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VOL. V. MANNING CLARENDON COUNTY, S. C., -WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1889. NO. 45. TALMAGE'S SERMON. The Brooklyn Divine Discourses on Samson's Mistake. 'ow the Giant Was Tempted and Be trayed by Delilah, the Philistine Wo man-Some of the Ways in Which Other Strong Men Get Their Locks Shorn. The subject of Dr. Talmage's sermon at the Brooklyn Tabernacle was: "The Shorn Locks of Samson." He took for his text Judges xvi. 5: ' Entice him, and see where in his great strength lieth, and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him; and we will give thee every one of us eleven hundred pieces of silver." The sermon was as fol lows: One thousand pounds, or about five thou sand dollars of ourmoney, were thus offered An be apture of a giant. It would take a skillful photogranhL he really was. The most facial words are not supple enough to describe him. He was a giant and a child; the conqueror and the defeated; able to snap the lion's jaw, and yet captured by the sight of a maiden. He was ruler and slave; a commingling of vir tue and vice, the sublime and the ridicu lous; sharp enough to make a good riddle, and yet weak enough to be caught in the most superficial stratagem; honest enough to settle his debt, and yet outrageously rob bing somebody else to get the material to pay it; a miracle and a scoffing; a crown ing glory and a burning shame. Tu.-re he stands, looming up above other men, a mountain of flesh; his arms bunched with muscle that cat lift the gate of a city; tak ing an attitude defiant of armed men and wild beasts. His hair had never been cut, and it rolled down in several great plaits over his shoulders, adding to his fierceness and terror. The Philistines want to conquer him, and therefore they mustfindout where the secret of his strength lies. There is a woman living in the valley of Sorek by the name of Delilah. They appoint her the agent in the case. The Philistines are secreted in the same building, and then Delilah goes to work and coaxes Samson to tell what is the secret of his strength. "Well," he says, "if you should take seven green withes, such as they fasten wild beasts with, and put them around me, I should be perfectly powerless." So she binds him with the seven green withes. Then she claps her hands and says: "They come the Philistines!" and he walks out as though there was no impediment. She coaxes him again, and says: "Now tell me the secret of this great strength;" and he replies: "If you should take some ropes that have never been used, and tie me with them, I should be just like other men." She ties him with the ropes, claps her hands, and shouts: "They come-the Philistines!" He walks out as easy as he did before-not a single obstruction. She coaxes him again, and he says.: "Now, if you should take those seven long plaits of hair, and by this house loom weave them into a web I could not get away." So the house loom is rolled up, and the shuttle flies backward and forward, and the long plaits of hair are woven into a ,veb. Then she claps her hands and says: "They come! the Philistines." He walks out as easily as he did before, dragging a part of the loom with him. But after a while she persuades him to tell the truth. He says: "If you should take a razor, or shears, and cut off this long hair, Ishould be powerless, and in the hands of my ene mies." Samson sleeps. and, that she may not wake him up during the process of shearing, help is called in. You know that the barbers of the East have such a skillful way of manipulating the head, to this very day they will put a man, wide awake, sound asleep. I bear the blades of the shears grinding against each other, and i see the long locks falling off. The shears, or razor . accomplishes what green withes, and new topes, and house looni could not do. Sud denly she claps her hands and says: "The Philistines be upon thee, Samson !" He rouses up with a struggle, but his strength isaillgone! He is inthe hands of his ene mies! I hear the groan of the giant asthey take his eyes out, and then I see him stag gering on in his blindness, feeling his way, as he goes on toward Gaza. The prison door is opened, and the giant is thrust iui. He sits down and puts his hands on the mill crank, which, with exhausting horizontal motion, goes day after day, week after week, month after month-work, work, work! The con sternation of the world in captivity, his locks shorn, his eyes punctured, grinding corn in Gaza. In a previous sermon on this character I learned some lessons, but an other class of lessons are before us now. Learn first how wery strong people are sometimes coaxed into great imbecilities. Sampson had no right to reveal the secret of his strength. Delilah's first attempt to find out is a failure. He says: "Green withes will bind me," but it was a failure. Then he says: "A new rope will hold me," but that also was a failure. Then he says: "Weave my locks into a web and that will bind me," yet that also was a failure. But at last you see how she coaxed it out of him. Unimportant actions in life that involve no moral principle may without injury be sub. jected to ardent persuasions, but as soon as you have come to the line that separates right from wrong, no inducement or blan dishment ought to make you step over ft. Suppose a man has been brought up in a Christian household and taught sacredly to observe the Sabbath. Sunday comes; you want fresh air. Temptation says: "Sunday is just like other days; now don't be bigoted; we will ride forth among the works of God; the whole earth is His temple; we will not go into any dissipations; come, now, I have the carriage engaged and we will be back soon enough to go to church in the evening; don't yield to Puritanic notions; you will be no worse for a ride in the country; the blossoms are out and they say every thing is glorious." "Well. I will goto please you," is the response. And out they go over the the swift hoofs and the rush-of the-s sounding wheels. That tempted man may have bad moral character enough to break the green withes of ten thousand Philistine allurements, but he has been overcome by coaxing. Two young men passing down the street come opposite a drinking saloon with a red lantern hung out from the door to light men to perdition. "Let us go in," says one. '-No. I won't," says the other; "I never go to such places." '.Now, you don't say you are as weak as that. Why, I have been going there for two years and it hasn't hurt me. Come, come now, be a man. If you can't stana any unzng su.onger, taake a little sner ry. You need to see the word as itis. I don't believe in intemperance any more than you. I can stop drinking just when I want to.. You shall go. Now, come right along." Persuasion has conquered. Samson yields to the coaxing and there is a carnival in hell that night among the Philistines and they shout, "Ha! ha! We've got him." Those who have the kindest anidmost sympathetic natures are the most in danger. Your very disposition to please others will be the very trap they set. If you were cold and harsh and severe in your nature you would not be tampered with. People never fondle a hedgehog. The -most sentimental Gree der never kisses an iceberg. The' warmtth and susceptibility of your nature will en courage the siren. Though strong as a giant, look out for Delilah's scissors. Samson, the strongest man who ever lived, was over .come by coaxing. SAgain, this narrative teaches us therower 'of an ill-disposed woman. In the portrait gallery of Bible queens we find Abigail and 'Ruth and Miriam and Vashti and Deborah, ,but in the rogues' gallery of a police sta. 'tion you find the pictures of women as well as men. Delilah's picture belongs to the| 'rogues' gallery, but she had more power .than all Philistia armed with sword and spear. She could carry off the iron gates of Samson's resolution as easily as heshoul dered the gates of Gaza. The force that s a kille the lion which one day plunged out fierce from the thicket utterly succumbs to the silken net which Delilah weaves for the giant. He who had driven an army in riotous retreat with the bleached jaw bone, smiting them hip and thigh with great slaughter, now falls captive at the feet of an unworthy woman. Delilah in the Bible stands in the memorable company of Adah, and Zillah, and Bathsheba, and Jezebel, and Athaliah, and Herodias. How deplorable the influence of such in contrast with Rebecca and Phcebe and Hul dah and Tryphona and Jeptha's daughter and Mary, the mother of Jesus. While the latter glitter in the firmament of God's work like constellations with steady, cheer ful, holy light, the former shot like baleful meteors across the terrified heavens, omi nous of war, disaster and death. If there is divine power in the good mother, her face bright with purity, an unselfish love beam-. ing from her eye, a gentleness that by pangs and sufferings and holy anxieties has been mellowing and softening for many a year, uttering itself in every syllable, a dignity that can not be dethroned, united with the playfulness that will not be checked, her' hand the charm that will instantly take pain -utf be chil's worst wound, her presence a perpetual benediction, her name our de-, fense when we are tempted, her memory an outgushing well of tears and congratulation and thanksgiving, her heaven a palm way ing and a coronal; then there is just as great an influence in the opposite direction in the bad mother, her brow beclouded with un governed passions, her eye flashing with unsanctified fire, her lips the fountain of fretfulness and depravity, her example a mildew and a blasting, her name a disgrace to coming generations, her memory a signal for bitterest anathena, her eternity a whirlwind and a suffocation and a darkness. One wrong-headed, wrong-hearted mother may ruin one child, and that one child, grown up, may destroy a hundred people, and the hundred blast a thousand, and the thousand a million. The wife's sphere is a realm of honor and power almost unlimited. What a blessing was Sarah to Abraham, was Deborah to Lapidoth, was Zipporah to Moses, was Huldah to shallum. There are multitudes of men in the marts of trade whose fortunes have been the re sult of a wife's frugality. Iur hands have. been achieving that estate. two atthe store, two at the home. The burdens of life are comparatively light Then there are other. hands to help us lift them. The greatest, difficulties have often slunk away because there were four eyes to look them out of countenance. What care you for the hard knocks in the world as long as you have a bright domestic circle for harbor! One cheerful word in the evening tide as you come in has silenced the clamor of unpaid notes and the disappointment of poor in vestments. Your table may be quite fru-. gaily spread, but it seems more beautiful to you than many tables that smoke with venison and blush with Burgundy. Peace meets you at the door, sits beside you at the table, lights up the evening stand, and sings in the nursery. You have seen an aged couple who for scores of years have helped each other in life's pilgrimage going down the steep of years. Long association has made them much alike. They rejoiced at the same advent, they bent over the same cradle, they wept at the same grave. In the evening they sit thinking of thepast, mother knitting at the stand, father in his arm chair at the tire. Now and then a grandchild comes and they look at him with affection untold and come well nigh spoiling him with kindnesses. The life currents beat feebly in their pulses and their work will soon be done and the Maste. will call. A few short days may separate them, but not far apart in time of departure, they join each other on the other aide the flood. Side by side let Jacob and Rachel be buried. Let one willow overarch their graves. Let their tombstones stand alike marked with the same scripture. Children and grandchildren will come in the spring time to bring flowers. The patriarchs of thetown will come and drop a tear over de parted worth. Side by side at the marriage altar. Side by side in the long journey. 4Side by side in their graves. After life's fitful fever they slept well. But there are, as my subject suggests, do mestic scenes not so tranquil. What a curse to Job and Potiphar were their companions, to Ahab was Jezebel, to Jehoram was Atha lab, to John Wesley was Mrs. Wesley, to Samson was Delilah. While the most ex eellent and triumphant exhibitions of char acter we find among the women of history, and the world thrills with the names of Marie Antoinette and Josephine, and Joan of Arc, and Maria Theresa, and hundreds of others who have ruled in the brighesthomes and sung the sweetest cantos, and en chanted the nations with their art, and swayed the mightiest of scepters, on the other hand, the names of Mary the First of England, Margaret.. of France, Julia of Rome, and Elizabeth Petrowna of Russia, have scorched the eyes of history with their abominations, and their names, like ban ished spirits, have gone shrieking and curs ing through the world. In female biography we find the two extremes of excellence and crime. Woman stands nearest the gate of Heaven or nearest the door of hell. When adorned by grace she reaches a point of Christian elevation which man can not at tan, and when blasted of crime she sinks deeper than man can plunge. Yet I am glad that the instanc-es in which woman makes utter shipwvreck of character are aomparatively rare. But, says some cynical spirit, what do you do with those words in Ecclesiastes where Solomon says: '-Behold, this have I found, saith the preacher, counting one by one to ind out the account; which yet my soul seeketh; but I find not; one man among a thousand have I found ; but a woman among nl those have I not found r' My answer is that if Solomon had behaved bimself with common decency and kept out of infamous circles he would not have had so much dini culty in finding integrity of character among women. and never would have uttered such a tirade. Ever since my childhood I have heard speakers admiring Diogenes. the cyn ical philosopher who lived in a tub, forgoing through the streets of Athens in broad day agn im, a 1a L,,u, an~d when~L ushed1 w at "e ddtTifit for; ani&: -1 am dtooking for an oneet man." Now I warr-ant that that philosopher who had such hard work to find n honest man was himself dishonest. 1 think he stole both t be lantern and the tu:b. So, when I hear a m'an exim:tf, ting on the weakness of womeuct. I imt ately suspiect him and say there is another Solomon with Solomon's wisdom left out. Still. I would not have the illustrations I have given of transcending excellency in female biograh-y lead you to suppose that there are no per-ils in womain's pathway, Gods grace aone can make an Isabella Graham, or a Chris tiana Alsop, or a Fidelia Fiske, or a Catha ine of Siena. Temptations lurk about the brightest domestic circle. It was no un-: meaning thing when God set up amidst the splendors of His word the character of in-j famous Delilah. Again, this strange story of the text leads me to consider some of the ways in which strong men get their locks shorn. God, for' some reason best known to Himself, made the strength of Samson. to depend on the length of his hair; when the shears clipped it his strength was gone. The strength of men Is variously distributed. Sometimes it lies in physical developmient. sometimes in intellectual attainment, sometimes in heart force, sometimes in social position, some times in financial accumulation, and there is always a sharp shears read to destroy it. Every day there are Samasons ungianted.' I saw a young man start in life. under the most cheering advantages. His acute mind was at home in all scientific. dominions. He reached not only all rugged attainments, but by delicate appreciation he could catch the tinge of the cloud and the sparkle of the wave and the diapason of the thunder. He walked forth in life, head and shoulders above others in mental stature~i He could wrestle with giants in opposing' systemsof philosophy, and carry off the gates of opposing schools, and smite the enemies of truth hip and thigh with great slaughter. But he began to tamper with brilliant free thinking. Modern theories of the soul 1 ticism was the Delilah that shore his locks off, and all the Philistines of doubt and darkness and despair were upon him. He died in a very prison of unbelief, his eyes out. Far back in the country districts-just' where I purposely omit to say-there was born one whose fame will last as long as American institutions. His name was thg terror of all enemies of free government., He stood, the admired of millions; the na tion uncovered in his presence and when he, spoke Senates sat breathless under the spell. The plotters against good govers ment attempted to bind him with green. withes and weavehis locks in a web, yet het walked forth from the enthrallment, not knowing he had burst a bond. But from the wine cup there arose a destroying spirit that came forth to capture his souL He, drank until his eyes grew dim and his knees knocked together and his strength failed: Exhausted with lifelong dissipations, he! went home to die. Ministers pronounced eloquent eulogiums, and poets sung, and. painterssketched, and sculptors chiseled thg majestic form' into marble, and the worlds wept, but everywhere it was known that it was strong drink that came like the infamous Delilah and his locks were shorn. From the Island of Corsica there started forth a nature charged with unparalleled energies to make thrones tremble and con vulse the earth. Piedmont, Naples, Ba varia, Germany, Italy, Austria and England rose up to crush the rising man. At the plunge of his bayonets bastiles burst open., The earth groaned with the agonies of: Rivoli, Austerlitz, Saragossa, and Eylau.. Five million men slain in his wars. Crowns were showered at his feet, and kingdoms hoisted triumphal arches to let him pass under, and Europe was lighted ups at the conflagration of consuming cities. He could almost have made a causeway of human benes between; Lisbon and Moscow. No power short. of omnipotent God could arrest him. But out of the ocean of human blood there arose; a spirit in which the conqueror found more, than a match. The very ambition that had' rocked the world was now to be his de stroyer. It grasped'for too much, and in its effort lost all. He reached up after the sceptor of universal dominion, but slipped and fell back into desolation and banish, ment. The American ship, damaged of the' storm, to-day puts up in St. Helena. and, the crew go to see thespot where the Frenche exile expired in loneliness and disgrace, thd mightiest of all Samsons shorn of his locks by ambition, that most merciless of all De lilahs. I have not time to enumerate: Evil asso ciations, sudden successes, spendthrift habits, miserly proclivities, and dissipations are the names of some of the shears with which men are every day made powerless. They have strewn the earth with the car casses of giants and filled the prison house with destroyed Samsons, who sit grinding the mills of despair, their locks shorn and their eyes out. If parents only knew to what temptation their children were sub jected they would be more earnest in their prayers and more careful about their ex ample. No young man escapes having the pathway of sin pictured in bright colors be fore him. The first time I ever saw a city-it was the city of Philadelphia-I was a mere lad.: I stopped at a hotel, and I remember in the, eventide a corrupt man plied me with his infernal art. He saw I was green. He wanted to show me the sights of the town. He painted the path of sin until it looked like emerald, but I was afraid of him. I shoved back from the basilisk. I made up; my mind he was a basilisk. I remember. how he reeled his chair round in front of me-and with a concentrated and diabolical effort attempted to destroy my soul: but *here were good angels in the air that night. It was no good resolution on my part, but it was the all-encompassing grace of a good God that delivered me. Beware 1 beware! o young man. There is a way that soeeth right unto u man, bnt the end thereof is death. If all the victims of an impure life in all lands and ages could be gathered together, they would make a host vaster than that which Xerxes lea across the heilespont, roan inmour iea across India, than Williara the Conqueror led across England, than Abou-Bekr led across Syria; and if they could be stretched out in single file across this continent, I think the vanguard of the host would stand on the beach of the Pacific while yet the rear guard stood on the beach of the Atlan tie. I say this not because I expect to reclaim any one that has gone astray in this fearful path, but because I want toutter a warning for those who still maintain their integrity. The cases of reclamation of those who have given themselves fully up to an impure life are so few, probably you do not knowv one of them. I have seen a good many start out on that road. How many have I seen come back! Not one that I now think of. It seems as if the spell of death is on them and no human voice or the voice of God can break the spell. Their feet arc hoppiled, their wrists are handcuffed. They hxave around them a girdle of reptiles bunched at the waist, fastening them to an iron doom; ev'ery time they breathe the forked tongues strike them and they strain to break away until the tendons snap and the blood exudes, and amidst their contortions they cry out: -Take me back to my father'shouse. Where is mother? Take me home! Takemne home." Do I stand before a man t9o-day the locks of whose strenghth are being toyed with, let me tell you to escape lest the shears of destruction take your moral and .your spiritual integrity. Do you not see your sandais beginning to curl on that red hot path ? Thi's day in the name of Althighty God I tear off the beautifying veil and the embroidered mantle of this old hag of iniquity, and I show you the ulcers and the bloody ichor and the cancered lip and part ing joints and the madcerated limbs and the wriggling putrefaction, and I cry out, 0, horror of horrors !In the stillness of this Sabbath hour I lift a warning. R-emenmber it is much easier to form bad habits than to get clear of them; in one minute of time you may get into a sin from which all eternity can not get you out. 0, th'at tne voice of God's truth might drown the voice of Delilah. Come into the ways of pleasantness and the paths of ~ace, and by the grace of a pardouing t start for thrones of honor and dominion upon which you may reign, rather than travel the road to a dungeon where the destroyed grind in the mills of despair, their locwcs shorn and their eyes out. -Cure for Snake Bite. On last Thursday afternoon Mary Emily, the 14-year-old daughter of Mr. Jahmes A. Hogue, who lives near Carp, in thie Conyn-nhrfe pickeag cotton, when she was bitten on a toe by a pilot snake. -She immediately went to the house and became very sick. A messenger was dispatched foi- Dr. S. A. Smith of Clover, and in the meantime remedies were administered by the child's parents, but without affording relief. It was several hours before the physician arrived, but when he came he administered so simple a remedy, which was so efficacious withal, that we print it as a matter of useful information. He simply had the child to drink a solu tion of two teaspoonfuls of bi-carbonate of soda in water, and bathed the wounid with the same solution. Within fifteen minutes after the treatment the patient was relieved of all pain and is doing well.- Yorkville Enquirer'. Flirting in Chicago. A Chicago paper says: "The number of young girls, young ladies in every other senseo the word, who will carry on a 'rapid' flirtation with any young raan wvho happens to please their fancy is shamefully large. This sort of thing is going on all the time- -on the streets, in restanranits, candy stores, theatres and street cars. Girls who have the op portunity to meet every one they ought to know by proper introduction in society are by no means excluded from the list. They think they are fascinating a fool; they usually end up by being both the fascinated and the fool." Richmond's Street Railways Troubles. RICHMOND, Va., October 10.-The matter of a receivership of the electric and city railways was again postponed by the Chancery Judge to-day. The 23d of October was the day set, subject to change, however, if all counsel are radyi for hearings earlier END OF A BLASTED LIFE. A DESERTED WOMAN FINDS RE POSE IN DEATH. In Her Last Hours Bitter Memories Throng Upon Her Poor Wandering Brain and the Mystery of a Clouded Life Thickens into a Deeper Gloom. (From the Florence Messenger.) Mrs. Lydia Harris died of typhoid fever at the residence of Mr. W. D. Heape, in this city, last Sunday morn ing. There seems to be some mystery con nected with the life of the deceased lady. About ten months ago she came here with her husband, George Harris. They claimed to have hailed from Michigan. She was a stout, robust woman, with light complexion and apparently about 25 years old. He was a tall,' rawbone man, with sandy hair and red face, and apparently some years her senior. The couple had no children and stopped with Mr. D. Stewart, who was at the time keeping a boarding house. The husband, who was a carpenter, left here a few months after his arrival, leaving behind him his wife with an un paid board bill. The wife hired herself to Mr. Stewart to cook in order to pay her board. In the month of May she became a mother, but the child lived only a few days. When Mr. Stewart gave up keeping boarding house, about the month of June, she hired herself to the family of Mr. W. D. Ieape, where she remained up to the time of her death. She received letters from her husband occasionally, but never a cent towards her support. The last letter received from him, which was about a week be fore she died, was from Maryville, Tenn. In this he promised to send for her soon, and charged her, when she left Florence, not to let the people know where she was going. le never wrote her twice from the same place. When Mr. Heape saw that the lady's death was approaching, he telegraphed her hus band to Maryville, Teen., but the -news came back that there was no such man to be found in that town. During the lady's illness she was ques tioned about her people-as to their name and places of residence-but she always gave an evasive answer. On Saturday night previous to her death Sunday, while she was in a delirious condition, Mr. Heape reminded her of her danger ous condition and urged her to tell something of her people, so that he could inform them in case of her sick ness resulting seriously. She said her father's name was Earn (or Aaron) Bur gess, and then drew the bed covering up over her head and began sobbing and groaning, and Mr. Heape could get no further information from her. Among her effects were found papers addressed to "Miss Lydia Burgess. Clyde, Mich." There were also found two cabinet-size photographs-one of a lady and the other a gentleman-appar ently about 60 years old each, which are probably the girl's father and mother. The pictures were taken by Skidmore & Artley, Carleston, Mich. The subjects bear the appearance of refined and good people. Mr Ieape says the lady was of a very happy and agreeable disposition and very chaste in her manners, as well as industrious an at about her work. Whether or Harris was really her husband remains to be proven, but in either case his conduct has proved him to be an undutiful and heartless man and left room for grave suspicions. Mr. Hleape would be glad to hear from the lady's people with regard to her and the strange conduct of Harris. A Lie Ful lyExnosed at Last. The malicious story that has so long been kept in circulation at the North about Jefferson Davis being dressed in woman's apparel when he was captured by the Federal forces is at last set to rest by the statement of Mr.' T. H. Pea body, one of his captors. Mr. Peabody is a lawyer of St. Louis, and it is said was the first man to address Mr. Davis in making the arrest. At the regular meeting of Ransom Post G. A. R-. in St. Louis, on Tuesday night, Mr. Peabody made a speech, in whiich, after relating other interesting incidents of the war, he said: Jefferson Davis was captured by the Fourth Michigan cavalry, in the early morning of May 10, 1865, at Irwinsville, in Southern Georgia. With him were Mr. Reagan of Texas, his postmaster general: Captain Moody of Mississippi, an old neighbor of the Davis family: Governor Lubbock of Texas; Colonels Iharrison and Johnson of his staff; Mrs. Davis and her four children-Maggie, some ten years old, Jeff, about eight, Willie, about fiv'e, and a girl bahy-a brother and sister of Mrs. Davis, a white and one colored servant woman. a small force of cavalry, a few others and a small train of horses, mules, wagons and ambulances. Among the horses were a span of carriage horses presented to Mrs. Davis by the citizens of Rich mond during the heyday of the Con fed eracy; also a splendid saddle horse, the pride of the ex-President himself. On the 11th of May, :he day after. the capture, and while on our way back to Macon, as officer of the guard over the distin guished prisoner, I rode by the side of Mr. Reagan, now Senator frota Texas. I found him a very fine gentleman. During that day's march a courier from Macon notified us in printed slips of the $100, 000 reward offered for Mr. Davis's capture, which notice connected Davis with the assassination of President Lincoln. When Mr. Reagan read the notice he earnestly protested that Mr. Davis had no connection whatever with the sor rowful affair. History has shown he had none. Besides the suit of men's clothing worn by Mr. Davis, he had on, when captured, Mrs. Davis's large waterproof dress or robe, thrown on over his own fine gray suit, and a blanket shawl thrown on over his head and shoulders. This shawl and robe were finally de posited in the archives of the War De partment at Washington by order of Secretary Stanton. The story of the "hoop skirt, sun bonnet and calico wrappler'' had no real existence, and was started in the fertile brain of the re-porters and' ini the illustrated papers of that day. A Turn-Over in Indiana. The victory of the Democrats of In dianapolis Tuesday is significant in many ways. The city has been under Republican Mayors since 1874. Now it eleets a Democratic Mayor by a good majority. Even President Harrison's own ward shows heavy Democratic gains. The moral is that the country is not exhilirated by the civil service, pension, high tariff and sectional record of the administration. There is another moral, that patronage does not strengrthen a party A TWO-SIDED LIFE. Begging by Day and Enjoying Social Pleasures at Night. NEW YORK, October 9.-A young man who has been leading a remarkable double life in this city for several years was sent by Police Justice Ford on Tues day last to spend six months of unin teresting single life in the City Prison on the recommendation of Special Officer Hebberd of the Charity Organization Society. The fellow has, according to Mr. Hebberd, made from-$2 to $10 a day during the last six years by begging, and has lived like a lord during the evenings on the money. During all that time he lived in good style and entirely free of expense with a well-to-do Jewish family in Harlem, and went about with them in high society circles. He dressed well and was an inveterate tbatre and ball goer, and the people with whom he lived and all his acquaint ances thought he held a good position as messenger in the Stock Exchange. They knew him as Max Seligman, and he had his name in the City Directory with that occupation tacked to it, but his real occupation was visiting wealthy families with cleverly written begging letters signed by his "father," Henry Salomon. He is a bright, good looking young man and a glib talker, and he rarely failed to get the asked-for help. He always gave his address as 430 East Seventy-first street, but those who went there to offer him and. his "starving brothers and sisters" further aid were indignantly shooed off the premises by the respectable people living there. Let ters began to come to the Charity Organi zation Society in March, 1884, telling of the fellow's swindles, but nothing could be learned of him until last Monday, when Mr. William Oppenheim of 19 East Sixty-seventh street sent word that Solomon had called at his house for money and had been promised some if he would call on the following morning. Officer Hebberd was on hand when Solo mon appeared, and promptly took him down to Justice Ford, who gave him his desserts. It was along time before Solomon's friends became convinced of his guilt, and they were utterly as tounded at his duplicity. The young man spent some of his spare time dab bing in politics in the Eighth District, and had recently been appointed an in spector of election there through the in fluence of County Clerk Reilly. Ex-Governor Chamberlain. The ablest and one of the most re spectable of the Northern men who came to the S.uth immediately after the war and took part in the scheme of recon struction was Datgiel H. Chamberlain. His administration as Governor of South Carolina reflected little credit on either him or the State, but it was so much cleaner than the official career of the average carpet bagger that Chamberlain lost caste with the party of plunder. When President Hayes refused to back up Governor Chamberlain for a second term with bayonets, Governor Hamp ton, who had been elected, became the recognized Executive of the State and the final overthrow of the Republi can party in the State was accom plished. Chambelain did not linger long in South Carolina after his downfall. He took up his residence in New York and began to practice law. He has been very successful in making both money and fame at the Metropol itan bar. His ability was never denied by his bitterest opponent and his liberal culture gives him rank among the most scholarly lawyers of the country. His recent political career has been very creditable. When the mugwumps be came a factor in New York Chamberlain took a prominent stand among them. In 1884 he renounced allegiance to the Republican party and supported Mr-. Cleveland for President. He took a still more active part in the campaign of 1888 as an ardent advocate of tariff reform and the re-election of President Cleve land His speeches were among the very best that were made in the last campaign, his castigation of Blaine on several occasions being especially severe and effective. A few days ago Judge Bondof the United States Circuit Court appointed him receiver of the South Carolina Railroad and the duties of that position will compel him to become a temporary resident of South Carolina. There are some nice points of conflict bet ween the State and Federal courts as to their rights over the property, and ex-Governor Chamberlain's ability will stand the Federa,l Court suitors in good stead. The South Carolina papers speak very kindly of his appointment, and it is probable that he will receive a degree of consideration from the people of that State that will present a striking contrast to the opprobrium that was is portion when he was at the head of a political organization whose continuance in power meant the ruin and disgrace of the State. The twelve years that have elapsed since ex-Governor Cha mberlaini left South Carolina, have wrought wo iders all over the South, but nowhere is the change for the better more decided than mn South Carolina. Georgia had five years the star t of her sister State in the re storation of the rule of her own people and the firm establishment of a whice man's government. But South Caro lina had heavier odds to contend against. The couragc with which her people struggled for their rights and the atience which enabled them to work a peaceful revolution to obtain them, made a record of enduring honor. They have used well the years that have transpired since they began to repair the wrecked fortunes of their State. South Carolina has grown and pros pered as even her most hopeful sons ardly dared to predict that she would in so brief a space, after years of suffer ing, humiliation and exhaus.ting mis government. Ex-Gover-nor Chamberlain cannot fail o be impressed with the marvelous dif ference boetween the South Carolina of 1876 and the South Carolina of 1889. A personal observation of this trans formation will doubtless deepen his ew-found convicetion that the pros erity and happiness of this country epend on the triumph of Democratic rinciples and the domination of the Democratic party.-X3acon Telegraph. Barrels Made of Cotton. krLANTA, Ga., October 9. -A wonder ful revolution ini flour barrel making is promised by a patent which has been ranted for the making of barrels out f cotton duck instead of wood. The ew material is impervious to water ad resists. fire for a long time. It eighs to the barrel about fifteen pounds ess than the wood, and can be manu factured ten per cent. cheaper. The otton duck barrels can be rolled up nto a small space and returned to the mills for frequent use. The barrels can hus be returned as solid goods and thus ave space. The flour merchants of his city have given it a fair trial and A MAMMOTH WHEEL. The Largest of Its Kind Ever Made in the World. SCRANTo\, Penn., October 7.-The greatest wheel of its kind in the world, a very wonder in mechanism, stands in the main shop of the Dickson Manufac turing Company in this city. It was built for the Calumet and Heela Mining Company of Lake Superior, Michigan, for the purpose of liftingr and discharg ing the "tailings," a waste from the copper mines, into the lake, and its diameter is 54 feet, while its weight in active operation will be 200 tons. It is called a fifty-foot sandwheel, but its ex treme dimensions are .54 feet in diame ter. Some idea of its enormous capacity can be formed from the fact that it will receive and elevate sufficient sand every twenty-four hours to cover an acre of ground a foot deep. It is armed on its outer edge with 432 teeth, 4.71 inches pitch and 18 inches face. The gear segments, eighteen in number, are made of gun iron, and the teeth are machine cut, epicycloidal in form. It took two of the most perfect machines in the world 100 days and nights to cut the teeth alone, and the finish is as smooth as glass. Mr. Sidney Broadcut. the general superintendent of the Dickson Manufacturing Company. is the inventor of the machine with which the teeth of the great wheel were cut. He is an English mechanic who has been in this country half a century, and is so modest that if he should hap pen to see this notice of himself in the Times he is likely to advertise for the correspondent and annihilate him. Another great factor in the construc tion of the mammoth wheel is the de signer, Mr. E. D. Leavitt of Cambridge port, Mass., the consulting engineer of the Calumet and Hecla Company. The wheel is to be driven by a pinion of gun iron containing thirty-three teeth of equal pitch and face and will run at a speed of 600 feet per minute at the inner edge, where it will be equipped with 448 steel buckets that will lift the "tail ings" as the machine revolves and dis charge them into launders that will carry them into the lake. The shaft of the wheel is of gun iron, and its journals are 22 inches in diameter by 3 feet 4 inches long. The shaft is made in three sections at.d is 30 inches in diameter in the centre. At a first glance the great wheel looks like an exaggerated bicycle wheel, and it is constructed much on the same prin ciple. with straining rods that run to centres cast on the outer sections of the shaft. The steel buckets on either side of the gear are each 4 feet 51 inches long and 21 inches deep, and the com bined lifting capacity of the 448, run ning at a speed of 600 feet per minute, will be 3,000,000 gallons of water and 2,000 tons of sand every 24 hours. The mammoth wheel is supported on two massive adjustable pedestals of cast iron weighing 12 tons each, and it is esti mated that its cost at the copper mines before making a single revolution will not be less than $100,000. Civilization in New York.. The arrest of six girls in New York on the charge of having caused the death of their playmate, Julia O'Connor, by brutally beating her, reveals another of the many strange phases of metro politan civilization. The oldest of these girls has not passed her 16th year, but they are all described as typical "eigh teenth warders," "tough, and proud of it." Last July the unfortunate object of their enmity was enticed by them from her home and assaulted and beaten so severely that she died last Saturday from her injuries. Her assailants when brought before the Coronershowed Sither trepidation nor shame, and, w ile denying the charge preferred against them, discussed the fight in which their former associate received her injuries with gv-cat gusto and remmn iscent relish. One of them, Julia Kelly, described the occurrence in the follow ing elassic language: "Why, it was no body's fault at all but Julia O'Connor's; I'll swear to it," said Mfiss Kelly, em phatically. "Why, dat girl was a holy terror to de whole watrd, and when de fight came up and dey clinched dey went down togedder. Julia tried to bite Mfaggie's cheek. 'Don't bite me,' says Maggie, 'or I'll harm you.' Miaggie would a' been badly bit if she hadn't grabbed her by de hair. It was as lovely a scrap as you ever see, an' no mistake about dat." M(aggie Mfiller, who is re ferred to by "Miss Kelly" in,the glow ing description quoted above, seems thoroughly to deserve the admiration of her combative female friends. "She stood up before me," said Captain Clinchy of the eigh teenth precinct, "just after she was arrested last August, and squared her self off like a prize fighter. 'I did her up,' she said, and see seemed to be very proud of it.' " Even more remarkable than a civilization which generates female toughs and prize fighters at six teen is that which has evolved from the English language the negro dialect that a white girl in New York uses as if it were here mother tongue. But where has she learned it? How has she picked it up? The colored p~opulationt of New York is not large enough to have left the impress of its dialeet upon '-English as she is spoke," even in the free-and easy eighteenth ward, and vet "-Miss Kelly" uses the lingo with all the facility of a colored native of Virginia. And "Miss Kelly" is not alone in her pro ficiency in this line. It seems to be an outward tmark and characteristic of the "tough" citizen in New York and other Northern cities that his English is fashioned after the uneducated slave phraseology and forms so familiar in the South. This curious development in the North is rendered all the more irregular when we remember the fact that in the Southern States even the poorer classes of whites, who have heard the negro dialect all their lives, rarely fall into any of its barbarous ex pressions, and never adopt it so com pletely as "Miss Kelly," of New York, seems to have done. The explanation of this strange -perversion of Englhsh may, perhaps, be found in a civilization that is fast becoming a sort of inter national hotch-potch, and in which our native tongue is becoming as mixed as the population. - Baltimnore Sun. The Aluminium Works. A party of Northern capitalists in terestedl in the establishment of a plant for the manufacture of aluminium from slay, will visit Columbia,. S. C., this week or next with a view to examining the advantages offered for this industry by that city. The Chamber of Industry >f Wilmington was in correspondence with these parties, but they required water power that our city could not fur aish. They were, therefore, referred to E'ayetteville, which city possesses pecu Liar advantages for such an industry. [t is probable that either Columbia or Fayetteville will be chosen as the place, is they are both eligible in every point PAN-AMERICA& EXCURSIONISTS Take in Sights Worth Seeing at Spring field, Massachusetts. SPRINGFIELD. Mass., October 11.-The delegates to the International Congress went to sleep last night in New Haven, Conn., and opened their eyes this morn ing in Springfield, Mass., having slipped from one State to another without being aware of the fact that the cars had moved (luring the night. Before they had eaten their breakfast Alderman Murphy and Captain Blount, who is attached to the Springfield Armory, boarded the train and acquainted the excursionists with the programme for the day. At the sta tion the party was joined by Colonel Buffington, commanding at the Arsenal, members of the municipal government and a number of prominent citizens of the place. After formal introductions had been made, the visitors were placed in carriages and driven to the Armory; the Morgan Envelope Works, where all the stamped ervelopes used by the gov ernment are made; the Smith & Wesson arms works, and other places of interest. They Will Surely Visit the South. BALTIMORE, October 11.-The omis sion of the South in the present tour of the delegates to the Pan-American Con gress has been so generally misunder stood, that Walker Blaine of the De partment of State writes R. H. Ed monds, editor of the Manufacturers' Record, to the effect that in the original planning of the programme of the con vention it was intended to give the del egates an excursion to the South, and in his letter says: "It is proposed to visit the Southern States later in the season, when the weather will be more favorable and the various and peculiar industries of those States can be seen to better ad vantage. As this nation covers an im mense expanse of territory, and as it is the desire that the distinguished visitors shall be given an opportunity to see it all, it was necessary to divide the tours and each section be visited when its pe culiar indru-tries could be seen to the best advantage." The South Will Not Be Slighted. WASHINGTON, October 11.-The Secre tary of State receives many invitations for the International American Confer ence to visit certain sections of the South. It should be generally and widely known that the present arrangement is that early in January an itinerary will be arranged for the South relatively more extensive than that which is now in progress in the North. To have taken in both sections on 'one itinerary would have been fatiguing and exhausting; and, besides, the month of October is not regarded as the most favorable sea son for visiting the South. The princi pal cities of the South may be assured of a visit from all the delegates in the proper season. This announcement is made on the authority of Secretary Blaine. MAHONE'S NOVEL TACTICS. Night Forest Meetings in His Interest. - .Plenty of Money to Buy Voters. RicMoND, .Octoh....9.-Ex-Congress man Richmond of Lee Cou -gtj alg Democrat, passed through the city. He says the Democrats in that large section are without organization, while Mahone has perfected a strong working force. This consists of what are called' "night forest meetings," the membership of each forest clan being limited to fifteen. Each precinct is divided into forest clans, and t hey meet in no house, but at night in the woods. They have no chairman or head, and there is no speechmaking, but .they simply talk over the situation and discuss plans for 'winning over in dividual voters. The Southwest is thor oughly worked up in this way in the in terest of Mahone. The intelligence has alarmed the Dem ocratic leaders and it means a rapid hurrying of forces into that section. It is asserted that Mahone has a liberal money supply. Each member of these forest meeting clans has a certamn sum entered against his name, and he will be paid off the night after the election. Mahone relies much upon the poverty of the small farmers in that section. Floods and rains almost entirely devastated their-crops and they are without ready money. It is alleged that under this system 4,000 votes are contracted for at $5 each. With this and his certain negro majorities he calculates on overcoming the Democratic strength by at least 1,500 majority. In Richmond to-night an entire work ingmen's Republican club, with but two dissenting voices, decided to work against Mfahone and vote for McKinney, the Democratic nominee. It is evident that Mahone will put no more stumpers in the field. His former able stumpers are now with the kickers. So much indignation was aroused by Quay's proposed visit to Virginia that it has been decided he had better remain away. He has, however, sent several confidential messengers to Mahone and is aiding him with all his ability. A SILLY STORY CONTRADICTED. The Revenue Cutter Rush in No Danger from the British Columbians. CHICAGO. October .-A dispatch from Seattle, W. T., says: The United States revenue cutter Rush arrived here yes terdlay from Alaska. Lieutenant Comn mander Shepaid was interviewed about rumors current here for a few weeks that the British Columbians were lying in wait for him to punish him for seiz ing British schooners. The commander smiled and said he had not heard of any such threats until he had read them in the papers on his arrival at Port Town. send. He said that he did not believe aything of the kind had been uttered, and the statement must have come t rom irresponsible parties. If there was any ruth in it and he could have been ap rised in time he would have steamed nto Victoria and would have shaken he American flag in the faces of the Victorians. He said he was on good erms personally with prominent men of Victoria, and did not believe that any ndignity to the American government r his ship would be countenanced by he people of Victoria. A Duel Over a Drink. MONTGOMEiY. A Ia.. October 9 -News~ vas received from Haynev'ille, Lowndesl ounty, last night, giving an account f a pesperate duel there between Eaton Iaynes, Sheriff of the County, and Watt ustille, a prominent citizen. In the uel Haynes was shot and wounded in he shoulder, and Austille was shot in he left arm, the bullet breaking his arm mnd lodging in his breast. The trouble as occasioned by a drunken friend of oth parties, who asked Haynes to drink ith him, which the latter declined to lo. Hot words were exchanged, and ustille interfered. Haynes and Aus ille then exchanged insulting epithets, md while the drunken man was still etween them commenced firing at each KING COTTON. CONDITION OF OUR GREAT STAPLE ON CROP OCTOBER 1. The Plant Generally Late and Fears En tertained that Frost May Seriously Shorten the Crop-But at All Events, a Large Crop Will be Gathered. WASHINGTOs, October 10.-Cotton re turns of the 1st of October to the De partment of Agriculture show a large plant growth, active opening of bolls, fibre in good condition, and generally fine weather for picking; yet the plant is everywhere reported late and fears are expressed that frost may seriously shorten the crops. Conditicas are natu rally reported high, with the reservation by the most intelligent correspondents that present favorable appearances are deceptive; that in seasons of excessive moisture the outcome falls below ex pectation, while in those of drought the. result is better than was feared. With the early date of killing frost the present condition will be heavily dis counted; with the date later than the average a large crop will be gathered. ,. The crop has been injured more by moisture than by drought, though some soils and localities have been too dry in September. Worms havedought considerable in jury, notwithstanding the general use of insecticides, especially in part of Ala bama. Complaint of adulteration of paris green is made in certain quarters. The following State percentages is pre sented: Virginia 58, North Carolina 72, South Carolina 81, Georgia 87, Ala bama 87, Florida 88, Mississippi 79, Louisiana 83, Texas 78, Arkansas 83, Tennessee 82. This makes, as a good percentage, 81.4 per cent. of a field crop prospect on the 1st of October, com pared with 78.9 per cent. last October. A CONVERT TO BUDDHISM.# Ceremonies of Receiving an American Into the Godless Church. Recent Ceylon papers contain ac counts of a remarkable ceremony which took place recently in Colombo. This was the reception of a gentleman from America, who lately arrived in*Ceylon, into the Buddhist creed. The proceedings took place under the direction of the Buddhist high priest, assisted by eleven yellow-robed monks. The convert knelt before the assembled nriests and intimated his desire to be ad ~nitted a member of the Buddhist Church. The high priest then cate chised him and the assembled monks satisfied themselves that he was fitted to - - be a follower of Buddha. The gentle man, whose name was Powell, then begged of the high priest to give him the Pansil, which the latter did, the candidate repeating it after him with the palms of the hands brought together uplifted. Having explained to the con vert the responsible duties of a Buddhist, the high priest gave him his blessing. A meeting was afterw Mr. Pow his - reason' for g embra Buddhism, and 'de scribed the mental process which he had gone through before he arrived at the conviction of its truth. It appears that nearly forty years ago, when he was a child, he came across a book in his father's library, in which was a picture. It was the figure of Buddha seated in the conventional atti tude on a lotus. Impressed by the ex pression of peace and love on the face, Mr. Powell got into the habit of going nearly every evening to a room to sit in a position as nearly like it as he possibly could. "On asking who or what picture. it was," Mr. Powell said, "I was told that it was the picture of a heathen god, but its memoy clung to me and when I heard its name I never forgot it, but learned later what the symbol was and its meaning." Being, as he said, natu rally ofa areligious turn of mind, and being intended by his father to be a clergy man, Mr. Powell was well educated in the Christian doctrine. "But I recog nizcd and felt that there must be some law that I could work out myself, and that if I controlled my thoughts my life manifested an obedience to that power; but it was long before I recognized that this was the 'law of right thought.'" At one time he appears to have sought a refuge in agnosticism, but soon after t~e abandoned this mental attitude and a perusal of "The Light of Asia" aroused in him the desire to take refuge in the law of Lord Buddha. A QUESTION FOB THE COUNCIL. - Two Congregational Bodies of Georgia Will Ask for Recognition. BosTeN, October 6.-The National Council of the Congregational Church of the country will begin its triennial session in Worcester on Wednesday next. .One of the most important questions which will come before it is the race issue, which will be presented from Georgia. The Georgia Congregational Association has been recognized as the Congregational body of the State. This association is composed of fifteen small churches of colored people, which are under the care of the American Missionary Association. The Congre gational Methodist Conference, an older body than the Georgia Congregational Association, is desirous of recognized relations with the Congregational churches of the country, and has elected delegates who will come to Worcester and apply for admission to the Na tional Council. The churches of the Conference arc white. The question of the council to settle is whetber it shall recognize two distinct bodies of Congre gational churches within the hmits of one State when the only reason for the existence of two bodies is the fact that they are composed of people of differ ent races. The Assemblies of Churches. The Associate Reformed Presbyterian Synod of the South will meet in Pros perity on Thursday, the 24th instant. The Synod embraces all the Atlantic and Gulf States from. Virginia to Texas and also West Virginia and Tennessee. Thbe Synod will contain probably a hun dred or more delegates. The Presbyterian Synod of South Carolina will meet in Spartanburg on Fridag, the 25th instant. This Synod embraces all the six Presbyteries of this State. The Lutheran Synod of South Caro ina convenes the 16th instant in Nt. Lebanon Church, Orangeburg County. The Methodist Annual Conference of South Carolina will meet in Camden on the 20th day of November. The Baptist State Convention will meet at Florence on November 29. Count Berthier, a grandson of Bona arte's marshal, recently lost a roll of ank notes containing $ t0f,003 on a ailroad train. He offers .$4,000 r~cw ard