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VOL. V MANNING, CLARENDON COUNTY. S. C., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 1889. NO. 15 JOSEPH F. RHAME, ATTORNEY AT LAI, MANNING, S. C. JOHN S. WILSON, Allorney and (Cu',e&lr at Law, MANNING, S. C. FN. WILSON, INSURAXCE AGENT, MANNING. S. C. A. LEV1, ATTORNEY A T LAW, MANNING, S. C. -Notary Public with seal. J. BRAGDON, REAL ESTATE AGENT, FORESTON, S. C. Offers for sale on Main Street, in business portion of the town, TWO STORES, with suitable lots: on Manning and R. R. streets TWO COTTAGE RESIDENCES, 4 and C rooms; and a number of VACANT LOTS suitable for residences, and in different lo calities. Terms Reasonable. Max G. Bryant, JAS. M. LEmD, South Carolina. New York. Grand Central Hotel. BRYANT & LELAND, PRoPRIFroRS. Columbia, South Carolina. The grand Central is the largest and best kept hotel in Columbia, located in the EX ACT BUSIE.SS CENTER OF THE CITY, where all Street Car Lines pass the door, and its MENU is not excelled by any in the South. Manning Shaving Parlor. HAIR CUTTING ARlTISTICALLY EXECUTED. and Shaving done with best Razors. Spec ial attention paid to shampooing ladies heads. I have had considerable experience in several large cities, and guarantee satisfac tion to my customers. Parlor next door to E. D. HAMILTON. W WAVERLY HOUSE, IN the Bend of King Street, Charleston. The Waverly, having been thoroughly renovated the past summer and newly fur nished throughout, makes its accommoda tions unsurpassed. Incandescent Electric Lights and Electric Bells are used in all rooms and hallways. Rates $2.00 and $2.50. G. T. ALFORD, Proprietor. PAVILION HOTEL, CHARLESTON, S. C. First Class in all its Appointnenls, Supplied with all Modern Improvements Excellent Cuisine, Large Airy Room's, Otis Passenger Elevator, Elec tric Bells and Lights, Heat ed Rotunda. R3 TES, $2.00, $250 AND $3.00. Rooms Reserved by Mail or Telegraph THE BEULAI ACADEMY, Bethlehem, S. C. B. B. THOMPSON,- Principal. Fall Session Begins Monday, Oct. 29. Instruction thornugi, government mild and decisive, appealing generally to the student's sense of honor and judgment in the important matter of punctuality, de portment, diligence, &c. Moral and social infuences good. L 94 A T I X F I-5E Tnition from $1.00 to $2.00 per month. Bc~ard in good families $7.00 per month. Board. fromJMonday to Friday per month $3.00 to S4.00., pit For fnrther particular<, addaress th Frincipal. .. ... G. DINKINS, M. D. R B. LORTEA. j, C, Dieftios & Co., Druggists and Pharmacists, PURE DRUGS AND MEDICINES, PERFUMERY, STATIONERY, FINE CIGARS AND TOBACCO. F'ull stock of PaixTs, Onis, Gr~asS VAmtzs and Wmrr ILD, also PAixr and WHrEWASE BEUSHES. An elegant stfock of SPECTACLES and EYE GLASSES. No charge made for fitting the eye. Physicians Prescriptions carefully comp'ounded, day or night. 1. 6. Dinkins & Co., Sign of the Golden Mortar, MANNING, S. C. [Gno. E. ToA.E. HExNT OLvEn.) Geo. E. T oale & Co. MANUFACTURERS AND WHOLESAL.Z -TW" T ."T . M - Doors, Sash, Blinds, Mouldings. Mantels. Grates, etc. Scroll Work, Turning and Inside Finish. Builder's Hard ware, and General Building Material. OFFICE AN~D SALESROOMS. 10 and 12 Hayne Street, REAR CHARLESTON HOTEL, Charleston, S. C. All Work Guaranteed. dWWrite for estimates. SAYINGS ON A HARP. Sermon by Rev. Dr. T. DeoVitt Talmage, D. D. Some of the Sins and Troubles of Earth set to Music - Why God Seems to Neglect and Persecute the Good and Reward the Bad. The subject of Dr. Talmage's recent ser mon was, "Dark Sayings on a Harp," and his text, Psalms xlix., verse 4: "1 will open my dark sayings on a harp." Follow ing is the sermon: The world is full of the inexplicable, the impassable, the- unfathomable, the insur mountable. We can not go three steps in any direction without coming up against a hard wall of mystery, riddles, paradoxes, profundities, labyrinths, problems that we can not solve, hieroglyphics that we can not decipher, anagrams we can not spell out, sphinxes that will not speak. For that reason, David in my text proposed to take up some of these somber and dark things and try to set them to sweet music. "I will open my dark sayings on a harp." I look off upon society and find people I unhappy conjunction of circumstances and they do not know what it means and they have a right to ask, why is this? and why is that? and I think I will be doing a good work by trying to explain some of these strange things and make you more content with your lot, and I shall only be answering questions that have often been asked me, or that we have all asked our selves, while I try to set these mysteries to music and open my dark sayings on a harp. Interrogation the first: Why does God take out of this world those who are useful and whom we can not spare and leave alive and in good health so many who are only a nuisance or a positive injury to the world? I thought I would begin with the very tough est of all the seeming inscrutables. Many of the most useful men and women die at thirty or forty years of age, while you often find useless people alive at sixty and seventy and eighty. John Careless wrote to Bradford, who was soon to be put to death, saying: "Why doth God suffer me and such other caterpillars to live that can do nothing but consume the alms of the church, and take away so many worthy workmen in the Lord's vineyard?" Similar questions are often asked. Here are two men. The one is a noble character and a Christian man; he chooses for a lifetime companion one who has been tenderly reared and she is worthy of him and he is worthy of her; as merchant or farmer, or professional man, or mechanic, or artist, he toils to educate and rear his children; heis succeeding, butbe has not yet established for his family a full competency; he seems absolutely indispensable to that household, but one day before he has paid off the mortgage on his house he is coming home through a strong northeast wind, and a chill strikes through him and four days of pneumonia end his earthly career and the wife and children go into a struggle for shelter and food. His next door neighber is a man who, though strong and well, lets his wife support him; he is round at the grocery store or some general loafing place in the evenings while his wife sews; his boys are imitating his example and lounge and swagger ind swear; all the use that man is in that house is to rave because the coffee is cold when he comes to a late breakfast, or to say cutting things about his wife's looks when he furnishes nothing for her wardrobe. The best thing that could happen to that family would be that man's funeral; but he declines to die; he lives on and on and on. So we have all noticed that many of the useful are early cut off while the parasites of society have great vital tenacity. I take up this dark saying on my harp and give three or four thrums on the string in the way of surmising and hopeful guess. Perhaps the useful man was taken out of the world, because he and his family were so constructed that they could not have en dured some great prosperity that might have been just ahead and they altogether might have gone down in the vortex of worldliness which every year swallows up ten thousand households. And so he went while he was humble and consecrated, and they were by the severities of life kept close to Christ and fitted for usefulness here and high seats in heasien; and when they meet at last beforgtde throne, they will ac knowledge that though the furnace was hot, it purified them, and prepared them for an eternal career of glory and reward for which no other kind of life could have fitted them. On the other band, the useless man lives on to fifty, or sixty, or seventy years, because all the ease he ever can have he must have in this world, and you ought not, there. fore, begrudge him his earthly lon gevity. In all the egos there has not a single loafer ever entered heaven. There is no place for him there to hang around. Not in the temples, for they are full of the most vigorous, alert and rapturous worship. Not on the river bank, for that is the place where the conquerors recline. Not in the gates, becanse there are multitudes enter ing, and we are told that at each of the twelve gates there is an angel. and that ce lestial guard would not allow the plane to be blocked up with idlers. If the good and useful go early, rejoice for them that they have so soon got through with human life, which at best is a struggle. And If the use less and bad stay, rejoice that they may be out in the world's fresh air a good many years before their final incarceration. Interrogation the second: Why do somany good people have so much trouble, sickness, bankruptcy, persecution, the three black vultures sometimes putting their fierce beaks Into one set of jangled nerves? I thinir now of a good friend I once had. He was a consecrated Christian man, an elder in the church and as polished a Christian gentle man as ever walked Broadway. First his general health gave out and he hobbled around on a cane, an old man at forty. After a while paralysis struck him. Having by poor health been compelled suddenly to quit business, he lost what property he had. Then his beautiful daughter died. Then a son became hopelessly deme-nted. Another son, splendid of mind and commanding of presence, resolved that he would take care of his father's household, but under the swoop of yellow fever at Fernandina, Fla., he suddenly expired. S~o yoa know good men and women who have had enough troubles, you think, to crush fifty people. No worldly philosophy could take suoh a trouble and set it to music, or play it on ioior fluto, or dulcimer, or sackbut, but Idrtoopen that dark saying on a gospel You wonder that very consecrated people have trouble? Did you ever know any very consecrated man or woman who had not had great trouble? Never. It was through their troubles sanctified that they wvere~ made very good. If you find anywhere in this city a man who has now and always has had perfect health, and never lost a child, and has always been popular, and never had business struggle or misfortune, your wife for a telegraph messenger boy and send me word and 1 will drop every thing and go right away to look at him. There never has been a man like that, and never will be. Who are those ar, ,.nt, secneited creatures who move say, as they close their librettos: "0. if we could only sing like that!" But God will say to those who have never fallen and consequently have not been redeemed: "You must be silent now; you have not the qualification for this anthem,' so they sit with closed lips and folded hands and sin. ners saved by grace take up the harmony, for the Bible says "no man can learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand which were redeemed from the earth." A great prima donna, who can now do any thing with her voice, told me that when she -first started in music her teacher in Berlin told her she could be a good singer. but a cer tain note she could never reach. "And then," she said, "I went to work and studied and practiced for years until I did reach it." But the song of the sinner redeemed, the Bible says, the exalted harmonists who have never sinned could not reach and never will reach. Would you like to hear me in a very poor way play a snatch of that tune? I can give you only one bar of the music on thlis gospel harp: "Unto him that hath loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood and hath made us kings and priests unto God and the Lamb, to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever, Amen." But before leaving this interrogatory, Why God lets sin come into the world! let me say that great battles seem to be nothing but suffering and outrage at the time of their occurrence, yet after they have been a long while past we can see that it was better for them to have been fought, namely, Salamis, Inkormann, Toulouse, Arbela. Agincourt. Trafalrar, Blenheim, Lexington, Sedan. So now that the great battles against sin and suffering are going on we can see mostly that which is deplorable. But twenty thousand years from now, standing in glory, we shall appreciate that Heaven is better off than if the battle of this world's sin and suffering had never been projected. But now 1 come nearer home and put a dark saying on the gospel harp, a style of question that is asked a million times every year. Interrogation the fourth: Why-do I have it so hard while others have it so easy? or, why do I have so much difficulty in get ting a livelihood while others go around with a full portemonnaie? or, why must I wear these plain clothes while others have to push hard to get their wardrobes closed, so crowded are they with brilliant attire! or. why should I have to work so hard while others have three hundred ard sixty-fire holidays every year? They are all practic ally one question. I answer them by saying, it is because the Lord has his favorites and he puts extra discipline upon you and extra trial because he has for you extra glory, ex tra enthronement, and extra facilities. That is no guess of mine but adivine say-so: "Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth." "Well," says some one, "I would rather have a little less in Heaven and a little more here. Discount my heavenly robe ten per cent. anid let me now put it on, a fur lined overcoat; put me in a less gorgeous room of the house of many mansions and let me have a house here in a better neigh borhood." No, no; God is not going to rob Heaven, which is to be your residence for nine hundred quadrillion of years to fix up your earthly abode, which you will occupy at most for less than a century, and where you may perhaps stay only ten years longer, or only one year, or perhaps a month more. Now you had better cheerfully let God have His way, for, you see, He has been taking care of folks for near seven thousand years, and knows how to do it, and can see what is best for you better than you can yourself. Don't think you are too insignificant to be divinely cared for. It was said that Diana, the goddess, could not be present to keep her temple at Ephesus from burning be cause she was attending upon the birth of him who who was to be Alexander the Great. But I tell you that your God and my God is so great in small things as well as large things that He could attend the cradle of a babe and at the same time the burning of a world. And God will make it all right with you, and there is one song that you will sing every hour your first ten years in Heaven, and the refrain of that song will be: "I am so glad God did not let me have it my own way." Your case will be all fixed up in Heaven, and there will be such a reversal of conditions that we can hardly find each other for some time. Sumne of us who have lived in first-rate houses here and in lir-st-rate neighborhoods will he found, because of our lukewarmness of earthly serv~ice, living on one of the back streets of the celestial city, and clear down at the end of it as No. 8SO, or 908, or 1505, while seome who had unat tractive earthly abodes, and a cramped one at that, will, in the heavenly city, be in a house fronting the royal plaza, right by the imperial fountain,or on the heights overlook ing the River of Life, the chariots of salva tion halting at your door while those who visit you are more than conquerors, and those who are kings and queens unto God for ever. You, my brother, and you, my~t sister, who have it so hard here will have it so fine and grand there that you will hardly know yourself, and will feetl disposed to dispute your own Identity, and the first time I see you there I will cry out: "Didn't I tell yon so when you sat down there in the Brook lyn Tabernacle and looked incredulous be ,cause you thought it too good to be true!" And you will answver: "Youu.were right, the half was not told me !" So this mo~rning I open your dark saying of despondency and complaint on myS gospel har-p and give you just one bar of music, for I do not pretend to be mutch of a player. "Thte Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall lead them to living foutwtains of water and God shall wipe away all tea r- from their eyes." But I must confess 1 ami a little perlexed how some of you good Christians are going to get through the gate. becuse there will he so many there to ereet you and they will all want to shake hands at once and will all want the first kiss. They will have heard that you are coming, and they wvill all press around to welcome you and will wvant you to say whether you know them after being so long parted. Amid the tussel and romp of reunion 1 will tell you whose hand of welcome you had better first clasp an:1 whtose check is entitled to the first kiss. It is t he hand and the cheek of Him without whom you would never have ;:ot thtere at a:1. tl-. Lord Jesus, the darling of thte siles, as het e'sies out, "I have loved thee with an everlasting love and the fires could not burn it anid tihe floods could not drown it."' Then you, my dear people, having no t-cr u-e for my pioor harp on which I used~ to open your dark sayings and whose chords sometimes snapped, despoiling the symphony, you wvill take downt your own harps from the willows that grow by the eter-nal water courses and play together those celestial airs, some of the names of which are entitled, '-The King in His Beauty," "The Land That Was Far Off," "Jerusalem. the Golden," "Home Again," "The Grand March of God," "The Life Everlasting." And as the last dark curtain of mystery is forever lifted it will be as though all the oratorios that wvere ever heard ad been roiled into one and "Israal in Egypt" and "Jephtha's Daugh ter" and Beethoven's "Overture l4 C" and Ritter's first sonata in D miner, and the "Creation" and the "Messiah" had been olown from the lips of one trumpet or been =nvoked by the sweep of one bow or had dropped from the vibrating chords of one harp. But here 1 must slew up lest in trying to about without sympathy for others, and who think more of a St. Bernard dog, or an Alderney cow, or a Southdown sheep, or a Berkshire pig than of a man! They never had any trouble, or the trouble was never sanctified. Who are those men who listen with moist eye as you tell them of suffering and who have a pathos in their voice, and akindness in their manner, and an excuse or an alleviation for those gone as tray? They are the men who have graduated at the Royal Academy of Trouble, and they have the diploma written in wrinkles on -their own countenance. My ! my ! What heartaches they had! What tears they have wept! What injustice they have suffered ! The mightiest influence for puri fication and salvation is trouble. No dia mond fit for a crown until it is cut. No wheat fit for bread till it is ground. There are only three things that can break off a chain-a hammer, a file, or a fire; and trouble is all three of them. The greatest writers, orators, and reformers get much of their force from trouble. What gave to Washington Irving that exquisite tender ness and pathos which will make his books favorites while the English language con tinues to be written and spoken? An early heartbreak that he never once mentioned; and when, thirty years after the death of Matilda Hoffman, who was to have been his bride, her father picked up a piece of em embroidery and said: "That is a piece of poor Matilda's workmanship," Washington Irving sank from hilarity into silence and walked away. Out of that lifetime of grief the great author dipped his pen's mightiest reinforcement. "Calvin's Institutes of Re ligion," than which a more wonderful book was never written by human hand, was be gun by the author at twenty-five years of age, because of the persecution by Francis, King of France. Faraday toiled for all time on a salary of eighty pounds a year and can dIes. As every brick of the wall of Babylon was stamped with the letter N, standing for Nebuchadnezzar, so every part of the tem ple of Christian achievement is stamped with the letter T, standing for trouble. When in olden time a man was to be hon ored with knighthood he was struck with the flat of the sword. But those who have come to the honor of knighthood in the king dom of God were first struck, not with the flat of the sword, but with the keen edge of the cimeter. To build his magnificence of char acter Paul could not have spared one lash, one prison, one stoning, one anathema, one poisonous viper from the hand, one shipwreck. What is true of individuals is true of nations. Tne horrors of the Ameri can Revolution gave this country this side of the Mississppi river to independence, and the conflict between England and France gave the most of this country west of the Mississippi to the United States. France owned it, but Napoleon, fearing that En gland would take it, practically made a present to the United States-for he re ceived only $15,000,000-of Louisiana, Mis souri, Arkansas, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota Colorado, Dakota. L 'ntana Wy oming and the Indian Territory. Out of the fire of the American Revolution came this country east of the Mississipi, out of the European war came that west of the Mississippi river. The British Empire rose to its present overtowering grandeur through a gunpowder plot, and Guy Fawkes' conspiracy, and Northampton insurrection, and Walter Raleigh's behead ing, and Bacon's bribery, and Cromwell's dissolution of Parliament, and the battles of Edge Hill, and Grantham, and Newberry, and Marston Moor, and Naseby, and Dunbar, and Sedgemoor, and execution of Charles the First, and London plague, and London fire, and London insurrection, and Ryehouse plot, and the vicissitudes of centuries. So the earth itself, before it could become an appropriate and beautiful residence for the human family, had, according to geology, to be washed by universal deluge, and scorched and made incandescent by uni versal fires, and pounded by sledge-hammer of icebergs, and wrenched by earthquakes that split continents, and shaken by volcanoes that tossed mountains, and passed through the catastrophes of thousands of years before Paradise became possible and the gr-ovescould shake~ out their green banners and the first garden pour its carnage of color between the Gihon and Hiddekel. Trouble a good thing for the rocks, a good thing for nations, as well as a good thing for individuals. So when you push against me with a sharp interrogation point, why do the good suffer? I open the dark saying on a harp, and, though 1 can neither play an organ, or coronet, or haut boy, or bugle, or clarionet, I have taken some lessons on the gospel harp, and if you would like to hear melI will play you these: 'All things work together for the good of those who love God." "Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous; nevertheless afterward it yield eth all possible fruits of righteousness unto them which are exercised there by." "Weeping may endure for a night, bt joy cometh in the morning." W hat asweet thingis aharp, and I won der not that in W ales, the country of my an cestors, the harp has become the national instrument, and that they have festivals where great prizes are offered in the compe tition between harp and harp; or that weird ebastian Erard was much of his time bent over this chorded and vibrating triangle, and was not satisfied until he had given it a compass of six octaves from E to E with all the sethitones, or that when King Saul wa~s demented the son of Jesse came before him and putting his fingers among the charmed strings of the harp played the devil out of the crazed monarch, or that in Heaven there shall be harpers harping with the harps. So you will not blame me for opening the dark saying on the gospel harp. Your harps, ye trembling saints, Down frcm th-- willows t ake ; Loud to the prais, of love divine Bid every strlig awake: Interrogation third: Why did a good God let sin and trouble coime into the world when He might have kept them out? My reply is, He bad a good reason. He had reasons which He could no more make us understaud in our finite state than the father starting out on some great and elaborato enterprise could make the two-year-old child in its arm-chair comprehend it. One was to demonstrate what grandeur of character may be achieved on earth by conquering evil. Had there been no evil to conquer and no trouble to console, then this universe would never have known an Abraham or a Moses or a Joshua or an Ezekiel or a Paul or a Christ o-: a Washington or a John Milton or a John Howard, and a million victories which have been gained by the consecrated spirits of all ages would never have been gained. Had there been no battle there would have been no victory. Nine-tenths of the anthems of Heaven would never have been sung. Heaven could never have been a thousandth part of the Heaven that it is. I will not say that I am glad that sin and sorrow did enter, but I do say that I am glad that after God has given all his reasons to an assembled universe he will be more honored than If sin and sorrow had never entered, and that the unfallen celestlals will be out done and will put down their trumpets to listen and it will be in Heaven when those who have conqnercd sin and sorrow shall eter, as It would be in a small singing school on earth if Thalberg and Gottschalk and Wagner and Beethoven and Reinberger and Schumann should all at once enter. The immortals that have been chanting tea thmosnd years before the tarese will ALL ABOUT THE STATE. -Senator Sligh of Newberry says he is not going to emigrate to Florida -Francis Murphy, the temperance advocate, is opposed to State prohibitory laws. -Many peach trees are already in full bloom in Marion. Nevertheless, the prospects for a good full crop are said to be excellent. -Miss Carter, a California school teacher, took half a day off recently and cleaned up $10.000 in a real estate deal before the sun went down. -Lucie Lafrance, of Montreal, lived ten years next door to her sister without knowing it. Their grocer introduced them. - Robert S. Thompson of Clinton. has been appointed Auditor of the Barnwell Railroad and also of the Blackville, Alston and Newberry Railroad. -J. B. Howe, a lawyer of Beaufort, bas decided to go West and to locate at Seattle, in the new State of Washington, for the practice of his profession. -The sheriff of Laurens has adver tised for sale the lot and buildings be longing to the Laurensville Female Col lege on salesday in April, for cash. -A section hand carelessly laid down for a nap on the Air Line Railroad track sear Tugalo River. Both his hands, which were lying across the rails, were cut off by a passing train, leaving only his thumbs. -J. F. Burnham of the New Brighton Hotel, Sullivan's Island, wants a big $30,000 hotel to be built in Barnwell, and offers to take two-thirds of the stock if the people of Barnwell will take the remaining third. -The Czar has ordered his painter-in ordinary, Michael von Zichy, to paint a picture of the railway disaster at Borki. The artist was on the wrecked train, but escaped unhurt. -Ex-President Hayes is usurping the prerogatives of Gen. Sherman. The other night he concluded an address to the Pittsburg Teachers' Association by kissing two of the prettiest young "school ma'ams." -The people of the village of McCor mick and surrounding country in Abbe ville County are again agitating the matter of organizing a new County, composed of parts of Abbeville and Edgefield. They find the distance to the court house inconveniently far. -The final experiments by the New York State authorities to ascertain the best means of executing criminals by electricity were made Tuesday. Four dogs, four calves and a horse were sub jected to currents of 700 to 1,000 volts and were instantly killed. -Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt depre cates the publicity the press has given of her intention to pay for a monument over the grave of her ancestor, General Marion, of South Carolina. She had thought to honor the hero's memory quietly and without credit to herself. -George Pittman, a negro boy about twenty years old, was drowned in a ditch near his home in Marion County a few mghts ago. He wandered from home at night and next morning a search revealed his dead body in the ditch where he had fallen while in the convulsions of an epileptic fit, to which he was subject. -A negro in Marion County cut or pulled out by the roots, the tongue of an ox which he was breaking for.its owner the other day. Of course the animal was utterly useless and had to be killed. The act is supposed to have been (lone in a fit of passion. -A young man named Bunton died very suddenly at Pelzer one day last week under peculiar circumstances. Thirty hours before his death be was hale and hearty, but suddenly he felt a severe pain in his right hand, which be gan to swell, and in a short tine the pain went all over his body, causing his death within the time mentioned. -A party of twelve or fifteen Mor mon converts from the country boarded the train at Westmninister a few days ago, in company with a Mormon elder, all bound for the West. It is said that there are still two Mormon elders in Oconee County engaged in persuading poor, silly women and children to join their infamous band and emigrate to Utah and Colorado. - -John Davis, aged 72 years, an in mate of the County poor house, eloped last Sunday morning with Mrs. M. W. Compton, another inmate, aged 58 years, and they were married in Williamston Tonsip that day by Rev. G. M. Ro gers. The officiating minister declined to act until the consent of County Coin sioner B. C. Martin was first obtained. It is not known what plans the .venera ble couple have for the future.-Ander son Journal Whee i JaesTaylor? James Taylor, a young man about 25 years of age, mysteriously disappeared from his home, on J. C. McDow's plan tation, on the 8th day of last January, and nothing has since been heard of him. After eating his breakfast on the morning of the day mentioned, he picked up his hat and walked out the door, remarking to his wife that he would be hack in a few moments. He never returned, and his wife has since moved back to her father's, a Mr. Weaver, near the river. It is not known whether Mr. Taylor was foully dealt with or has simply deserted his wife and left the country. He had had no quarrel with his wite, c.d the couple seemed very much attached to each other. They had beeni married about two years.-Lancaster Reiew. A cool Kentucky Drammaer. LONDON, Ky., March 5.-Henryv Le moyne, a drummer for a Louisville house, was here a few days ago. He was in a har-y to reach East Bernstadt, three miles a-vay, and as there was no train he started out walking. As he was counting the ties along the track he met a gang of hoodlums of the worst variety. He spoke politely to them and hurried on, but when he was about twenty yards away they began to shoot at himn. The bullets whistled around him at a lively rate, but if he was fright ened he concealed it well. Turning, he "Gentlemeff, if you want to shoot me, I shall have to request that you aim a little lower down. I am not as tall as you seem to think." They were so struck with his cooluess that thiey ceased firing and allowed bim that Sve have already wondered at; namely: Why preachers should keep on after all the bearers are tired? So I gather up into one great armful all the whys, and hows, and. wherefores of your life and mine, which we have not had time or the ability to answer, and write on them the words "ad journed to eternity." I rejoice that we do not understand all things now, for if we did, what would we learn in Heaven? If we knew it all down here in the freshman and sophomore class, what would be the use of going up to stand amid the juniors and the seniors? If we could put down one leg of the compass and with the other sweep a circle clear around all the inscrutables, if we could lift our little steelyards and weigh the throne of the omnipotent, if we could with our seven-day clock measure eternity, what would be left for heavenly revelation? So I move that we cheerfully adjourn what is now beyond our comprehension, and as ac cording to Rollin, the historian, Alexander .the Great having obtained the gold casket in which Darius had kept his rare perfume, used that aromatic casket thereafter to keep his favorite copy of Homer in, and called the book, therefore, the "edition of 'the casket," and at night he put the casket and his sword under his pillow, so I put this day into the perfumed casket of your richest affection and hopes this promise, worth more than Homer ever wrote or sword ever conquered: "What I do thou knowest not now, but thou shalt -know hereafter," and that I call the "edition celestial." A SHOOTING-STAR'S TALE. It Explains Why It Reaches the Earth la a Heated Condition. If you rub a button on a board it will be come warm. If you rub two pieces of wood together you can warm them, and you could even produce fire if you possessed the cun ning skill of some people whom you are ac customed to speak of as savages. Nor need you be surprised to find that I was warmed by merely rubbing against air. If you visit a rifle range and pick up a fragment of a bullet which has just struck the target you will find it warm; you will even find it so hot that you will generally drop it. Now, whence comes this heat? The bullet was certainly cold ere the trigger was pulled. No doubt there is some heat developed by the combustion of the gunpowder, but the bullet can not be much warmed thereby; it is, indeed, protected from the immediate ef fect of the heat of the powder by the wad. The bullet is partly warmed by the friction of rubbing against the barrel of the rifle, but doubtless it also receives some heat by the friction of the air and some from the consequence of its percussion agaipst the target. You need not, then, wonder how it is that when I am checked by your atmosphere, I too, am heated. Remember that I move a hundred times as swiftly as your rifle bullet, and that the hetl developed n the check;r.; o the motion of the body inereases enormously when the velocity of the body increases. Your mathematicians can calculate how much. They tell you that the heat produced will, as they say, vary as the square of the velocity. To give an illus tration of what this means, suppose that two rifles were fired at a target and that the sizes of the bullets and the ranges were the same, but that the charge in one of the rifles was such that its bullet had twice the initial velocity of the other. Then the mathematician will say that the heat de veloped during the fight of the rapid bullet might be not alone twice, but even four times as great as that developed in the slower bullet. If we would fire two bullets, one of which had three times the speed of the other, then, under similar circumstances, the heat generated ere the two bullets were brought to rest would be nine times greater, for the more rapidly-flying bullet than for the other one. Now, you can readily com prehend the immense quantity of beat that will have been produced ere friction could deprive me of a speed of twenty miles a second.-Macmillan's Magazine. FACTS ABOUT DIAMONDS. According to an Authority Nd Two of the Gems Are Exacity Alike. The diamond, besides being the queen of gems, is positively the most beautiful thing that nature has ever conceived. When it reveals its hidden perfections it is the only "thing of beauty'' that '-is a joy forever," as it is practically indestructible. Time will dim the luster and wear away the fiber of goldr but the diamond will go on spark ling for all time. For aught we know the diamond that sparkles on the white fingers of the belle of to-day may have scintillated as the eye of somne Hindoo god thousands of years ago. Most people imagine that dia monds have a classification like other com modities, worth so much per karat, accord lng to perfection, brilliancyv and purity, run ning through say a dozen grades, but there is no greater mistake. Strange as it may seem to the uninitiated, no two diamonds are exactly alike, but each has a virtue and value peculiarly its own. It is just as rare to see two individuals alike in face, form and feature as it is to see two diamonds. The idea, also, that a dealer in diamonds can tell by looking at a gem its exact value, is all nonsense. A diamond has to be studied. While the aid of a glass will help to discover the slightest flaw or imperfec tion, it does not bring out Its true value by a long way. Men who handle money con stantly can detect a light coin by simply handling and examining casually, but a dia mond has got to be stu died from all points before a safe estimate can be put upon its value. Shape, size, perfection of cutting and such matters cut an important figure In a diamond's value.-St. Louis Globe-Dem ocrat VALUE OF PATIENCE. A QualIty Necessary to Success In Impor tant Matters. It is the humility of patience which exer cises all mere obstinacy, and transforms silent endurance from a process of ex haustion-a mere waste of strength-Into a power that feeds us with new lIfe and impresses on us new character. Where is there a great national career that has not been built upon the qualities which are es sential to paticnce? Perhaps the French have evinced less capacity for patience than any other equally great people; but consider thc marv-elous root of patience in the Norman, the Breton, the Alsatian ele ments of the French characters; and If Paris has represented a central impatience, has not Paris ruined almost as often as she has delighted France? In all the other great 6atious of the world, the raw materials of patience arc thbe most notable characteristics of the national character. For example. among the Jews, the Ro mans, the FEnglish, the Germans, the Slas, we say, the raw maaterlal of patience, for the higher kind of pa:ticnce is far too lofty as well as lowly a virtue to be widely diffused through any people. Even among the Jews, whose character in its more ideal form appears to have been specially intended to illustrate this great virtue, the raw materials of it far oftener degen erted into mere doggedness than rose Into tat transentdant spiritual quality by which men win their souls.--London Spec tator. --Our wishes are presentiments of the ca paiities whieb lie within us, and harbin ger8 of that which we shh na condi tion to perform.-Goeth5. CAPT. DAWSON KILLED. ANOTHER HORRIBLE TRAGEDY IN THE CITY BY THE SEA. The Editor of the News and Courier Shot Through the Heart by Dr. McDow, ac Young Physician-The Murder . Com mitted in McDow's Office, Whither Capt.: Dawson Had Gone to Remonstrate With the Doctor About a Delicate Matter The Murderer Locks the Body of Hi' Victim in the Office and Tells No One oli His Horrible Crime Until Three Hours Afterwards. CHARLESTON, March 12.-[Special to. The Register.]-The city to-night is in a terrible state of excitement over the assassination of Capt. F. W. Dawson, the editor of the .News and 'ourier.' The murderer is named T. B. McDow, a young physician who is married and has: several children. The evidence in the case is verya meagre, but it has been learned tba@ Captain Dawson was murdered because of an attempt on his part to save the honor of a servant girl in his employ. The murder, it is said, was committed about 3:45 p. in., but was not discovered for three hours afterwards, when Dr.1 McDow surre'idered himself. The body of the murdered man had in the mean time lain in McDow's office, no.t one hundred yards from his own residence. Capt. Dawson left the News and Cou rier office about 3:30 p. m., and was never seen alive again. It appears that he had suspicions that his maid servant, who had charge of his~ children, was not behaving herself pro perly. Last week he asked the Chief of Police to detail a detective to shadow the girl, stating that if she was honestly courted he would have nothing to say, but that he did not desire his children to be entrusted to a girl who was not strictly honest. The detective accordingly shadowed the girl. On Monday morning he sai her get on a Rutledge avenue street car, where she was soon joined by Dr. Me Dow. The detective followed the pair. for several hours, and submitted a re port, in writing, to the Chief of Police, who conmunicated its contents to Capt Dawson tiis morning. As stated above, Captain Dawson left his office at 3:30 p. m. to-day;and was found murdered, about 6:30 p. m., in the office of Dr. McDow. Hi face was badly beaten, and a pistol b found lodged in his heart. It is supposod that he went to Dr. McDow's office to remonstrate with him (a married man and the father of seve ral children) against seducing his main servant, and that McDow shot him after the two had been engaged in a scrim mage. After the killing, McDow disappeared until about 6:30 p. in., when he appeared: at the police station and surrendered himself. McDow is said to be the only doctor in the city who is not a member of the State Medical Society, and has an un savory reputation. He married, some years ago, the daughter of C. D. Ahrens, a rich retired grocer, and it is known that the police have been asked to shadow him several times. All the evidence adduced thus far. shows that the murder was one of the most diabolical in the annals of crime. Capt. Dawson was shot while sitting down. The shot was a fatal one. After murdering his victim, it ist said,- Dr. MDow left him lying on the floor" locked his office door, and went out to a corner grocery shop. There is evidence that he tried to bury the corpse of his victim, but that in the meantime sus-. picion had got out, and finally, three: hours after he had killed Cart.- Dawson, he surrendered himself to~ the police authorities. The murderer has the reputation of being a rake, and it is said that he is known in almost every bawdy house in the city. Tonioht the city is wrapped in mourn ing, ancY the murder is the subject of discussion in every quarter of the town. The body of the murdered man has been taken to his residence, and the Coroner, after empanneling a jury, has adourned the inquest until to-morrow. MceDow was hurried to the jail as soon as he had surrendered himself, and for the present is safe from lynching, as the jail is well nigh impregnable. The en tire community is incensed. Tbe City Council had just met to night when the news of the murder was telephoned, upon which the Council at. once adjourned. J. A. !,. Details and Incidents of the Shocking Tragedy. CHARLESToN, March 13.-[Special to The Register.]-The entire city is ap palled at the murder of Captain Dawson. Of course Captain Dawson had friends and enemies, as all newspaper men must necessarily have. But friends and en emies alike are appalled at the manner of his taking off. It was horrible. As telegraphed THE REGISTER last night, he had gone to Dr. McDow's office to re monstrate with him against his flirtation with his (Captain Dawson's) maid It may be mentioned that the girl was brought out from Switzerland by Mrs. Dawson several years ago, and was kept by her as a governess and bonne. The murderer 'has the reputation among his own profession of being a rake and libertine. A brother physician told me to-day that Dr. McDow was familiarly known to every disreputable woman ~in the city. He married a daugter of Mr. C. D. Ahrens, a wealthy merchant of Charleston, several years ago, and has several childreu. He ad mitted to a reporter last night that he had had some words with his wife, who * it seems, left the house soon after the murder was committed. The most revolting feature of the murder, however, was the fact that tho aCnunnoJ4 nn fonrth rpage.i