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Hi: IS THY BROTHER Has he fallen, deeply fallen, From the path of truth and light? Is he groping, blindly groping. In the blackness of sin's night? Is he straying, sadly straying, From the tender Shepherd'r fold? Is he staying, idly staying, On the mountain, bleak and cold? If he's fallen, still remember, Thine own steps may one day stide, For while Virtue's path is narrow, Error's way is broad and wide. Or, If from the fold he's wandered, Lured by pleasure's voice away, Remember from His loving caro, Thine own feet are prone to stray. Turn not from a fellow creature Haughtily, with scornful eyes, But from sin and shameful railures. Lend a hand and help him rise. If on his brow there rests a marking, Like the bitter curse of Cain, By gentle words and kindly actions Help erase the deadly stain. Tell him of God's pardoning goodness And you'll do the Master's will, For it matters not how fallen, Know he is thy brother still. A DANGEROUS DELAY. The Rev. Dr, Talmaga Tbrr-nsh The Pr? 8?. Brooklyn, June 10.?Rev. Br. Talmage, who is now speed Dg across the Pacific to Honolulo on h:s round the world journey, has selected as the subca.mnnip rlianonr.cft through ibe I COW IVi O^XUMVUIV M4WVV?ik? ? press today "The Excited Governor," tbe text beiDgtaken from Acts xxiv, 25: "Felix trembled, and answered: Go thy way lor this time. When I have a convenient season, I will call for thee." A city of marble was CseBarea?wharves ol marble, hcuses of marble, temples of marble. This being the ordinary architecture of the place, you may imagine something of the splendor of Governor Felix's residence. In a room of that palace, floor tessellated, windows curtained, celling fretted, the whole scene affluent with Tyrian purple and statues and pictures and carvmgs, sat a very dark complexioned man of the name of Felix, and beside him a weman of ex* traordloary beauty, whom he bad stolen by breaking up another domestic circle. She was only 18 years of age, a princess by birth and unwittingly waitiDg for her doom?that of being buried alive in the ashes and scorse of Mount Vesuvius., which in sudden eiuption one day put an end to her abominations. Well, one afternoon Drusilla, seated in the palace, weary with the magnificent stupidities of the place, says to Felix: "You have a very distinguished prisoner, I believe, of the name of Paul. Do you know he is one of my countrymen? I should very much like to see him, and I should very much like to hear him speak, for I have heard so much about his eloquence. Besides that, the other day, when he was being tried in another room of this place ana tbe windows were open, I heard the applause that greeted the speech cf Lawyer Tertullus as he denounced Paul. Now I very much wish I could hear Paul speak. Won't you let me hear him speak?" "Yes," said Felix, "I will. I will or der him up now from the guardroom." Clank, clank, comes a chain up the marble stairway, and there is a shuffle at the door, and m come3 Paul, a little old man, prematurely old through exposure ?only GO years of 8ge, but IcokiDg as though be we.e 80- He bcwa very courteously before the governor and the beautiful woman by h:*5 side. They <?ay: "Paul, we have heard a great deal ab ut 3cur speaking. Give us now a specimen oi your eloquence." Oh, if there ever was a chance of a man to show off, Paul had a chance there! . He might have harangued them about Grecian art, about the wonderful waterworks he baa seen at Corinth, about the Acropolis by moonlight, about prison life in Philippi, about "what I saw in Thessalonica," about the old mythologies, but "No!" Paul said to himself. "I am now on the way to martyrdom, and this man and woman will soon be dead, and this is my only opportunity to talk to them about the tlnng3 of eternity. And just there and then there broke in upon the scene a peal of thunder. It was the voice of a judgment day speakiDg through the words of the decrepit apostle. As that grand old missionary proceeded with his remarks the Btoop begins to go cut of his shoulders, and he rises up, and his countenance is illumined with the glories of a future life, and his shackles rattle and grind a3 he lilts bin fettered arm, and with it hurls upon his abashed auditors the bolts of God's indignation. Felix grew very white about the lips. His heart beat unevenly. He put his hand to his brew, as though to 8top the quickness and violence of his thoughts. He drew his robe tighter about him as under a sudden chill. His eyes glare, and his knees shake, and as he clutches the side of his chair 111 a very paroxysm of terror he orders the sheriff to take Paul back to the guardroom. "Felix trembled and said: Go thv way for this time. When I h**ve a convenient season, I will call for thee." A young man came one night to cur service, with pencil m hand, to caricature the whole scene and make mirth ot those who should express any acxiety about their sculs, but I met him at the door, his face very white, tears running down his cheek, as he said, "Ho you think there is any chance for me?" Felix trembled, and so may God grant it may be so with others. I propose to give ycu two or three reasons why I think Felix sent Paul back to the guardroom and adjourned this whole subject of religion. The first reason was he did not want to give up his sins. He leoked around. There was Dru3illa. He knew that when he became a Christian he mast send her back to Azizus, her lawful husband, and be said to himself, "I will risk the destruction of my immortal scul sooner than I will do that." How many there are cow who cannot get to be Christians because they will cot abandon their sine! In vain all their prayers and all their church goiog. Yon cannot keep these darling sins and win heaven, and now some of ycu will have to decided between the wine cup and unlawful amusements and lascivious grati ficaiions on the one hand, and eternal salvation on the other. Delilah sheared the lock3 of Samson; Salome danced Herod into the pit; Drusilla blocked up the way to heaven for Felix. Yet when I present the subject now, I fear that some of ycu will sa>: uNot quite yet. Don't be so precipitate in your demands 1 have a few tickets yet that I have to use. I have a lew engagements that I must keep. I want to stay a little longer in the whirl of conviviality?a few more guffaws of unclean laughter, a few more steps on the road to death, and then, sir, I will' listen to what you say. 'Go thy way for this time. When I have a convenient season, I will call for thae.'" Another reason why Felix sent Paul back to the guardroom and adjourned this subject was lie was so very busy. In ordinary times be found the affairs of state absorbing, but those were extraordinary time3. The whole land was ripe for insurrection. The Sicarii, a band of assassins, were already prcwliDg around the palace, and I suppose tie thought, "I can't attend.toreligion while I am pressed by?ffairsol state." It was business, among other things, that ruined his ecu!, and I suppose there are thousands of people who are not children ofGcd because they have so much fcusi ness. It is business in the store?Iceses, gains, unfaithful employees. It 13 fcusi of ss m your law office?subf ceaas, writs ycu have to write out, papers you have to fiie, arguments you have to make. II is your medical profession, with its broken nights, and the exhausted anx'elies ot lite hanging upon your treatment . It is y^ur real es'ae rilice, ycur busi ness with landlords and ;euants. aad the failure ot men to meet their obligations with ycu. Aye, with seme of those w!io a:e here, it is the announce ot the kitchen, and the sitting re om, and the parlor?the wearing ecoo'ouiy cf trying to meet large expenses with a small in come- Tea tbcusand voices ot "business business business" drown the voice ot the eternal Spirt*, silencing the voice ol the advancing judgment day, overcoming the voice of eternity, and they e?.unot listen. They say, "Go thy way for thistimr." Some ol )(u lock ui on ycur goods, lock upon ycur profession, \eu look upon -> '-""l" r,?r1 > Ml ano ycur CQ^UiUi 'Ui U'Jiii aau j vu i :he demands thai are ma^e this very week upon ycur time, a- d yc ur patience, and} cur money, and while I am entreating you abcut your scul and iba danger cf procrastination you say: l*Go thy way for thi3 time. WheD I have a convenient season, 1 will call for thee." 0 Felix, why be bothered about the affairs of thi3 world so rniuk more than about the afiairs of eternity ? Do ycuuot know that when ceath ccmss you will have to stop business, though it be in the most exacting peiiod of it?between the payment cf the money and the taking of the receip t The moment he comes you will have to go. Death waits for no man, however high, however low. Will you put ycur cftice, will you put your shop in comparison with the s ft airs cf an eternal woild, affairs that involves thrones, palaces, dominions eternal? Will ycu put 200 seres cf ground against immensity? Will you put 40 or 50 years of ycur itfe against millions of ages? 0 Felix, ycu might better postpone every thing else! Fjrdo you not know that the upholstering cf Tyrian purple in your palace wiil face, and the marble blcck3 of C?3ar a will crumble, and the breaxwater at the beech, made of great blccks of stone GO feet l>ng mu3tgiveway before the perpetual wash of the sea, but the redemption that Paul offers you will be forevei? And yet and * - ? T- X - .1 yet and yet you wave mm oacx iu tue guardroom, saying: "Go thy way for this time. When I have a convenient season, I will call for thee." Again, Felix adjourned this subject ol religion and put off Paul's argument because he could not give up the honors of the world. He was afraid somehow he would be compromised himself in this matter. Remarks he made afterward showed him to be intensely ambitious. Oh, how he hugged the favor of men! I never saw the honors cf this world in tueir holiowness and hypocrisy so much as in the life and death of that wonderful man, Charles Sumner. Ashe went towards Ike piece cf burial even Independence hall ;nPhiladelphia asked that h:s remains stop there on their way to BostOD, The flags were at half mast and the minute guns on Boston common throbbed after his heart had ceased to beat. Was it always sc? While he lived, how censured of legislative resolutions, how caricatured of the pictorials how charged with every motive mean and rediculcus;how all the urns of scorn and hatred and billingsgate emptied upon his head; how, when struck down in senate chamber, there were hundreds of thousands of people who said, "Good for him; serves him right!" how he had put the ocean between him and his maligners, thai he might have a little peace and how, when he went cfT sick, they said he was broken hearted because he could not get to be president or secretary of state. 0 commonwealth of Massachusetts, who is that man that sleeps in your pub* , lie hall, covered ' with garlands and wrapped in the stars and stripes? Is that the man who, only a few months before, vcu denounced as the foe of rei publican and democratic institutions? Is that the same mac ? Ye tkmerican peo[ pie, ye could not, by one week ot fun| eral eulogium and newspaper leaders, I which the dead senatoi could neither read nor hear, atone for 25 years et maltreatment and caricature. When I see a man like that, pursued by ail the hounds of the political kennel so long as he lives and then buried under a great pile of garlands and amid the lamentations of a whole nation, I say to myself: Whit an unutterably hypocritical thing is all human applause and human favor! You took 25 years in trying to pull dowo his fame and then take 25 years ia trying to build hi3 monument. My friends, was there ever a better cemmentarv cn the holloWncss of ail earthly favo;? Itthers are young men who read this who are postponing re ligion io order that, they may have the favors of this world, let me persuade them of their complete folly. If you looking forward to gubernatorial, senatorial or presidential chair, let me show you your great mistake. Can it be that there is now any young man saying: "Let me have political office, let me have some of the high positions of trust and power, and then 1 will attend-to religion, but not now. 'Go thy way for this time. When I have a convenient season, I will call for thee!' " ADd now my subject takes a deeper tone, and it shows what a dangerous thing i3 this defer dng of religion. When Paul's chain rattled down ihe marble stairs of Felix that was Felix's last chance ior heaven. Judging from his character afterward, he was reprobate and abandoned. And so was Lrusilla. One day in southern Italy there was a trembling of the eartn, and the air got' black with smoke intershot with liquid rocks, and Vesuvius ramed upon iorusilla and upon her son a horrible tempest ol ashes and lire, They did cot reject religion; they only put it cff. They aid not understand that that day that that hour when Paul stood before them, was the pivotal hour upon which every thing was poised, and that it tipped the wrong way. Their convenient season came when Paul and his guardsman entered the palace?it went away when Paul and his guardsman left. Have you never 3een men waiting for a convenient season? There is such a great facmation about it that, though you may have great respect to the truth of Christ, yet somehow there is your soul the thought: "Xot quite yet. It is not time tor me to become a Christian," I say to a bov, "SeeK Christ." He sa\3, "Xc; wait nutil lam a young man." I say to the young man, 1 Seek Christ." He says, "Wait uutil I come to midlife." I meet the same psrson in midlife and I say, "Seek Christ." He says, "Wait until I get old." I meet the same person in old age and say to him, "Seek Chri3i." He says, "Wait ustil I am on my dying bed." I am called to his dying couch. His last moments have come. I bscd ever the couch and listen for his last words. I have partially to guess what they are by the motion ot his lip3, he is so feeble, but rallying himself, he whis pers, until I cau hear htm say, '*1?am ?waiting?for?a?more?convenient? season," and he is gone! I leli ycu when vour convenient season will ccme. I can tell ycu the year ?it will be 1894. 1 can tell you what kind cf a day it will be?it will be the Sabbath day, I can tell you what hcur it will be?it will ba between 8 and 10 o'clock. Iq other words, it 13 now. Do you ask me howl know this is y cur convenient seasoL? I know it because you are here, and because they are here, and because the Iloly Spirit is here, and because the elect eons and daughters of God are praying for your redemption. Ah, I know it is ycur convenient season because some 11 you, like Felix, tremble ss your past life comes up m y ou with its siu and all the future life ccmes upon you with its terror. This night air is aglare with torches to show you up or to to dhow you down. I", is rustling with wiuas to lift you into light or smite ycu into despair, and there is a rushing to and fro and beating against the door of your soul as with a great, thunder cf emphasis telling you, l'Now, now is the i . - v ^ . t. ^ _ i _ 4 t ~ >5 Desr, ume. as n may us ine uuiy uui^. May God a'mighty forbid that any of ycu, my brethren or sister.-', act the part of Felix or Drusiiia and put away this great subject. If ycu are going to be saved ever, why cot begin ton'shi? Throw down your sins sd'1 take the Lord's pardon. Christ, has been trumping after you many a day. Au Indian and a white man became bristiacs. The Indian, almost a3 soon as be heard the gospel, believed and was saved, but the white man struggled ou in darkness for a long time before he found light. Alter their peace iu Christ the while man said to the Indian, klWhy was it that I *as kept so long in the darkness and ycu immediately fouod peace?" The Indian replied: kT will tell you. A prince come3 along, aud he ctl'er3 you a coat. Ycu look at your coat, and ycu sav, "My coat is good enough,' and you refuse his cfler, but the prince comes along and he cil'dr3 me the coat, and I lock a1, my old blanket and 1 throw that away and take his cfl'sr. You sir," 1 1 ?* - - - - . i ? - coDiicuea ice icuian, "are cnugiui; i<j your own righteousness, you think you are good enough, and vou keep your own righteousness, but I have Dothlug, nothing, and so when Jesus < tiers me p si don and peace I simply take it." My reader, why not now throw away the worncu; blanket of you: sin and take the robe ot a Saviour's righteousness?a robe so white, so fair, so lustrous, that no fuller on earth can whiten it? O shepherd, tonight bring heme the lost sheep! 0 Father, tonight give a welcoming kis3 to tbe wan prodigal! 0 friend ot Lsz iru3. tonight break down the door of the sepulchsr and say to all these dead souls as bvirresietib'e fiat: "Lvt! L ve!" Gov. Tillman Qaoted. The Jacksonville Times-Union which has no use for Governor Tillman politically, in a recent issue gives the Governor credit for saying two things at the immigration convention at Augusta, that every community in the South should think about and act upon. The Times-Union says "the Governor is quoted by the Associated Press dispatches as saying that it was well enough to invite people and capital from the outside, and all that came would be welcome; but for every dollar of outside capital the Southern people must expend ten of their owd, if they were in earnest about desiring to build up the South. That the future of this section depends on the efforts of our own people, and what the Southern farmer needs most is an immigration of ideas and intelligent agricultural methods. That Southern farmers would never prosper as long as they spend six months in Killing grass in their fields , and the next six in buying hay from Maine and Northern States. Like many other speakers Governor Tillman exaggerated lor the sake of giviDg emphasis to his ideas. It is not necesasr for the Southern people to spend ten dollars of their own money to obtain one of foreign capital for a Southern investment but it Is necessary that they should invest some of their own monev in any undertaking for which they hop'e to get outside support. An undertaking that does not show enough home confidence to secure a reasonable backing from the men in whose midst it is to be established will not be likely to command much foreign support. On this line the South should take this ad vice from Gov. Tiilman. it you wish to do a thing commence it yourselves, and don't ask for outside help until you show you are in earnest. As to the farmers of the South many of them have already learned the lesson that Governor Tillman recommended for their study. They are already rapidly making the South the home of diversified agriculture, and their success shows that the advice is good. The other lesson from Governor Tillman we commend, especially to the people of Jacksonville. He declared +hat he had no plan of his own, but that he had come to the congress to put his shoulder ot any wheel that started in the right direction, and to do all in his power to check anything starting wTong. He had no pet scheme of his own, but was ready to cooperate earnestly in any that promised to accomplish the objects of the immigration movement. iVhat a city we could make of Jacksonville if all of our leading men would put a shoulder to any wheel that started in the right direetion?that is if they would put their shoulders on the right side of the wheel. The trouble is, we have too many men who put theii shoulders to the wheel to push backward movement. Governor Tillman's suggestions were good, and the people of Jacksonville would do well to profit by them, without stopping to inquire where they came from." Heteroseneoas Democracy, fHUA /"I ~ T ., Ofrrtf-sv in Air, x uc c-uiuixiuia oi.auc is luuiuugm/ uiagusted with the action of the State Democratic Executive Committee in i receiving the Weaverites bach into the party. "As the Democratic party o1 South Carolina stands today all white men, whether Democrats Republicans or Populists, have equal rights in it' it says: In answer zo which the Green villeXews truly says: "Why, that has been the case in South Carolina since 1871). Every white man has been virtually counted as a Democrat. We have had high tariff and low tarif men, paper money and gold basis men people of all kinds and varieties of po litical belief. The men who voted for McLane, the greenback candidate for Governor, in 1883 were admitted back into the party without a word of pro test. In Greenville county, we know and probably in other counties mec who are Republicans in all their politi cal principles have called themselves Dc nocrats and have _ been sctive ic local party affairs as Democrats; whus others who were declared Republicans have been votiDg, regularly in the De mocratic primaries. It Is a bold at tempt to Ignore patent conditions anc psst history to contend that the white men ot the State cannot divide up or enconomical policies and national is sues and come together again on the great overshadowing issue in the State.' The Rev. Andrew Jackson Pottei has announced himself a candidate foi sheriff and tax collector of Tom Greer County, Texas. He will berememberec as the gentleman who created consld erable excitement several year3 ago b5 rising in his pulpit in Uvalde, Texas with two big six shooters in his hand: and informed the audience, mostly composed of the toughest of tough: and who had run many other minister: out of the town, that if there was any body in the audience who had the au dacity to assume that he could pu him out of the pulpit to step forth act take his medicine, and wound up b] saying that with the help of God ant those two forty lives he proposed t< preach to the people that day. A Cr&xy TiaEer. Chicago,June 17.?While crazy wit) i:~/'one n finnor tnrfar r?n Jiqu'jl 'JUUli I* UlUU^i, UUU.M , -U". four men with an axe,and almost kill ed a policeman who attempted to-ar rest him. His victims, who were taker home or to the county hospital, ar< Jos iScuitz, cut in the head; Jame. Reiily, cut in head;Ernest Drummond cut iu the head; Charles Fisher blacksmith, stabbed in side, condition critical; Thomas .Birmingham,police officei cut in head, wound dangerous, ant othets badly hurt. THE MINISTRY OF CHILDHOOD. Extract from Ulghop Hargrove's Sermon at Wofl.?rd Commencement. The following is an extract form the sermon of Bishop Hargrove preached at the commencement of Well 3rd College on the 10th, insUnt: Bishop Hargrove's text was Isaiah ii, G: "And a little child shall lead them." His su^hct was the Ministry of Childhood. He began by statin* that angels had no ancestry and they knew nothing of the family relation. Sex, matrimony and children are human and do not belong to angels. They do not know anything ot the blessedness of childhood. Earth and Heaven are ihc only places illumined by tic radiant s milts cfiufancy.Childhood is a divine arrangement and has beta distinctly and emphatically recognized by Cod in all the great epochs of the world's history. If cur first parents had retimed their sinless integrity all perfections would have been transmitted to their posterity through endless agts and a defection from original purity would have been impossible. This grand oppoitunity was lost and thus the curse was entailed on posterity and depravity took possession of the race. But human v * :a ? T"> ~ exigency is tt?e oivme oppuriuuuy. ns* peniance, regeneration and sanctiGcation are the remedial expedients by which God sought to redeem the race. One half d the human race dies before reaching the age of live. Many ot the otheis pass away before they reach the years of accountability. So a majority of the race is tranferred to the paradise of God anu Heaven is peopled largely with children. The death of each infant is a defeat to Satan. If" the presence of the gleeful glorified children gladden the streets and mansions of the New Jerusalem how fearfully dreary, doleful and desolate must be Satan's dominions, where childhood never can eater. Parents sometimes charge God foolishly when their children are taken away but these little ones did not live in vain. They had their objective work. The marvellous ministry of helpleness and innocence has accomplished much in mellowing and softening older hearts. Delicate chords are touched iato harmony by liny Angers where they would not respond to the rude sweep ot older hands. The gay, frivolous society woman is often brought to herself by the death of her child. A common grief and a common tie in Heaven binds parents closer together here on earth. Children are leaders towards the Kingdom of God. Let not everything be attributed to the preacher, bcoks, the press, because thousands are led to a higher aud better life through the ministry of little children. In the first epoch of the world's history the means cf salvation included the children, for Noah failed to save the world from the flood, buthe.saved all his own family. Then came the grand opportunity of the race, r ut Noah fell and his posterity was exposed to ravages of sin, The second epoch was when Abraham was called to become the foucder of a great nation and the promise was to him and his children. They were included in the covenant a3 often as it was repeated. In the third epoch God commanded Moses to keep the chiidren of Israel a separate and distinct people. Special Instructions were given as to the training of children. In thi3 school the Israelites were kept with fortunes tor 1,500 years, when the last great epoch was ushered in by the birth of the Savicur, who coni secrated childhood forever by His birth m the manger at Bethelehem. In all H13 teaching He was especially coniderate of litte children. 1 In all these leadiug epochs Ihe spiritual agencies were directed to childhood. At any given time the majority of the race is youDg. In this majority there are those who will live the longest time and exercise the greatest influence. When one seeks to instruct children they are dealing with those who are to become the most important factors in work ing out the world's destiny. The mind of children is receptive, the conscience is tender, vicious habits have not been formed, and it is easier to plant good seeds which will Yield abundantly good fruits. Childhood offers natural and constitutional facilities for -the operation of the spirit of God. Children are imitative and gladly follow others. They are curious and are always ready , to demand the reason for things. They neve doubt and their faith is strong un; til they are deceived. This is the formative period when character is fixed. The impressions of childhood are more last. iug tnan thoee made later in life. The mother's smiles and cradle songs wiil all come up to the aged when they are t' descending the dark valley. Mothers write with indelible ink. Archimedes be( lieved he could move the world if he had . a place to stand and a rest for his fulcrum. Childhood is the iulcrum and i eternal truth is the leyer, and by this a , fallen world can be lifted back iuto the ; bosom of its God. Feathering tils Nest. The Atlanta Constitution says that Coxey is evidently a frugal and practical individual and report has it that he i has made the general business in which i he embarked at Masslllon in March a , profitable one from a purely financial j point oi view, some ouaerviug wwi ; reformer in Washington has estimated J that Coxey is $7,000, or more, "ahead of > the hounds," in the job of leading the ccmmonwealer3 to the city. He de5 clares that Coxey from the day he left } home has been constantly in receipt of L checks, postal notes and currency from , sympathizers in his movement and s thatVery little of this money has been expended on his followers, who have ' lived oil the country, but has been put ' where it would do Coxey individually . the most good. At first Coxey took . special pains to have published the ' contributions to his cause with the amount of their donations, but this I very soon ceased, not because donations did not arrive, but it was not necessary , from the business side to publish more I than the harrowing details of the > physical sufferings of his men. No 5 one knows'except Coxey himself how much has been donated to the army of peace. It is asserted that these contni butions aggregate between 810,000 and , ?12,000, of which not more than onej third is thought to have been expended on the army." This is the trouble al> ways. The leaders of such movements > as Coxey's are always lookihg out for the main chance aDd as long as they - can fool people and lleece them in the : name of the poor they will do it, lni stead of going to work and earning an 1 honest living like the rest of us. r Kllllcg in Birmingham. Birmingham, Ala., June 14.?After 3 knocking down ex-Mayor Jeffries, an j aged man, 1\ G. Bowman shot and 3 killed young Eugene Jeffries, the two 3 affairs occurring only an hour apart in . the Florence hotel here. About 7 p.m. - P. G. Bowman, a prominent figure in t politics, was m the Florence hotel bar \ drinking, when ex-Mayor Thomas Jef7 fries walked in. Bowman made some i insulting remark; the lie was passed > and Bowman knocked the old man down. Friends intercepted and the old man went his way. It was an hour later when Eugene Jeffries, a son of i the ex-mayor, whom, it is said, had t heard of the affair, and had expressed - his intention of making Bowman apol ogize, walked into the bar where he i was still drinking. No sooner had the 3 hoy opened the door than Bowman 3 pulled a gun and fired killing Jeffries , instantly. Bowman was hurried from - the sceDe as quickly as possible, and - soon a crowd gathered whose threats r were raaay, and there was a likelihood 1 of his being lynched if a chance had offered. A WAR ROMANCE. Mack ^lason," iheGuerllli Tnrus Up a . 3Ir8, John Mason. Bcrksville, Ky., June 1^.?The preparations for the trial of a land suit which is to come up at the approaching , term of the circuit court in this town has revealed a singular story. Through- 1 out the civil war this backwoods region : ?Burksville is 40 miles from the near- , est railroad?was debatable ground. It ?-?^ oli irn \\tt fn/lArolo W?l3 Urtt I ICU ajiJlC ujr XCUCl axo auu v>vyi-fcfederates, aDd, worse than al), by the : guerillas, who claimed either lHg, as it suited their convenience, and robbed ; the friends of both alike. In the early days of the war a party of guerillas who were mainly of confederate sympathies made their headquarters in Bennett township, in this county. From that vicinty they made many raids through the surrounding country, and often attacked detachments of federal troops. One of the boldest and most dashing of the guerillas was a young feliow named Jack Mason, who said he was from Tennessee. But of his family and antecedents he told his companions nothing. He was slender inform and effeminate in face and manner. But these circumstances were attributed to his extreme youth. Ilis enterprise and bravery in battle prevented his companions from commenting upon his girlish appearance. One day a "smart" skirmish between querillas and federal troops was fought Jack Mason was wounded in the shoulder and fell from his horse. His companions picked him up and carried him off with them. But he was so severely wounded that the rude surgery of the camp was not sufficient. A friendly farmer named John Orth took the wounded youth into his house, and Mrs Orth nursed htm. Mason had not been in the house of the urths long before they discovered that their wounded guest was a girl in disguise. The girl's wound, though not serious, was painful and slow in healing. She was in bed several months and in that time a baby girl was born. When the mother became strong and well she suddenly disappeared from the home of the Orths, leaving her baby. She also left a considerable sum of money and some jewels and a note directing that they be used for the benefit of the baby. The Ortbs adopted the little girl, and she grew to womanhood, married a prosperous young farmer named Mayhew, and is now the mother of two children. Maynew owned some land in this county, which he sold. Later a question of title came up and his wife was summoned a3 a witness. In the course of her testimony she told the strange story of her abandonment by her mother, the disguised soldier. Local newspapers printed the facts, and they were reprinted in a newspaper at Knoxviile, Tenn. Recently a middle aged but good looKing woman arrived here, fehe'said she was Mrs. John Mason, who lived 1/"r*rwTTil 1 ck Qi\r\ that \fra IJCaL llUUAIiUr, JL V.AIU., UilU bUMU A1A&W* | Mayhew was her daughter. Then she j told her story. She said she was the disguised soldier, Jack Mason. She had run away from her home in Tennessee, and had married a young man against the will of her parents. Afterwards she became jelous of her husband aEd deserted him. Ashamed to return home she had put on men's clothes and joined the guerillas. When she left the house of the Orths, she said, she intended to return and claim her baby, but when she reached east Tennessee she fell into a fever aDd was never afterwards able to locate the place where the Orths resided. She and her husband where reunited, and they advertised extensively for the child, but heard nothing. Mrs. Mayson was overjoyed at finding her daughter, Mrs. Mayhew. A Circular to Military. Columbia, S. C., June 13.?The following circular has been sent to the captains of the various newly organized military companies: Executive Department. Office of the Adjut. and Inspec. General, Columbia, b. C., June llt'a, 1894. Sir: I am instructed by the Commander-in-Chief to issue the following circular for the Information of the newly organized military companies. After the Darlington riot every encouragement was given by tho Governor to the organization of new companies and to all such a promise was made that they would be armed and equipped as soon as possible. Owing to the pol:cy pursued by the Adjutant Generals during the last ten years the State has very few first class arms and there were none in stock, so that in arming new companies only those were available tbat-were taken from the companies who refused to obey the Governor's orders, and these have alrady been distributed. The rule adopted in the distribution was to arm companies in the counties where none previously existed, 2d. To leave the arms alread in a county where they were giving them to the new companies taking the place of the old onse. 3d. To arm those com] anies which came to Columbia during the not. Upwards of 100 companies have been organized and the officers commissioned, while the Adjutant General has only taken arms from about eighteen companies, thu3 leaving over eighty still unarmed. The annual appropriation for the maintenance of the militia is not available for the purchase of arms, but mu3t be distributed prorata among the companies already in exist ence, which meet the requirements of the law. There is,therefore,no money at present with which to buy arms, but iu July the appropriation from Congress will be available for the purchase of arms and when the Legislature meets the Governor will advise an additional appropriation for the purchase of arms. The Commander-ia-Chief take3 this opportunity of urging the companies to tViamoolnaa in rl ril 1 in or jnd tfl yCIiCU'-J bUQLUOWl T iu Vt*. *.****? * -purchase a cheap shirt or blouse to be used as a uniform. He will exert him self to the utmost to arm all tae companies he has commissioned us soon as possible. i I3y order cf the Commander in-Chiel: i H.L.Farley, Adjutant and Inspector Geopral. A Dlaxracefal Flgbc. New York, June 8.?Daniel Lane, 28 years old, was sent to the island ior 10 days for being drunk and disorderly. He is the son of John Lane, who died on Saturday night. Mr. Lane was a re^ ! tired merchant, and was worth about $40,000. He lives with his sons?Daniel , and Michael?and his daughter, Mr3. Patrick Feenev. Daniel is dissipated, Mr. Lane had been ill for a long time, Daniel was afraid that his brother and sister would inllnence their farther to make a will disinheriting him. Aware that his father was at death door, the young man returned home on Saturday intoxicated, and began, in a loud voice, to recount his claims to consideration at the hands of his father. The dying man begged Daniel to leave the house. Michael, reminding his brother that the last sacraments of the Catholic curch had alrady been administered to the dying man added his entreaties to these of his father. Daniel, snatching a candlestick, i1e-a)t Miehael n hlow nn the head with it. 1 The two wrestled, and two or three ! times they almost lell upon the bed in which their father lay. Michael 11a ally caught and held his brother until a ' policeman came. Shortly after he had 1 been taken |away Mr. Lane died. The 1 justice said he would be very glade to | make the sentence more severe if be could, but as Lane's brother and sister did not appear, he could not. The pri j soner admitted the allegation? made by the policeman, but sa'd his people had been trying to influence his father against him, and had provoked him. CO-OPFRAiTIVE COTTON MILLSA. Gtn'le lt-inlDiler to the People of S^ath T Carolina. la the current issue of the Baltimore Manufacturers' Record Mr. 1). A. Tom- f kins, of Charlotte, one of the most sue- o cessful cotton manufacturers in that c section has an interesting article on t< co-operation in building cotton mills. Mr.Tomkins shows how companies can t be organized and the money raised by v weekly payments for building cotton . mills in such a way as to make the organization of such companies feasible * in hundreds of towns where it would g be impossible to secure large subscrip- v tions. In the South we have lew savings banks,compared with those in the North, and we need enterprises that c will encourage the habit of saving and v investing a portion of the weekly earn- 'j ings of the average citizen. Building and loan associations supply this want - " nw.Anf V> i. . ma nnaH n a rvniifj . ^ LU SOIIIO CAlCUl, UUO tY C uctu w Uj/tia- r, tive companies to push industrial en- ; terprises witn the capital that can easily be furnished in small weekly installments from thousands of ourpeepie. f The success of this plan in Charlotte . speaks for itself. Mills have been built J near Charlotte by subscriptions paya- * ble weekly in small sums for one, two, * four and eight years, but the favorite plan is that of paying 50 cent3 per '' week on a share for i'our years. At j this rate 1,000 shares would make a * capital of 8100,000, a sum sutlicient to j: build a cotton mill of about 5,000 ; spindles, with looms enough to weave j their product. Mr. Tompkins gives the followihg estimate for such a mill: ; Employees, men and boys 30 : Emgloyees, women and girls 00 Pay roil per week, about ?350 1 Eales cotton consumed per week 20 In North Carolina the products of j the different mills vary greatly. At Charlotte one mill makes warp yarns, another skein yarns doubled and twist- J ed, another makes both warps and c skeins, another white cloth, another ginghams, another counterpanes and towels, another stockiDgs and knit j goods. Those mili3 which make colored . goods must have dye works. ; If the subscriptions to the stock of 1 an entailment mill are made payable i at the rate of 50 cents per week per share, and the capital subscribed was j ?100,000, then in the first year the ( amount paid m to me company a ucua- , ury would 'oe about ?25,000. With ' this money the buildings could be built . and paid for, leaving a surplus in the . treasury. The buildings would be a main building, engine room, boiler room and houses or cottages for the hands to live in. In some special cases, , where the factory was to be built in a j city, these houses might not be built, . as the hands could find board or houses < to rent near by the factory in the city. . Generally speaking, however, it is best , to put a factory one to four miles away from a city, and let the company build ( and own the houses the employes live 1 in. In Charlotte no house rent is charged, . the factories furnishing houses free of rent. In some other places rent is J charged at the rate of SI per room. Considering that subscriptions were ? being paid regularly, and that the , buildiDgs were all completed and paid j for at the end of about one year, and , that the company's income was about I 82,000 per month from regular install- j ment payments on subscriptions, then under these conditions about 82,500 , spindles and appeartaining machinery J could be bought for a good cash pay- j meat, and the remainder payable SI,000 to 82,000 per month. In about , ? - ? *- ? A ? U >? A m t K A S SIXieeil tu ClgUlCCLl ULLUIILUO 11VLU LUC I time fie lirst payments were made the mill could be started up on about one- j third to one-half its capacity; then the remainder of the machinery could be added and started up from time to time as the money continued to come i-i by installments. ' j 2so dividends should be paid until : the stock is paid in full and the offi- j cers should receive very small salaries. ( The mills near Charlotte, built on this j plaD, have been very successful, and . some of them during the dull season ] have run night and day to fill orders , for their goods. The co-operative plan . if fairly tried would soon make the \ South the cotton manufacturing center | of the world. , A NARROW ESCAPE. ! A Lion AttP.cks HI* Tamer la the Cage. Coney Island, N. Ym June 10.? i Mile. Beatrice, a lion tamer at the Lon- 1 don show, which i3giv'mg a wild animal ( show on the old iron pier at West J Brighton, had a narrow escape from be* ? ins: mangled to death tonight by a lion. It was just 10 o'clock and the enclosure on the pier where the acama!3 are on exhibition was crowded with people. Tne las', preformance of the day was being given and Beatrice appeared in j the hall, climbed up the ladder leading j to the wild lions' cage and entered. : There are two big Asiatic lions ia the c cage, a male and a female. Bella is the 1 female's name and Brutus the male'e. i The latter is a great pet of the lion I tamer, and she plays with him for fif- < teen minutes at every preformacce. Her * act with the wild beast is closed by * openiog his mouth and kissing him, She } always succeded m kissing the brute J until tonight. While she was making v her bold attempt to smack the lips of ^ Brutus the man who feeds the lioc3 \ made his apperance near the cage with \ a box of raw beef. Brutus caught sight ( cf the beef, and in a moment he un- i fastened Beatrice's hold upon him and r. sprang upon her. \ Both had a lively tussle which finally 1 resulted in the lion tamer's falling to the floor and the lion's grabbing the left side (f her face in bis mouth. l'De women ? and children in the audience screamed ^ and the men ruihed around the bail g looking for clubs and sticks with which J to beat the lion away from the woman, c In a few moments Manager Farrar and ? Trainers Bruce and Ordway rushed in t with pitch forks. After plunging the c forks several times in the head and body 1 of the lion they managed to make him ^ loosen his hold and got the girl out of ? the cage. She was unconscious and s blood was pooring from her lace as she ? wa3 carried into the office. Dr. Hill t was summoned and the woman was put j to bed. V7hen the doctor arrived the ( v/oman was delirious and opiates had to g be given to quiet her. Upon examma- \ tion Dr. Hill found that the lion had s succeeded in sticking three of his big faofh ) h/? wnman's left iaw. _ . _ _ Other parts of her face were also chewed. It took some time to stop the flew ] or blood. Dr. Hill said tonight that it J was the wor3t case of animal bite he f ever saw. The woman wa9 ddhrious 1 at midnight and Dr. Hill 3ays she is in ( a precarious condition. Mile. Beatrice i3 ( 20 years old. Her father was a hoc * tamer ana she went into the business J when 18. She came from London with i the show three weeks ago. A Well ot Ice. ( Cochran, Oa., June, 16.?The people ? of Cochran are now the victims of the j most peculiar circumstances ever re- ( corded in history, be it ancient or mod- . ern. The main street of our little city ( runs North and South, in each end of which there is a large well, used by the L1-- rn.-_ IU ??i] TOith pUOilC. XX1B S J U Lli WCll 10 untu. uii,u water of an average temperature. ] Yesterday morning the patrons of the < North well awoke and went about their . usual routine for supplying themselves ' with water. The buckets when let ; down would invaiiaoly land on a hard i surface unlike water. Wonder de- j manded an investigation. J.t was ice i ?pure ice, several inches thick, that < covered the surface in the North wsli. < Freezing in one well. Hot in another ' within a radius of a hundred yards. < EFFSCrSOFTHE DROUGHT Petkly Bulletin of the Condition of the r Weather and Crops. Columbia, S. C, June 13?The t ollowing is the weekly bulletia k f the condition of the weather and . rops throughout the iitate, issued yes- | erday by iState Observer Bauer: Approximately normal or seasonable 1 emperatures prevailed during the past ( veek, it being relatively cooler near ' he coast than ia the interior. At j Charleston the week average one de- , ;ree a day cooler than seasonable while restward there was an average excess i if two degrees a day. There were one ' ?r two rather cool nights, but on the Fhole the temperature was favorable. 1 There was very little cloudiness except in Wednesday the *>:h, when the sky i vas overcast during the afternoon. L'ne sunshine averaged about 00 per ( :ent f)rthe State. On Wednesday (Oih) afternoon and ; light there were scattered, light show- : irs in various portions of the State, jut they were entirely two light to reieve the droughts, amountiug at no dace to more tli3n 0.50 inch, and generally not more than a sprinkle. The jorrnal amount for the first week in Iune js approximately one inch. Over nany portions of the State there has )een no rain that moistened the soil ; leeper than an inch or so, since about he 20 cf May and the previous rainfall lad not left the ground in condition o stand a prolonged drought as the ^omnarative records at Charleston and Columbia will show. At Charleston he average rainfall from March 1st to lune 10th is 13.47 inches, this year the ainfall has been 5.78 inches, making a leliciency of T.t>9 inches. At Columbia he comparison is equally unfavorable. Average from Marcn 1st to date 13.19 nches. rainfall this year, March 1st to late 5.18 inches making a deficiency of 1.01 inches. The tffects of this deocijncy in rainfall are felt mostly by the lereal crops, except possible corn and :ice, grasses, gardens, etc., or in general :erms, t'ocd and forage crops which itand in urgent need of rain to prevent :hem from being more or less failures. Pastures are dying out with no new growth to replace the grassed cropped, brasses for* haymaking no growth. Jow peas are being sown on 3tubble ind in corn fields, but not as they would be were the soil in better condi;ion. Oats harvest contiuue3 in sec:ions and spring sown oats are very poor. Chesterfield is the only county :hat reports a big crop. Wheat being mt very green in western counties with prospects uf poor yield. Threshing segunin parts of the State witn yields :bat indicate from one forth to oneoalf a crop in yield per acre. The weaker has been unexceptional for harvesting oats and wheat. Potatoes not doing well, too dry. The letting of sweet potato sprouts prac.ically suspended on account of dry less." liice doing fairly well on bot;oui lands, but rather poorly on higher ground, Tobacco not keeping up the jood showing previously made. Melons 3ot growing well, although some good ields are reported. Gardens dying out md in the utmost need of raiD. Corn joatiuues to look healthy but is small md making little or no g'rowth. Should :he dry weather continue much longer t will materially injure the corn crop. Cotton ha3 generally improved in ippearance under the influence of highsr temperatures with fairly good stand, put continues very small and backward. It seemir gly stands the drought letter than otner crops. Cultivated ields are clean and well worked. With ;ood soakiDg raius crops would make rapid impovement. Same old Tom Mackey. Washington', June 13,189-1. To the Editorof The State: The State n a recent issue has an article by Judge Mackey in reference to himself at the cattle of Gettysburg, whicb, while iomplimentary to me, is erronous in nany particulars. This article has appeared in several papers and some :'riends have written to me to ask if :he account given is accurate. I am iverse to making any public reference :o incidents which occurred on our batrleflelds. but I am unwilling to take | mdeserved credit for any acts of my I )wa during the war. So 1 am impelled :o say that Judge Mackey Is mistaken n stating that any such "duel" as he mentions happened. I wa3 severely bounded at Gettysburg, and, like many )f my gallant command on that bloody ieid, I had some personal encounters, 3ut none such as were described as occurring with the sharpshooter, nor have [ ever any communication with my intagonists of that day. 1 am respectfully yours, Wade Hampton. Musical Homes ar9 Happy Houea. Have you ever noticed it ? Call to nind the homes of your friends who lave a good Piano or O'gan in the louse. -Are they not brighter and nore attractive than thcss where the livine art of music never enters? To ie sure it costs to buy a good instrunent, but it lasts many years, aod will iay its cost3 many a thousand times - ?? ~ ir?fAt?nofirir? fViq rnnnnf fa 1 Ira in JYC1 uy lUlCVCOLliat; iuc iuiao IU heir home3. Don't make the mistake, hough, of Investing haphazard. Post rourself thoroughly by writing Ludcien fc Bates Southern Music House, Savahlah, Ga., the great music house of the south, established in 1870. They have lupplied 50,000 instruments to South jm homes, and have a reputation for .'air prices and honorable treatment of justomers; and they represent the leadng pianos and organs of America rhey take pleasure in corresponding vith you, sending free catalogues, etc Write them. Drank Aconite tor Alcohol. Seljia, Ala., June 10.?This morning >id Fowls, David Johnson and Fred Jones went out for a day's fishing, leven miles from the city. They carled with them, as they thought, a iemijohn of alcohol. They stopped it the house of Paul Frazier, who was iie nrst to sample me contents or tne lemijohn. Tne old man died in a few ninutes. Johnson, the owner of the lemijohD, then gave his supposed ileo-hoi to his com-panions, to ihow that the old man died from >ther causes, but not liking the a3te, they both spat it out. Johnson hen took a big swallow him3elf and n ten minutes was dead. It now turns )ut that the deadly fluid was aconite, itolen through mistake for alcohol, Tom Cawthorne & Coleman's drug itore in this city-. A Bloody Battle. Dublin, June 10.?Auold woman vho owned half an acre of s.round at Seuagha, county ot Tipperary, died Frilay without leaving a lelative or specifyng and heir. Her negiuoors quarrelled iver the possession of her land yesterlay. Some thirty men fought with scy ,hes and pitchforks around her house. Eventually they broke down the doors tnd heal each other with the candles vhich had stood guard over the body. When the light was ended two mcu lay lead at the doorstep and five others vere too sverely wounded to walk from .he scene of the conflict. A farrae, Darned Dwyer, living near Nenaghaivas killed in another agrarian quarter dd Fr day. I)l*a8troai3 Explosion. Vienna, June 15.?Five distinct explosions of flredamp occurred in the ioal miDes of Count Larisch at KarwiD, Austrian Silesia, duriDg last night. Two hundred miners were killed "and i number entombed. The mines are tow burning fiercely. A dispatch from Katrwin says that only twenty of tbo men injured by the explosion were got Dut of the mines. Several of them were lying when brought to the surface. The rescue party which was lost consisted cf ten men. I NalltdUp. ^ San Francisco, Cal., Jane 11.? I?he steamer China which arrived yes;-rd.iy from the Orient brings a peculiar iter/ of the methods employed by the igei:t3 of the Chiaese ia this country for mtr-ral purposes. While the vessel was at t'ue wharf at Yokohama receivng her cargo Japanese passenger came )n board and asked to have four large ooxe3 taken to his state room, but was efused, a3 the boxes were too large, rhe boxes were left on the wharf to be ^ placed in the hold with the other cargo. ? As they were beiBg hoisted up a peculiar noise started the stevedores. They rolled the boxes aside, called the police and the boxes were found to coutaia lour Japan ese girls almost suflocated. The boxes * 4t? were i?yu :es'? lurcc iuuucj iu icugtu auu one and one-half feet broad and deep. There was a snail air bole at one end, but the boxes were laid on the wharf end up and the holes closed. The Japanese who attempted the outrage had Dot been apprehended when the steamer left. Three of the girls were billed to Portland and the other to Ticoma. The . Xewberry Reformers have agreed that they will not hold a caucus this year to bring out candidates tor the different offices, and that there shall be an open field and a free fight, so that any one can take his chances as to being elected. The Greenville Mountaineer thinks it would go a long ways towards restoring good feeling between the factions and healing the I dissensions of the past if the Reform- j| ers in every county would take this m position at the first opportunity and 1 then live up to it. True Bills Found Darlington. S. C., June 11.?In the cases of the State vs. McLendon and the State vs. Cain. State constables, for the killing of Xorment and Redmond in the Darlington riot, the grand jury brought in true bills. The trials were postponed to the next term of court. There were no other developments.?Register. mm PAYS THE FREIGH1 < M) -V, i&tsnt Prists tar Getris! end tor ataicgue ssd Set What You Csa Soil v ') !*\ ' :-FlC? now $15 S^sj;Sn "ih^r ?'/irwotii ^ r?-j ^ $69?*"Sf?$37 i Ea ^U8? introduce them. (fir \ ^3 No freight paid on this Orff**'2 gan. Guaranteed to be a xfL ~~'-2 a good organ or money re'-<< (. ? funded. ? ? JLJlii o SB ?w? m &S&?&r 1 Lf$ pg9 9L ' ~ S^l t c*? -j Eir?ioS ?!uih PA.ELOK SUITS, consisting < ' Sofa ' .-in Chair. Rocking Chair, Divan 2 & >:<' h.-urs -worth $45. Will delive? to your '< ' $33. Thla No.1 v cttriH |a ft >tt_, 'JJZ' & ilia ytaewof ' OV.f.lflJ VarTwffi if - * ^ , ha deliver ?. , -. ;i4r3 edtoyoofc V. "*-'- t -'--^4 depot for ^ eniytia xJT>- "Nk a Jjscs zirxt kArenta wim aii attH? r.nter.ia. for CjI'iwmul A ONLY $18.50 5^25^ S iehvcreu U> your depot. mjJggSf M j.Tiie regular price of ttile BUGGY 18 65 to 75 dollars. j5g! 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