in and reads the : funeral service, "Blessed are the dead j who die in the Lord!" Mistake. They ! did not "die in the Lord." The golden j calf kicked them! The trouble is when men sacrifice ' ^L' 1 "' &sssdl?ss as ibia altar sng^stsd Is ] ; th3 text they act 021? sacrifice them-- : selves, bat they sacrifioe their families. : If a man by a wrong course is determined to go te perdition, I suppose yott "l - l-i. u: un* T\r> ra I ^ hjl tu id iliUI l/uv uw yuw bis wife and children in an equipage that is the amazement of the avenues, and the driver lashes the horses into two whirlwinds, aDd thes^kes flash in the suq, acd the golden headgear oi the harness gleams until black oalamity takes the bits of the horses and stops them and shouts to the luxuriants of the equipage, "Gret out!" They get out. They get down. That husband and father flung his family so hard they never got up. There was the mark on them for life?the mark ot a split hoof ?the death dealing hoof of the golden calf. Solomon offered in one sacrifice on nnoaainn 22.000 oxen and 120,000 sheep, but that was a tame sacrifice compared with the multitude of men who are sacrificing themselves on this altar of the golden calf and sacrificing their families with them. The soldiers of General Havelock in India walked literally ankle deep in the blood of "the house of massacre" where 200 white women and children had been slain by the sepoys, but the blood about this altar of the golden calf flows up to the knee, flows up to the girdle, flows up to the shoulder, flows up to the lip. Great God of heaven and earth, have mercy on those who immolate them selves on this altar! The golden calf has none. Still the degrading worship goes on, and the devotees kneel and kiss the dust and count tfceir golden beads and cross themselves with the blood of their own sacrifice. The music rolls on under the arches. It is made of clinking sil" * * i *t ver and clmkipg gold ana caeratuiug speoie cf the bamcs and brokers' shops and the voices of ali the exchanges. The soprano of the worship is oarried by the timid voices of men who have just begun to speculate, while the deep bass rolls out from those who for ten years have been steeped in the seething oaldron. Choru3 of voicss rejoicing' over what they have made; ohoras of voices wailing over what they have lost. This temple of whioh I speak stands open day and night, and there is the glittering god with his four feet on broken hearts, and there is the smoking altar of sacrifioe, new victims every moment 011 it, and there are the kneeling devotee?; and the doxology of the worship rolls on, while death stands with moldy and skeletoo aim beating time for the chorus?"More, more, more!" Some people are very much surprised at the actions of people in the Stock Exchange, New York. Indeed, it is a scene sometimes that paralyzes description and is hevOnd the imagination of any one who has never looked. What snapping of finger and thumb and wild gesticulation and raving like hyenas and stamping like buffaloes and swajingto and fro and jostling and running one upon another and deafening uproar, until the president of the exchange strikes with his mallet four or live times, orying, "Order, order!" and the astonished spectator goes out into the fresh air feeling that he has escaped from pan| demonium. What does it all mean? 1 will tell you what it means. The devotees of every heathen temple cut themselves to pieces and yell and gyrate. This vociferation and gyration of the Stock Exchange is all appropriate. This is the worship of the golden calf. But my text suggests that this worship has to be broken up, as the behavior of Moses on this occasion indicated. There an; those who say that this golden calf spoke n of in the text*as hollow and merely plated with gold, nfrhp-raricA MnsAs nnnld not have carried it. I do cot kaow that but- somehow, perhaps by the assistance of his friends, he t&kes up this golden oa)f, which is an infernal insalt to God and man, and throws it into the fire and it is melted, and then it comes out and is cooled off, and by some chemical applicance or by an old fashioned file it is pulverized, and it is thrown into the brook, and as punish ment the people are compelled to drink the nauseating stuff So you may depend upon it that G-od will burn and he will grind to pieces the golden calf of modern idolatry, and he will compel the people in their agony to drink it. If not before, it will be so on the last day. I know not where the fire will be -- ? I. A iV. giu, wiietuer at tu?3 u* jj^uibard street, whether at Shoreditch or West End, but it will be a very hot bhze. All ihe government securities of the United States a.nd Great Britain will curl up in the first blaze, .ill the I money safes and deposit vaults will melt under the first touch. The sea will burn like tinder, and the shipping will be abandoned forever. The melting gold in the broker's window will burst through the melteo window glass into the street, but the flying population will not stop to scoop it up. The cry of "Fire!' from the mountain will be answered by the cry of "Fire!'' in the plain. The conflagration will bum out from the oontinent toward the sea and then burn in from the sea toward the land. New York and London with one cut of the red scythe of destruction will go down. Twenty-five thousand mileaof conflagration! The earth will wrap itself round and round in shroud of flama and lie down 1:0 perish. What then will become of jour golden calf? Who then so poor aa to worship it? Melted or between the upper and the nether millstone of falling mountains ground to powder. Dagon down, Moloch down. Juggernaut down, golden caif down! But every day is a day of judgment, and God is all the time grinding to meces the eolden calf. Some years ago in a time of panic wo learned as never before that forgeries will not pay, that the watering of stock will not pay, that the spending of $50,000 on country seats and a palatial oity residence when there are only $30,000 income will not pay, that the appropriation of trust funds to our own private speculation will not pay. We had a great national tumor in the shape of fictitious prosperity. We called it national enlargement. Instead of calling it enlargement we might better have called it a swelling. It was a tumor, and God cut it out, and the nation was sent back to the principles of our fathers and grandfathers, when twice tbree made 6 instead of 60 and when the apples at the bottom of the barrel were just as good as the apples on the top of the barrel and a silk hand- , kerchief was cot half cotton aud a man j who wore a $5 coat paid for was more honored than a man who wpre a $50 coat 1 not paid for. ; The modern golden calf, like the < one of the text, is very apt to be made i out of borrowed gold. These Iseraliies sf the text borrowed the earrings of the Egyptians and then melted them into a god. This is the way the gold- ] 2n calf is made nowadays. A great i many housekeepers noi; paying for the < articles they get borrow of the grocer md the baker and the butcher aud the ;ry j?eods seller. Then the retailer- ] borrows of the wholesale dealer.^ i Ihen the wholesale dealer borrows of c ?h? sapitriisii sad we. barrel ?sd ta?* j rotf and borrow until tbs community j is divided into two classes, thosd who | < borrow and those wboare borrowed of, j sna alter awnne cue capitalist wauia hi^ money, and he rushes upon the wholesale dealer, and the vrhcleBaio dealer wants his money, and ho rushes upon the retailer, and the fetai'er wants his money, and he rashes on the customer, and wo all go down together. There is many a man this day who rides in a carriage and owes the blacksmith for the -tire ond the wheelwright for the wheel and the trimmer for the curtain and the driver for unpaid wages and the harness maker for the bridle and the furrier for the robe, while from the tip of the carriage tongue clear back to the tip of the camel's hair shawl flattering out of the back of the vehicle everything is paid for by notes that have beea three time3 renewed. I teli you tbat in tnis country we shail never get things right until we stop borrowing and pay as we go. It is this temptation to borrow and borrow and borrow that keeps the peopie everlastingly praying to the golden calf for help, and just at the miaute they expect the help the golden calf treads on tbem. The judgements of God, like Moses in the text, will rush in and break up this worship, and I say let the work go on until every man shall learn to speak the truth with his neighbor, and those who make engagements shall feel themselves bound to keep [them, and when a man who will not repent of his business iniquity, 4- r* enHal-fl 1*11 C UUt JJUC5 Uli Yi XDJLLljJg t'J paiat*vw w>i? %<M?M nibal appetite by devouring widow's houses, shall, by the law of the land, be compelled to exohange the brownstone front for the penitentiary. Let the golden calf perish! But, if we have made this world our god, when we come to die we shall see our idol demolished. How much of this world are you going to take with you into the next? Will you have two pockets?one in each side of your shroud? Will you cushion your oasket with bonds and mortgages and certificates of stock? Ah, do! The ferryboat that crosses this Jorban takes no baggage?nothing heavier than an immortal spirit. You may, perhaps, take $500 with you two cr three miles * * i a i. A in tne snape 01 iunerai irsppiDxa iv the oemetary, but you will have to leave them there. It would not be safe for you to lie down there with a gold watch or diamond ring. It would be a tempation to (he pillagers. If we have made this world our god, we shall see our idol when we die ground to picoes by our pillow, and we shall have to drink it in bitter re?rets for the wasted opportunities of a lifetime. Soon we will be gone. Wqere are the men who tried Warren Hastings in Westminster hall? Where are the pilgrim fathers who put out for Amer iea? Where are the veterans who on the Fourth of July, 1794, marchcd from New Y.rk park to the Battery and Area a salute and then marched * * ? ' a a. o - ?1*^ DacK again: arm tee society m tuc Cinoinnati who dined that afternoon at Tontine oof house on -Wall street? and G.-aot'Thoburo, wHo that afternoon waited 15 minutes at the foot of maiden late for the Brooklyn ferryboat, then got in and was rowed aoross by two men with oars, the tida so strong that it was an hour a^ ten minutes before they landed? Where are the veterans that fired the salute and the men of the Cincinnati society who that afternoon drank to the patriotic toast?and the oarsmen that ro<?ed the boat? and the people who were transported? Gone! Oh, this is a fleeting world! It is a dying world. A man who had worshiped it all bis days in his dvine moment describad himself w'aeu he said, ''Fool, fool, fool!" I want you to change temples and to give up the worship of this unsatis fyiog and cruel god for the service of the Lord Jesns Christ. Here is the gold that will Dever crumble. Here are the banks that will never break. Here is an altar on which there has been one sacrifice that does for all, for "by one sacrifico hath Christ perfected forever them that are sanotifiei." Here is a God who will comfort you when you are in trouble and soothe you when you are sick and save you when you die. For he has said: ''When thou passeth through the waters I will be with thee, and through >1 * V v?/\^ AtJaffl than* LUC UVCrt LJUC/ 311 ail uvb vr?uvn mivvj when thou Wiiikest through the fire, thou shalt not be burnsd, neither shall the flame kindle upon thee." When your parents have breathed their last and the old, wrinkled and trembling hands con no more be put upon your head for a blessing, he will be to you a father and mother both, giving you the defense of one and the comfort of the other. For have we not Paul's blessed hope that as Jeaus died and rose again, "even so them also which sleep in Jesus shall God bring with him." And when your children go away from you, the sweet darlings, you will not kiss them and sar ffnnrlbvfl fnrfl7fir. He onlv wanta to hold them a little while for yon. He will give them back to you again, and he will have them all waiting for at the gates of eternal welcome. Oh, what a G-od he is! He will allow yoa to come so close that you can put your arms around his neck, while he in response will put his arms around your neck, and all the windows of heaven will be hoisted to let the redeemed look out and see the spectaole of a rejoicing father and a returned prodigal , locked in that glorious embraos. J Quit worshiping the golden calf and bow this day before him in whose presence we must all appear when the . world has turned to ashes. WHen snriveiing luce a parcnea , scroll, The flaming heavens together roll, When louder yst and yet more dread Shells-the high trump that wakes the dead. Shall Not Be Queen. ( A stormv debate was participated in 1 in the lower house of the Hungarian j parliament on the Archduke Ferdin- ] and's renunciation of olaim to the Hung- < arian throne in behalf of the issue of j his morganatic marriage. Francis i Kossuth had insisted on the right , of s Countess Chotek to become queen of Hungry, and the premier, Koloman de Selle, had declared this was impossible. alrr omflo a. Q iuxiiiguiavv/ij ViiVAW H4VMW W tumult, with deafening cries of "She 1 shall be queer.!" When quiet was re- 1 siorv-i thu prenrcr espre-sed the greatest reapect tor ths wife of Archduke Ferdinand, but explained that it was impossible to alter the law of succession. * This explanation, he followed with a : strong appeal to the chamber to pass 1 the bill confirming the renunciation. ^ Gainesville, Ga., Dec. 8, 1899 ^ Pitts' Antiseptic lnvigorator h*a ;j Deen used in my family and I am per ' 'ectly satisfied that it is all, and will io all, you claim for it. Yours truly, A. B. 0. Dorssy. 1 P. S.?I am using it now myself. ? [fc's doing jne good.?Sold by The Mur- * ay Drug Co., Columbia, 8. C., acd ail A Iruggistf, tf J ' 'mSi*TSi Pit' ?S8KC ~~| BtttthS Assistant Scot Two Sobbsia j and Saved Money. * a r . . . * . ? uour jjanan micers attempted to rob Pay Ck-rk Wm. Hosier of the Southwest Uonnelisville Coke company, while making his trip between Pittaburg Pi., and Alverton with the pay roll ot the Alverton and Tarr Works, amcuatmg to $4,000. Mr. Hosier is dead, his companion, Harry Burgess, messecger of the company, is wounded; two of the Italians are dead; a third fatally wounded and the fourth in jail. Hosier and Burgess left this city at 1 oclock this afternoon with the safe containiDg the money to pay off the men at the Alverton and Tarr Werks. As they reached the summit of the long hill above Morewcol, just below which lies Alverton, a large coke town, without a second warning, the four Italians fired a volley from their hiding place and sprang forward firing as they ad vaneed. Mr. Hosier fell dead, at the fLst volley. Youag Burgess, though wounded, was able to return their fire with effect and one of the number at the horseheads fell dead. A second late he fired his revolver in the very face of another, and as he fell his remaining companions became terrified and leaving the dead, one set out with the wounded one over the hill to the south in ihe direction of the Allice mines. Burgees managed to drive on into Alverton with the bodv of Mr. Hosier and the safe, where he gave the alarm Mount Pleasant and vicinity with the cleric-il force of the coke company turned out 500 strong headed by Lieut, John G-. Thompson, of Company E, and soon corraled the two, who had ooncealed themselves in a iidd on the Durstine farm, a mile or so from this town. A summons to surrender was answered by a volley in whioh one of the posse received a slight wound on the chest The outlaws, from their fortified position, made a fierce stand for a few minutes until ono of the posse succeeded in getting in the rear. He shot one through the head, killing him instantly. The other surrendered and was brought to the office of Squire Rhodes and remanded to jail. In the meantime another divison of the posse overhauled the third wouldbe robber, who had received a ghastly wouad. The ball, entering his mouth and penetrating his head, came out at the back of his neck. He is not expected to recover. COMMITS SUICIDE Tragic Death, of an Augusta Police man. Sooner than become a burden to those he loved and should support Policeman David Redd sent a bullet crashing through his brain last Wednesday. The circumstances surrounding tbe dsaih of this officer are not only tragic, bat extremely sad. The act was ot-m mltted in the presence of his fond old mother, who vainly sought to snatch the pistol from his hand while the old muzzle wa3 against ths temple and the finger trembled on the trigger. H. r eif irts were unavailing, for before she could reach her son's bide and at leas; divert the aim of the deadly weapon, pressure was applied to the trigger, the >1 l i* t report resounaea tnrougn tne nou?e and the son fell back upon bis bed, covered with blood, in the thoresof death David Radd had been a member of the police force for several years and wa3 considered faithful and efficient in every regard. He was popular with his comrades and erjoyed the full confidence of his superior officers Up to two jears ago the deo<a-ied was haie and hearty, but at that time a bad cold was contracted and it rapidly developed into consumption. Mr. Redd steadiiy retrograded in health and was compelled b?- leason of his illness to lose rnuih time. Be had been u:able to respond to his duties for three days before his death, although he hadgane to the upper barracks from his - heme, 2 007 Greene street, three times to report for work arid each time was so weakened by the walk that he was unable to go out with his squad. This state of affairs * ^ t rr _ ^ Af__ naa a very aepressing enecc on me man and a sort of melancholy fixed itself upon him Mr. Redd left his house and went to the barracks, in the hope that he would be able to go our, Lat again the exer tiou proved too much for him and he had to sit at the barracks and rest. He walked slowly back to his home in West Ead, and on the way complained to several friends of hi3 deplorable condition. Arriving at home he had a long talk with his mother, his wife and little child being in another room. To his mother he complained most bitterly of hiscoadition and told her that he intended killing himself, as he saw no hope for an improvement in his condition. He furiher stated that he did not wish to become a burden on his J i.L. k wue ana.' mutaer, me ones taat ue should support and sooner than do so he would blow his brains out. The mother tried to dissuade him from such thoughts, but never entertained the idea that he contemplated immediate ac:ion. There was a flatter of some sort among the poultry in the yard about this time and he oalled his mother's attention to it. The good old lad v went to tin door and looked out. When she returned she was horrified to see her son sitting on the edge of the bed with the pistol muzzle against his right temple. She screamed and dashed forward, but too late. Coincident with her act the finger pressed the trigger and the ball sped on its mission of dpafrh arifJ tlift fnr.d narrvnt. saw har child fall over on the bed, his brains oozing from a cruel woucd in the head. Mr. Redd lived about 30 minutes, but was unconscious all the while. The ball had entered the head, just ibove the right ear and ploughed its way through ihe centre of the braia, making its exit jast over the left ear. Mr. Redd had realized his dangerous jondition for some time and on July 5th joined the church. The deceased Fas 40 year3 of age and leaves a wife md child, besides other relatives." How's This? We o5er One Hundred Doi.Ws Re ivaru iui any ajl vat-aiiii tuai uauiot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO Props., Toledo, 0. We, the undersigned, haye known F. F. Cheney for the last 15 years and beieves him perfectly honorable in all msiness transactions and financially tble to oarry out any obligations made >y their firm. (Vest & Fruax, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, 0. Walding, Kinnan & Martin, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, ). Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken interlally, acting directly upon the blood ,nd mucous surfaces of the system. Mce 75o. per bottle. Sold by all ^wn/T/Tis^n oii m Aniol a frAA Hall's Family Pills are the best. 5 a .ir* 'I W .9 V # . . Ail umeiai isiiiieiia mat win interest Farmers. The fhal bulletin for the season on he condition of the crop in the cotton belt States has jast been issued as follows by director Blytbe of the New Orleans saction of the crop and climate service of tho United States weather bureau: The mean temperature for the week was decided above normal; the least departure was an excess of 6ix degrees and 7 degrees at San Antonio and Corpus Cbristi, respectively, while at all Vrt/tnlo* TTTArt f 1"! / ?* a f f C r\v*> a utuci ic^uioi r?v>?cuvi> l/ulc&u auaiivua in the cotton belt the excess ranged from 9 to 15 degrees, except at Charleston, where in was 8 degrees above normal. There were few, either regular or special, stations of the weather bureau in the cotton belt at whioh there was not mere or less rainfall during thp week. At many places the amount t r precipitation was greater than the average or the requirements, and at a few it was exessbive. The greatest total amount reported was 7.05 incles at Lake Charles, La., and 7 inches of it fell between 8 p. in. Wednesdy and 7 am. Thursday. HP a aw rr?? n 4?*ta juuuioiaua?-luo vtcatnci vras mu j warm and wet during the past week for the best interest of agriculturists, exoept the truck farmers. Cotton picking was interrupted, and that yet in the field was injured to some extent by the rains; where not open is rottiDg in the boll; very little top crop has been made or 13 expected; correspondents report that with few exceptions cotton has been ginned and marketed as fast as picked. The threshing of rice was also interrupted by the frequent and in some places heavy rains, but it is estimated that ever half of the crop has reached ti\e mills. All mills in the rice growing districts are reported to bo running to their full capacity. The continued warm weather has kept sugar cane green and growing, and, although grinding is in operation in all sections, the work is not being pushed, mainly for the reason that the jield of sugar per ton is yet bslow avni * i erage. Tonnage or cane is aiso reported to be disappointing on the many plar-tutions. The most of the fall planting has been done, but as a rule planters are waiting for cooler weather to windrow seed for spring planting. The condition of fall gardens and truck has improved during the week. Texas?"Weather generally favorable for farming opcriuoas esoept scattered showers retarded cotton picking, but generally good progress has been made except here and there pickers are scarce, crop mostly gathered in lower Brazos bottoms and some other scattered localities, elsewhere picking onehalf to three-fourths done, the staple is generally g-od; corn gathering proeressiug tlowiy oa account of all time briag given to cotton picking; wheat do'.i-g well; noe haivesting neanng completion; truck gardens doing well. Oklahoma Territory?Weather during the week was generally *arin and clear, favorable for cotton picking which is now well advanced, the yield ?i;l bo some* hit greater than had been expected, grade not so good, top crop still opening, but jieli promises to be light. Arkansas ?Heavy rains were general on the 22i and 26th, local rains on the 27ch and 28J), retarded cotton picking to some extent, but it has been pushed as rapidly as the weather would permit; pickers scarce in some localities;; worms are destroying the top crop in borne localities: in others it is still making, but the vield will be lieht and the qua'ity poor: corn about all gathered, although damaged to some ex;eattfce yield is generally better than expected Mississppi?Cloudy and rainy weather has limited farming operations and damaged open cotton, which is neaaly all picked, yield v^ry small; rail heavy in northern and western counties; considerable corn gathered, some damage by moisture; potato crop good. Alabama?General rams the firat two days, heavy to excessive in some places, causing damage to late cotton, thereafter very favorable, practically all cotton picked, though some very Jate is stzil maturing; yield lignt; com housed in fair condition, but yield li^ht; minor crops satisfactory; sowing of wtieat and oats continues. Georgia?Weather favorable for saving cotton, sowiog grain and germination of seed in ground; about all the cod on crop has been saved and the staple is generally good, there will be no top crop; a large acerage will be sown in wheat, in some fields wheat is growing nicely. Florida?"Warm, with rainfall irregu larly distributed; cotton picking was active; in some seotions the crop is about gathered, in other localities pick mg will continue for several weeks; cane, sweet potatoes and vegetables are doing well; oranges are coloring rapidly; some heavy shipments made, South Carolina?Week partly cloudy; warm and heavy rains in plac;s, interfering with finishing picking, altough scarcely any cotton is in the fields, except iu! places an immature top orop unlikely to open; minor crops imt roved and oat seeding made good progress, but no wheat was sown. North Carolina?Light rains early in the week, otherwise weather very fine and exceptionally warm for the season; winter wheat and oats growing rapidly; some boils of cotton still green and immature, but wili not open. Tennessee?Heavy rains first of the week hindered cotton picking and damaged the staple, but warm, favorable weather promotes top growth and adds materially to yield, crop mostly gathered and marketed and much below the average in yield; wheat seeding delayed iD many sections for fear of fiy, early sown coming up and growing well; corn dried rapidly and is mostly housed with light crop. Killed by a Fall. A dispatch from Spartanburg to The State says Fr.day afternoon a colored Katt T.^olia 1 A TTAOi?a TT7Vi11 n u\jj uauitu vtjuaiw driving a wagon to which two mules were attached, met with a tragic death near Fair Forest, in this county. The boy, with his parente, lives on the farm of Mr. John Frey, near Fair. He was hauling up a load of corn. The mules, for some reason, became frightened and ran at break neck speed. The boy was thrown from the vehicle and lit head foremost in a gully. His skull was crushed and be was instantly killed. Attempted Suicide. t? ann! rrn o "p.innrtl 1 tt*v* /% fjm a /*an. -LVUOOJ. J LL JJ.. i. Clltii, TTJUU TT ?C WU' victed of the murder of Express Messenger Lane, attempted to commit suicide at Mary'sville, Ohio., last week, by smothering himself. He wrapped the bed clothing tightly about his head and turned over on his face. When his purpose was discovered the guards pulled the clothes elf, while Ferrell 1 ought to prevent their removal. V f.< ? Ol ' ? I THE B Grove'sr The formula i know just what yo do not advertise th< their medicine if y< Iron and Quinine pi. form. The Iron malaria out of the ? Grove's IS the Ori Chill Tonics are irr that Grove's is si are not experiment and excellence ha onlv Chill Cure sc J the United States. A Ghastly CargcA few days ago there arrived at San Francisco a ship with a cargo which illustrated some of the beauties of of our imperialistic experiment in the Philippines. It was the transport Sherman from Manila, and it brought home troops whom we had sent to conquer the Filipinos. On their arrival at San Francisco they were in the following condition: Dead, 51; ^ 1_ A ,~*ry 1 ^ j. fn. sick, 40/; convalescent, oo; insane, 12. The transport Meade is now on her way across the Pacific with 300 of our soldiers who "have been shattered in mind and body by service in the fearful climate of the Philippines. The transport Logan is trailing behind the Meade with 273 sick soidiers, many of whom will probably be dead before they reach San Francisco. As the Atlanta Journal says "there is nothing to expect but that this ghastly procession from Manila to San Francisco will continue' indefinitely and ships bearing back to our shore dead, dying sick and insane men whom we sent forth strong and hearty will pass on the sea ships carrying other men to a like sacrifice. It is stated that 20,000 men should be sent to the Philippines at once. How many of them will come back unimpaired? Ho w many of them will never come back? How many of the 70,000 now in the Phillippines will be sacrificed or ruined for lif? "It is not strange that the people of the United States are getting very tired of the Phillippine war with its drain upon the manhood and the treasure of the country, a war which would have been averted if the administration had been true to the principles and traditions of our country and which is being waged upon a people whose only crime is that they are fighting freedom." There is one Hall of Fame in ? 1- : -1- xl T wmun uue uarno ux xjcc win uc enshrined as long as time and memory shall last, and that is the hearts of a people who knew him in the day of prosperity, tried him in the hour of darkness and found in him the gentleman, the soldier, the patriot, the Christian, the greatness that makes men great, the traits that bring men love, devotion, and willingness to die in any cause they might espouse with him as leader. Senator William Lindsay of Kentucky, who will retire from Dublic life next March, has de r / cided to join the colony of former statesmen who are practicing law in Ifew York city. Like J. G. Carlisle, he went back on the people who honored him. and hopes to be rewarded for being a Southern renegade by the trusts The Chicago papers' tell of a seventy year old man who left that town on a bicycle and made 205 miles in less than two days. He seems to have been in a hurry to get away from. Chicago. He was lucky in having a bicycle. Some men tramp or commit suicide to get away from it. The Limestone, Ala., Democrat, covers the whole subject in a few words when it says that "Gen. Lee's name will honor the Hall of Fame much more than the Hall will honor him." It my be of interest to call attention to the fact that the Hawaiian government is whiaout funds to pay its current expenses. The wealth of our colonies seems to be chiefly rhetorical. ' i Leading Chicago physicians ' declare that the drink habit is j growing among American wo- , men. It is a general complaint in cities, and that, too, among 1 the 400. Drinkiog among society women is a growing evil not confined to Chicago. a Vermont man defends Lee's name and says in the New York Times: "He was an American as much as Grant, and if he had had the men and means behind him that Grant had he would have whipped us.'7 Wade Hampton was for Bryan. He is a man of honor and no political trimmer like Butler < ana s<?rne otners. j: V - .1 ?4 > nw^. .... n J^ '_ j i*._ j**? y1 - ^? srli, - CfllllS ||j PasteSessCh s plainly printed on every u are taking when you take k.11 1UI UlUld IVilVJ w lug uiav. y )ii knew what it contained, it up in correct proportions a acts as a tonic while the system. Any reliable druggis gstsai and that all other litations. An analysis of oth< iperior to all others in e\ ing when you take Grov ,ving long been establishe >ld throughout the entire No Cure, No Pay. Prict A New Cure For InsomniaMany people claim that the; cannot sleep well at night. Some of them drink too much coffee, smoke too nuty cigars or torment their stomach* at pupper, etc., etc. Bat there is hope for all the sleepless by a very simple device. Victor Smith savs, in th? New York Press: *1 suppsse all of us are suffering from the invasion of eleotricity. My old friend Bounce, who was a victim of insomnia for 40 years, thinks he slters now better than any man on earth. Ha lost his way in the Adriondaoks and stayed over mgnt in the cabin of a forester. His sieep wa< the sleep of a man just made perfeot, and in the morning he found that he had not moved half an inoh. It's the insulation,' the forester insisted. 'You city folk are kiilin' yourselves with contact. If you'll break the con? tact you'll be able to sleep and get your nerves *back. This mr.uer of contact was finally explained to mean that our bed posts are in contaot with the floors, the floors with the walls and the walls with Mother Eirth, so that whatever 1 ^? per* Jliai ina^ueiaoiu a iuau nao m llxuj goes away in the night time, leaving him like a log on the mattress. The forester had obtained four glass insulators from telegraph poles some? here and screwed them on the posts of his gaest bed, so that the electrioty could not run away. Bounce, the very day he got home, insulated his bed, and from that moment to the present his insomnia has bees- banished." To Bob the SouthA bill to reapportion representatives among the state in aocordmoe with the twelfth oensua will be introduced in congress this winter, and it is ex pec ted to lead to bitter partisan debate. The n - i l._ : A. .RepuDncans nave a piau iu iocceraa. Lite basis of re presentation so aa to give one re resentative to 200,000 people, instead of one to 173,000, aa at present. By this means they calculate to reduce the number of representatives from the Southern states, which are always Democratic, and increase the representation from the northern states, which are generally R-publican. In this way they hope to take much of the political power from the South. TIE LEADER ilQEEl = The New Ball Bearing Onmoetirt UUIIIUdllU Sewing Machine It Leads in Workmanship, Beauty, Capacity, Strength, Light Running. Every Woman W&nle One. 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