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SEPTEMBER. The fields and meadows paling Lie 'neath the hazy sky; The thistle-down is sailing By zephyrs slowly by. The stalks of stubble bleaching Beneath September's sun, Seem silently now teaching Of rest when labr's done. The golden-rod, bright gieaming Above the parched sod, Is surely sent, the seemin:, Of the golden things of of God. The kats-dids are calling, in a sccial sort of a way, To learn what is befalling The neighbors cross the way. Communist like, the blackbirds Hold meetings every night, As though the world went backwards, And they mustset it right. The apples fast are falling From heavy laden boughs; The milkmaid's faintly calling 'Cross the meadows for the cows. The milking-stool is realy Astride the barnyard gate; The cows come slow and steady, Like messengers of Fate. And soon, in silence sleeping, Master and maid and herd Beneath God's kindly keepirg Will rest-as on his word. So may this mild September With its pictures passing fair Make each of us remember God's mercies, rich and rare. HE SEES EVERY SIDE. Dr. Taimage's Eloquent- Plea ror Chrlt ltan Toleratlon. BRooKLYS, Sept. 9.-Rev. D:. Tal mage, who is now in Australia, whence he will shortly sail for Ceylon and India, hasselected as the subject for today's sermon through the press "Communion of Saints." the text chosen being Judges xii, 6: "Then said they unto him, Say now shibboleth, and he said sibboleth, for he could not frame to pronounce it. right. Then they took him and slew him at the passages of Jordan." Do you notice the difierence of pro nunciation between shibboleth and sio boleth? A very small and unimportant difterence, you say. And yet that dif ference was the difference between life and death for a great many paople. The Lord's people, Gilead and Ephraim, got into a great fight, and Ephraim was worsted, and on the retreat came to the fords of the river Jordan to cross. Or der was given that all Ephraimites com ing there be slain. But how could it be found out who were Ephaimites? They were detected by their pronunciation. Shibboleth was a word that stood for river. The Ehraimites had a brogue of their own, and when they tried to say "sh!b boleth always left out the sound of the "h." When it was asked that they say shibboleth they said sibboleth and were slain. "'hen said they unto him, Say now shibboleth, and he said sibboleth, for he could not frame to prouounce it right. Then they took him and slew him at the passages of Jordan." A very small difference, you say, between Gi lead and Ephraim, and yet how much intolerance about that small difference! The Lord's tribes in our time-by which I mean the different denominations of -.4hristians-sometimes magnify a very small difference, and the only difference between scores of denominations today is the diflerence between shibboleth and sibboleth. The church of God is divided into a great number of denominations. Time would fail me to tell of the Calvinists, rm~A~~inian5, and the Sabbatari ,~nand the Baxterians, and the Dank. era, and the Shakers, and the Quakers, and the Methodists, and the Bs~ptists, and the Episcopalians, and the Luther ans, and the Congregationalists. and the Presbyterians and the Spiritualists, and a score of other de nominatins of religionists, some of them founded by very good men, some of them founded by very egotistic men, some of them founded by very bad men. But as I demand for myself liberty of conscience I must give that same liberty to every other man, remembering that he no more diflers from me than I differ from him. I advocate the largest liber ty mn all relhgious belief and form of wor ship. In art, in politics, in morals and in religion let there be no eag law, no moving of the previons question. no per secution, no intolerance. You know that the air and the water keep pure by constant circulation, and I think there is a tendency in re' ~ discussion to purificati.. moral health. Between thig fourth and the sixteenth centurl!Etthe church proposed to make peopithink aright by prohibit mng disce?on, and by strong censorship of .4 press and rack and gibbet and hot a"ead down the throat tried to make peo pie orthodox, but it was discovered that you cannot change a man's belief by twisting off his head nor maae a man see differently by putting an awl through his eyes. There is something in a man's conscience which will hurl off the moun tain that you threw upon it, and, un singed of the fire, out of the iame will make red wings on which the martyr will mount to glory. In that time of which I speak, between the fourth and sixteenth centuries, peo pie went from the house of God into the moat appallin0 iniquity, and right along by consecrated altars there were tides of drunk"'ness and licentiousness such as the woaid never heard of, and the very sewers of perdition broke loose and flooded the church, After awhile the printing press was freed, and it broke -the shackles of the human mind. Then .there came a large number of bad books and where there was one man hostile to the Christian religion there were 20 men ready to advocate it. So I have not any nervousness in regard to this battle go ing on between tr-uth and error. The truth will conquer just as certainly as that God is stronger than the devil. Let error run if yon only let truth run along with it. Urged on by skeptic's shout and transcendentalist's spur, let it run. God's angel's of wrath are in hot pur suit, and quicker than earle's beak clutches out a hawk's heart Gd's ven geance will tear it to pieces. I propose to speak to you of sectarian ismn-its origin, its evils and its cures. There arethose whowould make us think that this monster, with herns and hoofs is religion. I shall chase it to its hiding place and drag it out of the caverns of darkness and rip cfl its hide. But I want to make a distinction between bigotr y and the lowfuil fondness for peculiar re ligious belief and forms of worship. I have no admiration for a nothingarian. In a world of such tremendous vicissi tude and temptation, and with a soul that must after awhile stand before a throne of insufferable brightness, in a day when the rocking of the mcuntains, and the flaming of the heavens, and the upheav al of the seas shall be among the least of the excitements, to give account for every thought, word, action, preference and dislike, that man is mad who has no religious preference. But our early ed ucation, our physical temperament, our mental constitution, will very much de cide our form of worsh'io. A style of psalmody that may please me may displease you. Some wculd like to have a minister in gown and bans and surplice, and others prefer to have a minister in plain citizen's apparel. Some are more impressed when a little child is presented at the altar and sprin kled the waters of a holy benediction "in the name of the Father and cf' the Son, and of the Holy Ghost," and oth ers are more impressed when the peni tent comes up out of the river, his gar ments dripping with the waters of a baptism, which signifies the washing away of sin. Let either have his own wa.y. One man likes no noise in prayer not a word, not a whisper. Another man, just as good, prefers by gesticula tion and exclamation to express his devotioOal aspirations. One man is just as good as the other. "Everyman full, persuaded in his own miod." Geo:-ge Whitefield was going over a Q aaker rather roughly for some of his religious sentiments and the Quaker ssid: "George, I am as thou art. I am for bringing a'l mea to the hope of the gos-el. Therefore, if thou will not quarrel with me abcut my broad brim, I will not quarrel with thee about thy black gown. (4ecrge, give my thyhand." In tracing out the reliion of.bectarian ism or bigotry I flad that a great deal of it comes from wrong educaticn in the home circle. There are parents who do not thnk it wrong to caricature and jeer the peculiar forms of religion in the world and denounce other sects and other denominations. It 2s very often the case that that kind of education acts iust op posite t what was expected, and the children grow up and after awhile go and see for themselves, and looking in those churches and flading that the people are good there, ard they love God and keep his commandments; by natural reaction they 2o and j in those very churches. I could mention the names of prominent ministers of the gospel who spent their whole life bombarding other denomina tions and who lived to see their children preach the gospel in those very d3nomi nations. But it is often the case that b:otry starts in a household, and that the subject of it never recovers. There are ten thousands of bigots 10 years old. I think sectarianism and bigotry also rise from too great prominence of any one denomination in a community. All the other denominations are wrong, and his denomination is right because his denomination is the most wealthy, or the most popular, or the most influen tial and it is "our" church, and "our" religious organizition, and "our" choir, and "our" minister, and the man tosses his head and wants other denommations to know their places. It is a great deal better in any com munity when the great <enominations of Christians are about equal in power, matching side by side for the world's conquest. Mere outside prosperity, mere worldly power, is no evidence that the church is acceptable to God. Better a barn with Christ in the manger than a cathedral 'with magnificent harmonies rolling through the long drawn aisle and an anzel from heaven in the pulpit if there be no Christ in the chancel and no Christ in the robes. Bigotry is often the child of ignorance. You seldom find a man with a large intellect who is a bigot. It is the man who thinks he knows a great deal, but does not. That man is almost always a bigot. The whole tendency of education and civilization is to bring a man out of that kind of state of mind and heart. There was in the far east a great obelisk and one side of the obelisk was white, another side of the obelisk was green, another side of the obelisk was blue, and travelers went and looked at that obelisk, but they did not walk around it. One man looked at one side, another at another side, and they came home, each one looking at only one side, and they happened to meet, the story says, and they get into a rank quarrel about the color of that obelisk. One man said it was white, another man said it was green another man said it was blue, and when they were in the very heat of the contro versy a more intelligent traveler came and said: "Gentlemen, I have seen that obelisk, and you are all right, and you are all wrong. Why didn't you walk all around the obelisk?" Look out for the man who sees only one side of a religious truth. Look out for the man who never walks around about these great theories of God and eterninty and the dead. He will be a bi got inevitably--the man who only sees one side. There is no man more to be pitied than he who has in his 'head just one idea-no more, no less. More light less sectarianism. There is nothing that will so soon kill bigotry as sunshine God's sunshine. S->I have set before you what I con sider to be the causes of bigotry. I have set before you the origin of this great evil. What are some of the baleful ef fcts? First of al, it cripples investiga tion. You arejrgong, and I am rIght, and that ends It. NotasTe1r exprora tion, spirit of investigation. Foe'lorious realm of God's truth, -er which an archangel mgiht fly from eternty to eternity and not reach the limit, the man shuts himself out and dies a blind mole under a corushock. It stops all investigation. Another great damage done by the sectarianism and birotry of the church is that it disgusts people with the Chris tian religion. Now, my friends, the church of God was never intended for a war barrack. People are afraid of a riot. You go down the street, and you see an excitement and missiles flying through te air, and you hear the shock of fire arms. Do you, the peaceful and indus trious citizen, go through that street? O, no, you will say; "I'll go around the block." Now, men come and look upon this narrow path to heaven and sometimes see the ecclesiastical brick bats flying every whither, and they say: "Well, I guess I'll take the broad road. There is so much sharpshooting on the narrow road I guess I'll try the broad road!" Francis I so hated the Lutherans that he said that if he thought there was one drop of Lutheran blood in his veins he would puncture them and let that drop out. Just as long as there is so much hostility between denomination, and denomination or between one professed Christian and another, or netween one church and another, so long men will be disgusted with the Christian rehtgion and say, "If that is re ligion, I want none of it." Again, bigotry and sectarianism do great damage in the fact that they hin der the triumph of the gespel. Oh, how much wasted ammunition, how many menof splendid intellect have given their whole life to controversial disputes when if they had given their life to something practical, they might have been vastly usefu! Suppose, while I speak there were a common enemy commng up the bay, and all the forts around the harbor began to fire into each other-you would cry out: "National suicide! Why don't those fort blazs away in one direction, and that against the Commou enemv?" And yet I sometimes see in the church of the Lord Jesus Christ a strange thing going on church against church, minister against minister, denomination against denomi nation, firing away into their own fort or the fort which ought to be on the same side instead of concentrating their energy and gIving one mighty and everlasting volley against the navies of darkness rding up through the bay! I go out sometimes in the summer, and I find two beehives, and these two hives are in a quarrel. I come near enough, not to be stung, but I come just near enough to hear the controversy and one beehive says, "That field of clo ver is the sweetest," and another bee hive says, "That field of clover is the sweetest." I come in between them, and I say: "Stop this quarrel. If you like that 11eld of clover best, go there. i-you like that field of clover best, go there, but let me tell you that that hive which gets the most honey is the best hive" So I come out between the churches of the Lord Jesus Christ. One denomination of Christians says, "That field of Christian doctrine is best, and another says, "This field of Christian doctrine is best.'. Well, -I say, "Go is the best church which gets the most boney of Christian grace for the heart, and the most honey of Christian useful ness for the life. B esides that, if you want to bui1 uo any denomination, you will never build it up by trying to pull some other down. Ietoierance never put anything down. How much has intolerance accomplished, for instance, against the Methodist church? For long years her ministry were forbidden the pulpits of Great Brit ain. Why was it that so many of them preached in the fields? Simply because they could not get in the churches. And the name of the church was given in derieion and as a sarcasm. The crites of the church said, "They have no order; they have no method in their worship," and the critics therefore In irony called them "Methodists." I am told that in Autor library, New York, kept as curiosities, there are 70 7 books and pamphlets aza!nst Methodism. DId intolerance stop that church? No. It is either first or second amid the de nominations of Christendom, her 'mis sionary stations in all patts of the world, her men not only important in religious trust, but important also in secular trusts. Church marching on, and the more intolerance against it the faster it marched. What did intolerance accomplish against the Baptist church? If laugh ing scorn and tirade could have destroyed the church, it would not have today a disciple left. The B3ptists were buried cut of Boston in oldefr, times. Toose who sympathized with them were impri soned, and when a petition was offered asking leniency in their behalf all the men who sinned it were indicted. Has intolerance stopped the Baptist church? The last statistics in regard to it showed 25,000 churches and 3,000,000 communi cants. Intolerance never put down any thing. In England a la * was made against the Jew. England thrust back the Jew and thrust down.the Jew and declared that no Jew should hold ofiial nosition. What came of ii? Were the Jews de stroyed? Was their religion overthrown? No. Who became prime minister of England? Who was next to the throne? Who was higher than the throne because he was counselor and adviser? Disraeli, a Jew. What were we celebrating in all our churches as well as synagogues only a few years ago? The one hun dredth birthday anniversary of Monte flore, the great Jewish philanthropist. Intolerance never yet put down any thing. Bat now, my friends, hav:ng shown you the origmn of bigotry or sectarianism, and having shown you the damage it does, I want briefly to show you now we are to war aganst this terrible evil, and I think we ought to begin our war by realizing our own weakness and our imperfections. If wa make so many mistakes in the common affairs of life, is it not possiole that we make mistakes in regard to our religious affairs? Shall we take a man by the throat or by the ollar because he cannot see religious truths just as do? In the light of eterni. ty it will be found out, I think, th-.re was something wrong in all our creeds, and something right in all our creeds. But since we may make mistakes in regard to things of the world do not let us be so egotistic and so puffed up as to have in idea that we cannot make any mis Ake in regard to religious theories. And hen I taink we will do a great deal to overthrow the sectarianism from our ieart and the sectarianism from the world by chiefly enlarging in those things in which we agree rather than those on which we differ. Now, here is a great gospel platform. A. man comes up on his side of the plat orm and rays, "I don't believe in baby pringling." Shall I shove him off? Eere is a man comning up on this side of the platform, and he says, "I don't bs ieve in the perseverance of the saints." Shall I shove him off? No. I will say: "Do you believe in the Lord' esus as your Savior? D> you trust him for time and for eternity?" He says., "Yes." "Do you take Christ for time and for sternity?" "Yes," I say. "Come on brother. One in time, and one in eterni ty. B'rother now, brother forever." Blessed be God for a gospel platform so arue that all who receive Christ may stand on it! Moreover, we may also overthow the Feelug of severe sectarianism by joining other denominations in Christian work. [like when the springtime comes and the anniversary occasions begin and all lenominations come upon the same plat orm, That overthrows sectarianism. [n the Young Men's Christian associa tions, in the Bibie society, in the Tract society, in the Foreign Missionary eozie ty, shoulder to shoulder all denomina tions. Perhaps I might forcefully illustrate this truth by calling your attention to an incident which took place about 20 years ago. 0ae Monday morning at about 2 o'clock, while her 900 passen gers were sound asleep in her berths dreaming ot home, the steamer Atlantic crashed into Mars Head. Five hundred souls in 10 minutes lan ded in eternity! Oh, what a scene? Agoniz ed men and women running up and down the gang ways and clutching for the rigging, and the plunge of the helpless steamer and olapping ot the hands of the merciless sea over the drowning and the dead threw two continent into teiror. But see this brave quartermaster pash ing Out with the life lineuntil he gets to the rock, and see these fishermen gath ering up the shipwrecked and takimg theni inio the cabins and wrapping them in~the lannels snug and warm, and see that minister of the gospel, with three other men, getting into a lifeboat and pushing out for the wreck, pulling away across the surf and pulling away until they saved one more man and then get. ting back with him to the shore. Can those men every forget that night, and can they every forget their companion ship In peril, companionship in awfat ctastrophe and rescue? Never! Never! [n whatever part of the earth they meet they will be friends when they mention the story of that night when the Atlantic truck Mars Head. Well, my friends, our world has gone into a worse ship wreck. Sin drove it on the rock. The old ship has lunched and tossed in the tempests of 6.000 years. Oait with the life line! I do not care what denomnina Lion carries it. Qit with the lifeboat! I :o not care what denomination rows it. Side by side, in the memory of common hardships and common trials and conm Eon prayers and comm-an tears, let us be b:-others forever. We must be. One army of the living God, To his command we bow. Part of the host have crossed the flood, And part are crossing now And I expect to see the day when all ]enminationls of Christians shall j in ands around the cross of Christ and re :ite the creed: "I believe In God, the Eather Almighty, Maker of heaven and arth, and in Jesus Christ, and in the :ommunion of samnts, and in lile evar asting. Amen!" Wilfu l urdere. L osox, Sept. 12.-A dispatch from Paris says: Montevideo advices of Septemnber 11 say that fifty-eight Bra ilians were execnted last spring at President .Peixoto's orders without the semblance of a trial. They were ar :es*.ed on April 21, and were executed n the morning of April 2i at the for ress of Santa Cruz, harbor of St. Cath trina. An even larger number of re spectable citizens had been shot under similar circumstances in Curity Blay. ?hroughout the month of May the olleys were heard nightly in the cemn tery, where the bodies were imm.edi dely buried. CONDITION OF THE CRO Direc'or Bauer's Weekly 1part on the Weather and Field Produets. COLUMBIA, S. C., Sept. 12.-The week ending September 10th was a very hot one with an average daily excess over the normal, of from 4 to 6 degrees. The highest temperature re ported was 96 at various places;' the lowest 65 at Longshore on the 4th and 64h. There was about 80 degrees of the possible sunshine; the sky having been almost clear during the four last days of the week and partiy cloudy on the previous days. Tnere were light suowers. quite gen eral over the State, on the 4th and 5th, scattering showers ou the 6:h and in the extreme Northwestern counties on the 8;n. The weeks rainfall was less than the usual amount in all sections, and a general rain would be beneti ial; Spartanburg and Union Counties have especial need of it. High winds are roported from Ker shaw County with some damage to cot ton and corn. Cotton picking has become general over the entire 8:ate, and was favored by the hot, dry weather which perrait ted uninterrupted labor, as well as causing the bolls to open rapidly. The yield continues to appear disappoint ing and the general opinion of corre spondents is, for causes already stated, the crop will not come up to the early estimates. In addition to the reports of shedding and rast previously given, boll worms have appeared in Newberry and Eigelleld Counties. There will be no top crop on sandy land; at other places a small middle crop, while in general the crop is from one week to ten days late. The hot sunshine seems to have effectually checked rotting. The corn crop is all made and is be ing housed in places; the new corn is now used generally for feeding. The heat 13 favorable, as it thoroughly ripens and hardens the grain on thie stalk. The fodder has about all been secured in tine condition and is an abundant supply. Other forage crops, suc-h as pea-vine hay and grasses, are also heavy crops and are being cut under tavorable weather conditions. The rice harvest is said to be well in hand now, and in some counties the largest crop ever known is being har vested, waile the yield in general is very satisfactory. So far the weather has been all that could be desired for securing the crop and it will soon be beyond danger of injury from unfavor able weather. i rly peas are ripening and being picked. The pea crop will be a large one in acreage and prospective yield. The turnip crop has, generally, attain ed a good stand and Is growing off nicely. Sweet potatoes are not uniform in regard to condition, being an abund ant crop in sections while other places report a plenty oi vine, but lack of tuber growth. Garden products con tinue plentiful, except catibages which are rotting badly. The track farming industry, in the coast counties, was affected favorably by the past week's weather and the fall crop of vegetables, fruits and berries are doing very wel. Sorghum is beicg gathered and made into syrup, the yield, as reported, is from fair tc very good, running au average of 90 ga!!cus to the acre in Fairfield County. J. W. BAUER, * Director. R abbid by Oflt erd. NE w YoRK, Sept. 12.-At to-day's session of the Lexow police investiga tion committee the m-nst important witness was Mrs. Cela Urchittel, who came to this country from Russia six years ago. She had S693 and opened a small cigar store and cried as she toll how a detective she thought his name was Forgan, had said she made what money she had by im proper means and demandel that he be paid S59. She gave him $25. He arrested her after that. "He didn't take me to the station L'ous e.' she said. The station house was in At torney street. Her store was on the corner of Ridge and Broome streets. Continuing, the witness said: "iii walked with me around the streets until 3 o'clock in the morning. Then he pulled down my stocking to see if I had any money. I saw the policemnan divide the money with another man. He took me to Essex Market and let me go there. The next morning he told me I must raise the other $25. He told me that my children would be taken from me unless I give him the $50. I was locked up four days and was then taken to court." Mrs. Urch ttle did not know what was going on in court. The complaint was that of keeping a disorderly house. The charge was untrue. She was fined $50, sent to jail and her children were sent to an orphan asylum. Sie has been trying to get her children back, but has not suc eeded. Mr. Moss told the commnittee ne had invesiigated the case thoroghly and was convinced of its entire truth. Mr. Golf thought it would be a gracious act on the part of the majority to ad jon-n until after the Democratic con vention and so an adjourn ment was had until Monday, Ocitober 4. Silgir PLanters s.,ced ,. NEW ORtLEAN3. Sept. 13.-Sugar planters of the First Congressional District met at laquemine Parish court house at Pointe L a Hache yester day. There were about four hundred persons present, all sugar and rice planters orange growers and all former Democrats from the parishes of 0: leans, St. Bernard and Plaquemine, whicn constitute the district. H. M. Kernochan, ex-United States naval off1cer at Ne w Orleans under Cieveland presided. Speeches were made by Ker nochan, State Senator Espinal, ex-Dis tict Attorney Wilkinson, George IP. Anderson and George Mann, all plant ers, who advocated acting with the Republicans, while ex-Congressman Wilkinson, now collector of Customs at New Orleans, and Riepresentative Di mond called upon the planters to sup port the Democratic ticket. The vote showed that the supporters of a Re ublican alliance had three-fourths mjority, and resolutions strongly R e publican and protectionist in tone were adopted. The president was instructed to appoint a committee of twenty-one to select a candidate for Congress to run en the Republican platform. Chained Up. GrEENSBUG, 1's., Sept, 8.-C,,m plaint has been made to the State B~ard ol Charties and to Humane Arent Dorente of Pittsburg of the confin~ement, in an cutbuilding, of a thirty-year-old son ci Reuben Harrold, a farmer here. Farmer Harrold admits the truth o1 the charge, and says his son is insane and is contined in a comfortable shed, astened with a chain to an iron ring around his ankle. Mr. Harrold says that when his son fi:st becjamc insane eighteen years ago, he was confined in a sylum, but begged so piteculy to be taken ome that the father acquiescad, and since then the demented man has lived in his present but. The son's halluci ation is that some one is trying to ab uct him, and he resents any intrunlon f strangers by attempts to do them vio ence. He is entire.ly nude, refusing to wear clothing. The complaint is that hecrazy nman's condiltion is objectionable in the extreme, and that he should be properly cared for. Another son of Hiar old's was recently sent to D xnont in sane asylam, near R asburg. A j lint circular has been issued Dy all the railroads in the State instructing gents not to handle packages of in oxicating liquors for shipment either rom point to point in this State or rom outside points into this State ex et such as bear the permit label of he State dispensary. The express com any Is also operating under the same ntruins.n AJDK-THAT LEAD TO DEATH. Phillp Reavws Haugo Himself After Broo~itng Over a Lotter. SEABRIGH1T, N. J.,Sept. 12.-Philip Reaves, a summer resident here hanged himself yesterday. He was confiden tial man and bookkeeper for W. Bay ard Cutting, and came to Seabright June 20 to pass his vacation. He se cured accommodations with a Mrs. Frank Martin. Reaves was exception ally quiet and had little to say to guests of the house. His principal amusement was bathingr, and hardly a day passed but what he was seen on the beach or in the water enjo3 og himself. Strange as it may seem, his bathing suit was the cause of his suicide. It was not of the styles seen at Asbury Park, which often bag at the knees and have every appearance of being me.de from a bloomer pattern. Reaves' suit fitted as closely to his well devel oped body as a pair of tignts on a shape ly chorus girl ir i-1 an opera troupe. It was made of lipg.: weight flannel. About three weeks ago several of his friends secured a note-head from the oflice of P. Hallacker, secretary of the Seabright Borough Commission. Mr. Packer's name and title was on the note head. Then they wrote Reaves a letter and signed J. D. Bardo. The contents were to the effect that his bathing suit was disgraceful and if he had any regard for himself he would not wear it in the presenca of the wo men with whom ne had been in the habit of bathing. The letter worried the bookkeeper. Ile took it to Mr. Packer and asked him if he knew the writer. Mr. Packer .did not, and said he be lieved the name to be a lictitious one. He made light of the whole affair and tried to impress upon Reaves the fact that his 1riends were playing a joke on him. Besides being secretary of the Borough Commission Mr. Packer is also a justice of the peace. Raves was anxious to bring suit against the au thor of the letter, but he could not prove who sent it. Then he wanted the matter brought to the attention of the commissioners, and Mr. Packer directed him to Mayor J. J. Reed. Of course, the latter culd do nothing. it worried Raves consid erably and when he talked about it he became very much excited. However, he did not cease wearing the suit whenever he went in bathing. Yesterday morning he arose at his usual hour and after taking a bath re turned to his room. Waen 11!s M - tin's chambermaid began her duties she went to Reave's roc m, but found the door locked. When noon time came he had not made his appearance Mr. Mar tin told her husband and he started to investigate. Oa looking over the tran som Mr. Martin was horrified to see the body of his lodzer hanging from the closet door. He broxe Into the room and sent for a doctor, but life had been extinct sev eral hours. Reaves had procured a clothes line and fastened one end to the knob. He threw the rope over the top of the door, taking care to put a small olece of cloth under it in order that it 'might not scratch the wood. Then he stood on a chair, and knocking it from ander him swung off into eternity. Coroner Oliver vras notided. The dead man's elsects weie searched, but there was nothing to show why he committed suicide, except the worry over the anonymous letter. Several tags were found addressed to him at XN o 54 West Forty eighth street, New York care of Dr. Maloney. W. B iyard Cut ting, wh.> has an ollive in the Mutual Life Insurance Building in this city was telegraphed for.-N. Y. World. 'A Sad Sutctde. ATL ANTA, Gi., S ept. 12 -The coro er's jury this afternoon returned a verdict of saicide in the case of Miss Sara Singleton, and recommended fur ther investigation by the grand jury. [t was deciled to give tbe letter writ en by the unfortunate girl to her mother to the public, and thus set at rest the many sensational rumors that 1ave been atlbat concerning the case today. This letter corroborates the accounts already sent out, showing that the girl killed herself because she was ealous of her younger sister. It also establishes the identity of the man who betrayed her and whose desertion of er for her sister's favor was the cause f her suicide. This man Is M. T. Whitlock. Atter telling her mother that her sister Eve was at the Gate City otel with Whitlock, Miss Singleton wrote: "He is a marrIed man with one hild and has been married eighteen years. You need not bury me. Tlimes are too hard. Eve and Whitlock have got big times planned . Don't let her come to Atlanta any more. Keep your girls at home." She says she and Whitlock lived to gether for three months as man and wife. "I loved that man better than any hing on earth. I kee he was mar riad all the time, but couldn'c help it. ell Evye I forgive her." Of her visit to Atlanta, the letter is mrost sensational. "I came to Atlanta today to kill Whtlock and then myself, but one sul - 3de will do. I have two bottles of laudanum. I will take them. As I am bound for hell, take my advice and live for God and none other. I lived a hristian life for nine years." When made acquainted with the cma tents of the letter Whitlock was great y affected. He evidently thought he had had a narrow escape with his life. "It is a goo:l thing I did not go to see her when s;he wrote those notes," e remnarked, but would not discuss he affair. The girl's body was taken to her old ome in Norcross by her brother to ight. _______ Water Your Boraes Of en. Feeding a horse principally on grain and driving it five hours without water s like giving a man salt mackerel for inner and not allowing him to drink efore supper. time-very unsatisfac ory for the man. If you know any hing about the care of horses and ave any sympathy for them, water' hem as often as they want to drink nce an hour if possible. By doing his you will not only be merciful to our animal, but you will be a benefac or to yourself, as they will do more vork, look better, and live longer. If ou are a skeptic and know more about orses than any one else, you are posi ive that the feregoing Is wrong, be ause you have had horses dIe with atering them too much, and boldly ay that the agitators of freqaent wa ering are fools In your estimation,and ou would not do such a thing. Just eason for a moment sod figure out whether the animal would have over runk and overchilled his stomach if t had not been allowed to become verthirsty. A driver who sits in his agon and lashes his wornont, half urried, lhalf-fed and hali -watered team dsrves to be punished as a crimiual. Lg htnin g' W.rk, The weather bureau gatheor statis tics from all available surces of the famage done by lightening, and from the report of Alex Mcadie, who has the matter in charge, it :s learned that a the United States, during May, 1891, orty-fiva persons were killed by light ig; thirty-four persons; were struck nd several injared; twelve barns were 3et on lire, with an estimated loss of ~3,000; thirty-seven dwellings, four ~hurches an'd one school house were itruck and damaged to a greater extent ifty-eight horses and twenty-two cows ere killed. .Daring June, 1894, ninety - fiX persons were killed and 1u2 severe .y ijured; sixty-nine barns were struck rvith an estimated loss of 849.000; forty ains horses, thirty cows and fifteen heep were killed; eighty dwellings ~vere strnek and more or less damaged; wenty-two churches, one railroad de ot, one oil tank, one grain elevator, nd six mills and factories were struck, he damage in the case of the eight a.+ namerd being not less than $.;7, REFUTING A SLANDER. The Story of Mr. Schubert and the New Y ark S;sti Z jtag CHARLESTON, S. C., Sept. 13.-In its issue of last Monday the Deutsete Ztitung prints a long and interesting srory regarding a Mr. W. Schubert, of Yorkville. The Dautsche Zeitung says tna, its readers have frequently heard of Mr. Schubert, as he is one of those unlucky people who are never out of trouble. Some time ago Mr. Schubert lost his house by fire and the Deutscte Zeitung took up a subscription in nis behalf. More recently Mr. Schubart was raid ed by dispens-ary constables, and later still lie came before the public with a still more serious grievance. He al leged that his wife had been unfaithful to him, and in consequence he institu ted legal proceedings against county commissi-cr of York county, whose name is iot given. Tbe public cfllcal, however, was rich and influential and Mr. Schubert was poor and had few friedns, so that he never succeeded in getting any satisfaction from the courts. A month or so ago Mr. Schu bert ca-mue to Charleston and appealed to the Zaitung for aid. The editor of the Zeitung provided him with lodg ings and appealed to some of the in 11ientiai Germans of the city to aid Wm. These gentlemen, ho-ever, de clined to do anything in the matter un til they had some guarantee of Mr. Schubert's good character and proof of the story which he told, so he returned to his home in Yorkvilie. Mr. Szhubert has recently come to thu front again with a letter wbich was vublished in the New York Staats Zeitung. In it he goes over all of bis troubles and puts up a very pitiful story. The Staats Zeitung immediate ly started a subscription in his interest which was headed by the paper with one hundred dollars. -Thus far the S;iats Zeitung appears in a very good light, bat not content with aidinr Mr. Sonubert that paper makes his letter the occasion for a bit ter and violent attack upon the South. It pretends to think that all of Mr. ,3chubert's troubles grew out of a p re judice axisting in this State against people of foreign birth. The Staats Z itung says editorially that it has al ways warned Garmans not to settle in the South, and it now gives Mr. Schu bert's case as a proof of the wisdom of its advice. It indulges in quite a tirade along this line, characterizing the peo ple of the Scate as "those scoundrels." It is just here that the editor of the D:utche Zeitung of this city has come to the defence of the Soutb in general, and of this S.tate in particular, in a very excellent article. He refutes all of the charges m ide by the New York paper and asserts that in no part of the Union are foreigners more re spected or more kindiy treated than they are in the South. He explains that in this city of 63,030 inhabitants, of which about 2,00) are Germans, the Mayor, several members of Coun cil, -the chief of the fire department and other officials are of German ex traction. He says that South Caroli na offers one of the best homes in the woria for Germans, and he advises as many of them as possioIe to come here. The article is an excellent one, and is a complete refutation of the charges and denunciation or the New York Staats Zeitung.-News and Cou rier. The money Qaentioni With the tariff question disposed of for the present, a, least, the money question will continue to grow in im portance until it Is settled-in the inter est of cquity and justice to all, rich and poor. While Congress was discus sing the former matter, the people have been discussing the latter, and the re sult is that the money question is the paramount issue in our politics at this time. It Is a question that will not be settled either until silver is restored to its place as money by the side of gold. Tne Atlanta Constitution says seltish interests have tried in vain to ignore it, and ignorance has done its best to mud dle It, but all to no pur pose. It over laps and overreaches psuty lines. The Republicans are trysing hard to put themsel ves in line with the people on this great issue. The Populists have adopted it. And even the prohibition ists, who have heretofore dealt only in questions of morals, have taken it up and in two States of tbe northwest they have declared for the free coinage of silver. In a great many States the politicians have succeeded in smother ing the money question with other is sues, and in momentarily diverting attention from it, but it has grown and is still growing and by the time the next congress meets it will have com plete possession of the country. All other issues will be subordinate to It, and for the best of reasons. The people will discover as the days roll by that no tariff measure, no matter bo w radi cal, can afford any relief so long as the standard money of the country-which is gold-continues to increase in value as compared with the products of hu man lanor. People will discover that there can be no relief in tariff measures so long as falling prices compel tnose who o wn money to keep it out of busi ness. Thecheapening of products by means of tariif reduction is a healthy and wholesome process so far as the people are concerned, but the cheapen ing of products by means of the con stantly increasing value of standard money is a process that kills all enter prise and depresses all business. There has been a little flurry in the stock market as the result of the passage of the tariff bill, but this is purely specu lative, being based wholly on The ex pectations of those who are waitlng for a turn in the tide that the settlement of the tariff question will restore good times. We do not believe that the tar iff biil will at this time tend to restore prices and business to the old level of prosperity. That result can only be brought about by the settlement of the financial question-the restoration of silver to its old place as a part of the standard money of the country. In this direction only will producers find good prices, laboring men good wages, and merchants good business. The single gold atandard means European wages, European prices, E uropean con ditions, and the enslavement of the people by the money kings. Death or Dr. S. B. Jones. CHIARtLESTON, S. C.. Sept. 8.-Rev. S. U. Jones, D9. D., died at Spartanbnrg to day. H~e was born in Cnarieston fity eight years ago. He was graduated from the Cttadel Academy in 1847. From his graduation till 185k, wnen he joined the South Carolina Conference, ne taught in Female College in Ander son. He traveled only three years when bis voice failed. For many years he taught in the Cokesburg Conference School, and in the Masonic Female Col lege at that place. In 1869, he took charge of tne Spe~rtanburg Female Cal lege upon its reopening. In 1872, he was :hosen president of the Calumbia Fe male College, in ivhich position be con tinued for three years. In~-187-5, he again entered the active work and was presiding elder of the Greenville Dis rict. H~e was again elected president of the College four years ago, which position he resigned at the clbse of the ast session on account of ill health. Nearois Lynch a Negro. NATO iniz, Miss., Sept. 13. -There was a miurder and a lynching in the lower porti on o? Concordita parish last M1anday. A negro named Bou Williams: employed as a foremaa on the E xcel ior plantation, started after t wo of the ands on the place who had absconded. He overtook them and in an. alterci sion that followed Williams shot and illed cne of the parties whose name is ot known. Williams was arrested amd while still in the custody of the oill ers he was taken by a mob anc h anged fter being brutally maltreated. The ffair created much excitement In th e ower part of the parish, but news only eached this city today. All the parties Wilsord Bard F;ght. Representative William L. Wilson of West Virginia will have the hardest fight he has ever had to retain his seat in Congress. Just as Governor McKin ley was looked upon as the special champion of protection and the ener gies of tte Democrats of the whole nation were cancentrated to accom plish his defeat, so Mr. Wilson is re garded as the chamDion of tariff re form and the R3publicans will bring their heaviest guns to bear to compass his de!eat this fall. The action of the Republicazs in pressing ex-President Harrison into service to onen the cam paign for them recently at the con vention which nominated Mr. Dayton as Mr. Wilson's opponent, and Mr. Har rison's declaration that the contest was not to be local but national in its sig nificance, show the estimate the Re publicans put on the importance of the fight, and the extraordinary efforts they will make to win. The Reputli can committee will have all the money it can spend in the district, and the heaviest guns of the party, including ex-Speaker Reed, will be ca!ld upon to make campaign tours in the eounties. The Democrats will make a hard fight to reelect Mr. Wilson. They, too, will concentrate money and able speaktrs in the district, and, though Mr. Wilson has been compelled to leave the coun try for a short time there will be no lagging in the filht. A plan is on foot to ir duce President Clev-land to take ain altogether unprecedented step for a President and go oa the stump in Mr. Wilson's bebalf. Senator Faulkner, chairman of the D emocratic Congres sional committe, says he would not be surprised if the Presideut would do this. He said the fact that Mr. Wilson stood as the special representative of the 1.smocratic idea of tariff reform and the national character of the con test would j ustify the President in his re-election. S nator Faulkaer, who resides in the district does not think the Republicans have nominated their strongest man against Mr. Wilson, and he is getting some consolation out of that opinion. Farmers starving. OxAHA, Neb., Szpt. 9.-As a result of tne many exaggerated reports in cir cnlation as to drcuh destitution in Nbraska, the Bee has secured and pub hshed an accurate statement in eac4i county from Lhe county commissioners. These reports indicate that the actual condition of the people in the drouth stricken counties is not, and does not promise to become as serious as here tofore predicted. Oaly in the western portion of the State are tiere likely to be urgent demands for aid. In Lincoln c unty, the situation is worse than elsewhere. The report frcm there says: "Oa every hand abandon ed homesteads and whitened or with ered fields of corn.tell the story of dis couragement and despair. Along the streams where irrigation has furnished moisture, farmers have Eucceeded in raising crops. Elesewhere everything has burned. Many farmesrs are too poor to move away. With chattel mortngges on all their possessions, they must leava bare handed or stay and starve unless outside help is furnished. Every day new applications for county charity evidence the growing distress. State aid is absolutely necessary." To indicate the urgent need of assis tance, may be said that correspondece looking to the calling of a convention to consider the best methdos for secur ing and rendering aid has been carried on recently between many county cm cials in these Western counties. ATLANTIC CITY, Sept. 12.-Miss So phie Ashton and Miss Annie ThomD son, daughter of the well known Paiila deiphia physician, went to bathe at the point of the beach where the Great Egg harbor inlet joins the ocean at Longport, five miles from here. They were carried out by the strong under tow. Both girls are fairly good swim mers, but it was all in vain that they struggled to regain the shore. They were rapidly becoming exhausted when with all their remaining strength they ried for help. There was little hope they would be heard, for Longport has no life guards and the lower portion of the beach is usually deserted. It so appened that Artie and Percy Rem ington, sons of a prominent Longport ottager, were dtiing in the vicinity. phey ran to the rescue. Exth are pow rful swimmers and impeded as they were with their clothes, they experi nced- little difficulty in reaching the ompletely exhausted and drowning girls though none too soon. The re turn journey taxed their po wers to the tmost. When the shore was finally eached the rescuers as well as the res ued girls were so weak that they could ot stand. Percy Remington staggered nto the little village and told the tory. A party of friends hurried to the scene and found the remaining trio o weak that they could not move. hey were stretched motionless on the and. They were conveyed to their omes where Miss Ashton soon recov red. Miss Thompson and Artie Rem ngton were so exnausted that it took ome time to revive them. Light oluz Pla3 ed Havoc. DEKALB, ILL , Srpt. 8.-Lghtning layed havcc e.mong the varicus small owns of this section last night. As a esult the business portion of Malta, a mall town of 600 inhabitants, is in shes with losses argregating $30,000. This little settlement of Henrietta was lso visited by ligbtning and completely iped out. Tne loss will not prove very xtensive. At Caledonia :four buildings were struck at different times and each were destroyed. At Elmburst a big brn was struck and totally destroyed. The peop'e had hard work to save the chool house, situated near by. Rhck ordl came in for 1i.s share of the fl.>mes and in that town three fires were caused y lightning. At BL'ividere a physi ian's stable was struck and consumed, ogether with two horses. Hantley sut fered the los i of three buuiimgs, one of hich was a etable. In the latter in tance four horses were cremated. A t erbert two buidians were barned. Ehe Nrthwestern R iilway track for astretch o! 300 feet at Trout P.ak is washed out by the heavy tlndi. At eneva a washout occurred on the time arring away a large seecton of the cadbed. Iad showinz. LANsINo, Sept. 11.-The Michigan cop report for September says. The verage rainfall in the State in August id not exceed three-fourths of an inch. ith a drouth practically unbroken uring the t wo principsl crop gr o~sing onths of July and August it is not ilicult to estimate the condition of rops. They are dried up. Corn, pota oes and garden truck are damaged be ond recovery, the yield will be but a mall per cent. of an average, and pa.s ures cifer little or no feed ror .stock. nere is little doubt tha.t wheat will be argely fedi to stock the coming winter. hreshers returns of more than t8000 cres of wheat threshed show that the verage yield per acre in the Scate is i1; -0 bushels. SA M JONES says "the t~roubla v ith the opuist party is that it cmn't delive the goods. The rank -an' ille of the arty are clever fellows, but the Demo ~rati c party can run a mile while they are putting on their boots, and they will ave the rabbit twisted out of the hole ~6fore the Populist dogs are on the mnond." ROYALI POW"DER Abgolutel' Pure. A cream or tartar Darmg powder Highest of all in leavening strength.-La test Uinited States Government Food Re port. Royal Baking Powder Company, 106 Wall St., N. Y. DESERTED MORMON WIVES. Effects of the Anti-Polygamy Law in Utah Territory. Many of the former polygamists of the territory have abandoned their for mier wives and children, pleading as an excuse their desire to obey the law and conform to the new order. Many of these nlural wives, with their children, are now living in a state of extreme wretchedness, unable to support them selves and their children, while the husbands. in the majority of cases, are financially comfortable. The mistaken idea prevails, writes a Salt Lake correspondent of the Chicago Tribune, that the maintaining-of a plu ralitv of wives was a heavy expense upon the unfortunate man who obeyed his church and encumbered his house hold. This may have been the case in many instances, but in the large ma jority of cases the additional wives proved to be many sources of addition al incomes, especially on the farms, having aided their "husbands" in im proving the property occupied and having assisted materially in heaping up bank accounts after the tithes had been paid to the church. The law against unlawful relations is made an excuse to cast off these workers in their later years, and also to throw upon them the burden of large fam ilies, which it had been a religious duty to raise. The church and the Gentiles are united in appealing to these men, who are numbered by the hundreds, to ful fill the obligations of manhood and to secure the peace and comfort of these women who were led into polygamy, as well as to aid in the culture and edu cation of the children born by authori ty of the church, if not under the sanc tion of the laws of the land. But these men say: "We must not violate the laws." While they do not pose as martyrs, they lay all the blame upon the general public for interfering with the social relations that prevailed here under inspirational teachings. In this city there are women seeking in every honorable way to maintain themselves and children, whose efforts are many times poorly rewarded. They see the men whom they once called husbands indulging in every luxury, but no longer recognizing them, even if they are pinched or old. The desire to obey the law is not so observable where the wives are still young and attractive, as many secret visits might bear testimony. IN THE GRIP OF AN OOTOPUS. The Terrible Experience of a Woman on an Island in the Pacifie. There is a woman in San Francisco who recently lost a night's sleep through reading how citizens of Mon terey captured an octopus there. The incident recalled an experience she had while in the South Pacific y'- rs ago, and for that night she never cased her eyes in sleep. Iher husband was super intendent of a gang of laborers who were working guano beds, and his wife and child were with him. One day the woman was walking along the beach when she saw in a pool a particularly beautiful shell. 15aring ner arm she reached down into the water for the prize when suddenly there was a splash and two snake-like objects entwined themselves around the limb submerged in the water. It was a devil-fish, and in a moment the pressure on her arm was such as to cause her terrible pain. Struggle as she might she was unable to release herself, and finding that all her efforts in that direction were in vain, she told her little boy to run homne for help. The child sped away, but by this time the mother began to feel her strength failing. She also realized with horror that the tide was rapidly rising. Wave after wave dashed over her body, which had by this time been seized by all the arms of the octopus. Fortunately the mon ster was a small one; otherwise it would undoubtedly have dragged her into the water to death. The water rose higher and higher, and it was only with the greatest difficulty that she managed to breathe. Finally a wave bigger than any of the others rolled over her, and her desperate efforts to regain her breath left her without any strength. 11cr senses gave way just as she heard a shout and a rush of feet. The next moment half a dozen men had rushed into the water and seized her unconscious form. The woman was dragged ashore, the octopus still elinging to her arms and neck, and in a few minutes regained consciousness. - The octopus, which was promptly killed, was one of the smaller kinds, measuring only seven feet from the body to the end of the longest arm. STORY OF A LOST GEM. With a Moral for Young Men of the Un chivalric Sort. On State street, Chicago, a few days ago, Samuel W. Allerton, the rich packer. lost an eight thousand five hun dred-dollar diamond. IHe hunted high andI low. gnashed his teeth and dashed his words with some very tall dashna tion. The next day Miss Celine Seeleman was standing on a State street corner waiting for a car. She had been on a shopping tour and her arms were filled with bundles. One of the packages fell out of Miss Seeleman's hands and rolled ~ into the gutter.~ A young man was also waiting for a ar on the same corner, but he did not offer to pick up the package. Miss Seeleman saw the car coming and, tooping. "made a grab" for the parcel, which again slipped from her hands and rolled still further along. The young lady made another grab, and as she did so caught sight of a diamond in the gutter. The young man looked t the diamond till his eyes bulged, mnd when he had swung himself on the :ar lie very likely began to debate ithin himself the question: "Does politeness pay?" Miss $eelei..n looked over the lost amd-found "'als" in the newspapers annd, sending for Mr. Allerton, restored his gem. Later in the day a messenger boy anded Miss Seeleman an envelope in which was a very sweet little spring onnet check for two hundred dollars. The ltev. E. P. Blodgett, of Green rhich, Mass., is said to have Deen ab ent only once from his pidpit in a