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vO. MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY, SE1TEBER 2, 1891. NO. 37. ALL MEN MAY BE GREAT. 'THE WORLD Wi-L NOT KNGW IT, BUT ALIG.i Y GOD WILL. Dr. T 11- 1 t iiiv i- ais of TMiiul Which Men asi is on n M >o-$ave a Huilan .ul i-- it-> .v. n anid the Lord OCEAN GR E,~ N.J..Aug. 23. This is camp me-n Suu'sity .t Ocean Grove. Its ce:biazuou is always re garded as tl gr-at event oi the year at this lamous relii.o:s watering place. This sear the -ttraktious of its obser vance have !>eea ethauced by the pres enc~e of Dr. 'Flma:;e. who preached this afternoon in the Auiitorium. Every seat was filled and evo ry inch of stand ine room in the aisles was eeupied, and the greatest. euthisiasiu prcvailed. Itisestiniaed t!at :ulIv lifeti thous and person> were alW to i hear the doc tor, and muvii e!ers were deprived of that privile~. 11:s ixt was llaniel xi. 32, "-The peop'e that do know their God shall be strvag and do explo:ts." Antiochus Epiibanes. the old sinner, came (town thret tines wah his army to desolate the braelite-, advancing one time with a hu? dred ud two trained elephauts, swinging their truuks this way and that. aud -two tihousand ituaitr3 and six thu:,a cavaky troops. and they w re criven back. Then, the second tinx. he advanceu witih seventy thou-and a:inel men. and had been again defe: ;ed. But the third time he laid sCetCeb:ul tiege until the navy of Rome camu in Winti the flash of their long I-auks ,,f oars and demanded that the siege be lifted. And Antiochus Epipbreries iaid he wanted time to con Sult N% ih his friends about it. and Popi lius. oue o! the Roman embassadors, took a stail and made a circle on the 'grutu around Antiochus Eviphanes, ana compel4ed him- te decide before lie came out ot that circle; whereupon he liftd the siege. Some of the Hebrews had sumitted to the invader. but some of thetu re.isted valorously, as did Eleazer whe a lie had bwine's tiesh torced into his mouth. spit it out. although he knew he must die for it. and did die for it; and others, as my text says, did ex ploits. ALL HAVE THREE OPPORTUNITIES. Au explcIt I would deine to be an heroic act, a brave feat, a great achieve ment. Well," you say, -I admire such things, -but there is no chance for me; mine is a sort of humdrum life. If I had an Anuochus Epiphanes to fight, I also could do exploits." You are right, so iar as great wars are concern ed. There will piobably be no oppor tunity to distinauish ) ourseif in battle. The most ol the brigadier generals of this country would never have been. heard of had it not been for the war. Neither n ill you probably become a great inventor. Nineteen hundred and ninety-nine out o every two thousand inventions >und in the patent office at Washington never yielded their authors enough money to pay for the expenses of securing the i.atent. - 6o you will pro bably never Oe a Morse or an Edison or a Humphrey Lavy or an Eli Whitney. There is not much probability that you will be the one out of the hundred who achies es extraordinary success in com mercial or legal or medical or literary spheres. k hat then? Can you have no opportunity to do exploits? I am going to show that there are three op portunities open that are grand, thrill mg, far reaching, stupendous and over whelming.- They are belore you now. In one, it not all three of them, you may do exploits. The three greatest things on earth to do are to save a man, or save a woman, or save a child. During the course of his life almost -every man gets imto an exigency, is cauaht between two fires, is ground be tween two mtllstones, sits on the edge ol some precipice, or in some other way comes near demolition. It may be a financial or a moral or a domestic or a social or a political exigency. You sometimes see it in court-rooms. A young man has got into bad compatny --and he has offended the law, and he is arraigned. All blushing and confused he is in the presence o1 judge and jury and lawters. Lie e ,n be sent right on in the wro ng direction. IHe is feeling disgraced and he is almost desperate. Let the district attorney overhaul him zas though he were an old offender; let the ablest attornie>3 at the bar refuse to say a word Ior him, because he cannot afford a coesiderable fee; let the judge give io oppor).enigy for presenting the mitigatina circumstances, hurry up the case and hustie him up to Auburn or Sing Sing.. If he live sevent> years, for seventy y ears he will be a criminal, and each decade ci his life will be blacker than its predecessor. In the interreg nums of prison life he'-can get no work, aend he ia:giaad to-.break a window glass or blo~w uph~ safe or play the highway man so as to get barck within the walls where he can get something to eat and hide himself from the gaze of the world. HE IlGHT-HAVE BEEN SAVED. Why dou't his father come and help him? his xather is dead. Why don't. his mothe~r come and help him? She is aeyd. ~Where are all the ameliorating and salutary iniuenlcesof society? They do not tou~h-fumi. Why did not some ene long aigo in the case understand that the're was an opportunity for the exploit *which would be famous in heaven a *.qundrillion of years alter the earth has -become scattered ashes in the last whirl fe' *id?. .W ht:did nt the distriet attor hey:take'tat. yong man iuto his pri - ate 'ofice ann cay: 'iy sod, I see that u ~ ))~ are'- tile victim of circumstances. T 'hiisjour irstcrime. You are sorry. I .1uipbring the person you wronged in to ) our presence, and 3O ou ill apologize and make all the reparation you can, and I will'give you another chance." Ory that yoaug man -is presented~ in the 'courtroom, and he has no friends pres ent, and the judge says, "Who is your -.ounsely" And he answers, "I have none.'" And Qe judge &es, "Who will take tAs ?, oung man's case" And there :s a dead halt, and z'o one offers, and atter awhile the judge turns 'to some atiorngy, wh" over had a good case in all his ie ad never will, and whose advocacy wounld bs enough to se cure the condem~nationl o innhocence it self. And the pirlensional incompetent crawls up beside die prisoner, helpless ness to res*:ue despair, where there ought to be a stuuagle among all the best men of the profession as to who should have the honor ut' trying to help that unfor tunate. How much would such an at torney hav~e received as his fee for such an advocacy? Nothing in dollars, but . much every w ay in a happy conscious ness that would make iis own life brighter, and his own dying pillersweet er, and his own heaven happier-the con sciousness that he bad saved a man! DESTEUCTHON IS lIEFoRE HI. So there are ccomercial exigencies. A very 1-ate spring obliterates the de nad fre sprrmg overcoats and spring hats and -priug aparel of all surts. Ilundreds of thousands of people say, "It seems we are going to have no spring, and we shall go st.raight out of wiiter into warm weather and we can get along without the usual spring at tire." Or there Is no autumn weather, the heat plungin., into the cull, and the usual clothing which is a compromise between summer and winter is not re quired. It makes a dufere cc in the sale of millions and millions o1 dollars or goods, and some oversanuine young merchant is caught with a vast amount of unsalable igoeds that will never be salable again. except at prices ruinously reduced. The young merchant with a somewhat limited capta is in a predicament. What shall the old merchants do as they see the young man in this awful crisis? Rub their hands and laugh and say: ,Good for him. He might have known better. When he has been in business as long as we have he will not load his shelves in that way. Ha! Ha! He will burst up before lone. He had no busi ness to open his store so near to ours anyhow." Sheritr's sale! Red flag in the window: "How much is bid for these out-of-fashion spring overcoats and sring hats or hall clothing out of date? hat do I hear in the way of a bid?" "Four dollars." "Absurd; I cannot take .that bid of four dollars apiece. Why, these coats when first put upor the market were offere-l at fifteen dollars each, and now I am offered only four dollars.' Is that all? Five dollars do 1 bear? Going at that! Gone at five dol lars," and he takes the whole lot. The young merchant goes home that nigt and says to his wife: "Well, Mary, we will have to move out of this house and sell our piano. That old merchant that has had an evil eye on me ever since I started has bought out all that colth tug, and he will have it rejuvenated, and next year put it on the market as ne w, while %e will do well if we keep out of the poorhouse." The young man, brok en spirited, goes to hard drinking. The young wife with her baby goes to her farther's house, and not only is his store wilped out, but his home, his morals and his prospects for two worlds-this and the next. And devils make a bankquet of fire and fill their cups of gall, and drink deep to the health o1 the old merchant who swallowed up the young merchant who got stuck on sp: ing gods and went down. Thf-t is or.e way, and some of you have tried it. SAVE HIM IN THIS WORLD AND TILE NEXT. But there is another way. That young merchant who found that he had mis calculated in laying in too i any goods of one kind, and been flung of the unusu al season. is standing behind the coun ter, feeling very blue and biting his fin er nails, or looking over his account Eooks, which read darker and worse every time he looks at them, and think ing how his young wife will have to be put in a plainer house than she ever ex pected to live in, or go to a third rate boarding house, where they have tough liver and sour bread five mornings out of the seven. An old merchant comes iU and says: "Well, Joe, this has been a hard season for young merchants, and this prolonged ool weather has put many in the dol drums, and I have been thinking of you a good deal of late, for just atter I start ed in business I once got into the same scrape. Now, ii there is anything I can do to help you out I will gladly do it. Better just put those goods out of sight for the present, and next season we will plan something about them. I will help you to some goods 'that you can sell for e on commission, and I will go down o one of the wholesale houses and tell them that I know you and will back you up, and If you want a few dollars to bridge over the present I can let you ave them. Be as economical as you can, keep a stiff upper lip, and remem ber that you have two friends, God and myself. Good uorning!" The old merchant goes away and the young man ~goes behind hi.s dlesk, and the tears roll down his cheeks. It is the first time he has cried. Disaster made him mad at everything, and mad at man nd mad at God, But this kindness elts him, and the tears seem to relieve iis brain, and his spirits rise from ten below zero to eighty in the shade, and he omes out o1 the crisis. About three years after, this young merchant goes into the old merchant's store and says: -Well, my old friend, was this morningz thinking over what you did for me three years ago. You helped me out of an aw ful crisis in my ommercial history. 1 learned wisdom, prosperity has come, and the pallor has gone out of my wife's cheeks, and the roses that were there when I courted her in her father's house have bloomed again, and my business is splendid, and thought I ought to let you know that you saved ama! In a short time after, the old mer chant, who had been a good while shaky in his lirabs and who had poor spells, is called to leave the world, and one morn ing after he had read the twenty-third Psalm about "The Lord is my shep herd," he closes his eyes in this world, and an angel who had been for many years appointed, to watch the old man's dwelling, cries upward the news that the patriarch's spirit is about ascend in, and the twelve angels who keep the twelve gates cf heaven, unite in cry ing down to this approaching spirit of the old man, "Come in and welcome, for it has been told all over these cel estial lands that you saved a man."' THE WORLD AGAINST A WOMAN. ~There sometimes come exigences in the ihfe of a woman. One morning a few years a.o I saw in the newspatper that there was a 3 oung woman in New York whose pocketbook, containing thirty-seven dollars and thirty-three cents had been stolen, and she had been left without a penny at the beginning of winter in a strange city, and no work. And although she was a stranger, I did not allow the 9 o'clock mail to leave the lamppost on our corner without carry ing the thirty-seven dollars and thirty Lhree cents, and the case was proved genuine.' .ow, I have read all Shakespeare's trage dies, and all Victor Hugo's trage dies and all Alexander Smith's trage dies, but 1 never read a trag'edy more thriling than that case, and similiar cases by the hundreds and thousands in all our large cities. Youug women with out money and without home and with-I ont work in the great maelsxroms of metropolitan life. When such a case comes under your observation, how do you treat ity "Get out of my way. We have no room in our establishment for any more hands. I dorn't believe in wo men anyway. They are a lazy, idle, worthless set. John, please show this person out of the door." Or do you compliment her personal aperance ndl say things to her which if any man said to your sister or daugh ter you would kill him on the spot? in the lar:: cities, and many of those who advertise for female hands in facto ries and tor zovernesses in families have proved themselves unfit to be in any place outside of hell. But there iz an other way, and I saw it one lay in the 2 Methodist Book Concern in New York, where a young woman applied for work, 1 and the gentleman in tone and manner said in substance: "My daughter, we employ women here, but I do not know of any vacant place in our department. You had better inquire at such and such t a place, and I hope you will be success - ful in getting something to do. Here is c my narne, and tell them I sent you." The embarrassed and humiliated wo- I man seemed to give way to Christian r confidence. She started out with ah'pe tul look that I think must have won for n her a place in which to earn her bread. 1 I rather think that considerate and Christian gentleman saved a woman. I Ne w York and Brooklyn ground up last g year about thirty thousand young women and would like to grind up about as many this year. Out of all that long proces- c sion of women who march on with no hope for this world or the next, battered 3 and bruised and scoffed at, and dung off F the precipice, not one but might have been saved for home and God and heav en. But good men and good women are not in that kind of business. Alas for that poor thing! Nothing but the thread o of that sewing girl's needle held her, a and the thread broke. A CONTRAST. 0 I have heard men tell in public dis- v course what a man is; but what is a wo- t man? Until some one shall give a bet- a ter definition, I will tell you what wo- t man is. Direct from God, a sacred and t delicate eitt, with affections so great t that no measuring line short of that of a the infinite God can tell their bound. o Fashioned to refine and soothe and lift e and irradiate ho. e and society and the c world. Of such value that no one can a appreciate it, unless his mother lived t1 long enough to let him understand it, or a who in some great crisis of life, when % all else tailed him, had a wife to re-en- ti force him with a faith in God that noth- v mg could disturb. Speak out, ye cradles, and tell of the s feet that rocked you and the anxious faces that hovered over you! Speak c out, ye nurseries of all Christendom, l( and ye homes. whether desolate or still in full bloom with the faces of wife, v mother aad daughter, and help me to ' define what woman is. But as geograph ers tell us that the depths of the sea cor- & respond with the heights of the moun- r tains I have to tell you that a good wo- s! manhood is not higher up than bad wo- %i manhood is deep down. The grander b the palace the more awful the contiagra- a tion that destroys it. The grander the a steamer Oregon the more terrile her 0 going down just off the coast. Now I should not woner if you trem- o bled a little with a sense of responsibil- c ity when I say that there is hardly a person in this house but may have an ft opportunity to save a woman. It may p in your case be done by good advice, or t( by financial help, or by trying to bring A to bear some one of a thousand Chris- t tian influences. If, for instance, you a find a woman in financial distress and C breaking down in health and sprits try- si ing to support her children, now that S< bcr husband is dead or an invalid, doing A that very important and honorable work di -but which is lIttle appreciated-keep- 0 in a boarding house, where all the W guests, accordiong as they pay small it board, or propose. without paying any g board at all, to decamp, are critical of v everything and hard to please, busy yourselves in trying to get her more pa trons, and tell her of dime sympathy. Yea, if you see a woman favored of fortutie and with all kindly surroundings 0 finding in the hollow flatteries of the b world her chief regalement, living for v herself .mnd for time as if there were no pl eternity, strive to bring her into the TI kingdom of God,-as did the other day a n: Sabbath school teacher, who was the of means of the conversion of the daughter tl rf a man of immense wealth, and the a daughter resolved to join the church, rt and she went home and said, "Father, L( I am going to join the church, and 1 te want you to come." "Oh, no," he said, v, "I never go to church." "Well," said bh the daughter, "if I were going to be fc married would you not go to see me t< married?" And lie said, "Oh, yes." h "Well," said she, "this is of more im portance than that." 1 So he went and has gone ever since, L] and loves to go. I do not know but that &i faithful Sabbath school teacher not only di saved a woman, but saved a man. There it may be in this audience, gathered from b all parts of the world, there may be a ec man whose behavior toward wromanhood * has been perfidious. Repent! Stand ri up. thou master-piece of sin and death, b that I may charge you! As far as pos- tI sible make reparation. Do not boast si that you have her in your power and that p sh cannot help herself. When that t< tine collar and cravat, and that elegant d suit of clothes comes off' and your un- t covered soul stands before God, you n will be better off if you save that wo- h man. n YOU M'AY SAVE A CHLD. 0 There is another exploit you can do. 0 and that is to save a child. A child does not seem to amount to much. It is nearly a year old before it can walk. at all. For~ the first year and a half it h cannot speak a word. For the first ten years it would starve if it had to earn its c own food. For the first fifteen years its opinon on any subject is absolutely e valueless. And then there are so many f o them. 31y, what lots of children! s And some people have contempt for I chldren. They are good for nothing v but to wear out the carpets and break C thigs and keep you awake nights cry ing. Well, your estimate of a child is quite e different from that mother's estimateL wuo lost her child this summer. They took it to the salt air ot the seashore and a to the tonic air of the mountains, but no hep came, and the brief paragraph of its life is ended. Suppose that life could be restored by purcl.ase, how much 3 would that bereaved mother give? She 0 would take all the jewels Irom hier fin- k urers and neck- and bureau and put them c down. And if told that that was not b enough she would take her house and h make over the deed for it, and iX that y were not enough she would call in all i her investments and put down all her g mortgages and bonds, and it told that t' were not enough she would say: "1 have c made over all my property, and it I can d have that child back I will now pledge p that I will toil with my own hands and t carry with my own shoulders in any kind 0 of hard work and live in a cellar and die I! in a garret. Only give me back that t lost darling!" I am glad that there are those who a know something of a value of a child. tj Its possibilities are tremendous. What t: will those hands yet do? Where will s those feet yet walk? Toward what f dstiny will that never dying soul betake ti itself Shall those lips be the throne of 14 dlasphemy or benediction? Come, :lironologists, and calculate the decades in decades, the centuries on centuries. ,f its lifetime. Oh, to save a child! Am not right in putting that among the reat exploits? But what are you going to do with hose children who are worse of than if heir father and mother had died the day bey were born? There are tens of thous nds of such. Their parentage was gainst them. Their ii;ine is against em. The struature or their skulls is gainst themu. Their nerves and mus les contamiuat: d by the inebriety or issolutcues of their parents; they are ractically at their birth laid out on a lank in the middle of the Atlantic ceau, in an equinoctial gale, and told to iake for shore. What to do with t iem the question often asked. There is another quesion quite-as ertinent, and that is. What are they oing to do with us' They will, ten or even years from now, have as many otes as the same number of well born bildren, and they will haud this laud ver to anarchy and politt.al damnation ist as sure as we neglect then. Sup ose we each one of us save a boy or )ve a girl. You can do it. Will you? will. KNOW GOD AND BE STRONG. t How shall we get ready for one or all f these three exploits? We shall make dead failure it in our own strength -e try to save a man or woman r child. But my text suggests where ie are t get equipment. "The people iat do know tneir God seall be strong f nd do exploits." We must know him rough Jesus C rist in our own salva- ] on, and then we shall have his help in ie salvation of others. And while you re saving strangers you may save some t f yonr o vn kin. You think your broth- I res and sisters and children and grand iildren all safe, but they are not, dead, nd no one is safe till he is dead. On t e English coast there was a wild storm nd a wreck in the offling, and the cry as: "Man the lifeboat!" But Harry, e usual leader of the sailor's crew, as not to be found, and they went ithout him, and brought back all the t ipwrecked people but one. r By this time' aarry, the leader of the N rew, appeared and said, "Why did you ave that one?" The auswer was, t He could not help himself at all, and a 'e could not uet him into the boat." t Man the lifeboat!" shouted Harry, and we will go for that one." "No," tid his aged mother, standing by, "you ,usL nt go. I lost your Iather in a ;orm like this. and your brother Will -ent off six years ago, and I have not t eard a word from Will since he left, 1, d I doD't know where he is, poor Will. z ad I cannot let you also go, for I am r ld and dependent on you." His reply i as, "Mother, I must go and save that a ae man, and if I am 'ost God will take e re of you in your old days." The lifeboat put out, and after an aw i struggle with the sea they picked the or fellow out of the rigging just in time > save his life, and started for the shore. nd as they came within speaking dis ince, Harry cried out, "We saved him. U ad tell mother it was brother Will." s 'h, yes, my friends, let us start out to C tve some one for time and for eternity, v >me man, some woman, some child. c .nd wh6 knows but it may,directly or in- 11 rectly, be the salvation of one of our I xn kindred, and that will be an exploit orthy of celebration when the world self is shipwrecked, and the sun has U yne out like a spark from a smitten an 1, and all the stars are dead! A Walking Barroom. HAMBURG, Conn., Aug. 27.--TheI rohibitionists of this region are wild rer a discovery that they have for yearsr een hoodwinked by an eccentric indi- r dual whom they supposedt was simon 2re in his devotion to their principles. he death of this Individual, whose' tie was Kildeer H~uff, opened the eyesS :the Prohibitionists. Huff came to is place several years ago. Ie was strange person. who lived alone in at ide hut on .Potato Hill. He pretended y >be deaf and cumb, but boys who have .ntalized him say that Huflfcould swear e ary fluently. In addition, he was s 2mbacked, and On account of his de- t rmity he was an object of' pity to the t. wspeople, none of whom knew where I came from. Last Friday Huff was found dead by e roadside near his hut on Potato 2 ill. The villagers were surprised to 3d that he was not a humpback. Thet formity proved to be a padded sack, side of which was found a dozen pint b ttles, containing rum, whiskey andn rdial, and in his pocket was found f 97, mostly in dimes and nickles. thev gulation barroom change. TI'he hump- r ick has been a walking barroom, and I ie mystery of how lie supported him- .0 lf is solved. The town is a no-license ace, and the Prohiibitionists have flat- C tred themselves that here, at least, no C rinking was done. It is remembered aat Huff used to prowl around late at ght, during which time he visited the uses of those who love an occasional ip, and either sold thenm a pint bottle else a drink. or which lhe charged b 21y 5 cents. Favor a Sttil Hiunt. DANVILLE, Va., August 20.-A po tical circular recently issued by Ge-n ral Mahone Ieil into the hanids of a ewspaper man here to-day. The cir- ~ alar begins by sayinlg that unde*r the. resent election laev in Virginia a fair lection is impossib~le anzd concludes as ~ allows: "Our judgment is that we ould not make nominations for the egislature this fail or tor anzy oflice here and so long as the same are ex usively governed ty the existing elec- ~ ion law but leave the field to be ruled . y Alliance candidates anid independ nts, reserving our fire to be quietly, ~ ut resolutely and unanimously, deliv red agaist the Democratic nomtinee terever there is a chance so to direct ur political influence with efect." MIother and Chiidren Killed. LoUIsVILLE, Ky., Au::ust 25.-Near ad Ficholasille yesterday a special engine I a the . N. C. & B. ran down and e illed Mrs. Mary Richardson andl two ildren. She was walking~ across a r ridge over the Kentucky River with er three little irls, aged 8, 6 and 4. ears. They felt secure as all the reg ar trains had passed. Shortly an en-. ne came upon them. She drew as hir one side as possible, gathered the ildren by her side and all crouched own as low as possible. The tender ti rojecting lurthier than the engine struck f, 1em and iKnocked mother and children fi tr the bridge to the rocks sixty feet be >w. The baby was 1'hing that upon the fI es and escaped. THE Georgia Legislature has passed il bill intended to equalize taxa- e, on in that State. The uill provides a lat the county boards of appraisers it [1all consist of five membhers, ail to be reeholders. Their compensation is I xed at $3 per day and thirty days is al- s )wed or the ompletion of their Work. si~ HILE PARK PLACE IO1OR. h DREAOFUL SIGHTS AT THE SCENE. CF THE CATASTROPHE. Prowds of Distracted Mourner-A Nuni ber of Men's Bodies Found Under O-en Prel--A Group of Girls and a Boy D~ig covered in Another Place. b NEw YORK, Aug. 22.-IL. now s:eks ri :ossible that one of the worst lata. ac idents which has ever happened in this P( ity occurred just after noon to-lay. m "rom all that can be learned, fuill, as nanv if not more than lifty people have ost iheir livts. The accident came so si udden that it was impossible for the accupants of the two big buildings at '0 and 72 Park Place to escape from the >uildings before the collapse was com :>lete. There was but one eyewitue.s to Ju he accident, A. A. .Johnson, janitor in e) he building at 81 Park Place, acros.s the et ;Ireet from where the accident occurr- YE d. He said that be was standing or. the U teps to 81 when he heard the sound bf o in explosion. It came from acrosa the dt treet. It was not loud. Almost im- d nediately the front wall of the two ul ildings collapsed and the entire build. sc ng caved in wit h a deafening crash. It ra ame so suddenly that it was impossible t or a living soul to escape from the at >uildings. On the ground floor of one th if the numbers was a restaurant that se vas crovwded with people. l'he other Or ioors were occupied by a metal plate bl actory; the Southern Publishing corn- 1n any; b. Loutel & Co., art designers .' Llis & McDonald, bookbinders, and 1i ther establishments. Michael Carroll, who was employed in di he metal leaf factory, had been out to "f nch and had just reached the door of 2 when he heard the explosion. w iich d azed him for a moment. le juniped w' ip and ran for life. As he got away ta he front walls of 70 and 72 toppleli ov- w r with a loud crash. As the walls fell tn larroll saw many people passiug the w lace were covered uudcr the brick and tm ones. It is uot known how many ,irls th vere at work in the metal plate fac! ory, o iut there were a large number. i0 the in estaurant on the giound floor of No 72, to hich was kept by J. Peterson, a crowd fo f people were at lunch the nuriber di eing estimated at between twenty Lve .nd thirty. Then there was ten or to welve girls in the wash room in the qi asement. Tripp & Co., druggists, in st, he building also had a large nuwb r of T) oployees. Three children ot Frank 'It laggerty, janitor of 61 Park Place, 'vere Ti laying in front of 72 Park Piaco. ' hey tr vere killed. Their father stood across A he street at the time. Roundsman Tay- ru !r was on his way to dinner, passing th long Park Place, when he heard the: ex- bt losion. Ile ran to the scene and rea;liz- Lh ,g that somethIug must be done, ran to ge hardware store onVosey street, secur- re d a dozen axes and distributed them to he firemen who had already arrived. pl1 'he firemen and bystanders soon cut a fo ole in the side wall of 74, out of w aich Pe eventeen persons crawled, all of whom th >ore bruises. The testimony of all the in eople who were in the neigh borhood at he he time is that they were first staitled ed ,y a deep rumbling sound of an explo. Ov ion, which was directly followed b, the be olapse of the building, the wall of nc vhich ftll outward with a frightful rash. Three alarms of fire were fol- it ) wed by the arrival of the ambtulanc-s ra: ro all the hospitals. The reserves ra ;ere called out from nearly all sta tion st ouses, but the greatest difficulty was sa xperienced in keeping the thousands hc f people back beyond the fire lines m heri it became known that there had do e.-n a fearful loss of life. rn 2Ew YORK, Aug. 24-The w ork of E' oking for the dead in the ruins of we eark Place continued uninterrupted ste rough the night except at times wilen bu an poured down in such torrent as to vi ener labor beneath it impossible. Ex- twi ept at these times also the fire lines at ither end of the block were lined with aiting friends or relatives of the miss ag. When they were driven frotn the an tree ts by the rain they sought shelter Ni a doorways or wherever protection sp ight be found, but as soon as it ceased tel heir weary and mournful vigil was re- Se mJed. be At 3.55 o'clock there was a bustle of as: itement am~ong the workmen that in- as: antly comuicated itself to the ho ager watchers at the ire lines. Another i ody had been found. it was that of a y n that lay besie a tangle of presses ab t No 70. It was taken out and placed i one of the pine collins on the sidewalk. t was terribly burned and unrecogni-b able unless identity may be (disclosed Ret y the tattered fragment of clothing ex bat but partially covered it. pu The work again went on unmiarked of y any accident until 4 o'cl.ock this Se lrning, when a second body wvas hir nund, also that of a man, ne-ar the spot pa where the first was discovered. Five va minutes later the third biody, also. of a ahr ian, was found in nearly the same o 'lace. Both were taken out and place-d a coilins on the sieealk besides that. obtaining the body found at 3.55 no 'clock. Hardly had this been done a rhen the body of another man was on ound but it lay lereath a heavy press SO nd it will be~ impossible to move o n i a derrick is obtamned to rhoist ine tw ress from the ruins. There was al le' lost simultaneous discoavery of a rifih oti od. making twenty-one in all, made mnong brick arnd paper at 74 l: was t hat of a large man. t. althoueg. the m ace was visible, like the otheis ex:,um- tri d, it w as urecogt n ibl. At 9 o'clock talian laborers were still at worl; re aving the tricks that buried the :Doiy 14 nd hindered its removal. L F 10om daylight on the. crowd of spec- CX stors at the fire lines graduailly inreas. or , and at 9 o'clock a densely puwk-u boiong hilled every spot t hat comm:iarid Il the slightest vie w of I~he blackenedt tre uizs. At the uhlice of t e boile-r 1i;rpc o or at poice headquart:'rs to-day it wasOl taled that accord ng to the rcourd- gr bere the Taylor building had no s-.eame !" oilers Of any kind, nor had there Ueeni ti ny there for several years past. Tnre an teami power used in it was su1ph-d les rom outside sources. ab D~uring the morning one of the Ita?l- ph ts working in the ra:.mis stoo1-ed over ha lie body of one of the victirns and took a b ilver watch fromi his pocket. lle wa ha rrested and taken to the st ation. fol-st wed by a mob, many or whom shout- ea d, "Lynch hti! "ILynch him!" bht Up to noon the ollicial account of tne. umber of bodies taken from the ruins *l s kept by the police is twenty-thre'. Lt that hour there were two b''ist vis- iro ale, but they had not yet been dcg out. on 'hese would bring tihe numbter of bodies e~ etually found up to twenty-nve. oil Between 3 and 4 o'clock six b.:-dies sa, -ere found close together. Five were tie irls, aged fromi 18 to 25, and three of Lh< aemi were recognized as press te sders wi a Lieber & M1oss. Another worked all Jr Rosenfeld, bronze leaf manurfactur r. The Lifth body was that oft boy. 'hey all bore the appearence of having . led by suffocation. co. The odor of dlecomposing and b::rned ye: sh that arises from the rains :s be- to: aming horrible and the disinfect:mlts the itherto used seem! to produce little ef- an act. to General alarm has been sent outt for i 1ooais Rosenield, proprietor of a painit fel bore, No 70 Park Place, his brother fee ~a-,ghat, asic the disater he ha 1m en missing. it is supposed th:at is ind was affect ed by the terrible scent-s - witnessed when the crash came, if is not actually in the ruins. District Attorney Nichol is already misidering ine quest ion ot indicting we persons responsible for tnie Park bice disaster. After long consultation ith his chief assistaut, Ex-J tidge Gun ngs Bt-lford, he will place the case in e hands of Assistant District Attor *v Townsend. Up to 7 o'clock to-night thirtg ive )dies had been recovered from the tins. Twenty of the bodies recovered tve beenu identified. Eighty-eight ople are reported by friends to be issing. MADE RAIN BY DETONATION x HourL4' Precipitation Follow tho Ex periments in Texas. MIDLANi), Tex., Aug. 22.--Gen yrenlorth's party of rain makers are bilant today. The first important :periments have met with great suc ss. A rain fell for more thin six hours .,terdav, and they declare that it was idoubtedly caused by the explosion of :h3 drogen balloons, rackarock pow r and dynamite. At 3 o'clock yester v afternoon a large balloon was :ent >at the C ranch, where the men of ienc.t have their headquarters. The nch is about twenty five miles from is town. The balloon was sent up iout one and a quarter miles and was en exploded. It made a report like a vere clap of thunder. There were ly a few white clouds floating in the ae sky at the time, the sun was shin r, and any old farmer or mariner Juld have said that it would not rain a week. The weather instruments owed that the air was remarkably y and the barometer pointed at i:." Ten winutes after the balloon had appeared in a peal of thunder, kites re set flying, and attached to their Uis was dynamite. This wasexploded len the kites were high in the air, and en a great quantity of powder, which is scattered over the ground for about -o miles, was set off by electricity is made a noise like a succession of tteries of artillery. The smoke rose the air for about 200 feet and drifted ward the expert's headquarters. Be re it reached there, however, it was iven to the earth by a torrent of rain. The few fleecy clouds had gathered gethtr, others had formed, the sky ickly had become overcast, and a )rn had been created by man's efforts. ie barometer began falling ten min es atter the balloon was exploded. ie rain was very heavy, and tne cen of the storm was over the C ranch. core ing to reports from the ranch -n and employees along the line of e Ttxas and Pacific Railroad the >rm extended over an area of notless an 1,000 square miles. It is hard to t deflinite reports, and it may have iched further. yhe noise of the explosion was heard inly at Midland. and even at ranches rty miles from the scene of the ex riments. The people thought it was under. At about 7 o'clock this even several more explosions were heard re. The experimenters were undoubt ly at work again. The sky became ereast ijside or half an hour and it gan to rain at 7:40 o'clock. It looks w as if it would rain all night. rhis region, as a rule, is very dry. and is exceedingly unusual to have much in at this season of the year. The inmakers are sure that they have len the secret of Jupiter Pluvius, and y they can flood this country at an ur's notice. Their greatest experi !nt, when they will explode a tremen us lot of balloohs, kites and dyna te, will probably not take place until iday. The ranehmnen and town ather prophets don't believe the >rm was made by the rain producers, t Gen. Dryenforth says he will con ce the most skeptical in a day or Rtepubi'an F'unds for Ohio. W AsINGTON, Aug. 26.--T h e ount of money which it was allegzed w York importers were raising to be ant against McKinley is a mere baga he to the sum which the friends of rator Sherman openly boast. here will subscribed by Eastern capitalists to sst in securini! his re-eleution. It is ered that whatever sum. no matter large, may in Lhe opinion of exper iced campaigners be necessary will be -thcoming to eleet a Legislature favor l to Mr. Sherman. his subject is daily discussed here men whose opportunities to know publican plans and expectations are sptionally good. It seems to have t them in a most comtortable frame mindi. The are loud in praise of the ator's ge..tcralshiip in discounectinag self from the tariff part of the caim wn discussion and announcing in ad bce that he will confine his remarks nost exclusively to the financial plank the plattorm. 'hey think that by this act he will t only receive tea tinies the outside istance he would othuerwise receive, tthat his individual campaign will be much the more a national one. [Ie ans, virtually, they declare, in .de o cpaiigns or it--one with McKiu - and his taritf bill involved, and the wr Shierman and~ sound money. leadinig lDeio aat said herc to-day i he heard Lhbe Republic-au managers Ohto expect the largest outside con buuons to their campjaigni fund~ ever tic in this countlry. McKinley's ap-~ it is o the mtiuunlacturers, 5herinau's the bankers. Between them they [etedi to reach every rich corpo:'ationi firm ini the landi. Lo:>N Augz. 20.-All night long a mn dous hurricane prevaled through 'reat Britain. Every where the :ele iphi wires are proatratedh, and it is im sible to .obtain~ an'y thingi more than :mst meagre iuformation a to the count of destrtuction causedl by the .rful wiud and sweepin:; rain. In and Jut Lorndou. and the few outside Lees ttie't have been heard from, trees ve been dragg~ed out or the ground their toots and the roofs of houses r been ripped up and hurled into the ets. lanes and by-ways. At Newv atle thle taeuts oi the dlower showv were awn a wa like straws and the beatuti exhibit ~which they had eneloased was nost entirely destroyed. A dispatch m Southport. in Lauicaster County, the Irish Sea. rep~orts that the Norw au baique Getioni has been wrecked that place. The cre w were, however. :ed. Numerous other nminor casual s are reported. It Is feared that with restoration of the telegraph service 1 come the news of serious disaster~s along the coaast. A Well Digger Kilied.. BLACKTOCK, Atig. 20.-Simi Rice, a ored well digger, was instantly killed terday eve-ning while digging a well James5 Jones. IHe had worked in well all day, arad was about to quit El let another take his place, who was work all night. As they were draw up a tub of maid and water, the tubi Iback a distance of some thirty-live| t, striking~ him in the head, and kill-| im insrantily.-State ! CJWHiUU iliN Ur1-L N. An Angered Woman': Revenge Upon a Prominent Lawyer. Cmcaoo, Aug. 22.-A pretty bru nette and a swishin:g rawhide pla-7ed havoc in .Jud:e Kohls.mi's court today, and1 practically diecided a long drawn out and sensational litigation over the custody of a child and a 3,00 estate, which has occupied the attention of the Probate Court for many months. The pretty woman who did the raw hiding was Mrs. Ed MeMahon, whose husband had been charged with attempt ing to poison hIs own child and whose mother-in-law has been endeavoring to get possession of the child on this charge. The lawyer who was rawhided is Patrick McHugh, a well-known lawyer, who was not long ago a caudidate for the bendh and who was associated with At torney H ynes in behalf of the mother-in law in the case. Judge Ilohilsaat was unmoved. Ile simply had the belligerents removed and refused the application of indignant At torney Hynes. to impose a penalty for contempt of court. But not only did Mrs. McMahon horse whip and her husband pound the lawyer, she also severely slashed an olicer of the State, Peter Smith, the guardian of the child on behalf of the State. The whipping occurred about 11 o'clock todav, and was not wholly un expected. Yesterday, when Attorney Hellugh had read an aflidavit taken in Canada, in which Mrs. McMahon was charged with being a woman of bad repu tation, and with doing inmort:d acts that lady arose in court and shouted with flashing eyes and trembling lips that the allegation was outrageous and a libelous I'alsehood. So, this morning, when the handsome woman in black stood up im her seat in the body o' the court and moved quietly in the direction of Attoruey M -Hu!gh. Clerk Ballerman guessed what. was com ing. Ile had time only to shout. "Look cut!" however, before Mrs. McMahon was at the lawyer's side. A moment later a black rawhide was hissing through the air and raising livid welts on the face and neck of Attorney McHugh . The lawyer dropped his brief and rushed to the corner of the court room on the left of the judge. The woman followed and gave him the length and breadth of the leather once, twice, thrice. Then State Custodian Peter Smith jumped and stepped toward the corner in which the sensational thrashing was going on. Mr- M:Mahon wheeled around suddenly and caught him with a stinging slash across the face. Round the head and shoulders of Smith fell the rawhide. Meanwhile the husband had taken a hand in the affair. When his wife directed her attention to the State custodian he tackled the lawyer aud pounded the unfortunate - Mchugh all over the court room. At this point Jud-ze Kohlsait called in the services of the sheriff. and a couple of de)uties hustled all the parties out o court. HOW ALMY WAS CAPTURED. A zpctebtman Perched ou a Ladder Made Terms With the Crowd. IIAovER, N. H., Aug. 20.-Frank C. Ahny, who murdered the young woman, Christie Warden, under circumsta4nces of peculiar atrocity a week or two ago, was this morning discovered in Mr. Warden's barn. Almy fired fifteen shots at his pursuers and slightly wounded Azro Turner, of Norwich, Vt. A conference was then held whether the barn should be burned or an attempt made to capture Almy alive. The lat ter course was determined upo-n. A committee headed by ex-sheriff Bridg man entered the barn and opened neg o tiations with Almy. The latter said, "If you will guarantee me protection. I will give up my arms and snrrender; otherwvise, wvill sell my life dearly." Bridgman, after conversing with Al my returned and mounting thie ladder leaning against the house said to the crowd: "Fellow citizens: Almy has been found. No w I call upon you in the name of law and good order to restrain your anger and let the law take its course with this foul murder. I say, at the request of the county oficia's n e have as good court:s as there are on the face of the earth." These remarks were greeted with cries of "Ys y es. let the law takes iis course," and it was aigreed that Aitmy should be left in the hands of tne law. Bridgman, w.ho 'was still perched on the ladd'r, said: "Your assturances that Almy shall be dealt with according to la w is satisfactory. I promise you shall have all the opportunity to see him. Form in line on each side of the road. and he shall pass aloog between the lines." The lines were formed, and Almy ialy walsed out of tne barn and gave himself up to the sheriff, followed in good order by the crowd. IHe was taken to jail and loked up. Polygamy in Ohio. L1.nA. 0., Aug. 20.-Residings near Napoleon. Ohio. is Michael Cramer and three wives. They all live on a $50.O0 tamn. and three houses are used by the three fatmilies with one head. Cramer brought his second wife to the tarm in 1879, and placedl her in a cosy house he had erectedl for her. Wife N.1 olfered no objeetmen. ie was arrested at the time, however, and tried for bigamy, but escape I on a technicality. In 1881 Cramer brought his third wife to the ftrm. For some cause, no action was taken until Monday. when the county pr'oscu ting attorneCy completed an in vestiation and prenared evidence to lay befre the grand jury. One of Pote' Uliunders. CIIA iLESTON, S. C., Aug. 2.-In the special census bulletin issued yesterd.ay, the statemient is wade that the assessed valuation of ;dl property in South Car oina was .S1,377 ,(07 less i'n 1890 thanm 1880. This statemen~t is utterly with otii foundation. The Comptroller Glen eal's report of this State gtve the total as.sssedl valtue of all property in 1880 as $133,062,34, and for 1890 as 102, 47, an increa-e of more than $17,500i, 000. The net'w assessment this year will idd thirty millions more to the assessed values of the State. The Youxngest on Recor. RALEI&n, N. C. Aug. 19 --'day there was brought to the pe-nitentiary the youngest conviet. ever conrvxited of highway robbery in this Stat&. Ilis name is Will Edwards, and lhe is only thirteen years old. Ile committed the crime in'Orange County in June, and was successful in obtaining money fromn his victim. Ile gets asentenceof sevenl years. - . Stai Coach Held 1p. THlE DA LLES, QREGON, Aug.21.-The Prineville and Canyon stage was held ip atiout thirty muiles from here last evening by a niasked man with a Win chester riule. The robber ordered the driver to throw out tive small sacks aiid then drive on. T~he driver promptly obeyed. The mail bags contained sev e-al money orders and registered pack ILAILWAD AMSESSMENTS. THE RAISE EXTENDS WAY INTO THE MILLIONS. Final Figures Announced by the Board of Equalization-Comparison With Those of Last Year-Some Small Roads Dou bled. COLU31WA, S. C., Aug. 22.-The long awaited assessments of the railroads of the State, about which so much has been said, and against which the rail roads made such a fight, have at last been passed upon finally by the State board of equalization of railroads, and yesterday they were at last made j.ublic. Only the bare assessments per mile are given, and ito compilations or compar isons announced. Therefore it is im possible to give the exact amount of the raise, but by a careful co-nputation from the data given. it is found that the raise will amount to scarcely. less than 821,000,000. and may be a couple of millions higher. This year there is a much larger number of miles of road being.operated in the State, and the to tal raise is in some measure due to that, but the actual raise per mile is very large. The total valuation of property for each road was not given out by the comptroller, and consequently cannot be compared with the figures of last year. Then again several roads, name ly: The Augusta and Knoxville, Greenville and Laurens, 'Greenville, Lauren. and Spartanburg, Savannah Valley, Carolina, Knoxville and- Wes tern, and Spartanburg, Uniod-and Co lumbia do not appear on this-year's re ports at all as such roa'ds, for they have been absQrbed by others' under one The raise, however, is so great as to cause a general belief that the railroads, especially the big ones will make a fight before paying such taxes and carry the matter into the courts. The figures, as announced by the comptroller general, and the compari sons with the figures of last y-ar, are given below: Ashley River Railroad-Last year $11,000 per mile; this year $13,000. Atlanta and Charlotte Air Line-Last year 813,500 per mile; this year $18, 000. Blackville, Allston and Newberry Last year $5,000 per mile; this year 56,500. Blue Ridge Railroad-Last year $4, 000 per mile; this year $5,000. Barnwell Railroad-Last year 85,000 per mile; tnis year $6,500. Bishopville Railroad-Last year $500 per mile; this year $600. Carolina, Cumberland Gap and Chi cago-Last year $5,000 per mile; this year $8,000. Central Railroad-Last year $8.000 per mile; this year $12,000. Charleston and Savannah Railroad Last year 812,000 per mile; this year $13,000. Ashville and Spartanburg Railroad Last year $4,000 per mile; this year $8, 000. Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago Railroad-Last year $7,500 per mile;' this year $10,000. Cheraw and Chester Railroad-Last year 62,500 per mile; this year $4,000. Cheraw and Salisbury Railroad-Last year $4,000 per mile; tiis year $8,000. Charlotte Columbia and Augusta. Railroad-Last year $10,500 per mile; tnis year $14,000. Sea Island Branch-3,000 per mile. Port Royal ana Western Carolina 310,000 per mile. Chester and Lenoir Railroad-Last year $2,500 per mile; this year $4,000. Columbia and Greenville Railroad Last year $8,000 per mile; this year 310,500. Florence Railroad-Last yearS$6,000 per mile; this year $10,000. Georgetown and Western Railroad Last year $2,000 per mile; this year 34,000. Laurens Railroad-last year $2,000 er mile; this year $5,000. Manches'er and, Augusta Railroad ast year $4,000 per mile; this year $5, Greenpond, Walterboro-ah rnh rille Railroad-last year $5,000 per nile; this year $7,000. Northeastern Railroad-last year 314,000 per mile; this year $17,000. Port Royal and Augusta Railroad ast year $'7,500 per mile; this year $10,. )00. Palmetto Railroad--last year $2,000 per mile; this year $4,000. South Carolina Railway-last year - 313.000 per mnilet this year $16,000. South Carolina Pa-:ific Railway-last rear $5,000 per mile; this year $6,5(@.. Wilmington, Columbia and Augusta Railroad-last year $10,500 per mile; this year $14,000. Wilmington, Chadbourne and Con way Railroad-last year $3,300 per mile; :his year $5,000. Wilson and Summerton Railroad ast year $1,730 per mile; this year $1, ;98. Chatrleston, Sumter and Northern Railroad-Last year $4,000 per mile; this year $8,000. Columbia, Newberry and Laurens R ailroad-Last year $2,000 per mile;this year $5,000. Georgia, Carolinaa~nd Northern Rail road-Last year $5,000 per mile; this year thirty miles at $10,000 per mile; remainder at $5,000. Ilartsville Railroad-Last year$1,000 per mile; this year $2,000. It was remarked last night that the 1s--est ments had not been made on any ixed basis, but that the board had just placed the raises where they saw fit. Thbe board, however, has done its work mnd the figures are here for any and all o0 see.-The State. A FIendish Crime. BRECKEiNRIDGE, Colo.. Aug. 21.-One >f the most fiendish crimes ever coin mitted here was perpetrated last night' about 11 o'clock. Some persons putdy .iamite in the Methodist church bell md the bell and bellfry were blown to itoms, endangering the lives of more - .han 100 people. The deed is supposed o0 have been caused by the ill-feeling mngendered against the Rev. Mr. Pass nore because he wanted the saloons :losed on Sunday. If the villian is :aught he will be severely dealt with. :'. cartoon is now in possession of friends hat was posted on the Rev. Mr. Pass nore's door. "Pension the Ex-siavees RA LEIGH, N. C., Aug. 16.-W. R. Vaughn, a negro orator, last night ad lressedl a large audience of negroes at Methoflist church. He demands that ~x-slaves be pensioned, and said in the ourse of his address: -The former ~laves are today paying the pension noney that goes to the soldiers and it. s high time these ex-slaves were draw ug the pernions themselves. This :ountry belongs to the negro and the v'ldiers but the negro comes first, be :ause it was his labor that built up and nade it." Vaughn is making a tour of lie country doing this sort of talking. Train Eobbery. ALA~grA, GA., Aug. 20.-The Cen ral train was boarded tonight by three nasked men at Colliers station, near 3arnesville, and the express messenger vas held up. Particulars meagre. They ot all the money in the safe, and it is lieved it was a good sum, probably