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AT IME TABRNAICLE.
REV. bR. TALMAGE PREACHES ON A
VISION OF HEAVEN.
The Elaquent PreAcher Sp o.ke O Impres
sons of Heaven-Wbat He Saw In a
Dream-A Glowing De.cription-The
L-sson and the Exihortatoa .
BRo<xLYN. Feb. 4.-I the Brook
lyn Tabernacle tbis forenOn the
hymns, the Scripture lesson and the
prayers, as well as the sermon, were
about the future world more than about
this world. Rev Dr. Talmige Look for
his sub-ject "A Vision ot Heaven," the
text being Ezekiel i,1, "Now It came to
pass as I was among the captives by the
river of Chebar that toe heavens were
opened, and I saw visions of God."
Expatriated and in far exile on the
banks of the river Chebar, an affluent of
the Euphrates, sat Ezakiel. It was
there he had an Imm)rtal dream, and it
is given to us in the Holy Scriptures.
He dreamed of Tyre and Egypt. He
dreamed of Christ and the commg heaven
This exile seated by that river Cbebir
had a more wonderful dream than - on
or I ever have had or ever will have
seated on the banks -tf the Hudson or
Alabaina or Oregon or Thames or Tiber
or Danube.
But we all have had memorable dreams
some of them when we were half asleep
and half awake, so that we did not know
whether they were born of shadow or
sunlight; 'whether they were thoughts
let loose and disarranged as in slumber
or the imagination ef faculties awake.
Such a dream I had this morning! IL
was half past 5, and the day was break
Ing. It was a dream of God-a dream
of heaven. Ezekiel had his dream on
the baks of the Chebar. I had my dream
not far from the banks cf the Hudson.
The most of the stories of heaven were
written many centuries ago. and they
tell us how the place looked then cr
how it will look centuries ahead. Would
you not like to know how it looks now?
That is what I am going to tell you. I
was there 'this morning. I have jast
got back. How I got into that ci:.y of
the sun I know not.
Which of the 12 gates I entered is tv
me uncertain. Butimy first remembrance
of the scese is that I stooo on one of the
main avecues, lookina this way and that.
lost in raptures, and the air so full of
music and redolence and laughter and
light that I knew not which street to
take, when an anael of God accosted me
and offered to show me the objects of
greatest interest, and to conduct me from
street to street, and from mansion to
mansion, and from tempie to temple,
and form wall to wall. I said to the
angel, '-How long hast thou been in
heaven?" and the answer came, "Thir
ty two years, according to the earthly
calendar."
There was a secret about this angel's
name that was not given 'me, but from
the tenderness and sweetness and affe
tion and interest tak-n in my walk
Through heaven, and more than all in the
fact of 32 years' residence-the number
of years since she ascened-I think it
was my mother. Old aue and decrepi
tude and the tired look were all gone,
but I think it was she. You see, I was
only on a visit to the city and had not
yet taken up. residence, and I could
know only in part.
I looked in for a few moments at the
great temple. Onr brilliant and lovely
Scotch eceavist, Mr. Drummo~nd, esys
there is no church in heaven, but he did
not look for it on the right street. St.
,ohn was right when in his Patmosic
viion, recorded in the third chapter of
Bevelation, he speaks of "the temple oi
my God." I saw it this morning-the
-lagst church I ever saw, as big as all
the churches and catbsdrals of the earth
put together-and it was thronged. Oh.
what amultitude! I had never seen so
many people together. All the audiences
of all the churches of all the earth out to
gether would make a poor attendance
compared with that assemblage.
There was a fashion in attire and
headdress that immedtately took my at
tention. The fashion was white. All
in white save one. And the headdress
was a garland of rose and lily and mig
nonette, mingled with green leaves culled
from the royal gardens and bound to
gether with binds of gold.
And I saw some young men with a
ringon finger of the right hand and said
to my accompanying angel, "Why those
rigs on the fingers of the right hands?"
and I was told that these who were them
were prodi alsons and once fed swine in
the wildernesand lived on husks, but
they cangetsome, and the rejoicing father
'ad "P19t a rine on his hand."
exception to
this tashion of white perva4in all the
auitorium and clear up through allibe~
galleries. It was the attire of the one
who presided in that immense temple
the chiefest, the mnightest the lovei
et person in all the place.. His
cheeks seemed to be - -flushed
with iinfinite beauty, and his lips
were eloquence omnipotent. But his
attire was-of deep colores. They sag
geted the carnage through which he
had passed, anid I said to my attending
angle, "What is that crimson robe that
that he wears?" and I was told, "They
are dyed garm ents form Bozrah," and
"He trod the wine press a lone."
Seon after I entered tais temple they
began to chant the celestial litany. It
was unlhke anything I had ever heard
for syestness or power and I have heard
the most of the great organs and the
most of the great oratorios. I said to
my. accompanying angel, "Who is that
aanFn yong with the harp?" and
the answer was, "David." And I said
"Who is that sounding that trumnet?"
and the answer was, Gabriel." And I
sai, "Who is that at the organ?" and
the answer was, "Handle."' And the
music rolled on till it came to a doxology
eztoing Christ himself~, when all the
worshipers lower down and higher up
a thousand galleries of them, suddenly
dropped on their knees and chanted.
"Worthy is the Lamb that was slain."
Under the overpoweing harmony [ fell
back. I said: "Let us go This is toe
much for mortal ears. I cannot' bear
the overwhelming symphony."
But 1Inoticed as I was about to turn
away that on the steps of the altac was
something like the Iachrymal, or tear
bottle, as I had seen it in the earthly
museums, the lachrymals, or tear bot
tIes, into which the orientals used to
weep their griefs and set them away as
sacred. But this lacbrymal, or tear bot
tIe, Instead of earthenware as those the
orientals used, was lustrous and fierv,
with many splendors, and it was tower.e
ng and of great capacity. And I sald
to my attending angel, "what is that
great lachrymal or tear bottle, standing
on the step of the altar?'' and the an
gel said: "Why, do you not know? That
is the bottle to which David, tae psalm
ist, referred In his fifty-sixth psalm
when he said, Taut thou my tears into
thy bottle.' It is full of tears from earth
-tears of repentance, tars of btereave
ment, tears of joy, tears of many cen
tories." And then I saw how sacred
to the sympathetic God are earthly sor
As I was coming out of the temple i~
saw all along the pictured walls there
were shelves, and golden vials were be
ing set up on all those shelves. And I
said: "Why the eetting up of these vials
at this time? They seem iustu-ow to
h~ve seen filled," and the attending an
gel said, "The week of prayer all around
the earth has just closed, and more sup
plications have been made than have
bee g. a lng while. and these new
vials, newv set .o, are what the Bible
speaks of as 'glelden yia8 full of odors,
which are the prayers of saints."' And
I said to the accompaapiug avgel, "Can
it he o'issible that the prayers of earth
are worth ot beinz kept in such heav.
enly shap' " "Why," said the angel,
-tere is nothing that so ."oves heaven
as the prayers of earth. and they are set
up in sight of these inb.'ute multitudes,
and, more than all, in the sight of
Christ, and be cannot forzet them, and
they are before him w orld without end."
Teen we came out, and as the temple
is always open, and some worship at
one boor and o.hers at other hours, we
passed down the street amid the thrones
cring and going from the g)eat temple
And we passed through a street called
Martir place, and wve met there or saw
sitting at the windows the souls of those
who on earth went thro.ugh fire and flood
and under swtrd and rack. We saw
John Wiclif. whose ashes were by decree
of the ccuncil of Constance thrown into
the river; and Rogers, who bathed his
bands in the lire as though it hail been
water; and Bish )p Hooper and McKail
and Litimer and Ridley and Polycarp,
whom the flamea refused to destroy as
they bent outward till a spear did the
work, and some of the Albizenses and
Haguenots and consecrated Qnqker;
who were slain for their reliiion. They
had on them masy scars, buttheir ecars
were illuminated, and they bad on their
faces a look of especial triamph.
Then we passed along Song row, and
we met some of the old gospel singers'
"That is Isaac Watis," said my atteni
ant. As we came up to him he asked
me if the churches on earth were still
singing the hymns he composed at the
house of Lord and Lady Abney, to
whom he paid a visit of 36 vear3, and I
told him that many of the churches op
ened their - Sabbath mornig servIces
with his old hym, "Welcome Sweet Day
of Rest," and celebrated their gospel
triumphs with his hymn, 'Salvation. Q
the Joyfmi Sono!" and often roused their
devotions by his hymn, "Come We
That Love the Lrd."
While we were talking he introdneed
me tv another (t the song writers and
sa.i, "!his is Charles Wesley, who he
lon-ed on eanrth to a diff.reit churcn
fron mine, but we are all now members
of the same church, the temple of God
and the Lamb." And I told Charles
Wesley that almost -very Saboath we
sang one of his old hymns, "Arm of
the Lord Awake!" or "Come. Ltt us
Join Our Friends Abve," or "Love Di
vine, A;1 L->ve Excelling." And wnile
we wer-i talking on that street called
Sonz row Kirk W hite, the consu'npuve
college student, now everlastingly well,
and we talked over his old Christmas
hymn, "When Marshaled ot the Night
ly Psin." And William Cowper came
up, now entirely recovered from his re
ligious melancholy and not looking as it
be had ever in dementia attempted sui
cide, and we talked over the wide earth
ly celebrity and heavenly power . f his
old himns, "Wh-n I Can Read Mv Ti
tle Clear" and "Tuere is a Fourtain
Filled 'Vith Woo0."
And there we met George W. B?
thuoe of wondrous Brooklyn nastorate,
and I told him or how his comfortlog
hymn had been sung at oosequies all
around tae world- --IL is not Death to
Die." And Toolady came up and
asked about whether the church was
still making use of his old hymn, "Rock
of Ages Clett For Me." And we met
also on Song row N.ewton and Hastines
and Moutnomery and Horatio B mar and
we heard floating from winidow to win
dow snatcre~s of the old I ymns which
they started 0a earth and started never
to die.
"But" says some of my hearers "did
you see anythmng of our friends in heav
en?" Oh, yes t did. "Dd you see my
children there?" says some one. "and
are there any mark" df their last sick
ness still upou them?" I did see them,
but there was no pallor, no cough, no
fever, no languor about them. They
are all well ani ruddy and songful and
bounding with eternal mirth. They
told me to give their love to yon that
they thought of you hour by hour and
that when they could be excused from
the heavenly playgrounds they came
down and hovere 1 over, and kissed your
cheek. and filled your dreams with their
glad faces, and that they would be at the
gate to greet you when you ascended to
be with them forever.
-"But," say other voices, "did you see
our glerified friends?" Yes, I saw them
and they are well mn the land across
which no punmomias or palsies or drop
sies or typhoids ever sweep. The aro
ma blows over from orchards with trees
bearing 12 manner ot fruits, and gardens
compared with which Chatsworth is a
desert. The climate is a mingling of an
earthly June and October, the balm of
the one and the tonic of the other. The
social life in that realm where tfhey are
is superb and perfect.- 3To controversies
or jealousies or hates, but love, univer
sal love, e.verlastmne love. And they
told me to tell you not to weep for them
for their happiness knows no bound,
and it is only a question of time when
you shall reign with them in the same
palace and join with them in the same
exploration of planets and the same
tour of worlds.
But yonder in this assembly is an up
turned face that seems to ask how about
the ages of those in heaven. "Do my
departed children remain children or have
they lost their chiidish vivacity? Do my
departed parents remain aged, or have
they lost the venerable out ct their na
ture?" Well, from what I saw I think
chidhood had advanced te full maturity
of faculty, retamnmg all the resilience .f'
childood, anid that the aged had re
treated to midrife, freed from all decad -
ence, but still retaining the charm of
the venerable. In other wo-ds, it was
fully developed and complete life of all
souls, whether young or old.
Some one says, "Will you tell us
what most impressed you in heaven?"
I will. I was most impressed with the
reversal of earthly conditions. I knew
of course that there. would be diflerences
of attire and residence in heaven, for
Paul had declared long ago that souls
would then differ "as one star differeth
from another," as Mars from Mercurv,
as Saturn from Jupiter. But at every
step ,mi my dream in heaven I was
amazed to see that some who were ex
pected to be high in heaven were low
down, and some who were expected to
be low down were high up. You
thought, for instance, that those born of
pious parentane, and of naturally good
disposition, and of brillhant faculties,
and of all styles of attractiveness will
moe in the hiahest range of celestial
splendor and pomno. .N-, ni!
I founa the~ highest thrones, the
brightest coronet s,ine richest mansions
were occupied by those who hadI repro
bate father or bad mother, and who in
herited the twis'ed natures of 10 gen
eratons of miscreants, and wno had
compressed in their body all depraved
appetites and all evil propensities, but
they laid hold of God's arm, they cried
for especial mercy, they conquered sev
en devils within and 70 devils without
and were w'ashed in the blood of the
Lamb, and by so much as their contest
was terrido and awful and p.rolix trheir
victory was consummate and resplend
ent, and they have taken places Im
measurably higher than those of good
paretage,wh-o could hardly help being
good because they hao 10 generations
of preceding piety to aid them.
The steps by which many have
mounted to the highest places in heav
en were made out of the cradles of a
corrupt parentage. When I saw that,
I said to my attending angel: "rIhat is
fair; that is right. The narder the
struggle, the more glorious the re
war."
Then I pointed to one of the most
colonaded and grandly domed residen
ces in all the city and said, "Who livs
there?" and the answer was, "The
widow who gave two mites." "And
who lives there ?" and the answer was,
"[he penitent thief to whom Cnrt
said, 'This day shalt thou be with :nt
in paradise." "And who lives there?"
I said, and the answer was, "l'he blind
beggar who pras ed, 'Lord,that my eyes
may be opened."
some of those professz'rs of religion
who were famous on earth I asked
about, but no oue could tell me any
tiintg concerning them. Thi-ir names
were not even in the city directory of
the Nea' Jerusalem. The fact is that
I suspected some of them bad not Lot
there at all. Many who had 10 talents
were living on the back streets of
bf-aven, while many with one talent
had resid-nces fronting on the King's
park anid a back lawn sloping to the
river Clear as Crystal, and the highest
nobili-y of h-aven were guests at their
table, and often the white horse of him
who "hath the moon under his feet"
champed its bit at their doorway. In
finite capsize of earthly conditions! All
social life in heaven graded according
to earthly struggle and usefulness as
proportioned to talents given!
As I walked through those streets I
appre-ciAted for the first time what
Paul said to Timothy, "If we suffer,
we shall also reign with him." It sur
prised me beyond description that all
the great of heaven were great suffer
ers. "Not all?" Yes, all. Moses.him
of the "-le sea, a great sufferer. David,
him of Absalom's unfilial behavior and
Ahithophel's betrayal, and a nation's
dethronement, a great sufferer. Eze
kiel, him of the captivity, who had the
dream on the banks of the Chebar, a
great sufferer. Paul, him of the dis
eased eyes, and the Mediterranean
shipwreck, and the Mars Eill derisiou,
and the Mamertine enducgeonmant,
and the whipped back, and the head
man's ax on the rojad to Os ia, a great
sufferer. Yea, all the apos'les after
lives of suffering died by violence,
beaten to dexth with fuller's club, or
ararged to death by mobs, or from th:;
tt.st of the sword, or by exposure on
barren island, or by decapitatiuii.
All the high up in t.eaven great suf
firrrs and women mor-- than men
Feli-iras and -:. Cecelia are )t. Agnes
and St. Agatha and Sr. Lucia and
women never heard of ouzide their
Qwn neighoorhood, queens of needle,
and tne broom,and the scruobing brush,
and the wash tub, and the diary, re
ward-d according to hov weli they
Iid tneir work, whether to set a tea ta
ble or govern a nation, whether em
pressor milkmaid.
I could nt get over it as in my
dream I saw all this, and that some of
the most unknown of eart i were the
most famous in heaven, arid that many
who seemed the greatts'; farlures of
ear' h were the greatest suceesses of
heaven. And as we pass-d along one
of the grandest boulevards of heaven
there approached us a group oi persons
so radiaat in countenauce and apparel
I h-.a to shade my eyes with both hands
,ecause I could not endure tne luster,
and I stnid, "Angel! do tell me who they
are?" and the answer %as, "Tnese art
they who came out of great tribulation
and had their robes washed and made
wnte in the olood of the Limb!"
My walk through the city explaineo
a thousand things on earth that had
been to me inexlicable. When I saw
up there the supernor delight and the
superior heaven vf m-ny who had on
earth bad it hard with cancers and
Dankruptcies and prosecutions and
trials of all sorts, I said: "God has
equalizad it all at last. Excess of en
chant ment in heaven has more than
made :p for th- dedcits on eartr'."
"But," I said to my anielic e cort, "I
wu'i go now. It is Sabbathx morning
on earth, anid I must preach today and
he in my pulpit by half past 10 o'clock,
''Good by" I said to the atte-ndini angel.
" rhants for wvhat you have shown mec.
I know I have seen only in part, but I
hope to return agema through the aton
ing mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ."
"Goodby."
Then I passed on amid chariots of
salvation, and along oy conquerers'
thrones, and amid pillared majesties,
and by windows of agate, and uinder
arches that had been hoisted for re
turned victers. And as I came toward
the walls with - the gates, the walls
flashed upon me with emeralds and
sapphires and chrysoprases and am
ethysts until I trembled under the
glory, and then I heard a bolt shove and
a latch lift and a gate swing, and they
were all of pear], and I passed out
loaded with raptures, and down by
worlds lower and lower and lower still
I came within sight of the city of my
earthly residence, and until through
the window of my earthly home the
sun poured so strong upon my pillow
that my eyelids felt it, and in bewilder
ment as to where 1 was and what I had
seen I awoke.
Reflection the first: The superiority
of our -heaven to all other heavens.
The Scandinivian heaven. The depart
ed are in everlasting battle except as
restored after being cut to pieces.
They drink wine out of the skulls of
their enemies. The Moslem heaven as
described by the K~oran. "There shail
be houris with large black eyes like
pearls hidden In their shells." The
Slav's heaven: After death the soul
hovers six weeks about the body and
then climbs a steep mountain, on the
top of which is paradise. The Tasma
nian's heaven: A spear is placed by the
dead that mayliave somnetning to fight
with, and after awhile they go into a
long chase for game of all sorts. The
Tahitian's heaven: The departed are
eaten up of the gods. The native Af
rican heaven: A land of shadows, and
in speaking of the departed they ny
"All is done forever.'' The A~merican
aborigine's heaven: happy hunting
gruinds, to which thei soul goes on a
brige of snake. T ie philosopher's
heaven: Made out of t. shick fog or an
infinite don't know. lBut hearken and
behold our heaven, a htch,. though
mstly described 'by figures >f speech
in the Bi ble and oy parable rf a dream
in tris discourse, has for its chief char
acteristics sepnration from all that is
vile, ab'sence from all that can discom
fort., presence or all that can graitulate.
No mountains to climb, no chasms to
bridge, no night to illaemine~no tears to
wipe. Scandmnivian heaven, Slav's
heaven, Tasmanian heaven, Tahitian
heaven, African heaven, aborigine's
heaven, scattered into tamneness and
disgust by i glimpse of St. John's
heaven, of Paul's heaven, of Christ's
heav'-n, of your heaven, of my heaven!
R-flecionthesecond: You nad be'
er take patiently and cheerfully all
pangs, affronts, hardsoi ps, persecutions
and trials of earth, since if rightly born
they insure hevenly payments of ecstasy
Every twinge of physical distress.
every lie told about you, every earthly
sutraction if meekly born,will be heav
enly addition. If you want to amount
to anything in heaven and mnve in its
best soc'ety, you must be "perfected
through sufferin." Trie only earthly
urrency worth anythimg at tne gate ot
eaven is the silver of tears. At the
top of alil heaveti sits the greatest suf
fered Cnrist of the Bue~hlenem caravan
sary and of Pilate's oyer and terminer
and of the Calvarean assassination.
What lie endured, oh, who can tell,
TIo save our ouls from death and hell.
0", :, of the oroaken heart, and the
disappoins d ambun~ion, and the shat
tered tertune, and the blighted life,
take comfort trom what I saw i2 my
Sjbwi morning dream.
Rfl'ction the third and last: How
cesirole that we all get there! Start
this moment with prayer and peatence
and faith in Christ, who came from
heaven to earth to take us from earth
to neaven.
Last summer a year ago 1 preached
one Sabbath afternoon in IHyde park,
Lonon, to a great multude that no
man could number. But I heard noth
ing from it until a few weeks ago, when
Rev. Mr', Cook, who for 22 years has
presided over that Hyde park outdoor
meeting, told me that last winter, go
ing through a hospital in London, he
saw a dying man whose face brightened
as he told him that his heart was chang
ed that afternoon under my sermon in
Hyde park, and all was bright now at
his departure from earth to heaven.
Why may not the L'rd b:ess this as
well a? that? Heaven as I dreamed
about it and as I read about. i :s & o be
ning a realm you cannot any of you af
ford to miss it.
Oh, will it not be transcendently glor.
ious after the struggle of this life is
over to stand In that eternal safety?
Samuel Riathrford, though they vic
iously lrned his books and unjustly
arreste,:. olim for treason, wrote of that
celestial snwctacle:
The King there in his beauty,
Without a veil. is seen;
It were a welI spent journey,
Though seven deaths lay between.
The Lamb with his fair army
Doth on Mount Zion stand,
And glory, glory dwelleth
in immanuel's land.
startling Flau rea.
George K. Holtres, special census
agent on mortgage statlstics, ap
proaches the concentration of wealth
in a recent number of the Political
Science Quarterly. Instead of attempt
ing to coimpute the preperty holdings
of the rich he strives to ascertain how
much of the national wealth the masses
of the people poss->ss. The census bu
reau took fi on every family in twenty
two states and territories answers to
the questions whether it owned or hired
the farm or home occupied, and the ex
tent of the incumbrance on owned
farms and homes, if any, with the value
of the property. The results are 'e
lieved to be fairly representative of the
wholA conntry. Assuming this t o -e
so, 32 per cent of the farm families and
63 per cent of the home families in the
country are tenants. Among farm
o wring families .30 per cent carry mart
gage deb's averaging $1.130 "n farms
whose aversge value is 83,180; amiong
home-owning families 29 per cet-r carry
incumbrances averaginz $1139 An
homes valued on the average at 23,254.
The census will show the numbrr iof
farms t be about 4.500,000. leaving
8,196,152 fataihes occupyiug U im's tnat
are oot farms. Mr. H.Imes conic:s
his Wilth estimates here to properties
valuei at less thau 85,000 Sucl; farms
inc;abered constitute 80 per cent in
nuti-r and 52 per cent in value of all
incumbered farms; and such incum
bered homes constitute 82 per cent in
number and 46 per cent in value of all
incumbered nom- s. The census did
not take the values of unincumbered
farms and home-s and the percentages
in the other cas" are adopted here as
probanly the is( n. Accordin to the
e-stimate tabulaled by Mr. Holmeo 91
Der cent of the families of thm country
own no more than about 29 per cent.
of the wealth, and 9 per cent own 71
ver cent of the wealth. And Mr.
H >lmes believes his es:imates do not
oversta'e the cise against tne poor.
These conclusions are about as dubious
as any that. have ever been reached in
the study of this question. Proceeding
to divide the ricnr 9 per cent of the
fami:ies as between the rich and toe
moderatelv well off, Mr. Holme3 takes
the New York Trinune's list-of million
aires (4.047) nd gives them an average
of about 63,000 000, this estimate being
al'so pardy based upon Thomas G.
Shearnan's claim.s in the same line.
This gives to the 4,047 very rich fami
lies,or three hundreamas of on- ter cent
of all the fnamilies, about $12,000,000, or
20 oer cent of all the natioa's wealth;
and leaves the remaining property of
the nation (51 per cent) to 9 per cent of
the f Imilies, including the very few
millionaires. The' resuit seems i'lcred
ibe to Mr. Holmes. That 4.047 tami
lie-s should possess nearly as much
wealth-s-ve-n-tenths as much, at ;ast
-.es 11.593.887 familmes, is indeed, rataer
eart!iug. But it is probable, he con
tez4d-, that the statement is approxi
mnately correct. Escluding the m~llion
aires,'the wealth of the 1,092,218 .arni
lies lying between them and the great
mases of peopl" holding pro perty-vait-ed
at less than $5,000, becomes an average
of $28,003 a family, which seems large
for so many, but which, Mr. Holmes
goes on to demonstrate, must be about
the case.
The Farmer Boys' College.
ComtT ? S. C., Feb. 1.-The
board or trustees of Clemson College
met tonight at Wright's Hotel. The
session was a long one and considerable
business was transacted. At 11 o'clock
it was announced that the board would
continue in session until 2 A. M. A
great deal of timeS was spent discussing
financial matters and subdividing and3
arranging the work of the cmmittees
on experimental station and executive.
The trustees decided to elect a board
of visItors, consisting of one from each
Congressional district, to be elected
every two years by the board of trustees
at their December meeting. The board
ot visiors are to visit the College the
first Wednesday in August and mnstitute
a rigid inquiry into its working condition
and suggest to the board ot trustee.s.w bat
changes, if any, they may deem neces
sary. The first board of visitors con
sists of: 1st district, Thbeo. D. Jervery;
2d, B. B. Watson; 3d, D. F. Bradle3;
4th, T. L. Brice; 5th, W. H. Ed. 'ards;
6th, W. D. Evans; 7th. E. R. Walter.
The members of tne board have lead
with agreat deal of interest the interview
of Prof. Newman. They must have
thought a good deal about what was so
tersely said by him, but were not talking
for publication. It has been learned t.2at
a movement was on foot to bring the mat
tet- up to-night, and have the action of
the board reconsidered and a genera]
reconciliation. The interview no
doubt piut an end to all such planls.
Prof. Newman is no win Atlaata, where
he owns a valuable tract of land in thie
sub mrbs, whib hie will de-vel.op into a
herteural garden. He will devote
considerable time to the writing ot text.
books and general literature on South
ern ericulture.
The board has a stack of applicst~ions
from which to make selection. Sevr.al
of the candidates are here. The follow
ing directors are at the mee.tini: R. E.
Bwen. J. E Brad~ey, D. N. N rra,
the the 1t-v. Mr. Simpson, J. E W anna
maker, Jesse H Htrdin, D T. Red
fearn, W. H. Mauidmn, M L D~nald-.
son, G weernor Tillman, Secretary of
State Tmrdsl, UI. 1.. Sackhouse. Prezi
dent Craihead and Secretary Sloan are
also here.
G-n. Ke--shaw to Do Ir.
COLUMBIA, S. (., Fe-b 8.-For the
past year Adjt. Geni. Farley, wi'.h a
small appropriation and with the as
sistance of many Confederaite veterans
ineristed in securing an accurate re
vised list of the rolls of the various
companies representing Siuth Carolina
in the late war has been hard at work
trying~ to get such a list. As was
showni by his las. annual report to the
G-neral Assembly he has the work well
aavnced. Within the next twelve
montns it is s-fe to say that these val
uable historic records will be complet
ed and printed along with a sketen of
the m-st valuable historic incidents
pertaining to the civil war and the part
South Carolma played therein, from
tbe pen of G-n Join B. Kershaw of
Camden. At its an sessi >n, the Leg
islature appropriated $1,300 for the
pupose of employing Judge Kiershaw
and a clerk to superiatend and prepare
tese rolls and write such a sketch as
has been outlined. Gen. Kershaw
will very shortly enter upon the work.
-state.
A Terr..r 10 M1.onsblers.
LImTE ROcK, Ark., Feb. 7.-Collect
or Cock today rec' ived a telegram frow
Deputy Collector L. McLutre at Fort
Smith, who reported that tie had just
returned from a fifteen days raid on
mooshiners in Polk and Servier coun
ties capturing fifteen wild wild catters
and nine illicit stills. This makes lifty
illcit stills captured in Arkansas under
IN.TERESTING TO ASSESSORS.
Some Correspondence as to the Work of
To.wnship R 0ards.
COLUMBIA, S. C., Feb. 8.-Comptrol
ler Gcneral Ellerbe is making every ef
f.>rt to zet all of the work possible out
of the vario.2s township boards of asses
sors in the S'ate. He is anxious to have
them make an itenzel list of all real and
pesronal property in the State, and with
that view has had printed a number of
blaski which have been sent over the
State with instructin.-s for their use.
fi. appears that one cf the members
of a twonship board in Newbsrry conn
ty ha, sounded an alarm, and so as to
quiet i. elsewhere Comptroller General
EUlerbe today gave out the following
corzesponJence, wh-ch will be self-ex
planatory:
St Like's. Feb, 6. 1894.
Hon. W. H. Ellerbe, Comptroller Gen
eral:
D.ar Sir: I see that you ha e sent
out abstracts fir the twonshin board ot
assessors. I want to know if the board
will have to i1 out the blanks with the
name of each taxpayer and add up the
a noun' and Iben turn them over to the
auditor, or will the auditor have to fill
them out and the board sizn them, it
the township board has to fill out the
blanks it will take our board at least two
weeks to do it, and as the townsbip board
gets no pay, it is more time than I can
give without pay. Please Iet me know
what is the Cut, ot the board, and oblige,
Yours truly, R, T. C. HUNTER.
The followiog is the reply:
Mr. R. T. C. Hunter, St.. Luke's:
Dear Sr: Repi',iog to %ours of the
6th instant, I be- -.o say that I cannot
fully understand how or why it will take
two weeks to fill out these blasks. It
ycur board do their work thorou~rly they
munt -f necessity evsmlnc each seperat.
item and piece of pr-perty, personai and
real, returned in their t.>wnship or tax
distriet, and a this is d.>oe how easy f.r
one member of the b iard to enter the
item of property as assessed under tk
head as asse:-se3.
This done in a line with name of tax
paacr and you will have your work, as
you pro:re .t, beore you in at intelligent
and c:,ncrete from, which will enable or
aid you in aejusunz and fixing the pro
per va-ues upon the property ot your
to enship. If, however, your board tf
assessors can do this work b3tter and
vith more accoracy in the assessing -w
property without the aid of the blanks
then, of course, do not use them. Oar
purposoe was to aid these boards, and
that purpose to aid is based upon actual
experience and o* t rvations in this work
of the to vnship board cf assessor.s.
Tie auditor Is not expected to have
anytbing to do with the work except
such eid as his position and iniormation
can 2iva, which we are assured such aid
wl be cheerfully rendered.
The Gampiroller seeks the co.opera
tion, aid and fall sympathy of these
boards cf assessors in the proper assess
rnent and quslzaon of the taxable pro
perty of the State, and has contidence in
their intelligenci, patriotism and devo
tion to dity, right and justice to do
tbeir work in a most thorouzh and satis
tactory manner to themselves and the
interested poublic.
With the hope that you may under
stand and appreciate the eftorts of :his
(f;ce, and act in the matter as judg
ment of your board indicates and the
public interest demands, I arn, Yours
respectiully, W. H. ELLERBE,
'ompiroller General.
A New Comm2Fston.
COLU31BIA. S. C., .Feb. 8 --Gverno r
Tilinman today appoinred H. E. Youn g
of Charleston, R. WV. Boyd, of Darling
too, and J. H. E irI, of Gre'enville, com
missioners under the act No. 286, ap
nrowed Decatnber 18. 1893. entitled an
act " for the promotion of legislation in
the United States." These gentlemen
are to serve four years with'out emolu
ment, and as this is a new commission
created, and no.. generally understood
we quote the law on the subject, dlefn
ing their duties, which reads as foi
lows:
"It shall be the duty of said board to
examine the subject of insolvency, the
the form of national certifi
cates and other subjects; to
'ascertain the best means to effecct an
assimilation and uniformity in the
laws of the States an act with the other
States of theUnion in the same endeav
or in a convention to draft uniform
laws to be submitted for the approval
and adoption of the several States, and
to devise and to recommend such mes
ures as shall best accomphls the par
pose of this act. That until the Senate
meets in 1894 the Governor shall ap
point such commissioners with full
power to-act, subject, nevertheless, to
the consent of the Senate at its next
meeting. That such commissioners
shall serve without pay or emolument
and shall continue in office for the pe
riod of four years. The governor, in
like manner, shall fiIl all the vacancies
which shall at any time occur in said
'board by the death, resignation or
withdrawal of any one or more of said
commisioners."-Journal.
A Devastatinlg Storm.
MIEMPHrs, Feb. 8.-A cyclone passed
over the nor thwesteen portion of Miss
issippi late this afternoon and laid waste
everything inits path. Plantations were
devastated, farm houses were wrecked
and ths debris scattered over the coun
try for miles around. The telegraph
wires were prostrated and it is impossi
ble to o!:tain particulare from the stricken
distrct tonight, but it. is known that one
life has ibeen lost. On the plantation of
Col. W. L. Nogent, four nailes north
east of Greenville, Miss., William Brady
and. wife, color-rd, were in the-ir cabin,
whichi was blown down, killing the wo
man instantly. Wben found s se was
ing underneat~h the wrecked cabin, her
ead being wedged between the sills and
several lois, which mangled her beyond
reeognition. Her husband was blown
several hundred teet and received serious,
if not fatal inijures.- The ein bouse and
tenement bonses on the Nugent place
were all blown down and Iarge trees
were twisted irom their stumps and car
ried away.________
For science.
COLUMIBUS, 0., Feb. 3-Dr. C. S.
Py) le, of canton, appeared before the
nouse committee on prison refor~m in
support of his bill to appropriate con
detnoed persons for the uses of science.
tIe argued this would be a proper way
or the 'elon to pay his debt to society.
To illustrate his idea, Dr. Pyle said
e would take an aporopriated crim in
al cut open his stomach, put him under
the influenice or the drug till the open
ig he'ale~d, and keep him alive for a
time, studying tae process of diges ion
by aire-ct observation, or he would re
move a parrion of tne skull, and pr-si
ing on the brain, note the sensations.
Sucn sensations, he held, would not ne
cessarily oe accompanied by pain, and
facts concerning the brain, never to be
secured in any other way, would be
secured. Finally, the subject should be
iled by opiates.
A SIDE show attached to a clicus
which stiowed in a country town in
West Virginia this winter had a big
sign: "Only ten cenits to see the most
wonderful thing in the world." Per
ons curijus enough1 to pay the dime
found a man sitting in a chair inside
whitiing a piece or wood. As he cut
away, with an outward sweep oi his
knife, he remarked: '-Gentlemen, al
ways whittle like this and you will be
in no danger of cutting yourselves."
This was the whole show. People who
had been duped were so anxious to
have company that they went out and
advised their friends to go in, and it is
claimed that the side show did more
business than the circus. Thus do we
see how "man's inhumanity to man
makne counntiae thousands mourn."
An importa2t BilL
Mr. R DeWitt Warner, of New Y ork
introduced in the House of Representa
tives Monday a bil for the removal
ot the tax on the circulation of State
banks on certain conditions. The bill
is an effort on Mr. Warner's part to
solve the problem of how to provide a
safe and elastic currency for the people
of this country, a problem which has
long demanded the attentioh of Con
gress, which has so far baffled its wis
dom, and which becomes the more
pressing as the United States bonds,
on which the national bank circulation
is based, nature. The provision con
tained in Mr. Warner's bill for the re
peal of the tax on State bank circula
tion is intended to provide the desired
elasticity of circulation, and the con
ditions are intended to secure the neces
sary s ifety. Those conditions. in a
general way, make the State banks sub
ject to the same governmental control
as the national banks. Tnat is to say,
there is a certain limitation of the cur
rency in pronortion to the capital of
the bank, the banks are required
to the comptroller of the cur
rency at stated intervals, and
their books and ca3h are liable
to examination by Federal au
thority. The News and Courier
in commenting on the bill says "such
Federal saDervistOu of a State institu
tion is contrary to the spirit of the Con
stitution of the United States but so is
the discriminating tax on the circula
tion of State bank, which is simply an
exercise by indirection of the uncon
stitutional power of forbidding the
State banks to issue notes. It is,
therefore, scarcely worth while to
question the power of Congress to
ad pt this system of control if it sees
flt so to do. The real question before
Corgress in regard to the State banks
is whether it is wiser to adoptthis sys
tem of Federal control, thus parLially
removing the injustice done them by
the discriminating tax on their circu
lation, or simply to repeal the tax and
leave the State banks to the exercise of
their constitutional rights. It is not a
question of power, but of expediency.
It must not be forgotten that Federa
control, while acting as a restraint on
the State banks, would also. naturally
strengthen their credit. If the Repub
licans were in power they would tioubt
less devise some means of enlarging
the number and circulation of the na
tional banks. The Damocrats should
be careful to leave no excuse for snon
a course in case i hey have to maae way
for a Republican majority. Ai in the
matter of the tariff it is not a theory
hut a condition which confronts them.
A reconstruction, or at least a revision
of the banking system is necessary,
and they should undertake the task
at once and adopt a system that, while
preserving State iudependence as far
is possible, should have all the stability
and credit to be derived from Federal
autorization and supervision. We are
not prepared to say that Mr. War
ner's plan is the best that can be de
vised, nor that it has no radical defects,
not having had time to study it critic
aly, but it apDea-s to us to at least ai'o
at the true objects needed to be accom
plish d by firancial legislation in Con
gress at the prese at time."
The Eesding Frxamer.
He needs books and papers that treat
of topics h-it coancra hiat as much as
the physician and lawyer, who find
them indispensable. The Farmer's Re
iew, in replying to a correspondent
who asks "What is the first thing that
a Lman going into farming should do?"
say3: This is a question to the point,
and one that we think is easily an
swered. The first thing he should do is
to subscribe for two or three good agri
cultural papers. He wants to com
menee right, and to commence right he
must he placed in a position where he
can take advantage of the experience
of others. This exDerience of others
will set him to thinking. One of the
troubles with many unsuccessful farm
ers is that they do not think enough
They work too much, perhaps, with
their hands and not enough with their
heads. Take the unsuccessful farmer
and it will frequently be found that he
does not increase his knowledge from
year to year. That at the end of
ten years he is where he was
at the beginning of the ten
years. They are content to follow
in the footsteps of tbeir fathers, who
maie little succese of the same busi
ness. As they do not read their minds
become fixed on a few old ideas, and
those old ideas they repeat in theii' op
erations from year to year. It is this
sort of farmer that despises the agricult
ural editor or writer. They aks, "How
do these fellows know ?" They seem to
forgeG that the work of the agricultural
editor and writer is not to give the
world his own experience and opinions.
but to collect the valuable experience
of other farmers and bring them into
the home of every subscriber; to gaither
the rich opinions of the most progres
sive men and place them in a shape
where they can be known and used by
the masses. The agricultural paper is
a continual school, and, If rightly used,
will prove of great value. As a general
thing, the successful-farmer -is a read
ing farmer. Go to his home and you
will find that he takes one or more good
agricultural papers, usually more than
one. He is also a book farmer of the
most approved pattern. The farmer
that farms only with his muscle has
not only an unprofitable business be
fore hjm, but one that is very unpleas
ant. lie has no great expectations for
the future. The reading farmer sees
in his soil great possibilities. He Is
ready to seize on the good
thoughts of others and make tuem
bring forth on his farm a hundred fold.
He is the man who makes the farm
ouse a true home, to w;hich the s'aus
and daughters will, in the future, look
back with pleasure. The reading farm
er is not tthe farmer of whom his chil
dren will some day be ashamed, because
o his rude and untaught ways."
Flfy Sit1iaon Taken.
WAsEINGTON, Feb. 4.-Secretans
Carlisle toaay authorized the ioUllong
statements reaarding the allotment of
the bonds: The Secretary of the Treas
ury has considered~ the propoosals sub
mitted for the new 5 per cent loan, and
zas accepted all bids naming a higher
price than 11'7,223. The proposals
submitted at the upset price have been
scaled down 5 331 per cent, and the
amunt of bonds allotted under thi~s
reducion, togetnier with the subscrip
tons accepted in full, is $50 000 000 A
notice will be sent to each subscribet.
advising him of the acceptance ot his
subscription, informing h'm when the
onds will be ready and stating the
amount to be deposite : in payment o1
the principal and premium. Tne ac
crued interest to date of deposit at the
rate of interest real zed by the subscrip
tion will be added - the rssistant
treasurer with whom the deposits are to
be made. The bonds will delive:-ed by
the department atter payment is made
to the address given by the subs :riber
or they may be sent to the assistant
treasurer with whom deposit is made
lbr delivery. There were several b:ds
which were riot considered, some of them
not havinuz been received in time, some
were irregular and others were condi
tional..
"GEi-. Thomas 0. Smith," according
to tne Philanetphia Press,"is the most
noedl and picturesque lunatic in Ten
nessee. He is conilned in an asylum
not tar from Memphis. He was at one
time the youngest bridgadier general
in tne Confederate army. While mak
ing a charge at tne battle of Franklin
le recelve-d a sabre cut from a Federal
trooer which wreckled his mind. His
hobby to-day is that he is an Indian
chief constani ly on the war path." As
maters of fact there was no Confederate
brigadier named Thomas 0. Smith, and
the youngest brigadir general in the
Uonfederate army was G-en. Thomas
Mundriun Lon, of South Carolina.
KILLED MIS FATHER
To Prevantl Him from Beating His
Mothe.
COLUMBUS, Ga., Feb. 4.-East
Highlande, a suburb of Columbus, was
the scene of a terrible tragedy early
this morning. James Thompson. a ma
chinist, returned home last night con.
siderably under the influence of liquor,
quarrelled with his wife, and finally
drove her out into a furious rain storm
at midnight. She sought refuge at a
neigbbos's house, with three little chil.
dren. Abnut 3 o'clock, a son, Cliff
Thompson, aged 23 years, who is a
printer by trade, returned from his work
and went to bed knowing 3otaiag of the
treatment o? his mother. Cliff is deaf
and dumb. This morning at 6 o'olock
Mrs. Thompson returned to her home,
and attended to her children, who re
turned with her. Thompson was
aroused and finding his wife in the house
renewed his quarrel with her and ordered
her to get out. The woman pleaded
with her brutal husbaad, who, losing
control of himself, made a savage at
tack on her. At tbis juncture, Cliff,
the deat mute son, appeared in the room
and sprang to the assistanc3 of his moth
er. His father turned on him to drive him
off. The boy jerked his mother away,
when Tbmpson reached for a pistol,
intending, it is prasu-ned. to shoot either
his wife or son, possibly both. Cliff
grabbed a razor from the top o? a bu
reau and a daadly struggle ensued be
tween him and his fatber. Thi boy
made a lnge at the infuriated man,
slashing him across the throat, severing
the carotid artery and cutting him se
verely in several other places. Thomp
son, the elder, fell to the floor in a pool
of blood and expired in a few minutes.
The son proceeded at once to the police
station, wrote a statement. of the trag
edy on a piece of paper and ourrendered
himse'f and was phaed under arrest.
The affair has created intense excite
ment and hunareds of people surround
the place. Public seniiment is with the
son, who was an industrious man and
was fured to commit the horrible act
in defense of his mother.
Horse Talk.
Don't ask me to "back" with blinds
on I am afraid to.
D=n't lend me to some block head
that has less sence than I have.
Don't think because I am a horse
that iron weeds and briars wont hurt
my hav.
Don't be s: careless with my harness
as to find a great sore on me before you
attend to it.
Don't ran me down a steep hill. for
if anything should give away I might
break %our neck.
Dmn't whip me when I get frightened
along the road or I will expect it next
time and may make trouble.
Don't think because I go free under
the whip I dont get tired. You would
move up if under :the whip.
Dgn't put my blind bridle so that it
irritates my -ye so leave my fore lock
thv. it will be in my eyes.
Don't leave me hitched in my stal
all night with a big cob right :where I
must lie down. I amr tired and cant
select a smooth place.
Don't forget to file my teeth when
they are gaged and I cannot chew my
food. When I get lean it is a sign my
tenth wants filing.
Don't matte me drink ice cold water
or put a frosty bit in my mouty. Warm
the bit by holding it a half minute
against my body.
Don't compel me to est more salt
than 1 want by mixiag it with my oats
I know better than any other arimal
how much I need.
Don't say wshoa unless you mean it
Teach me to stop at the word. It may
check me if the lines break anp save a
runaway and smashup.
Don't trot me up-hiill, for I have to
cary you and a buggy and myself, too.
Try It yourself sometimes. Run up hill
with a big load.
Don't forget the old Book that is. a
friend of all the oppressed, and says
"The righteous man is meifutll to his
beast,"
The Sinver Question Again.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.-The silver
question again presented. itself to the
House today, when Bepresentative
Band, chairman of the House commit
tee on coinage, weights and measures,
made a favorable report on his bill to
coin the silver seignorage in the Treas
ury. At the same time Charles W.
Stone of Pennsylvania presented an ad
verse report from the minority of the
committee. Bland's proposition is ad
vanced with a view to supplying the
Treasury with $56,000,000 of silver cer
tifcates to meet current expenses. It
was originally intended that the coinage
of this amount of silver seignorage
would prevent Secretary Carlisle from
issuing nonds. The reports are volum
inous, and deal with the silver question
broadly as well as its relatton to the
seignorage and bonds.
sworn In.
COLUMBIA, S. C., Feb. 4.-Internal
Revenus Collector Webster turned over
his office yesterday to the now Collector,
Capt. S. A. Townes.
Tliere was not much ceremony about
the transfer. General Sewell, chiet of
the revenue bureau at Washington, was
p esent and superintended the change.
Mr. Townes was sworn in by W. A.
Carr, a government commissioner. The
swearing in took place at2 o'clock in the
afternoon. The affairs of the ex-col
lector were found to be in good shape
and the new officer takes charge with
things running smoothly. There will
be no chanae in the office force for a
abort time, it is understood. Captain
Litle will continue to act as chief
deputy. Mr. Webster will remainar 'und
the olice for several days to give the
new appointee any assistance he can in
zetting "the run" of the business.
Register.
A Mystery Explained.
NASUVILLE, Teno., Feb. 7.-On the
furth or' Jan. last, E. A. Sonner. of
L yens Pa , mysteriously disappeared
rom a Louisville and Nashville rail
road tr~in in the vicinity of Big Stone
Gap, Vs. He was largely interested, in
mining industries in Southern Virgmnta
ad east Tennessee and at Middleboro,
Ky. Today the body was found fioating
in the Clinch river. It Is surmised that
in fit of temporary aberation be jumped
from the train into the water and that
the body remained at the bottom until
dislodged by the recent high waters.
Wreck- d.
WASHINGTON, F&,. 8.-T~he old cor
vtte Ke-arsage was wrecked on R an
ador reef' Fe 2 while an route from
Prt an Prince, Hayti, to Bluefield
Nicaragua. TLoe officers and crew were
s ved. This news reached the Navy
Deparment this mording in a cable
message dated Colon and signed by
Lint. Brainard of the Kearsarge who
reached Colon this morning. The Kear
sarge sailed from Port au Prince,Hayti
Jan. 30, for Bluefield, Nicaragua.
A WOMAN was killed lately on the
railroad near St. Joseph, Mo., and her
husband has written to the company
reciting her virtues as a helpful wife,
with a special word as to her qualifica
tions as a cook, and saying that the
company ought to pay him at least ten
dollars damages. He might have got
ifteen dollars if he had struck for it.
A DECISION was lately reported from
Iowa which may interest owners of
dogs. The supreme court of that
State sustaIned a decision of a lower
court whereby damages to the amount
of 1.500 were awarded a man who was
ijred by being thrown from his bug
gy in a runaway caused by the barking
of a neigbhor's dog.
The Coming Campaign.
During a recent visit to Washington
Editor A. B. Williams, of the Green
ville News, was interviewed by the cor
respondent of the Atlanta Constitution
who speaks of the Greenville Editor as
"one of the most independent and
strongest writers on the South Carolina
press." Among other things Mr. Wil
liams said: "The signs in South Caro -
lina are propitious from a journalistic
point of view. It looks as if we are to
have the most complicated, venomous,
lunatic political tarantula dance ever
seen in this country. We haven't got
a very big floor but its powerful hot.
Some States can show up more voters
than we can but we can count out more
voters per capita and work out more
devilnient to the voter than any people
on earth. We have:
"1. The Bowden Reformers.
"2. The John Gary Evans Reformers.
'.3. The Tillman element, which will
go with him.
"4. The Alliance.
"5. The third party.
"6. The Butler Conservatives.
"7. The anti-Batler Cons3rvatives.
"8. Some thousand men up a tree.
"That is a fairly good complication
among 80,000 voters. Now add in the
Tillman anti-dispensary people, the
anti-Tillman dispensary people, the
prohibitionists, Wage Workers' League,
some scattering Republicans, advocates
and opponents of a constitutional con
vention, and the normal supply of gen
eral kickers and floaters and dead beats,
agi hating each other like sin and if we
haven't got a political hell broth I want
to know where you are going to find
one. Yet the old State will scuffie
through it some how and turn up all
right, just as she came through recon
struction stage and the row in 1876,
when we had one solid riot lasting six
straight months and dropped out of it
into a boom. You watch. Our lucid
interval is coming out of all this
thing."
An Awful Experlence.
COLUMUS, Miss., Feb.8--William
Purvis, the young negro, who was sen
tenced to hang here yesterday, for the
alleged assassination last July of Wil
liam Buckley of Marion county. He
was duly hanged, but is yet alive. The
noose parted and Purvis neck, instead
of being broken, was only slightly ab
raised by the rope. He fell on his back
and remained perfectly still for a few
moments A man rushed forward and
bending over the negro asked: "Are
you hurt?" From under nis black cap
Purvis replied: "For God's sake get
me out of this." Others came up and
Sheriff-Hagee made ready to conduct
Parvis back to the scaffold for a second
attempt. Four of the board of super
visors were present, and they called the
sherif into the court house for a con
ference. Rev. Mr. Susley of the Colam
hia Methodist Ch'ch, made an impas
sioned plea to the spectators and it was
decided by unaninmous vote that the
execution be postponed. The negro
was today taken to Meridian and the
facts telegraphed to Governor Stone.
Stock That Uciize Waste.
Sheep and hogs may be considered as
utilizers of waste upon the farm, says
Eural World. The sheep eat - weeds
that other animals reject, gather them
for themselves and enrich the land
where they are kept. Toe swine will
eat food of nearly all kinds that would
be rejected by anything else, possinly
excepting hens, and they will leave be
hind them a rich iegacy in the form of
feriliz-r for the.land. And both con
vert all they eat into profitable pro
ducts. But it does not follo w because
of this that farm animals are only
scavengers, or that the best results are
obtained by using them as such. What
the farmer wants in live stock is a ma
chine that will take the raw material
on his farm and convert it into manu
factured goods. He can utilize the
weeds, briers and all other by-products
in doing this, but as by-products and
not as stable food. The mast success
f ul stockman is a heavy feeder.
A Pltical Bamor.
CoLUKBIA, 5. C., Feb. 8.-Col. F.
M. Mixson has returned from a trip to
Barnwell County. In talking yester
day with the -newspaper men he said
that there bas been no diminution in the
Reform ranks in Barnwell County, which
he says. is the banner Reform county of
the State. He says that while the Dlis
pensary has caused a lew people to leave
the ranks miany more Conservatiyes
have become Tillmanites beeiuse of the
law. Then he said: "There are many
eformers who want to see Governor
Tillman put back in office for a third
term and if he wants the place again he
can get it without turnmng his fingers.
These Reformers feel that the Gover
nor's strong hand will be needed in this
State for several years to come. This is
the feeling. L is a spontaneous one,
and the Beformers bate to see the Gover
nor release the reins of his office"
Convicted.
ATLANTA, Ga., Feb. 3.-Harry Hill,
Atlanta's beauty, was convicted of for
gery tonight. The jury was out only a
few minutes. Tha verdict was made so
quickly that the defendant had not re
turned from taking a drink at a neigh
bormng bar when the jurors filed into
the court room. Hill was sumprised, for
he had expected either a mistrial or an
acquittal. He was senit to jaill for the
night. A motion will be made for a
new trial Hill was indicted for frg
mue the name of Mrs. Fanny Porter,
w:fe of a bank president, to notes. His
dfense was that she authorized him to
sgn her name. She admitted that she
had given him money to aid him a--d had
signed some6 notes for him, but denied
having signed six no es which Hill had
discounted.
FataL Explosion.
CCcAGO. Feb. 7.-A special from
Indianapolis says: At 1 o'clock this
morning the residene of Louis Kuehier
on South Madision street was wrecked
by a natural gas explosion.
The building had brick front and frame
rear, lower floor front being occupied
as a saloon with sleeping rooms over
head. There were eight people in the
house; Kuehier, his wife, three sons
and daughter and two boarders. The
two boarders escaped unhurt. Rosa
the twelve-year-old daughter, was taken
out dead; Charles seven year-old boy
was taken out unconscious and will
probably die; Julious, twelve years old
son, worked his way out apparently
unhurt; Lewis, tifteen-year-old son,
was taken out badly crippled, being
nable to walk.
THrERE is a story to those calic o
prints of cats and dogs and rabbits,
which se wed together and stnffed with
cotton, serve as admirable toys for
small children. The idea of such a toy
occurred to a woman and she tried
vainly to convince eeveral calico print
ers that the thing would be profitable.
She found, at length, a manufacturer
who was willing to undertake the ex
periment of printing her toys, iand he
has since paid her many thousands of
dollars in royalties upon the patent.
A Bank Burglarized.
TOLEDO, Ohio, Feb. 7.-Burglars en
tered the Dleshier Bank building last
night, broke open the vault, and, witb
dynamite, blew open the safe and got
away with $1,200 in gold and 8300 in
silver. The exylosion tore $500 in pa
per money into fragments. B~eside~s
they obtained $100 in stamps and $100
in cash belonging to the Dleshier post
office. Their tracks sno ved that three
ersnsa were in the gang.