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-LEVUS LOVE ONE 46'~ JL Lct us love one another-r :;t ;, n In this bleak wcrld of mom i a whie the day. Others fage in the noon. and 4 1 eva. Oh! there breaf not a heart, but icaves monle one to grieve; And the fondest., the purest, the mut im -et. Have ttill round the need to forgive and get. Then oh! though the hopes that we nou:,s!:ed decay, Let as love one another as loni; ab we say.. There are hearts like the ivy. t hough al OC decayed That it seemed to twine founily In sunlight and shade; No leaves droop in sadness, still gaily they spread, Undimm'd midst the blighted the lonely and dead; But the misletoe clings to the oak not in part, But with leaves closely round it, the root in its heart. Exists but to twine it-imbibe the same dew. Or to fall with its loved oak. and perish there too Thus let's love one another 'midst sorrows the worst. Unaltered and fond as we loved at the nrst, Tb' the false wing of pleasure may change and forsake. And the bright urn of wealth into p irticles break; There are some sweet af'ections that wealth cannot bny, Tnat cling but still closer when sorrow draws nigh And remain with us yet though all else pass away Ifhen let's love one another as long as we stay. DR. TALMAGE IN SYRIA. A SERMON SUGGESTED BY THE LOCALITY AND SEASON. There Are Many That Will Be Saved, for the Great Triumph Is Yet to Come-The arthly Armies of the Living God-"The Sky Anmtem." BEYROET. Doc. 24.-The Bev. T. De Witt Talmage, D. D., of Brooklyn, wh'o is here with his partv, preached today to a group of friends on "The Sky Anthem." His text was Luke n, 14: "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peaee, good will toward men," on which he delivered the following discourse: - At last I have what ..I longed for, a Christmas eve in the Holv Land. This is the time of year that Christ landed. He was a December Christ. This is the chill air through which he de scended. I look up throtgh these Christmas skies, and I see no'loosenel star hastening southward to halt above Bethlehri, but all the stars suggest the Star of Bethlehem. No more need that any of them run along the sky to point downward. In quietude they kneel at the feet of him who, though once axm.exile, is now enthroned for ever. Fresh up from Bethlehem, I am full of the scenes sug"gested by a visit to that villao-e. You 1now that whole region of bethlehem is famous in Bible story. There were the wav ing harvests of Boaz, in which Ruth gleaned for* herself and weeping Na omi. There David the warrior was thzraty, and three.men of unheard of self denial broke through the Philis tine army to get him a drink. It was to that region that Joseph and Mary came to have their names enrolled in the census. That is what the Scripture means whei it says ther came "to be taxed,!' for people did 'not in those days rush after the assessors of tax any more than they now do. THE HOLY ONb IN THE 3IANGEa. The village inn was crowded with the attangers who had come up by the command of government to have their names in the census, so that Joseph and Mary were obliged to lodge in the stables. You have seen some of those large, .stone buildings, in the center of which the camels were kept, while run ning out from this center in all direc tionsthere were rooms, mn one of which Jsuswas born. Had his parents been more showily appare'led I have no do.ubt, they would _have found more and kindled fires, were watching their flocks, when hark! to the sound of voices strangely sweet. Can it be that the maidens 'of Bethlehem- have come out to serenade the weary shepherds? But now a light stoop upon them like the mornmng, so that the flocks arise, shaking their snowy fleece and bleat ing to their drowsy young. The heavens are filled with armies of light, anid the earth quakes under the har mony as, echoed back from cloud to cloud, it rings over the midnight hills: ."Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will to nen!" It sems that the crown of royalty and deminion and power which Christ left hindl him was huno on the sky in sht of Bethlehem. Who knows" but -that that crown may have been mis taken by the wise men for the star iunnig and pointing downward? - 'y subject, in the first p lace. im - presses me with the fact that indi ,gnce is not always significant of deg adan. Wh'en princes are born, Luends announce it, and cannon thunder it, and flags wave it, and ilhnions set cities on fire with Sthe idings. Some of us in England or America remember the titne of re ' 'g when the Prince of Wales was bt.You can remember the glad ness throughout Christendom at the astn~ity in the palace at Madrid. But :iben our glorious Prince was born, there was no rejoicing on earth. Poor aizd g'rowing poorer, yet the heavenly recog'nition that Christmas night shows the tr'uth of the pr-oposition that indigence is not always signifi cant of degradation. In all ages there have been great hearts throbbing under rags. tender 'ypt~ es under rough exterior, gold i te quartz, Parian marble in the qayand in every stable of priva tinwonders of excellence that have been the joy of the heavenly host. All the great deliverers of literature and of nations were born in homes without affluence, and from their own - pianlearned to spea and fight l'the oppresne kqn.y a' man has up his pine 'knot light from the wilderness until all nations and gent erations hav-e seen it, and off~ of his bard crut of penury has broken the bread of knowledge and religion for the starving millions of the race. Poetry, and science, and literature. and commercemd laws, and consti tutions, a id liberty,' like Christ, were born- in a manger. GOD HATH CHOSEN THE WEAK. All the great thoughts which have decided the destiny of nations started in obscure corners, and had Herods who wanted to slav them, and Isca iots who betrayed them, and rab hies that crucifed thenm, and sepul elhers that confined them until they burst forth in glorious resurrection. Strong character, like the rhododen dron., is an Alpine plant, that grows fastest in the storm. Men are like wheat. worth all the more for being flailed. Some of the most useful peo. pe would never have comec to posi tions off usefulness had the'.' not been1 groun~d atnd pounded and 'hammered mn th-- foundry of disaster. Wh ien I Vsee 31oses coming upl fr'omi the ark of ~blhies to be the greatest lawgiver of hle ages, and Amos from tending the herds to make Isrniel tremble with his prophecies. and D~avid from the sheepeote to swvay the poet's pen and the king's scepter', and Peter from the . ihing net to be the grreat preacher at the Pentecost, I find proof of ti e truth my proposition that indigei .e is aQt always sigaiiiicant of degrainu ion. ~~y subject also impresses ime with e thought that it is while at our use ful occupations that we have the di ine manifetans. ad those shen. herds g-one tnatnu tnt u ehum 1 their flocks among the wolves. t'ey would not have leard the sis. In other wo., S, .."t11.o:itOf God ;11.( I. -i 1". -\;U s m i ither t -it up ,.-ar tV. to n . are al sheplo rdtor she:>arde-,s and we havv- our thfeks of cares and annor anlee< and aniteand wo mnust 1-nid \\, soit-tinies hear very _oid peo pIle :.I: -If I had a month or a year or two to do nothing but attend to I ligious things, I would be a great deal better than I am now." You are mis taken. Generally the best peophle are the busy people. Elisha was plowing in the il'ld when the prophetic mantle fell on hi. Matthew was attending to his cu.sto.:n house duties whein Christ coniianded him to follow. daimesand John we-re mending their nets when Christ called thei to be fishers of men. Had they been snorin in the sun Christ would not have called their indolence into the apostlesh ip. Gideon was at work with the tl:il on the threshing floor when he sa w the angel. Saul was with great fai::e hunting up the lost asses when h- ouId the crown of Israel. The prod i would never have reformed nd '.mted to have returned to his f:-:r se if he had not first gone into i11'ness, though it was swine feeding Not once out of a hundred times will a lazy man become a Christian. Those who have nothiing to do are in verv unfavorable circinista-nces for the re ceiving of divile ianifestations. It is not when voti are in idleness, but when you are, like the Bethlehei shepherds, watching your flocks, that the glorv descends and there Is Joy among the angels of God over your soul peni'ent aid forgiven. "REJOICE AND BE EXCEEDING GLAD. My subject also strikes at the delu sion that the religion of Christ is dolorous and grief infusing. The inu sic that broke through the midnight heavens was not a dirge, but an an them. It shook joy over the hills. It not only dropped upon the shepherds. but it sprang upward among the thrones. The robe of a Saviour's rizhteousness is not black. The Chris tian life is not made up of weeping and cross bearing and war waging. Through the reveration of that Christ mas ight I find that religion is not a groan, but a song. In a world of sin and sick bed and sepulchers, we must have trouble; but in the darkest night the heavens part with angelic song. You may, like Paul, be shipwrecked, but I exhiort you to be of good cheer, for you shall tll escape safe to the land. Religion does not show itself in the elongation of the face and the cut of the garb. The Pharisee who puts his religion into his phylactery has none left for his heart. Fretfulness and complaining do not belong to the family of Chris tian graces which move into the heart when the devil moves out. Christian ity does not frown upon amusctnefits and recreations. It is not a cv.nic, it is not a shrew, it chokes no laughter, it quenches no light, it defaces no art. Among the happy, it is the happiest. It is just as much at horne on the play oround as ib is in the church. It is ust as graceful in the charade as it is in the :lm book. It sings just as well in burrey gardens as it prays in St. Paul's. Christ.died that we might live. Christ walked that we might ride. Christ wept that we might laugh. Again, my subject impresses me with the fact that glorious endings sometimes have very humble begin nings. The straw pallet was the start ing point, but the shout in the mid night sky revealed what would be the glorious consummation. Christ on, Mary's lap, Christ on the throne of universal dominion-what an humble d ng.;' hat-glaimagendling4 Grace begins orn a small scale in the heart. You see only men as trees walking. The grace of God in the heart is a feeble spark, and Christ has to keep both hands over it lest it be blown ouit. Wha~t an humble begin ning! But look at that same man when he has entered heavep. No crown able to express his royalty. No palace able to express his wvea-lth. No scepter able to express his power and his dominion. Dripping from the fountain that drips from the everlast ing Rock. Among the harpers harp ing with their harps. On a sea of olass mingled with fire. Before the Nirone of "God, to go -20 more out for ever. The spark of grace that Christ had to keep both hands over lest it come to extinction, havino- flamed up into honor and glory ana immortal ity. What hum'ble starting I What glorious consummation! The New Testament church was on a small scale. Fishermen watched it. Against the uprising walls crashed in fernal enginery. The world said anathema. Ten thousand people re joiced at every seeming defeat, and said: "Aha! aha! so we would have it." Martyrs on fire cried: "How long, 0 Lord, how long I' Very hum ble starting, but see thxe difference at the consummation, when Christ with his almighty arm has struck off the last chain of human bondage, and Himalaya shall be Mount Zion; and Pyrenees, Moriah; and oceans, the walking place of him who trod the wave cliff's of stormed Tiberias, and island shall call to island, sea to sea, continent to continent., and, the song of the world's redemption r-ising, the heavens, like a great sounding board, shall strike back the shout of salvation to the earth until it rebounds again to the throne of God, and all heaven, ris ing on their thriones, beat time with their scepters. Oh, what ain humble beginning!i What a glorious ending! Throne linked to a mxanger, heavenly mansions to a stable CHRIST'S CHURCH Ev GR~wING. My subject also impresses me with the effect of Christ's mission upward and downward. Glory to God. peace to man. When God sent his son into the world, angels discovered some thing new in God, something they had never seen before. Not powe-, not wisdom, not love. They knew all that befor-e. But when God sent his Son into this world then th~e mgels saw the spiirit of self denial in God, the spirit of self sacrifice in God. It -is easier to love an angel on his throne than a thief on the cr-oss, a seraph in his worship than an adulteress in her crime. When the angels saw God the God-the God who would not al low the most insignificant angel in heaven to be hurt-give up his Son, his Son, his only, only Son, they saw somethinig that ticey had never- thought ofbefor-e, anid I do not wonder- that when Christ starnted out on that pil grimage the angels in heaven clapped their wings in t-iuinph and called on all the hosts of heaven to hellp them celebrate it. and sang so loud that the Bethlehem shepherds heard it: "Goryv to God in tihe highest." But it was also to be a mission of peace to man. Infinite holiness- ac cumulated depr-avity. Iow couldl ther evei- com'e toge(thier- The Gospel bricges over the 'di-taince. It bi-ings God to us. It takes us to God. Gd in us. and w e in God. Atonement: Atonement ') .instce satisf ied, sins forgiven, etir: :d life seured, heav-en built on a mian;er-. But it wxas a- 10t be the pacifleation of all inudividu:i :and inter-national aniosiies. What a sonid this word of peaciie had in the P omaan empire it had riassacr-ed, thiat prided itself on at oe tiemmm10Wg provrlces. -Ieut I t !a :md Egypt had bowted to her -d ani erou'hed at the cry i~e w~- ees Sh gave he | -~ the peniless14,z, unl:1n-med( Christ inl the of a1 Nazarn6e str't out t,: loqur al l nations. There nev er wa p1hn-1:vii n cai here thiat word : undd So I lei:Sively to th1 ar of h.- omiltitilde ::s in -0he lonian pllpire. They did it want peace. The greatest 'nolsic they ever heard was the clanking ehains of their cap tives. If all the blood that has been shed in battle could be gathered to gether it would upbear a navy. The club that struck Abel to the earth has its echo in the butcheries of all ages. Edmnid Burke, who gave no wild statistics, said that there had been spent in slaughter thirty-five thousand millions of dollars, or what would be equal to that; but he had not seen into our times, wx-hen in our own day, in America, we expended three thou sand millions of dollars in civil war. Oh, if we could now take our posi tion on sone high point and see the world's arniies march past! What a spectacle it would be: There go. the hosts of Israel through a score of Red seas-one of water, the rest of blood. There go Cyrus and his army, with in furiate vell rejoicing over the fall of the gates of Babylon. There goes Alexander, leading forth his hosts and conquering all the o\rld but himself, the earth reeling with the battle gash of Arbela and Persepolis. There goes Ferdinand Cortes leavigg his-butch ered enemies on the table lands once fragrant with vanilla and covered over with groves of flowering cacao. There goes the great Frelechan. leading his army doWn through Egypt like one of its plagues, and up through Russia like one of its own icy blasts. Yonder is the grave trench under the shadow of Sebastopol. There are the ruins of Delhi and Allahabad, and yonder are the inhuman Sepoys and the brave regiments finder Havelock avengming the insulted flag of Britain; while cut right through the heart of my native land is a trench in which there lie one million northern and southern dead. OUT OF GREAT TRIBULATION. Oh, the tears! Oh. the blood! Oh. the long marches! Oh, the hospital wounds! Oh, the imartvrdon! Oh, the death! But brighter than the light which flashed oi all these swords and shields and musketry is the light that fell on . Bethlehem. a-ud louder than the bray of the trumpets, and the neigiling of the chargers, and the crash of the walls, and the groaning of the dying armies, is the song that unrolls this moment from the sky, swept as though all the bells of heaven rung a jubilee, 'Peace on earth. good will toward men." Oh, when will the day cone-God hasten it:--when the swords shall be turned into plowv shares, and -the fortresses shall be re modeled into churches, and the men of blood battlin- for renown shall be come good soliers of Jesus Christ, and the cannon now stril:in- down whole columns of death shall thunder the victories of the truth. When we think of the whole world saved we are apt to think of the few people that now inhabit it. Only a very few, co:mpared with the poptila tions to come. And what a small nart cultivated. Do you know it has been authentically estimated that three fourths of Europe is yet all barren ness, and that nine hundred and ninetv-one one-thousandths p art of the entire globe is uncultivated? -This is all to be cultivated, all inhabited and all gospelized. Oh, what tears of repentance when nations begin to weep! Oh. what supplications when continents begin to pray ! Oh, what rejoicing when hemispheres begin t.4 sipg! Churches-w-i--wership mr-the places where .this very hour smokes the blood of human sdicrifice, and wandering through the snake inf ested jungles of Africa Christ's heel will brise the serpent's head. Oh, when the trumpet of salvation shall be sounded everywhere and the nations are redeemedJ, a light will fall upon every town bria-hter than that which fell ~upon Bethiehemn, and mo~re over whelming than the song that fell on .the pasture fields where the flocks fed, there will be a song louder than the voice of the storm lifted oceans, "Glory to God in the high est," and from all nations and kindred and people and tongues will come the response, 'And on earth peace, good will toward mien !" On this Christmas day I biing you good tidings of great joy. Pardon for all sin, comfort for all trouble and lifefor the dead. Shall ive now take this Christ into our hearts? The time is passing. This is the closing of the year. How the time speeds by. Put your, hand on your heart-one. two, three. Three times less it will be-at. Life is passing- like gazelles om the yhdii Si.rrows hover like petrels over the sea. Death swoops like a vulture frvm the mountains. Misery rolls up to our ears like waves. Heavenly songs fall to us like stars. I wish you a merry Christmas, not with worldly dissipations, but meriry with Gospel gladness, merry with par doned sini, merry with hope of reunion in the skies with all your loved ones who have preceded you. In that randest andh best sense a merry And God grant that in our final mo ment we may have as br-ight a vision as~ did the dying giirl when she said: "Mlother" -pointing with her thin white hand through the window "3Mother, what is that beautiful land out yonder beyond the mountains, the high mountains?" "Ohi," said the moe ther-, "my dariig, there are no moun tains within sight of our home." "Oh, yes," she said, "don't you see them that beautiful land beyond the moun tainis out there, just beyond the high mountains ?" Thec miother- looked diown into the face of her dying child and said: "My deaf. I think that must be heaven that you ~see." "WVell, then," she said, " father-, you come, and with your stong armis cair mec over those mountains into thiat beautiful land beyond the high mountains." "No," said the weeping father, "my darling, I can't go with you." "Well," she said, clapping her hands. "never ind, never- indi; I see yonderi a shining one coinig. Ie is coming no0w, in his str-ong armis to cary mc over the mountains to the beaut iful land-over the mountains, over the high mioun tains!" A Cab with a "Hoodoo" The "hoodoo" appeait to be the most impartial of all the influences that af feet people and things. Nothing is sacied fr-om its baleful power, not even a poor old cab. There is oiie of these two wheeled vehicles over wvhiich the dreadful hoodoo seems to have exerted its influence. It is the one upon which old John1 Barruy was found dead by his companious on Tuesday night while on his r-egular stand near- the p~ost ofice. This is the third tragedy that has happened in connection with this cab within a yeai-. One dr-iver,. named Heunessy, was thr-own off and killled nerly a year ago n-ear the wvest side Union depot, another driver- was kill ed at the cor-ner- of Chicago avenue and Clak stireet by the cab running up on the curb stone and pitching the mian to the groun d, and now comes poor old John Barry, who was foun d dead uponi the seat and was dr-iven to Klaner's in his own ill omened vehicle. Surely the A NEGRO VIEW OF IT. CCLONIATO tm-: ETiE 19e re . . .i e . . i!- o IeI I lebrated emancipation day with a street parade and speech making. The ora, tion of the day was delivered by the R-ev. J.: . Lee, a pnomiueni colked minister. Alluding to the emaucipa race the speaker:-aid: "i e new or der of things so l(leily bursting upon us, found us in no way prepared to mneet the (it maods that at once C0 ironted us and yet we were at once placed in the scales of human pro gress and in the light of Anirican pre judice, weighed and found wanting. Have we made mistake. Have we committed great bluuder? Have we been betrayed into paths of iu and folly and aluost tiestroyed? Alas; this is all true, sadly true. Buc were it not a marvel had we acted other wise under the circumstances? In deed we must have been super-human to have acted otherwise. Clothed with the privileges -aud charged with the duties and responsibilities of American citizens without knowledge of or abilz ity to discharge these duties or to ap propriate to ourselvesithe benefits ac cruing therefrom, we stood bewildered not knowing- where to turn our thoughts lor instruction or our hands for help." Alluding to the recent race riots in the South the speaker said: "I believe that the ultimate solution of tbe so. called race problem will be ituiigra tion from necessity if not from choice. Amalgamation is neither po:-sible nor desirable. To obtain our rights and maintain them by force we are unable. For t'wo peoples so distinct from each other in their physical structure and between whom there are such barriers natually to develope in seperate and distinct lives is about as reasonable as to suppose that two kings can reign on the same thr one at one and the same time. Outrages, sueh as lynch ing negroes, compelling them to ride in smoking cars aup refusing them ho tel accommodations are evidences strong and convincing that we will never attain full manhood here. These are the shadows of coming events. To approach the white American for justice, lite and liberty is simply to re main where we are, as beggars who must not be choosers but must, take what is given and ase at long as wedo not displease the giver or his interests do not require him to withdraw the gift. Should either prove to Le the case they will be withdrawn and we have no power to prevent their doing so, and all that will remain is to come up begging once more. We make a great mistake when we suppose that the Anglo Saxon gave us our enfran chisement for the love he h d for us. I deny that he did it for philanthropic reasons. He did it because he thought he could use us. Whenever the white man does anything for us, be it North erner or Southerner, ma:mp od it is only because h-Vinks he can use us as his tool. It is a mistaken idea for us to kneef down to the whites. The Ango'Saxon and the colored man cano~ivork together; one or the other .wf~ have to leave and I am somnewhat a believer in the tale about the Lord's fire. -The fire will not burn the peo ple but it will be so warm that our peo ple will have to move on or get burned and I rather believe that they will move on. "NO more faith can be put in the Republicans than in the Democrats. They are both Anglo-Saxons and do nothing for us unless it is to their ad vantage to do so, and will throw us overboard as did Uncle Ben in John son's story as soon as they find us too heavy. We must show cur indepen dence and the sooner we do this the better. Let some of us leave. Go to Africa if necessary. Show that we can get along without the Anglo-Saxon, and by this spirit of independence make them learn and appreciate .our value. Independence ana immigration are in my opinion the only solutions to this great question." Bnrke In fligh Feather in Hlondnras. From a gentleman who has just ar rived at Yew Orleans from Honduras it is learned that Maj. E.- A. Burke, the defaulting State Treasurer of Lou isiana, is now in the capital of that repub ic, where he arrived three weeks ago, well provided with money fur nished by the English syndicate which is interested with him in his Honduras mines. Burke had a royal reception from the President of the republic, General Bogran, and stands in high favor, the Honduras oflicials looking upon the Louisiana incident as a mat. ter of little accournt. President Bog' ran gave him important additional concessions, wvhich put him in virtual control of all the mining operations in the large province of Olancho. It is understood that Bograr is himself in. terested with Major ~purke in these mines. The latter succeeded further ig securing the good-will of the Ameri cans in Honduras, and is said to have won all of them over to his support by interesting them in his venture or giv ing them employment in his mines, and now he has the backing of nearly the entire American colony. Burke's headquarters are at the capital, but he has made several excursions to Judi calpa, near which the mines are sit uated. The machinery sent there, via New York and San Francisco, has not yet arrived, but, gold has already been obtained from the concession, aid the entleman who brought his news had several specimens with him. He ridi culed the idea of Bogran's surrender ing Burke at the request of the United States, and says thereis not theslight est chance of it. The ex-Louisiana Treasurer is popular with the Presi dent, with the natives as well as the Americans, and promises to play an important part in Central American politics.______ ____ Iter Uaby Was a P'eodle D)og. Annie Bennett got drunk last night and was arrested for disturbing a mis sion meeting. When brought before Justice La Buy this morning she car ried something all wrapped up in a big shawl. "Don't send me to the bridewell; please don't. Just think of my dear little baby," she said. "You dleserve to be severely pun ished. You ought to go down for thirty days. But I don't see how I c-an ine you under the circumstances. Just let me see your baby." Anie threw back the shawl and a litt le poodle dog jumped out of her 1 irmfs and stood on the Justice's desk. "Five diolars and costs," said the agistrate, sternly.- Chicago 3Mail. -Goldsboi-otuh Jones. a youth, re :ently laried Nar , Simpers, aged 80, I i Grenwood, De aware. They would' t 2t permit the ceremony to go I n until the lights were dimmed, as ' hsaida the brian was timid. :1 iETRPOLITAN JOURNALISM! 6 l'roviucial Critic l'oint.. Out Its Lack of Good Tas.te. The "metrope.iian pres" aIects a oiura ia, ut i au it- I o ta ha a I-o th mtongietli in a n r bo.I n-i, the Z hi::, latl!ao or in: eity east of Cil - t, :ago. rar inasIatcfe, ill nt a acconli re, e ,ently pub!ished in, one f the iost 'ouservaAve, o-ne of he best cantue ed papers in New York vra hi-Adsmcae t ocial entertainment, we cid I:. it ;though bouquets are entire y out off tyle, one was carried by Mi-s - ." If this is not an unai arrantable insult what was it? In auot her p ter of most refined and religious pretensins 1 we read that as a certain lady persis ted in carrying a bouquet at a recent ba:1 the flowers bobbed up a*d lown and she "presented a very ungraceful appearance." Now by what right does a newspaper thus make a lady the helpless victim of such personal criti cism upon a matter which is not in Th faintest sense a matter of public interest or concern? Then, too, we read in a Neiw York newspaper, the boast of which is that no vulgar word ever creeps into its columns, that at the recent Patriarch's Ball Mrs. appeared in 'a most extraoriinary dress."-Then follows a description of the dress, closing wiih the imperti nent statement that Mrs. has "accustomed" her friends to violations of good taste in ball costumes. Have ladies no rights that newspapers are bound to respect?-Buffalo Commer cial. PROGRESS OF THE NEW SOUTH. Thouganndmof New Enterprines, With Mil lions of Capital. The annual review of the South's industrial progress as published in this week's issue of the Manufactur. ers. Record of Baltimore shows that 5,135 new manufacturing and mining enterprises were organized in that sbiction during 1889, against 3,618 in 1888, 3,430 in 1887 and 1,575 in 1885. The amount of capital and capital stock of these companies was $229, 703,500 in 1889 ond $168,SO1,000 in 1sss. The total number of new industrial enterprises organized in the South during the last four years, or since January 1, 18, is over 13,700, divi ded as follows: Iron furnace compa nies, 126; machine shops and foundriev 441; agricultural implement factories, 63: flour mills, 535; cotton mills, 267; furniture factories, 220; gas works, 101; water works,331, carriage and wagon factories, 170; electric light companies, 475; mining and quarrying enterprises, 1,801: lumber mills, in cluding saw-and planing mills, sash and door factories, stave factories, 3,036; ice factories, 293, canning fac tories. 425; stove foundries, 25: brick work 555; miscellaneous iron and steel works, rolling mills, pipe works, etc., 184; cotton compresses, 114; cotton seed oil mills, 148; miscellaneous en terprises not included in foregoing 4,815. Total 13,774. A BAND OF HORSE THIEVES. .uccesfiul Depredations in Tennessec The Farmers to Organize. CHIcAGO. Jan. 4.-A despatch from ta panic, exists among the farmers of Davidsan and adjoining counties, in middle Tennessee. A splendidly orggn ized band of horse thieves hasu been up erating there for months without let or hindrance. It is estimated that within two weeks, 200 horses have been stolen, and run into Kentucky fastnesses where it is next to impossible to follow thenm or the thieves. Not one of these animals has beeni re'aovered. It ja supposed the thieves have a regular underground route in Cincinnati, where stolen horses are sold. GenI. W. H. Jackson of the famous Belle Meade farm, Cols. John Overton and Cockerill are preparina a Farmers' Association which, with abundance of money to back it, will employ compe tent and adequate force to annmbilate the robbers. The Grady Monumeant Fund. The Grady monument fundi has now reached nearly $15,000. The nuoscrip tions thus far are almost all from Atlanta. Young men of other parts of Georgia are interestng themselves, and while no re turns have yet neen received, the indica tions are that subscriptions from o'ther Geogia towns and cities will increase the fund to at least double the present amount. The largest subscription from the North came from the directors of the Fourth National Bank of New York, ac compnied Oy the following telegram: "The directors of the Fourth National Bank of the city of New York are in duced, by the personal esteem and admi ration which they entertain .'or the high character and distinguished public ser vices of the late Henry W. Grady of At lanta, to subscribe the sum of tive hun dred dollars to the monument fund, a check for which I send by mail this day. Yours respectfully. "J. EDwARDt SIM~ross, President." A Gift of Negroes to New Enaglandl. There is one direction by which the surplus colored population of the South might be diverted elsewhere to the ad vantage of the South, the blacks, and the North. In the Middle and :New England cities and towns there is a grestscarcity of household labor, atnd in the country a similar scarcity of farm labor. The South is overrun with swarms of worthless household servants. If schools were established for making these efficient cooks, chambermaids and nurses the North would take the entire supply. Gradually they would be fol -wed by their male relations, who would find in the North plenty of farm work to which they are accustom ed, and those who camne would have the means of support awaiting them. The change would lbe a natural and gradual one, and more likely to be successful on that account than any abrupt artificial movement.-Fhiladelpaia Inquirer. The Okra Fibre. The Department of Agriculture has received from Secretary of Agrienlture Rusk a letter acknowledging the receipt of the sample of okra fibre prepared by. Mr. Hill of Edgefield County, sent to Washington by the State Departmnent here. The sample is pronounced espe cialy fine and information 's asked as to the process by wihich it was prepared. The Secretary states that all over the South there s'eems to be a strong dispo-f sition to utilize this fibre as a substitutef for jute. A Richland County inventor :f a process to prepare this fibre is 'aid to be irntending to perfect his machines sd then to ge'. up a stock company to nauufacture thema and provide for their ise in the production of the litre in ~uantties sitfficient. to, make its intro Iuction practicable in the manufacture 1 t bagging and rope -Columbia Regis -The meeting of colored men held n Columbia last Thursday was tem. erate in demeanor and expression. lesolutions were adopted, calling onu he people of both races to stand by the aw, and to refrain from violence. [h Governor was commended for u ation. GENERAL NEWS ITEMS. ncis of Interent GMilr red 1rm Vari Th ..! M1.:. :a. Legilaures have Amm M uer, of the Kansas tate board of agr,culture, says the theat, crop i.s not, i jured by the bliz ard. - - rnian, ,I larybwd, de iacs, ag*4;u the Ani.iraham, ballot Sys em for that btate, and the Demccratic ditors stand with him. -Treasury otlicials estimate that' he public debt was reduced $3,500, 00 during December, and about $8W,' 00,000 for the whole year. -The receiver's report on the bus ness of the New York Star has been ied. It shows obligations aggrega ing within a few dollars of $800,000. - --Mrs. Erwin and two daughters rom Benton (cunty, Missouri. were luffocated by gas in their beds in Oak and hotel Saturday , ght. They hd eccidentally turned the gas half on after ixtinguishing it. -The death rate 'n New Yor.k owing he prevalence of itfiluenza is unsually igb. The number of deaths recorded Wednesday was 1G4-56 of these being from pneuwonia; 24 from consumption, and 20 from bronchitis. -German functionaries will in fu ture have to be provided with three Iniforins: One for ordinary occasions, oue for festivities, and one for solemn gala events. The last being parricu larly expensive is proportionately ob noxious to the poorly salaried official s -Inelligence is received f.om Oboc, a French settlement on Tajurah Biy on east coast of Africa, that two French missionaries who were traveling from Zeilah to Horiah, under escort of eight Greeks, were attacked by nativds and all the party murdered. -While a wedding party was return ing from church in Chattanooga on Tuesday two electric wires became crossed. burned in two and killed the team attached to the carriage, and badly injured the driver. The wed ding party escaped unhurt. -MLiss Lucy Wobble, a youag lady about twenty years of age who has for some time past been teaching scboel at Goldsboro, N. C., committed suicide in fRaleigh on Monday by shooting herself through the head with a piatol. Insan ity is assigned as the cause. -While four boys between the ages of 6 and 8 years were playing under the edge of a sand bank in the eastern portion of Jackson, Tennessee, Monday afternoon, the bank caved in, burying them under about ten feet of sand They were dead when extricated. -Mr. J.Pierrepont Morgan of the firm of Drexel, Morgan & Co., ieceived a $50,000 Christmas present of silver plate from the Vaaderbilts in behalf of the New York Central Railroad. Mr. Morgan had refused to accept any reuni neration for his scrvices-in re organizing their road. -The boys' section of the paupers' school in the district of Forestgate, Lon don, in connEction with the White Chap el and Popular Union, took fire Tuesday night while the inmates were asleep and was burned with terrible results, twenty six of the boys who were in the upper stories beiug suffocated before they could be rescued. A cottonl tarvester atiid gieanir was recently and successfully tested in a large cotton field at Lske Cormorant. Miss. The machine was drawn by two mules as fast as they could walk, and came so near gathering all the cotton on the stalk. that the little left can be ea sily gathered by hand in the ordinary way at a very small cost. It is estima ted that the cost of picking a bale of cotton by the machine will not exceed three dollars, whereas it would amount to at least eleven dollars by hand. The notice of the Board of Health re quiring all parties to clean out of their premises all matter liable to decay and fermentation is timely. Unless this is done the warm winter will very probably be followed by an unhealthy summer. Captain Hill, sanitary inspector, will soon visit our homes in the city. It is better and more direct to keep clean vol untarily than to be compelled to do so by the police. Production of Fall River Mills. The total production of the mills of Fall River, Mass., for -1889, with the week ended last Saturday, was, 8,660, 000 pieces, or 225,000 less than 1888. The weavers' strike last spring had a mate. jal effect in cutting the normal out put down, otherwise the production would have exceeded that of last year by about the same number of pieces that it falls below it. Prices for the year have been profitable ones for the mills. fuctuating between 4 1-16 an d 3* cents, and averaged 3.81. There were fivc weeks in August and September when the market was sold completely out, and at no time was there a week closing with a larger stock than 37,000 pieces. The largest week's sales were 403,000 pieces. The stock in sight Saturday was 35,040 pieces, as against 5,000 pie ces in the corresponding week last year. _________ Two Murders in Darlington. Two murders are reported from Dar lington County. On December 28th Aleck Easterling, colored. while sitting in his dining room with his fami-ly, wps shot to death through the open door. The as sassin escaped. On December 20th George Windhall. white. aged eighteen years, and Robert Grandy, colored, aged seventeen, got into a drunken quarrel in a wagon in which they were returning from a neigh boring town. Windall stabbed Gratndy t~ the be,,rt, drove home, unhitched the horses and then fled, leaving the body in the wagon, where it was found next Fitz Lee's Flag P'reentedi to Virginila. Governor Lee has. at the requesi of Judge Henry W.. Flournoy, Secr( tary of the Commonwealth. presented to the State of Virginia his headquarters flag. He commanded .a divisionl of caivary in the army of Northern Virginia. This flag was presented to him by Virginia ladies. It is silk, white field, with a blue cross ar d golden gilt stars, a heavy gold fringe around its border. The flag shors marks of service in rents aind tat ter, and it is a valued relic of the war. RICE BEER ! RICE BEER! We are the sole maanufacturers of this die .icious and healthy beverage, which after anving been analyzed by all the eminent themists in .itlanta, Ga., during "Prohibi :ion" and after the most searching scrutiny or traces of alchohol, was allowed to be sold 'ree o State and city license. *and so also nore rec.ently after further analyzing in Flor da. It tills a long felt want for a stimulant nd aipetizer that is not intoxicating; pleas .at to the taste, contains nourishment and pecially suited for persons of weak and del cate constitutions. It has the taste'of lager eer of the finest flavor: br-sides, t. ad'd to s purity an d medicinal qualities, is special made'of our celebrated world renowned i inal Artesian well water. Pat up in1 ases of one dozen pitt at St 25 per dozen; e dozen at $1 per dozen, and in easks of n dozen eachi at WS eents per doz- n. Cash ist accompiany each order. Copyvrighted nd patent applied for. We h~ave no Agents, and none genuine niess ordrd direct tfr om C1RAM1E LI KLERST EN, P.u.MErro Bum:wnx, Stamn Soda and MIneral Water Works. ESTABLISHED 1844. Charleston Iron Wor , Manufacturers and Deal in I1arine Stat'ioni;-y and Portablet Eune an Bi e m 1il113Machinery., ('otton1 Presses-. G ins, It"ailrA-d, n )oat, Machinists', Engineers' and Mill Supplivt. lE paIi 'su e.reeeil' wi/h pnonp~qtes.< a1/ miU /i -lII. N~ . !,r~ir .1 East Bay, Cor. Pritehard tt. Charleston, S. C. R. C. AULE. re.l'z C. 13ISSiFr .JENK~INS, G.-I Mau.'4r. C The Cameron & Barkeley Bompan COMMISSION MERCHANTS, -AND AGENTS F:m-- - Lrie City Engine -un1 Boilers. Atlas Engine :md UnBiler, 1 0i Giant lvdraulic Cotton Press. Eagle Cotton Gins. We Lave in stock one each 60, 65, and 70 taw Egle GIn, oI'dv slw-p worii, that we are offering way below cost. Send for prit'es. Oils, Rubber and Leather Belting, and a c<-npIete lin. of 1ill SPupplies. We Guaraitile Lowest Prices oir Best Quality cf G oods. CAMERON &BARKELEY CO., Charleston, S. C._j F. J. PILZER, President. F. S. RZODGERS, Treasurer. Atlantic Phosphate Company, MAANUFACTURERs OF STANDARD FERTILIZERS, AND IMPORTERS OF P'u3re GermnaL KLaM-1 t. PELZER, RODGERS, & CO., General Agts., BROWN'S WHARF, CHARLESTON, S. t. 1n. 3. Lrvx. of 'Manning. will be pleased to supply his fuenas and the public gen erally, with any of the above brands of Fertilizers. SEOCKENDORF & MIDDLETON, Cotton Factors. 10 NAVAL STORES,_ No. 1 Central Wharf. a"H-A.~RL~ESTOlN, S.'C. Fn W. CAPPELMANN, DEALER IN CHOICE GROCERIES, WINES, LIQUORS, TOBACCO AND CIGARS, S. E. Cor. Meeting and Reid Sts., CHARLESTON, S. C. Choice Flour a specialty. Sugars sold near cost. No charge for drayage. Goods de ivered free to depot. Conntry orders promptly attended to. OTTO F. WIETERS, WHOLESALE GROCER, iiilsalie ealer in Wines, Lintirs and Cigars, No. 121 East Bay, Charleston, S. C. W ETHEHORlN & FISCHER, MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS IN General Building Material. Sash, Doors, Blinds, Moulding, Scroll Sawing, Turning, . Door and Window Frames, Lumber, Flooring, Ceilimg, Weather-boarding, Paints, Oils, Glass, Lime, &c Office, Salesroom, Factory and Yards, Smith, Near Queen Street, Charlestoz., S. C. *MWrite for prices, or send a list of your wants for an estimate.Mt [Gno. E. TOAT.E. HENRY OTEE.] 0B , r GeoEI Toale &Co.' G IeneraI:Commnission Merchant, M~UFACTULhS AND WIIOLESALL - * AND DEALER IN DoorsLime, Cement, Plaster Paris, Hair, *Flrg Sash. Bricks and Fire Clay. BlindsLand Plaster and Eastern Hay. Agent for White's English Portland Mdouldings. Cement. Mlautels. NO. 195 EAST BAY. Grates, etc. CALSOS.C Scroll Work, Turning and __ Inside Finish. Builder's Hard- ALNHGIS .D . ware. and General IE/AS.( Buildig Mateial. Visits Manning every month or two OFFICE AND SALESROOMS, rfsinly 10 and 12 Hayne Street, F..WION REAR CHARLESTON HOTEL, AETEUTBELF ~UAO Charleston, S. C. uAI All Work Guaranteed. ATN.. pir-Write for estimates. JOSEPH F. RHAMIE, ___________________________ I AT TORNEY A T L AW 0. S Haker& SiiMANNING, S. C. MANUFACTURERS OF J0 NS ISN Doors Sas, Blnds M uldigs, tornfey ad CJounselr at Law, DO~f, SSA, lind, MuldiisMANNING, .C. -DAAERSIN Building Material.Sedal)YWstrad ESTABLISHED 1842. OasaSeil. CHARLESTON, S. C. N.12ELtBy n 5ad1 WV. G-. FLIInIE, ~303 King Street. Charlestoni, s .(III ~ S. C. Two Doors Northi of Liberty,____ Shaving, Haircutting and Shampooing MninShigPalr 'ixen~s hair..An tr Public~oa with seat ~ zrs eed~ BearlyWetenn TeeaseRedeRuatranoo 2~S Kng Steet, evi Elizabe Street. i CHARLETONC.AC.L ETK S. C.M