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THE GOLDEN SIDE. There is many a rest in the road of li'e If we would only stop to take it; And many a tone from the better lana lfthe querulous heart wou'd make it. To the soul that is full of hope. And whose beautiful trust nie'er faileth, The grass is green and le ilowers are -brght Though the Winter's storn prevaihth. Better hepe though the clouds hang low, And to keep the eyes still lilted; Forthe sweet blue sky will soon peep through, When the ominous clouds are rifted. There was never a night without a day, Or an evening withont a worning. And the darkest hour, as the proverb goes, Is the hour before the dawning. There is many a gem in the path of life Which we pass in our idle pleasure Shatis richer far than the jeweled crown Or the miser's hoarded treasure, It may be the love of a little child. Ora mother,s prayer to heaven, Or only a beggar's grateful thank., For a cup of water given. Better to weave in the % eb of i fe A bright and golden flilng, And do God's will with a cheerful heart. And hands that are i eady ant willing, Thun to snap the delicate, minute thread Or our curious lives asunder, And then blame heaven for tangled ends, And sit and grieve and wonder. THE ROYAL GARDEN Rev. Dr. Talmoge Talks of the Flowers of the Church. BRoOKLYN, July L.-lev. Dr. Tal mage, who is now nearing Australia on his round the world journey, has se lected a3 the suliect for his sermon through the press today "The Bjyal Garden," the text being taken from Solomon's Song v, 1 "1 am come into my garden." The world has had a great many beauti -fol gardens. Charlemagne added to the glory of his reign by decreeing that they be established all through the realm decreeing even the names of the ihwers to he planted there. Henry IV, at Montpellier. established gardens of be witching beauty and luxuriance, gatheriag into them Alpine, Pyrenean and French plants. One of the sweet eats -spots on earth was the sarden of Shenstone, the poet. His writings have made but little impression on the world, -_but his garden, "The Leasowes," will ---be immortal. To the natural advantage of that place was brought the perfection of art. Arbor and terrace and slope and rustic temple and reservoir and urn and fountam here and their crowning. Oak and yew and hazel put forth their richest foliage.- There was no life more diligent, no soul more ingenious than that of Shen stone, and all that diligence and genius were brought to the adornment of that one treasured spot. He gave :300 for it. He sold it for :17,000. And yet I am to tell you of a richer garden than any I have mentioned. It is the garden of the church, it is the garden spoken of in my text, which be - longs to Christ, for my text says so. He bought it, he planted it, he owns it, and he shall have it. Walter Scott, in his outlay at Abbotsford, ruined his for tune. And now in the crimson flowers of those gardens you can almost think or s....,iaaicirthat you see the blood of that old man's broken heart. The payment of the last A100,000 sacrificed him. But I have to - tell you that Christ's life and Christ's death were the outlay of this .beautiful garden of the church of which my text speaks. Oh, how, many sighs and tears and pangs and agonies! Tell me, ye women who saw him hang! Tell me, ye executioners who lifted~him and let him down! Tell me, thou sun that~ -didat hide ye rocks that fell! "Christ loved the church and gave himself for it." If, then, the garden of.the church belongs to Christ, certainly he has a -right to walk in it. Come, then, 0 blessed Jesus, this morning, walk up and down these aisles and pluck what thou wilt of sweetness for thyself. The church, in my text, is approprtate ly comparsd to a garden, because it is a place of choice flowers, select fruits and of thorough irrigatlon. - That would be a strange garden in which there were no flowers. If nowhere ~abywill be a long the borders or at the aewyThe homeliest taste will dictate someh if it be the old fash. joned hollyhock oralia or daffodil or coreopsis, hit if the elarger mea then yon will find the and dark veined arbutelion an ing azalea and clustering oleander. Well, now, Christ comes to his garden, ani: he plants there some of the brightest sprite that ever, flowered upon the world. 87me of them are volets, urnconspicuous, but sweet in heren. You have to search for such spirits to find them. You do not see them very often perhaps, but you find where they have been by the brigh tening face of the invalid, and the sprig of geranium on the stand, and the window curtains keeping out the glare of the sun light. They are perhaps more lhke the ranunculus, creeping sweetly along amid the therns and brlers of life, giving kiss for sting, and many a man who has had in his way some great black rock of trou ble has found that they have covered it all over with flowering jasmine running in and out amid the crevices. These Christians in Christ's garden are not like the sunflower, gaudy is light, but when - ever darkness hovers over a soul that needs to be comforted there they stand, night blooming cereuses. But mn Christ's garden there are plants that may be bet ter compared to the Mexican cactus thorns without, loveliness withmn-men with sharp points of character. They wound almost every one that touches them. They are hard to handle. Men pronounce them nothing but thorns, but Christ loves them, notwithstanding all their sharpneses. Many a man has had very hard grq~und to culture, and it has only been through severe toil he has 'a~ even the smallest crop of grace. A very harsh minister was taiking with a very placid elder, and the placid 'elder said to the harsh minister, "Doc tor, I do wish you would control your temper." "Ah," said the minister to the elder, "Icontrol more temper in five minutes than you do in five years." It is harder for some men to do right than for others to do right. The grace that would elevate you to the seventh heaven might not keep your brother from knock ing a man down. I had a friend who came to me and said, "I dare not join the church." I said, "Why?" "Oh," he said, "I have such a violent temper. Yesterday morning I was crossing very early at the Jersey City ferry, and I saw a milkman pour a large amount of water into the milk can, andlIsaid to him, 'I think that will do,' and he insulted me, 'and I knock him down. Do) you think I1 ought to join the church?" Neverthe less that very same man. who was so harsh in his behavior, loved Christ and could not speak of sacred things wIthout tears of emotion and affection. Thorns without, but sweetness within-the best specimen of Mexican cactus I ever saw. There are others planted in Christ's garden who are always ardent, always radiant, always impressive-more hike the roses of deep hue that we cccasion ally find called "giants of battle"-the Martin Luthers, Sr. Pauls, Chrysostoms Wyklifs, Latimners and Samuel Ruther fords. What in other men is a spark, mn them is a confiagration. When they sweat, they sweat great drops of blood. When they pray, their prayer takes fire. When they preach, it is a Pentecost. When they fight, it is a Thermuopmis. When they die, it is a martyrdom. You find a great many roses in the gardens, but only a few "giants of battle." Men say, "Why don't you have more-of. them in the church?" I say, "Why Golves to semet n talemts, to another one. In this iardeu of the c'urch, which Christ has planted, I also find the snow drops, beautiful but cold looking, seem iugly another phase of the winter. I me3n those C(hristians who are precise in their tastes, unimpassioned, pure as snowdrop2 and as cold. They never shed any tears; they never get excited; the --ever say anytLing rashly; they never do anything pre cipItately. Their pulses never flutter; their nerves neve twitch; their indiga tion never boil over. Tthey hve longer than most people, bu. their life is in a minor key. They never rua un to "C" above the staff In the music of their life they have no staccato passages. Christ planted them in te church. and they must be of some servIce, c.r they would not be there. S'owdrops, always snowdrops. But I have riot told ',ou of the most beautiful ilwer in all the garden spziken cf in the text. Ii you see a "eentury plant," your emotious are started. You say, "Wby, this iwer has been a han dred years L'atherinz up for ooe bloom, and it will be a hundre3 N cars more be tore other petals will cone out. But I have to tell y-u of' a plant that was zathering up trom all eteroiLy, and that I 1.900 years ago put 1orth its bloom never to -vither. It is te passion tl.wer of the cros! Prophets foretold it. Btth lehem sbepherds looked on it in the bud the rocks shook at its burstin, and the dead got up in their winding sheets to see its full bloom. It1s a rimsoa flw er-blood at the roots, blood on the branches, blood on ali the leaves. Its perfume is to fill all the nations. Its touch is life. Its breath is heaven. Come O windi, frm the north and wins from the scuth and winds from the east and winds from the west, and bear to all the earth the sweet smelling savor of Christ, my Lord. His worth. if all tho nations knew, Sure the whole earth would love him too. Again the church may be appropri ately compared to a garden, because it is a place of select fruits. That would be a strange garden which had in it no berries. no plums, no peaches oranricots. The coarser fruits are planted in the or chard or they are set out on the sanny I hillside, but the choicest fruits are kept in the garden. So ia the world outside the church Christ has planted a great many beauti ful things-patience, ciarity, generosity, integrity-but he intends the choicest fruits to be in the garden, and if they are not there then shame on the church. ReligIon is not a mere flowering senti mentality. It is a practical life giving, healthfal fruit-not posies, but apples. I "Oh," ssys somebody, "I don't see what your garden ot the church has yielded." Where did your asylums come from, and 3 our ho3pitals, and your institutions of merc3? Christ planted 4 every one of them. le planted them I in his garden. When Christ gave sight to Bartimeus, he laid the cornerstone of every blind asylum that has ever been built. When Christ soothed the demo niac of Galilee, he laid the corDerstone of every lunatic asylum that has ever I been established. When Christ said to the sick man, "Take up thy bed and walk," he laid the cornerstone of every t hospital the world has ever seen. .When i Christ said, "I was in prison, and ye I visited me," he laid the cornerstone of3 every prison refcrm association that has ver been formed. T be church of Christ is a glorious garden and it is full of fruit. know there is some poor fruit in it. I know there are some weeds that ought to have been thrown over the fence. I know there are some crab apple trees that ought to be cut down. I know there are some wild grapes that ought toj be uprooted, but are you gomng to de stroy the whole'garden because of a lit te gnarled fruit? You will find worm eaten leaves in Fontainebleau and in- I sects that sting in the fairy groves of thei Champs Elyees. You do not tear down and destroy the whole garden becaus~e there are a few specimens of . gnr'led fruit. I admit there are mani and women in the church who oughtnot to be there but let us be jus).ai frank and admit the fact that thete'are hundreds and thous ands and tneisof thousands of glorioust Christ men and women holy, blessed, as~ consecrated and triumphant. ere is no grander collection in all the earth than the collection of Christians, t There are Christian men in the church whose religion is not a matter of psalm singing and church going. Tomorrow morning that religion will keep them just as consistent and consecrated on "exchange" as it ever kept them at the comunion table. There are women in the church of a hiaber ty pe of character( than Mary of Bethany. They not only( sit at the teet of Christ, but they go out 1 into the kitchen to help Martha in h ar work, that she may sit there too. There is a woman who has a drunken husband,I who has exhibited more faith and pa tience and courage than Haigh Latimer n the fire. He was consumed in 20 1 minutes. Hers has been a 20 years' martyrdom. Yonder is a man who has lain 15 years on his back, unable even to feed himself, yet calm and peaceful as though he lay on one of the green < banks of heaven, watching the oarsmen 1 dip their paddles in the crystal rivei! Why, it seems to me thIs moment as it< Paul threw to us a pomologist's cata logue of the fruits growing in this great garden of Christ-love, j y, peace, pa tience, charity, brotherly kindness, gen tleness, mercy-gorious fruit, enough to fill all the baskets of earth and heaven. I have not told you of the better tree inthis garden and of the better fruit. It was planted just outside Jerusalem a good while ago. Whien that tree was planted, it was so split_ and bruised and barked men snma nothing would ever I grow upon it, but no sooner had that4 tree been planted than it budded and blossomed and fruited, and the soldiers' spears were only the clubs that struck down that fruit, and it fell into the lap cf the nations, and men be gan to pick it up and eat- it, ana they found it an antidote to all thirst, to all poison, to all sin, to all death-the smallest clusterlarger than the famous one of Eschoi. which two men carried on a staff' between them. If the one apple in Eden killed the race, this oneJ cluster of mercy shall restore it. Again, the church in my text is ap propriately called a garden because it is thoroughly irrfgated. No garden could I prosper long without plenty of water. I 1 bae seen a garden in the midst of a 1 deset, yet blooming and luxuriant. All around was dearth and barrenness, but there were pipes, aqueducts reaching from this garden up to the mountains, and through these aqueducts - the water came streaming down and tossing up] into beautiful fountains until every root and leaf and dower was saturated. That is like the church. The church is a gar den in the midst of a great desert of sin I and suffering, it is well irrigated, for "our eyes are cuto the hills, from whence cometh our helps." From the mountains of God's strength there low down rivers of gladness. There is a river the stream whereof shall make glad 1 the city of our God. Preaching the gos pel s one of these aqueducts, The .Bi- t ble is another. Baptism and the Lord's supper are aqueducts. Water to slake the thirst, water to restore the faint, water to wash the unclean, water tossed ] high up in the light of the sun of right eousness showing us the rainbow around the throne. Oh, was there ever a garden so thoroughly irrigated? You know the beauty of Versailles and thatsworth depends very much on the great supply of water. I came to the latter place] rCat+wmrh) one ria when strangers aro not to be admitted, but by an in ducement, which always secmed as ap phcable to an Eolishman as an Amer ican, I got in, ad then the gardener wert far up above the stairs of stone and turned on the water. I saw it zleaming, en the dry pavement coming down from step ti- step; until it came so near L could hear the musical rush, and all over the high. broad stairs it came foaming, fltshing, roaring down until 3unlight and wave in gleesome wrestle tumbled at my feet. So it is with the :hurch of God. Everything comes from above-pardon from above, joy from ibove, adoption from above, sanctilica .ion from above. Oh, that now God would turn on the waters of salvation :bat they might flow down through his aeritage and that this day we might ach find :our places to be "Elims," with 12 wells of water and threescore ied ten palm trees. Eark, I hear the latch at the garden ate. and I look to see who is coming! L hear the voice of Christ, "I am come nto my gardem." I say: "Come in, 0 esus; we have been waitiug for thee alk all through these paths. Look at :he th1,wers; look at the fruit. Pluck :hat which thou will for thyself." Fesus comes into the garden and up to hat old man and touches him and tays: "Almost home, father. Not many nore aches for thee. I will never leave hee. I will never forsake thee. Take ourage a little longer, ard I will tand thy tottering step?, and I will oothe thy troubles and give thea rest. Jourage, old man." Then Chri t goes ip another garden path, and he omes to a soul in trouble and says: 'Peace; all is well! I have seen thy ;ears; I have heerd thy prayer. The sun shall not smite the by day, nor the noon by night. The Lord shall >reserve thee from all evil. He vill preserve thy soul. Courage, 0 roubled spirit!" Then I see Jesus oing up another garden path, and I ee great excitement among the leaves, Lnd I hasten up that garden path to see vhat Jesus is doing there, and. lo, he is reaking off flowers, sharp and clean. rom the steam, and I say, "Stop, don'G ill those beautiful flowers." He turns o me and says: "I have come into my arden to gather lilies, and I mean to ake these up to a higher terrace and or the garden around my palace, and here 1 will plant them and in better ir. They shall put forth brighter eaves and sweeter redolence, and no rost shall touch them forever." And looked up into his face and said: Well, it is his gardon, and he has a ight to do wnat he will with it. Thy vill be done"-the hardest prayer a nan ever made. 1 notice that the fine gardens some imes have high fences around them, md I cannot get in. It is so with the ing's garden. The only glimp3es you ver get of such a garden is when the ing rides out in his splendid carriage. t is not so with this garden the king's ,arden. I throw wide open the gate nd tell you all to come in. No mon )poly in religion. Whosoever will, may -oose now between a desert and a Jarden. Many of you have tried the arden of this world's delight. You ave found it has been a chagrin. So it vas with Theodore Hook. He made 1l the world laugh. He makes us augh now when we read his poems, ut he could not make his own heart augh. While in the midet of his fest vities, he confronted a looking glass, Lad he saw himself and said: "There, hat is true. I look just as I am, -Aone ip in body, mind and purse." Su it was vith Shenstone, of whose garden I told ou at the beginning of my sermon. He sat down amid.those bowers and aid: "I have lost my road to happiness am angry and envious and frantic ana espise everything around me, just as t becomes a madman to do." Oh, ye reary souls, come into Christ's garden oday and pluck a little heart~sease! ihrist is the only rest and the ardon for a perturbed spirit - )o you not think yorrf~~cance las almost come ? You men and wo nen wno have been waiting year and fter ysar for some good opportunity n which to accept Christ, but have ,ostponed it 5, 10, 20, 30 years, do you Lot feel as If now your hour of deliver nce and salvation had come? Oh, man, hat grudge hast thou against thy >oor soul that thou wilt not let it be aved ? I feel as if salvation must come Low to some of your hearts. Some years ago a vessel struck on the ocks. They had only one lifeboat. In hat lifeboat the passengers and crew were getting ashore. The vessel had oundered and was sinking deeper,-and eeper, and that one boat could not ake the passengers very swiftly. A ittle girl stood on the deck, waiting 'or her turn to get into'tlie boat. The oat came and went-camneand went >t her turn did not seem to come. ifter awhile she could wait no longer, ad she leaped on the taffrail and then prang Into the sea, crying to the boat nan: "Save me next! Save me next!" )b, how many have gone ashore into od's mercy, and yet you are clinging o the wreck of sin: Others have accept d the pardon of Christ, but you are in eril. Why not this morning make a sh for your immortal rescue, crying mtil Jesus shall hear you and heaven and earth ring with the cry: "Save me text!" "Save me next" Completely Erorat ,d. CoLuMBrA, S. C., JTuly 5.-The judi iary committee of the State Farmers' ilance, conststing of Norman Eld er >f York, Col. D. K. Norris of Anderson, he Rev. J. A. Slight of Newberry tnd John Gadson of Aiken, met in this ity yesterday for the purpose of in resigating the management of the ;tate Alliance Exchange by Col D. P'. uncan. The investigation was asked *or by Col. Duncan. The committee, after a session of everal hours, during which it went hrougha all of the books of the ex. ~hange, made up its report, and will 'or ward is to the president of the Alli uce, Senator W. 1J. Evans. The re >ort will show that Col. Duncan's man Lgement of the exchange has been en irely satisfactory and that none of the harges brought against him are true. For some time the Piedmont Head ight, the organ of Stanyarne Wilson, iho is opposing Col.Dluncan for Con Jress in the Fourth district, has been naking all kinds of charges against he manager of the State Alliance Ex thange. In the issue of June 2 several tolumns were devoted to these changes, d some of them were particularly teavy. Because the Alliance Exchange ad rertises its price list in the Cotton .lant at a cost of $480 a year, Gantt harged that this money had been used >y 0ol. Duncan to buy out the Cotton ~lant as his organ to be used for his otical purposes. Gantt also charged hat Col. Duncan tried to extort from he Aliancemen a profit of $1.85. per on more for guano than private par es bought the same goods for. Gantt Iso charged that 0ol Duncan had been elling sewing machines at $19.75 which iad been bought by outside parties lsewhere for less than $16. and which )uncan had confessed had cost only l7. He charged that Duncan had been naking $2.75 clear profit on each nachine, and that not a nickel of the roIlt had gone into the treasury f' the exchange. He charged iso that Duncan had been ending out money from the Alliance reasury and pocketing the interest. antt then made the charge that Dun' :an used his railroad passes, in viola ion of the State law, to travel on busi mess. ~e scored him, too, far allowing he railroads in this State to charge igher rates than are allowed in Gleor ;ia. The rest of the charges were de roted to Col. Duncan's record as a leformor. Many Drowned.I iBUDA 1'EsTH, July 5.-A terrible Irowniig disaster is reported from dad. The ferry boat in crossing the iver of Thiess, near the town mention d, capsized with 200 people on board. .t is reported that about 100 are rownel PASSED) Tll7E- SENATE, THE TARIFF BILL NOW GOES BACK TO THE HCUSE. Er vielon #or Free Wool-Other Amena monts of Le -s Inpa:t nce -Senator It by Votcs Rignt at Laot. WVASAINGTON, .July 3.-The *enate naet at 10 a. ij., in czntinuation of yes terday's legislativr session by virtue of a recess taken last night. That obvia ted all delays incident to the formali ties of the regular opening of a new day. The tariff bill was taken up at once and action on amendments of the committee of the whole occupied the entire day's session. First came the motion made by Mills on Monday evening to place burlaps and grain bags made therefrom on the free list. It wds carried by a vote of 28 to 7. Next came the famous collars and cutfs amendment, fixing the duty on these articles at 30 cents per dozen and 30 per cent. advalorem, and on shirts at 50 per cent., equivalent, ac cording to a statement made by Chand ler, to an advalorem rate of from 80 to 125 per cent. That amendment was agreed to (after a couple of satirical aDeeches directed against the junior Snator from New York, Murphy) by a vote of 43 to 5. Then the great wool schedule came up for action, Sherman offering an mendment to place wool on the dutia ble list at 30 per cent. advalorem. The longest discussion of the day took place on this proposition-appeals be mg made by Republican Senators to Democratic Senators from wool pro :ucing States to supply even two votes for the amendment which would be nough, with the Populists' votes to arry it. But these appeals fell on leaf ears. There was not a single de sertion from the Democratic ranks on the question of wool. The two Popu list Senators who usually act with the Democrats, Allen and Kyle, did not vote; and the amendment was defeated -yeas 32, nays 37. Wool therefore re mains on the free list. The committee mendmet, placing bituminous coal n the dutiable list at 40 cents a ton and coal slack at 15 cents was - agreed to by a vote of 57 to 6. The six were Allen, Hill, Irby, Kyle,Miils and Peffer. The committee amendment which ad been originally offered by Hill, ex mpting the salaries of the President of the United States and of the judges of the United States from the income tax, was rejected after a brief struggle, by a vote of yeas 34, nays 36-ten De mocrats having voted for it and six Republicans and three Populists gainst it. The date when the bill is lo go into effect, was, on motion of Jones, fixed at August 1st, 1894-with he understanding if necessary a later lay can be fixed hereafter. Barbed wire was a subject of some ispute. An amendment had been ,greed to in the committee of the whole that barbed wire for fencing, ihould be admitted free of duty. This amendment was rejected; and one of erred by Allen (Pop.) of Nebraska to place wire for fencing on the free list as aiso rejected-yeas 32; nays 38. Ind so wire remains on the dutiable .ist, at rates according to gauge. Mica was taken off of the free list and put yn the dutiable list at 20 per cent. ad alorem upon motion of Ransom. Ransom's amendment prevailed by a rote of 40 yeas and 28 nays. Some amusement was had on the floor by the ersonal appeal of Ransom to Senators1 : support his amendment. His three inute speech in favor of his proposi ion was the only one he has ma~de on ;he tariff question and after he had :oucluded the Senators gathered about iim and promised support. After the1 Kje,.B.asm interrupted Morgan for 1 :he purpose of, he said, "completing1 is amendment," which he proceeded :o do by moving to strike mica from ;he free list, where it had been placed >y the committee. This was agreed to amid much laughter, which was only creased when Chandler crossed the isle, invaded the ranks of political memles and grasped Ransom by the1 aand and congratulated him upon his rictory for the mica industry of North arolina and New Hampshire.1 Morgan offered an amendment to :ome in as five additional sections at ;he end of the bill, aimed at trnsts and1 :onspiracles in restraint of trade and :ommerce or to increase the market 1 price of imported articles. He made a speech in explanation and defense of the amendment, which would have the 1 affect, he said, of repressing "those trusts in all their multiplied hideous ess." The amendment was agreed o without division. The first section 1 f it is as follo ws: "Section 75. That every combination onspiracy, trus', agreement. or con-1 tract is hereby declared to be contrary o public policy, illegal and void, when :he same is malie by or between two or more persons or corporations, either of whom is engaged in importing any1 article from any foreign country into he United States and when such corn-1 bination, conspiracy,'trust, agreement r contract is intended to operate in restraint of lawful trade or free com petition in lawful trade or commerce or1 to increase the market price in any. port of the United States of any article I r articles imported or intended to be1 imported into the United States, or of any manufacture, into which such im ported article enters or is intended to nter. Any person who is or shall ereafter be engaged in the importa ion of goods or any commodity from ny foreign country in violation of this ection of this act, or who shall com oine or conspire with another to violate the same is gullty of a misdemeanor ad on conviction thereof In any court1 )f the United States such persons shall oe fined in a sum not less than $100 and aot exceeding $5,000 and shall be fur- I ther punished by imprisonment in the ~scretion of the court for a term not ess than three months nor exceeding twelve months. Allen then offered the amendment to the sugar schedule of which Jones gave otice yesterday, but which he did not at any time today offer in the Senate.1 ones asked Allen to withdraw it, but e declined. It was then laid on the table on motion of Harris-yeas 50; ays 22.' At 8:45 p. mn., a suggestion was m'ade >y Dolph that the Senate should either ispose of the bill quickly or let it go i ver till Thursday. Hie should hate to I ee the national day desecrated by the4 passage of such a bill. "Nothing :ould be so painful to me," Harris re arked satirically, "as to give the lightest pain to the Senator from Or agon. But I think that the bill should e disposed of before the Senate ad-I ourns-and I hope that every Senator ,il stay here until it is disposed of." These amentimnents were agreed to:J [ncreasng the duty on tles (paragraph 41) from 30 cents per dozen to 35 cents; 1 aking he duty on type metal (para ;raph 171) % cent per pound on the 4 lead contamned therein, and 15 per cent. > new type: reducing the duty on I leaned rice (paragraph 193) from 1 :ent per pound to 8-10 of a cent. Pet igrew offered an amendment provid- I .ug for a tariif commission. Rejected I -yeas 30; nays 38. An amendment was adopted to one of the income tax sections, on motion of Hill, approved y Vest, providing that all State, conn- i :y, municipal and town taxes paid by I ncorporations shall be included in their operating and business expenses. At 10 p. mn., there was an immense ~oncourse of spectators in the galler es, most of them ladies, and all way .ng fans industriously, for the atmos phere of the chamber was hot and iweltering. Senators evinced great .mpatience at the unnecessary delay oc-< asioned by the offering of amendments which had no show of being adopted,j Jut which occupied time in-..akingi :he yeas and nays. There was much 1 xciteent as to the result of the final mote and a rmnr prevailerd that the bill would be beaten. The chairnin of the Honse committee on ways and means-Mr. Wilson-and Icpres.3,ta tive McMillin and Springer were Liter ested spectators of the proceed ings and eager watchers of the last struggle. At 10 p. m. the bill was read the third time, and then Mr. Smith (Dem.) of New Jersey rose and addressed the Senate in a set speech against the "socialistic income tax," as he charact erizei it; but he should vote for the pending bill, because he is a D. mocrat. Hill declared his continued antago. nism to the bill as a rag-bag produc tion, a crazy quilt combination, a splendid nothing. The close of his speech was applauded. The calling of the roll on the final passage of the tariff bill began at 10:25 and the vote resulted; Yeas 39; nays 31. Caffery voted no, and after the vote had been completed, made a brief ex planation as to why he had done so, and then changed his vote to one in favor of the bill. Irby voted for the bill, and Blanchard, who was denied the privilege of ex plaining his vote, on an objection, contented himself with a simple "yea." Hill was the only Democrat to vote against the bill. The Populists, Allen and Kyle, voted for it, and Peffer against it. Following is the vote in detail: Yeas-Allen, Bate, Berry, Blackburn, Blanchard, Caffery, Call, Cockrell, Coke, Daniel, Faulkner, George, Gib son, Gorman, Gray, Harris, Hunton, Irby, Jarvis, Jones of Arkansas, Kyle, Lindsay, McLaurin, Martin, Mills, Mit ,hell of Wisconsin, Morgan, Murphy, almer, Pasco, Ransom, Roach, Smith, Turpie. Vest, Vilas, Voorhees, Walsh, White-39. Nays-Aldrich, Allison, Carey, Chandler, Callom, Davis, Dixson, Dolph, Dubois, Frye, Gallinger, Hale, Hansbrough, Hawley, Higgins, Hill, Jones of Nevada, Lodge, McMillin, hfanderson, Mitchell of Oregon, Patton, Peffer, Perkins, Platt, Power Proctor, 4uay, Sherman, Shoup, Squire, Stew irt, Teller and Washburn-34. The Vice president appointed the ollowing managers on the part of the Senate as conferees: Voohees, Harris, Vest, Jones, Sherman, Allison and aldrich. It was no secret among those who iad the confidence of the leaders on the Republican side that they expected to lefeat the tariff bill and that they iguredt on a majority of one against it. L'he first break on the Damocratic side :ame whe the name of Caffery was :ailed and he responded with an em 3hatic "no." His colleague, Blanchard, fld, not respond to his name at all hen it was called. Irby, it was claimed, had promised o vote against the bill, but when his iame was called, he responded in the iffirmative, and all hope of defeating ,he bill vanished. Caffery, then after a brief explana ion and a protest against the way his ?eople had been treated, changed hia rote to one in favor of the bill, and Blancnard voted in the same way. Ead Irby stood by the combination, the ;wo Louisana Senators would hove re nained firm and the vote would have een 37.to 36 against the bill. OF INTEREST TO TEACHERS. he TimeD Near at Hand for Showing Your QualIfication. Persons wishing to stand the exami iation incident to application for scho arship in the Winthrop Normal College re teminded tha'; the time for holding he examination is fixe d for July 17. For the information of competitors he following qualifications and tequisi es are published: 1. The qualifications for becoming a ompetitor ior a scholarship are as fol ows: The applicant must be not less han seventeen years of age; of irre roachable moral character; in good ialth; with no physical detects, habits >r eccentricities which would intertere with success in teachmng; must purpose a follow teaching as a vocation. The iaminers should hold the preliminary xammnation as provided for by enclosed >lanks before proceeding with the regu ar examination. 2. The regular examination should >egin promptly at 9 a. mn., and close at Ip. m. 3. The seal of the examination ques ;ions must not be broken until the day >f the com Detitive examinat!onI, and hen only in the presence of the appli :ants. 4. Applicants should write by num er and not by name, as followe: T wenty small slips of paper, with a liferent number upon each, should be laced in a hat, and each applicant ihould draw therefrom one slip. The lip drawn must be sealed in an enve ope with the applhcant's name written yn the outside. The applicant must lace her number, thus drawn, upon ~ach separate pag~e of her examination apers. Her name should nob appear ipon the paper. Alter the examiners iave finished examining the papers, and ave marked applicante according to mmber they will open the envelopes and tcertain what names -c~rrespond with he different numbers. 5. Every question counts "10," and t is therefore possible for an applicant .0 secure "100" on each subject. 6. The writing of the applicants, in heir examination papers, must be con idered in making up the general aver 7. The examiners will report the re ult of the examination to the State superintendent of Eiucation within five lays after it is held.* The name of each ipplicant, with her average mark, should e given in this report. The "Prelimi tary Exmnain papers shonid be ent to President D. B. Johnsoin, Colum ia, S. C. 8. The applicant securing the highest eneral average on the examination will eceive the first scholarship, where va ant, and the one ranging second will re eve the free tuition schola ship, pro rides both secure shove ,0 per cent. There the first scholarship is not vacant he competitive examination will be eld for the second or free tuition scholar hip, and the applicant securing the ighest general average will receive fthis ree tuition scholarsbip. Those .vbo9 ecure second scholarships arnd a.tendl he college will succeed to the first reW arship, in case of vacancies, for the u - soired time of the session. The scholarships are now good for two rears. A Plucky Woman. WEST CIIESTEn, Pa., July 4.-T wo ramps waylaid Miss Lizzie Painter, of jopewell, and as a result one of them tot a pistol bullet in his arm. Miss ?ainter is a music teacher, and was triving from one of her scholar's homes o Hope well. In a lonely part of the oad a man, evidently a tramp, jumped ut from the undergrowth at the road ide and toid her to "crawl down out of hat wagon." For an answer Miss anter raised her revolver and fired, nd with a cry of pain the man dropped s hold on the horse with a bullet in mis wrist. Just at this moment nother man ranout to catch the horse, nd tbe yonng lady fired at him, but nissed. The horse was frightened at e reports and rushed down the road efore the second man could stop it. ince then a diligent search has been nada for the tramps, but they have lot been caught. saw Her:IBaby stricken. WINZIIESTEI, 0., July 5.-Mrs. Hien y Wulford was sitting in her front ard sewing, when her baby, 3 years ild, who was playing in the grass, be ran to laugh and said; "Mamma, look!I" ira. Wulford looked and saw a large attlesnake with its head raised. The nother screamed and the sniake struck, inking its fangs in the baby's neck. L heh abyuffrd all night and died. DAYLIGH1F IN SIGHT. THE TARIFF BILL OUT OF THE COM MITTEE STAGE. A T.r i itfrmun isfil, thit i4 Oxe that Materfally R'ducei h Duties o-i Imn partr. 1i N >w Ce-t On st Uci'g Passed by the SenatV WASHINGTON, June 29.-The rau ing of the J3urnal having bceni dispensed with, the House joint repoiu.iou extnd ing for thirty dai the -ppropristions for the support of the Government was taken up, and in the abaeuce of Mr. Hoar, who had interposed objections on We:uesday and Thursday, was referred to the committee on appropriaticns and without a moment's delay was reported back by enator Cockrell, chairman of the committee, read witLout any objec tion passed. A resolution offered yesterday by Sn ator Sherman, directing the icquiry into the charges for the use of seats, berths and sections in the Pullman sleeping and parlor cars, was laid before the Senate and agreed so. The House bill to defice and establish the units of electrical measure was taken rom the Callendar and paseed with some verbal amendments. At 10.30 the tart bill was taken up, the question being on Section 104. abrogating the reciprocity treaties. Senator Hale mioved to strike out the section, bitt yielded to Senator Vest to modify it on the part of the fiaance com mittee, wbioh he did by inserting a pro visc that nothing contained in the section should be held to abrogate such reciproci ty or commercial arrangements between the United States and foreign countries, except where such arrangements are in consistent with the piovisions of the Act. The discussion on this was temporar: ly eu5pended in order to permit Senator Hoar to offer an amendment to Section 94, which would allow alcohol used in tne arts and manufactures to be tree from tax, under rules to be prescriaed by the Szeretary of the Treasury and under a promise that if found to be im practicable he would afterwards vote with the committee to reject it. The amendment was agreed to with the can sent of the finance committee. The discussion as to the abrogation ot the reciprccity arrangement was re sumed and was participated in by Sena tors Allison and Sherman in opposition to the section, and by Stnator Vest in defence and explanation of it. One of the points made by him was that the absolute repeal ef Section 3 of the Mc Kiley Act was to take away from the President in the future all the authority which he possessed under that section. Senator Higgins: "Is it the Senator's proposition ta.'.t in the future the power to make reciprcal conventions will be left to the treaty-making power-:tbe President and Senate-and taken from the President alone?" Senator Vest: "That is the object?" Scnator Vets's modification was agreed to without division. Senator Hale moved to strike cut the whole section, and the motion was re jected-yeas 24, nays 34. Section 104 now repeals the 33 section of the McKinley A ct, and provides that "nothing herein contained shall be held to abrogate or in any way affect such re ciprocal commercial arragenments as have been hertofore made and now ex ist between the United States and foreign countries, except where such arrange. ments are inconsistent with the povisions of this Act-" A communication from the Secret ary of State, informing th8 Senate, at the re quest of the French ambassador, that a religious seryice in memory of the late President of the French Republic would be held at St. Matthew's Church, Wash ington, next San'Iay at 12 M , was laid before the Senate, and it was resolved, on motion of Senator Hoar. that the Senate shall attend such religious ser vice. The Senate resumed consideration of the tariff bill, and Senator Pefier moved to insert an, additional section levying a duty of fifty dollars on every foreigner coming by steam or pail vessel to any port within the United States and on every alien immigran't crossing the border line between the U nited States and contiguous nations. Senator Platt suggested the insertion of the words "to engage in any indus trial occupation," and Senator Pe ifer accepted the suggeetion, saving that the idea was exactly right and in accord ance with his own idea. Senator Harris arose to move to lay Senator Petter's amendment on the table, but instead hec moved to lay the Senator from Kansas on the table. Senator Petter gazed over at Senator arris with an air of mingled woonder and reproach, and the galleries broke out into laughter, in which the Senators joined. The Vice President, however, put the question in the correct form and the motion to lay Senator Peffer's amendment on the table was carried,1 yeas 46, nays 12. The negative votes were given by Senators Gallinger. 1Hig ins, Hoar, Mitchell. of Oregon, Patton, Petter, I'ekins, Pettigrew, Piatt. Proctor Soup and Squire. The last section of the bill, repealing all the laws and parts of laws inconsist ct with it, was then agreed to, thus inishing the bill in committee of the4 whole, except as to matters that had been reserved. Senator Allison moved to amiend Sec tion 82, one of the whiskey sections, by reducing the bonded period from eirht years to four years. Reiected-yeas 23,1 ays 36. A large number of amendments were tfered by Senator Jones, Democrat, of Arkansas, on behalf of the finance com mittee, many of them merely formal, ad none of them important enough to meet any opposition. All were agreed1 All the committee amendments hav ng been disposed of Senator Hoar ap pealed to the Snance committee to ad it a paragraph puttmng a duty of 10 per cent ad valorem on sea moss or Ice and moss. He asked it in the interest r a few meritorious and hard working en on the coast of Massachusetts. S~nator Harris joined in the appeal, md senator Jones, on behalf of the h >ance com~mittee, said that lie csuld not esist the united appeal. The paragraplh was therefore inserted. Many other amendments were euggest d by various Senators, but they w nt ver to be offered in the Senate. The bill was then reported from the con mittee ot the whole to the Senate. and t was ordered that the nill and ame nd ents be printed. A suggestion having been made of an dournment till Monday in order to give time for the printing of the hill and mendments, Senator Harris protested agaist the delay, stating that the ccua try was waiting anxiously to know what was going to be done with the tariff bill. e wculd not consent to its gomne over single day or a single hour. The Senate then proceeed to the coci-t ideration ot excus~ve business, and at ,20 adjourned till Monday at 10 A. M.c Filled with Bnets. GUauE, blo., July 2--On Aulust 0. 1892, James d ohnson, a negro, oui. aged Mrs. se King of this piace. here 1 .. ni.aJ. The news of his oming brec-:ded him and' whcn the train arrived he was taken fcom the train by a mob and hanged. His body was fild with bulMles The Crop Repot COLUMBTA, S. C.. June 4.-The f< lowing is the crop zeport for the pa week: The weather and crop conditio have changed materially and for t better during the past-week. The ter perature ranged nearly normal. beit slightlybelow on the immediate coa and slightly in the excess in the int rior. Friday, June 29th, was very h, with temperature between 96 and 1 over the entire State, except on t. immediate coast. The excessive he was general over tan entire cotton x gion of the United States, the averal maximum of 132 stations being 97 d grees on that date. The sunshine w below the usual amount, averaging b tween 60 and 70 for the whole State,tl eficiehcy having a tendency to inju: otton. The rainfall was wid spread, quite general, and in places e cessive. Drought conditions have be( narrd'wed down to portions of Clarei don, Fairlield, Orangeburg, Floreni and Williamsburg counties. Overtlows of creeks and washiz rains destructive to crops occurred: Edgefield, Anderson, Abbeville, at OQonee counties. Destructive win, storms occurred in Barnwell, Lauren Newberry, Lancaster and Fairlie ounties. Destructive hailstorms o, urred in Barnwell, Laurens, Newbe ry, Lancaster and Fairfield countie Destructive windstorms in Picken Greenville, Edgetleld, Laurens, Unio and Anderson counties; the storm < the 24h being especially severe j Greenville and Pickens. Giving due consideration to the are 3f damage by wind, hail, and overflov f creeks and to areas of insufliciei rainthe crops are vastly improved a-3 re in excellent condition. Early corn much improved, but wi too far advanced toward maturity 1 receive much benefit from the chang4 onditions and it is estimated w: not make much more than half a cro Late planting very good on botto: lands, beginning to be grassy whei not too wet to work. Cotton growing rapidly and fruitir well, except in a few localities whe: it is going to weed; needs more su shine, beginning to get grassy whe too wet to work. Rice improved du ing the week and doing fairly well, bi there is still danger from salt water: Georgetown county, owing to the lo stage of the river. A larger acreal f peas being planted than ever befo: in many sections, but seed is report( scarce. Planting of sweet potato slij ontinues. Melons ripening fast bi individual melons as well as the tot crop will be smaller than usual. Pasti rage growing very fast. The crop prospects summed up ai more encouraging now than they hai been at any time this year, but wou. be still further improved by a rainle, week with a high percentage of sui shine. The following places reported rali falls above the weekly normals: Columbia, 1.84; Hardeville, 1.86; E George's, 3.14; St. Matthews, 3.7 Greenvile, 3.69; Cheraw, 2.44; Alle: ale, 2.51; Batesburg, 3.27; Blackvill 3.20; Greenwood, 1.29; Watt's. 4 76; Li tle Mountain, 1.19; Santac, 3.10; Trei ton, 3.40; Ella. 2.18; Longshore, 2 1 Port Royal, 3 93; Conway, 2.23; Heat Spring, 6.23; Statesburg, 1.09; Oakwoo 3. 05; Camden, 1.40; Society Hill, 4.3 Chesterfield. 2.63; Liberty, 1.20; Rel .75; Trial, 1.40; Hunters, 6.88; Easle 1.55; McCormick, 4.44;'Beautort, 29 Charleston, 2.78; Georgetown, 1.0 Flint Hill, 2.43; Jackson Station, 2.0 Hagood, 1.18; Red Hill, 4.00. Faital Dash for Liberty. COLUMBIA, S. C., July 3.-The io' :f I~oerty was strongly illustrated ye erday afternoon when a young whi :onict made a mad dash ion liberty at net his death irom a bullet which passi hrough his body. The young fello "as only twenty-three years of age at bad but a few months more of his se ence to serve. It seems that the poor fellow was I victim ot a plot which he with mat >hers had formed to escape and whi< ae was the only one to attempt to carn >n'. 'The story of the young prisoner ih -bis about as follows: The prisoner, James Hill, who w: ent up from E~lgetield county on 11 5th of March last, under a sentence ~welve months for larceny of live stoc. as one of a squad of twelye convict nost of whom were white and amor whom was Edwards, the young lawy< ent up from Sumter county, to go to ti state farm, about two miles above tU ity, to load some wagons hauling pit traw. The eqoad was in charge nards Lafar and F. Hardy. They we: alking along the r lr"'l treek abot Smile above th oga- :ie old noc uarry, just where there is a den! icket on each side of the road. Witl )ut the slightest wanning Hill suddeal brew down his rake and dashed ci' dow little by-path into the thicke. Th ~uad tired at him as he dashed into ti hicket, but missed him. Guard Hand hen went Cfa at some distance from tt ,rack and stood on the top of a high hi verlooking the surrounding groun E'he convict soon dashed out the edg f the thickel, 100 yards away and tt uard fired at him. Hie fell a~nd expire n a few minutes. The ball entered h ack just above the hip, near the spini :olumn, wid passed through the bod, oonor Roa..h was notified and held a cquest yesterday evening, tihe jury ret leing a verdict that Hill was killed b luard Hardy in the discharge of h iuty. .The penitentiary authoritie hink that there was a plot among a he white men in the squad to escape ud that Hill made the break before tI thers realized what he was about. &~ ards and one cr two others stated i he authorities after the killing that Hi ad told them that lie intended to mak he attempt when sent out yesterdlay a ernoon.-State. courteous Repica5. CoUMv au,. S. C., July 5.-Capt. Joh 1. Capers was asked today by a Jourt ii reporter as to what further replie te had received from county chairme a reference to General Bu'tler's reques 'or separate boxes and whether Cnan nan Nettle's reply was a fair sampi >f the replies, lie said the reply receig ;d from him was by no nmeans a fai ndication of the tenor of the replies o the~ contary, they were in marked otrast. Hie hal received replies fror nany counties and from many men re iresenting the Reform faction and the vere courteous and conciliatory. For instance a chairman of a Pied nont County who is an anrdent Tillmar te and ofice holker under the presen .dministration writes: Your communication of the 2th t and. I will take great pleasure in prt entiug your request to our exercutiv :ommttee when it meets on the 21s nstant. I think your request perfectl air and will use msy influence to hay granted. 'This comes very much nearer being ampi of replies from Rteferm chair aen. There seems to be a spirit of cot ervatism without regard to party fac ion which is not only encouraging fo enator Butler, but for the 'eace an< rder of the State. ~Fatal Wreck. tI: UEF, July 4.-Tvo mile Oth of New St. Louis a 'reigh rain on the Southwestern rai] cad went through a high trestle he engine, caboose and 28 cars alling ngineer Fergusobn and Head Brake an Richardson were killed outrigh ,nd Fireman O'Neill fatally scalded he trestle had been fired and burned erly through. e- - )t a , POWDER L- Absolutely Pure. ie A cream or tartar Daking powder e Highest of all in leavening strength.-La e- test United States Government Food Re . port. n Royal Baking Powder Company, 106 Wal St., N. Y. e The Road Finished. The Columbia State of Saturday says n the following self-explanatory letter d was received by the State Railroad - Commission on Friday: To the Rail s, road Commissioners of South Carolina: We have finished laying the rails on, rur extension of the Manchester and s. Augusta road, from Remini to Den s, mark. We wish to open the road from o3 Remini to Oran'geburg on the 15th in n stant. We propose at present simply' to run local freight trains. I will be' , glad if you lil appoint a day to in t spect the rood. Any. date that will be L convenient to the commissioners wa will arrange for. J. R. KENLY, G3n. Mgr. The commission has not yet Rxed' the date of the insl ection. The Coast. Line commenced work on this short. n cut last winter. The completion of the e branch means the forging of the short. link which was needed to put the Coast. g Line system on a footing with all com e petitors. It will greatly reduce the run I from North to South, and divert from e Charleston much through travel from: . North to South. The short cut just. It completed starts from Remini, in Sam ter courty, and runs via Orangeburg;. where it crosses the Columbia division or the South Carolina and Georgia, to e Denmark, where it connects with the d Augusta division of the same road and' )s the main lne of the Florida Central it and Peninsalar for Savannah and the South. The Coast Line people, If they arrange with the F. C. & P. road to handle their fast through trains from e Denmark on to Florida and divert them over this route, will have perhaps the d quickest line from North to South ever known. By the time the winter busi ness begins the matter will havc taken permanent shape. The new line of road . is a handsome piece of work. The grad ing has been done with unusual oare t. and the track is beautifully surfaced. Hot in Georgi, ATLANTA, July 5.-A special from t Tennille, Ga., says: H->aorable W. Y. 1- Atkinson spoke here at 2 o'clock to Q 1,000 people. All the business houses 1, were closed in Sinderville and Tennille, ; Three or four hundie I Populista were lpresent. Colonel. T. W. ardw!.:k, a O. pr omi.nent attorney of this place, intro )! duced Mr. Atkinson. In closing the in - )Itroduation he said it .give him great 'pleasure to introduce to the citizens of Wanhington county one who had been the means of leading the Democratic e party to such an overwhelming majority ,. in 1892, and who would lead to a stil greater- victory In 1894. Mr. Atkinson ewas interrul ted two or three times by dtwo third partvites-Fate Branutley and d Bill Glenn. Fate Brantley interrupted w by saying that the Democrats bought. the negro vote. Mr. Atkinson asid the dnegro hak learned sense. He knew the 1-Demcc-ats had money and Democrata paid the negro's schooling. Bill Glenn ie said ithe negroes in Washington would .Y vote for Hines. Mr. Atkinson had just ah started to reply, saying: "This gentle -y man says the negro will vote for Hines," 's when Bill Glenn called Mr. Atkinson a liar. There came near being a fight, 1 but Mr. Atkinson and others soon te quieted the crowd, and the balance of >f the speech was listened to with close 4, attention. Criminal carelessas. ,.The Rock Hill Herald last week re corded the fact that Mr. Win. Smith and family, who lived in the Waxhasa ein Lancsster county, were very serous .ly sick, and that it was thought they had been poisoned by eating eggs In e which poison had been placed for dogs. *Mr. Smith died Saturday afternoon and k it is almost certain that t wo members e of his family will soon follow him to the i- grave. The eggs that contained the y fatal dose are said to have been par n chased from a sotre in the -neighbeor e hood and were eaten for breakfast last e Wednesday morning, Immediately af ter leaving the table every member be came violently 1:.1, when physicians 1were summonod. The merchant has traced the eggs back to a farmer who -sold them. It seemnsthat the farmer had e been troubled by dogs breaking up his e hen's nest anid sucking the eggs. He d put strycnlnine ina few of the eggs and s lefet them i or the dog. Of course-,. ho, I (did not visit i~be nest that night, andi r some one through mistake sold the. 2 poisoned eggs, which resulted so fatal . y in Mr. Smith's household. This Is v one of the most glaring cases of crimi Snal carelessness that we have ever sheard of, and the matter should be ~throughly investagated, and if possible the guilty parties punished as a worn 'ning to others. Protest.3"" o KANSAS, City, Mo., July 6.-Gen. J. ll 0. Shelby, U nited States marshal at e Kansas City, sent several deputies to -Stater to release a -neat train that was detained by strikers. Governor Stone resented this as an interferrence with State rights and wrote Gen. Shelby by Swhat right a Uniied States offisr inter ~fered in trouble of this kinl in the State a as he believed the State perfectly capable t of taking care of its own domestic af'airs . . Were it not able to do so and finding it e necersary to c cL for aid from the fedetal . government he would do so inuappraoved :constitutional from. Gen. Shelby re .plied tartly, adding that he was acting I under orders from the Attorney General 1 to clear passage for the United States -mails and in pursuance ot these orders was to prevent such unlayfnl ititerfer -ence by arresting on proper warrants all -such offenders and taking them before t the proper federal tribunal for examina tion. Fruit and Melons a Drug. -AT L A rA, July 4.-As a result of the railroad tie-up in the West, the ship ment of fruit and melons have congest ed in Atlanta to such on extent that they are being sold here cheaper than ever known. Hundreds of carloads of Swatermelons destined for Chicago, St. -Louis and other Western points, hays -been sid etracked and the railroads are almost giving them away. In many mnstances tney are selling them at less than the actual cost of bringing them as far as Atlanta. The fruit stands, are literally overdlowing with pineapples and bananas stopped t here on thleir way West. Bananas are .being liberally disposed at 25 cents a bunch and pineapples are going at 'from 3 to 5 cents apiece. Prices are getting cheaper every day, and if the tie up continues the congestioa of fruit shipments here will be so great as to make it necessary to give it away or