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REURGE.'T. Only a bunch of withered towers, Faded and brown and old, But memory makes them gay once more With purple, white and gold. The pink spring beauty greets us first, Fed by the melting snow. And ground nut blossoms show the place Of hidden stores below. The pure wake-rcbin on the hill Greets the first bird again. The starry blood root in the dell Still leaves its crimson stain, Jack-in the-pulpit preaches yet To little woodland folk, And Ilverworts and violets grow At the feet of the hollow oak. The dainty waxen Irdian pipe Beneath the beach tree springs, And the golden bell of the adder tongue Still lightly sways and swings. It tolls the knell-that fairy bell- - Of childhood's hopes and fears And ushers in the toil and sin Of later, sadder years, And so I kept the faded flowers My old time playmate gave, With grasses sweet that grow above A lonely western grave. SONG OF THE SHIRT. R v. Dr. Talmage's Elequent sermon n n Woman's Wok. BB.OoKLYN, Jnne 3 - -Rev. T. Do Witt Talmage, who is now on his rouod the world journey, has chosen as the sub ject for today "Martyr3 (f the ecdl " the text being MattLew sx, 24, "It is easier for a camel to go thrcunh the eye of a needle." Whether this "eye of the needi'' be the small gate at the side of the big en trarce of the wall of the ancient city, as is generally interpreted, or the eye of a needle such as is now handled in eewirg a garment I do not say. In either case it would be a tight thing for a camel to go through the eye of a needle. But there are whole caravaE s of fatioues and hardships going thrcugh the eye of the sewing woman's needle. Very long ago the L-eedle was busy. It was considered honorable for women to toil in olden time. Alexander the Great stood in his palse showing zar ments made by his own mother. The finest tapestries at B3cux were made by the queen of William the Conqueror. Augustus. the emperor, would not wear any garment except those that were fashioned by some member of his royal family. So let the toiler eyerywhere be respected! The greatest blessing that could have happened to our first parents was being turned out of Eden after they had done wrong. Adam and Eve, in their perfect state, migbt have got along withcut work, or only such slight employmsnt as a perfect garden, with no weeds in it, demanded. But as soon as they had shinned the best thing for them was to be turned out where they would have to woik We know what a withering thing it is for a man to have nothing to do. Good old Ashbal Green, at fourscore years, wben asked why he kept on working, said, "I do so to keep cut of mischief." We see that a man who has a largs amount of money to start with has no chance. Of the thousand prosperous and honorable men that you know, 999 had to woik vigorously at the biginning. But I am now tell you that industry is inst as Important for a woman's safe ty and happiness. The most unhappy women in our communities today are those who have no engagements to call them up in the morning, who, once hay ing risen and breakfasted, lounge through the dull forenoon mn slippers down at the heel and with disheveled hair, readmne the last novel, and who, havmng dragged through a wretchMd forenoon and taken their afternoon sleep, and having spent an hour and a half at their toilet, pick up their cardcase and go out to make calls, and who pass their evenings wait ing for somebody to come in and break up the monotony. Arabella Stuart nev er was imprisoned mn so dark a dun'geon as that. There is no happinees in an idle wo man. It may he with hand, it may be with brain, it may be with foot, but work she must or he wretched forever. The little girls of our families must be started with that idea. The curse cf cm American society is that our young women are taught that the first, second, thir'd, tourth fifth, sixth, seventh, tenth, fiftieth, thousandth thing in their life is to get somebody to take care of theni. Instead of that, the first lesson should be how under God, they may take care of them selves. The simple fact is that a ma jority of them do have to take care of themselves, and that, too, after having, through the false notions of their par ents, wasted the years in which they ought to have learned how successfully to maintain themselves. We now and here declare the inhumanity, cruslty and outrage of that father and mother who pass their daughters into womanheod. having given them no facility for earning their livelihood. Mine. de Stael said, "It is not these writmgs that I am pi oud of, but the fact that I have facility in 10 occupations, in any one of whicn I couild mak alirelihood." You say you have a fortune to leave them.' O man and woman, have you not learned that, like vultures, like hawks, like eagles, riches have wings and fly away? Though you should be suc cessful in leaving a competency behind you,, the trickery of executors may swamp it in a night, or some elders or deacons of our churches may get up a fictitious company and induce ycur or phans to put their money into it and if it be lost prove to them thatit was eternal ly decreed that that was the way they were to lose it, and that it went mn the most orthodox and heavenly style. Oh, the damnable schemes that pro fessed Christians will engage in-until God puts his fingers into the collar of the hypocrite's robe and rips it clear down tothe bottom! You have no right, be cause you ate well oft, to conclude that your children are going to be as well oft. A man died, leavmng a large fortune. His son fell dead in aiPhiladelphia grog shop. His old comrades came in and said as they bent over his corpse, "What is the matter with you, Boggsey?" The surgeon, standing over him, said, "Hush up; he is dead!" "Ah, he is aead!" they said. "Come, boys, let us go and take a drink in memory of poor Boggsey!" Have you nothing better than money to leave your children? It you have not but send your daughtsrs into the world with empty brain and unskilled hand, you are guilty of assassination, homicide regicide, infanticide. There are women toiling in our cities for $3 and $1 per week who were the daughters of mer chant princes. These suffering ones now would be glad to have the crumbs that once tell from their farthers' table. That wornout, b-oken shoe that she wei-rs is the lineal descendant of the $12 gaiters in which her mother walked, and that torn and faded calico had ancestry ot magnificent brocade that swept Broad way clean without any expense to the street commissioners. Though you live in an elegant residence and fare Eumptu ously every day, let tour daughters feel it is a disgrace to themn not to know how to work,. I denounce the idea prevalent in society that, though our young wo men may embroider shppers and crochet and make mats for lamp3 to stand on without disgrace, the idea ot dolng any thing for a livelihood is dishonorable. It is a shame for a yong woman belong ing to a large family to be inefficient when the father toils his life away for her support. It is a shame for a daugh ter to be idle whtie her mother toils at the washtub. It is as honorable to sweep house, make beds or trim hats as it s to twist a watch chain. Ser -a I can r derstar d, the line of resp ciaba v lies b veefn that which ;18 Uis uu!.Iled "hit which is uselets It wosr . d ie t which is of novalu, thir ~rk is o t Ii they do ora'e,:.Ork i:1 i5 dishoaorable. Tnat ou VoUu wo if iZy Cee5npe the cen sure ot do.og dishnmrible work I shall pirticular'z-. You may knmi P. tidy C r b.1ck of an armchair, but by L uc, a s maIke the money. wherei1I n ic c-Ir. You may, wnh dizcate trush, beautifv a mantle ornamnt. "but d e ra th:er than eatrn enough to buy a ri-rble mantiie. Y(u may le urtie u:d unitil YOU Can aqueili Iaa.U: ee ig'Ot viiie" or 0.1 Hundred." Do jothiT prac- .- it u wi c.dd, ia the eyes Of re tiatd ees presrve your respeiahm: ty. I scouT ca tioicd uotios. I tell you no wai , tote than ama bas a r:aht to CCCtUv a Place ;a this wo'rld unless s a y a rtu- for i. In the courre cf a : you con sume whole harvests ane droves of cat tLie, and evEry day ! ou liv breathe 40 ho sheads ot aod pure a!'. You must by eone kind o! tatlnes, pay or all this. Our race was the last tbing creat ed-the birds sad flises on the fourth day, the cattle and lizards on the fifth day a:d mar Cn the sixth day. If geol oaista are ri:sht, the carth was a million of years in the possess'icn of the iLsects, beasts and birds, before cur race came upon it. L, cue sEnSe, we were imno va-ors. Tne cattle, the lizards and the bawks had preemption right. The ques tion ,s not what we are to do with the lizards and summer insects, but what the 1 ztrds and summer insects are to do with us. If we want a place in this world, we must earn it. The patridge makes its own nest before it occupies it. The lark by its morning song. earns its 1reakfast before it eats it. The Bible gives an intimation that the first duty of an idler is to starve when it says if he ",vill not work neither shall he eat." Idleness ruins the healtL, n d very soon nature says: "Tbis m an has refused to pay his rent. Oat with bim!" 62c:etv is to be reconstructed on the subject of woman's toil. A vast major ity of those who would have woman in dautricus shut her up to a few kinds of work. My judgment in this matter is that a woman has a right to do any thing she can do well. There should be no department of merebandise, me chamsm, art or science barred a2ainst her. If Miss Hosmer has geniue for sculpture, give her a chisel. If Rosa Bonheur has a fondness for delineating animals, let her make "The Horse Fair." It Miss Mitchell will study as tronomy let her mount the starry lad der. If Lydia will be a merchant let her sell purple. If Lucrecla Mott will preach the gospel tet her thrill with her womanly eloquence the Qasker meeting house. It is said it woman is given such op portunities she will Occupy such places that might be taken by men. I say, if she have more skill and adaptedness for any position than a man has, let her have it! She has as much right to her bread, to her apparel and to her home a3 men have. But it is said that her nature is so del icate that she is unfitted for exhausting toil. I ask in the name of all past his tory what toil on earth is more severe, exhausting and tremendous than that of the needle, to which for ages she has been subjected? The battering ram, the sword, the carbine, the battleax, have made no such havoc as the needle. I would that these hymin sepulchers in which women have for ages been buried might ba opened, and that some resur rection trumpet might bring up these living corpses to the fresh air and sun light. Go with me, and I will show you a woman who, by hardest toil, sup ports her children, her drunken husband her old father and mother, pays her house rent, always has wholesome food on the table, and when she can get some neighbor on the Sabbath to come in and take care of her family appears in church with hat and cloak that are far from indicating the toil to which she is subjected. Such a woman as that has body and soul enough to fit her for any position, She could stand heaide' the majority of your salesmen and dispose of more goods. She could g-> into your wheel wright shops and best one half of your workmen at making carriages. We talk about woman as though we had resianed to her all the light work, and ourselves had shouldered the heavier. But the day of judgment, which will reveal the suf ferings of the stake and inquisition, will marshal before the throne of God and the hierarchs of heaven the martyra of washtub and needle. Now, I say, it there be any preference in occupation, let woman have it. God knows her trials are the severest. By her acuter sensitiveness to mis fortune, by her hour of anguish, I demand that no one hedge up her pathway to a liveli hood. Oh, the meanness, the despica bility of men who begrudge a woman the uight to work anywhere in any honorable calline! I go still further and say that women shohld have equal compensation with men. By what principle of justice is it that women in many of cur cities get only two thirds as much pay as men, and in many cases only hall? Here is the gi tantic iniustice--that for work equally well if not better done woman receives far less than man. Start with the na tional government. For a long while women clerks in Washington got $900 for doing th it for which men reoeived $1,800. To thousands cf young women in our cities today there is only this alternative -starvation or dishonor. Many of the largest mercantile establishments of ou~r cities are accessory to those abomina tions, and from their large establish ments there are scores of souls being pitched off into death, and their employ er anow it. Is there a God? Will there be a jndg ment? I tell you, if God rises up to re dress woman's wrongs, many of our arge establishments will be swallowed up quicker than a South American earthquake ever took down a city. God will catch these oppressors between the two millstones of his wrath and grind them to powder! I hear from all this -land the wail of womanhood. Man has nothing to an swer to that wail but tiatteries. He says she is an angel. She is not. She knows she is niot. She is a human being, who gets hungry when she has no food, and cold when she has no fire. Give her no more flatteries; give her justice! There ar e about 50,000 sewing girls in New York and Brooklyn. Across the darkness of this night I hear their death groan. It is not such a cry as comes from those who are suddenly hurled out of life, but a slow, grinding, horrible wasting away. Gather them before y ou and look into their faces, pinched, ghast ly, hunger struck. Look at their ingers neede pricked and blood tipped! see that premature stoop in the shoulders. Hear that dry, hacking, merciles3 cough! At a large meeting of these women held in a hall in Philadelphia, grand speeches were delivered, but a needle woman took the stand, threw aside her faded shawl, and wita her shrive-led arm hurled a very thunderbolt'of eloquence, speaking out the horrors of her own ex perience. Stand at the corner of a street in New York im the verv early morning as the women go to their wcrk. Many of them had no teaKfast except the crumbs that were lefL over fromi the night b-efore or a crs techew on iheir way through the otreofMar they ome the workineg grs of the cig! Tieze ennaged i beadwork, these in fliwer making. i: mil nery. cnamebing, cigar makinz, b01 biuding, iabelinz, feat' er p:ckie;,'. prir coloring, paper hex makmg, ut. Z:Ces ovewcked o! all and leas. comspensate the sewi:e~ womnaa. Way dio t':ey no takc the ekv cars (n theTr wa up? Tt-!ey cannot effjrd the fiv cet!s. If, c-.ncluding to dsn berseli ser'ethmn else. she gets ut the car, give her a seat! You want t st e how Litimer and Ridley appeare in the fire. Look at that wonan an behold more horrible martydomr, a ht ter nire. a more agonizing death! One Sabbath nigh, in the vestibul of my church, alter service, a woma fell in convalsior.s- The doctor sa4, she needed medicine not so much a something to eat. As she began to rt vive, in her delirium she said gasping ly: "Eight cents! Eight cent! Eigb cents! I wish 1 could get it done! I ar so tired! I wish I could get some sleet but I must get it done." We foun, afteward that she was making ga: ments at 8 cents apiece, and that sh could make but three of them in a da' IHeiar it! Three times eight are tvve t*:,-four! Hear it, men and women wh have comfortable homes! Some of the worst villians of the cit are the employers of tbEsa womei They beat them down to the last per ny and try to cheat them out of that The woman must deposit a dollar c two before she gets the garments t work on. When the work is done. is sharply in3pected, the most insig nificant flaws picked out, and th wages refused, and sometime the do lar deposited not given back. Tb Women's Protective union reports case where one of these poor soul finding a place where she could gs more wages, resolved tb chaoge en ployers and went to get her pay f work done. The employer says, "I heE sou are going to leave me?" "Yes she said, "and I have come to get wh: you owe me." He made no answe She said, "Are you not going to pa me ?" "Yes," he said, "I will pay you and he kicked her down the stairs. How are these evils to be eradicated What have you to answer, you who se coats and have shoes made and col tract for the southern and wester markets? What help is there, whE panacea, what redemption? Some sa "Give women the ballot." What effe such ballot might have on other que tions I am not here to discuss, bi what would be the effect of fema suffrage upon woman's wages? I not believe that woman will ever gi justice by woman's ballot. Indeed, women oppress women much as men do. Do not women, much as men, beat down to the lowe figure the woman who sews for them Are not women as sharp as men o washerwomen and milliners and mai tua makers? If a woman asks a doll, for her work, does not her female en plover ask her lf she will not take I cents? You say, "Only 10 cents diffe ence," but that is sometimes the di ference between heaven and he] Women have often less commiseratic for women than men. If a woma steps aside from the path of virtu man may forgive-woman, neve Woman will never get justice done ho from woman's ballot. Never will she get it from man's ba lot. How, then? God will rise up fc her. God has more resources than vi know of. The flaming sword thi hung at Eden's gate when woman wa driven out will cleave with its terrib] edge her oppressors. But there is something for our won en to do. Let our young people prepai to excel.in spheres of work, and the will be able after awhile to get large wages. If it be shnwn that a woma can in a store sell more goods in a yei than a man, she will soon be able ni only to ask but to demand more we ges, and to demand them succ~essfull2 Unskilled and incompetent labor mu: take what is given. Skilled and con petent labor will eventually make i1 own standard. Admitting that tt law of supply and demand regulati these things, 1 contend that the di mand for skilled labar 13 very great at the supply -very small. Start with the idea that work is ho: able, and that you can do some or thing better than anyone else. Resolo that, God helping,you will take care< yourself. If you are after awhile calle into another relation, you will all tb better be qualified for it by your spir: of self reliance, or if you are called t stay as you are you can be happy an self supporting. Poets are fond of talking about ma as an oak, and woman the vine th: climbs it, but I have seen many a tr4 fail that not only went down itself, bt took all the vines with it. I can te you of somethIng stronger than an oa for an ivy tc climb on, and that is ft throne of the great Jehovah. Sing] or affianced, that woman is strongi who leans on God and does her bes The needle may break,the factory ban mayslip, the wages may fall, but ove every good woman's head there al spread the two great,gentle, stupendot wings of the Almighty. Many of you will go single hande through life, and you will havet choose between two characters. Your moman, J. am sure you will turn yot back upon the useless, giggling, pain ed nonentity which society ignomin ously acknowledges to be a woman. an ask God to make you an humblie,activa earnest Christian. What will becoare of that godle: disciple of fashion? What an insult 1 her sex! Her manners are an outrag upon decency. She is more thoughtft of the attitude she strikes upon the ca r et than how she will look in the judl ment; more '-,orried about her freckle than her sins; more interested in he bonnet strir gs than in her redemptioi Her apparel is the poorest part of Christian woman, however magnil cently dressed, and no one has so muc right to dress well as a Christian. Nc so with the godless disciple of fashio: Lake her robes, and you take ever: thing. Death will come down on he some day and rub the bistre off he eyelids and the rogue off her cheek: and with t wo rough, bony hands sca1 ter spangles and glass beads and ring and ribbons and lace and brooches an buckles and sashes and frisettes an golden clasps. The dying actress, whose life ha beern vicious, said: "The scene close: Draw the curtain." Generally th tragedy comes first and the farce afte: ward, but in her life it was first tfl farce of a useless life and then tb tragedy of a wretchea eternity. Compare the life and death of such one with that of some Christain aun that was once a blessing to your hionsi hold. I do not know that she, was eve offered a hand in marriage. She live single, that untrammeled she migh be everybody's blessing. Wheneve the sick were to be visited or the poc to be provided with bread, she wer with a blessing. She could pray or sin Rock of Ages for any sIck pauper wh asked her. As she got older there wer days when she was a little sharp, bu for the most part auntie was a sur beam-just the one for Christmas eve She knew better than any one else ho' to fix thIngs. Her every prayer, as Go heard it, was full of everybody wh had trouble. The brightest things i all the house dropped from her finger: She had peculiar notions, but tb grandest notion she ever had was t make you happy. She dressed well aunties alwaye dressed well--but he highest adornment was that of a mee: and quiet spirit, which, in the sight c God, is of great price. WVhen she die you all gathered lovir21y about he. and as you carried her out to rest fth Sunday school class almost co.veredt th coflin with japonicas, and the poor pe' pe stood at the end of the alley, wit their aprons to their eyes, sobbing bit terly, and the man or the world sait with Solomon, "Her price was abov rubles," and Jesus, as unto the maide: in Juda, commanded, "I say unt theearise." !ZLAR MAKES A HIT. A Uausuai Honor Conferrcd on Uim by the nouse. WAsURINGTO, June 2.-On motion of Mcses (Dem.) of Georeia a bill was tpsed -,,rantirg a pension to Mary le i vins, widow of E soldier of the Indian ! war of 1817, now nearly 100 sears of Pf"a, and an inmnae of the poor house in Carrecli County, Ga. IPus. in ccomittee of the whole pceedC to to the further consideration of h'e bill ,> rep al the State bank tax Ac,,ud th i an unusal honor was paid a "1w member, when Recd (Rep.) of M ne' aked aud obtain unanimous con sent fr Ilzair to cnclude his remarks s beL'uu yesteeda and which he was Un able to cormlule brcau-e the time al - loited to him had expired. Iz'ar said in t cone'-Udiu: a "Istand for unconditional repeal, first, b-cause the platf~rm recommends it, I and Ohe people demauds it; second, be cause i -:d not icd tbe power anywhere e which would authorize Ccnyress to reg ulate and name ihe securities or the conditions on which State banks could, or st-uld issue their bills. The Federal Ygovernmeot has never undertaken the exercise of any power over State bank ' isues save that of taxation; and this. in my judgement. is a questionable and r dcubtful power." o He then quoted the sections under t which the tax was laid, and continued: - "It had long been settled that the e States posecseed the power to grant charters to State banks, that the power e was incident to sovereignty, and that a there was no limitation in the Federal Constitution on its exercise by the States. This being so, to destroy the State banks which the Stetes had the r riht to create and to eacourge notional banks, was the object and intent with Lt which this burdensome and unjust tax is r. now imposed. To use the language oJ y Mr. Justice Nelson in the case ot Veazie " vs. Fenno, it is suflicient to add that theburden of tax,while it has encouraged these banks (national) has proved "atal to those of ine States; and if we are al liberty to jugde of the purpose of the n Act from the consequences that have t followed, it is perhaps not going too fai to say these consequences were intended, "And Chief Justice Waite, in the latei it case of Hollister vs. Mercantile Institu le tions said: "That it was no doubt the o purpose of Congress in imposing this t tax to provide against competition with the established national bank currencl Ls for circulation as money. The mere iS fact that Congress saw fit to enact these ft stringent and unjust laws, laws oJ ? doubtful constitutionality-is a ver3 strong argument in favor of the State bank system and of the value of theii tr currency as a circulating medium. The 2 laws which regulated banks in Sout r. Carolina at the time when the banks o' .. that State gave a safe and flexible cur 1. rency-a currency which citculated f:ee a ly, not only within her own borders and n among her own people, but in othei e, States-are in their main and essentia rI features, still to be found upon her stat. r ute books. In some particulars they are now more s.ringent than formerly ani - consequently must afford more ample r and better security to depositors and bi e holders. t The Legislatures of the several State ,e will see to it that they are protectei Irom "wildcat" banks, from over issuet and from unfaithful and dishonest offi Scials, so far as these evils can be pro. Svided against, by strict laws and careful r supervision. We should not hestitatt n by reason of these apprehended dangeri r to the business public to come up to the >t ull measure of our duty by blotting oni i- from the statute book this law, whict r. has borne so hard on the South and Wesl it by destroying our banking institutions Sand crippling our resources. The pee a pie have demanded it, our duty is plain, e will we do it?" s At the' conclusion of Iziar's remarks. Enloe (Dem.) of Tennessee explainei that the motion he made yesterday tc . take un bills on the private calendau e was noti mde in antagonism to the pend e ing bill, for he was in favor of its pas f sage. _________ d Whoiesalo Eemovai. e WVAsmxo~ToN, June 8.-Not only of Lt flee holders, but boardinghouse keepers Sand busin ss men are becoming stirred dup over e the recent and still contin uing dismissals in the different depart E ments. About one tenth of the popula it tion of the city is employed by the 0 government. That one-tenth represents it at least 50,000 people, whose happiniese 11 in a large majiority of cases depends upon the regular receipt of tiie envel e epes at the end of the month. Whet e one-fifth of the population is thus in. r timnately interested in office holding, it - is easy to imagine the widely divergent d effects of such sweeping charges as rhave taken place in the past month. -e Between 700 and 800 have been dis 5 charged from the government printing ofli '. and though Public Printer Bene d dict nas said that no more wholesals o dismissals will be made, it is g likely the end is not yet in r the bee hive on North Capitol -street. In the war department, since i April, nearly 350 clerks have been re d moved, and others are expected to gc , in the near future. These will be in company with about 303 of the census sbureau employes and those of other Sdepartments when the Dockery bill ebeomes a law. It may, therefore, be 1 safely estimated that at least 2,000 per .sons will have to look for other employ .* ment before the winter comes. Among s those dismissed, particularly in the rwar department, are men who have .lived a generation in Washingtcn, and have come to regard it as their home. Some may have managed to buy com hfortable homes, and the loss of their t regular monthly stipend causes them to wonder how they may now continue '. to occupy them. Others have been so r long at one desk that by reason of their r age they are absolutely unfitted to en gage in other occupations even were there any opening for them. In view of this outlook a movement is contemp lated to engraft on the Dockery bill a d provision that to those clerks who will be removed under it a year's notIce be given. This, it is contended, will en d able them to look around for other employment, so that they may adjust e themselves more readily to circumstan 'ces when they cease to derive their e means of support from the government. e Secretary Hoke Smith sent to congress, in reply to a resolution, the number of dismisals made by him in his depart t nment, and also some oth er particulars. The most striking fact in the reply is r that 212 old veterans have been remov ed. It is stated that there were 60 re t instated which means men who were r removed before this administration r came into oilice, or who lost their places t for other reasons. Between March 4, i 1893, and A pril 19, 1894, the List shows that there were 760 appointments, 176 e reinstatements, 883 dismissals, and 89 resignations by request. Free Fight. V ROME. June 6.-The debate in the f Chamber of Deputies this afternoon 0 was remarkable for its bitterness. Lul a gi Diltgenti, Radical, delivered -long . tirade aigainst Felice Cavalotti, ex treme Rtadicai. At the close of his speech he turned toward Cavalotti and - shaking his list at him exclaimed, "You r dishonored yourself by a dishonest al liance with Gioletti." Cavalotti sprang f to his feet white with rage and called back, "You coward and liar, you shall ,suffer for those words." Cavalotti's e friends tried to restrain him, tbut he e broke away from them, caught Diligen Sti by the waistcoat and struck him i three heavy open handed blows in the - face. A dozen deputies threw them I, selves between the two men. A hun e drd more gathered round, shouting a for order or reviling one another. The uproar drowned the voice of the deputy who asended the tribnal. A Shocklog Tragedy. BJENNETTSVILLE, June 0--Oar usualy quiet and orderly town has been shocked by a tragedy unparalleled in sadness. List night about 9:30 o'clock a horseman, with lightning speed, rushed up town to notify physicians and relatives that Mr. J. Donglas Moore had been shot down with a double barreled shotgun at the resi dence of Mr. Henry T. Breeden by Mr. Breeden himself. They are both resi dents of this town and are brothers-in law, Mr Breeden having married Mr. Moore's sister. They are yojung men, representatives of the very best and most piominent families in Marlboro county, and bad been fast friends. Your correspondent immediately se cured a buggy and drove to the place of the sad affair. I found three physi cians and about one dozen citizens present. Mr. Moore was stretched on a mattress on the floor of one of the porches near where he was shot and fell. Your correspondent ootained the following facts: Both men were un der the influenae of liquor, they drank together in Breeden's house; hot words passed in reference to family matters. Breeden got his gun, but Moore in duced him to put it up; they then drank together. Moore started home, and was on the porch near the steps when shot. The load entered just below the navel. The wound bled profusely.and the unfortunate man suffered much pain. Moore told your correspondent that he was leaving for home and was shot without provocation. Mrs. Adams proprietress of the Adams House, is the mother of Mr. Moore, and she, with her daughter, Miss Moore, were sent for. When they arrived I witnessed the most touching and heartrending scene of my life. Early this morning the wounded man was removed to his mother's. His two uncles and cousin arrived from the country. His ante mortem statement was taken by Trial Justice Easterling. The contents of the statement have not been made public. Dr. C. Kollock of Cheraw, assisted by local physicians, by investigation discovered that the bladder had been shot to pieces, and they at once pronounced his case hope less. He can live but a few hours. Moore stated that he entertained no ill will toward Breeden and that he freely for gave him. Whiskey caused the trouble. No arrests have been made this even ing.-State. Two Lynchinas. YORKVI&LE, S. C., June 2.-Jeff Crawford, colored, was lynched this morning at 1:30 o'clock. At that hour, a crowd called at the county jail and waked up the Sherift, telling him they had a prisoner. He had heard that there was talk of lynching Crawford, and he refused to open the jail. The crowd broke into the jail. Crawford was found in the dungeon and taken near the Ches ter and Lenior depot. Fifteen minutes were eiven him in which to make his peace with God. He- contessed to hav ing murdered Mr. D. A. Blackburn. He was swung up anI a few bullets fired through his body . Mr. D. A. Blackburn was found dead last autumn near Rock Hill. His body was horribly mutilated. Jeff Crawfr. was suspected of having committed the crime. He was arrested, tried, convicted and sentenced to be hung on June 1. An application for a new itilal was made, and was granted by Judge Watts. The people would wait no longer for Craw ford's life to pay for his crime. Judge Lynch was appealed to and gave a speedy sentence.-Register. ONE AT LAYCASTER. LANCASTER, June 3.-Hardy Gill, a young negro, about thirty years old, was taken from the jail this morning be tween 1 and 2 o'clock, by a crowd of men and shot to death, about three miles from town. Gill was in jail for cruelly beating Mrs. James A. Clark, of Cedar Crcek Township, on Monday last. Gill went to NMr. Clark's promises in his ab. sence and comamencdd raising a distur bance in the yard. Upon being ordered away by Mrs. Clark, he turned on her with an andiron and beat her unmerciful ly. He then picked up Mrs. Clark's baby and threw it across the house. Mrs. Clark's injuries are such that ahe is not expected to live. Tbe little child's injuries are also of a serious na ture. The negro was immediately ar rested and lodged in jail. Yesterday he was adjudged insane before Trial Justice Burns.-State. More Uen Than Women. The United States census bureau has issued a special bulletin containing marriage statistics. .It has been as carefully compiled as the nature of the case would admit. Its conclusions up. set several points of popular belief. One of thEse is that there are more wo men than men in the country. 'The cold figures show that this is not true of the country at large, even if It be so of Massachusetts. But Massachusetts Is not the country, through Boston may think the country revolves around her as a pivot. The fact Is that we have 1,422,410 more males than females in the United States, so that every wo man could have a husband if she wanted one and have a fraction of a man to spare besides, so far as the mere supply of men goes. This ought to comfort those maidens who still have hope tnat their affinities may be found, thought It holds out small con solation to baehelors. Statistics of widowhood and widowerhood show a difference on the other side. Widows are for some reason far more constant to the memonry of the dear departed than widowers. For every widower who remains in the single state there are three widows. And yet,with the ma jority of widowers remarrying, there are still nearly a million and a half hus bands left over for the ladies who want them. Perhaps they are not distributed x the right districts. Crime of Universal Saffreage. LoNDON, June 2.-The Economist, commenting on the campaign of Ida Wells against the lynching of negroes in the Southern States of America, says: "The equality ot the races does not exist. The whites who granted the suffrage to the negro were guilty of a grave offen~e against republicanism as a system assur ing the moral and intellectual compe tence of a citizen. There is nothing to be done except to tolerate the negro as a subordinate citizen until he becomes civi lized, which he may never be. We do not ask good Americans to interfere in be half of the negro. but we do ask our own countrymen, who cannot be good repubhi cans in the midst of lynch law." The Spectator says: "The action of the North after the war made the condition of the negro infinitely worse than if they had adopted a wiser and more unselfish policy. It is a terrible example of mis chief due to vindictive and short-sighted partisanship. It was impossible to maintain a system under which a des pised and ignorant race was encoraged to play the despot over a race of higher poltical intelligence." DON Dickson said In an interview the other day that he believed in Gro ver Cleveland more than ever. "There was a time," said he, '-when they burn ed Andrew Jackson in efligy all over this country, and yet two years after that, so popular had Jackson become, you couldn't find a man who had said a word against him. That is the way it will be with President Cleveland. He is an able, fearless man; a man with the courage to do what he ise lieves to be right. And he is doing more for bimetallism than any other man living today. He is a believer in silver. The only question is as to the best way in which to do it. They will come to his idea of it yet. England fs already receding from her situation and the day will come when you will see silver restored to the world; and Grover Cleveland is doing more to that Iend, as I said than any other man or 'forc in the world today;." GOV. TILLMAN ON TEMPERANCE. He Addiees-ialn AUdience of Two Thous and People. PROHIBITION PARK STATEN IS LAND, June 4.-Governor Tii!man, of Scn.h Carolina, presented his State agency plan f&'r the solutien of the liquor onestion to an audience of two thoIusand Prohibtionists at this evening's session of the interrational Temperance Con aress. The Governor's hearers did not agree with him as to the plan, but they listened closely to i.ed, and found some points at wbicl they couvd an plaid without. doin violence to their consciema-. At other times the-y loudly expressed their (lisapproval. Before the arrival of Governor Till man Col. Alexandcr S. 3a-cou. of Brook lyn. made an appeal for the raising of $2,500. At this point the electr:c 1.ghts went out and the auditorium was in darkness. A score of lanterns were brought In and the guest from South Car olina was led forward in iemi-darkness. He was introduced by Lhe R -v L r H. L. Wayland, of Poiladelphia. Governor Tillm in began by saying that he wished there was more liaht so he could look the people in the eye and have them look him n the eye and tell whether he was telling the truth. Con tinuina he said: "I have come a long way and left my cilicial duties mn the interest of truth and right. I have hear%, a great deal at the session I have at tended of 'sand' and 'backbone.' It has been said that I possess those qualities. I will say that I will shov here to-night that I am willing to advance my con victions on my audience, and I an going to controvert you: dearest ideas and firmest beliefs. I am probably the only politician present. I nave been elected Governor of a State, and I am a candid ate for the United States Senate, and expect to be elected." The Governor then went on to bay that be was not exactly a politician in the ordinary acceptance oi the term. He said he always spoke his convictions and that was not characteristic of politi cians. He said that he was a farmer; that his Gubernatorial position was his first office. He announced that he pro posed to have his say and if anyone in the audience wanted to throw rocks at him he would throw rocks back. Then drawing himself to his full beight he said, in tones that made the rafters ring: "I am here to-night to tell you that prohibition don't prohibit, and never will prohibit. We have got a plan in South Carolina that completely wipes out saloons, and we have done more than you have. Now, I am a temperance man. [Applause.] I never drank five gallons of whiskey all to gether in my life. [Laughter,] I some times take a social glass with my friends, but I don't like the stuff." The Governor then produced a bottle of whiskey with the South Carolina lable on in. He waved it like a firebrand in the faces of the total abstainers and described the State dispensary plan. He said that prior to the decision by the Supreme Court of the State there were sixty-six dispensarie3 in operation, and the State bad paid cut $379,000 for lquor, $57,000 for bottles and $37,000 for labels and other expenses. From the total outlay of $475,000 and with $98 000 worth of liquor on hand, $567,000, worth had been sold and a net profit ci $100,000 to the State and S84,000 to the counties had been realized. He said that the quality ot the whiskey was chemically pure, so that the people quit having a headache when they got drunk on it. He said a moment later than no one got drunk on dispensary whiskey; they got drunk on blind tiger whiskey, which, he said, they hid in boles in the ground or "toted" in their boot legs. He stirred up the audience by declar ing that prohibition would never be es tablished by votes. "Give us a chance," said a man in front. This brough; a volley of applause, when the Governcr shouted. "Y ou are not ready to remove the Government tax on whiskey." "Yes we are," came from all parts of the hall. "Then you are blinder than I thought you were," said the Governor. A moment later he alluded to "pro hibition narrow-mindedness" and com plained that the audie.nce would only g half way with him. Then he said: "Before you are a dczen years older you will see half the States in the Union foildwing the example of South Car olina" "Never," shopted a woman delegate. "If you can'i get prohibition, will you take the dispensary?" asked the tovern cr.They y ae a l1:1in d nces,and one man in the back of the hall said yes. "That is encouragiug," said the Gov ernor. He said that in all the country of South Carolina and nearly all the towns pu'olic sentiment is in favor of the dispensary law, and it will be car ried out eventually. He went on: "So far as back bone is concerned I have as much as any other man, but when you tackle the liquor trade entrenched be hind its hundreds of millions you need to have the backbone of the .statue of Liberity." The Governor left for the South after the meeting adjourned, at 4.15 1'. M hays 1r is a Lie. CotamIIA, S. C., June 10.-G overnor Tlllman was in his office at the State House yesterday, having returned from the North yesterday morning- The Governor was in a good humor except over the story which was sent out by the Associated Press about his speech before the Prohibition Convention in Ne w York. He denounced the entire report as false and said that he could prove it by any officer of the conven tion. He said that he had the Conven tion with him by a majority of at least three to one and believes that the ma jority was nearer ten to one. He sald that the New York Times was the only paper which came near giving him jus tice. That paper headed its account of his speech "Tillman Wins the Day. Prohibitionists Tote for the South Carolmna L!quor Law." The Governor was warm under the collar when talk ing about the way he had been treated by the Associated Press and requested the representative of the Association here to ask that an investigation be made into the story sent out.-Register. The Kingdom of Home. Let home stand first. No matter how high your ambition, no matter how far your talents or your influences may reach, before everything else build up a true home. Be not its slave; be its minister. Let it not be enough that it is swept and garnished, that its silver is brilliant, that its food is de licious, but feed the love in it. Then from its wails shall come forth the true woman and the true man. What honor can be greater than to found such a home? What dignity higher than to reign its honored mis tress? What is the ability to speak from a publie platform or the wisdom that can command a seat on the judge's bench, compared to that which can insure and preside over a true home? To be the guiding star, the ruling spirit in such a home is higher than to rule an empire. The Viable suppiY. NRW YORK. yTuly 2.-TE'e total visi ble supuly ot co t na for the world is 3.326,611 al of which 2.735,411 bales are American, against 3A10,803 bales and 2.774,603 bales respectively last year; receipts of cotton this week at all iatsrior to-,vs 12,089 Dales; receip!.s from the plantations 1,676 hales; crop n sigh 7,175,61.2 bales The Need of the Country. Senator Patrick Walsh, of Georgia, made one day last week one of the best, speeches of the session in favor of tariff reform. He repudiated the charge made by Senator Hoar, of Massachu setts, that the South is in any sense hos tile to tWe industries of New England, and claimed that the South is destined to be the great manufacturing centre of this country. He declared that the Democrats of the South favor the in come tax, not as a sectional measure, but because it is just and equitable. The revenue tariff plank in the Chicago platform is solidly endorsed in the South, but our people erecognize the fact that the Democratic party is National and not sectional, and itis absurd to suPpose that they have any desire to discriminate against .any American industry or lower the wages of the mechanic or laborers. We have seen under the McKinley bill millions of dollars werth of our products shut out from foreign markets because we would not allow other countries to compete with us for'the custom of our home markets. The policy of the Democratic party has not been free trade but tariff reduction. It has de clared not only for lower taxation but for non-interfernce with the capital and labor engaged in the manufactur ing interests of tae country. The over whelming election of Mr. Cleveland on a revenue tariff platform leaves no doubt as to the wishes of the people. Under the McKinley tariff we have had more failures, suspensions, en forced idleness and general distress than has ever been known within the Dast two generations, In three years it has caused an increase of 18 per cent. in the number of failures and 44 per cent. in the liabilities. The prices of farm products have declined lower than at any time within fifty years. The demonetization of silver was largely resporible for this shrinkage, but it will be seen that the claims of the protectionists are not sustained by the facts. The Wilson bill may not be a complete remedy but it is a reform and on the right line. In regard to the in come tax Senator Walsh made a strong point when he called attention to the fact that the British masses never com plain of the tax, because it falls on those who are able to pay it, whereas, under our system we collected last year over 60 per cent of our tariff duties out of the necessaries of life while the luxuries paid only 37 per cent. Under the present law the poor man pays as much and sometimes more than the millionaire for the support of the Gov ernment because the tax is laid on con sumption. This is inequitable. The senator urges the Democrats in Con gress to redeem the free silver and State Banks planks of their platform. He contends that it is safe for this country to adopt free coinage, with or without international agreement, and that our -population, wealth and re scurces will enable us to sus:.ain it on a parity with gold, and compel recog nition for it from the enlightened gov ernments of Europe. His view of the State bank tax is a sound one. He ar gues that it is an unconstitutional war measure, prohibitory tax, and that it should be repealad, because it has served its purpose and because the States have just as much right to con trol their own local banks as they have to exercise any other right under the Constitution. The tax should be un conditionally repealed. The speech is a clear presentation of the facts of the situation and an unanswerable argu ment for the redemption of the Demo cratic pledges of the remonetization of silver, State banks and a revenue tar .ff. Until these pledges are redeemed the senator frankly says that he sees little prospect of the improvement of trade, the revival of industry and bet. ter prices for farm products. Senator Walsh has pointed out the remedy that is needed to cure the malady from which the country is suffering, but we have little hope that it will be applied by the present administration, which seems .to be blind. & Woman Assaseinated' GREENVILLE, June 8.-News ha! .iust been received here of another crime in the '"Dark Corner." On Thursday morning about 11 o'clock, while all the male members of her family were ir the fields working, Mrs. Plumley wai shot and will probably die. She is thi wife of William Plumley, owner os considerable property and of a promi nent family. Mrs. Plumley saw some one on the hill above her house and his movements excited her suspicion. Shi went ito the yard and saw a man en ter her house. He ran toward thi house and left, taking a trunk contain ing $600. As she reached the door, gun was fired and she was struck by s bullet which went in her side, coming out on the other. The news spread rapidly. A posse was formed and th( assassin was tracked by the mountain eers five miles around Hogback Moun ton, across the headwaters of the Sa luda, the trail endIng a few yards from the house of Van Burwell. Mr. Plum ley says the Burwells were the only people who kne w he hadJ money 1r the house. The mouutaineers say that if Mrs. Plumley dies, the man who fired te shot will never get out of the mountains alive. The shooting took place about thirty miles above Green ville, in the edge of the "Dark Corner.' His Terrible Death. NEW Yonx, June i.-A peculiar case of suicide is given out by the au thorities of the prison at Chester. fI., in the death of James Murray, a con vict sentenced from Msrion county,IL., for laceny. Murray resorted to all kinds of methods to avoid working. Shortly after he came to the prison he teigned illness and was sent to the hos pital. So weUl did he act his part of a hospit al patient that for several days he lay apparently In great agony, re fusing to eat, and took with eagerness all the bitter prescriptions prescribed for him by the physicians. His trick was finally discovered and It failed to work on several occasions afterward. Being determined not to work and knowing no way out of it but real sick ness. Murray attempted several meth ods of carrying out his purpose. About two weeks ago he ate a large quantity of soap. It was the most successful plan he had hit upon, and he lay in the the hospital for more than a week real ly suffering. Last Saturday Murray was released from the hospital, and on Monday he again succeeded in secur ing a large bar of lye soap. This he ate and was at once taken with violent spasms. He died a horrible death. Muscat Homnee are Happy Homes. Have you ever noticed it ? Call to mind the homes of your friends who have a good Piano or Organ in the house. Are they not brighter and more attractive than those where the divine art of music never enters ? To be sure it costs to buy a good instru ment, but it lasts many years, and will pay Its costs many a thousand times over by interesting the young folks in theIr homes. Don't make the mistake, though, of investing haphazard. Post yourself thoroughly by writing Ludden & Bates Southern Music House, Savah nab, Ga., the great music house of the South, established in 1870. They have supplied 50,000 instruments to South ern homes, and have a reputation for fair prices and honorable treatment of customers; and they represent the lead ig pianos and organs of America They take pleasure in corresponding wth y ou, sending free catalogues, etc Write them. A Talk with Tillman. WA sH INGTON, June 0.-A. s ocal to the Post from Winstcn, N. C., says: G~ovrnor Tihiman. ci South Carolida, was interviewed here this evening on his retumn honme irom New York. He said that die pensaries and high license will be the istue in tne fall campaign in South Carolina. The- question will be settled by Democratd primaries in August. "I will not be .a'candidate for Governor,but will be iu'the race for Sentor Butler's et," sald the Governor, "and I expect t win." ~moy ROYAM" ~AKIN0 POWDER 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. Who wmI De Candidates COLUMBIA, S. C., June 9.-.Tust who is goine to be candidates for the various State offices is an unknown quantity at this time, ard aspirants will have to get in the field in a hurry from now on to go through the campaign. For Secretary of state a number of names have been mentiored, but there has been no positive announcement of a candidacy except by Senator John R. Harrison, of Greenville, and Probates Judge Hill, of Spartanburz. The names of Mr. Cunningham, of Chester, of Ssc retary Dan Tompmis, and of others have been mentioned. Secretary Tomp kins, whose name was recently men tioned, is developing strength for the place. For Attorney General, the general opinion seems to be that il General Buchanan wants the place he can get it without opposition. For Treasurer, the name of Dr. W.. T. C. Bates is the only one prominently mentioned. W. A. Nicholson, of Union, and Colonel Wilie Jones ot Columbia, have been spoken cf for the place but have said that they will not run it Dr. rBates is a candidate for re election. For Comptroller General, there is no announced candidate. The name of James Norton is the most prominent of those mentioned. For Adjutant and Inspector General, Colonel John Gary Watts so far has the field to himself. General E. J. Dennis, of Berkeley, was nominated but will not be a cindidate. Saveral Retorm papers have nomirated General Richbourg, of this city, for the position, but he has made no positive announcement of his candidacy. . Far Superintendent of Education, the present officer, Bone. W. D. Mayfield, is likely to be a candidate. Pioiessor Marchant, of Aiken, has announced hun self. John C. Bailey, of Greenville, has been spoken of. For Lieutenant Governor Senator Timmerman, of Edgefield, is the only avowed candidate, and may not have any opposition. Everyboy knows the candidates for Gaberharional honors. They are Sena tor Evans, of Aikea; Comptroller Gen. eral Ellerbe, of Marion; D:. Sampson Pope, of Newberry, an.: probably Secre tary of State Tmdal.-Register. Ccwxyies Drowned; DJENVER, Col., June 8.-At least fif teen members of tha Denver contingent of Coxey's army lost their lives here by the drowning in the Platte river last night. Four bod'es have been washed ashore at a point known* as McKay's Briage. The other men who are miss ing have also been drowned and their bodies were carried farther down the river. Onie man found drowned at Brigh ton has been identified as Charles Mc Cune, a Missourian, a member of the Utah contingent. They yesterday started off during the day until about 300 had taken passage in twenty-six boats which had been bult of light material by the Coreyites here. The storms had greatly swollen the stream and a very high wind made navigation extremely dangerous. The first boats to arrive at Brighton made no report ot the dangers they had passed through and it was late at night that reports of trouble began to come to this city. It was McKay's bridge, about six miles above Brighton that caused the most trouble, The ficod rushed under it with the speed of a mill race and there hidden by the stream was barbed wires stretched across to prevent the passing of stock uder the bridge at lw water. The wire canght many of the boats and overturned them. About 350 men are now ere vnped beside the river at Bdighton drying their clothes and recuperating. A !arge number of men spent the night in trees along the banks of the river and several were left on is lands. A searching party was sent out this morning to help these men. The ranchmen along the banks also aided a large number cf unfortunates. The men claim that Commodore Higginbon was drunk and lacking all the essential quali ties of a leader and attribute the whole disaster to his mismanagement. The Coxevites will make no further attempt to go East by the water route. A Thousand Killtd. NEW YoRK, June 1.-A special from Han-Kow says that 1,000 persons at least have lost their lives in a catastro phe peculiar to this singular section: eamy rains, caused apparently by a waterspout or "cloudburst" fell early last week on the upper Han, suddenly flooding the lowlands to the depth of' several feet. Two great rafts moored to the bank were torn away by the maddened waters and hurried down stream, smashing everything in their way for over 200 miles, leaving death and ruin In their wake. They reached the mouth pf the Han, where it empties into the Yangtse-King, at this place, Friday night. Like t wo huge catapults they crashed into the junks and s wept them into tbe Yang-tse-Kmang, wihere a whirlpool was formed and the hap less crafts with their crews were sucked beneath the furious waters. Six small Chinese gunots were sunk while try ing to rescue the hundreds of persons thus placed in jeopardy. Life saving boats also did what they could but the current was so rapid that all efforts proved of little value. The vast, impetu os volume of water that rushed out of the Han did much damage on the op posite shore of the Yang-tse-Kiang, over a mile distant, and to the bund in front of the iron works. Many frail houses on the bank were carried away, occupants and all, the water coming down like a tidal wave, almost without warning. Over 400 bodies have been found flaating in the Yang-tse-Kiang below this place, and others are found daily. The Han drains an immense area and its surface is covered with junks and small craft. The only won der is that the destr:ction was not greater, the pecuniary loss being con Lined to the destruction of junks and boats and the ficoding of rice fields, of which no estimate can be obtained. To start atBR ck HillH. COLLMBIA, June 9.-Thme campaign will really start at Rock Hlll and the fun will begin on Monday, Jane 18th. The Yorkville meeting will be held on the 19:n according to schaedule, but a meeting has been agreed upon for Rock 11111 on the date named. Tnis meeting was arranged by Senator Finley, of Yok, and it is understood that both Governor Tillman and Senator Butler have accepted invitations to be present. Canidates for Congress from tnat dis Itrict will also be invited and are ex Ipected to speak, besides the Guberna torial candidates and the seekers for