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IN SBE DARK. I met a child at close of day, Grouping along a duskv way, And. pleadinetly, I heard hin say: "Father, the path is dariz a:i drear, But if I hnew that thou tu near, I could wailt (in w,tho:t a ft-ar "But w-ven I ean:.ot see thY fae, Nor in the dloon thw L thr.3 t\ o' Nor know amuij the cro-s n- wa vs, "Which one thou we",..., -re afraid, I tfen.ble in the de.'') ' Without thy voe1 or hoi to aid. f ttbou wolidst ol!y S:t :o me ~But m1 a whI'pt-z I w le 1;omforted. t1OTgh 1 Co 0 not se7 6'A step before ne; I wounil know That th u ar- het''. i leA ouiIV) Straigi.t through t;e 'ark t. .ind thee so? "If thou tor me ths way hast annedi Let 4 e but touc tin ut4 tieed hand. And Father I wiill n .Q As thus the !itte straN :u ed, "Just .o, - - troubled so i!" I 'aid 1 stumib-e 'mi- tie i ar'zu ism:.yed. "St ea' but one word ny 'eart to cheer, And it win banish all u_- fear, It I but ka Ow Eat umca a T Pere. "And I will dare the dr ariest straud. If I Way otly "ouch :iiV latd. My istenixg heart will uuderstaud. "Then cheered andi c.'mtorted I'll know Thon art sonwht re ilear. a' d so Stra ght onward, through the dark. I'll go." AT ir. -S.NACLt. Rtv. Dr. Timza: reectifs aE oquent BROKXLYN Y- . -This was a grei , ;n t!e he *' of t:1 Brockn Tara r-rc e. Ti Pu s )wers back o the ok iorm. 1t69. td 1S94 ind cats d Rev. Dr. Talm Ige's ;me t coting to Brooklyn and the present celetration. and were intrcductory to thetgreat meet mugs in honor bf Dr. Talnage's pasto rate to take phce on the following Thurs day and Friday, presided over by the mayor of the cit, and Ex-Secretary of the Navy General Tracy. and to be par ticipated in by senars and governors and promr:nent men from nerth, south, east and wet. Tne sublject of the ser mon today was "Ie Generatrns," the text being Eelesiastes i, 4, "Oae gen eration passeth away, and another gen eration cometh." According to the longevitv of peopla in their particular century has a genera. tion been called 100 3 ears, or 50 years, or 30 years. By common consent in our nine-teenth century a generation is ixed at 25 years. The largest processien that ever moved is the procession of iears, and the greatest, army that ever marched 1S the army of generations. In each generation there are about nine hll regiments < t days. These 9,125 days in each generation march with wonderful precision. They never break ranks. The never ground arms. They never pitch-tents. They never halt. They are never if. on furlouah. They came out cf the eternity past, and they move on toward the eternity future. They cross rivers without any bridge or boats. The 600 immortala of the Crimea dashing into them cauze no confusion. They move as rapidiy at midnight as at midooon. Their baversacks are full ot good bread and bitter aloes clusters o richest vintage and nottles of agonz:n tears. With a reeular tread that no or 'der of "double quick" can basten, or obstacle can slacken, their tramp is on and on and -on and on while mountains crumble and py ramide die. "Une ren eration passetm, and another ger.eration cometh." ?his is my twents fith anoiversary sermon, 1869 isnd 1894. It is 25 years since I assumed the Brookh'i. D astorate. A whole generation has peseed. Tcree aenerations we have knowt.--that which preceded our own, Lhat which is now a'. the front and the one ceming on. We are at the '.eels of our predecessors, and uur succesdsors are, at our heels. Whba' a generaticn it was that preceded us! We who are now in the front regiment are the only cues comwpetent to tell the new generatiCD just no w cuwirn ng Smha whoe ur .predecessots were. Bionraphy cannot te'll it. Auto'inraphies c nnot tell it. Biographies are generaliy wuit ten by special friends t f tne c'eparted, perhaps by wife or san or daugh ter, and they only tell the goo'd thinets T be bin graphers of one et i be fi st presidents ef' the United States. m ke no record of the president's acecunt nooks, now in the archives at th? capitol, which I have set-D telling bow much he lost or gained daih at the samig. The biograp' ers of one of t arly secretarnes of the Umite ~tes never described i be scene that day witnessed when the secretary was car ried dead drunk from the agate apar;. ments to his own home. Autotdography is written by the man himself, and no one6 wt-uld ~rcerd for future times his own weakt sres and moral defic ts. Those who herp diaties pu; down only thing that readt wc!! No man or wo man that ever htved -.mulr dame to make full record of all the thouchts and worcs of a lifsmuie. WXe who saw and heard much of the gem-eration marching just ahead of us are i'ar more able than any book to describe accurately to our snc cessors whbo cur predecessors were. Very much like ourselves, thatnk you. Hu man nature in them very much like hu man nature in us. At our time of life they were very mbch line we now are. At the time they were in their teens they were very much like'you who are in your teens, and at the time they were in their twenties they were -very mueb hike you who are in your twenties. Hu man nature got aa..awful twist under a fruit tree in Eden, and though the grace of God does much to straishten things every new generation has the same twist and'the same work of straightenir-g out has to be done over again. A mother in the country districts cx pecting the neighbors at her table on some gala night bad with her own hands arranged everything in taste, and as she was about to turn from it to receive her guests saw herlittle child by accident uptet a pitcher all over toe white cloth and soil -everything, and the mother lifted her hand to slap the child, but she E-:ldenly remembered the time when, a hittie child herself, in her father's house, where they had always before been used to candles, on the purchase of a lamp, which was a matter of rarity and pride, she took it in her hands and dropped it, cratshingt into pieces. and looking up in her father's face, expect ing chastisement, heard only the words: It is a sad loss, but never mind. You did not mean to do it." B3istory repeats itself Generations wonderfully alike. Among that generation that is past, as incur owri and as it will be in the gen erationa following us those who s'acceed - ed became the target, shot at by those who did not succeed. In those times. as in ours, a man's bitterest enemies were those whom he had befriended and helped. Hates, jealousies and revenned were just as l'vely in 1869 as in 1894 Hypocrisy sniffled and looked solemn then as now, There was just as muca avarine among the apple barrels as now among the cotton bales, and among the wheelbarrows as amo.g the locomotives. The tallow candles saw the same asns that are now ftundJ uder the electric lights. Homespuu ra, in't as proud as is the modern fashon :Aae. T-.muty five yeare-yea. 25 cenas-Lavernot chancetd tuman n-te a prei. I sa this for the recomta of hoe who think that car times mou'ra ze all the abeminat urs o f me-~ a Ve U e Lmut e efter Adam noc t u; -edc o: t'ara'no be was. jest like you. '' mat! Osie stel att(er E"ve iett tie etoc 'le was just like yan, O) aenu. ! A! "~ :e's ad vicf tC ces S m .. nc rrah, rompeii, H- rcumceuma', I:ebois and ancient , pj were as much worse than our Mild::n e-:s you might expect from tie icet :- th med-r cities have s-ewhat xieli'td to the restraints of G frytinslv. while those ricien. c. eies wert- Loiitied in their ahomiastiot s Yea t -a oeeerawion wh-ch p Cii With;u the htR 2-5 vears had their bereav merts. tbeir emp'ations, the:r r'zules t--eir d!'irnpom tzoeots, tOcir srecl-eR. %:e clur ther gadoeq;Ea and threir r tlke :ie- tA !eu ragt;t n!v n B .;if- 25 v-e -- r..1869 a.-1894 --ho '.cx v ! Ho" 'nc" -n- t dec -ver. IfTw t! uc- ,heN felt. Wit-: ' -3e av- p -ifrmei the r vu' f Te- ma: iv- ab-. iv;- e from 10 daso to 5-A. CI _tdNT w Y--rk, or ce !hree oawspt 1;v 24 hoursby h eiu T . - i~tadi 1oiw r-ilroaus live t uiii to the Pitic. France ba e'' d tr'rm o- acew to rep~uO wenmsm. Me y f me etaes h.ave wsri. dotinbb .teit.r populati U .Eaict:aeta ou the chei suviving heros 01 the civ i mar bave vone miXno the eccampment 'f the !rave The cafIt phiSisIas, at 'orne r, ! rato-, mercients, have papsd f * be eirzh oc art in retirement wait;ig f r tranition. 0 her men in editorita cebairs, in ulpits, n governors' man sicns, in leblative, senatorial aid ccon Zressk-nal halls. There are n.>t 10 men or women on tbe eartb now prominent who were prom iuent 25 Nears ago. The crew of this old ship of a world i all chauged. 0: ere at the belm, others - the "lookou " others climbiaz the latlaies. Time is a d -tor who with potCUt anodyne has put an entire generation into sound sleep. Time, like another Cromwell, has rcughly prorogued parliament and with Iconoclasm driven nearly all the rulers except one q'se cn from their hhh pices. S; fbr as I observed that gen eralon, for the most part they did their best. Gbastly excep-ions, but so far as I knew them they did quite weP, and many of ttem gloricuty well. They were born at the right time and they died at the right time. They left the world better than they found it. We are indebted to them for the fact that they prepared the way for our coming. Eigh teen hundred and ninety-tour reverently and gratefully salutes 1869. 'Oae gen eration passeth away and another gene ration cometh." There are fathers and mothers here whom I baptized in their infancy. There is not one person in this church's uoard of session or trus!e.es who were here whrn I came. Here and there in this vast assembly is one person who heard my opening sermon In Brooklyn, but not more than one person in every 500 now present. Of the 17 persons who eave me a unanimous call when I came onl v three, I believe are living. But this sermon is not a dirge. It i:t an anthem- While this world is appr-pri ate as a temporary slag, or an eternal residence it would be a dead failure It would be a dreadful sentence if our race were doomed to remain nere 1 000 win ters and 1 000 summars. Gd keeps us here just long enough to give us an appetite for heaven. Had we been barn in celestial realms we vouid not have been able to appreciate the bliss. It needs a god many rougb blasts in this world to quality us to properly estImate tre superb climate of that good land where it is never toJ cold or too hot too cloudy or tio glariniz. Heaven will be more to us than to tho~se supernal be ogs who were never tempted or sick or bereaved or tried or disappointed,. S) you may well take tny text out of the min ar key and set it to a tune in the ma or key. *O.ne generation passeth away arid another generation co.meth " N >thing can rob us of the satisfaction bhat uncounted thousands of the uenera iot just passed were conver ted comfort ed anid narvested for heaven bv-thii .hu'cb, whether in the present building or the three preceediug buildings in which they wors..pped. The two 2reat orans ot the prevonts churches went down in the memorable fires, brat the multitudinous songs they led year after s ear were not recalled or injured. There is no power in earth or hell to kill a halleluish. It is impossible to arrest a hosanna. What a satisfaction to know hat there are many thousands in glory on whose eternal welfare this catuccb wrught migrhtily! Notingz can undo hat work. They have ascended, the nulti:ncies wzio served God in that gen eratic n. That chapter is gloriously en" ed. Buat that generation bas left its :mpression on this generation. A sailor was dying on shipboard, and e said to his mate:-: "My lads, I caua ocali thirik of one passage of Scripture, '-The soual that smuieth, in shall die,' and that keepe ringimg in my ears. 'The scal that sinneth, it shall die.' Can't 'ou think of sometbing else ingthe B:ble to cheer mte up?" Well, sailors are kiud and they tried -to think of some other passagze cf Scripture -with which to con sole their dyinz comrade, b'ut they could not. One of them said: "Let -us call the cabin boy. His mother was a Christian, and I guess he has a Bible." T be cabin bov was called up, and the dinig sailor asked him ii he had a Bible. He said, "Yes." But he could not ex actly find it, and the dying sailor scolded him and said, "Ain't you ashamed of yourself not to read your Bible." S i te boy explored the bottom of his trunk and brought out the Bible, and his mother had marked a passage that just fitted the dying sailor's case, "The blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanseth from all sin." That helped the sailor to die in peace. So one generation nelps another, and cood things written or said or done are reproduced long aftierward. D)uring the passing of the last genera tion some peenliar events have unfolded One day while resting at Sharon Springs N. Y.-I think it was in 1870, the year after my settlement in Brooklyn-atid while walking in the park of that place-I ound myself asking the question' "I wonder it there is any special mission for me to execute 1.n this world? If there is, may God show it to me." There soon came to me a great desire to preach the gospel through the secular printing press. I reab~zed that the vast majority of people, even in Christian lands, never enter a church, and that it would be an opportunity of usefulness infinite it that door of' publication were opened. And so I recorded that prayer in a blank book' and offered the prayer day in and day out until the answer came, though in a way different from that which I had expected, for ii. came through the mis reresen.r.ioa and persecution of ene mies, and I nave to record a for the encouraement of all ministers of the ospel who are misrepresented that if the misrepresentation be virulent enough and bitter enourh, and continuous enough, there is nothing that so widens one's field of usefuiness as hostile at tack, if son are really doing the Lora's work. The bigger the lie told about me the biezer the demand to see and hear what I really was domng. From one stale of sermonic publication to anaother the work has gone on uutil week by week and for about 23 years I have had the world for my audience as no man ever had, and today more so than at any ou.e; t:me. The syndicates infoamw ne that rue sermons go now t-> a>ut 25 00(1 000 p'eople in all lands. L me:.un th.s not in vain boast. but as a testimony to the fact that God :-.swers pr4 er. Would G'0 I had erer occupied the flild abu Lee-a more give me for lick of servIc' :n the pas. ;and double. and qa-rup- i t pie m y wor " in the ut .: hi this my quarter een orv s: am:2 record tie tac' fnat sd- , v 0de vh the preces.io: of blesui:'s h~s r. processio.n ,i 'isasT-rs 1 ana m p 1i Toeiav in. i h.- tourt~h chrt hei-i. sinlce I began in th-s city. My li. ser mon ws in The-- d church : o: merborn~ s.ett: nauineci of empty se.'s, tcr tiP chnren wa most exringm.1n-w. Tea!~ chuY h i a-mi (over1.l.vi r w~l: e b1~.a!r en1;ue, eihafrter t so e thure; yes %isap e-r- i dim . -a. .'-y. Tje " put up 2' b';i f,.ri e-s of rish us to a crowdeal wit v cst t'e *-' Ie af::-r -ye h 'vt CcA to 'ig .a W- hlave rairat: :12,cee ovt o.30-,000 fo(r chturchi cl)a-ri: ao- pu rp st-s tiuring tI:e prese-t p ssort!e, wha we have tiven, fre- of i1l expes., t.v gaspi-l to n-uidreds oi t0uIso straiarrS yt-ar by year. I remvia it grati!tudr- to Gd that ?ri, tri .: er.-tion ot 23 yt-ars I rbtemer be rvo Ssbatos that I hv.-- missed st - vice tbrough anything nii. ptc sir- in disposilion- Al'ne.s:, a fant-e ou U - surject of physlal exe.cise I hav made the pars with whic our i blessed the means of good phy!c condition. A daily walk :;n i run mn. the open air Lave kept m: ready f,.r work ani in good hnm:>r with all thir w'rl(. i sty to all yourg inoisters o the gosp-l it is easier to keep gd health thari to regain it when oIce losr. The reason so many goud men think the world is going to ruin is because their own physical condiion is on the dowri grade. .No man ought to r recza who has a diseased liver or an eclarrd spleen. There are two tliugs ah ead of us that ought to keep us cheerfal in our work-neaven ana the millennium. And now, having come up to the twenty fifth milestone in my pastorate, I wonder bow many more nqles I am to travel? Your company has been exceedinly pl-asant,O my dear peop:l-, aLd I would like to marcih by your sd-, until the generation with whom we art now moviOg anreast and step to step shall have stacked ar:z.s after the 1: battle. But the Lord knows best, and we ought to be willing to stay or go. Most of you are aware that I propusti at this time, between the close of my twenty-fitth year of pastorate and be fore the b-e:ginning of my twenty sixth year, to be absent for a few months in order to take a journey around the world. I expect to sail from San Fran cisco in the steamer Alameda May 21. My place here on Sabbaths will be ful ly occupied, while on Mondays and every MondayI will continue to speak through the printing press in this and other lands as heretofore. Why do I go? To make pastoral visitation among people whom I have never seen, out to whom I have never been per mitted a long while to administer. 1 want to see them in their own cities, towns and neighborhoods. I want to know what are their prosperities,what theft adversaries and what their op portunities, and so enlarge my work and get more adaptedness. Why do i go? For educational purposes. I ~want to freshen my mind and heart oy news scenes, new faces, new manners and customs I want better to under sta.nd what are the wrongs to be right ed and the waste pltces to be reclaim ed. I will put all I learn in sermonsso be preached to you wnen I return. I want to see the Sandwich Islands, not so much in the light ot modern politics as in the light oi toe gospel of Jesus Christ,which has transformed them.and Samoa ar d those vas: realms of Ne w Z-eland and Australia e-d Ceylon nuid lidia. I want to see wh-o Christiamity nas accomplished. I Wa-A to see ho w the missionarIes have b,:u iled about as living in juxury and idie.s ss. 1 want to kuow whether the heath en religions ar'e really as tolerable and as c immeaidable as they were repre sented by their adherents in the parli4 ment of religions at Chicago. I want to see wheTher Monammeaanism and Buddhism would be a good tning for rasplanting in America, as it has again and agatn been argued. I want; to he-ar rhe Bran mans pray. I want to test wnerner the Pacitic ocean treats its gue~Ts any better Than dots the Atlan ic. I want to see the %oidrhas archi ecture of India, and, the Dl-ni and Cawnpore where Christ was crucidied in the massacre of his modern disciple-s, and the aisahled Jugg'-rnaut unwaer ed by Cnristianirv, and to see if the l'aj which the Emperor Snah Jehatn huilt in honor of his empress reaiiy means any more than the plain slaO we put above our dear departed. I want to see the fields where HIavel)ck and Sir Colin Campbell worn the day against tne sepoy s. I want to see the world from all sides, ho w much of iL iS in darkness, how much of it is mn light, what the Bible means by the "ends o.f the earth," and get myself ready to ap preiate the extent of th- present to be made to Christ as spoken of in tte Psalms, "Ask for me. and I shall give the-e the heathen Lor thine inheritaux and the uttermost parts of the eartti for thy possessian," a'nd so I shall be~ ready to celebrate in heaven the victo ries or C trist in more rapturous song than I could have rendered had I never seen the heatnen abominations before they were conquered. And so I hope to come back refreshed, re-enforced and better equipped and to do in 10 sers more effctual work than I have done in the last 25. And now in this twenty fifth anni versary sermon I propose to do two things-first, to put a garland on the grave of the generation that has just passed off and then to put a palm branch in the hand of the gene-rar ion just no w coming on the field. of action, for my text is true, "One generation passeth away, and anotuer generation cometh." Oh, how many we reve-red and honored and loved in the last gen eration tha6 quit the earth: Tears fell at the time of their going, and dirges were sounded, and signals of moura ing were put on, but neither tears nor dirge nor somber veil told the half we telt. Their going lef t a vacancy in our souls that has never filled up. We never get usedto their absence. There are times when the sight of something with which they wer'e associated-a picture, or a book, or a garment, or a staff-breaks us down with emotion, but we bear it simply because we have to bear it. Oh, how snowy white their hair got, and how the wrinkles multi plied, and the sight gre w more dim, and the hearing less alert, and the step -more frail, and on-e day they were gone out of the chair by tne fireside, and from the plate at the meal, and from the end of the church pew,where they worshipped with us: 0 my soul, ho w we. missed them: But let us coxa sole each other with the thought that we shall meet them again in the land of salutation and reunion. And now I twist a garland tor that departed generation. It ne'ed not be costly, perhaps just a handful of clover blossoms from the liield throug~h wnich they used to walk, or as many violets as you could hold bet en the thum b and the forefinger, plucked out ot tne garden where they used to walk in the the coo! of the day. Put these old fash ioned ni wers right down over the hetart that never again will acae, at d the feet nat will never again be wearv, anO the armi that has forever ceased to toil. Peace, fithe : IY~eet, morlmr! Ev-erlast irg peace! Ali that for e-Knro goue. But wnat shall we do - . the De branch? Thait we wiil p. 'u te'tund of the gen-raT ion comir.g on. uers: is to ue tne gene-rail-u for vi -rs.T. ll-:t anid the 'r-ent i.er are i .v bee-n p-e fei-ug trit steamf po'wtr. r~n the electrie light. ar.d e emeotic are To these will be adde-d tranpart' j. It vwill be your mission to na -. forces. E verything :s reaiy un - you to march right up an t-k n world for God and heaven. Go yo-ur WASHINGTON'S MOTHER. A Monnment Erectld to Her Memory Uovelled. FREDERICKSBUR, Va., May 10. Tne monument to the maother of Wash ington unvei~ed today is an obelizk of white marble, fifty feet high. Its base consists of three courses, the upper one bevelled and surmnunted by a die bear in- the simple inscription: "Mary, the mother of Washington." A cap sucmounts the die and from ihis rise the heauful white shafr. rhe site is at the edge o1 a beautirql plateau, and near the two srav boulders upon which the patriot's mother was accustomed to sit for houro daily with her knit:inu. The exercises at the manument were opened witn prayer by Lev. James P. Smith, who large'iy inspired the move ment that resuted in the erection of the nucnument. le was aide to Stonewall Jacksor, and helped carry aim< 1 the field when morially wounded at Chancellors ville. Mayor Rowe'then - xtended a brief and appropriate welcome on the part of the city, atter which G~vernor O'Ferrall de livered a fifteen ninutes address of wel come on behalf of the State, concludin: his eloquent peroration by introducinig President Cleveland, wto delivered a mcst patriotic address. The delivery occupied frty-five min. tes. At its conclusion Governor O'Ferrali presented to Mrs. Chief Jus tice Waite, president of the Nationi As scciation. engrossed re3olutions of the ladies of the Fredericksburg Association expressing their thanks for the efforts of the former towards erection of the monu ment. President Cleveland then cameto the front of the stand and held a public re - ception, in which more than 10 000 per ons participated. Following this, the President was associated to the Mary Washington House, -vhere he rested for a time. In the evening a bouquet was given in honor of the occasion, over which Hon. J. B. Sever presided. It was thought that the president would return to Washington immediately after the un veiling ceremonies, but he was an unex pected and most welcome guest at the feast. A storm of acclamation greeted his unannounced appearance: When the noisy welcome had subsided sufficiently For President Sever to formally present him, Mr. Clevelsad advanced to the front of the platform and acknowledged the tumultuous reception in a brief and happy Impromptu speech, which was most enthusastleally cheered, mid which Mr. Cleveland took his seat. rovernor O'Ferrall was then introduced and made a b:iet and happy response. Vice Pres'dent Stevenson was introduced as a Master Mason to resnond to the econd toast, which was "To George Was-iington, a Master Workman." Justice Harlan of the United States Sapreme Court then arose and annonc ed himself as doubly a grandson cf Vir inia, offered the toast: "To the com monwealth of Virginia." This~was felicitously responded to by Mr Blair Lee. ' The evening passed away most de lightfully, in the enjoyment of the sub taatial and intellecual repast spread by the generous hos ts of the occasion. The President and his party returned to Washington on a special train at 5 o'clock. The weather w s most beauti ful and the celebration one of grateful emory to all who witnessed it. In the Presidential party we.re Secretary and Mrs. Gresham, Secretary and Mrs. Car isle, Secretar y and Miss Morton, Sec - rtary and Mrs. Lamont, Postmaster General B ssell, Private Secretary and Mrs. Thurber and many men distingu ished in punlic lfe. Fitteen thousand Virginjans assembled from all parts of the State to do honor to the noble wo man, whose miemory they hold dear. In the throng were representatives of names contemporaneoais with Washington and familiar in the history of the State many prominent in the present adrninistration of its affairs. The surrounding c~untr y was deserted for the time. THE SENATORIAL FIGHT Beween Batier and Tnthnan Likeiy t o be Warmn. WASHINGTON, May 11L-About the middle of next month one of the hottest campaigns ever waged in South arolina will be opened between Senator Butler and Governor Tillman for Senatorial honors. Senator Irby, the junior Sena tor from the 1lamretto State, is chair man of the State Damocratic committee, and it is incumbent upon him to start the ball rolling. He says he proposes to call the State executive committee toether on the 7th of June, and in about a weeek or ten days following Senator Butler and Governor Tlilman will commence their joint canvass. It will probably be a bitter personal struz gle between them, for Senator Butler is anxious to retain his seat in the Senate, and Governor Tillman has been bendingr al of his political and personal energies to be elected as Ssnator Butler's succes sor. Bothbof themare good stnmp speak ers and they are to speak together from the same platform all over the State. Senator Butler is an aggressive cam paigner, and he and the Governor have been shying political bricks at eacai other at long range for several months past. When they come together on the same stump thete will probably be rome stirring appeals to their respective fol lowers, and those who are familiar with the characteristics of the two predict an exciting contest from start to finish. Both men are past masters in the art of working upon the passions of their re spective followers, and the combat will take on a national as' well as a local fis vor in view of Senator Butler's promin ence in the Senate and also because of the notoriety Governor Tillman his ac quired by reason of his famous dispen sary liquor law. South Carolinians here are anxiously awaiting for the battle royal to com mence, and at the present writing both sides anpear to be about equally confi dent of victory. A. well-known South Carolina Congressman, who is supposed to have a slight leaning towards Sena tor Butler, for personal reasons, but who has heretofore affliiated with the Tillman movement in the State, was asked to-day for his opinion as to the probable outcome. He replied that he looked for a desperate struggle between Seator Butler and Governoc Tiltman on the stumo. and that at the present time it was difficult to pick a winner. Sena tor Butler is snpp~sed to represent the Conservative or National Adm inistra tional wing of the South Carolioa Demo crcy, while Governor Tillman is the leaier of ..he Anti-National Administra tion-Farmers' Al liance-Popalist forces n the State. The Governor has the ad vantage of being surrounded by the State organzation and the political manchinery absolutely at his control. Shnator But [er has made advances to some of the Governor's men by assisting them and their friends in securing Federal patron age, but in doing so it is claimed that he has driven some of the Conservatives fron hm camp, and there fore it is a ques - ieu whether his recruits from the Till man camp have exceeded the desertions from his standard among the Conserva .ives.-News and Courier. Closed. COLUMBA, S C., May 10.-A procla mation was issued by Mayo'r oan to day ordering~ the close of ligaor selling establishments in this city licm tomnor row, and instrucedng the police to en fo.ceth lnawu against illici: sales. pr.J m Lord Jesus Au n r "by evatlng book and iW 1r, 1nf, ::oUr bo)dy right by .. m.mmm ~d 11-14 .exercise and eAnTy' *: e,2v ookirz as often I yo p :- i se of the moun t .. e T F arc ! In Goo's nAni hert i. the palm Drea.I~m no er~tto conquest m~v-- ngt on Iu -rIvrt up. You will Y,.: iav, xh-.he i Id 'or yourself. Ha.r : l-:hr o> yr have gone, we ::i -: h" pulp:t, and the of mii th I aCTorieS, sirIions, and -. a 9,:n 0 2 r..n. Fr wrd in . 'A 1 2 for vou who n 1:.. es:you I? "111! Lhat s* r i rt-s ow r-n, bur. d(liv er min n o isza:J. how shall te not wi, 7 i, a 'si :e-y give us ail bigs? A- t:o im are noi-v at, the fron', xvg a t aa,.-:I ol. Lhe grave of !a.-t -r.io,- ,.d ,ivwg put the l 'Ith coMing . s !- ch each rther in t~a- -mema~sts ~nd o into the shi :-. :4:. wnr a bmut tLe same time,:d erwd Z-'y tle generation i a. as ptee-d us we will have to toia .ile while to greet the I --Xio that 'will come atter us. . d oii not th4t '.e glorious? Three g in hieaven toge her-the gr . th son a :d th gLandton, in- gronam .ti-r, the daughter and the grAd gt :- r. Aid so with wider r i.d e faculty we shall re iz- the tuli ticice of the text, '0 generatfl a::seth away, and einoLner generatica cometh." AFFAIR$ iN AUGt.STA. mvst 7,i Dti P.: d su-p -cted PIson u:-+hockl::g Death. AU-STA y G.-Prof. W. B. Dil %,.:.:.l;:ai of ol Central Gram. r r :1, dc:': A mornios at 5 -ie der -inxular circumstances. Pri>f. D.i wen- i:ng oa May Day, it be'u:- a hohday n the schools and has not been vEry .-ell siace. He missed two oays asuol, but yesterday left 'MC 'n aprarently good condition. He d is ie he was toZ in to see a friend :u~ca ai' Sand Ills. and if be came bCk : would be late. He did not return home i mLht, and when his fater-in-law, Mr.:B. B. Lester, returned from ciurch toiday and still there was L o news he wient ou. t o lock for bim. About o2'lock he looked in the scbool bu idiuz and nond Prof. Dillon leaninz back in his chair unconscious. At 5 o'clock he died, having s;>oken but once. There was cvidieuce of a tempor art reSUSCiLation and Dr. Doughty asked: "How do you Jecl, Ber.? He replied: 'Never better," and then relapsed into unconsciousness, from which he old not again recover. At ibe coroner's inquest the phy siclaus declined to give any posi LuVe tCory O1 the cause ot death and an autopsy was ordered, but the result has not yet been reached. The autopsy. as far as carried on to night, did not show any gross lesion or disease of any of the orgaus of the body. The doctors who were with him beforc death say the symptoms pre seumed were not such as would fit any uzual d sease or common poison. The )rgans w, re all found normal an, i a fairly healthy condition. Dr. Holliday, who performad the autopsy, gave it as his evi:Tcace tbat he was unable to deter mine tne cause of iteath. but the con teuts of -he stomach bad been taken out and preacrvei f~r exami. ation by a com petent chemist, which may reveal the rue cause of death. The verdict of the jLrY was that the esuie of dea-h was un known uoti the sOach was examined by a c'emM. Failure ec fir to find the caus-: Prou. D lion' death makes ita -wt-sat~oual m-,terv. Professor Dillon 'v3- very canah-e, a tise disciplinariao ernd b-ive-d '- L sh 'ol1. He leaves a 'm:e and no et:!dren. fIe was married abu.ayear ago,) aI w 's 34 years old. '-e t:.s a Masonu, an O0 d Fellow, a - Kecht oPv&:u-?s soil j'lner seeeand i..uixnani, at tue Cinoch Ral s. Anotber deptare ble occurrence was he hurutug this afternoon of little Annie B. HI ry. tie eiaht-year-old eister of \j -. JaHenry, of Savannah, and Mr. T.e a. -ury, the newvsoaper man. s. : Nf .-v Y . rk. Thils little daugh ter f M s. Mir, Henry was playing in a ne-b's yard -nuh several other chil dren. Tc-iy had matches and were liht ios a l,:twood torch when Annie's clin v c...ught. He.- ecreams attracted the w~fs cf [Policemian Trommerbauser, who ra-n to the chdld's assistance and seiz og" her in her arms, tried to smother the '.i .res by h loing the c ild close to her. M?*r i'ary Kenedyv followed close be nud Mrs. "romnmerni~user. and just as the lat'er's clotues were catchaing seized he child fron her, tearing the e .id s clothes cpen la the back r~ tipped the-m from her, but ol as already co nadly burned atte l ce' olV with the clothing. h -r inej! h~ortn seemed to have de sredxbaumnbed her nerves. aad tho e si~ she seems to sutfer no gam : v: zecabK die.--News and a si..:rnas Lie. IOn the second page of this week's Times and aemocrat wil.1 be found an article taken from the Ne w York Sun, which contains3 as much down right lieing as any article we ever remember resd~ng.- Tne article in question pur ports to be the observations of a "gen tnman wno has lived in Sauth Carolina fifteen years" on what he calls the "cracIer" element of this State. It virtnally classes the entire farming population of .outh. Carolina as "crack erj." They are said to be descendants of pirates driven from the seas and c onvicts imported as slaves from the old country and are described as being crunigards, assassins and loafers by in heri~ance. insainct and custom. The Greenville N'eivs says it doubts "if the man who gave the interview was ever in South Carolina longer than a week at a time. 11ls whole story bears evi dence of den-se innorance regarding the people of this State and of a purpose to injure tee State as a whole. It reads like the prod uction of one of the fel Iows w ho write Southern dialect stories for Northarn mag'~azines and most of whom have never been this side the Potomnac river and never seen a live Southerner. Anybody who has even the slighttest acquaintance with the people of the State generally knows that the South Carolina countrymenl are the clear:est blooded population in the Union. Tne g reat majority of them are itomn Scotch. Scot ch Irish and Eng lish ancestors. Their appearance is evidence enough of that and a wonder fuiy large proparition of them are di rect diescendants of revolutionary fain ilies. In very plain houses and among very piani and unpretending people we often und pedigrees tr-iced osck to the tie 'o the war ofl176 with accuracy : "- drcness waien most of New Y r s fouri hundred would proba~bly ein vy. La::c-.ster coumnty, of which he allegea' :estient s;peaks part icularly the tople ae e-spaciaiiy and remarka bly distnt in their local and family rec:oros and all through upper South Car-oliia-.e Tory antd Whig families -r e .reebered anid recited in near ly. every eigZnuorhced. it is an in tens l in utastin~g subj'c'. and study, especally i t- w wih a taste for his I ory. -'nd -o ma'h had taken the admer p:Ga toifrmu himself re garme he -veandpeople would bar- taik t:e sard stuffqgioted unn she had e' d' inselt in a comn I E.-;: Tou-. Mlay 1-A speclati cable a ue ila'd arm Cia .racas sa-,s that -iterole ,ar'iogake took place in \ I Ila -0 Apri -N T~heeciries of Mo 1 -1 s, -Chigura, and Dan :a to0.aiy destroved n -- s.- M to be wreck-ed. Full -cis I he lrr~d slocldy, hutI POSING AS MARTYRS. A. Washlaxton Jui'ge xnd jary Ply to C;xr2' flaod. WASHrNGTON, May 9.-The three lead~ers of the commron~weal. Ge'. JIscob Szher Covey.,. Marshli Carl !rowne and Christopher Columbus Jone. were iboundl g1u.lty yFsterday of violatingq the laws by a jury o their peers, and will have to submit to a st 'ence hererd ter to be ituposed by the court for their recent demonmlratinn on the Cepitol. All three of the accused were onvic ed on the lireL c'uut of the inwetmievt, which chared them) with duplavinir m the Cap.oi otrounds the banter (-f the Coxey G-od roads Aseciatiou. Jones i Paila el:a Wa3 aequiuited of the see ord c!n; which accueed Lioe o! tread ing on the _rass, but Coxey and Bromre were co:v~cted. -The jury reured at ive minutes be fore 1 o'clock, alter hearing a long carrge Irom Jade Miller, which ltr. them lIttle alternative but to convict if thev followed his leadings. About hialf past 3 o'clock the jurors sent for the in structions given fir the defense, but the governrment objected and they filed u,,o the c iurt room while the judge read the instructions. Young Attorney Hyman endeavored. excitedly, to hav: the fact that the objcctiou came from the pro secution laid before the juty, but he was su,.presed. Judge Miller stated that ne would not have hauded over the written nstructions under any cir:umstances, as that would have been irregular. Only five miuntes after this episode the jury returneded with the indictment. "General Coxey had been visi.ing with his wife and his ~daughter, the "Goddess of peace" of the -May day procession, but took his seat withm the bar and all of the party received the re sult smillingly. except Mr. Myman, who was on his feet with some objection to the form on which t* e verdict was pre sented, but he was sat upon by his col lesaues. Attorney Lipscomb, immedi ately entered a motion for new trial and another in arrest of judgment. Judge Miller zave him four aays to file the tor mal paper, then the judge made inquiries about bail and Frank Hume, a well kaown wholesale grocer, who eeveral times has been a candidate for the Dam ocratic nomination to Congress from the Virginia district across the Potomac river. signed a bond in $500 for eacb of the three convicted commonwealers. Gen. Coxey left the courtroom on the arm of his wife, pushing through a curi ous crowd which made co demonstra tion. The conviction of himself and Jones *was a surprise to the common weal sympathizers. Coxey said that it was evident that his Drosecutioa was not on account ot what he bad done, but because of the principles in bernalf of whichhe hadacted. Carl-Brownere marked: "I was surprised at the coa. viction of Brother Coxey, because he was plainly acquitted by the evidence of any technical violation of the statutes. For my own rart, I expected to be con. victed." Just after the closing plea for the d-+ fanse, Browne's la sver had asked per mission to read to the jury a statemerat written by his client, but Judge Miller declined to admit it saying that Browne had been given al his riahis in being de fended by able attorneys. The paper was written in Browne's usual grandilo quent style and averred that he diff-ered from his lawyers rezardingz the line of defense, that be would have admitted the technIcal violations of the law and have asked the jury to acquit him on the ground that he was merely exercismne his constitutional rights. Two weeks may elapse, during which the trio will be free on bail, before the motion for a new trial is argued and de cided. The penaliv provided by law is the same for each cilense, viz: A ane not to exceed $100 or imprisonment in jail for not more than thirty days, ot bcth within the discreti n of the court. Accordingly, the mnaximuma punishment which may be meted out to Coxey and Browne is $200 and 120 days. while Christopher Columbus Jones is sutject to $100 and sixty days. By a curious Congtsional error .in:' recent bill which reorganized the Dis trict courts, there is no appellate court to which a police case can be carried. The only me'thod oi appealing from Judge Miller's sentence will be by an applica tion to a higher court for writs of habeas corpus and certiorari. Attorney Lips comb has announced tha:, he will take this step if Judae Miller overruies the motIon for a new trial. However, such a petition will not operate as a stay of judgment to keep tue defendants from serving their sentences while it is pend ing. Did Not Expect It. The Charleston Snn records rather an amusing incident in connection with the recent letter of Congressman McLaurin. According to the Simn's story "Professor Marchant queried the Congressman as to whether he, Mar. chant, was the object of the tormer's description in his letter of 'one of their little creatures, a peripatetic school teacher, who wants to be superintend ent of education.' McLaurmn frankly replied that Marchant was the person he meant. Whereupon Marchaht say3 his friends advised him to 'hit' back, but he was 'afraid' of a man who would say to his face what he had intended for bim in print. That such a man must be 'mad'-zneaning crazy. This indicates the curious state of mind that the customary equivocation and dodg ing of public men has given rise to. Marchant knew, as others knew, that MLaurin referred to him. Bat he thought on putting the question di rectly to him that McLaurin would, as usual in such cases, find a way out of it by evasion. To t'e Professor's blank anuzement McLaurin simply rep ied that he did mean him. Such airect ness left the Professor without a word of reply. In these equivocating and demagoguteic tim es such an incident is reresfling." A Terribie Leatp. NEW ToRK, May 6.-M:iX Meyer, a wealthy dthy goods merchant of Selma, Ala., jumped from a fourth story win d wy of the fashionable Grataam apart ment house at Eighty-Ninth street and Madison avenue, early this morning and received injuries from which he ded two flours later. Mr. Meyer bad been suffering from insomnia and tem porary aberration for some time past and came to New York recently to be treated by a specialist in nervous dis eases. At 3 o'clock this morning while his nurse was temporarily absent. he arose from his bed, went to the window and jumped to the side walli, sixty feet below. He struck a bronz- railing which surrounds the house, bending it as if it was so much leadc. When picked up his chest was crustied in and his head terribly mangled. His attendant was immediatel7 summoned, but deCs pite the doctor's efforts Mr. Meyer died in two hours without regainzing consciousness. Mr. Meyer w as accom panied to this city by his daughter. Hils wite is at their home in Selons. TUE Soldiers and Sailors Association of .Fcnmond. yesterday issued to all soldiers and siilors of the Counfederacy an invitation to attend the unveiling of the monument, May :;0. Quarters and rations wil tie nrovi.icd oreamz-d bodies who notify Capt. Chas E1lett ot utention to att-andfh time of amrvei. Mor H on. a San F'rancisco China man, 10o1l ws a c drious tuiness.~ Hie gathers up the bonues of nearly all the Chinamen who die in this country' and sips th-r. back to the Fl ,'erv King dom.Hle iscounstantly trave:lmg through the couutry upon his missica. Hie is mploye hy the Chines comnianies. "AKIlN PO WDER Absolutely Pure. A cream of tartar baking powder Highest of all in leavening strength.-La test United States Government Food Re port. Royal Baking Powder Company, 106 Wall St.,.N. Y. A Fahe Noton. There is a popular notion that a poli tical life is corrupting to social as well as commercial morals. One at all ac quainted with Washington must have heard the statement bandied about commonly that the official atmosphere of Washington is morally the most cor rapt in this country. Sweeping asser tions are constantly made concerning the private lives of members of con gress that would tarn 'their constitu ents' hair gray if these constitutents could hear the tales just as they are told at the capital. Most of the stories of debauchery and shame are false or ex aggerated. Undoubtedly a majority of our national representatives and sena tors are moral, clean men, living above the plaCe of political and social corrup tion. Whatever may be said to the contrary, this is certainly true. But while this is the case, and intelligent people throughout America know it to be the case, the appalling self confessed degradation of Congressman Breckin ridge made at his trial recently at Washington cannot help tainting more or less the good name of all members of that body. They owe it to themselves and the American people to cleanse and purify the moral reputation of the national legislature. They owe it to the outrag6d-moral sense of civilization to speak out in no uncertain tones against this phase of Washington mor. als. They owe it to the world to set themselves right on this point, and nothing less will be accepted from them. The private character of a con gressman is a matter that does concern his constituents. This nation is made up of respectable people, who reverence morality and clean living. The great majority themselves live clean lives. They will not submit to be repre sented in congress by those who live otherwise. While they hang their heads in shame at the awful disgrace that has come upon the American people at Washington. they are learning from it a lesson. it is that in the futnie no man shall be elected.to congress whose life is not a clear and open page. The world is not very good yet, but it has advanced to .that stage where ilagrant immorality and licentiousness will no longer be tolerated in the people's rep resentatives. Mrs WardIu 2-w Book. "Robert Els mere" and "David Grieve" left some doubt6 in the minds ot literary crities as to Mrs Humphry' Ward's ar tistic ability. IT.!r new book, "Marcel 1a," s-ems to hai iettled thia point in her favor: The c:izics agree that it is - tue greatest book she was written, and that it places her beyond doubt at the head of women fiction writers in the Eoglish language., A place equal to tuat held by G-orge E tot will be ac corded her now, but not thbe same class. George Eliot and Mrs. Humphry Ward are not at. all alike. Both are actuated by a deep mora- purpose, bilt there the rsemnblance ends. "I:n 'Marcelia' Mrs. Ward has found herself," writes l'he Outlook reviewer. Marcella was a tre mendously in earnest young E aglish grirl wno wanted to reform the world. Stie thought if she could get; laws made to destroy rmawshops and other evil in stitutions she would destroy the evil! It is a mistake the best of women are constantly maging, bless the dear sex. But Marcella found, as every reformer must, that people are the proper mate rial to work on, and that when they are righted the right laws will follow as a matter of course. Personal infiuence reaching fromn the good to the bad, per sonal love, self sacrifice, devotion, and, above all, love, sympathy, purity and strength, spiritual and inteliectural, working on the minds ot those we would reform Is the way to right socie ty's wrongs. This Is the lesson Mar cella learned. - S5ong Bird Mnrderers, According to Olive Thorne Miller the writer on birds, the English spar rows are dri't ing out our nattve song birds. She says: "The first thing one naturally looks for, as birds begins to awaken, is a morning chorus of song True bird lovers long for it with a long ing that cannot be-told. But, alas, every year the chorus is withdrawing more and more to the novels. Every year it is harder to dfind a placs where En glish sparrows are not in possession; and it is one of the most grievous sins . of that bird that he spoils the song even when he does not succeed in driving out the singer. A running accompan iment of harsh and interminable squawks overpowers the music of meado w lark an:1 robin, and the glori ous song of the thrush is fairly mur dered by it. One could almost forgive the sparrow his other crimes if he would only lie abed in the morning; if he would occasionally listen and not forever break the peace of the opening day with his vulgar brawling." Be tween the sparro ws and, bonnet bird murderers our native beautiful song birds may be exterminated. If women themselves are po werless to remedy the sparrow nuisance, they can at least do much by organizig societies for the prevention of killing the birds for hat cecorations, and ret using to buy such decorations when they are put on sale. A Crowalog Cime, LITTLE Roceg, Ark., May 5.-Reli abe intormation reaches here of the burning of a negro in Oichita supposed to. have had srmll pox. The telegram conveying the intelligence says last Mon any a negrJ at Miies station, in Ouchita cunty, was taken sick with some kind o a breaking cut whu~h was tnought to be small pox and a doctor was sent for but iar some leasca he did not attend the case. The negro was put in a cabin to which somne one set i.:e and he bemng unable to escape, perished in the flhoses'. Oae report sa'ys he was sho. and then, burned whi:e another report says he was only burned. 02oe thong is sure and that s the house occupied by~ the nearo was burned to the arcund aud-he can not be fund now. The ideatity cf the guilty parties is not kou v. L'sihtolog'd Wok. TUGALOO, OCONEE County, May 10. During an unprec-eaentedly severe elec: trical stormi which prevailed in this section Monday evreoiog and alt that night two colored girls, the one grown and the other nearly so, were struck dead it' their cabin and a '.iird colorea person ,badly etuanned. Teu years ago te fatnier of these girls wvas killed by THE doings or the R -puli'can secre taries of s'ate in K suas usve b sea under investigation, aud it is asserted that they colleute i 810,00 m iilegal fees in nineteen ye ercs. Ns ' comes the present incuante:,t talaing abudt putting the homn's of weaitny people o th ,tnrr-h. INDIAN WAR AT ROCK HILL. Catawba Braves at Odd--The Whole Tribe May R(c :M-, invoived, RocK HiLL, S. C., May 7.--War has heed neelared amorn :ei Cata:ha barves, with a i;robabilitV that t'1e whole trihe will hecome involved. Each esr the State of South Carolina appropriates $800 to the remnant er the Catowba Indians in this county. This monev is istritu'ed among the mem bers of the tribe by Capt. A. E Smith, tie ager.t. rhe tribe now numbers six tv-ei-zht Indians ar1 half-breeds, and the ca-doi bas beeu t (istribute the fund among the pure nlooi and such or tbc half-breeds as jave Indian mothers never ti-ng the half-breeds whose fathers oUly are Indians. Under the - rules of the :ribe as they have existed for genera tiona, so we are miormed, children onli iherit from their :others, never fcom their fathers. This fact is the cause of the present trouble. -Jetr Davis Ayers is a member of the trite. About seven years ago ho was lawfully marned to a white woman. who has borne three chil dren by her husband. Of these chilcren one is sx years old, anothel four years I ard the yousgest one year. Thuirsday all the Indians came to town to draw the money appropriate'I by the State, but before the distribution could be effected Ayers learned that the uent would observe the rules of the uirbe and not apportion the money amocg the children of any white woman who was the wife of an Indian, inas much as no part of the fund was appro maited f~r a wnire woman, and under the tribal regulation children could only inherit from their mother. If she had no claims upon the fund, the children would have none. This regulati:n deprived Ayers's children of any part in the dis tribution. Finding this was the condi tron of tlairs.Thursday morning, Ayers mada denand upoa the Indian Agent through his attorney, * W. B. Wilson, E.q., for his childten's par of the fund, but the agent has not yet made the dis tributron, as the Indians threaten to hold his bondsmen responsible if he pays any money to the Ayers children. Thus matters stood~Thursday morn ing when Ayers approached a number of his comrades who where standing on Main street. They denounced him for celaymg the payment of the money. One burly feilo , John Brown became furi ously mad and assaulted Ayers, when the women interfered and a general fSght was imminent. The chief of ;olice hap pened to be on hand and nabbed Brown, but he resisted and jerking the chief's walking stick out of his had, threw it into the street. About this time Police man Carroll reinforced the chief and the two hurried Brown off to the guard house. He was Eubsequently taken before the mayor and lined $15 or thirty days. He failed to pay up and is now in the jag. Columbia Register. Found at Last. Editor Joseph Medill of the Chicago Tribune has a haudsome buff and white villa at Los Angeles. He lives there part of the time, managing his paper by telegraph and indulging his fads, of which he has a number, and he is right. No man is wholly happy without fads. One of Editor Medill's fads Ls the foun tain of youth, which he described to a newsnaper correspondent lately. Toe fountain itself is in the San Bernardino mountains and is nothing else than a great reservoir ofmelted snow. The snow water is the purest in the world, Mr. Medill-thinks, and he drinks it in great quantity, so that it will wash away tne lime in his system. It is lime in the system that makes people gef, old and die, in the judgment of The Trib une's veteran editor. Mr. Medill nim self is now 73 years old and bas had time to get considerable lime into ainr. This choked him up, blood and bones, till it gave him rheumatic gout. lie went to various springs in Europe and Am'-rica to get cured, but all were no good. Then he studied into t.he science of rheumatism and gout and concladed drinking distilled water would wash out the lime that had gathered about his j .ints. That helped some, but it was reserved for the snow water of San Bernardino to complete the cure. It is not eating so much as drinking that fills the body up with lime, he contends. If, therefore, mankind will ilnsh themselves, so to speak, with chemically pure water, not whiskey, even of the aispensary brand, they will clear themselves out and stave off old age. Mr. Medill claims that he is re newing his youth on snow water. - Say Good Words. The teacher who educates your chil dren toils on year after year doing her duty and often more than her duty. She may train them in the perfect way, making them grow to noble manhood and womanhood, but never a word of appreciation does she hear. Let her manke a mistake, however; let some thing go wrong, and you denounce her in terms of the severest blame. The newspaper writer gives his life time to writing things that will be helpful to his readers. It is his daily and nightly thought how he will inter est them, instruct them ana give them new courage when they are weary and disheartened. Never a word of praise do yon give him. If he says anything you do not like, however, like lightning descend the bolts of your wrath. He hears from you then-he does indeed. The oflice boy and the little errand girl-mere children, ignorant, blunder ing and timid-come into your employ when they ought to he playing out doors. They do their poor best and~ grow pale and nervous, like over worked grown neople, while yet they are children. You score them for their mistakes and shortcomings; you threat-j en them with discharge; you talk to them cruelly. Do you ever praise them when they do well?~ Do you ever say1 one kind, appreciative word to those whose task it is to please you? Such a word would sweeten life to them for dys. It would be like manna in the wilderness. It might inspire their wole future lives. Do you ever say it ? It is a cruel, heedless world. Litrie Onee Guarded. S-r. JoSEPHr, May 1.-The police are working upon the theory that an organ z-d band of iiidntppers are at work in this city In addition to the mysterious disappearance of W. HI. Harrison, a well known traveling man of St Joseph, and two little daughters on St Patrick's ay, the disappearance of three other small children is now reported. Satur day afternoon Mrs. Gay's tso little daughters let home to gather greens. At night they f tiled to reappear, ann lthough a search for them has been kept up ever since, notchmg in the na ture of a clue to their wtiereabout has cenf discovered. Beosides these one other chii is missing. All are under 12 years of age. These mysterious disappear anes in broad daylight have so alarmed parents that little ones are guarded with thbe utmost care.. WHderea Awdy act Dcd. CLMzEat Asb , N J., May 7.-Search era have meund the dead body of Julian Sibcy, a well known carpenter of this city, who wandered from bis bomes ou~ la Suaday moruing while sullering rom temprary aberration oflmind. Hie was fund on the clfl of the well known Whs mucuntamns, aboiut one mile from this city, and it is generally thouut he fiicd from exposure. riEEN Jyeur3 ago prosecution was lbg'u against John O'Neil, a noted In ter-Satt liquor dealer, of Wfliteflall, N. Y , for infraction of the Vermont proh httry law. The highest Courts o Stat'e and nation have nad the case and pronounced the prohibitory liquor laws of Maine and ermont constitu tional. Last Fruday O'NeillI, a rien man, paid a iine of 8,702 aind left prison rather thran not pay it and stay