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VOL. V. MANNING, CLARENDON COUNTY, S. C., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1889. NO. 46. DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON. He Preaches About the Oppor tunities of the World's Fair. "Shall It be Made a Blessing or a Curser -It May be the Means of Gospel izing Every Nation on Earth What Should be Done. "The Coming World's Fair-shall it be a Blessing or a Curse?" was the subject of Dr. Talmage's recent sermon at the Brook lyn Tabernacle. After announcing his ser mon Dr. Talmage said: "With the hearty consent of the elders and trustees of this church, I leave on Wed nesday morning. October 30. on the City of Paris for the Holy Land, Palestine, to be gone about two months. I am sure all my congregation will unite with the officers in giving their consent when I tell you why I go. First, my object is educational to my self and congregatiin. I want to see the places associated wi+ o?r Lord's life and death. I believe I can make my pulpit work far more efficient when' I have seen with my own eyes Bethlehem and Nazareth, and Jerusalem, and Calvary and all the other places connected with the Saviour's ministry. Those places can not be visited healthfully in the summer and in time of usual vacation. What I learn and see, you will learn and see when I come back. My second reason for goingis that I am writing the life of Christ, and I can be more accur ate and graphic when I have been an eye witness of the sacred place." Dr. Talmage's text was Ezekiel xxvii, 12, "They traded in thy fairs." He said: Fairs may be for the sale of goods or for the exhibition of goods.on a small scale or a large scale, for county or city, for one na tion or for all nations. My text brings us to the fairs of ancient Tyre, a city that is now extinct. Part of the city was on an island, and part on the mainland. Alexan der, the conqueror, was much embarrassed when he found so much of the city was on an island, for he had no ships. But his mil itary genius was not to be balked, Having marched his army to the beach, he ordered them to tear up the city on the mainland and throw it into the water and build a causeway two hundred feet wide to the island. So they took that part of the city which was on the mainland and with it built a causeway of timber and brick and stone, on which his army marched to the capture of that part of the city which was on the island, as though a hostile army should put Brooklyn into the East river. and over it march to the capture of New York. That Tyrian causeway of ruins which Alexander's army built, is still there, and by alluvial deposits has perma nently united the island to the mainland, so that it is no longer an island but a promon tory. The sand, the greatest of all under takers for burying cities, having covered up for the most part Baalbec and Palymra and Thebes and Memphis and Carthage and Babylon and Luxorand Jericho, the sand, so small and yet so mighty, is now gradually giving rites of sepulture to what was left of Tyre. But, 0, what a magnificent city it once was! Mistress of the sea! Queen of international commerce! All nations cast ing their crowns at her feet! Where we have in our sailing vessels benches of wood, she has benches of ivory. Where we have .for our masts of ship sails of coarse canvas, she had sails of richest embroidery. . The chapter from which my text is taken, after enumerating.the richest countries in all the world says of Tyre: "They traded in thy fairs." Look in upon a world's fair at Tyre. Ezekiel leads us through one de partment and it is a horse fair. Under fed and over driven for ages, the horses of to day give you no idea of the splendid animals which, rearing and plunging and snorting and neighing, were brought down over the plank of the ship and led into the world's fair at Tyre until Ezekiel. who was a minis ter of religion and not supposed to know much about horses, cried out in admiration: "They of the house of Togarmah traded in thy fairs withhorses." Here in another de partment of that world's fair at Tyre, led on by Ezekiel the prophet, we find every thing -ablaze with precious stones. Like petrified snow are the corals; like frag ments of fallen sky are the sapphires; and here is agate a-blush with all colors. What is that aroma we inhale'? It Is from chests of cedar which we open, and find them filled with all styles of fabric. But the aromatics increase as we pass down this lane of en chantment, and here are cassia and frank Incense and balm. Led on by Ezekiel the prophet, we come to an agricultural fair with a display of wheat from Minnith, and Pannag, rich as that of our modern Dokota or Michigan. And here is a mineralogical fair, with specimens of iron and silver and ein and lead and gold. But halt, for here is purple, Tyrian purple, all tints and shades, deep almost unto the black and bright al most unto the blue: waiting for kings and queens to order it made into robes for coro nation day; purple not like that which is now made from the Orchilla weed, but the extinct purple, the lost purple, which the ancients knew how to make out of the gas teropod mollusk of the Mediterranean. 0, look at these casks of wine from the Hel bon! See those snow banks of wool from the back of sheep that once pastured in Gilead. 0, the bewildering riches and va riety at that world's fair at Tyre! But the world has copied these Bible men tioned fairs in all succeeding ages, and it has its Louis the Sixth fair at Dagobert, and Henry the First fair on St. Bartholomew's day, and Hungarian fairs at Pesth, and Easter fairs at Leipsic, and the Sco.tph fairs at Perth (bright was the day when I was at one of them) and afterwards came the Lon don world's fair, and the New York world's fair, and the Vienna worid's fair, and the Parisians world's fair, and it has been de cided that, in commemoration of the dis covery of Amerisa in 1492, there- shall be held in this country in 1892 a world's fair that shall eclipse all preceding national ex positiorns. I say. God speed the movement! Surely the event commemorated is worthy of all the architecture and music and pyro technics and eloquent and stupendous plan ning and monetary expenditure and Con gressional appropriations which the most sanguine Christian patriot has ever dreamed of. Was any voyage that the world ever heard of crowned with such an arrival as that of Columbus and his men? After they had been encouraged for the last few days by flight of land birds and floating branches Iof red berries, and while Columbus was down in the cabin studying the sea chart. Martin Pinzon, standing on deck and look ing to the southwest, cried: "Land ! Land Land!" and "Gloria in Exceisis" was sung in rammig tears on anl tue three snips or the expedition. Most appropriate and patriotic hristian will be a commemorativei world's a in America in 1892. Leaving to others the d' ssion as to the site of such exposition-and nder not that some five or six of our cities a struggling to have It, for it will give to any 'y foie i,.t is assigned an impulse of prosperity for hundred yearsI say, leaying to others thk selection of the particular location to be thus honored, I want to say something from the standpoint of Christian patriotism which ought to be said, and the earlier the better, that we get thousands of peol'b talking in the right direction, and that will make healthful public opinion. I beg you to consider prayerfully what I feel callel upon of God as an American citizen and as a preacher of righteousness to utter. .My first suggestion is that it is not wise, and certainly it is not Christian, to continue this wide and persistent attempt of American -cities to belittle and depreciate other cities. It has been going on for years, but now the spirit seems to culminate in this discussion as to where the world's fair shall be held, a style of discussion which has a tendency to injure the success of the fair as a great moral and patriotic enterprise, after the lo cality has been decided upon. There is such a thing as healthful rivalry between cities, but you will bear me out in saying that ere can be no good to come from the un Dye thngs said about each other by New York and Chicago. by Chicago and St. Louis, by St. Paul and Minnep olis, by Ta coma and Seattle, and all through the States by almost every two proximate cities. All cities, like individuals, have their virtues and their vices. All our American cities should be our exultation. What churches! What public libraries! What asylums of mercy ! What academies of music! What mighty men in law and medicine and art and scholarship! What schools and colleges and universities ! What women radiant and gracious and an improvement on all the generations of women since Eve! What philanthropists who do not feel satisfied with their own charities until they get into the hundreds of thousands and the millions! What "God's acres" for the dead, gardens of beauty, and palaces of marble for those who sleep the last sleep! Now stop your slander of American cities. Do von say they are the centers of crime and political corruption Please admit the fact that they are centers of intelligence and generosity and the mightiest patrons of architecture and sculpture and painting and music and reservoirs of religious influence for all the continent. It will be well for the country districts to cease talking against the cities, andit will be well for the city of one local ity to stop talkingagainst the cities of other localities. New York will not get the world's fair by depreciating Chicago, and Chicago will not get the world's fair by depreciating New York. Another suggestion concerning the com ing exposition: let not the materialistic and monetary idea overpower the moral and re ligious. During that exposition, the first time in all their lives, there will be thou sands of people from other lands who will see a coutgy without a state religion. Let us by an increased harmony among all de nominations of religion impress other na tionalities, as they come here that year, with the superior advantage of having all denominations equal in the sight of govern ment. All the rulers and chief men of Europe belong to the state religion, what ever it may be. Although our last two Presidents have been Presbyterians, the previous one was an Episcopalian; and the two previous, Methodists: and going further back in that line of Presidents, we find Martin Van Buren a Dutch Reformed; and John Quincy Adams a Unitarian; and a man's religion in this country is neither hindrance nor advantage in the matter of political elevation. All Europe needs that. All the world needs that. A man's religion is something between himself and his God, and it must not, directly or indirectly, be interfered with. Furthermore, during that exposition Christian civilization will con front barbar ism. We shall as a nation have greater op portunity to make an evangeliziug impres sion upon foreign nationalities than would otherwise be afforded us in a quarter of a century. Let the churches of the city where the exposition is to held be open every day, and prayers be offered and ser mons preached and doxologies sung. In the less than three years between this and that world's convocation let us get a baptism of the Holy Ghost, so that the six months of that world's fair shall be fifty Pentecosts in one, and instead of three thousand con verted, as in theformer Pentecost, hundrc of thousands will be converted. You mtir remember that the Pentecost mentioned in the Bible occurred when there was no rtint ing press. no books, no Christian pamp.-iets, no religious newspapers, and yet the in fluence was tremendous. How many na tionalties were touched? The account says: "Parthians and Medes and Elamites," that is people from the eastern countries; "Phry gia and Pamphvlia," that is the western countries; "Cyrene and strangers of Rome, Cretes and Arabians," that is the southern countries; but they were all moved by the mighty spectacle. Instead of the sixteen or eighteen trites of people reported at that Pentecost, all the chief nations of Europe and Asia, North and South America, will be represented at our world's fair in 1892. and a Pentecost here and then would mean the salvation of the round world. But, you say, we may have at that fair the people of all lands and all the machinery for gospelization, the religious printing presses and the churches, but all that would not make a Pentecost; we must have God. Well, you can have Him. Has He not been graciously waiting? and nothing stands in the way but our own unbelief and indolence and sin. May God break down the barriers ! The grandest opportunity for the evangel ization of all nations since Jesus Christ died on the cross will be the world's exposition of 1592. God may take us out of the harvest field before that, but let it be known throughout Christendom that that year, be tween May and November, will be the mountain of Christian advantage, the Alpine and Himalayan height of opportunity over topping all others for salvation. Instead of the slow process of having to send the gos pel to other lands by our own A mnerican missionaries, who have dialicult toil in ac quiring thie foreign language and then must c'ontend with foreign prejudices, what a grand thing to have able and influentir.l foreigners converted during their visit in America and then have them return to their native lands with the glorious tidings ! 0, for an overwhelming work of grace for the year 189-2, that work beginning in the au tumn of 18891 anutuer VypoLwaUILy, ai our puulic m.J see it, and it is the duty of pulpit and print ng press to help them to see it, will be the calling at that time and place of a great peace congress foruall nations. The conven tion of representatives from the govern ments of North and South America, now at Washington, is only a type of what wve may have on a vast and a world wide scale at the International Exposition in 1892. By one stroke the gorgon of war might be slain and buried so deep that neither trumpet of human dispute or of arenanger's blowing could resurrect it. When the last Napoleon called such a congress of nations many did not respond, and those that did respond gathered wondering what trap that wily de stroyer of the French republic and the builder of a French monarchy might spring on them. But what if the most popular goverment on earth-I mean the United States Government-Should practically say to all nations: On the American continent, in 189-2, w.e will holt a wvorld's fair, and all nt'ons will sendo it specimens of theli products, their manufactures and their arts, and we invite all the governments of Europe, Asia and Africa to send representatives to a peace convention that shall be held at the same time and place, and that shall estab lish an international arbitration commission to whom shall be referred all controversies between nation and nation, their decision te be final, and so all nastions would be relievedi rom the expense of standing armies an naval equipment, war having been made an everlasting impossibility. All the nations of the earth worth consid eration would come to it; mighty men of England and Germany and France and Rus sia and all the other great nationalities, Bis mark who worships the Lord of Hosts, and Gladstone who worships the God of peaoe, and Boulanger wbo worships himself. The fact is that the nations arc sick of drinking out of chalices made out of human skulls and filled with blood. The United States 'overnment is the only government in the L ahole world that could successfully call ch a congress. Suppose France should call i~ Germany would not come; or Germany 'should call it. France wvould not conme; or Russia should call it, Turkey would not 'come; or England should call it, nations loug jealous of her overshadowing power in europe would not come. America, in favor with all nationalities, standing out inde pdent and alone, is the spot, and 1892 wvill bthe time. May ft please the President of t~e United States, may it please the Secre tAry of State, may it please the Cabinet, iay it please the Senate and House of epresentatives, may it please the printing presses and the churches and the people wo lift up and put down our American r lers! ~ othem I make this timely and solemn an~ Christian appeal. Do you not think ple die fast enough without this whole sala butchery of wp'- Do you not think tht we can trust to pneumonias and con .,,2mtions. and anoplexies, and palsies, and yellow fevers, and Asiatic choler-s tho work of killing them fast enoug! Do you' not think that the greedy, wide open jaws of the grave ought to be satisfied if filled by natural causes with hundreds of corpses a year! Do you not think we can do some thing better with men than to dash their life out against casements, or blow them into fragments by torpedos, or send them out into the world, where they need all their faculties, footless, armless, eyeless? Do you not think that women might be ap pointed to an easier place than the edge of a grave trench to wring their pale hands and weep out their eyesight in widowhood and childlessness! Why, the last glory has gone out of war. There was a time when it demanded that quality which we all admire-namely, cour age-for a man had to stand at the hilt of his sword when the point pierced the foe, and while he was slaying another the other might slay him; or it was bayonet charge. But now it is cool and deliberate mur der, and clear out at sea a bombshell can be hurled miles away into a city, or while thousands of private soldiers, who have no interest in the contest, for they were conscripted, are losing their lives, their general may sit smoking one of the best Havana cigars after a dinner of quail on toast. It may be well enough for graduating students of colleges on com mencement day to orate about the poetry of war, but do not talk about the poetry of war to the men of the Federal or Confederate armies who were at the front, or to some of us who, as members of the Christian Commission, saw the ghastly hospitals at Antietam and Hagerstown. Ah ! you may worship the Lord of hosts, I worship the "God of peace, who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus Christ, that great Shepherd of the sheep." War is an accursed monster, and it was born in the lowest cavern of perdition, and I pray that it may speedily descend to the place from which it arose, its last sword and shield and musket rattling on the bottom of the red hot marl of hell. Let there be called a peace convention for 1892, with delegates sent by all the decent governments of Christendom, and while they are in session, if you should some night go out and look into the sky above the exposition buildings, you may find that the old gallery of crystal, that was taken down after the Bethlehe.n anthem of eighteen centuries ago was sung out, is rebuilt again in the clouds, and the same angelic singers are returned with the same librettos of light to chant "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will to men." Again, I suggest in regard to the world's fair that, while appropriate places are pre pared for all foreign exhibits, we make no room for the importation of foreign vices. America has enough of its own, and we need no new installments of that kind. A world's fair will bring all kinds of peo ple, good and bad. The good we must prepare to welcome. and the bad we must prepare to shun. The attempt will again be made in 1892, as in 1876, to break up our American Sabbaths. The at tempt was made at the Philadelphia Centennial, but was defeated. The Ameri can Sabbath is the best kept Sabbath on earth. We do n, c'want it broken down, and substituted'Al?- the place thereof the Brussels Sabbath, the Vienna Sabbath, the St. Petersburg Sabbath, or any of the for eign Sabbaths, which are no Sabbaths at all. I think the Lord is more than gener ous in asking only fifty-two days out of the 365 for his service. You let the Sabbath go and with it will go your Bible, and after that your liberties, and your children or your grandchildren will be here in America under a despotism as bad as in those lands where they turn the Lord's day into wassail and frolic. Among those who come there will be. as at other expositions, lordly people who will bring their vices with them. Among the dukes and duchesses and princes and prin cesses of other lands are some of the best men and women of all the earth. Remem ber Earl of Kintore, Lord Cairns and Lord Shaftesbury. But there is a snob bery and fiunkeyism in American so ciety that runs after a grandee, a duke, a lord, or~a prince, though he may be a walk ing lazaretto and his breath a plague. It makes the fortune of some of our queens of society to dance one cotillion with one of these princely lepers. Some people can not get their hat off quick enough when they see such a foreign lord approaching, and they do not care for the mire into which they drop their knees as they bow to wor ship. Let no splendor of pedigree or any pomp and paraphernalia of circumstances make him attractive. There is only one set of Ten Commandments that Ilever heard of, and no class of men or women in all the world are excused from obedience to those laws written by finger of lightning on the granite surface of Mount Sinai. Surely we have enough American vioes without mak ing any drafts upon European vice for 1892. By this sermon I would have the nation made aware of its opportunity and get ready to Improve it, and of some perils, and get ready to combat them. I rejoice to believe that the advantages will overtop every thing in the world's fair. What an introduction to each other of communities, of States, of republics, of empires, of zones, of hemispheres! What doors of informa tion will be swung wide open for the boys and girls now on the threshold! What national and international education! What crowning of industry with sheaves of grain, and what imperial robing of her with em broidered fabrics ! What scientific appara tus! What telescopes for the infinitude above and microscopes for the infinitude beneath, and instruments to put nature to the torture untll she tells her last secret ! What a display of the magnificence of the God who has grown enough wheat to make a loaf of good bread large enough for the human race, and enough cotton to stocking very foot, and enough timber to shelter wery head, making it manifest that it Is not God's fault, but either man's oppression or indolence or dissipation if there be any without supply. Under the arches of the chief building of that exposition let Capital and Labor, too long estranged, at last be married, each taking the hand of each in pledge of eternal fidelity, while representatives of all nations: stand round rejoicing at the nuptials and saying: "What God hath joined .together let not man put asunder." Then shall the threnody of tlie needle woman no longer be heard: Work, work, work: Till the brain begins to swim; Work. work, work: Till the eyes are heavy and dim. Seam a'nd gusset and band. Band and gusset and seam. Till over the battons I fall asleep. And sew them on in a dream. 0, Christian America! Make ready for the grandest exposition ever seen under the sun! Have Bibles enough bound. Have churches enough established. Have scien tific halls enough endowed. Have printing presses enough set up. Have revivals of religion enough in fe'l blast. I believe you will. "Hosanna to the 5on of David ! Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord!" Through the harsh voices of our day A low. sweet prelude finds its way; Throu-lh clouds of doubt and creeds of fear A 1ighut is breaking calm and clear. Thaut s~ng of love, now low and far. Ere lon:g shall swell fro'n star to star; That light, the breaking day, which tips The golden spired Apocaulypse: Among the places at which Dr. Talmage will probably preach during his extended trip are Rome, Jerusalem, Nazareth, Beth lehem, Bethanv, Samaria, Joppa, Athens and Corinth. NAMES OF PLANTS. Many of Them are Traceable to Distant Climes or Famous Men. The number of countries which have con tributed their quota to the nomenclature of English plants is legion. Beginning with France we have the dent do lion-lion's tooth whence wo derive our dandelion. The tiower-de-luce, again, which Mr. Dyer thinks wa a nameappnlied to the iris2 comes to-us through the French leur de Louis-tradi tion asserting that this plant was worn as a device by King Louis VII. of France. Buck wheat is derived from the Dutch word bock weit, and adder's tongue from a word in the same language, adderstong. In like manner the name tulip is traceable to the word thonlyban in the Persian language-signify ing a turban. So, too, our English word lilac is nothing more than an Anglicized form of another word in the Persian tongue, viz., lilag. A large number of plants owe their names to those by whom they were first discovered and introduced into other climes. The fuchsia stands indebted for its name to Leon:ard Fuchs, an eminent Ger man botanist, and the dahlia was so named in honor of a Swedish botanist named Dahl. A long list of plant names might be formed which might be termed animal and bird pre fixes-as, for example, horse beans, horse chestnuts, dog violets and dog roses; cats' faces, a name applied to the plant known to botanical students as the viola tric olor; cats' eyes, veronica chammdrys; cats' tails, and catkins. The goose-grass is known to the country people in Northamptonshire as pig tail, and in Yorkshire a name given to the fruit of the Cratcegu a oxyacantha is bull horns. Many plant names have been suggested by the feathered race, particu larly goose tongue, cuckoo buds (mentioned by Shakespeare), cuckoo flowers, stork's bill and crane's bill. One of the popular names of the arum is "parson in the pulpit," and a Devonshire term for the sweet Scab riosis is "mournful widow." The campion is not infrequently called "plum pudding," and in the neighborhood of Torquay it is not unusual to hear fir cones spoken of as "oysters."-Gertleman's Magazine. Care of the Finger Nails. The half-moon, which is esteemed so great a beauty, if carefully attended to will in crease in time, and even where it has been almost obliterated will grow to be very beautiful. Many people think that pushing the skin back from the nail will show it more; but by this practice the delicate hem, as we call it. which holds the upper and under skins together, is totally destroyed and the ends of the fingers have an ugly yellow growth encircling the nail, in stead of the delicate framework which nature intended. Then the way in which the nail is cut can totally change the shape of the fingers. By cut ting the nails close at the sides and keeping the corners from adhering to the skin, hang nails can be avoided. When the nails are thin and inclined to break, frequent oiling is necessary, and the nail should never be polished except when some oily substance is used beside the powder. This keeps the nails more pliable, and no matter how thin they are, if properly treated they are no more liable to break than thicker ones. Anfther thing that is bad for the nails is polishing them too roughly. They should be lightly touched, and not rubbed until they become heated. This is one cause of white spots coming on the nail and marring its beauty.-Medical Classics. Getting a Start in Life. My advice to a young man would be to first obtain the best education possible, col legiate if he could; then engage in such business or profession as would be agree able to his inclination and taste, then adopt honesty as policy. The old phrase: "Hon esty is the best policy," is so little under stood by young men that it goes in one ear and out of the other. If a young man has not honesty let him adopt it as a matter of policy, as a means to business success; be cause the young man who possesses hon esty and integrity (or has the reputation of possessing them) and is attentive to the in terests of his employers, not heeding or taking note of time in his daily duties, but performing such duties as he sees should be performned, whether they are assigned to him or not, assuming responsibility of doing that which should be dVde for his employer, doing this in whatever vocation he chooses -with good, common, ordinary judgment in nine cases out of ten will succeed.-Sen ator C. B. Farwell, in Chicago Tribune. Unfair Condemnation. The unfairest way to condemn an individ ual is to condemn him because he belongs to a- class whose individuals are often blame worthy, but whose blameworthiness has no essential connection with the class idea. When a mother reprimands a child by say ig: "Look at your hands! I always did hear that boys' hands were never clean;" or: "Don't make such a racket ! Boys never can do any thing quietly,"-she simply blames him for what she declares to be an essential characteristic of his sex and age and so effectually denies to him the hope of his doing better. The child naturally rea sons: "I am a boy, and if boys are always so, I must be so. too:" And many a boy who flas been struggling and striving to do better has been discouraged and perma nently injured by being condemned, not for what faults he has, but for what faults boys have.-S. S. Times. :-He is most powerful who has hi-uself in his power.-Seneca. A Clergyman's Reasons for Readi ng Newspapers. ( From the PWbcnuirgh i)ixpsztc'i.) To the Editor of the 1Nspacih: I see that Bishop Foss, in his address to the class seeking admission to conference, advised the young ministers to give scanty attention to the daily newspa pers. But I must certainly disagree with~ this Episcopal dictum, for I think a wise reading ot the daily newspaper is a sym metrical education. While things slip in sometimes which ought to be passed by, the editors of a great paper have a trae Midas touch, and know the gold of promise from the brass of profession. Thre is no noble sentiment, no true strain of poetry, no sonorous word fit to roll round the world, no gem of thought but finds its way at last into the columns of the daily press. The newspaper is a fresh photograph of human life-oh! has it not depth of meaning for the noblest sermon? I read oft en even the ad ver tisements of the paper, and find in them the wit, power, and also the pathos of life. I thank the daily press for the living sermons it has given me. As on an autumn's day the wmnd shakes the tree and the leaves fall down and make an amethystine and golden floor, so this great tree, the press, shaken every day, sheds down its white leaves upon the woirld-leaves of knowledge, leaves of healing. When I see a young minister who wisely reads the daily paper I am sure het is growing in grace, at least on that s)ot where it is thought the average minister is sadly deficient. J1. G. TowNsEND, Pastor Unitarian Church. Pittsburgh, October 12. A Singular Optical Illusion. Passengers who arrived last Tuesday at Denver from Northern Wyoming re port a singular optical illusion. The conductor of the train says: "It was about an hour before sunset, and, look ing out of the car window, we saw' about a mile away a beautiful lake. It was in a slight depression nmong the bills, and seemed to be about two miles long by a mile wide. Never having noticed a lake ai this place on the road, I was considerably astonished, as were passengers familiar with the road. As tte tram advanced the lake appeared to enarge and~ rise, but in spite of thielt ws difficult to believe the appearance was simply a mirage and that what ap pered to bea lakne was a level plain. RANGED BY A MOB. A WHITE MAN LYNCHED FOR MUR DERING HIS MOTHER-IN-LAW. Robert Berrier and His Wife Separate. She, With Her Child, Returns to Her Mother's Home-He Attempts to Take the Child Away-His Mother-in-Law In terferes and Berrier Shoots Her Dead. CHARLOTTE, N. C., October 15.-[Spe cial to The Register.]--Robert Berrier, a young white -ax who last week mur dered his mother-in-law at Lexington, was taken from jail there by a masked mob and lynched. Berrier was captured Sunday near Lexington, but was carried to Greens boro -for safety. He was brought back to Lexington yesterday for a prelimi nary hearing. He waived examination and was placed in jail. Early last night a mob, said to have been composed of country people entirely, numbering about 125, came quietly into Lexington and, marching to the jail, demanded of the jailer and guards the prisoner. Berrier heard the mob from the inside and pitifully called out: "For God sake, don't let a mob get me!" The jailer re fusing to give up the keys, the jail door was soon battered down and Berrier bound and taken out. His cries were pitiful in the extreme. The mob placed him in a buggy and slowly the march was begun. Just by the roadside, at the outskirts of town, stands a massive oak tree. To a limb of this tree a rope was adjusted, Berrier placed on a horse, and the rope tied about his neck. He was then asked if he bad anything to say, and is reported to have said the only request he had to make was that his child be raised properly and never be told of his terrible deed. He then offered a prayer. and the horse was snatched from under him and his body hung be tween heaven and earth. Some shots I were fired at the dangling form and then the lynchers dispersed. Robert Berrier had been married about one year. His wedded life did not prove to be a happy one, and one day last week he separated from his wife, she going to her mother's, Mrs. Herbert Walser. who lives near Lexington, in Davidson County. Berrier's wife carried with her their only child-a small babe. Berrier swore she should not raise it, and the next day after the separation he went to the home of his mother-in-law and demanded the child. It being re fused him, he took it by main force and was leaving wbc Mrs. Walser followed him and tried to take the child from him. She continued to follow him, and the indignant son-in-law drew from his pocket a pistol and shot her to death. He then tied with the child. The babe was, however, found the next day in an old hollow log safe and sound. As has been stated, Berrier was not captured until Sunday. FAVORS CAPITAL PUNISHMENT. Cardinal Gibbons Thinks We Do Not Hang Murderers Soon Enough. BALTIMORE, October 16.-Cardinal Gibbons sees in the tardiness with which justice is meted out to criminals a serious menace to good order and good government. He favors and is a be liever in the efficiency of capital punish ment, and is of the opinion that there are too many loopholes through which guilty persons may escape punishment for crime. In his new work, "Our Christian Heritage," soon to be pub lished, the Cardinal says: "A crying evil is the wide interval that so often interposes between a crim inal conviction and the execution of the sentence, and the frequent defeat of jus tice by the delay. Human life is indeed sacred, but the laudable effort to guard it has gone beyond bounds. Of late years the difficulty to convict, in murder trials especially, has greatly increased from the widened application of the pleas in bar-notably that of insanity. When a conviction has been reached innumerable delays generally stay the execution. The many grounds of excep tion allowed to the counsel, the appeals from one court to another, with final ap plication to the Governor, and the facil ity with which signatures for pardon are obtained have combined to throw around culprits an extravagant protec tive system, and gone far to rob jury trial of its substance and efficacy. A prompt execution of the law's sentence after a fair trial is that which strikes terror into evil doers and satisfies the public conscience. The reverse of this among us has brought reproach upon the administration of justice, and given plausible grounds for the application ot lynch law." A Hanging Road Near Lucerne. The cantonal authorities of the districts around Mount Pilatus have under con sideration a proposal for the construc tion of a novel kind of road, which has been submitted to them by M. Leonardo Torres, of Santander, through the cn tral government of B-rne. This road would connect the so-edlled Oberhaupt, or highest point of Pilatus, with the Klimsnhorn. The object would be to make the ascent of the mountain easier on the Northern side and to shorten the ascent for tourists coming from Hergis wvl. The difference in level between the two points is set down at 1194 meters; the distance between them at 46~3 meters. The road appara tus (for such it must be called) would consist of six wire cables, quite inde pendent of one another, on which six light nlly wheels will move, and from these wheels a small omnibus capable of' arrying eight persons will hang. The omnibus will be drawn by a rope at tached to a steam engine to be placed on the Oberhaupt, near _the Bellevue Hotel.- -London Times?. HOLDING BACK THEIR COTTON. Alliance Farmers Couldn't Get Their Price at Prosperity, So They Hauled Their Cotton Back Home. PROSPERITY, S. C., October 16. [Special to The Register.ji-Four hundred and twenty-eight bales of cotton were offered here by the Farmers Allhance to-day. Failing to get the price wanted, they hauled the most of it home. Five hundred bales were on the squawre at one time to-day. Sales 1(10 bales; ollering at 9t to 91. Fire at J. W. P'. Brown's destroyed an outhouse this afternoon. Loss $200 to $300, mostly in cotton. Death Ends a Murder Case. ABBEvILLE, October 17.-[Special to The Register.]-John T. Lyon, who was indicted for the murder of L. Mabr-y, and whose ease was called in court yes terday and continued on account of the critical illness of the defendant, died in jail here at 1 o'clock this morning, of nervous prostration. Lyon was 62 years of age. He was a deacon in the Pres byterian Church and had many friends and relatives throughout the County. A idow snrvies him. SEPARATE COACHES. Something for Railroad Managers in South Carolina to Think About. (From the .X'berry Obsereer.) During Fair week last year the rail way coaches were packed with a pro miscuous crowd of all characters and colors. The negroes, as a rule, were on a frolic and went to Columbia for fun, not for the fair-their idea of fun being to get on a drunk and to make them selves as disagreeably noisy and con spicuous.as possible. The Observer, immediately after the fair, called attention to the evil, and said that if some remedy were not ap plied the best white people outside of Columbia - especially Indies - would cease going to the fair. There must be some improvement. The behavior of the negroes-or a large portion of them rather-was abominable, especially on the trains comint out of Columbia in this direction at nights. The behavior was not only rude and noisy, but it was shamefully indecent and blasphemous such as no respectable person ought ever be subjected to. The white people along the lines of railroad leading into Columbia should act in concert this year and unanimously determine to keep away from the fair unless the railroads will give a reason able assurance that decent behavior will be enforced. There is no objection to fun and jollity and noise; but decent people have a right to be protected from profane and indecent behavior on te rail roads. The desired end, we think, might be accomplished by providing separate coaches for whites and blacks. There is now a growing demand in this State. anyway, to adopt the Georgia plan of separate coaches at all times and on all roads. This would be a good move if the roads are able to bear tbe additional expense. They are able, it seems, in Georgia-why not in South Carolina? It would be decidedly better to have separate coaches. The plan has been declared legal by the Inter-State Com merce Commissioners, provided equal accommodations are afforded to each race. The negroes should be kept out of the ears set apart for the whites, and the whites should be kept out of the cars set apart for the negroes.. It would not (o to make the second class car, or smoking car, the negroes' car; for that would not be legal, and would not be fair 'ither. Ordinarily negroes ride mostly in the second-class car, and the evil of mixing is not so noticeable except on occasions of cheap rates an-d excursions, like the State Fair or Gala Week. Men can stand almost any kind of crowds for a while, no matter bow dis agreeable; but ladies cannot and will not-they will stay at home first. MAHONE QUOTES SCRIPTURE. He Finds Much Campaign Material in the Book of Joshua. RICaMoND, October 19.-The negroes are wok:ly excited ever Mahone's latest secret campaign circular. Some weeks ago he sent out private letters asking for the names of colored ministers. To their addresses he is sending a card and circular. Upon the card are printed Scriptural references, calling especial attention to the 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th and 18th chapters of Joshua. In the 17th chapter he calls attention to the following passage: "But the mountains shall be thine; for it is a wood, and thou shalt cut it down; and the outgoings of it shall be thine: for thou shalt drive the Canaanites, though they have iron chariots and though they be strong." In the 18th chapter he calls attention to the following passage: "And there remained among the chil dren of Israel seven tribes which -had not received their inheritance. And Joshua said unto the children of Israel: How long are ye slack t o go to possess the land which the Lord God of your fathers bath given you? And Joshua cast lots for them in Shilohi before the Lord, and there Joshua .divded the land unto the children of Israel accord ing to their divisions." Mahone simply asks the negroes to read these extracts -carefully. Joshua is the favorite prophet of the negro race, and these utterances of his are now being read by thousands in connec tion with the election. They regard- it as a promise of a division of the land of the whites among the negroes. In deed, some of their ministers do not hesitate to tell them that they are one of the seven tribes which have not re ceived their inheritance. Mahone also offers large prizes to the colored man who shall bring out the largest number of votes. An immense meeting assembled in old Market Ilall to-night under the auspicies of the anti-Mahone Republi can Committee to hear e,:-Governor Cameron and cx- Senator Riddl eberger. It was evidient that both gentlemen were too uuwell te speak, andi the crowd left,, the band playing the air "We have both been there before, many a time." Editor Pulitzer's Dedication. When the corner stone of the newv World building was being laid in New York the other day the following cable grami was received from Editor Pulitzer: '-God grant that this structurec be the endurin,< home of a new5;paper forever unsatisfied with merely printing news forever fighting every form of wrong forever in dependent- forever advancing in enlightenmen t and progress -forever wedded to truly Democratic ideas-for ever aspiring to be a moral fcrce-for ever rising to a higher piane of perfee tion as a public institution "God grant that the Wor-ld may for ever strive towards theC highest ideals, be both a daily schod ho'use and a daily forum-both a daily teacher and a daily tribune-an iostrument of justice, a terror to crime, an aid to education, an exponent of true Americanism. "Let it ever be remembered that this edifice owes its existence to the public; that its architect is popular favor; that its moral carner stone is love of liberty and justice: that its every stone comes from the people and rep~resenlts public approval for p~ulic services rendered. -"God forbid that the vast army fol lowing the standard of the World should in this or in future generations ever find it faithless to those ideas and moral principles to which alone it owes its life, and without which I would rather have it perish. JoSEPH PLLtZER." -President Harrison has accepted an invitation to be present on the occasion of the dedication and opening of the new Catholic University at Washington on November 13. Jay Gould has been offered 005,000 to write his memoirs. Mr. Gould would not tell all he knows about himself for* any amount of mney. The Editorial Three. PENCIL: I'm the stub of a Faber Well worn with labor That lasts from sun to sun. I toil with creation, With ne'er a vacation: I'm the all important one. SHEARS: With a familiar clatter I've clipped the best matter That's come to this office for years, So when you have read it Picase give me the credit; I'm the editorial shears. PASTE: Oh, I'm made of flour And used every hour; I'm so very important you see, That n editor's table Ilas ever been able To prosper at all without me. ALL: Oh. we are three powers, S important all hours We're the editorial three. No one is inftrior But all are superior To the editorial "we." "DOC" HUGHES'S TWO WIDOWS. Each Claiming to Have Been His Lawful Wife and Demanding Damages. The Hughes-Jacobs murder case and the damage suit by the widow of "Doc' Hughes against Jacobs were revived yes terday, says Ihe Greenville Neuw of the 18th, in the trial of a case before the Judge of Probate, in which Amanda Melvina Hughes of Georgia, who claimed to be the lawful wife of Doe Hughes instead of Sallie Hughes, with whom the murdered man was living at the time of his death, petitions that the letters of administration granted to Sallie Hughes be revoked and granted to her. It will be remembered that after Hughes was killed a woman by the name of Amanda Hughes, living near Clarksville, Georgia, appeared and claimed to be his lawful wife. Her claim wait relied upon to a degree by the de feuse when Mr. Jacobs was on trial, to show that Hughes was a man of bad character and was guilty of bigamy. The alleged wife No. 1 did not again appear upon the scene until her petition w.s brought before the Probate Judge, In the meantime Sallie Hughes, the South Carolina wife of Doe Hughes, brought suit against Richard H. Jacobs for $10,000 damages for the killing of her husband. The case was tried twice, the first time resulting in a mistrial and the second time Sallie Hughes was awarded a verdict of $750 damages. Lettersof administration were granted to her as the lawful wife of Doc Hughes. The history of Doc Hughes was well ventilated in the damage suit, the coun sel for Jacobs making the point that be had two living wives and Sallie Hughes ought not. to be awarded damages unless it was proven that she was the real and lawful wife. The trial of the case was sensational, but the jury at last found for the plaintiff in the sum named. A few days ago the damages were paid by Mr. Jacobs, and now comes Amanda Melvina Hughes, who claims to be widow Hughes and claims that under the Statute rolina the letters of administrati1 verL- l-br and those given to Sallie Hughes re voked. The claim of widow No. I is evidently made for the purpose of get ting control of the money awarded to widow No. 2. Judge Freeman heard both sides and revoked the letters granted to Sallie Hughes, but refused to grant new ones to Amanda Hughes. An outside person will now be appointed administrator, and the next step will be for one or both parties to bring suit against the administrator for the recovery of the money, and the lawful widow of Doc Hughes will then be finally and firmly established. G. L. Calloway represented the petitioner and J. I. Earle the de fendant. In the Heat of passion.. "I hope I killed him!" The speaker was a slender .girl of 19. She had just been arrested by a New York policeman for stabbing her hus band.- - During a year's married life the pris oner's husband had .beaten, kicked and degraded her. She fled to her mother's house for protection. Her master fol lowed, and struck her a terrible blow in the month. Then she stabbed him, and, exulting in her new freedom, exclaimed: "I hope I killed him!" The reader of our news columns will almost every day read accounts of horri ble tragedies in which the survivors ex press their satisfaction with the results. The law has no terrors for a man whose blood is on fire. The certainty of pun ishmtent will not cheek him. At the su preme momeut-in the tempest of his passion -he cares nothing for the conse quences. The law cannot control hot blood. The only human power that can do it is that sober public opimion which is the outcome of a Christian and sensible system of family gavernmuent. The lessonl ot' sedf-cont rol. ixstiled io chidren by prcept and example, with toe liberal use of the rod when neces sary, will keep soceiiy tolerably straight. The child who, trram infaucjy, has been augnt to control his passions, will generally keel) the peace and discourage aless violence in others. The proper training of children in very home wonld ;gi'e us an ide~al society nuder the reign of h2w and rder. The courts can punish crime, but they cannot pr'veut it. T~he fim ess and self restraint ncetssary to keep men out of tempta:ion and law essness must be acquired at the family frside.-Atlanta Constitubon. From the Bar to the Pulpit. Col. R. A. Child of Piekensi, one of he most talented lawyers of upper South Carolina, has decided to go ;rom he bar to the pulpit. A t the Quarterly Conference at Pickeps on last Saturday Mr. Child was recommended to the An nal Conference, soon to convene, for admission into the traveling e-mnection. ~e has sold his valuable law library to is partner, James P. Cary, Esa., and vill at otnce enter upon his ministerial uties, lie has been an able local rcaher in the Methodist Church for ome time, andI now that he relinquishes he law and devotes all his tinme and alent to the preaching of the Gospel, e predict for him a career of great sefulness.- Walalla Courier. The World's Baseball Championship. New York and Brooklyn arc now ighting for the baseball championship f the world. Having won the pen ants in their respective organizations hey stand face to face as rivals for upreme athletic honor. The decisive series will consist of leven games to be played alternately i New York and Brooklyn, the first aving been played at the New Polo rounds yesterday, resulting in a ictory for Brooklyn by a score of 12 o 10. I EX-GOV. CHAMIBERLAIN TAKES FORMAL POSSESSION OF THE S. C. RAILWAY. He Has Received Many Applications for Positions in the Service, but Will Make No Changes at Present-The Ex-Gover norR eceives Numerous Letters of Con gratulation from Various Parts of the State. CHARLESTON, October 1G.-[Special to The Register.]-Ex-Governor D. H. Chambe-lain, recently appointed Re ceiver of the South Carolina Railway, arrived here to-day from New York, in company with W. H. Brawley, the Solicitor of the company. At 9 a. m. he proceeded to the main offices, took formal possession of the road at once, issued an order announcing the fact and stating that all officials and employees of the comIany would still continue in the discharge of their duties as hereto fore. In an interview with - TE REosTEE correspondent, Mr. Chamberlain said: "It would be premature for me to ex press an opinion at this time in refer ence to the affairs of the company. The earnings of the road at this time are very large. Colonel Peck, the General Manager, informs me that the gross earnings up to the end of the present year will probably be over $1,300.000. If that should be realized there ought to be a handsome amount of net earnings for the next three months. The company turned over to me to-day $4,400 in cash. I am much gratified to find at the com pany's office quite a bundle of letters from prominent business men in this city and State expressing confidence in my management and gratification at my appointment as Receiver. I shall remain here until Saturday, when I shall be obliged to return to New York, but shall return as speedily as possible and devote myself to the affairs of the com pany. "I shall be in no haste to make any changes or removals in the railway ser vice as now employed. Whatever changes are to be made will be made with deliberation and merely to increase the effectiveness of the service. Numerous applications for positions were received by me in New York, and. I found another large batch here, but. you may say that no changes will... made for some time to come." - BETRAYED AND BEATEN. A Story of Outrageous Treatment Told by an Old Man from Pickens. A rumor was current in the city yes terday, says the Greenville .News of the 15th, that F. F. Nunally of Pickens County had been taken from his house and whipped by regulators. A News reporter found Mr. Nunally in West End and elicited the following statement from him: "On last Friday afternoon," said he, "I was at my home in Pickens, about eight miles from town, and haul ing cotton from the field named Let's l~~'W were i the P~ ing the wagon when Jefferson Nix drove by, and stopping, asked me if I would be at home that night?' I told him I would, and he said that 'he wRod come over and bring something to drink.' At sundown I went home, ate supper and saf down. About 9 o'clock Jeff Nix and a young man who lives-with him named Bub Brooks came in and sat down. We talked awhile, and Nix asked me 'if I would sell my pistol?' I said 'yes.' He then asked to see it. I brought it out and told him that I would take $5 for it. He answered: 'I will not take it now, but will buy it soon.' Then he asked to see my gun. I brought -it out also, and after he had looked at it, set it over in the corner. We chatted for a few minutes, and directly Nix got up and walked behina me, as I thought to look at the pistol, which I had laid on. the table. I paid no attention to him, we always having been friends and never dreaming of foul play. He had not been behind me more than a ipinate before I was seized by him and forcedl to the floor. Then Brooks jumped on me. At this instant some one outside the house halloed out: 'Tie him and bring him out.' They pushed me out of the door, where was two or three men, I do not know which, and tied my hands to gether with a rope, and then tied my feet. I was thrown on the ground, and Jeff Nix took a big cart whip and commenced to beat me. I asked himi what he meant by this kind of treat ment, and he said: 'You have been talking about me and telling d-d lies on me.' I denied doing anything of the kind, and he said: 'Shut up or I'll burst your brains out with the butt of this whip.' He whipped me until I was insensible, and then went off. I finally extricated myself from the bonds and geinig up went into'the house for my pistol. It was gone. I then went over to a neighbor's house but finding no one awake, and beine afraid of a second attack, went home ana went to bed. "I looked'for ny guna but could not find it. The next morning I found it udrawrk bench in an outhouse. My wife was in Pelzer and I was alone." This is the story, and if it be true, it is likely no stone will be Ieft unturned Ito bring the perpetrators, to justice. The two men named have disappeared, .and IMr. Nun ally did not recognize the others. He is sixty years old, and his back is black from the beating and his wrists. where the ropes cut into the skin are very sore. He is not seriously in jured, but will use every power to have his as sailants punished. Ofrered $5,000 for t Wife. MiaTINsvnL'IE. Ind., October 6.-Somae months ago an advertisement appeared in the Indianapolis papers saying that one James Morgan would pay $5,000 for a wife, giving his address (at this place. IHundreds of letters have arrived at the Ipostoffice for him from every part of the Icountry since that time. Many of them were scented and decorated in a way brave. A few weeks ago a reporter learned that the man who yearned for a bride was sailing under a false name; tahis true name was Morgan Johnson, and that he resided at Lake Valley, this ICounty. He finally captured a bride. Yesterday, while tbe Circuit Court was in session, Judge Grubbs was called upon to go to the Clerk's office and marry the happy couple. The bride, Miss Bettie S. Wilson, is aged 47, while John son's age is 82. Mr. Jones Heard from Again. The eccentric ex- Senator Jones of Florida is again heard from. He has Iquarreled with his fiiend, O'Neill, of D~etroit, Mich., who, it is 5aid, has for months eared for and literaly supported him. The break was occasioned by Senator Jones refusing to vacate the room he had occupied for two years, or to return to Florida, even if the money were given him.