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VOL. V. MANNING, CLARENDON COUNTY, S. C., WEDNESDAY, SETEMBE SPIRITUAL CASTAWAYS. Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage Preaches a Marine Discourse Ia Portland, Oregon -Spiritual Ship, wrecks and Their Causes-How to be Saved - Prayers for 'Divine Help Is Essential ' Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage preached recent ly to a vast audience at Portland, Ore., taking for his text L Cor. ix, 27: "Lest I myself should be cast away." Following is the sermon: In the presence of you who live on the Pacific Coast, I who live on the Atlantic Coast may appropriately speak on this ma rine allusion of the text, for all who know about the sea know about the castaway.. The textimplies that ministers of religion' may help others into Heaven and yet miss it themselves. The carpenters that built Noah's ark did not get into it themselves. Gown and surplice, and diplomas, and ca nonicals are no security. Cardinal Wolsey, after having been petted by kings, and hav ing entertained foreign ambassadors at Hampton Court, died in darkness. One of the most eminent ministers of religion that this country has ever known. plunged into sin and died; his heart, by post-mortem ex amination, found to have been, not tigura tively, but literally, broken. We may have hands of ordination on the -head, and ad dress consecrated assemblages, but that is no n why we shall necessarily reach celestial. The clergyman must ggh the same gate of pardon as the . There have been cases of ship where all on board escaped excepting captain. Alas! if, having "preached to others, 1 myself should be a castaway." God forbid it.- - I have examined some of the commen taries to see what they thought about this word "castaway," and I find they differ in regard to the figure used, while they agree in regard to the meaning. So I shall make my own selection, and take it in a nautical and seafaring sense, and show you that men may become spiritual castaways, and how finally they drift into that calamity. You and I live in seaboard cities. You have all stood on the beach. Many of you have crossed the ocean. Some of you have managed vessels i great stress of weather. There is a sea captain, and there is another, and yonder is another, and there are a goodly number of you who, though once you did not know the difference between a brig and a bark, and between a diamond knot and a sprit sheet sail knot, and although you could no t point out the weather cross jack brace, and though you could not man the fore clew garnets, now you are as familiar with a ship as you are with your righthand, and if it were necessary you could take a vessel clear across to the mouth of the Mer sey without the loss of a single sail. Well, there is a dark night in your memory of the sea. The vessel became unmanageable. You saw it was scudding toward the shore. You heard the cry: "Breakers ahead ! Land on the lee bow!" The vessel struck the rock and you feIhae deck breaking up under your feet, and youwere a castaway, as when the Hercules drove on the coast of Caffraria, as when the Portuguese brig went staying, splitting, grinding, crashing on the Goodwins. But whether you have followed the sea or not, you all understand the figure when I tell you that there are men, who, by their sins and temptations, are thrown helpless! Driven before the gale! Wrecked for two worlds! Castaways! Castaways! By talking with some sea captains, I have fouilI out that there are three or four causes for such a ealamnity to a vessel. I have been told that it sometimes comes from creating false lights on the beach. This was often so in olden times. It is not many years ago, indeed, that vagabounds used to wander up and down the beach, getting vessels ashore in the night, throwing up false light in their presence and deceiving them, that they may despoil and ransack them. All kinds of infernal arts were used to accomplish this. And one night, on the Cornish coast, when the sea was coming in fearfully, some villains took a lantern and tied it to ahorse, and led the horse up and down the beach, the lantern 'swinging to the motion of the horse, and a sea captain in the offing saw it and made up his mind that he was not anywhere near the shore, for he said: "There's a vessel-that must be a vessel, for it has a movable light," and he had no apprehension till he heard the rocks grating on the ship's bottom, and it went to pieces and the villains on shore gathered up the packages and treasures that were washed to the lahd. And I have to tell you that there are a multitude of souls ruined by false lights on the beach. In the dark night of man's danger false re ligion goes up and down the shore, shaking its lantern, and men look off and take that fiickering and expiring wick as the signal of safety, and the cry is: "Heave the main tonsail to the mast! All is well!" when sudden destruction cometh upon them, and they shall not escape. So there are all kinds of lanterns swung on the besch philosophical lanterns, education'al lan terns, humanitarian lanterns. Men look at them and are deceived, when there is noth ing but God's eternal lighthouse of the gospel that can keep them from becoming castaways. Once, on Wolf Crag light house, they tried to build'a copper figure of a wolf with its mouth open, so that the storms beating into it the wolf would howl forth the dangers to mariners that mirht be anywhere near the coast. Of course it was aaure. And so all new inventions for saving man's soul are unavailing. What the hum~an race wants is a light bursting forth from the cross standing on the great headlands-the light of pardon, the light of comfort, the light of Heaven. You might better go to night, and destroy all the great lighthouses on the dangerous coasts-the Barnegat lighthouse, the Fastnet Rock lighthouse, the Sherryvore lighthouse, the Longship lighthouse, the Hollyhead light house-than to put out God's great ocean lamp-the Gospel. Woe to those who swing false lanterns on the beach till men crash into ruin. Castaways! Castaways! By talking with sea captains 1 have heard alsothatships sometimes come to this calam ity by the sudden swoop of a tempest. For instance, avessel is sailing along in the East lndies, and there is not a single cloud on the sky ; but suddenly the breeze freshens; and there are swvift feet on the ratlines, and the cry is: "Way, haul away there !" but before they can square the booms and tarpaulin the hatchways, the vessel is groaning and creaking in the grip of a tornado, and falls over into the trough of the sea, and broad side it rolls on to the beach and keels over, leaving the crew to struggle in the merci less surf. Castaway ! Castaway ! And so I have to tell you that there are thousands of men destroyed through the sudden swoop of temptations. Some great induce ment to worldliness, or to sensuality, or te high temper, or to some form of dissipation, comes upon them. If they had time to ex amine their Bible, if they had tirue to de liberate, they could stand it; but the temp tationi came so suddenly-anl euroelydon on the Mediterraneaun, a whirlwind or the Ca ribbean. One awful salr~ or temptation and they perish. And so we often hear the old story: "I hadn't seen my friend in a great many years. We were very glad to - meet. ,He said I must drink, and he took me by the arm and pressed me along, ad fled the cup until the bubbles ran over the edge, and in an evil moment all my good resolutioswereswept away, and to theout raging of God and my own soul, IfelL" Or the story is: "I had hard work to support my family. Ithoughtthat by one false entry, by one deception, by one nbezzlement I mightspritng out free from 1l my trouble; and the temptation came upon me so fierce lyvI could not deliberate. I did -wrong and having done wrong once, I could not stop.'" . 0,it is the first step that costs; the second easier; and the third; and on to the last. )ce having broken loose from the anchor, Witis not so easy to tie the parted strands. joften itis that men are ruied for the reason that the temptation comes from some unexpected quarter. As vessels lie in Mar gate Roads, safe from southwest winds; but the wind changing to the northeast, they are driven helpless and go down. 0 that God would have mercy upon those upon whom there comes the sudden swoop of temptation, lest they perish, becoming cast aways! castaways! By talking with sea captains I have found out that some vessels come to this calamity through sheer recklessness. There are three million men who follow the sea for a living. It is a simple fact that the average of human life on the sea is twelve years. This comes from the fact that men by fa miliarity with danger sometimes become reckless-the captain, the helmsman, the stoker, the man on the lookout, become reck less, and in nine out of ten shipwrecks it is found that some one was awfully to blame. So I have to tell you that men are morally shipwrecked through sheer recklessness. There are thousands who do not care where they are in spiritual things. They do not know which way they are sailing, and the sea is black with piratical hulks that would grapple them with book of steel and blind fold them, and make them "walk the plank." They do not know what the next moment may bring forth. Drifting in their theol ogy. Drifting in their habits. Drifting in regard to all their future. No God, no I Christ. no settled anticipation of eternal fe licity, but all the time coming nearer and nearer to a dangerous coast. Some of them are on fire with evil habit, and they shall burn on the sea, the charred hulk tossed up on the barren beach. Many of them with great troubles, financial troubles, domestic troubles, social troubles; but they never < pray for comfort. With an aggravation of sin they pray for pardon. They do not steer for the lightship that dances in gladness at the mouth of Heaven's harbor; reckless as to where they come out, drifting further from God, further from early relig ious influences, further from happiness; and what is the worst thing about it is, they are taking their families along with them, and the way one goes, the probability is they will all go. Yet no anxiety. As uncon scious of danger as the passengers aboard the Arctic one moment before the Vesta crashed Into her. Wrapped up in the business of the store, not remembering that soon they must quit all their earthly possessions. Absorbed in their social pesition, not know ing that very soon they will have attended the last levee and whirled in the last schot tische. They do not deliberately choose to be ruined; neither did the French frigate Medusa aim for the Arguin bunks, but there it went to pieces. I wish I could wake you up. The perils are so augmented, you will die just as certainly as you sit there unless you bestir yourself. Are you willing to be come a castaway? You -throw out no oar. You take no surroundings. You watch no compass. You are not calculating your bearings while the wind is abaft, and yon der is a long line of foam bounding the horizon, and you will be pushed on toward it, and thousands have perished there, and you are driving in the same diree tion. Ready about! Down helm! Hard down! Man the life boat! Pull, my lads, pull! "He that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall be sud denly destroyed and that without remedy." But some of you are saying. within-, your selves : "What sliallI do?" Do? Do? Why, my brother, do what any ship does when in trouble. Lift a distress signal. On the.sea there is a flash and a boom. You listen and you look. A vessel is in trouble. The dis tress gun is sounded, or a rocket is sent up, ora blanket is lifted, or a bundle of ragr anything ty catch the eye of passing craft. So if you want to be taken off the wreck of your sin, you must lift a distress signal. The publican lifted the distress signal when he cried: "God, be merciful to me, a sinner!" Peter lifted the distress signal when he said: "Lord, save me, I perish!" The blind man lifted the distress signal when he said: "Lord, that my eyes may be opened." The jailer lifted the distress signal when he said: "What must I do to be saved !" And help will never come to your soul until you lift some signal. You must make some demon. stration, give some sign, make some Heaven piercing outcry for help, lifting the distress signal for the church's prayer, lifting the distress signal for Heaven's pardon. Pray! Pray ! The voice of the Lord now sounds in your ears: "In Me is thy help." Too proud to raise such a signal, too proud to be saved. There was an old sailor thumping about in a small boat in a tempest. T'he larrer vessel had gone down. He felt he must die. The surf was breaking over the boat, and he said: "I took off my life belt that it might soon be over, and I thought somewhat indistinctly about my Abiends on shore, and then I bid them good-bye like, and I was about sinking back and giving it up when I saw a bright star. The clouds were break ing away, and there that blessed star shone down on me, and it seemed to take right hold of me; and some how, I can not tell how it was, but somehow, while I was trying to watch that star, it seemed to help me and seemed to lift me." 0, sinking so111, see you not the glimmer between the rifts of the storm cloud? That is the star of hope. Deathstruck, I ceased the tide to stem, When suddenly a star arose, It was the star of Bethlehem. If there are any here who consider them selves castaways, let me say God is doing every thing to save you. Did you ever hear of Lione- Luken? He was the inventor of the insubmergible life boat. All honor is due to his memory by searfaring men, as well as by landsmen. How many lives he saved by his invention ! In after days that invention was improved, and one day there was a perfect life boat, the Northumber land, ready at Ramsgate. The life boat being ready, to test it the crew came out and leaped on the gunwale on one side to see if the boat would upset; it was impos sie to upset it. Then. amid th'e huzzas of excited thousands, that boat was launched, and it has gone and come. picking up a great many of the shipwrecked. But I have to tell you now of a gr-ander launching. and from the dry-docks of Heaven. Word came up that a world was beating on the rks. -In the presence of the potentates of Heaven the life boat of the world's redemp tion was launched. It shoved off the golden sands amid angeli': hosannas. The surges of darkness beat against its bow, but it sailed on. and it conies in sight of us this hour. it conies for you, it comes for mel Soul! soul! get into it. Make one leap for Heaven. Let that boat go past and your opportunity is gone. I am expecting that there will be whole families here who will get into that life boat. In 1833 the Isabel came ashore off Hastings, England. The air was filled with sounds-the hoarse sea trumpet, the crash of the-axes, and the bellowing of the tor nado. A boat from the shore came under the stern of the disabled vessel. There were women and children on board that ves sel. Some of the sailors jumped into the small boat and said: "Now give us the children." A father who stood on deck took his first born and threw him to the boat. The sailors caught him safely, and the next, and the next, to the last. Still the sea rocking, the storm howling. "Now." said the sailoi-s, "now the mother;" and she leaped, and was saved. The boat we-nt to the shore, b'ut lbe fore it got to the shorc the landsmien were to inpatent to help the suffer-ing people tlhat they waded clear down into the surf with blakets and clothing, and promises of suc or. So there arc families here who are go ing to be saved, and saved altogether. Give us that child for Christ, and that otherenid, that other. Give us the mother, give us the father, the whole family. They must all come in. All heaven wades in to help you. I claim this whole audience for God. I pick not out one man here nor one man there ; I claim you all There are sonic of you who, thirty years ago, were consecrated to Christ by your parents in baptism. Certainly I am not stepping over the right bound when I claim you for Jesus. Then there are many here who have been seeking God for a good while, and am I not right in claiming you for Jesus t Then there are some here who have beea further away, and you drink, I -..d ........ a von htw tun your families without any God to take care of them when you are dead. And I clain you, my brother; I claim att of you. You will have to pray some time; why not begin now, while all the white and purple cluster of divine promise bend over into your cup, rather than postpone your prayer until your chance is past, and the night drops, and the sea washes you out, and the appal ling fact shall be announced that notwith standing all your magnificent opportunities. you have become a castaway. PARASITES OF SPEECH. Mothers Should Fight Them as Energet Ically as They 1)o Other Pests. The duty each of us owes to his mother tongue should constrain him to seek dili gently after the best ways of clothing ideas. If there is a better fashion of speech than our own we should not b' content until it is ours. Slovenly language is more digrace ful than slovenliness of apparel. The great and grievous error in home and school edu cation is that children are allowed to speak as they like. The house mother who wages continual war with flies, barricades her windows against mosquitoes and would gc into hysterics at the suggestion of the red Bedouin of the sleeping-room, allows her children to double negatives, contract pro vincialisms, and enwrap their daily talk in slung as with a garment. She was a wise woman who insisted that her children should give neat and definite expression to what they had in their mind to say. If they began a sentence it must be finished. "What you think, you can say," was her rule. '-The sooner you learn to say it well the better." It goes without saying that as men and women they were admirable talkers. never taking refuge in "What-you- may-call-T'mns" and '4I-don't-know-whats," "You-knows" and "It-seems-to-ues." The pains given to the cultivation of the parasitical gibberish we call "slang." if rightly bestowed, would make charming talkers of our boys and girls. There is lit tle wit as euphony in willful mispronuncia tion of words, nor does the substitution of cabalistic phrases for intelligible English add piquancy to sentence or paragraph. If the truth were known, few slang-venders are on sufficiently intimate terms with their mother-tongue to take liberties with her.-Home-Maker. Danger of False Tenderness. The danger of false tenderness in the training of children was finely illustrated at one time in this manner: A persoi who was greatly interested in entomology se cured, at great pains. a fine specimen of an emperor moth in the larva state. Day by day he watched the little creature as he wove abouthim his cocoon, which is very singular in shape, much resembling a flask. Presently the time drew near for it to emerge from its wrappings, and spread its large wings of exceeding beauty. On reach ing the narrow aperture of the neck of tie flask the pity-of the person watching it was so awakened, to see the struggle necessary to get through, that he cut the cords, thus making the passage easier. But alas ! His false tenderness destroyed all the brili?,nj colors for-which this specie of moth is noted. The severe pressure was the very thing needed to cause the flow of fluids which created the marvelous hues. Its wings were small, dull in color, and the whole development was imperfect. How often we see a similar result in character, when parents, thinking to help a child over some hard places, rob him of strength of purpose and oth'er qualities essential to the highest attainments in mental and spiritual life.-Farm and Fireside. The Beauty of Kindness. What a beautiful quality is kindness! How it soothes the care worn! How it cheers us when we are sad and despondent! It costs very little to administer it, and yet it carries with it a heaven of sweetness. Life at best possesses a large share of bit terness, and has so much need for kindly words and kindly sympathy and kindly as sistance. Many a sad heart on ev-ery hand Is almost breaking for want of some loving one to share its bur-den. And these aching hearts do not comprise the few of eatt, but the many; in reality, they include nearly all of mankind. The secret balm of healing for all these wounded hearts is simply that loving kindness which is the re ult of living for others. each one forgetting self and sharing the heart-ills of others. Oh! let us become dead to self and live for one another; then we have heaven here. "Bear ye one one another's burdens and so fulill the law."-Homie. Rational Attention to Dress. Appearances should not be wholly beneath ihe consideration of any man. Nature does aot disdain them. Nothing is omitted that an enhance its beauty. Every thing is rouped and arranged with the most consum nate skill and with thie direct and manifest bject of pleasing exterior vision. The man. therefore, who plays the philosopher on the trength of neglecting his attire, and who ops that the world will rate the superior by of his intellect in direct ratio with the .nferiority of his hat, is no philosopher at al, because the true wise man thinks from satre, through himself.-N. Y. Ledggr. -There is nothing-no. nothing-innocent r good, that dies and in forgotten; let us bold to that faith, or none. An infant, a prattling child dying in the cradle wvill live iain in the better thoughts of those that ived it, and play its par-t through them in redeeming actions of the wvorld, though its ody be bur-ned to ashes or drowned in the seep sea.-Dickens. -There is no fit search after truth which joes not, tirst of all, be-gin to live the truth which is known.-11l. Bushnell. Good Doctors in a Bad Humor. Accordung to the New York IHeredd, a fierce wvar ha~s broketi ot bet ween Dr-. W. A. Hammond ol' Washinmeton and Dr. Lewis A. Sayre of New Yor-k, at. tributed to a remark said to have been made by D~r. Saiyre with reference to Dr.1 H ammond's experiments with the Brown Sequard elixir. The Herald? quotes a circular- said to have been written by D:-. Hiammond atnd addressed to Dr. Sare, in which ani attaek is made on tht latter for an alleged remark by Dr. Sayie that D~r. Hammond was makmng $1,000 a week out of the elixir-. In the course of the circular the wi-iter de nounces D~r. Sayre as a mn "whiose name is a synonym for all that is false and utnpr-ofessional," and pours out a torrent of invective that causes the Herald to doubt whether [Dr. Hlammflond can really have written it. Dr. Sayrc, being ititer-viewed in regard to it. denied that he had mnade: the statement attrib uted to him, but crit icised D~r. llamndn~ prtty~ freely, and saidl that the latter had better keep quiet, as his mnethlodls were too well known to require comn mnt. Whatever the vir-tues of the Brown-Squlard elixir mayv he. they do iot seem to pir.odnee aiabilility ort good teper. WithI all their cionmpounding andi prescibing, dloctors- front lte biegini ning of time never seem to have found a cure for the mor01al indigestion w~thih they appear to catise each other. Let them look out for an elixir thatt will prto mote mnedicad good-will and charity and. make doctors agree without shaking one another, a-s other- pe~ple do their mettdi cines before taking them.-Balt. Sun. Is She Still Sleeping? Mrs. Gabe Stephens of t~his County, on the afternoon of the 21st, complained of feeling tired, and remarked that she would lie dowvn and take a nap. When beard from on the night of the 23d, she was still sound asleep. A physieian was called in, but failed to arouse her. Pikn-s Rentinel We Just made a Farmer of Jim. Four brave, brawny boas-and our fond foolish hearts Beat high in their joy and pride; Four treasures immortal intrusted to us To rear and to guard and to guide. It was ours to fathom the gifts of each mind, To study the depths of each heart, And discern, if we might, just the labor of life That Dame Nature del igned for their part. We had pondered it long, but 'twas settled bt last, 'That our Charlie a preacher should be. And our John, you should see, for a lawyer whas b- ru, And our Joseth should make an M. D ; - But the fourth was so quiet and queer in his way That 'twas hard to decide about him, And we needed his help, so we said with a sigh, "We'll just make a farmer of Jim." So the three went forth from the farm-yard gato In the kingdom of books to toll, - - - To delve in scho'assic lore-while Jiff - lie delved in the farm's rich soil. " 'Twas a p oodly sum we ha-I garnered by For use in the hour of need; 'Twas the savings slow of the frugal years, But 'twas spent with a reckless speed. 'Twa a goodly sum-like the wind it went, And the three never knew how we planned, How we worked and scrimped and struggled and sa.ved To furnish their large demand And .1 i m-how he toiled through the ceaseless round Tilt each wearisome day was gone; Undauttet lie by the scathi g storm or the noontide's scorching sun. With the plow and sickle, through crowded days, lIe wrourht. till the lields were shorn, And :irded in sheaves was the harvest's grain And garnered the golden cot n. it was harl-so hard-through the weary months, Yr t not a complaint from Jim. Theugh all went out to the three abroad, And notning remained to him. Deeds araud and hold has the soldier done In the midst of the battle's strife, Yet naught that is nobler will e'er be known Th an this patient, unse:fish 'ife. But twas over at last, and from college balls Camne forth the cl.ildren three, Full of unknown words, and of high ideas, And of hopes for the days to be. And) they went abroad on the world's high way To learn that a language dead A nd that classic lore was a worthless stock 'l o exchange for their daily bread. And what of Jim? lie bad read in books t of the great and good of )ore, Of the glories of empires passed away And of nations to rise no more. But it was from the pages of Nature's book, Fron the blossom and bird and bee, Fromi the soft, green earth and the tender skies, From the mounta'n and surging sea, '1 nat he learned of the deeper meaning of life, Learned its scheme and scope sublime. And in calms, that brood in the solitade, Learned the needs of the soul divine. Unifettered by rule of measure or school, His mind looked up from the sod, And his thoughts grew broad as the universe, And deep as the things of God. A 9. the people came and besought our Jim Of hi; ktraecke-t9.1pMA 1 And he taught with the simple eloquence That thrills through the human heart And they bowed them down tothisson of toil, And they cried that the nation's need Was his stearly brain and his noble heart And his honor in word and deed. And they caine from the near and they came from the far, And they wouldn't take "no" from him, But they crowned him with title and wealth ana fame, And they made a statesman of Jim. * * * * * * * * The years they are by, and I sit an I sigh O'er the fate of the children thre s, For the world's been unkind to the lawyer born, Anl the M. D. and LL. D.; I think of their starvine, struggling lives, And then I think of Jim Aad thank the Lord that we had the sen e To make a farmer of him. HIGH OFFICIALS EMBARRASSED. The President and she Secretary of State Victims of Circumstances. There is a story of a Presidential ex curion down to the Eastern snore of Maryand. The party embraced -ecre tries Blaine and Windom and others. They went to church and were fortunate eogh to hear' alt excellent sermon from the venerable Protestant EpiteopaIl Bishop of-Maryland, who was there to admmister the rite of confirmation. It was a rare pleasure to listen to a dis caurse from a clergyman who did not improve the occasion iby referring to those higzh in authority or by preaebing or praying at them. The President and the two Sieretaries, one on either side of him, sat in quiet satisfaction. But their peace of mind was suddenly and rudely dispelle& The offertory was sang. At the familiar words: Let your light so shine before men. &c., be President and the Secretaries each1 quietly dropped a hand into a pocket. 1 Lay not up for youraelves treasures on earth. Windom drew forth a crisp one-dollar note and held it between thumb and forefinger, ready for the approaching plate. The President and Mr. Blaine went a little deeper into their pockets. One brought up a nickel and-the other a dime. Their faces flushed. P. would never do to make such as small con tribu tiol. iHe that sow th a little shall reap little, and he that soweth len~t'ously shall reap pten teously. * * * God loveth a cheer-1 ful giver. The President went to-his pocketbook id the Secretary. of State explored his ve't pocket with nervous fingers. Zaccheus stood forth and said unto the Lord: Be-hold. Lord, the half of my goods I ive to the poor, and if I have done wrong to my mn~v I i e'store fourfold The plate was only four pews away. 'hat the President found in. his pock itbhook was one fifty-dollar note and a en-dollar greenback-notbing smaller. What Mr. Blaine found was two ten-, lollar notes-nothing smaller. To put in a niek Ie or a dime only was not to be honght of. To give ten dollars wasi rore than either cared to do; besides, ow ostentatious it would look! Each 1 )ooked at Windom, sitting there calmly, uhe richest of' the party, with his dollari lote in hand. lie shook his head.. t Charge them who are rich in this world 'hat they be ready to give and ghd to dis ri bute. There was no time for further pocket exploation or consideration. With at ;mile of commtisseration at each other, tnd somlethting like ghoulish glee on W~indl~omi's placid countenance, the Pres ident and Secretary of Ste'te each planked down his ten-dollar note for "1hle poor1 of this conl~grtion." And the worst of it is. satid one of the party at terward. tlnat the Lor-4 wonia pi-obably give them credit only for the dollar or t wo which they' intended to give. He Escaped the White Caps. Oni last Wednesday Mrs. John Wesley Lewis took her husband with a peace bond and a' wart-ant for adultery, and on Thursday lie was lodged in jail. On Friday morning Mrs. Lewis "made it up," and they returned home that even-1 iig. John Wesley says that he got the best of the White Caps, as he made a. coffee sack, a meat sack and a stirrup leather, value about 25 cents, whicti they left behind. John Wesley says the1 part he hates about it is that they did not give him time to spit the "chaw" of tobacco out of his mouth, and be had to ..vulow __rrM,.;,u s8,, . THE FIGHT AGAINST JUTE. Hon. L. L. Polk Talks About Cotton Gamblers. RALEIGH, N. C., August 25.-Colonel L. L. Polk, president of the Inter-State Farmers Association, returned here to day from the meeting of that body at Montgomery. In answer to an inqmiry as to the status of the fight between the farmers and the jute bagging trust, the Colonel said: "It is approaching a crisis. The alli ance is encouraged by the friendly action of the American Cotton Exchanges. by the constant accession of mills that are going into the manufacture of cotton bagging and by the unanimity and de termination of the farmers throughout the South to fight it out to the bitter end. The Inter-State Association or ganization is solidly against the jute trust, which'has an active, shrewd and jealnus ally in the cotton speculators or gamblers in futures. They have- sold large quantities of cotton to be delivered in the early Fall. They are dreadfully alarmed~ that cotton is being held by the farmers, and the price is advancing, and to-day it is a singular fact that spot otton is selling at higher figures than their contract prices. These mien must have cotton, or they are hopelessly wrecked. They have sold, and they must deliver, hence they are put ting forth powerful efforts to force cot ton on the market. It is ludicrous to read their dispatches, circulars and bo gu. letters now crowding the columns of the daily papers. They magnify the growing crop and hold up the present prices, and claim inat they must de line. They parade the non-action of the Liverpool Exchange, and positively assert that it wiil not recognize cotton bagging. If the Liverpool Exchange has so declared, I have failed to see the official announcement. We do not ex pect the co-operation of Liverpool until it is forced. English capital, English hipping and English manufacturers and Liverpool speculators, of course, are all interestod in perpetuating the use of jute, but all this commotion in cotton circles in America is the work of gamblers in futures, who have mil lions at stake, and who are new stand ing face to face with financial ruin yhey do not care how cotton is wrapped, for the terrible reality stares them in the face that they must have sufficient otton to fill their contracts, and they must have it quick. So desperate have the speculators become that they al ready have agents traveling from farm to farm in the more Southern States offer ing to buy cotton and advance the money. This is a struggle, not for ten orary triumph over the bagging trust, ut one for a grat principle, and we will ot relinquish the fight." .MAHONE GETTING Flooding .Virginia with Circulars-The Antis to Hold a Convention. PETERSBURG, August 26.-Gen. Ma hone arrived here last night, from Nor rolk, accompanied by ex-Congressman Bowen- and United States Marshal Watts, who remained with him until to-night, when they left for home. The three had quite a long conference in reference to matters pertaining to the approaching Gubernatorial contest and politics in Virginia generally. Gen. Mahone was called upon to-day by many of his friends to congratulate him upon his-nomination for Governor and to assure him of their support. The 1 eneral appears to be very hopeful of his election, and in a few weeks will he gin to stump the Stare. He has not yet letermined wbere he will make his maiden speech of the campaign, but it will in all probability be made in South west Virginia. He has already gone to work in earnest, and now his four clerks ire busily engaged addressing political irculars to people in all parts of the tate. He has had 7.5.000 of these cir mlars printed, which were taken to his residence in a spring wagon. a few lays ago from a printing house in this ut. Ex-Governor Cameron. being asked o-day as to what part his wing of the artywould take in the political party his tall, replied that he could n~ot tell -et, but, speaking for himself, he should ot vote for Mahone. He did not think ey would put up any candidate for lovernor, but might have candidates ror the State Senate. Governor Came on said they would'- hold a convention on to deteripine on some plan of ae don, but when and where this conven ion would be held had not yet been xed upon. John M. Langston was seen to-day, md an effort was made to get him to say whether or not his colored sup. ortersf which he claims number about t4,000 in the State, would support ifahone, but he declined to be inter riewed. He thinks that the State debt luestion will play an important part in the coming fight, and thbat it ought to e fully explained, as there are many 3olored people who do not appear to iderstand it, some claiming that the lebt was contracted when they were in davery, and consequently they ought ot to be forced to pay any part of it. Carrier Pigeons as Reporters. The correspondent of the Hartford 'ourant at Xiantie in a letter to his pa >er writes: "Corp. Burpee of Company A, Second. which company is com aded by his brother, Lucien F., is the ity editor of the Waterbury American, md in former years had experienced lifficulty in getting prompt telegraph Lnd mail serivee for the delivery of his tews letters from camp to the paper lhe rpresents. This year he hit upoii a appy expedient in substituting dcliv ry by carrier pigeons. The experiment s a success, and every moiniig at .9:30 he corporal starts two birds, each with Sdispatch closely writteui on tissue p~a yer attached to the bird's leg. Monday a elegram announcing the hour of deC arture of the carriers was sent to Wa erbury one-half hour in advance, arnd he birds arrivedl one hour ahead of the elegram, thus beating electriety in peed. The distance is seventy-tive niles, which was covered by the birds in me hour and six minutes. It is an in erestig sight to witness the flight of he birds as they ascend, and, after get ing their bearings, start in a direct line 'or home. The idea is a p~retty one, he service uiiique, andl the resuilts i~atis factory. The birds display almost hun nan intelligence." The Use of Cotton Seed. One of the most surprising features >f the modern business world is the ex ensive usc of cotton seed: formerly con idered worthless. According to the Slew York Tribune, "over 800,000 ton; f these seeds are now pressed for their >l, froni thirty-six to forty pounds yetng obtained from each ton. The ~onsumption of cotton seed oil is in ~reasihg both in this country and in Eu rope, and new uses for the. oil are con antly being discovered." WONDERFUL EDISON. He Tells of Yet More Wonderful Things that He is to Bring Forth. The reporter of the Courrier des Etats Unis asked Mr. Edison if it was true that he had invented a machine by the aid of which a man in New York would be able to see everything that his wife was doing in Paris. "I don't know," said Mr. Edison. laughing, "that that would be a real beneft to humanity. The women cer tainly would protest. Bur, speaking seriously, I am at work on an invention which will allow a man in Wall street not only to telephone to a friend in the Central Phrk, but to see that friend while he is chatting telephonically with him. This invention would be useful and practical, and I see no reason why it should not soon become a reality, and one'of the first things that I shall do when 1 get back to America will be to set up this contrivance between my lab oratory and my telephone workshops. Moreover, I have already obtained satis factory results in reproducing images at that distance, which is only about one thousand feet. It would be ridiculous to dream of seeing anyone between New York and Paris. The round form of the earth, if there were no other difficulty in the way, would make the thing im possible." Speaking of the phonograph, the re porter asked if it had reached its high est degree of perfection. "Almost, I think," said Mr. Edison, "in the list instruments turned out of my workshops. You must know that the ordinary phonograph employed in commerce does not begin to compare with the latest machines that I use in my private experiments. With the lat ter 1 ean obtain asound powerful enough to reproduce phrases of a speech that can be heard perfectly by a large audi ence. My last ameliorations were with the aspirate sounds, which are the weak point of the graphophone, For seven months I worked from eighteen to twenty hours a day upon the si:,gle sound 'specia.' I would say to the in strument, 'specia,' and it would always say 'pecia,' and I couldn't make it say anything else. It was enough to make me crazy. But I studk to it until I sue eeded, and now you can read a thou sand words of a newspaper at the rate of 150 words a minute, and the instru ment will repeat them to you without an omi.,sion. You can imagine the diffi culty of the task that I accomplished when I tell you that the impressions made upon the cylinder are not more than one millionth part of an inch in depth, and are completely invisible even with the aid of a microscope." Reporter-And what new discoveries will be made in electricity? Mr. Edison-Ah, that would be diffi cult to say. We may some day come - -on one of the great secrets of nature. e lookout for some thing w . . he p to solve the problem of navigating the ai - worked hard upon this subject, but I am very much discouraged. We may find something new before that comes; but that will come. Mr. Edison further said that the great development of electricity will come when we find a more economical method of producing it. Durin . . the oceagp ,-eramed for hours - on deck Iokifg at the wages, and he says that it made him wild when he saw so much force going to waste. "But one of These days," he continued, "we will chain all that-the falls of Niagara as well as the winds-and that will be the millennium of electricity." BB.ILLIANT BALL IN A STABLE. Mr. and Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt Give a Unique Entertainmept at Newport. C Mr. and Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt gave a grand ball in their stable at New port Wednesday night, and it was in every' respect a 'brilliant affair, the fnest of the g-ay Newport season. The decortions were decidedly novel. Red peppers, pumpkins, squashes, turnips and egg'plants were hung upon the ceil ogs, and upon huge tropical plants as well The sides were covered with oak leaves, and at given intervals there were floral horses' collars and yokes. Some of the floral designs regresented hits of harness, The "ballroom," which will soon be used for carriages, was fes tooned with garlands of laurel leaves which came from New York State and 1 oak leaves. Two floral wheelbarrows I held the favors for the german, one be ing on each side of the room. The en-s tire establishment was transformed into t one grand rural scene, and it was illumi- t nated by a hundred or more small elec tric lights. Electricity was introducedt especially for the occasion. The sides and corners of the carriage touse were 1 massed with tropical and other plants,a and a screen of oak leaves hid the orehes- I tra from the rest. The portion of the barn t to be occupied by the horses was trans formed into a dining-room, aud it wass lighted with large and small Chinese lanterns. Sinall tables were ilaced in 1 the stalls, and on these supper was I eatenm. The eating troughs were filled s with tlowers, and bunches of wheat were 1 backed up against the entrances andi tidl with rilbbonS. C.ornstalks in huge t ouudies, also tied with ribbons, and justn cur, were placed against each of the3 columns in the ballroom. The effectJ was fine. The gentlemen's smoking room was richly fitted up, and this and the ladies' dressing i'ooms were locatede on the uper floor. The guests walkeds through a covered passageway, brilliantlyt lighted, to and up a pair of rough stairs to the second story of the barn andi entered the ballroom by a pair of inside stairs leading below, where they weres welcomed by Mr. and Mrs. Vanderbilt. The german was led by T. H. Howardt with Mrs. Vanderbilt. The favors werer rich and original. There were sixtyt couples in the german. The ladies car-t ried long shepherd's crooks, the handless being pure white, while the ends were gilded, and they wore wreaths of Frencha flowers and sashes of the same. They also wore cor-ages, and the gentlemens were presented with but tonnieres of pures pink roses and ribbons. Many hundreds 1 of dollars were spent for favors alone.t All the favors were imported. . Let Them Come and Welcome. On Fridlay of last wveek a company of I thirty-three Germans arrivedl at Wal halla. comning direc-t from Thetinghau- 1 sen, Province of Brunswick, Kingdom of Prussia. The following are theiru names: Fredrich Biemann, August 1 Otersen and wife. August Utersen, -Jr. John Oterson, Andreas Otersen, wife I and three children, Henry O)tersen, wife and two children, Fredrich Teilkuhl,r wife and live children, Diederich Ra- 'l hens, wife and eight children, Miss Rebecca Helmers and Miss Annie Schu-1 macher, of Gustendorff, Germany. Theyv have come to Walhalla to make thisa their home, and if they are pleased,0 there is a colony of about one thousand f who will sail for America and make b Oconee-County their adopted home.-t W7An17nl C'ou'ie- 1 FIVE MILES A MINUTE. the Electric Railroad that Is Going to Be Built at Garden City. Ni~W YoRK, August *.-Within six months Garden (it, L. I., will be the vastest town in the world, speaking from i railroad point of view, provided the glans of David G. Weems, a Baltimore nventor, and the Electro Au tomat 1 ransit Company of Baltimore city do lot go awry. By that time, M r. Wemns ays, people in Garden City can send ;heir express and mail matter five miles .n one minute, and-may even make the ame trip themselves then or within a short time afterward, if they are not tfraid to try it. Dr. Julian J. Chisholm, he president of the company, is about .o complete negotiations for the right of ,ay for a five mile circuit on the plains ear Garden City, and promi.4es that :onstruction shall begin by the middle >f September. It will not be entirely a nlew thing, iowever, for an experimental two-mile rack has been in operation for some :ime at Laurel, near Baltimore. This is t rather rickety concern, with a good leal of up hill and down dale to it, hay ng twenty-rine changes of grade in alal, td the best time that has been made ver it is two miles a minute. For a nan or a company with a soul to con eive five miles a minute, two miles a inute is going backward. So having tt Laurel demonsi rated to their satisfae ion the possibility of their ideal, they ire going to L'ng Island to demonstrate ts practicability. They couldnl't do that tnvwhere in the State of Maryland, >eause they couldn't tind in that State level piece of ground big enough to 1old a five-mile track. - The five-mile-a-minute railroad is to > a real railroad, with a track biilt on he ground, just like an ordinary track, ,xcept that the 'rails have a wide flange )rojecting from the inner side. A shoe lependitg from the car reaches under his flange, and whenever the ear tilts he shoe touches the flange and prevents he car from leaving the rails. 't'he mo ive power is to be e'ectricity, a low tel ion. direct current of 250 horse power, supplied by an overhead conductor, orne not upon poles, but upon a sue ession of frames arching the track. his framework will cover the track for ts entire length, and barbed wire will e insulated, and may be used for tele raphing. The 147 patents which Mr. Weems has obtained for different parts >f the system include several for using he rails themselves as conductors, thus loing away with the necessity for the >verhead arrangements, but it is ex )eeted that any of these will be found >racticable for the climate and other !onditions of this part of the country. The motor will be "life size" and will veigh about three tons. The most novel eature electrically of the invention is he fact that the electricity acts directly pon the driving wheels, the axles of he wheels being used as the core of the notor. This overcomes the dificulty v j heretofore prevented the it I than twenty. n notor. or e has -ted from :he track >th the journals weighted : C nsate for the relief given them, as been run up to 3,500 revolutions a ninute without injury. The 'wheels of he Garden City motor will be 42 inches in diameter, and at 2,000 revolutions a ninute, therefore, will make the circtlt >f the five mile grape arbor in just.one ninute, if nothing breaks. The current will be communicated to. the motor by neans of a small brush sliding along he conductor overhead. The contact rill be very slight and the friction mall. The wheels of the motor, and of the ars also, will be inside, and the only >rojections will be the journals of the heels on each side. These have to be rery wide, to prevent heating, and will > encased in shell-like boxes to reduce he resistance to the air as much si possible. The imtors and the ars wiil be telescoped at the ends whn-m oupled, so that the whole train will ook as if made in one piece. .Besidles his, the front of the motor and the -ear of the last car will be built ',ut to a oint, so that the train will slip through he air like a vessel through t be water. 3 an ingenious arrangement the front >oint can be raised or lowered, varying he unward or downward pressure of he air, and lightening or increasing the ressure on the rails. The automatic train will carry no pas engers or employees, it will be con rolled entirely from the generating~ sta ion. The moment the current is broken he brakes are applied. They will stop he train, when going five miles a mini te, in 1,000 feet, Mr. Weems satys. The rakes stay set until the current begins gain. The passage of the train rings a ell at the station, and drops a tag like hat of a hotel annunciator every mile r so along the route. The man at the tation can thus always tell very nearly hbere it is. If it has to cross a draw ridge, thbe opening of thbe draw a reak the current, and the train will -Je topped and cannot go ou until the draw c losed. The ears to go with the three-I on nmo or will carry a to~n each of express and uail. They will be ruuning from New pork to Philadulpbia in two years, if r:. ersey Legislature doesn't object. Mr. Ve'ems says, andl will make the riun in wventy minuutes. Th'eoret ically the t raini ould run from New~ York to Chicago in ix hours, giving Chiucago people a chance o read the news at late break fast the ame day it wans printed, wit hout hay ng to wait thirty hiours for it, a; inow. The train that will imake this territie peed will be only about four feet high. and tbe cars wil.1 be from twenty to hirty feet long. The gauge will be cor espondingly narrow. All that is con emplatd at first is the use of the sys emi as an adjunct to the present railroad ystem for the swift carriage of express, aail and other light goods. Mr. \Veetms .so has patents for a system for passen er carriage. At present, he says, t he ystem would not be practieahle for hort distance rapid tranisit, because to e perfectly safe from breaking down he motors must b~e started comparai ively slow, atnd reach their regulatr peedl gradlually, and must be stopped m le same way. Before a \Weemus sit urban electic t rain had got fnuirly tarted up the Hudson it wvould have to egin to stop) at Yonkers. All Mr. Veemss efforts have been concentrated Epon getting a machine that would go ast for long distances. The motor used in the preliminary ex >eriments at Laurel was comnparatively' mall, and the track was of 14-pound ails laid on ordinary imeadow innd. 'he Garden City track will be of 55 ound rails, and will be thoroughly >uilt in every way as if for regular ser 'ice. it is said that the track will cost bout $5,000 a mile, and that for $12, '00,000 aline could be built and equipped rom this city to Chicago. There wi e two tracks at Gardenm City, one withitn he other; the first one completed will scngers will be carried on the other. The cars can be run around and around the track as often as desired, so that a person can take a 100 mile or a 1,000 mile trip with little expenditure of time and no inconvenience. It. ought to beat roller caasting and tobogganing out of sight. LOOSE IDEAS OF MATRIMONY. The Ease With Which Divorces are Ob tained Makes Marriage a Failure. The frivolous character of the com plaints in many cases of divorce re cently granted and now on the docket leads thoughtfal people to ask, "What are we coming to?" We do not know= that the wives in a given number of cases are more blameable than the has bands, but it is the wives who suffer the most from such' sundered relations.' As a rule, they suffer more in their affections and in their reputation than the stronger sex. While there is something to be said in- favor of a law of divorce which separates mis" mated couples, there is no condemna= tion too severe for men or women who enter the marriage state with the idea in their minds that if., they do not like it they will-" take advantage of the law that 7 allows them to-escape. Yet there is no - doubt that thoughtless young men and giddy girls often do approach the altar with that thought in their minds. In eases where the husband is very young the idea is apt to grow in strength as the years pass. Hd finds himself while on the sunny side of thirty with a wife who has possibly lost some of her girlish beauty, and; children whose necessities absorb the greater part of his earnings. He cot pares the frt and independent life of some of his bachelor associates, and imagination magnifies the pleasures be might participate in if he was nar ried. Some day the wife. who is ill prepared to fight the -battles of life alone, is stunned by the service of an application for divorce. Cases of this kind, we regret to say, are not uncom moxi. Almost every one can recall ~one or more in his own circle of acquaintr ances. Of course, if the real reason: were preferred in the application less harm would be done; but the legal ne cessity of setting forth reasons often sug gests a resort to falsehood. Trifles in the way of disagreements will be magnified, and baseless suspicions urged as matters of fact. The remedy for them, as for most other evils, lies with the people themselves. The law is not mucti at f' as the facility with which= it is so evaded. The church and society are too lenient in matters of this kind. It may be questioned if a man who di vorces a wife for no other reason than that -he prefers to live single is injured in his business or social relations by his act. If he has been a church member he still remains one; and yet he has U c coitted the most cowardly crime a. man can commit. A woman, thrs di vorced. unless she have powerful friends,;. has no ture, and children are no - without b and instine. cated in well reu a Francisco Call. Belligerent Cadets. A West Point (N. Y.) dispatch says: "When the darkness of night was merg ing into the gray of dawn Thursday morning five gray-jacketed, white-.: trousered figures stole over the ramparts suri-ounding the Military Academy and sought the shelter of old Fort Putnam.r They were five cadets whose errand was , the settlement of a quarrel. Cadet Oor~ poraJi Dickson and Private Cadet'Stetson had~for some time been at loggerheads, and their animosity at length increasd to such an extent that each believedfore alone could wash out the wrong under which lhe suffered. Both showed ple'ec, but it was evidlent that Cadet Stetson nossessedl the most- science. In round ' iafter round he succeeded in getting ea fective blows od his opponent while sav-d inig himself from any material injury,. but, as round after round was called,. Dickson gamely t@ the mark. We the twelfth round was called DiekMh eyes were puffed up, and discoloied" black and blue. In the-thirty-dfth round Dickson received a stunning blow be tween the eyes that neatly knocked him out, but he again rallied and was at.e mark when the time for the thirty-sixth. round was called. The seconds proposed to call the fight a draw, but the referee - decided that as long as the principala were willing to continue the fight it should go on. Thef were still fighting away-they had been at it from 4:15 o'clock, just one hour and five mintes when the reveille sounded. Fightings. was instantly suspended and the referee. hastily dieided the battle a draw." Ca det Dickson is from Texas and Stetson fro New York. - The "Arizona Kicker" Explas As several versions of the incident that occurred in our office Saturday night are flying around town ad have probably been telegraphed all over the world, we deemi it but right to give the particulars as they occurred: We were seated in the editorial chair, writing n leader on the European situation, when a rough character known around town as "Mike the Slayer" called in. As we. had never had a word with the man we sspected no evil. As a matter of fact we reached for our subscription book, upposing, of course, that lie wanted the best weekly in America for a year. The Slayer then announced that he had ome to'slay us, not because we had ever lone him harm, but because the influ ence of the press was driving out ..the' ood .old times and customs. We re treatedl towards t he door of our harness lepartmet:. ie pursued us with a Irawn knife. We then felt it our duty to draw our gun and let six streaks of dalight through his body, and as he ent dlown we stepped to the door and sent a boy for the coroner. It was a lear ease of self-defense, and the in uest was a mere formality. We lament the sad occurrence. but no one can blame us. We paid his burial expenses, :md in another column will be found his blituary, wr-ittin in our best vein and without regard to space. No other Ari ota editor ha~s ever 'lone half as muc - Throit FrePru -- Disposing of Kitchen Refuse. At the Inteinational Hygienic Con ress at the Paris ExpWosition a resol on was unanimously adopted affirming he principle that kitchen refuse should ever be kept in the house over night. ut should he lalced outside in mineal ie boxes, atd that it should be iremove.l very t wenty-four hours. This i- the reg lation which is now enforced in Paris. Ers. Maybrick Enters Upon Eer Life Term. Losnas. Augu a29.-Mrs. Maybrick as recmoved to Woking prison to-day. ,ihe wore the regular convict dress dur in her innrney. She looked well.