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ISSUED iEMl-WKKltl.t. l k. grist 4 sons, Pnbu?her.. } % ^amilg grercsgagtt: 4?r promotion nf the golitol, gonial, g^gricuttut;at attJ Commnciat gnttreats of tha geople. {Tm^oLEco^^Er.l'vi''cra^.NCi' ^ established 1855. TORKVILLE, S. C., SATURDAY, .JANUARY 20, 1900. NO. 6. I . .. ' . ? . ?? ?. THE CRUCI k OF PHIL By REV. CHARL1 Author of "In His Steps: What Wouli Hardy's Seve } Synopsis of Previous Installments In order that new readers of The Enquirer may begin with the following installment of this story, and understand it just the same as though they had read it all from the beginning, we here give a synopsis of that portion of it which has already been published: Philip Strong, a minister, receives two calls, one to a college town, where he may live a quiet, scholarly life, to his liking, the other to a manfacturing town where there is plenty of QTnnno- thf> labor! ne classes. He accepts the more active Held. Philip discovers that a number of his wealthy parishioners have property rented for saloons and gambling houses. He interviews one of them and is advised that he had better not stir up the matter. The next Sunday he preaches upon the subject, and Mr. Winter, one of his most prominent parishioners, having property rented for such purposes, rises from his seat and walks out or the church. The next morning Winter calls on the minister and resents what he calls an insult to himself, then, threatening to withdraw his support from tne church, retires in high dudgeon. The sermon creates ' great excitement, and the nextSundaya large crowd attends Philip's church, expecting a sensational sermon; but Philip disappoints them, preaching on a different subject entirely. Philip attacks the saloons and preaches against them to a large congregation. Hecalls upon his people to join with him in an attempt to exterminate them. Later he leaves his house to visit a sick child, and a man on the opposite side of the street fires two shot at him. Philip has been severely though not mortally wounded. His assassin is arrested and, at Philip's .request, is brought before him. ; Philip assures him that he bears him no ill will and prays for him. Philip preaches on the Sunday question and makes new enemies. Coming home one evening, he finds his wife in a faint on the floor, a knife stuck into the desk and two anonymous scrawls, one addressed "To the Preacher," the other "To the Preacher's Wife." They were warnings to leave the town. The minister's wife begs her husband to leave the field for another, but instead he prepares to continue the war against the devil there and in his own fashion. Philip astonishes his parishioners by proposing to move their church edifice into the tenement N district. He speaks to the laboring men at their ball and unintentionally influences them against the rich by holding up the selfishness or many ncn peupie. ?> uru uc uwiu*~ is informed that a mob is threatening Mr. Winter at bis residence. Philip goes to the scene and rescues Mr. Winter from the mob. CHAPTER X. One day at the close of a month Philip came Into the cozy parsonage. ? and Instead of going right up to his study, as his habit was when his outside work was done for the day, he threw himself down on a couch by the open fire. His wife was at work in the other room, but she came In. and. seeing him lying there, inquired what was the matter. ^ "Nothing, Sarah, with me. Only I'm sick at heart with the sight aud knowledge of all this wicked town's sin and misery." "Do you have to carry it all on your shoulders. Philip V" "Yes," replied Philip almost fiercely. It was not that either. Only his reply was like a great sob of conviction that * he must bear something of these burdens. He could not help it. Mrs. Strong did not say anything for a moment. Then she asked: "Don't you think you take it too seriously, Philip?" "What?" "Other people's wrongs. You are not responsible." "Aui 1 not? 1 am my brother's keeper. What quantity or guilt may 1 not carry into the eternal kingdom If 1 do not do what 1 can to suve him! Oh. how can men be so seltisb? Yet 1 am only one person. 1 cannot prevent all this suffering alone." "Of course you cannot. Philip. You wrong yourself to take yourself to task so severely for the sins of others. But what has stirred you up so this time?" Mrs. Strong understood Philip well enough to kuow that some particular case had roused his feeling, tie seldom yielded to such despondency without some Immediate practical reason. ? Philip sat up on the couch and clasped his hands over his knee with the eager earnestness that characterized him when he was roused. "Sarah, this town slumbers on the smoking crest of a volcano. There are more than 15.0UU people here In Milton out of work. A great many of them are honest, temperate people who have a saved up a little. But it is nearly gone. The mills are shut down and, on the authority of men that ought to know, shut down for all winter. The same condition of affairs Is true in a more or less degree in the entire state aud throughout the country and even the ^ world. People are suffering today in this town for food and clothing and fuel through no fault of their owu. EB The same thing is true of thousands WM \ and even hundreds of thousands all | over the world, it is an age that calls W \ for heroes, martyrs, servants, saviors, r And right here in this town, where dis' : tress walks the streets and actual want I already has its clutch on many a poor \ devil, society goes ou giving its expensive parties and living in its little f ' round of selfish pleasure just as If the volcano was a downy little bed of roses L for It to go to sleep in whenever It wearies of the pleasure and wishes to retire to happy dreams. Oh, but the bubble will burst one of these days, \ and then"? Philip swept his hand upward with a fine gesture and sank back upon the couch, groaning. "Don't you exaggerate?" The minister's wife put the question gently. "Not a bit! Not a bit! All true. 1 ? am not one of the French revolution FIXION 1 .IP STRONG. I dre Ch me ES M. SHELDON, the d Jesus Do "Malcom Kirk," "Robert ^r( n Days," Etc. ex] fellows, always lugging In blood and destruction and prophesying ruin to ^'c the nation and the world if it doesn't gee and haw the way 1 like it to. But of 1 tell you. Sarah, it takes no prophet wc to see that a man who Is hungry and sIt out of work is a dangerous man to fo1 have around. And It takes no extraor- 1)14 dlnary sized heart to swell a little with righteous wrath when in such times as m< these people go right on with their use- wc less luxuries of living and spend as ne' much on a single evening's entertain- 8lv ment as would provide a comfortable tul living for a whole month to some de- ^01 serving family." 801 "Hnw do mil know thev doV" "Well. I'll tell you. I've figured It ba out I will leave It to any one of good ,n Judgment that any one of these project- P'? ed parties mentioned here In the evening ln paper"?Philip smoothed the paper on the head of tSe couch?"any one of ^ them will cost ln the neighborhood of ha $100 to $150. Look here! Here's the ^01 Goldens' party?members of Calvary de church. They will spend at least $25 t,c to $30 in flowers, and refreshments t,E will cost $50 more, and music another UP $25 and incidentals *$25 extra, and so ev' on. Is that right Sarah, these times, ?* and as people ought to live now?" ou "But some one gets the benefit of all at^ this money spent. Surely that Is a 8eJ help to some of the working people." "Yes, but how many people are help- 1 ed by such expenditures? Only a se- m( lect few. and they are the very ones fa' who are least In need of It. I say W? that Christian people and members of churches have no right to indulge their ln I selfish pleasures to this extent in these va ways. I know that Christ would not aa approve of It." af1 "You think he would not. Philip?" er "No, I know he would not. There Is ev not a particle of doubt in my mind sit about it What right has a disciple of ca Jesus Christ to spend for the gratiflca- ge tion of his physical aesthetic pleasures 't money which ought to be feeding the tei hungry bodies of men or providing he some useful necessary labor for their ca activity? I mean, of course, the grati- o' flcation of those senses which a man th< can live without. In this age of the 1 world society ought to dispense with PI some of its accustomed pleasures and th< deny Itself for the sake of the great til suffering, needy world. Instead of lit that, the members of the very church Id of Christ on earth spend more In a sin* to gle evening's entertainment for people who don't need it than they give to the qu salvation of men in a whole year. 1 wl protest out of the soul that God gave fr< me against such wicked selfishness, be And I will protest if society spurn ba me from it as a bigot, a Puritan and a tic boor. For society in Christian Amerl- ? ca is not unrisuan in mis muuer?uu. oa not ufter tlie Christianity of Christ!" i ] "What can you do about it, Philip?" Cai His wife asked the question sadly. mj! She had grown old fast since coming jt | to Milton, and a presentiment of evil would, in spite of her naturally cheery gk disposition, cling to her whenever she kn considered Philip and bis work. "1 can preach on it, and I will." his "Be wise. Philip. You tread on dlf- an ticult ground when you enter society's en> realm." Bid "Well, dear, 1 will be as wise as a H( serpent and harmless as a dove, al- 1 though 1 must confess 1 never knew do . as 0 y ? ? Jill JL ho ^ mr ' ba "/ can preach on it, and T nill." I Just exactly how much that verse of meant. But preach on it 1 must and pu will." ole And when the first Sunday of the ha month came Philip did preach on it. foi to the dismay of several members of foi his church who were in the habit of oil giving entertainments and card par- mc ties on a somewhat elaborate scale. pn He had never preached on the sub- se< ject of amusements, and he stated that th< lie wished it to be plainly understood 1 that be was not preaching on the sub- hir ject now. It was a question which rie went deeper than that and took hold an of the very fir^t principles of human sis society. A single passage in the ser- foi mon will show the drift of it all: kii "We have reached a time in the his- loc tory of the world when It is the Chris- sit tlan duty of every man who calls a I himself a disciple of the Master to live to on a simpler, less extravagant basis, mi e world lias been living "beyond Its ans. Modern civilization has been jrbltant in Its demands, and every lar foolishly spent today means Tering for some one who ought to relieved by that money wisely exided. An entertainment given by >ple of means to other people of ans in these hard times. In which ney is lavished on flowers, food and >ss, Is. in my opinion, an act of which rist would not approve. 1 do not an to say that he would object to > pleasure which flowers, food and ;ss will give, hut he would say that is an unnecessary enjoyment and pense at this particular crisis ough which we are passing. He iuld say that money and time should given where people more in need them might have the benefit. He iuld say that when a town is in the uation of ours today it is not a time any selfish use for any material sslng. 'Unless 1 mistake the spirit of the )dern Christ, if he were here he >uld preach to the whole world the cessity of a far simpler, less expene style of living and. above all, acil self denial on the part of society the brotherhood of man. What is :iety doing now? What sacrifice is making? When it gives a charity 11, does it not spend twice as much getting up the entertainment to :ase itself as It makes for the poor whose behalf the ball is given? Do u Alnk 1 am severe? Ask yourself, member of Calvary church, what s been the extent of your sacrifice the world this year before you conmn me for being too strict or parular. It is because we live in such oes that the law of service presses on us with greater insistence than er. And now more than during any the ages gone Christ's words ring in r ears with 20 centuries of reverber!on. 'Whosoever will not deny him11 and take up bis cross, be cannot my disciple.'" Of all the sermons on Christ and )dern society which Philip had thus r preached none had hit so hard or is applied so personally as this. The ildens went home from the service a towering rage. "That settles Calry church for me!" said Mrs. Golden she flung herself out of the building ter the service was over. "1 considthat the most insulting sermon 1 er heard from any minister. It is nply outlandish, and how the church n endure such preaching much lonr is a wonder to me. 1 don't go near again while Mr. Strong is the minis !" Philip did not know it yet, but was destined to And out that society rries a tremendous power in Its use the word "outlandish" applied eler to persons or things. i?hen the evening service was over, tilip, as bis habit was, lay down on s couch in front of the open Are unthe day's excitement bad subsided a tie. It was almost the only evening the week when he gave himself up complete rest of mind and body. He had been lying there about a arter of an hour when Mrs. Strong, 10 had been moving a plant back im one of the front windows and had en obliged to raise a curtain, stepped ck into the room with an exclamam. 'Philip, there is some one walking ck and forth in front of the house! iave heard the steps ever since we me home. And just now I saw a in stop and look in here. Who can be?" 'Maybe it's the man with the burir's lantern come back to get his ife," said Philip, who had always tde aolittle fun of that Incident as i wife had told it. However, he rose d went over to the window. Sure ough, there was a man out on the lewalk looking straight at the house. ? was standing perfectly still. 'hilip and his wife stood by the winw looking at the figure outside, and, it did not move away, at last Philip ?w a little Impatient and went to the or to open It and ask the man what meant by staring Into people's uses In that fashion. 'Now. do be careful, won't you?" en ated his wife anxiously. 'Yes. I presume it is some tramp or ler wanting food. There's no danr, I know." To flung the door wide open and callout in his clear, hearty voice: 'Anything you want, friend? Come and ring the bell if you want to get and know us Instead of standing ?re on the walk catching cold and iking us wonder who you are." n response to this frank and informinvitation the figure came forward ?lrv??.1*T rv?/Mintn/l tlto ctona A f t ho II MU \> IJ UlUUuivu ?ivrv w. rch. As the face came into view ire clearly Philip started and fell ck a little. t was not because the face was that an enemy nor because It was relslve nor because he recognized an I acquaintance. It was a face he d never to his knowledge seen be*e. Yet the impulse to start back be e it seemed to spring from the recection of just such a countenance >v!ng over his spirit when he was In "cp nr in trouble. It all passed in a ?ond's time, and tlien he confronted ? man as a complete stranger. ["here was nothing remarkable about n. He was poorly dressed and card a small bundle. He looked cold d tired. Philip, who could never ret the mute appeal of distress in any :m. reached out his hand and said idly: "Come in, my brother; you >k cold and weary. Come in and down before the Are. and we'll have tiite of lunch. 1 was just beginning think of having something to eat rseif." Philip's wife looked a little remonstrance. but Philip did not see It, and wheeling an easy chair before the Are he made the man sit down, and, pulling up a rocker, he placed himself opposite. i The stranger seemed a little surprised at the action of the minister, but made no resistance. He took off his hat and disclosed a bead of hair white < as snow and said In a voice that < sounded singularly sweet and true: "You do me much honor, sir. The Are feels good this chilly evening, and the food will be very acceptable. And 1 have no doubt you have a good, warm bed that I could occupy for the night." Philip stared hard at his unexpected guest, and his wife, who had started out of the room to get the lunch, shook her head vigorously as she 6tood behind the visitor as a sign that her husband should refuse such a strange request. He was taken aback a tittle, and he looked puzzled. The words were uttered In the utmost simplicity. "Why, yes, we can arrange that all right," he said. "There Is a spare room, and?excuse me for a moment while 1 go and help to get our lunch." Philip's wife was telegraphing to him to come Into the other room, and he obediently got up and went "V" rn-iiiir," oho rohlsnpred when they were out in the dining room, "you know that is a risky thing to do. You are all the time inviting all kinds of characters in here. We can't keep this man all night Who ever heard of such a thing as a perfect stranger coming out with a request like that? 1 believe the man is crazy. It certainly will not do to let him stay here all night." Philip looked puzzled. "I declare It Is strange! He doesn't appear like an ordinary tramp. But somehow I don't think he's crazy. Why shouldn't we let him have the bed In tbe room off the east parlor. I can light the fire in the stove there and make him comfortable." "But we don't know who he Is. You let your sympathies run away with your judgment." "Well, little woman, let me go in and talk with him awhile. You get the lunch, and we'll see about the rest a'fterwasd." So he went back and sat down again. He was hardly seated when his visitor said: "If your wife objects to my staying here tonight, of course, I don't wish to. 1 ?'* /tAmfAT^oKIa in romnin where I'm Dot welcome." "Oh, you're perfectly welcome," said Philip hastily, with some embarrassment while his strange visitor went on: "I'm not craey, only a little odd, you know. Perfectly harmless. It will be perfectly safe for you to keep me overnight." The man spread his thin hands out before the fire, while Philip sat and watched him with a certain fascination uew to bis interest in all sorts and conditions of men. Mrs. Strong brought in a substantial lunch of cold meat, bread and butter, milk and fruit and then placed it on a table In front of the open fire, where be and his remarkable guest ate like hungry men. It was after this lunch had been eaten and the table removed that a Bcene occurred which would be Incredible If Its reality and truthfulness did not compel us to record it as a part of the life of Philip Strong. No one will wish to deny the power and significance of this event as it is unfolded in the movement of this story. TO BE CONTINUED. NUT MUCH HAND TO HAND. Fictions About Bayonet Charges and Bayonet Wounds. From The Army and Navy Journal. Some of the stories about bayonet charges and bayonet wounds, coming from the battlefields of South Africa, which appear to be taken seriously by civilians, are simply humorous to those acquainted with actual experiences in war. In the "Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion," we find this statement under the bead of "Flesh wounds of the Upper Extremeties "Over 50,000 cases, or about a fifth of all the wouuds reported by name, were returned as shot flesh wounds of the upper extremities. There were 69 examples of bayonet wounds of the fleshy part of the arm, or forearm, or hand, and 44 cases of similar injuries by other pointed weapons. There were 80 instances of sabre cuts of the upper extremities." This is in the proportion of a little more than one-hundredth part of 1 per ceut. of the bayonet wounds, or 725 shot wounds to one bayonet wound. As a bayonet wo.und is more likely to be in the upper extremity in nnn AfUnn r\At?ttnn <*\f t.hp hnH V Ilia U 1 LI UIIJ UlUCl puivivu vr? v?.v WVV.J , it is apparent that the proportion of whole number of bayonet wounds would be uo greater. Nor is it at all likely that the proportion can be any greater where the modern weapons, still more widely separates the fighting lines. Is it strange, then, that we should have small respect for the English newspaper accounts of the behavior of the British soldiers in battle when we find them filled with reports of bayonet encounters. Talbert Still Chairman. Congressman Tnlbert has again been made chairman of the South Carolina delegation in the house, and he is also a member of the congressional campaign committee. piisaUanwus Reading. ^ ul GOOD DEMOCRATIC DOCTRINE. ed m Senator McLaarln on the Repeai of the tb Ten Per Cent. Tax on State Banka. bs During the discussion of the cur- er rency bill in the senate last Tuesday, m Senator McLaurin made an argument U1 in support of bis amendment providing w for the repeal of the 10 per cent, tax to on the issues of state banks. His re- D< marks were rather too extended for P> publication in the space available at m this time; but a synopsis will no doubt P( be interesting. e2 In the first place, Senator McLaurin cc cited the pending bill as the Republican party's admission of the inadequacy of the present banking system, ana then he proceeded to give facts as to s' why the proposition to reduce the minimum amount of capital required of national banks, would not operate to faciliate their establishment in sec* tions standing in the greater need of banking facilities. 0 National banks are allowed to accept as security for loans only stocks, II bonds and personal endorsements, HI Without stocks and bonds, therefore, p< it is impracticable to secure accommo- I dation from them. The stocks and ai bonds of this country are owned prin* it cipally in the east, where such securities are the main form of wealth, ei The south and west also have much & wealth; but it is not generally in a ai shape available for banking purposes w under the present hauking laws. si r\f fKo oAmnfrnllflr Of i uc inatpn^cMipu V VI VUO Wiupvivuvi | of the currency shows that of national n< banks established in the western states, 47 per cent, have failed or gone into c( liquidation. In the Pacific states only R 56 per cent, have survived; in the tl middle states, 64 per cent.; in the a southern states, 69 per cent.; in the k eastern states, 80 per cent., and in the k New England states, 84 percent. The success of a bank depends upon the T character of the investment of the c< community in which is located, and ai these figures show that under existing bi laws such banks can only flourish iu ci the middle and eastern states. More h; banks of the same kind in the sections cl where the business has proved un- 1c profitable, would only result in in- tc creased competition for the limited cl amount of business of the kind that is S ?lrpflriv Available for them. ^ ? ? The per capita circulation of the h country' is not significant of prosperity li unless that circulation be equally dis- if trihuted. If the per capita is $25 and p< it is so distributed as to be $150 in New b; York and only $15 in South Carolina, a then the business of New York will fc continue to he done at the expense of A r out t. Carolina. m The last statement of the comptrol- m ler of the currency shows that the national baDks of the eastern stateB * held $164,341,335 of stocks and secur- m ities, the national hanks of the south- 111 ern states $16,849,465, and of the ^ western states $10,995,759. The ac- C tual wealth of sections in available " banking assets under friendly laws are f* not in any such proportion But the 'D northeast, having a monopoly of the kiud of property that is legally availa- F ble for national banking purposes, has a monopoly of national banks, and, therefore, a monopoly of national bank ''! circulation. This imposes upon the western man the necessity of going to w the northeast for the money to move w his cattle and grain, and the southern e] man has to go to the same source for al the means with which to move his cotton. If the people of these sections were allowed to make use of such U bankiog assets as they have, and only such as are as good or better than ai fluctuating stocks and bonds, they ec could move their crops on their own w motion, independently ofthe northeast. cs Senator McLaurin cited the instance of the financial panic of 1893, when ar the New York banks, for purposes of 8.u their own, cornered the circulation of 8,( the country by means of clearing-bouse certificates. He told how, when the er the squeeze began to grow uncomfor- ot table in the south, southern banks followed suit with the clearing-house cer- 80 tificateidea; but instead of using the p3 certificate to help corner the currency, 'D put them in circulation as money. As this nr?rfif>A hecame general through- ^ out the south, the situation was re- w lieved to such an extent that the P1 northeastern conspirators became 'n alarmed and called the treasury de- D( partment to their aid to suppress this 'u circulation by imposing the 10 per di ceut. tax. He stated that if congress P( would remove this tax, the states ar would speedily provide banking sys- te tems by which they could make their t0 peculiar assets available and secure ar financial independence of the north- P1 east. In conclusion he said : A "I want, at the proper time, a vote upon the question as to whether or m not the people of the south and west are to be allowed to use their wealth es for the upbuilding of their sections, or whether they are to be compelled to ? do the financial bidding of the eastern money masters. I want a vote upon 01 this question squarely and without any other question intervening. We jrc have the property, we have the resources, and we want to know whether not those who have no resources in 1, the way of property and whose aggre- ui gate property is less than that of the is south and west combined, shall have w all the money. I have no fight to make se upon national bank circulation ; but di that circulation has been cornered, m I want for my people a circulation fit that has not been cornered. I want it m issued under the wisest restrictions of di le state in which it is to circulate; it I do not want the elemeut of epecatioo that has so disastrously affect1 the purchasing power of Federal ouey to have aDytbiDg to do with is money which is to issue upon the isis of real values aod tangible prop- . ty. We want to do business to the utual advantage of all sections and >on terms of equality. We do not ant to do business under the dictarship of New York banks. We do >t want for our section to have the esent disproportion of circulating edium to the amount of wealth ii )ssesse8. We ask for nothing but an cact and equal justice, and we will be intent with nothing, less." AT HIS OLD HUME. moo Moeller Tells Something of Life In Germany?Primitive Wheat ThreshingHog Killing Time-Christmas?Erroneous Notions About the United States?Specimens of German Law?A Wedding There Is to Be. jrrespondence of ths Yorkville Enquirer. Oberwusten, Germany, December ), 1899.?No matter how much I had ked to write, hitherto it has been imDssible. Of that which I wrote last have very little remembrance, and if aytbing should be repeated, I beg the idulgence of the kind readers. Nearly two weeks 1 have been at my irly home. Things look yet nearly i they did eight years ago. Houses ad trees stand yet on the same plaoes here I left them. Only tfie appearace of the people has changed. Many f the old friends and neighbors 1 did Dt know any more. DAmo irooto tva Kovo ha/3 flapAfrt A VI OV/UIV TT VVttO *f V ?w?v 4JM\> wv> v. V )ld and some snow. Fifteen degrees, eaumer, has been tbe highest record lis year. Killing hogs is at present very popular occupation. We have illed one of 400 pounds and intend to ill one more a little heavier. The threshing is just about done. his is largely done by hand. pf jurse, many people have machines nd there are also traveling machines; ut all those who raise only small rops of grain like it better to thresh y hand. The threshing is done wit& ubs which are fastened to five foot mg sticks. The threshers all beat >gether, and whenever they intend to 08e they all come down at oncet ix men thresh about 15 bushels a day. ?- - * - t -1 The government nas not oomerea ie yet. We have at present a poceman who does not trouble anybody be can help it; but if I should bap* en to run up with him, then he will ave to report about my arrival. Td fine of 250 marks I was sentenced ir ray withdrawal from military duty! s soon as the circuit officer bears of ' iy return, this amount shall be delanded of me ; but in vain. Christmas draws near. Tomorrow want to go to town to see if I can eet Santa Claus. They say be will ake his call some of these days! his year we will have three days for hristmas ; the Sunday before and as ie custom i9, the day after. On all tese days religious services take place r. every church. On the first day lere is service at 6 o'clock, a. mi; or this occasion a large decorated r tree is placed on each side of the tar, and the whole tabernacle is ghted by candles. If I did not know lat Christmas belongs to the past henever these line are published, I ould send congratulations. ' Howler, a happy New Year I wish for I. When the people of this country - *i -4_A r * >ar tnat in tne nortnern siaies ui me nion it is so extremely cold, and yet lere are do stables for the domestic limals, they do not understand how (lightened people who enter into war ith other nations for humanity sake; in witness such suffering before their res, when millions of feet of timber e rotting because it is cot used. On icb occasions I often hear the expreson, "Germany above all; above , rerytbing in the world."* But America is unique ; there is not such an,her country. When I write again, I may report ime interesting news. What that ay be I leave to the kind reader to fer. * I have not seen any game yet. unting here is monopolized by peoplebo are able to pay for the privilege,, id if others shoot they are liable to iprisonment. In this neighborhood Dt long ago there was a prize shootg. One of the participants who had runk too much, pointed a gun, supised to be unloaded, at a partner, id killed him. The man was sen ced to two months' imprisonment, i support the widow and children, id to prepare tbe children for any ofession tbe widow might choose, nother man shot a rabbit in his garsn and was sent to jail for four ontbs. Hail to the United States, the greatit government on earth. Simon Moeller. *Of course the reader will understand at the Germans are badly misinformed 1 this subject. Cattle and work-stock roughout the north, are as comfortably >used as in Germany or any other conns' Making British Uniforms.?Over 600 women are at present making liforms for English soldiers. Khaki a dyed cotton ; but what it is dyed ith tbe government officials tbernlves do not know. Tbe firm that scoyered it keeps the secret very uch to itself. To guard against miss tbe English army clothing stores ake tbe uniforms in no less than 36 fiferent sizes.