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AT T11 mau''s BEDTIME. s Isbafy's bedtime; my little one comes to me In her snowy little nelghtgown, And kneels down at my knee; od I fancya sweet child angel for a time MY guest, she says her little prayer over, With her hands upon her breast. vilse "Now I Jay me," she whispers 01101' In a low voice, "dowu to sleep; cera pray the Lord"-and the blue eyes er ialf close-"my soul to keep; if I should die"-Ohi the shiver At my heart!--"before I wake, I pray the Lord"--and the eyelids Droop low-"my soul to take." Then I lift up the little one, clasping Her close to my loving heart, And give her warm, good-night idses Till the closed lids break apart As the leaves do folding a flower; And tile violets of her eyes Look up in their drowsy fashion, And smile at me angel-wiso. "Dood night," she whispers me sof tly And sleepily with a kiss Thatlingers with me in slunber And stirs my heart with bliss As I think of the little one dreaming With her head against my broat, Till my sleep is full of rapture As her dreaming is of rest! HE WAS AN ONLY SON. hristle Oompasalon and litraclo For the I Widowed Mother. BROOKLYN, Aug. 19.-Rev, Dr. Tal. mage, who is now in Australia on his round the wo'ld tour, has selected as the subject fnr today's sermon through the press "An Only Son," the text chosen I b.ing Luke vil, 12 15: "Now when lie I came ngh to the gate of the city, behold, < there was a dead man carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow. and much people of the city was with her. And when the Lord sow her he had compassion on her and said unto* her, Weep not. And lie came and touched i the bier, and they that bare him stood still. And he said, Young man, I say i unto thee arise. And he that was dead I sat up and began to speak. And he do. i delivered him to his mother." I The text calls us to stand at the gate i of the city of Nain. The streets are a- I rush with business and gayety, and the I ear is deafened with the hammers of me. I chanism and the wheels of traffic. Work I with its thousand arms and thousand eyes and thousand feet, fills all the street, when suddenly the crowd parts, and a funeral passes. Between the wheels of work and pleasure there comes a long procession of mourning people. Who is it? A trifler says: "Oh, it's nothing but a funeral. It may have come up from the hospital of the city, or the almshouse, or some low place of the town," but not so says the serious observer. There are so many evidences of dirJ bereavement that we know, at the first glance some one has been taken away greatly beloved, and to our inquiry, "Who is this that is carried out with so many offices of kindness and affection?" reply comes, "The only son of his mo ther, and she a widow." Stand back and let the procession pass outl Hush all the voices of mirth and pleasure! lst every head be uncovered! Wool) with this 'Passing procession, and let it be told through all the markbt places and ba. zaars of Nain that in Galilee today the sepulcher hath gathered to itself "the only son of his mother; and she a widow." There are two or three things that, in my mind, give esp~ecial ptathos to this scene. The first is, hie was a young man that was being carried out. To the aged i death becomes beautiful. The old man i halts and pants along the road where a once he boundedl like the roe. From u the midst of' immeicable ailments and so.1rows he cries out, "How long, 0 t1 Lord, how long?" Foot sore and hard- t, ly bestead on the hot journey, lie wants a to get home, lie sits in the church and t sings with a tremulous voice some tune y he sang 40 years ago, and longs to join 1 the better assemblage of the one hun- t dred and forty and four thousand, and the thousands, of thousands who haveh passed the flood. How sweetly lie sleeps C the last Bleep! Push back the white o locks fronm the winkled temples. They c will never ache again. Fold the hands o over the still heart. They will never o toll again. Close gently the eyes. They ,j will never weep again.c But this man that I am speakmng of s was a young man. Hie was just putting p on the armor of life, and he was exulting k to think how his sturdy blows would ring a out above the clangor of the battle. I r suppose he had a young man's hopes, a p' young man's ambitions and a voung c man's courage. He said: "If ~1 live ti many years 1? will feed the hungry and a and clothe t ' naked. In this city of 'l ~amn, where there are so many had 6 young men, I will be sober and honest a pure and magnanimous, and my mother n shall never be ashamed ci me." But t< all these prosp~ects are blasted in one n' hour. There hie passes lifeless in the b procession. Behold all that is left on h earth of the high hearted young man of a the city of Nain.( There is another thing that adds very I much to this scene, and that is he was ( an only s on. However large the family flock may be, we never could think of' I sparing one of' the lambs. Though they b may all have their f auls, their r excellence that commend them c to the parental heart, and il r it were Peremptorily demanded of you d today that you should yield up one of j a.vory large family you would be con- ti founded, and you could not make a selec- hi tion. But this was an only son, around n whom gathered all the parental expecta- x tions. Hlow much care in his education! b How much caution In watching his hab. Ii its! He would carry down the name to o ether times, lie would have entire con- ti trol of the family property long alter the ti parents had gone to their last reward. ii lie would stand in society a thinker, a worker, a philanthropist, a Christain. h No, no. It Is all ended. Behold h im Vl tere, Breath is gone. Life is extinct. n~ Te only sn of his mother. 5 There was one other thing that added a toithe pathos of this scene, and that was s hsmother was a widow. The main t hopsB of a home, had been broken, and t The chief ligh of he household ad been extinguished, and this wsteol light lefI suppose she *e~ ad ok Oh, lt ls a grand thing to Seet aon mani step out in life and say to bly on ? thor: "Don't be downhearted, wilI as far as possible, take father's Place and as long as I live you shall nu want ay g." It is not always thet way. ~Iitmes the young people get -tired bith old people. They says they pe quert that they have so many all-' weitakd 'they sopietimies $s a m t At ,tb* t *teir 11 ,6$'.i beneat Sold, db otfh' And so they gave him a place In the cor. nor where day by day lie ate out of an earthen bowl-everythiog put into that bowl. One day life baud trembled so much he dropped it. and It broke, and the son. seated at the elegant table in midfloor, said to his wife, "Now, we'll get father a wooden bowl, and that lie can't break." So a wooden bowl was obtained, and every day old prandfatlier at.e out of that, sitting in the corner. One day, whili the elegant young man an( his wife were seatered at their table, with chashed silver and all the luxuries, and their little son sat upon the 1-or, they saw the lad whittling, and they laid, "My son, what are vou doing theie with that knift ?" "Oh," said he, "I L'm making a trough for my father and otliher to eat out of when they get old!" But this young man of' the text was 2ot of that character. le did not be ong to that sc'iool. I can tell t from the way they mourned >Ver him. Ile was to be the com panion of his mother. lie was to be is mother's protector. ~7e would re urn now some of the kindueases he had 'eceived in the days of childhood and )Oyhood. Aye, lie would with his strong )n'd uphold that form already enfeebled vith age. Will lie do it? No. In one iour all that promise of help and cor'a )anionship is gone. There is a world of M1gulsh in that one short phrase, "The MIly son of his mother, and she a wid. >w."9 Now, my friends, it was upon this cene that Christ broke. Ile came in without any introduction. Ile stopped he procession. Ile had only two ut. erance to make-the one to the mourn. ng mother, the other to the dead. 1ie ,ried out to the mourning one: "Weep lot," and then touching the bier on vhich the son lay, he cried out: 'Young man, I say unto thee arisel &nd he that was dead sat up." I learn two or three things from this iubject, and frst that Christ was a man. You see how that sorrow played upon ill the chords of his heart. I think we orget this often. Christ was a man nore certainly than you are, for he was t perfect man. No sailor ever slept in Ihip's hammock more soundly than Jhrist slept in that boat on Gennesaret. [n every nerve and muscle and bone and Iber of his body, in every emotion and iffection of his heart, in every action imnt decision thiis mindl he was a man. He looked o;i upon thbe sea just as you .ook off upon the waters. le went into Martha's house just as you go into a cot. ,age. Ile breathed hard when he was 'ired just as yfu do when you are ex 3austed. lie felt after sleeping out a awht in the storm just like you do when you have been exposed to a tempest. It was just as humiliating, for him to beg iread as it would be for you to become k pauper. H1e felt just as much insulted ay being sold for 30 pieces of silver as vou would if you were sold for the price of a dog. From the crow n of the head to the Role of the loot le was a man. When the thorns were twisted for his brow, they hurt him just as much as they hurt your brow, if they were twist. ed for it. Ile took not on him the nature of angele; lie took on him the seed of Abraham. "E5c homol"'-behold the main i But I inust also draw from this snb. ject that lie w as a God. Suppose that x man should attempt. to break up a funl. sral obsequy. He would be seizd by the law, lie would be imprisoned, if lie were not, actually slain by the mob be lore the ofilcers could secure him. If LUfrist 11ad been a imere mortal, would ie have a right to come in upon Euch a irocession? Would lie have succeeded ai his interruption? lie was more thani ,nan, for when he crietI out, "I say nto thee arise jhe that was (lead sat up")~ Vhat excitement there must, have been tiereabouts! vThie body had( lain pros. rate. ILt had been mourned over with gonizing tears, and yet now it begins o move in the shroud, and to be flushed with life, and at, the command of Christ, .o rises up andl looks into the faices of lie astonished spectators. Oh, this was the wvork of a God. I ear it in his voice. I see it in the flash fhis eye. I behold it in the snapping f death's shackles. I see it, in the taco f the rising slumberer. I hear it, in the utcry of all those who were spectators f thes scene. If, when I see my Lordi esus Christ, mourning with the bereav (, 1 put my hands on is shoulders and my, "My brother," now that I hear him roclaim supernatural deliverances I >ok up into his face and say with Thom. a, "My L'r d and my God." Do0 you ot think lie was a God? A great many sople do not believe that, and t~hey ompromise the matter, or they think iey compromise it. Thiey say lie was very good man, but, lie was not a G >d. 'hat is impossible. ie was either a kodl or a wretch and I will prove it. If man professes to be that which lie is ot, what is lie? lie is i liar, an impos >r, a hypocrite. That is your unani Lous verdlict. Now, Christ professed to s a God. Hle said over and over again e was a God, took the attributes of aGod Lid assumed the works and1 ofiee of a od. Dare you now say lie was niot? [e was a God, or lie was a wretch. ~hoose ye. Do you think I cannot prove by this lible that he was a God? if you (do not elieve this libule, of course there is noe eed of my talking to you. There is no ommon data from which to start,. Sup. ose you (do believe ii? Then I can emonstrate that lie was divine. I can rove he was creator, John 1, 3, "All ings were made by him, and withbout im was not anything made that was made." lHe was eternal, Revelation xii, 13, "I am Alpha and Omega, the eginmng and the end, the first and t~he ist." I can prove that lie was omnip-. tent, Hebrews i, 10, "The haavens are ue work of thinae hands." I can prove at, he was omniscient. John ii, 25, lie knew what was in man." Oh yes, e is a God, lie cleft the sea, lie up eaved the crystalline walls along which eo Isrealites marched, lie planted the iountains. lie raises up governments ad casts down thrones and marches cross nations and across worlds and cross the universe, eternal, omnipotent, nhindered and unabashed. That hand hat was nailed to the cross holds the tars in a leash of love. That head that ropped on the bosom in the fainting and oath shall make the world quake at its od. The voice that groaned in the .'ast mang shall swear before the trbmbiiog vorld that time shall be no longer. Oh ho not insult the common sense of the ~ace by telling us that this person was >nly a man, in whose presence the par klytic arm was thrust out well, and the deovis crouched, and the lepers dropmed Sscales, and the tempests folded he irg, and the boy's satchel of a d th Emade a banquet for 6,000, and te 5a ocsion of my text broke n congratuon and hosanal ain, I lea 14m this subjact that fas nsymekt ..gr, Mark youi w~ t~~fW tlis the y IMAround, and t what Was the matter with the man, hom old he was and what were his last exps rienceo. They know with what tempo ral prospects lie -has left his family There is no haste, there is no indecenci in the obsequies. There Is nothing donc as a more matter of business. Even the children come cut as the processioi passes and look sympathetic, and the tree shadows seem to deepen, end the brooks wel) in symup ithy as the proces, sion goes by. ]In u, mark you, this that I was speaking of was a city funeral. In great cities the cart *jostles the hearse, and there are mirth and gladness and indill'erence as the weepituig procesilon goes by. In the city of Nain it was a common thing to have trouble and be reavement and deaLh. Christ saw it ev ery day there. Perhaps that very hour there were others being c'irrie-1 out, but this frequency of trouble did not harden Chri3t'd heart at all. Ile stepped right out, and lie sav this mourner, and he had compassioni on her, and lie said, "tWeep not.", Now, I have to tell you, oh, bruised souls, and thteie are many everywhere have ycu ever looked over any great an dience and noticed how many shadowe of sorrow there art? I come to all such and say, "Christ meets you, and he hai compassion on you, and he says, 'Weep not.'" Perhaps with some it is ftian cial trouble. 'Oh," you say, "it is s311ch a silly th'ng for a main to cry over lost money." It is? Suppose you had a large fortune, and all luxuries bronght to your tLible, and your wardrobe was full, and your home was beautif sd by music and sculpture and painting and thronged by the ele gant and educated, and then some rough mistortune-should strike you in the fact and trample your treasures and taunt your children for their faded dress an and send you into c->merclal circles a underling where once you waved a scep ter of gold. Do you think you would cry them? I think you would. But Christ comes and meets all such today Ile sees -ill the straits in which you hav< been thrust. Ile observes the sneer o that man who once was proud to wall in your shadow and glad to get yout help. Ile sees the protested note, the uncanceled judgment, the foreclose mortgage, the heartbreaking exaspera tion, and lie says: "Weep not. I owil the cattle on a thousand hills. I -ill never let you starve. From my hanc the fowls of heaven peck all their food And will I let you starve? Never-no, my child, never." Perhaps it may be a living home trou ble that you cannot speak about to your best friend. It may be some domestic unhappiness. It may be an evil eus. picion. It may be the disgrace follow ing In the footsteps cf a son that Is way ward, or a companion who is cruel, or a father that will not do right, and for years there may have been a vulture striking its beak into the vitals of your soul, and you sit there today feeling it is worse thau death. It is. It is worse than death. And yet there is relief. Though the night may be the blackest, though the voices of hell may tell yoU to curse God and (lie, look up and heal the voice that accosted the woman ol the text as it says, ''Weep not." Earth hatli no sorrow That hoaven cannot cure. I learn again from all this that Christ Is the master of the grave. Just outside the wate of the city )eath and Chuist measured lances, and when the yon man rose Deaath dlroppe~d. No .v we are sure of our resurrection. Oh, what a scene it was when that young man caime back! Thle mother never expected to hear him speak again. She never thiought that lie would kiss her again. How the tears started and how her heart throb bed as she said, "Oh, my son, my son, my son!" And that scene is going to be repeatedI. It is going to ha rep~eated 10. 000 tImes. These broken family circles have got, to come t~ogether. These ex. tinguished householdi lights have got to be rekindled. There will be a stir in the fa'ntly lot in the cemetery, and there will be a rush into life at the commlandl, "Young man, I say unto thee arisel" As the child shakes oft the (dust of the tomb and comes forth fresh and fair and beautiful, and you throw your arms around it, and press it to your heart,, an gel to angel will repeat the story of INain. "Hie dleliveredl him to his mo ther."' Did you notice that passaige in the text as I read it? "Hie delivered him to his mother."' Oh, ye troubled souls! Oh, ye who have lived to see every pirospect blasted, peeledl, scattered, consumned! Walt, a little. The seed time of tears will become the wheat har vest, in a clime cut o1110 wintry blast, nder a sky palled by no hurtling tem-. pest, andi amid Iedleemedl ones that weep not,, that part not,, that, (lie niot, friendl will come to friend, rand kindred will join kindred, and the long precesaion that marches the avenues of gold will lilt up their palms as again and~ again it, Is an nounced that the same one who came tc the relief of this woman of' the text came to the relief of many a maternal heart, and repeated the wonders of' resurrec tion, andl ''delivered him to his mother,' Oh, that will be the harvest, oh the world. That will be the coronation or princas. That will be the Sabbaith of' eternity. Care of Decliutas Teeth. The child receives its first temporary tooth about the fifth month after birth, the dlentitlon being completed at the age of two years. It has been often said that the nurse cannot be too care fuli that these teeth are cleaned with a soft brush and warm water. The child usually retains these teeth until the eruption of the peranent set, the first permanent tooth nopearing about the sixth year. The dec~idunous teeth should be carefully watched, and when a tooth shows decay consult your dentist, and have it fi lled.- At this stage the filling is not expensive, and will save the child much pain and trouble from an aching tooth. TLhe early extraction of the dcciduous teeth often causes the irregularities of the perament set. They should be retained until the jaw has fully expanded to receive the per ament teeth. Teach the child the neces sity of keeping the ieeth clean aind pure. The early use of the toothbrush will establish a habit that will, in after years, be considlered a necessity tc health and personal cleanliness. Newbold's Repulse. DA~RL1NGTONAug. 21.-Trial .J uatlce F'loyd held a preliminary examination in the case of the parties charged with firing into the train on the day of thre dispensary trouble. A number of wit nesses were examined but the evideice was so slight that the trial justice die missed the case. The names of those charged with the offense are as follows: 0. 8. Nettles,J. C. Wilicox,W. (3. Byrd, 8. HI. Wilds, C. 8. McCullough, E. Mc. Iver Williamson, L. M. N orment and T. P. Edwards. Thie accused were i presented by Boyd and Brown, and tS tate by W. F. Clayton of Florence. Thsresult of the examination was a giasdisappointment to Detective Nebland hre is very much crest flnathis faibnra to makiaoat a ca/ THE CROP CONDITIONS. TheWeekly Mulietin of the Stmiq Weataiher Service. The following Is the weekly bulletin of the condition of the weather and crops in the State for the past week, as issued yesterday by State Observer J. W. Bauer: The weather continued hot with a maximum temperature of 102 at Oak. wood on the 14th and 103 at Ella on the 15th. After the 17th It was some. what cooler. The lowest temperature occurred generally on the morning of the 20th. During the Glrs ot the week the temperature was in excess of the average, while about normal or slight ly below during the latter part. The sunshine was slightly deficient but not enough so to be injurious, rather favorable on the whole. The most rainfall of the week occur red on the 15th and 16th, in the form of scattered showers, heavy in places, ac companied by high wind and some hail that did severe damage locally, break ing down corn and grounding cotton. On the whole the rainfall was poorly distributed, many places having re ceived too much while other portions of the State more rain wo'uld be bene ficial. The weather during the past week has generally been favorable for grow ing and maturing crops but cotton has not recovered from the effects of the previous excessive rains, and reports on its conditions still indicate shedding of squares and fruit on light sandy soil where also the plant lacks a heal thy color. Fear is expressed that there will be no top crop on such land. In some localities the fruit does not seem to bes proportional to the amount of weed, being espiecially true on richer land where the plant is also shedding freely. The condition of cotton is by no means uniform throughout the State and ranges from fair to very good, but no where poor except possi ly fields here and there which were poorly cultivated and on bottom land which was overflowed where its condi tion ranges from fair to poor. Caterpillars did some slight damage in places. Bolls are maturing and open Ing rapidly in the Southern counties, where picking has begun in a small way. It is maturing slowly and is from one to two weeks late in the up. per portions of the State. The first bale of the season reached Charleston I on the 15th from Barnwell county. The condition of corn has not changed and the prospects continue promising for a very large crop, except that corn planted on oats stubbles is not doing as well as the early planted, the ground having been too wet to per mit the necessary cultivation to clean the crop. Fodder pulling is nearing completion in the southern and eastern couties and continues general in other portions of the State; the weather was fairly favorable for curing the large crop in good condition. Rice harvest has begun and the form er prospects of a large yield will be ful filled. Sweet potatoes and late planted Irish potatoes are thriving except that fear is expressed that the former run too much to vine. Sugar cane or sorghum is a very fine crop, the cane containing much juice, but possibly, slightly delicient in sac charine quality. Pleas are growing luxuriently and the varieties planted for peavine hay will yield a large crop. Large quantities of turnip seeds con tinue to he sown and the weather la vors quick germination and rapid growth. Gardens are growIng nicely except that cabbages and tomatoes are rotting badly in some counties. Grapes are ripening in the northeast ern counties but th e yield will be con fIned to a few late varieties only. Rates for the state Fair. CoLUMBIA, S. C., August 22 -It is< very hard to imagine what Mr. dlaugh ter, assistant commissioner of the Southern Passenger Association,or any of the roads in the association, has against Columbia.and against the State of South Carolina and its annual State fair. Last year the discrimination of the association against the State fair, in the matter of granting rates, was so ilagrant that the commissioner receiv ed just censure on all sides. The corn missioner would not, under any kind of pressure, announce any rate at all till the very last minute, and then gave such a rate that the fair was practical ly killed, the announcement being made only three days before the fair I opened. Competitive attractions at different points were allowed much cheaper rates. Now the commissioner, while lie makes the announcement-so far as time is concerned-all right, has delib erately gone to work and quoted a rate for an attraction, which has al ways drawn thousands of people, that is ex actly what any cross roads,or any other gathering can obtain for its delegates. But here is the announcemeht, which has just been sent out by the lair so ciety, andl it speaks for itself: "Secretary Holloway begs to inform the public through the press of the State, that as to rates of passage for the State Fair, November 12th to 16th, Mr. M. Slaughter, assistant commis sioner of the Southern Passenger As sociation, writes as follows: "'Lines interested having agreedi rates of one fare for the roun'i trip plus 50 cents admission coupon, from points in Southi Carolina and Augusta, Ga., and from Charlotte, Wilmington, and intermediate points, to Columbia, and return, for the above occasion, are hereby approved. "'rickets to be sold November 11th to 15th inclusive, with linal limit No vember 17tn, 18114. " 'Tickets may be sold to bona tide exhibitors and help November 8th, 9th and 10th, 1891.' "The press of the State will greatlyj oblige all interested by publishing the above information.'': The members of the Columbia board of trade, who were jult taking steps to provide unusual outside attractionsi for the coming fair, are very outspoken - in their criticisms, and say that such a| rate cannot but seriously affect the at-i tendance at the fair. Kiliedi on the OJrossing. P'ARIs, TENN., Aug. 22.-A terrible accidhent happened on the Pad'ucah, Tennessee and Alabama railroad this afternoon. As the north bound train was nearing Hazel Kirk, about ten a miles noth of P'arla, in passing a cross ing, it struck a wagon loaded with peo ple and five of the occupants met thiefir death. The unfortunate party was a crossing the track as the train came I thundering down upon them, and the la horses became alarmed at the whistle t which wvas sounded for the crossing e and ran into the cattle guard. The vehicle cauild not be extricated before the locamotive had crushed into them. The killed are: Misses Jennie and a IlUlie Ray, aged 18 and 20 daughters of c J. T . Ray, his son, Tobe hay, and two c young ladies, Misses Hatmmon. A f y4'ung man named Ray was badly in- c j ;v-d. There is no blame attached to t 'nm-.~ The company gave all ri isible to the injured pen. e - OPE PASSES THE PRIMARY. .10, .l Ltter IBe Talks A bout Reas L1*0 a Skilled Jeweler. COLUMBInA,. ),, Aug. 24.-Dr. Sam p. soa Pand after surprising the Reform. era and all others by not going into the recent Reform primarieog now comps out with another surprise. i1e also de clines to stand as a candidate for Go ernor in the general Democratic pri mary nbxt Tuesday, on ace munt of- the mystic power of "the ring," In withdrawing from the primary race, Dr. Pope has also withdrawn his pledge to the Democratic executive committee to abide the result of that primary, which appears very sig nil cant, inasmuch as he need not have gone to this trouble, unless he iad an idea of making a filght in the coming general election. The Doctor also urges all voters to decline to participate in the primary at all, as far as the guber natorial race is concerned. Dr. Pope's friends says he has no idea of making a light in the general election, but it looks now as if there is a very good chance of such a ilght being made. Dr. Pope does not say, in any instance, that he will not be a candidate for Governor of South Carolina. Here is Dr. Pope's letter of with drawal: To the Democratic voters of South Carolina. I am in receipt of numerous letters from citizens of different counties in this State, notifying me that hundreds of Reformers deeire to vote for me, but that no ticket has been gotten out. The truth is, the machinery of the Re form movement is in the hands "of the ring," and voters are so much afraid of the party lash that, whilst they are willing and anxious to vote for me, they are afraid to allow their names to appear on a ticket. This is a deplora ble state of affairs and only goes to show ho w despotically they are ruled. Under this state Of thing, it will be impossible for me to get out a ticket in the majority of 'the counties, and therefore, it will be foolish for me to longer continue in the race for Gover nor. I have this day withdrawn my pledge from the State executive com mittee and take tbis opportunity to say that I will not be a candidate at the primary. Forty thousand Reformers and thir ty-two thousand Conservatives are vir tually'disfranchised, and fourteen thous and ringsters dictate who shall hold the oflices. 1 saw the danger of this, and when the Conservatives, in a desire to per petuate white supremacy in this State and to conciliate the majority with a view to peace, proposed that if they were allowed to cast their vote for one of the four Reformers running, that they would be satisfied, I thought it a fair and honorable proposition and one which did them great credit and advo cated its acceptance. Their offer was refused at the dictation of a few blind leaders, who were puffed up with their importance without regard to the peace and general welfare of the whole peo ple. The Conservatives, I must say, have shown in this, and in gracef ully submitting since 1890 to the rule of the majority, a spirit worthy of emulation. Their treatment has been simply out rageous and was enough to drive them to desperation. In retiring from this canvass, I do sire- to thank those friends, who have stood by me all over the State, especial ly those in Darlington who had the manhood to come out and endorse me. I cannot forget the members of the press whose treatment of me, with the exception of three or four weekiies,hs been magnanimous in the extreme. In conclusion let me say to tile forty housand Reformers who did not vote n the late so-call primary, if you rote, refrain from voting for Governor it the primary on the 28th inst., and hus put your seal of condemnation ipon the ring methods which have >een employed. Cut off that portion If the ticket embracing tile names of he delegates, or run your pen thlroulgh heir names. You have a right to his, andI only vote for members of the .seneral Assembly and county oflicers. Very respectfully, August 23rd, 1894.SAPO PE Fort Smith Shaken.~ Fon'rrr Sur'rrr, AK,., Aug. 19. [Ast night, four powdar hIouses of thie speel 11ardware Company, located two niles from here on the Poteau River, Ixploded. The powder houses are total grecks. A small cabin niear by the ome ofMrs. Cook, was blown to splin ,ers. Mrs. Ciok, her daughter, andi an nfant, were hlurledl into eternity. The )owder house contained 1,200 p)ounds( of lynamite and 300 kegs 01 powder. T1he ilhock was felt at Van Buren. Alma, ireenlwood, .Jenny Lind. Hackett, KC'vanaulgh aind many laces nearly ,wenty miles away. In Fort, Smith ,housand1s of dollars worth 01 property vas destroyed. The~ opiera house8, Bas tore, A rcade, J. ,J. Litle, Meyers & Co., Vaughn hard ware store, Fagan, ] cue - and and Western Unan bulidinlgr were everely dlam'Igcd1, wile along Sixt~h troet andl Garrison avenue is a contin Iedistory of wrecks. No explanation can >a given for tile exlos0ion. It cou~ld not rave beeni an accident and many rumor8 ire'.lying about. One is to the ell'ect, lhnt a remnant of tile IDalion gang i*s ibout to rob the hank here. Another HIuoO Strike. L'his morning tile coitonl operatives in ingurated a general strike and nearly ll,000 are idle. The machinery of but lve of tile twenty-seven mills, in this ity is In motion, and ii l6 thought that .1108 mils will soon be shut down with the othlers. Manufacturers have no0th nig to say, but notices of reduct'.on, lgainst which help1 rebel are still posted. Secretary Ross of' tile Spinners' Union, ntated this morning that the memb~ers of is uiion have lined up for a long~ sf rug. le and conf ldently expect that, it will bie >f six mnonthls dulration. Thle strike romises to be the most important, that tas ever Occurred in the textile indusatry n Massachlusetts. The mianulfacturers nuit fight perfectly orgvanized unions, rome of which are fairly wealthy. Nota >fSnin tis particular is the Spinners' Jcion, wvhich has a fund in its treasury g'regating at least, $30,000. The spin1. lers have voted, however, not to touch ny of thlis money for a month, Starvi ng. S'r. P'A U L, Aug. 22.-Dispatches from everal South Dakota points indicate lhat the farmers have an un0usually irge number of hogs, but, Owing to bie failure of both tile whleat andl corn rep, thley have nothing to feed them vith. Tile porkers are not fit for thle earket and their owners must get help r allow them to starve by tihe thous ode. A plan of action being engine-1 red by County Commissioner L-ecocq, f D~ouglas county, meets with general avor. The pan is that the county pur hiase 80,00O bushels of wheat and dis ribute it among the farmers, taking a ote and bill of sale of the hogs intend d to be fattened in hpayment for the wheat. TlE INCOME l AX. A stat'l n111an, n t I( seiPo ant P1. oVlPi.-JI *and Who it Will R?8seh. Nnw Yon.ic, Aug. 22.-The income tax provision in the tariff bill begtns to operate on Jan. 1, 1895, and contin. ues until Jan. 1, 1900. The tax (2 per cent.) is to be levied oni all incomes above $4,000. It is to be paid not only by all who restide within t he country, on income (et ived from any source, but by citizens of the United States residing abroad, and by all residents of foreign countries on incomes deilved from property situated in the United Statee or from busIness carried on here. The tax is on the income of the year previous to that for which it is levied. inhrefore the first tax will be levied on Incomes received in 1894. There are two classes of Incomes re. cognized by the bill-tile incomes of individuals and the income o corpora. tions. The taxable incoine of a corpo. ration Is all its incomes above its opera. ting expenses, including the aiul-OF paid to shareholders. The tax of 2 per cent. is paid by the corporation. Therefore that part of an individual's income which is derived from dividends on the shares of a corporation that has paid the tax is deducted, on his return, from his own taxable income. There are exemptions allowed by the bill in computing an individual's income besides to 84,C0. They are as follows: The necessary expenses of conducting a business, all interest paid or due within the year, local taxes, losses in trade or from fires, storing or shipwreck, not compensated for by in surance or otherwise; worthless debts, and income on which the tax has been paid by corporations. As to corporations, charitable, rell gious and educational corporations are exempted, as are States, counties and municipalities, building and loan as sociations, savings banks having no stockholders, receiving no more than $1,C0 in a year from any one deposi tor, and dividing all the yearly profits among the depoeitors except a contri. bution to a 10 per cent. surplus. Mu tual companies, including insurance companies are all exempt. Every person having an income of $3,500 must report it to the collector of internal revenue for his district., or his deputy. Salaries received from corpo rations are reported by the corporations to the collector of the recipient's dis trict. The tax on the salaries of oill cials of the United States Is to be de ducted by the paymaster. The collector may require a return to be verified by oath. The collector or his deputy may increase the amount of income reported if "lie has reason to believe that the same is underestima ted." If there is a neglect or refusal to make a return, or if a return is fraudulent, the collector or his deputy shall himself make a list, by examina tion of the person taxed, or other evi dence. A 50 per cent. penalty is to be charged for neglect or refusal, and 100 per cent. penalty for fraud. A person may declare that lie has not 84,0C income liable t be assessed or that he has naid his income tax else where. If the collector or deputy is convinced that the declaration is true he may grant an exemption. If a re. turn is increased by the collector or deputy the person taxed may offer proof that the increase is unjust, but the ofil cer will not be obliged to take the facts shown as conclusive, and it is within his discretion to refuse relief. An ap peal from his decision may be taken to the (Comimissioner of Internal lteven ue, If the corp~oratfon dloes not fIle its statement a flne of $1,000 is to be lev ied on it and 2 per c3nt. a month Is to be chargeli on the amount of' tax due untli it is paid. The tax is pa~yable on .1 itly lst in each year. If It is not paidl within ten (lays after that a penalty of 5 per cent, is to be charged, together with interest at the rate of I per cenit. per mfonth.--World. The Jute Trust Again . The National Cordage Company, other wise the Jute. .Bagging TLrust, is playing a great ganme to keep the mar ket cornered for the present year and pull the farmer for all it can on the bag ging needed this season. Tbe trust has been keeping only a small stock of bag ging on hand in anticip-ition of the taril bill, which has taken oil the duty. I t has been selling it, too, in small lots. The suipply now on hand is hardly suil11. cient to take care of thuis years' cotton crop, and it is too late uinder the pre sent conditions for the farmers and cot ton men to talk about importing bag ging from England. The facts in the case from a Southern stand~oint are that many of the cotton factors and farmerst have laid in a supply of bagging with which to handle a large part of their crop, having bought it at a time when thUXlow freight rates from New York and other Northern points werec in force, because they got it laid down cheaper than they coul.i have done hadl the regular freightli raes reumained in force. TIhey wilt not therefore, need a full supply with which to handlie their crops, and the trust knows this. The farmers arid factors would not, there fore, be so readiy to begin im;.ri ing. It is a fact, too, that owing to i.io fali ing off in the diemandl the foreign milis have been inactive, andi if orders were given now they couild not be filled in Lime for the crop. TIhe bagging trust appreciates this situation, and is going to push the market for all it is worth. The Senate bill takes off the dutty of 2,22 cents, which was kept up by the McKinley Act, and consequIently makes the bagging ju.st th.at much cheaper. As an example of the fact that the trust is going to squeeze the farmer for all it is worth, it may lbe statedl that not a week ago bagging was advanced three-quarters of a cent, a yard within four or five (lays' time. The trust re alizes that this is its last chance. TIne consequence is tagging is advancing in price every day or two. Unless some thing can be0 done the chances are that bagging will go much higher than it has ever been since the Alliance tack led he Jute 'Trust, One or time umanagors >f the Cordage Company is quoted as follows: "Bagging will be bagging before the - teason is over and we expect to recoup ur losses on this season and look to the ltepublicans to pt tus back under their protecting wing in the future." This not only bears out the indica ifons, but shows they boast of the fact ~hat they will attempt to squeeze out ~very dollar they can. If the trust per. mist In trying to force up the prices of tte bagging the farmers should use A mtgair sadcs or any other covering for ~otton in order to (defeat it. SI Five Men Drovoeud, OJJvMrrA, Wash., Aug. 20.-A spc l to thne Le~dger from O,:oua n'ys that ~aiurday morning wile makmng a land rig through the surf at Joe Creek, fifteen alles North of Gray's har br, the whale oat and crew of nine men in command. f U'euleanuit Freeman II. Crosby, Jtnitedl State Navy, of United States east survey steamer McArthur, was apsiA3d and ive men are missinug, iamel3: Leut. Crosby, John Freyer, obhn Cudminis, William Nehmn, Alexan her Smlith, At present lull particuilars ~annot he ascertained owinig to the dfil mlIty of gettinig news from that locality Fired by Lightning, JAO K$ONVILLE, Fla., Aug. 21-4 terrible elict ric storm raged here abogt I o'clock tits morning. The Vestern Union wifes were f'ised and for severni hours the ctty was cut, oRt from com-1 minicatlon wita thae outside world. During the storm lightning struck the warehouse of the Staudard Oil Com. pany, situated on, the river front and set it on lire. There were about two thousand barrels of oil ina the ware house and not one was saved. The warehouse,-which had been recently oompleted and the pier were also total ly destroyed. After becoming ignited many of the barrels ot oil rolled into the river and floated past the city In llames, causing no little danger to ship. ping. At intervals, the barrels would 3xplode with a tremendous report that %wakened every person within five miles of the scene. The total loss is placed at $30,000, with no insurance. K7PITF PAYS THE FREIGHI M KIraiMn frme e Go*dsI "'Id tor 4klfole APd Soa What You CM Smi --.0A *A T $69 i2= $37 g"') (IInt uo,d to be a -l rett -t ~t (*i-n* PA Itt ,it Stil I'S conelating 4 M-.a, Ai . RxMi C Chair Ditvak I 2 .:d. . ..'I11 S4C. WIll deNyes This No. i --j will war* win - be deliver -3 - ad to yt *- -. de for ~l usIM en A 1&3 a :RWaG MACHiUn with all al wi.- enits,. for ---ON LY SI.o - deltivorod to ir depot "Thn el:118F phd".i' ffe ie l, r fthi t'ho totan 1ftctur3 nr ;i. d all ob o x potesn a mi1 II* tllfh m ,oyou for 144L,4"0 md guarante 'very nne a ,rge-. No freight paid $ 02MC PIAW4 ctnt o .t -.og -o. 'f flurni ture, Oohmg, vIge.hy1lne, t.gan., P* To R-ta. 4)I- sv itfmps, sm., AndL FPA DGMT T'M -THE - Tozr on hae ares For Simplicity. Durability and Eonemy in fuel and Water Has no Equal, eccooooooo ~PIANOS. (SRGANS. MID-SUMMER BARGAINS. Peelntl Salo Stummer 1894. Th~e iiine i' buIny Cheanp and Itasy. Si . lai~tIt ~i ummer Offers that beat the $50 saivedl every Piano purchaser. $i0 to $20 ont every Organ. S~Ix Spieia Offers, on our Popular Mid Riainr lani. nuy in August, September inu! O<'tober, and pay whon cotton comes in. Smit (Unsh Prief. No li'torcet. Only a .amal~I (;:.xIh Pavmenit reqitgreot, $25 on a 1 Piti. h .$1g s Orgu, bliu o uxi Novom P.iymtu is to toit all. P'Ianos $5 to $10 mth~ully. Organs, $2 to $5. Olur MiI-lnrumr oIforu sayo big money oni all iplan.' o iYf pym t. Newi F''ll Loaders ready. Bleauti ( fulanm ohap. Ternpting Bargalam. Wrie t ocefor Mi-Sumnar Of ,) foi. ld only until November 1. SLUDDEN & BATES SOUTH ERN MUSIC W1OUSE,. SAVANNAH, GA. Threshers!i nd I1 Sol1 the IBest In thme'Market. Write to me10HBfore Buying. uingle Machines,' 8tave Machines, Brick Machine, Planing Mac1haEs, Swing Saws, Band saws, Glang lIip Saws, and all kinds of wood working machin riMt Mills $ll5 to 8250. Sa w Mills $190 to $400. Watertowvn Engines and Boilerals Talbott En.gnes and Boilers. Seed Cott~on iklvators. (Jottoh Gilns and Pk B HI~li and LOW GRIAD Vs.0. UABH&II 00JLUMBIA 4,r