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HIC IS TilY naaorInn. Has he fallen, deo ly fallen From the path oltruth anA light? Is he groping, blindly groplng, In the blackness of sin's night? Is he straying, sadly straying, From the tender Shepherd'r fold? Is lie staylg, ldly staying, On the niountain, bleak and cold? if he's fallen, still remember, Thiel own stops may Onel day stido, For while VIrtue's path is narrow, Error's way Is broad and wide. Or, if from the fold lie's wandered, Lured by pleasure's voice away, Remember from Ills loving care, Thine own feet are prono to stray. Turn not from a fellow croaturo Haughtily, with scornful eyes, But from sin and shameful rallures. 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 orase the deadly stain. Tell him of God's pardoning goodnes And you'll do the Master's will, For it matters not how fallen, Know lie Is thy brother still. A DANGEROUS DELAY. The Rev. Dr, Taimage 1'reachen Throuath The Presa. BROOKLYN, June 10.-Rev. Dr. Tal. mage, who is now speed ng act oss the Pacific to Iionolulo on his round the world journey, has selected as the sub iect for sernionic discourse through the press today "The Exzited Governor," the text being taken from Acts xxiv, 25: "Felix trembled, and answered: Go thy way for this time. When I have a con venient season, I will call for thee." A city of marble was Cmanrea-whar ves o1 marble, houses of marble, temples of marble, This being the ordinary architecture of the place, you may in agine something of the splendor of Gov ernor Felix's residence. In a room of that palace, floor tessellated, windows curtained, celling fret ted, the whole econo affluent with Tyrian purple and statues and pictures andi carvings, Pat a very dark complexioned man of the nama of Felix, and beside him a womnii of ex. traordlnary beauty, whom he haid stolen by breaking up another diomesti circle. She was only 18 years of age, a princess by birth and uinwittii--lv waiting for her doom-that oi being huried alive in the ashes and scorbe of' Mount Vesuvius, which in sutidden eruption one day put an end to her aiominations. Well, one afternoon Drusilla, seated In the palace, weary with the mna.nli cent stupidities of the place, Bays to Felix: "You have a very dialtiguished prisoner, I believe, of the unme of Paul. Do you know he is one of my country met? I should very much like to see him. and I should very much liko to hear him speak, for I hava heard so munch about his elcquence. ]lesides that, the other day, whIen he was bein tried in another room of this place and the win. dows were open, I lieard the tipplause that greeted the speech ol' lawver Ter. tullus as lie denounced Paul. Now I very much wish I could hear ['auil speak. Won't Von let me hear him speak?" "Yes," said Felix, "I will. I will or der him up now firom tle suardroom. Clank, clank, comets i chain up the mar ble stairway, and there is a huill h at the door, and i comes Paul, a little old man, prematurely olI through exposure -only 60 years of age, hut looking as though lie were 80. IIe bowe ver'y courteously before the governor and1 the beautmfunl Woman by his side, T[hey say': "Paul, we have heardl a great decal abmut your speaking. Give us niow a specimen of your elcquence." Ohi, if there ever wase a chance ol'a man to show off, Paul had a chance therel lie might, have hanranigiod them about Grecian art, alcut thin wondierful waterworks lie had seen at uorinth, about the Acropolis by moonlight,, about p~rison lit'e in P'hilippi. about " what I saw in Thessalonica," about the old mythologies, but, "'No!'' P'aul id to himself. "I am now on the way to martyrdom, andI this man and woman wlli soon be diead, and this is my only opportunity to talk to them about the thmngs of eternity. And just there alad then there broke in upon the scene ai peal ol thunder. It was the voice o1 a judlgment day sneak ing through the wvords of tihe diedrepit apostle, As that grauid O'ld missionlary proceeded with his remarks the stoop) begIns to go out of' his shoulders, and lhe rises up, and his countenance is illumined with the glories ol' a future life, and his shackles rattle andl grindl as lie lifts him fettered arm, and with it hurls upon lisa abashed auditors the bolts of God's iii. dignatien. Felix grew very white about| the lips, IHis heart beat unevenly, i~e p~ut his handi to his brow, as though Io stop the quickness and violence of his thoughts. lie drew his robe tiighter about him as undler a sudden chill. His eyes glare, and lis knees shake, antd as he clutches the side of his chair ini a very paroxysm of terror he orders the shierifi' to take Paul back to the guardroom. "Felix trembled and said: (Go thy way for this time. When .1 hiave a convein lent .season, I will call for thee." A young wan came one night to our ser. vice, with pencil in hand, to caricature the whole scene anti make mmrth of those who should express any anxiety about their souls, but I met him at the dioor, his lace very white, tears running down hIs cheek, as lie saidi, "Do you think there is any chance for nme?" [Felix trembled, anti so may God granm it may be so with others, I propose to give you two or three reasons why I think Felix seat Paul back to the guardroom and adjourned this whole subjectof religion. T1hie first rea son was he did not want to give up his sins, Hie looked around. There was Drusilla. Hie knew that when lhe be came a Christian lie must send her back to Azizus, her lawful husband, and lie said to himself, "I will risk the deistruc tion of my immortal soul sooner than I will do that." HOW many there are now who cannot get to be Christians because they will not abandlon their sia In vain all their prayers and all their church going. You cannot keep these darling sins and win heaven, and now some of you will have to decIded between the wine cup and an. lawiul amusements and lascivious grati fIcatlons on the one hand, and eternal salvation on the other. Delilah sheared the locks of Samson; Salome danced Herod Into the pit; Drusilla blocked upI the way to heaven for Felix. Yet when I present thme subject now, I fear that some of you will sax: "Not quite yet. Don't be so precipitate in your demands .1. have a few tickets yet that I have to use. I have a few engagements that I must keep. I want to stay a little longer in the whirl of con vlvlality-a few more guflaws 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 adjourne< this subject was he was so very busy In ordinary times he found the afflaire state absorbing, but those were extra ordinary limes. The whole land was ripe for hisurrection. The Sicaril, a baud of smass's, were already prowline around thc palace, and I suppose tie thought, "I can't attend'to religion while I am pressed by t fl'airs of state." it was businees, smong other things, that ruined his srul, and I suppose there are thousands of people who are not children of God because they have so much busi. lief 8 It is husiniess in tIe store- -loese', gains, unfaithful (emp'oycos. It Is busi ness in your law ofllee-subf iotas, writs you have to write out, papers you have to flie, arguments you have to make. It is your medical profession, with its broken nights, aud the exhausted anxie. ties of life hanoing upon your treatment. It is your real 8tate oflice, your busi ness with landlordB and tenanta. and the [ilure of men to meet their obligations with you. Aye, with some of those who are here, it is the annoyance of the kitchen, and the sittmg room, and the parlor-tbe wearing economy of trying to meet large expenses with a small in come. Ten thousand voices of "Lusi ness business business" drown the voice of the eternal Spirit, silencing tho voic3 of the advancing judgment day, overcom ing the voice of eternity, and they canl not listen. They say, "Go thy way for this time." Some of you look upon your goods, look upon your profession, you look upon your uemorandumn books, and you see the demands that are made this very week upou your time, and your patience, and your money, and while I am entreat ing you about your soul and the danger of procrastination you say: "Go thy way for this time. When I have a enn venient season, I will call for thee." 0 Felix, why be bothered about the affairs of this world so much more than about the ailairs of eternit3? Do you not know that when .eath comes you will have to stop business, though it be in the most exacting period of it-between ',he pay. ment of the money and the taking of the receipt? The moment he comes you will have to go. Daat'i waits for no man, however high, however low. Will you put your office, will you put your Shop in comparison with the aftairs oft al eternal world, alairs that involves thrones, palaces, dominions eternali Wil you put 200 acres of ground against inimensity? Will you put 10 or 5C years of your lifle against millions of aget? 0 Felix, Nou might better postpone everything elsel For do you not know that the upholstering of' Tyrian pur plo in your palace will lade, and the marb!e blocks of CAsarea will crumble, and the breamwater at the beach, tuade of ureat blocks of stone Go foot I mg must, give way before the perpetual wash of ti sea, but the redemption that pau olers you will be forevei? And yet ant yet and yet you wave him back to th< guardroom, saying: "Go thy way foi this tme. When I have a convenient scasonl, I will call for thee.) A gain, Felix adjourned this subject o relgion ind put oil Pamt's argumont, tie cause ie could[ not givo ut) the honors of the world. Ile was afraid somehow h would be compromised himself in this natfer. Itemarks he made alterward showed him to be intensely abniit ious. Oh, how lie hugged thre favor of' men! 1 never saw the honors of' ts world in tileir hohrowness and hypocrisy so much as mi thre hfo and death of' that wonderful man, Charles Somnier. As ho wenit towardsl the lafce of buril even ladependence ha11 ini Philadfelphia asked that his romainis stop) there on their wary to Boston, The flags were at half miast ~ad thre minute guns on Boston com-* rnon throbbed after his heart, had ceased tuo beat. WVas it always sc? While lhe livedh, how cenisured of legislative reo irtionrs, how cairicatured of tlhe pictorials row charged with every motive mean mdc rediculous; how all the urnis of'seorn md hatred and billinigsgate emptied up yn his head; how, when struck dIown in enamte chamber, there were huaidreds of housands of peolie who saidf, "'Good or him; serves him righiti" how lhe had ut the ocenan betweeai him andl his ma iners, that lie mig'ht have a littlo peace ud1( how, when lie went off sick, they aid lhe was brokeni hearted because lhe ~ould not get to be president or secreta y ofC state. O) commonwealth of Massachusetts, vhio is that man that sleeps in your pub tic hall, covered1 with garlands and wrapped in the stairs aid striper? Is that, the man who, only a few months before, you denrouncedh as the foe ot re iubhcan and dhemiocratie instLitu tions? is thast the amne mian)? 'Ye &aericarn peo ple, ye could not, by onie week 01 fun. eral culogiumn and newspap~er leaders, wvhich the dlead sentor could neither eand nor heair, atone for 25 years et mal reatmnent anid caricature. When I see r mian like that, pursued by all the 'iounds of the political keninel so long as hae lives and then buried under a great pile of garlands and amhid the lamnenta Lions of a whole niatioa, I say to myself: Whit an unutterably hlypocritical thing Is all human aplplause and human fauvori You took 25 years an trying to pull down hris lame aand then take 25 year's in try ing to build his moniument.. My friends, was theare ever a better sommnentary on t':e hollowness of' all aarthrly favoi? if ther 3 are young men who read this who are p~ostp~oning re ligion~ in order that they may have the Favors of this worldl, let, me persuade them of their complete folly. If you lookIng forward to gubernatorial, sena torial or presidenitial chair, lot me show you your great mistake. Can it be that there is now any young man saying: "Let me have pclitical offie,. let me hrave some of the high lpositionis of trust and power, and then 1 will attend to religion, but riot niow. 'Go thy way for this ime. When I have a convenient season, I will call for thee!' And now my subject takes a deeper tone, and it shows what a dangerous tihing is this deferring of' religion. When Paul's chain rattled dlown tire marble stairs of Felix that was Felix's last chance for heaven. JudgIng from hris character afterward, lie was reprobate and abandoned. And so was D~rusilla. One day in southern Italy there was a trembling of the earth, and the air got black with smoke intershot with liquid rocks, arid Vesuvius ramned upon Uru silla and upon her son a horrible temp. est 01 ashes and fire, Th9y did not re ject religron; they only put it off. T1hey did 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 tip~ped the wrong way. Tl1heir convenient season came when Paul and his guardsman entered the palace--It went away when Paul and his guardsman left. Ihave you never seen men waiting for a ecnrvemrent season? There is such a great facination about it that, though you may have great respect to the truth of Christ, vet somehow there is your soulni th uht: I 'Not quite yet. It is not time for we t become a Christian." I say to a bo3 "Seexc Christ." Ile save, "No; wal nutil I am a young man." I say to th young man, ' Seek Christ." le says "Wait uutil I come to midlife." I Mee the same person in midlife and I say "Seek Christ." le says, "Wait unti I Lyet old.'' I meet the same person It old age and say to him, "Seek Christ.' Ile says, "Wait uNtil I am on iuy dym bed." I ai called to his (ying couch. IUi last moments have come. I bond over the couch and listen for his lasi words. I have partially to guess what they are by the motIon of his lips, he le so fet ble. but rallying himself, he whis pera, until I can hear hn say, 'I--iu --wai itig-for-a-moi a- convenient season,'' and lie is gonel I el you whenl your coivenieit s.'a son will comelo. I can tell vou the yeai -it will be 1894. I can tell you whal kind of a day it will be-it will be the Sabbath day, I can tell you what houl it will be-it will b3 between 9 and 1( o'clock. 1u other words, it is now. D( you ask ine how I know this is youi convenient season? I know it becaust you are here, and because they are here and because the Holy Spirit is here, and because the elcet Bons and daugbtora o' God orc praying for your redemption A I, I know It is your convenient seasor: bEcause some (I you, like Felix, tremblf as your past life comes up)n you with iti sin and all the future life comes upor you with its terror. This night air iE aglare with torches to show you up oi to to ahow you down. It is rustlins with wings to lift you into light or smite you into despair, and there is a rushing to and fro and beating against the dooi of your soul as with a great thunder o emphasis telling you, "Now, now is th< best time. as it may be the only time.' May God almighty forbid that any o you, my brethren or sisters, act the par of Felix ot Drusilla and put away thii great subject. It' you are going to bi saved ever, why not begin toniehit Throw down your sins and take thi Lord's pardon. Christ has been tramp ing after you many a day. An Indial and a white man became thristians The Indian, almost as soon as he hear the gospel, believed and was saved, bu the white, man struggled on in darknest for a long tune before lie found light. Alter their peace in Christ the wbit man said to the Indian, "Why was i that I was kept so long in the darknesi and you immediately found peace?' Tihe Indian reptied: "-I will tell you A prince comes along, and he offers yoi a coat. You look at your coat, and yo say, 'My coat iN good enough,' and yoi refuse his oiler, but the prince comei along and lie offers me the coat, and I look at my old blanket and I throw thal away and take his offer. You sir,' continued the Indian, "are clinging t< your own righteousness, you think yot are good enough, and you keep you1 own righteousness, but I have nothing nothing, and so . when Jesus clers mo pu.idon and peaeo [ simply take it.'' My reader, why not now throw awa. the worncu', blanket of your sin an( tike the robe of a Saviour's righteous neas--a robe so white, so fair, so lus trou?, that no fuller ou earth'zan whiter it? 0 shepherd, tonight bring homi the lost sheep! 0 Father, tonight giv4 a welcomimg kiss to the wan prodigal o fricud of LozArus. tonight break dowi the door of the aepulcher and say to al these dead souls as lby irrcsistible fiat A SAD TALE. A Wrtdtd i"asauIly, WVito Traia,rd to Ol ariect Lni for S uccur. Cor.i:M 1 r A, S. C., J1unie 14.--Sunday morning when St. Michael's run for early service and the air was laden with the perfume of tlowers the bell of t he convent of Our Lady of Mercy in Queen street was rung. When the good samaratani of that holy place answered the call she was horrifled to see before her the ghastlIest sight of wvant and siTerinig that she ever set eyes upon. 11er heart was touched at the spectacle before her and it was with dililculty that she could command herself to speak. "l'or God's sake give us something to eat, we are starving," said the voice of a child. The sister started at the wordls and looked into the pale, haggard face of a boy of nine summers. The boy's rugged countenance was distored with pain, ie looked dirty and miser able and was almost naked, his clothes hanging to his hack in tatters. A thin cadaverous looking woman, pate and worn with suffering, held him by the hand. T'his was the boy's mother, poor souli The clotnes that hung on ber back were liko the boy's pacthes and travel stain ed. A little old1 man bent with age brought up the rear. TIhis was the father on whose face the marks of suft fering were indelibly stamped. ie leained leavily on the arm of his son, an elder boy eleven~years old, who like his brother, wvas also ragged and dirty, tired and hungry. This was the picture that met the good sister's eyes. A party of four hun gry people stood staring her in the lace. The sister's heart was touched, she called for assistance and in a ver~y few moments four tired souls were seated before a table on which steame-i the most delicious yiands, hot coffee an(d rolls, a meal for a king. When the meal was over and the party had eaten their full, the mother with a dee~p sigh related the following sadl story: "My husband, myself and two little boys lived at Marion. We lived liap pily together until my husband became sick. The little money lie had was ex pended in (doctors' bills and medicines. But that is not all, whliat properity we had was mortgaged to keep the wolf from the door. The blow came the other day when everything we had was taken from us. Then we decided to leave thie o1ld homestead and come to Charleston. We had no money to pay our fare here and we had to walk. We tramped the entire distance my sick husband, myself two boys, and when we arrived here we were tired and worn out. The sisters were deeply touched andl expressed their heartfelt sympathy. For the remainder of the morning the sister did everything in their power to make their guests as comfort. able as possible. Towards evening the party of -four were transferred to the station house where they were housed until an early hour yesterdlay morning when they were sent back to Marion, there fare on the railroad having been paid. 't'he sisters collected an abundance of clothing an ether necessaries for them and they wont away much happier than when they caime. Thej1 old man was a siaht to behold . Bent with age, his wrinkled and pallid countenance had the marks of much suffering. At the convent lie moaned bitterly and called upon the sister to take care of his poor wife that he was going to die, lie asked the sister's permission to lie on the piazz,'a. "I cant walk anymore," he said, "I1 am going to die." The names of'the party are SPatrick lianks, Marry Hianks. 1". iE IlHanke. ndi Jon. J. fanks.. - Ih Su.* THE MINISTRY OF CHILDHOOD. Extract fren hiabop Hargrove'so Sormou 5 at WoUord Vommvencement. The following I A an extract form the sermon of Bishop Hargrove preached at the commencoment of Weilord College on the 10th, instant: Pishop Hargrove's text was Isaiah ii, 6: "And a little child shall lead them." His subject was the Ministry of Child. bood. He began by stating that angels had no ancestry and they know nothing of the family relation. Sex, matrimony and children are human and do not be. Iqng to angels. They do not know any. thing of the blessedness of childhood. Earth and Heaven are the only places illumined by tRe radiant emiles of in Iancy.Childhood is a divine arrangement and has been distinctly and emphatically recognized by God In all the great epochs of the world's history. If our first pa rents had ret ined their sinless integrity all perfections would have been trans. mitted to their posterity through endless ages and a defection from original purity would have been impossible. This grand opportunity was lost and thus the curse was entailed on posterity and depravity took possession of the race. But human exigency is the divine opportunity. Re pentance, regeneration and sanctification are the remedial exredients by which God sought to redeem the race. One half of the human race dies before reaching the age of five. Many of the otheis pass away before they reach the years of accountability. So a majority of the race is tranferred to the paradise of God and Heaven Is peopled largely with children. The death of each infant is a defeat to Satan. If the presence of the gleeful glorifled children gladden the streets and mansions of the New Jerusa. lem how fearfully dreary, doleful and de solate must be Satan's dominions, where childhood never can enter. Parents sometimes charge God fool ishly 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 chord3 are touched into har mony by tiny fingers where they would not respond to the rude sweep ot older hands. The gay, frivolous society wo man 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 tow srds the Kingdom of God. Let not everything be attributed to the preacher. hooks, the press, because thousands are led to a higher and better life through the ministry of little chil dren. In the first epoch of the world's his. tory the means of' salvation included the children, for Noah failed to save tile world from the flo)od, but he,saved all his own family. Then came the grand op portunity of the race, t-ut Noah fell and his posterity was exposed to ravages of sin. The second epoch was when Abraham was called to become the founder cf a great nation and the promise was to him and his children. They were included in the covenant as often as it was repeated. In the third epoch God commanded Moses to keep the children of Israel a separate and distinct people. Special instructions were given as to the training of children. In this school the Israelites 'were kept with fortunes for 1,500 years, when the last great ep~och was ushered in by the birth of the Saviour, who con leecrated childhood forever by His birth in the manger at Bethelehem. Iu all His teaching Hie was especially comdelr ate of litte children. In all these leadling epochs ihe spiri tual agencies were dlirected to childhood. At any given time the majority of the race is young. In this majority there arc those who wvillihve the longest time and exercise the greatest intluence. W hen one seeks to instruct children they are dealing with those who are to be comne the most important faictors in work. ing out the world's destmny. The mind of children is receptLive, tile conscience is tender, vicious habits hlave not been formed, and it is easier to plantI good seedls which will vield abuntlantly goodl fruits. Childhood offers natural and coastitutional facilities for the 01). eration of' the spirit of God. Children are imitative and gladly f ollow others. Thley are curious and are always readly ~ to demand tihe reason for thing~s. They ~ never doubt and their faith is strong un til they are deceived. This is the forma tive period when chlaracter is fixed. The ' impressions of childhood are more last- ~ ing thlan tho'e made later in life. The i mother's smiles and cradle songs will all come up to the aged when they are ~ descending the dark valley. Mothlers I write with indelible ink. Archimedes be hioved lhe could move tile world if' he hadt a place to stand andl a rest for his ful crum. Childhood is the iulcrum and t eternal truth is the leyer, and iby this ac fallen world can be lifted back into the C bosom of its God. Nailed Up.( SAN FRANCISCO. Cal., June 11.-- t Tile steamer China which arrived yes- 1 terday from the Orient brings a peculiar ( story of the methods employed by tihe a agents of the Chinese in this country for C immoral purposes. While the vessel al was at th~e whiarf at Yokohama receiv- t ing her cargo Japanese p~assenger came t on board andl asked to have four large k boxes takeii to his state room, but was t refused, as the boxes were too large. 'I The boxes were lefL on the whar f to be t' placed in the hold with the other cargo. iI As they were being hoisted up) a peculiar ;t noise started the stevedores. They rolled the, boxes aside, called the police and the boxea were found to contain four Japan eso girls almost suflocated. The boxes wvere two feet three inches In length and one and one-half feet broad and (deep. r There was a small air hole at one end, d but the boxes were laid on the wharf ~ end up and the holes closed. Lbe Jap- v anese who attempted the outrage had d not been apprehended whlen thle steamer r left. Three of the girls wvere billed to d Portland and tile othler to T.scowa, A Murderous Bridge. c AIKEN, June 13.--A brakeman on a freight train of the Georgia and Carolina t Railroad was killed liast night while ini the discharge of his duties. 'He was rid- ~ ing on top of a box car In an erect post tion, and while the train was passing i through the Alken cut his head struck Laurenis street bridge and he was knocked oft the car and died in a short while af terwards. His name is J. 1). Craf'o, and r it is said his home was In Chlarleston. r The coroner of this county su nmonedi a 1 jury of' inquest thIs morning with Mr.t Jesse C. Petty as foreman. After view- i !ag the body the jury adjourned until 12 f o'clock on Thursday, when testimoney a will be taken. Several person have beeni killed by this same bridge tia the same i way. The bridge is too low and should I be raised. It Is the duty of the road to I construct and maintain alt the bridges that span this cut.-News and Conrier. LABOR TROUBLES SOME OF THE RESULTS OF THE HARD TIME'S NOW ON. Foreign Minors o Stlike, Kidap and Maitroat Four Workmen-.itetenin Deputies Killed Severai Slave-Troubtei Elsewhere-Troops Oslied Out. UNIoNrowN, Pa.,.June 10.--A bat tle between seven armed deputies and a mob of 300 strikers occurred this morn Img at 9 o'clock at the Ls~nont No. 3 works of the McClure Coke Company, One striker, a Slav was killed imstantly, and two other SIv strikers wero fatally wounded. The deputies were surrounded and fired upon by the strikerA before they shot. The incidents leading up to the battle last evening, when a mob of severa] hundred strikers, mostly from the Trot. ter works of the Frick Company, gath ered at the Pennsylvania Railroad de. pot at New Haven and took prisonere four workmen, who are employed at the works of the Frick Company and were on their way home at Lelsenring. The names of the workmen are John Dela ney, Oliver Attleby. John Britt and John Furlough. When they stepped off the train the mob surroundod them and marched them away. The four men were covered wild chalk and big placards with "scab," "blackleg'' and other epthets lettered thereon. The men were then marched through the streets escorted by the hoot ing mob and taken back to the Trotter and Leisenine plants, where they were paraded through the btreets between the compay houses. The strikers jeered them and the women spit upon them and hit them with stones and clubs. They were even marched past their own homes and their wives and children per mitted to view them in their helpless. ness. Sheriff Wilhelm dispatched Deputy Sheriff Allen with seven deputies to res. cue the workmen. Allen arrived at 6 o'clock. At no time was lie able to overtake the mob having the men in charge. Allen finally learned that the men were being passed from mob to mob. It was found that the four men had been taken to Morrel and from there to Youngstown and then to Lemont, where the battle occurred. Early this morning, after placing the deputies to prevent the strikers from taking their prisoners elsewhere, Allen return to Un. iontown for further orders and was di rected to rescue the prisioners. Return ing to Lemont, he found two deputies re treating before a bowling mob of Slays. As Allen roade up, a Slav fired at him with his revolver. The ball passed over his head. Several of the mob then began firing at the officers. Allen' revolver was defective and only two shot were (iced by him. Five of his assistants came up and began firing with their Winchesters. About fifty shots were' exchanged, the mob slowly advaning, the deputies rn treating, until reinforced by other dep uties, when a stand was made. The mob then began to disperse. Sheriff Whilhelm was again notitled and sent thirteen more deputies. An hour later twelve of the mob were arrested and brought to lail. The Slav that was killed was found lying in the road, shot through the body by a Wmnchester bullet. Tw~io other were found in houses near by, both said to be mortally wounded, having been ihot. through the thighs. The strikes re uisedl to give the name of the Slav killed, >r of those injured. They wanted the dfllcers to take the (lead striker with hem whent making the arrest. One of he men arrested was shot in tihe arm. At 4 o'clock a special train took dowi, en more dleputies, and then took the rounded men to the hospItal at Con elleville. Many others are believed to ave been wounded. None of the dep tLies were injured. At 5 o'clock a posse of twenty-five leputies, in charge of Field Deputies U~len, Altebaugh and Richards, armed rith search warrants, left for Cool Spring lollow, after searching thie Lemont ouses. It 'is belIeved Lhat four work non were taken during the trouble and re hidden away In the monument ouses. It is believedl that the four aen at all hazaras. Scveral hundredl trikers live in the vicinity of Cool pring and a conflict may occur. Tuey ave not returned or been heard from. Shlerifi Wilhelm said tonight that lie rould not ask for the mIlitia on account f today's trouble, ie says he is grow ig heartily tired of the warfare, but, so :mg as his deputies are not overpow red will fight away in attempting to naintain peace and order. Several hun redl arrests are exp~ected to follow for he kidnapping of the men.. At Pana, Illinois, the mining situa ion still remain unsettled. A company f strikers, numbering about 200, arie ampesd on the SIblev farm about two iiles from Pana, About 500 members the First Regiment of Chicago with a hatthhng gun, arrived on special traini his morning at 6 o'clolck and were fol >wed at 9 o'clock by compantes from 'linton and Bloomington, andl they are l1in camp at the baseball park. Crowds fstrikers are located in the timber nd near the railroad bridge all around ie city. It is variously estimated that iere is from 1,500.to 4,000 foreIgn stri era in close proximity to the city and iey can be massed on short notice. 'he local minners vow they will not en ir the mines while the militia remains Sthe city. So no attempt will be made > operate thie shafts tomorrow. Drank Aconito for Aicohioi. SE~LMA, Ala., June 10.-ThIs morning id Fowls, David Johnson and Fred ones went out for a day's fishing, iven miles from the city. They car Led with them, as they thought, a emijohn of alcohol. They stoppedi t the house of Paul Frazier, who was tie first to sample the contents of the emijohn. The old man died in a few lnutes. Johnson, the owner of the emijohn, then gave his supposed luo-hol to his com-panions, to how that the old man died -from ther causes, but not liking the aste, they both spat it out. Johnson hien took a big swallow himself and a ten minutes was (lead. It now turns ut that the deadly fluid was aconite, tolen through mistake for alcohol, rem Cawthiorne & (Ogleman's drug tore in this city. . 'astponed a CoL~UMBIA, S. C., .June 12---Agu ients .as to the coristittionaluty of the egistration law were appoInted to be card before the Supreme Court this serning, but the hearing was postooned ntil the next term which begims on the eurth Tuesday of November. This was lons on motion of the A ttorney General rho . atated that lhe had just aeen the upernvisor of~ registration and did n'ot ave time to prepare his return. This :nocks up the p)ossibility of tile move aent effecting this election, even if It hould be declared iuncntaimnal CO-OPERATIVE COTTON MILLS. A Genle RemzInder to the People of sout Osroliu. In the current issue of the Baltimor Manufacturers' Record Mr. D. A. Tomr kins, of Charlotte, one 3f the-mobt su< ceasful cotton moanufacturers in thi section has an interesting article o co-operation in building cotton milli Mr.Tomkins shows how companies ca be organized and the money raised b weekly payments for building cotto mills in such a way as to make the 01 ganization of such companies feasibl in hundreds of towns whiere it woul be impossible to secure large subscri: tions. In the South we have few sav iogs banks,compared with those in th North, and we need enterprises tha will encourage the habit of saving an( investing a portion of the weekly earn ings of the average citizen. Build61 and loan associations supply this wan to some extent, but we need co-opera tivo companies to push industrial en terprises witi the capital that car easily be furnished in small weekly in stallments from thousands of our pee. pie. The success of this plan in Charlott speaks for itself. Mills have been bull near Charlotte by subscriptions paya ble weekly in small sums for one, two four and eight years, but the favoritt plan is that of paying 50 cents pei week on a share for four years. A this rate 1,000 shares would make i capital of $100,000, a sum sufficlent a build a cotton mill of about 5,00( spindles, with looms enough to weave their product. Mr. Tompkins gives the following cstimate for such a mill Employees, men and boys...........3( Emgloyees, women and girls........ ( Pay roll per week, about..........635( Bales cotton consumed per week ....2C In North Carolina the products o the different mills vary greatly. Al Charlotte one mill makes warp yarns another skein yarns doubled and twist ed, another makes both warps and skets, another white cloth, anothef ginghams, another counterpanes and towels, another stockings and knit goods. Those mills which make colored goodsmust have dye works. If the subscriptions to the stock 01 an enstallment mill are made payable at the rate of 50 cents per week per share, and the capital subscribed was $100,000, then in the first year the amount paid in to the company's treas ury would be about $25,000. Witl this money the buildings could be built and paid for, leaving a surplas 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 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 in. In Charlotte no house rent is charged, the factories furnishing houses free of rent. In some other places rent is charged at the rate of 81 per room. Considering that subscriptions were being paid regularly, and that the buildings were all completed and paid for at the end of about one year, and that the company's income was about $2,000 per month from regular install mient payments on subscriptions, then uinder these conditions about $2,500 spindles and appeartaining machinery could be bought for a good cash pay ment, andl the remainder payable $1,000 to $2,000 per month. In about sixteen to eighteen moliths from the time the first payments were made the mill could be started uip on about one thirdl to one-half its capacity; then the remainder of the machinery could be addled and started up from time to time as the money continued to come in by installments. No dividends should be paid until the stock is paid in full and the 0f11. cers should receive very small salaries. The mills near Charlotte, built on this plan, have been very successful, and some of them during the (lull season have run night and day to 11ll 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 Lton Attacke is Tamer ini the Cage. CONEY ISLAND, N. Y., Juno 10. Mlle. Bea trice, a lion tamer at the Lon don show, which is giving a wild animal show on the 01ld iron pier at WVest Brighton, had a narrow ecrC'pe from be ing mangled to death toniight by a lion. it was just 10 o'clock - hel1 enclosure on the pier where the -sa 11 is are on exhibition was crowvdcd with,. people. The last preformance of the day was being relveu and Beatrice appeared in the hall, climbed up the ladder leading to the wild lions' cage and entered. There are two hig Asiatic lions in the cage, a male and a female. Bella is the female's name and Brutus the male'e. The latter is a groat pet of the lion tamer, and she plays with him for fit teen minutes at every preformance. Her act with the wild beast is closed by opening his mouth and kissing him. She always succeded in kissing the brute until tonight. While she was making her bold attempt to smack the lips of Brutus the man who feeds the lions made is apperance near the cage with a box of raw beet. Brutus caught sight of the beef, and in a moment he un - fastened B3eatrice's hold upon him and sprang upon her. Both had a lively tussle which finally resuited in the lion tamer's falling to the floor and the lion's grabbing the left side cf her face in his mouth. The women and children in thea nsulience screamed and the men rushed aLoundl~ the hall looking for clubs and stickcs ith which to beat the lion away from the woman. In a few moments Manager Farrar and Trainers Bruce and Ord way rushed in with pitch lorks. After lphmngag the forks several times in the head andl body of the lion they managed to make him loosen his hold and got the girl out o1 the cairo. She was urlconsciouis and l blood was lpooring from her lace as ahie was carried into the oflce. Dr. Hlili was eunmmonedl and the woman was p~ut to bed. When the doector arrived the woman was delirious and opiates had to be giveni to quiet her. Upon eximma lion Dr. Hill found that the lion had succeeded in sticking three 01 hIs bIg teeth through the woman's lefL jaw. Othier parts of her face were also chew edi. It Look some time to stop the flow oi brood, Dr. Hill salid tonight that it 'was the worst case of animal bite lhe ever saw. Thie woman was dlelirious at midnight and Dr. lull says she Is in a precarious condition. Mile. Beatrice in 20 years old. Her father was a lion tamer and she went Into the business when 18. She came from London with the show three wes a. Mu1011l nomes are Happy Bomes. Have you ever noticed it? 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