The Manning times. (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, October 16, 1889, Image 1
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