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ONLY & FRIEND Only a friend-yet a year ago I loved you with eye and heart and soul, I thought the skies had no stars as brigznt As your beautiful eyes, as black as night, I thought the gleam in your gyps , har Defied the moonlight shining fair. On some crystal lake, I loved you then, Yet now-only a friend, Nothing more. Only a friend-yet can It be That a passion so deep, so tender and true, Could die in a year, leaving no trace On my mind of your beauty, your woman ly grace? How could I forget the dreamy nights Illumined above by the heavenly lights And below by love. Ah, I loved you then, 1 et now-only a friend, Nothing more. Only a friend-how cold it seems To write those words of you-my d-':am. Every thought was a poem, a beautiful song Full of love. sweet love-s deep. so st) ng That I swore it would last till the worid was old; Till I, and you, dear, in death were eold. Only a year ago. I loved you then, Yet now-only a friend, Nothing nwore. Only a friend-we can meet each day, And my hand does not tremble-1 love ,ou not. A year has rolled over, the fire is dead, And all the sweet thoughts of love have fkd. Did you know that I loved you-who can tell? I thought that I hid my secret well, Yetperhaps you knew. Ahi, I loved you then Yet now-only a friend, -Noth1inga more. Only a friend-how sad it is That alove as strong as mine should die In one short year. Other men love, And their love is blest by the gods above, But I-ah, well, the dream is past, What folly to hope that suc1 joy could last For more than a year. I loved you then, Yetnow-only a friend, Nothing more.. A NARROW ESCAPE. What Job Ncw About Dentiat'y ard the E2mSeL ot Teeth. BROCELYN, July 29.-Rtv. Dr. TaI msge has selected as the sub iect for his sermen for today thrcugh the press "Narrow Escapes," the text being taken from Job xix, 20, "I am escaped with the skin of my teeth." Job had it hard. What with bo:ls and bereavements and bankruptev and a tool of a wife he wished he was dead, and I do not blame him. His flesh was gone, and his bones were dry. His teeth wasted away until nothing but theenamel seemed left. He cries out, "I am escaped with the skin of my teeth." There has been some difference of opinion about this passage. St. Jerome and Schulten6 and Drs. Good and Paole - and Barnes have all tried their forceps on Job's teeth. You deny my interpreta tion and say, "What did Job know about the enamel of the teett?" --He knew everything about it. *.DsnMtal sur gery is almost as old as-tife earth. The mmmies . thousands of years old ound today with sold filling 000eir teeth. Ovia and Horace and Solomon and Moses wrote about these important factors of the body. To other provoking complaints Job, I think, has added and exasperating tooth ache, and guttmg his hand against the inflamed face he says, "I am escaped with the skin of my teeth." A very narrow escape, you say, for Job's body and soul, but there are thous ands of men who make just as narrow escape from their soul. There was a time when the partition between them and ruin was no thicker than a tooth's enemel, but as Job finally escaped so have they. Thank God! Thank God! Paul expresses the samne !dea by a dif ferent figure when he says that some people are "saved as by fire." A ves sel at seais iaitimes. You go to tue stern of the vessel. The boat~s have shoved off. The flames advance. You can endure the beat no longer on your face. You slide down on the side of the vessel and hold on with your ingers untIl the forked tongue of the fire begins to lick the back of your hand, and you feel that you must fall, when one of the .lifeboats comes back, and. the passengers say they think; they have room far one more. The boat swings under you; you drop into it; you are saved. So some men -are pursued by temptation until they are partially consumed, but after -all get off, "saved as by fire." But I like the figure of Job a little better than that of Paul, because the pulpit has not worn it out, and I want to show you, if God will help, that some men make nar row escape for their souls and are saved as "with the skin of their teeth. It is s easy for some people to look to the cross as for youto look to this pulpit. Mild, gentle, tractable, loving, you expect them to become Christians. You go over to the store and say, "Graet don joined the church yesterday." Your business comrades say: "That is jusn what might have been expected. He always was of that turn of mind." In youtai this person whom I describe was always good. He never broke things. He never laughed when it was improper to laugh. At 7 he could sit an hour in church perfectly quiet, looking neither to the right hand nor to the left, but straight into the eyes of the minister, as . though he understood the whole discus sion about tle eternal decrees. He never upset things nor lost them. He floated into the kmngdom of the God so gradually that it is uncertain just when the matter was decided. Here is anothsr one, who started in life with an uncontrollable spirit. Hie kept the nursery mn an uproar. His mo ther found him walking on the edge of the house roof to see if he could balance himself. There was no horse he dared -not ride; no tree he could not climb. His boyhood was a long series of predica ments. His manhood was reckless; his midlife very wayward. But now he is converted, and you go over to the store and say, "Arkwright joined the church yesterday." Your friends say: "It is not possible! You must be jokingt!" You say: "So. I tell you the truth. * He joined the church." Then they re ply, "There is hope for any of us it old Arkwright has become a Christian!" In other words, we all admit that it is mare difficult for some mtn to accept the gospel than for others. I may be addressing some who have cut loose from churches and Bibles and -Sundays, and who have at present no intention of becoming Christisns them selves, but just to see what :s going on, and yet you may find yourself escaping, before you hear the end, as "with the skin of your, teeth." 1 do not expect to waste this hour. I have seen boats go off from Cape May or Long Branch and drop their nets, and after awhile come ashore, pulling in the nets without having caught a single fish. It was not a good day, or they had not the ristht kind of a net. But we expect no such excursion today. The water is full of fish; the wind is in the right direction; the gospel net is stra g. 0 tbou who didst help Simon and Andrew to fish, show us today how to cast the net on the right side oi the ship! Some of you in coming to Giod wim' have to run against skeptical notions. It is useless for people to say sharp and cutting thmngs to those who reject the Christian religion. I cannot say such things. By what process ot temptation or trial or betrayal you have come to your present state I know not. Tihere are two gates to your nature-the gate of the head and the state of the heart. Thegate cf your head is locked with >ots fn! :rs e una arenan!e: coula !ot break. but tie ia'e of your heart': swi.ns easl on its hius. If I assaulted our body with weapors, you wculd rmeet me with weaoor, and it would be sword stroke, for sword stroke, iud wcund for wcuni, and rlood for blood, but it I come and knock at the door of you house you open it and Z:vf me t':e otst seat in your parlor. If I sbould com-) at you today with an ar - gument, ou teud answer me with an steumrn-; il w:b sarcasm, you would aoaWk: mn- w!' :rt ;: w 1fr blow. A.re r -? 1 k i, cMLi:- t 1 c : te d i n-lc I ae travl ! Y : a relaive ,b % roe t ' a Clti.uan and was ifu(h ent~s nt, livo" and dy g i tc f o te. s Would you tot li1e o livethe srue qiet life :nd,] die ,4rje aeetu' deal? I re ce:val a ktstr sL it me by cne who has reiected the CristiaU relginn. It sals, I anim eld enough to knowv that tte j ) and pleaturt-s ot i;e are evanescent, and to rea z, te fact that it must be com f,>rta'le. in old a;e to believe in some thi: relat:v to the future and to have a f.i:h in some system that proposes to save. I am free to confess tat I wculd ue happier if I could exercise the simple and beautiful faith that is possessed by many lihom I know. I am not willirg ly cut of the church or oat ci the faitb. My state of uncertainty is one of unrest. Sometimes I doubt my immortalty and look upon the deathbed as the closing sctn% after whici there is nothing. What ehall I d: that I have not done?" Ab, ekepticisn is a dark and dolefui! Let me say that this Bible i; either true or false. If it be false, ?e are as well off as you. If it be true, then which of us is safer? Let me also ask whether your trouble has not been that you confouided Chris. tianitv with the inconsistent character of some who profess it. You are a law yer. In your profession there are mean and dishonest men. Is that anzything against the las? You are a doctor. There are unskilled and contemptible men in your piofession. Is that any thing against nedic:ne? You are a nar chaut. There are thieves and defraud ers in your business. Is that anything against merchandise? Behol!, then, the unfairness of charging upon Christianity the wickedness of its disciples! We ad mit some of the charges against those who profess religin. Some of Lhe most gigantic swindles of the present day have been carried cn by members of the church. There are men in the churches who would not be trusted fr $5 without ood collateral security. They leave their business dishonesties in the vesti bule of the church as hey go in and sic atAe-ommunion. Having concluded the sacrament, they get up, wipe the wine from their lips, go out and take up their sins where they left cfl. To serve the devil is their regular work; to serve God, a sort of play spell. With a San- - day sponge they expect to wipe off from their business slate all the past week's inconsistencies. You have no more right to take euch a man's life as speci men of religion than you have to take the twisted irons and split timbers that lie on the beach at Coney Island as a specimen of an American ship. It is time that we drew a line between re ligion and the frailties of those who pro - fess it. Again, there may be some of you who in the attempt alter a Christian life will have to run against powerful passions and appetites. Perhaps it is a disposi tion to anger that you have to contend aanst, and perhaps, while in a very se rious mood, you hear of something that makes you feel that ycu must swear or die. I know of a Christian man who was once so exasperated that he said to a mean customer "I cannot swear at you myself,'for I am a member of the churca but if you will go down stairs my part ner in business will swear at ycu." All your good resolutions heretofore have been torn to tatters by explosions of temper. Now there is no harm in getting mad if you only get mad. at sin. You need to bridle and saddle these hot breathed passions, and with them ride -down injustice arnd wrong. There are a thousand things in the world that we ought to be mad at. There is no harm in getting redhot if you only bring to the forge that which needs hammering. A man who has no power of righteousness indignation is an imbecile. But be sure it is a righteous indignation and not a petulancy that blurs and unravels and depletes the soalI. There is a larre class of persons in midlife who have still in them appetites that were aroused in early manhood, at a time when they prided themselves on being a "little l ast," "high livers," "free and easy," "hail fellows well met." They are now paying in compound in terest for troubles they collected 20 year ago. Some ot you are trying to escape, and you will-yet very narrowly, "as with the skin of your teeth." God and your own soul only know what the strug gle Is. Omnipotent grace has pulled out many a soul that was deeper in the mire than you aie. They line the beech of heaven--the multitudt whom God has rescued fromi the thrall of suicidal habits. If you this day turn your back on the wrong and start anew, God will help you. Oh, the weakness of human help! Men will sympathize for awhile and then turn you off. If you ask for their par dom they will give. it and say they will try you again; but, filling away again under the power of temptation, they cast you oil forever. Bat God forgives seventy times seven; yea, seven hun dred times; yea, though this be the ten thousandtn time he is' more earnest, more sympathetic, more helpful this last time than when you took your first misstep. If, with all the, influences favorable for a right life, men make so many miss takes, how much harder It is when, for nstance, some appetite thrusts its iron grapple into the roots of the tongue and pulls a man down with hands of de struction! If, under such circumstances he break away, there will be no sport in the undertaking, no holiday enjoyment, ut a struggle In which the wrestlers move from side to side and bend ana twist and watch for an opportunity to get in a heavier stroke, until the one fi nal effort, in which the muscles are dis-1 tended, and the veins stand out, and the blood starts, the s warthy habit tails un der the knee of the victor-esesped at< last as by the skin of his teeth. In tihe last d.ay it will be found thatL Hugh Latrruer and.John Knox and Huss I and Wtdley were not the greatest mar-: tyrs, but Christian men who went up incorrupt from the coniaiminations and i perplexities of Wall street, rater street Pearl street, Broad street, State street, 1 Third street, Lombard street and the1 bourse. Oa earth they were called brokers or stocajobbers, or retailers or! importers, but in heaven Christian he roes. No fagots were heaped about their feet, no icouisition deman -'ed from! them recantat~on, no sldier aimed a spike at their heart, but they had men tal tortures, cmpared with which all 1 physical consuming is as the breath of a spring morning. 1 uind in the community a large class of men who h:ave been so cheated, so lied about, so outrageously ] wronged that they have lost. faith in ev erything. In a world where everything I seems so topsy turvy they do not see 1 :onfout.:dnd and frenzied and n'santhrop c, E-7iorate argument to prove to hem Lha truth of Christianity or the ruth of anvthinr else touches them no vhere. Hear me, all such inen. I. >reach to you no rounded periods, no )rnamental disecuree, but I put my hand )n your shoulder and invite you into the )eace of the gospel. Here is a rock on vhich you msy stand firm, though the ovaves dash against it harder than the Xtlantic pitching its surf clear above E ldystone hghthnuse. Do not charge 2pon God all these troubis of the world. &i lon, as the worl:1 stuck to G od God 5!uck to the world, but the earth seceded rom in.s goverrmant. and herce all these u r ges and all ttese woes. God is SF.r m-my hundreds of years he Oeen c--n- the world to come ,.ek to !:i, -ut the more he has coaxed b m ce viol-nt have men been in their sis c-, an they have stepped back md stfpped back until they have 3ropped into ruio. Try this God, ye who have had the :lloodhounds af er you. and who have houht that God had forgotten you rry him ano tee if he will not help. Try >im and see if he. will not pardon. Try lim and see if he will not save. The Dwers ot Epring hsve no bloom so met as the ilrering of Christ's sffac ions. The sun hath no w-armth com armth comoared with the gloi of his 3eart The waters have no ref-esbment ike the fountain that will slake the thirst :f thy soul. At the moment the rein eer stands with his lip and nostiil thrust nto the cool mountain torrent the Ju-iter may be caming throu-th the Lhicket. Without crackling a stick under bis foot he cmes, close by the stag, 1lma his gun, draws the trigger, and the p, r thin-- rear s in its death agony and talls backward, its antlers crashing on he rocks, but the panting heart that rinks fr*om the water brooki of G-d's promise shall never ba fatally wounded tud eball never die. THE WEATHER AND CROP3. rhe Irveresuing Wekly Ralletin ot the State Barean. COLUnu, Aug. 1.-State Weather server J. W. Bauer yesterday issued ,he following interesting bulletin of the weather and crops for the week ending esterday: The temperature was much below the normal on the first two days of the week and ranged nearly normal on the remaining days. The highest temper iture for the week was 96 reportEd rom Aller.dale, and Greenwood on the .th and from Spartanburg on the 28th. rhe lowest was 60 reported from Lees rille on the 231. There was a marked lefciency in sunshine the first of the week and partly cloudy to clear weather generally the latter part. There was less rain during the week revious, although showers were na nerous, and in some instances heavy, d well distributed over the entire tate. It should be borne in mind that :he rainfall has not been excessive over ;he entire State, there being m my lo :alities in the central and western yunties that have not had the normal July rainfall and to such localities the idverse reports due to too much rain lo not apply. These localities are nu nerous, but of too limited areas to specify each by itself; their aggregate mxtent is however, large, and in these places all crops are in most encouraging 'md promising condition. In fact the 3rops are good over the entire State with the exception of cotton, and possi ly peas. Cotton on sandy soil has turned, and a turning, yellow and shedding too ~reely with indications that growth has stopped; on richer soil the plant is growing too much to weed and fruiting :oo lightly. On those two pdints the :eports are more pronounced than on he previous week. Considerable rust is also note:1. -The continued wet weather has made it impossible to keep lown the grass and it will be necessary o lay by some fields in the grass; the orn needs more cultivation for its root Ievelopment. Those are the sources of Lmpairment which the crop has en 3ountered during the week, but the lamage is as yet not very serious ex ept in some counties where it Is said the crop has fallen off from one-fourth to one-half since July 1. Corn has not suffered much, if any, impairment from the wet weather ex ept that some corn of quite late plant ing on bottom lands poorly drained, is not looking very well; but in general the crop is considered made. Two cor respondents think it Is over-estimated, but the preponderance of opinion is that the yield will be very large. It is Lring some in places and earing high ap the stalk, the latter Inclined to be small. Fodder stripping has already begun, or is about to begin this week, in the eastern counties. The wveather was favorable for grass B and pasturage and the condition of farm stock has improved greatly dur ing the past month. It is thought that the wet weather has njured peas to some extent, but not seriously. Pea forage and crab grass promise a large yield in the nor theastern counties. Sweet potatoes doing finely, although possibly growing too much to vine. In Charleston county the third crop of .rsh potatoes is being planted. The northern shipments of melons continues heavy and the quality as well Ps the size of the melons is better. Gardens continue to dioarish and the markets are kept well supplied with easonable vegetables at reasonable prices. Niew sweet potatoes are on the market. What few apples escaped the March fre are dropping badly and matur ing a small stunted fruit. Early varie :ies of grapes a complete failure. No ie n-ative fruits in the markets. There were a few wind-atorms in arous portions of the State that did slght damage and some bottom lands submerged with trilling damage; other wise crops suffered no physical injury worth mentioning. A Shocking Crime 1ARKERSBURG, W. Va., .July 28. I'he news has been received here ef a .erible crime which was committed in Lncon county the other day, the de .ails of whichi are so shocking as to be Lmost beyond belief. Frankhin Talen e, a married man with a respected amily, livmg not far from Grantville, alboun county, has been keeping up n improper intimacy with a widow imed Mary Trader, lhving in the same ricinity. On Sunday last Valectine and drs. Trader decided to leave the coun ry, the neighbors having made it un omfortable for them. Thematter was discussed in the pres nce o Mrs. Trader's 4-year old child. ['he little girl did not want to go and an away from home, goirg to Valen ne's home, where she told Mrs. Valen e that her mother and Talentine were og to take her away. Mrs. Talentine ~roke up the intended elopement, which o enraged Valentine and Mrs. Trader hat they decided to take revenge upon he child. They tied the little one to a ree in the woods. piled brush around ier and set it on fl e and left the child to ts fate. Fortunately Ira J Thnson, vvho was unting, heard the child's screams and ~rrived in time to tear away the blazing vood and release thei child, but not un i she had been horibly burned from her mees to her head. The c'hild's clothing vas burned aw'ay, her hair burned ofi m the skin over her whole body burned o she can not recover. The country >eople are aroused and are huntng the uilty couple, and will wreak vengeance ipon them if found. They are supposed ohae mae their wray to the Ohio fl~ Al i UNIONo VONTIx'i:D FROM 'AG;E FIRST.: right now, and you don't." The yelling for Tillman continued. I did not re gard it as a formal attempt to howl Butler do.vn, but as an expression of the feelings cf the people for Tillman. It was at least annoying to General Butler and he shouted to the crowd: "I iunerstand this thing. You have been put there to howl me down, but you cau'd i." The crowd vehtmently deaied this, but canti aned to cheer. untier: "If you will meet me one at a time I will sette it with you." This caused more confusion, a variety of noises ad a number of verbal shots at Butler on various subjects. With flushed face and powerful voice Butler vell.d: "Come at ne one ata time you blackguards, and I will give you all y ou want." At this point "hell broke loose in Georgia" sure enough. Three or four men shouted to Butler that they would meet him. Men pushed and scrambled to the front, cursing, sweating and fuming. All kinds of noises rent the air and the excitement was at fever heat. From way back in the rear a man named J. M. Mobley, an executive committeeman, and a candidate for Su pervisor, came pushing to get to the front. He was stopped. Another man put his hand to his pistol pocket and held his hand on it. He was a Butler man, however, but did not pull his gun. The four marshals were powerless to stem the crowd and to allay the excite ment. Governor Tillman advanced to ask for quiet, but Butler peremptorily told him to sit down. Cnairman Lyles made earnest effo:ts to restore order and these efforts were linally successful. Before order had been restored. howeveT, General Butler was snouting above the noise that he came here as an invited guest and that he intended to speak if he stayed there all night. Voice: "Go ahead, we are going to listen." Butler: "No you are not. You didn't come to listen. You come here to howl me down." General Butler shouted that he had not said anything that he wouldn't stand by and he was going to stay there. "There are not men enough here," he said, "to frighten and intimidate me. I thought the men of Umon were re markable for their courtesy and chiv alry and I believe a majority of them are, but some of them have acted the blackguard here. I want you to un derstand that I see men in that audi ence when times were more dangerous than now, when bullets whistled around heads and cut do 7n men by our sides." Voice: "We would stick to you now if you were all right." Butler: "That shows what you are. I sat and listened to him (Tillman) and said nothing when h foully slandered me. When I come to reply his hench men try to howl me do wn." Voice: "Did you call this crowd thieves?" Butler: "I did no such thing. I want to say this to you, some of whom have stood by my side when it took brave men to do it and I am going to say it. In 1876 and 1877 I took my life in my bands a hundred times to redeem this State. I thought that when we got rid of those thieves wer would have free speech, but now when a man gets up to express his honest sentiments he is howled down. That don'c work in this country or anywhere else and won't win. It will bring untold woes if it is persisted in." Then General Butler continued his speech talking on nation al issues. Cheering and counter cheer ing broke loose and there came near be ing several fights. There was never perfect order from the time Butler began until he finished and the gubertfatorial candidates be gan. OTHIER SPEEC(Es.. General Ellerbe opened his speech by repudiating the charges which have been made against him by papers friendly to Evans and refuted them. He said that they are foul slanders. He did not believe his opponent had anything to do with these slanders, but it was low and mean that such schemes were being resorted to to defeat him. All he wanted, he said, was fair play. Gantt ought to prove the charges he has made or apologize. While talking on these subjects a man said: "You wrote too many letters in favor of T. C. Duncan fcr the Legis lature." Ellerbe: "I am glad you mentioned that. I did write several letters and I am not ashamed of it. Duncan was my friend. He said he would support the Reform administration and Governor Tillman, and pledged himself to that." Some interlocutor: "Did he prove to be a Reformer ?" Elierbe: "I don't know. You can set tle that among yourselves, but he was my friend and I never go back on a friend." (Applause.) Interlocutor again: "We are going to vote for your cousin Johnny." Ellerbe: "i'll tell you how you can do that. The next Legislature will elect two judges. Hie is a lawyer. You can elect him one of those judges and vote fr me for Governor. (Cheers and coun ter cheers.) General Ellerbe said he was going to be ellected Governor and is going to en force the Dispensary law. Voice: "1 thought you were weak kneed ." Ellerbe: "No man can accuse me of being weak kneed, Governor Tillman and I are both i-n favor of reopening the Dispensary, although I differ from him some time. If am elected I will en force that law." (Applause.) After the men with plenty of mouth got through speaking General Ellerbe discussed Al liance demands and national issues. Senator Evans who followed said he did not pay any attention to the pitiful little newspapers and inkslinger. There are measures of importance and they ought to be dliscussed. Senator Evans tod what he had done for Reform and said he was going to be the next Gov ernor. Voice: "There is a report around here that you will disfranchise the poor man and ke. p him from voting." Evans: "I'hat is a lie and Is intended to hurt me, but they can't fool the peo ple." (Appluse ) Ellerbe says I nave got all the poli ticians on my side. Well they are, but they see that the people are going to elect me and they want to be on the winning side. (Applause.) While discussing the Dispensary Senator Evans said The Columbia Reg ister jumped on me 'Sunday and said prove or retract because I jumped on it for criticising Governor TIillman for re opening the Dispensary. Haven't I got as mnuch right to criticise It as It has to criticise me ? I was simply defending Governor Tillman." lHe took a hand primary on this ques tion: "'Ali who think that the Gover nor is right in reopening the Dispen sary and that I had a right to criticise Theegister and stand to the Governors back hold up your hands." On this double headed question in which Gov ernor Tillman was mixed the crowd voted overwhelmingly the way Mr. Evans desired. None voted the other way when that side of the question was put. "That is vindication enough for me," exclaimed Senator Evans, and he went on with his speech on the Dispen sary, arousing a good deel of enthusi asm. Evans begged the people to vote for a constitutional convention. Dr. SampscnPope spoke in favor of his stand for a 'Reform primary, lHe talked to a small crowd which did not seem to fully understand all he said. Dr. Pone declared that he did not ex pect any advantage from the Conserva tives by the position he had taken. On the Dispensary Dr. Pope said the Su preme Court, which was composed of honorable men, had decided the law un constitutional. Governor Tillman was not acting acordingP toaw Inn reopen. ieg the Dispensary now and the people should not follow him when he - was wrong. He apmitted that liquor can be bought anywhere in the State but said the G3vernor or no other law of ficer has made any attempt to enforce probition. Dr. Pope insinuated very strongly that ignoble ambition is guid ing some of the candidates for office and that they are freezing with fear ful tenacity to Tillman's coat tails. Tillman at AikeD, he said, declared that he would get a coat tail big enough for Evans and Ellerbe but never said a word about Tindal or Pope. le (Pope) was glad of it as he did not hang to anybody's coat tail. All four of the Congressional candi dates, Farley, Wilson, Duncan and Johnson, were here to-day and spoke, belaboring each other and discussing issues the least of anything else. Col. Collards Caughman attempted to speak this afternoon from the balcony of the Union Hotel but the crowd would not let him. They took especial pleasure in cheering all he did't say and for this reason he didn't say any thing. le stood on the balcony over half an hour with a colored man hold ing an umbrella over him. It was hotter down below than it was above. NEW CHIEF CONSTABLE. He Says Force Will Not be Uied Unless Absolutely Necensary. COLUMBIA, S. C., Aug. 2.-M. T. Holley, Sr., ex-Sberiff cfi Aiken County, received his commission yesterday as chief of the Dispensary constabulary force. Mr. Holley is a fle 1>oking man of about 55 or 60 years of age. His re cord as Sheriff of Aiken County is a suffiient guarantee that be will discharge the duties of his new position in a most acceptable manner both to the adminis tration and to the citizens generally. In speaking of the work connected with his position Mr. Holley said: "It is my desire that I may be able to conduct my office so that I may command the respect and receive the co operEtion of all good citizens. I wish to put the office upon the plane of a high police office, and my policy shall be to d, nothing that may arouse animosity or resentment so far as the personal conduct of myself and my cfficers are concerned. I filled the offie of Sheriaf of Aiken County for twelve years and those who know me will say that in the discharge of my du tied, while strictly adhering to the letter, and unswerving in my purpose to enforce the law, I gave no man. offense or ever aroused pesonal ieeling against me. I intend to carry on the business of chief constanle in a like manner. I ask that the people will look upon me as a gentle man and I wish them to feel assured that in my dealings with them I shall rertain ly conduct myself as such. I hope that all good cit*zns will d'scourage the fomentation of strife and trouble. Whatever may be the individual opinion as to the law itself it is the first duty of all goori men to endeavar to check any thing thatmay tend to bring about vio lence and disorder. I hope tbat the press may take this view of the matter and that it will use its power and influence to allay irritation and io abitain fcom the expression of inflammatory sentiments. I have no idea that there will be any trouble if this course is pursued, and if there should be trouble it will be brought about by a disregard of the voice of peace. "1 shall go to Charleston today and will probably be there for some time. I shall see the men who hava been en gaged in the whiskey business and I thmnk after I have talked with them we will understand each other better." It was clear f.:om the tone of Mr. Holley's remaks that every effort would be exhausted to enforce the law before anything like actual force would be re sorted to it. It was equally clear that when it should be deemed necessary to employ force that the step would be taken with promptness and eft'ect. Ioth ing as far as possible will be done to irri tate and eiery opportunity would be given to those who were in the business to get out without loss. Mr. Holley wears his badge upon the lapel of his coat and it is understood that all the constables will be required to do like wise; thus doing away with the obnoious appellation of "spy" and appearing in public like any other police officer. Millons In Lumber Batned. CIIIcAGo, Aug. 1.-F ire broke out to night in the lumber yards of J. S. Mar tin & Co. in the heart of the lumber district and spread In all directions. to 9 p. m. the fire had burned J.- S. Martain's lumber yards containing six ty million feet: the yards of Perly, Lowe & Co., about the same amount; lrown & Richards Lumber Company, Wells & French Company, car builders; Siemens & Halske, electric company plant; John Spry; lumber company; Whitecom Cedar l ost Company; W. C. B. Palmer, dealer In cedar posts. The loss will run into the millions, but as the fire is still burning and not under controi It is impossible as yet to give an intellegent estimate of the loss. The territory burned over was bound ed by Ashland avenue on the East, the South branch of the Chicago River on the South; Blue Island avenue on the North and Roby street on the WVest. The fire was the worst which the de partment has been called on to fight in the last twenty-two years. There were many casualties among the firemen and spectators. The only death, so far as heard, was that of a boy who fell from a lumber pile in a river slip and was drowned. Among the principal losses are these: Siemens and Halske eletric company of America, works completely destroyed, loss $800,000, well insured; Wells &~ French, manufacturers of car wheels, freight and refrigerator and street cars works, loss $300,000; Perley, Lowe and Co., lumber dealers; yards adjoining Wells, French & Company's foundry, fifteen million feet of lumber, chiefly soft pine, destroyed, loss $390,000; S. K. Martin Lumber Co., Blue Island Avenue and Lincoln street, known as the largest lumber yards in the country 35,000,000 feet of lumber in and the of fies consumed, loss $700,000: R. F. Conway, cedar posts and blocks, mill and wagons, almost completely, loss $150,000, Barber Asphalt Co., .Paulina street and the river; asphalt stock, t wo story brin~k building and machinery destroyed, loss $150,000; Chicago Stove Works, addition to May Foundry des troyed, including patterns and stock in advanced state, loss $250,000, Long ley, Lowe & Co., lumber yards, Wood street, loss $100,000; Shoe maker & ilgbee, heav lumber yards, P-aulina street and Blue Island avenue, one-quarter saved, loss 100,000; Keystone Lumber Co., Roby street and Blue Island avenne, yards partly destroyed, lose $150,000; E I ward Hines Lumber Co., Roby street South of Blue Island avenue, yards destrcyed loss $200,0'00. Stinl i Force. COLUMBIA, S. C,, July 20.-Habeas capus proceedings were brought before Supreme Justice Pope, formerly attor-. ey general under Tulman, in a case of the state against Silver, of Orangeburg, charged with violating the dispensary law in June last. The justice, in a ver bal decision, held that the act of 1893 was still in force, and that it had not been acted upon by thre supreme court. An appeal will be taken to the whole sureme court, and the case will be eard as soon as Justice-elect Gary, for erly lieutenant governor, takes his seat on the bench. It is a case made up by the state arnd was devised to give some color of right to Governor Till man's issuing his proclamation. No in timation was given that the case was to be brought and the public heard nothing of it utiil Justice Pop~e's decision was GREAT FORES[ F1RS. MILLIONS DESTROYED AN. THOUS ANDS MADE HOMELESS BY 1r. Three Towos Wiped *at ef Exritence Miraculous Escape of the Inhabitsnts from a Fiery Death-R1in Frayed For Comes and the F lamfe are Qaenchod. MILWAUKEE, Wis., July 28.-Gen eral Manager H. F. Whitcomb, of the Wisconsin Central Rnd. this noon made the !ollovinz eu' nti, siateet with rezard to the for(st fi-es in the Northern part o! the Stae: Trains from the Stuth have re-ached the S.uth end of -he Phillips vard. Trains from the North have reached the fi-st bridge North of Philip3, about one mile North of the station, this bridize having been damaged by fire. Nearly the whole city of Phillips is destroyed, including the saw and planing mille and box factory of the John R. Davis Lum ber Company and Shaw's tannery. About thirty houses are let standing in Phillips. Aside from the people reu dered homeless by the destruction of the city of Phillips a great many settlers along our line have lost the.r homes and all of their belongings. The tires in the forests are still burning but some rain fell last night and the Ares are not spread'ig. The loss is estimated at sev eral m ilions of dollars. The town of Phillips, the courty seat of Pine County, Shore's Crossing and the village of Mason, in Bayfield Coun ty, are whiped of the map. Phihips was a town of 3,000 inhabitants. Most of these are homeless. rbe loss at Ma son will reach nearly $1,000,000, that at Phillips three times as much. The en tire Northern portion off the State, the lumber region, is full of forest fires which are doing immense damage to standing timber. It is reported that many lives have been lost, but of these no aathentic reports have been received. The total destruction by fire of the prosperous town of Phillips. in Prince County, as a result of the devastating forest conflagration during the week, brouget quick and generous responses to the appeals for succor from all parts of the Badger State today. The bare news that 3,000 men, women arid chil dren had been suddenly rendered home less and destitute of the necessaries of existence was sufficient to awake prac tical expressions ol symp ithy ic which the State authorities and the business men of Milwaukee were leaders. The escape ci all the unfortunate victims from death or serious burning was cn sidered most miraculous when they were surrounded by the 1[itming for-st and buildings of the town. The Big Elk River which runs through Phillips afforded a haven of refuge to maby of the inhabitants. The destruc tion of Phillips was followed by the prayed-for-rain, which very soon quench ed the forest fires along the Northern Pacific, 0 naha and South Shore Roads between West Superior and Ashland, as well as the destructive conflagrations to the South on the line of the Wiecon sin Central and in the Michigan Peninsu lar in the Gogebic Range region.-Ffteen car hi.ds of provisions,. clothing and tents are either in the hands of the Phil lips v scims tonight or will be to-moriow. The reports from Mason, in Bay field County, and Shores Crossing, which were partly burned, show that the peo pe are not in want of necessaries of life. Quartermaster General Auer today re ceived the follo wing dispatch iro a the Governor: OCoNoxoC, WIS , July 28 --Mset me at the St. Paul depot, MIlwaukee, at 3:30. Arrange for two or three cars on the Wisconsin Centrial Road tc send re lief to Pnillips tonight. Buy 100 bar rels of flour and 2,000 pounds of bacon, hams., etc. Buy 1,000 loaves of bread. Get the things under way and we will arrange the rest on my arrival. (Signed) GEOEGE W. PECK. The following disnatch was received by Governor Peck from B. W. Davis, chairman of the county boardl at Phil lips, and repeated to General Aner: "PHILLIPs, WIs., July28.-To Gv eror Peck: Send tent and blankets for 1000 people. (Signed) B. W. IDAVIs. The following message was received and read on the Exchange to day: P:grLLIrs, Wis , July 28.-Our city is entirely destroyed by bre, leaving 3.000 people without food, clothing or shelter. Please take immediate steps to send relief. (Signed) R. W. D A ys, Chairman of Relief Committee. The Mayor received an appeal from Phillips and immediately notified Pcesi dent Hanson of the Merchants and Manufacturers Association and a call for a meeting of that organiz ation at 11 o'clock this forenoon was issued. It was decided to send three carloads of provisions consisting of bread, crackers, meat and other ar'.icles donated, on the 8:35 passenger train over the Wi sconsin Central. The first contribution to the Pilhips' sufferers today was a carload of flour from the Milwaukee millers. Raports fcom Pnillips received at the Centeral oflice this afternoon stated that four ca-s of provisions have already been received for the fire sufferers. Wausau, Ashland and Portase each sent a car load, while a carload of meat in transit at Fairfield was also turned over to the relef committee. Eight care6 of provi sions are already on the road to Phillips. IRONWoOA, MICH., July 28.-The disastrous forest fires, which have been raring in-the Gogebic Range this week, were extinguished today by a he'ivv pouring of rain on the flames. MILWAUKEE, WIS., July 2&.-The following is a summary of the fire losse 5. The city of Phillips entirely wiped cut; the city 01 Mason practicaliy destroyed, with the White River Lumber Company and 30,000,000 feet c f lumber; head uarters of the Ashland Lumber Com pany, near Shore's Crossing, entirely wiped out; a special train for Chiceg>, n the St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omana, :onsiting of sixteen cars and two loco motives, were all burned, the train broke throrugh the burning bridge near A sh land Junction; camps of the Thomoson Lumber Company burned at White Rver; two bridge's on the main lhne of the Chicago, S;;. Paul, Minneapolis and D.naa Railroad, one near Ashland unction, and one near Mason; the bridges on the Wisconsin Central out at Chelsea and the other near Piiilps, both on the main line South ol Ashland. Several parties of berrypickers from Ashland narrowly escaped with their ives, and it is almost certain that some f the lo-ie homesteaders scatterel through the burning district have perIsh ed in the ismes unies they have in some arvelous way escaped through the suflocating 11ames and smoke. About noon refugees and homesteaders began to arrive at Ashland. Three thousand people have been made homeless here by the forest fires at Philhips. Not a building is lef. staading in the town. When the fire had the city, it swept from house to house and in a hour hac apped the entire village in llames. The people fled to the railway, where trains were stari.ed and they were hastily onveyed to neighboring to'wns. Noth ing but a few personal c:frascts were saved i Phillips. Ws.. July 28.-T velve peo pe are known to have lost their lives. mong the dead are: Frank Cliss and a t oyear-old child, James Lock, but her, wife and five children, Mrs. Davis rydn and to cm hildren. WAR DTCL ARED. J-pan aid Chin~a t Fig1ht in D.id Ea nEst i-w. LONDON, August 1.-The Exchange Telegraph Company says war between China and Japan wais formally declared at noon today by Japan. Lord Kim berly, Secretary of State for Foreigr Affairs, immediately upon receipt of the notice from the japanese govern ment that war had been declared wired all British representatives abroad to warn captains of mtrcbant ships of tle fact in order that they might firn: their cargoes anid act accordingly. SHANOAIT, A7uust 1.-At 11 o'clock in the morning of July 27.the day after the attack on the Chinfse transports which resuited in the sinki ng of the Kow Shung, the Japanese warships Takachiho and Ili~i made an attack upon the Cinese ironclad Chen Yuen. After a long and desperate fight the Japanese vessels were beaten off, the Hiyi being disabled and rendered help less. The Chen Yuen, though badly damaged, succeeded in reaching port in safety in company with two gun boats which also tooa part in the en gagement and immediately went into dry dock for repairs after her two days fighting. The damage to the Chen Yuea is so great that some time must elapse be fore It can be fully repaired and the vessel be sent out to the scene of ac tion. Six Chinese transports packed with troops sailed on Monday from Chee Foo. They were convoyed by three warships. Advices from Yashan state that the Chinese are strongly en trenched there and repeated attempts have been made by the Japanese troops to dislodge them. In every instance, however, the attacking forces, after hard fought engagements, were re pulsed with heavy losses. A portion of the Chinese soldiers engaged in th ese battles were the best troops of the Northern army of Viceroy Li 1[ung Chang. The Chinese losses were smal. The North China News confirm3 the report of fighting at Yazhan. It says that the Japanese brought up for the attack every available man almost rl nuding Seoul of troops. The successfal defence made by the Chinese wts di rected by European omcers. A letter from Han Kow says that the outbreak of hostilities has revived all the native fanaticism of the Chinese, Foreigners are insulted openly and violence is feared. Nine heavy -guns have been added to the artillery at Taku harbor in the last three days and submarine mines have been laid in ex pectation of an attack from the Japa nese fleet. Alarm is felt at Taku, as people there believe that any day may bring several Japanese war vessels and a bombard ment. The steam launches of the Chi nese custom service are scouting along the coast to ascertain whether or not the Japanese are approaching. Their officers report that several Japanese cruisers have been seen in the gulf of Pechili. The ability of the Taku forts to withstand a bill bombardment is doubted. The fort works were not built to resist the fire of modern guns. Stands by Gantt. GREENYILLE, August 2 -L a r r y Gantt's local Alliance, which goes by the name of Encamament Alliance, No. 485, stands by him and has passed res olutions announcing that in spite of his expulsion by the State Alliance they will continue to recognize him as a member. The following are the reso lutions: "Resolutions of Encampment Alliance, No. 485, of Spartanburg, S. C. Whereas, the rumor having reached our ears that the late State Aliance has, on the recommendation of the ju diciary committee, expelled brother Gantt from the order; and believing that said body acted unjustly in that our brother was not given notice of trial; and, Whereas, we believe It exceeded its jurisdiction and that its action cannot be sustained by the constitution of our order, in that brother Gantt has always in his editorial utterances sustained all the demands of the Alliance both State and National, and has never in our knowledge expressed himself as oppos ing any of the principles or demands of the platform of our orde:', and that there 's indicated in the criticisms, as uttered by many In our county and voiced by brother Giantt In his paper at their Instance, only the welfare and suc cess of our organization; and, Whereas, we feel that we want to see each of our brethren receive just and fair treatment on all occasions and especially at the hands of brethren, and believing that the present instance Is not wholly free from bias and preju dice, now therefore be it Resolved, 1st, That if the repor', be true that has reached us that brother Gantt has been expelled frorn the brotherhood, th:.t we di T-r v -ry muc'i with that Alliance and cos.det broth er Gantt In good standing until he be regularly tried and found guilty of some charge, and we believe him to be as sincere in his allegiance to the Al liance as any member of that bo!h. Resolved 2nd. That we shi~h con tinue to recognmza brother Gantt as a regular member of our sub-Alliance until he is proven an unworthy Alli anceman. Rssolved, 3rd. That these resolutions be published in the IPiedmont Head light and that the other papers of the State be requested to copy.--State. Free scholarehi~ps. Oa the same line as the scholarships allowed the girls of the State in the Winthrop Normal College, the Legisla ture at its last session arranged for scholarships for the young men of the State In the South Carolina College. The following circular letter in regard to these scholarships has been prepared by President Woodrow and is being sent out to the various school commis sioners: - Dear Sir: In accordarnce with a re ent act of the General Assembly pro vision has been made for the admission to this college of t wo no~rmnal students from each county, without the patyment f the annual fee ($10) or the tuitibn fee ($40). It h as been resolved that the mode of examination and admission shall be similar to that provided for he Winthrop Normal College except hat the examination questions shall be prepared by the faculty of this col ege. The lion. W. D. May ield, State Superintendent of E lucation, has sug gested Friday, August 21:h, as~ the dlay n which these competitive examina ions shall be hsld in all the counties. May I beg you to take charge ot the hole matter in your county, as the ffer entitled to do this? This, I saip ose, includes making kno wn through ut your county the fazt that such ex mination will be held; appointing an xamining committee; making known the result and whatever elss may be ecessary. The questions which have een prepared by my colleagues, wlll be orwarded to you in due time, before the date fixed for the examination. Troubie at Clemson. !LEMSON COLLEGE, S. C.. JliY 2K. or some time certain parties, not stu ents, have been trying to remove Pr~esi et Cratghead. For several days the eport has been going round that all the etuents but abcut six hadi sened a pet: on asking the Board to rem'-ve the resident. President Craighea . met the issue squarely at etapel :3'erciscs y asking thosc students wh:> wished him for President to r-se. Attr-st Ihe entire body, over ;50 arose. A few, ~roably twenty-!hve, did not rise, some f whom gave as their reason that they did not care to vote as it belonged to the Board to decide. The parties who ppose the President are enemies of the ollege, and their ellorts to remove him will be in vain . ROYALuI5.'" POWlaDER AbsoluteLy Pure. A cream or tartar Darmg powder Ihighest of all in leavening strength.-LA test United States Government Food Re port. Royal Baking Powder Company, 106 Wall St., N. Y. Three Children Suffocated. HARTFORD, Conn , July 29.-The three Guinan children who strayed away from their home on Broad street, this city. Thurs lay aftern'>on have been irund, but all three are dead. The chief cf police zave orderi this morning that all cars about the depot and the freight yards be thoroughly searched. A few minutes after 10 o'ciock p:>lcemen-who hai been searc'iing cars In the yard of the New York, New Haven and Hart ford for about two hours came to a ca noose from which sickening odors came. The v burst open the door and the stench which had been strong before became' almost overwhelming. Keeping on at their work of investigation the officers trecid the smelt to the closet which the trammen use as a clothes press and breaking open the door they found the three little bodies naked and mangled by rats. Freddie, the four year-old, lay at the bottom; on him waa Raymond, 9 years old, and on top of both was Le roy, 7 years old. Under the three bodies here the few garments the boys wore when they left home. At the antopsy this stternoon nothing was found to in dicate violence. The condition of the wings indicated death by suffocation and tue absence of contusion or other marks on the neck precludes idea of stran gul ation. The theory is that the little fellows ran into the car to hide from a paasing policeman Tbursday afternoon and that the door of the clo3et swung to and caught them in with the spring lock. The closet is five feet high and its flor space is 28 by 15 inches. It is impossible that the little boys could have lived long in such a confined space and the doctrs think they became uncon scions in about 15 minutes and they did not live more than 50 minutes after the door was locked on them. It Is sup posed that the three boya had taken off their clothcs to play going, in swimming, as that idea was in their mind when they left home. The Chicago Fire. CHICAGO, Aug. 2.-Tdi% Is evisiun of the results of last n - .'- fire in the lumber district places h - mt.-1 I ssat $1,190,500. The tott: %on'%-r of mnea thrown oat of emplo roxn. by the 1i -e is 2,200 and the destru;-t!'. , aso e a plete that it will be v.'' ks :etore o t of them can be given work hv the fi ns which suffered. The I e. of casual:o.s so far as known is as fe le: Dead: Lient. John McGonn, iof th 6re boat Geyser, burn d died at county hospital. Willham Wcllenfel, 1 063 Ellen ave nue, struck by cap ble: vn Iromn en.glae 35, knocked in'.o the rive r and drowned; body rec v'-e'. Unk:, e i., ase iuto river and dr- ned. Unk:' -n boy, 17 years old, burned to deati The I jared: Edward Burns, pipe man, v~i! recover. Capt. Byrne, .Eogine Company 15, struck in the eye by stream of water, will losean eve. Cspt. BarceI, fire boat Yosamite, over come by smoke, will recover. John Gary, pipeman, badly burned about faco, body and arms. Peter Paelan, ripeman, overcome Dy heat and burnea. Lieut. Daniel Merpy, hook and lad der company, knocked inser~sible by fly ing brick. J. P. Flaherity, fireman, hit by swing ing hose, knocked into the fire and bad ly burned, will recover. O;to Richter, fell fromt lumber pile, two ribs broken and injured internally, may die. The Gayden Murderers. SUMTER, Aug. 3.-Trial Justice Mose ey of Wedgefield has for a long time been on the trial of the Gayden murder ers, and has at last succeeded in fa~ret lag out the matter. Yesterday ho ar rested Jackson Taylor, colored, charged as being an accomplice, and Rosa Polk, who claims to have been an eye wit ness of the killing. These parties are in jasit here. Kate Brown, another eye witness, has been arrested in Charles ton and is in jail there. R sa Polk says that the night the murder was committed, her and Katie Brown were returning from a party in Wedgefleld about 12 o'clock. They m-st C. 0. Wheeler, Jr., (a white mar.) and Tom Frierson (colored) and they all were go ing up the railroad track towards the junction. After going some little disa rance, she and Wheeler went to one side and sat down to talk, the others going to the opposite side of the track and waiting for them. She and Wheeler saw a man coming down the track with a lantern and Wheeler said he would cross to the otther side of the track as he not wish to be seen there with her. When Wheele~r had crossed over the man approached to within about twen ty Ii.t -agr d., ?a n n' -s I r tired three shots, and a tew minutes seven other shots were fired, but she did not know who fired them. The man who was ired at walked a littla~ further, spit several times, and went a little off the rack and sat down. Rosa says that Jsckson Taylor was also in the party who fired the last seven shots. C. 0. Wheeler, JTr., is still at large and it is aid has gone to Alabama. Tom Frier on is also at large. It looks now as If this mystery is about to be explained and the murderers brought to jonstice. -State. An Archduke Killed, VIENNA, July 29.-While the Arch duke William was riding this afternoon n lBaden. near Vienna, his horse bolted, eing frightened by an electric car. he Archduke was thrown and his fot caught in the stirrup and he was ragged more than a hundred yards. He was insensible when the horse was topped, and he died at 7:30 without aving recovered consciousness. The hysicians who attended him said that eath was caused by concussion of the rain. The Archduke was born In 1827. e never married. He was master of rdnance in the Austrian army. Killed. Coru~ints, Ga., August 1.-Young ham blsh, strenotrapher at the Empire ills, this city, and Jim Corbett, col ector for the Bee Hive store, ha: a leasant tussle this afterncon at the ills. Chamblish struck Corbett rath r severely in the eye which nettled im and he dealt him a blow over the eart with all of his power. Chamblish ell to the ground and expired in a few oments. The deceased was about ighteen years old and It stated suffer ,rd consilderably with haert affctn.