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THAT BOY J IM. IeDias the "devil"-that ooy Jitr: Couldn't do anythmg good Awith h!m: Rough ana ragged, tr mischiti riie. Running errands. dIstributi-.g t, Pc; pelting the neighbors on tIeir te;ds With brand-new ."j rmture, "sUugs and -leads." From early morning tO evenig Cio He was the "devi"-bat boy Jim: Editor whaled him-all no good Head as hard as a stick oi wood; Just bnrst out in a loud "Hoora. !" And went right un in his dcn't care way. But once-when the train wAs passing by, And the editor's child on the track OD, M5! Jim-he rushed with his same don't care Right in front of the engiae there! Child was savcd, but where was Jim? With shaded lanterns they looked for him. While the people trembled and held their breath "Under the engine crushed to death!" There in the dust and grime he lay Jim! * * * He had given his life away! Not much need of their tears for hi ai: "He was an angel-that boy Jim!' Frank L. Stanton. THE DIVINE MIRROR. From the Far East Dr. Talmsae Sends a Message of Grr ce. BROOKLYN, Oct. 2S.-Rev. Dr, Tal mage, who has left Tndia and is now on his homeward joumrney, has selected as the subjeat of his sermon today through the press "The Looking Glass," his text being Exodus xxxviii, 8, "And he made the laver of brass, and the foot of it was brass, of the looking glassss of the wEmen assembling." We often hear about the gcspel in John, and the gospel in Luke, and the gospel in Matthew, out there is jast as surely a gospel of Moses, and a gospel of Jeremiah, and a gospel of David. In other words, Christ is as certainly to be found in the Old Testament as in the New. When the Israelites were marching through the wilderness they carried their church with them. They catled it the tabernacle. It was a pitched tent, very costly,very beautitul. The frame work was.made of 48 boards of acacie wood set in sockets of silver. The curtains of the place were purple and scarlet and blue and fine linen and were hung with most artistic loops. The candlestick of that tabernacle had shaft and branch and bowl of solid gold, and the figures of cherubim that stood there had wings of gold, and there were lamps of gold, and snuffers of gold, and tongs of gold, and rings of gold, so that skep ticism has sometimes asked, Where did all that precious material come from? t is not my place to furnish the pre cious stones. It is only to tell that they were there. I wish now more especially to seak of the laver that was built in the midst of that ancient taberbacle. It was a great basin from which the priests wasn ed their hands and feet. The water came down from the basin in spouts and passed away after the cleansing. This laver, or basin, was made out of the look ing glasses of the women who frequent ed the tabernacle, and who had made these their contribution to the fm niture. These lookng glasses were not made of glass, but they were brazen. The brass was of a very superior quality and pol1 ished until it reflected easily the features of those who locked mnto it. so that the layer spokea of in my text did double work-it not only furnished the water in 'which the priests washed themselves, but it also, on its shining, polished surface, pointed cut the spots of pollution on the face which needed ablution. Now my Christian friends, s everything in that ancient tabernacle - was suggestive cf religious truth, and -for the most part positively symbolical of truth, I shall take that laverf-look ing glasses spoken of in thy.text as all suggestiye of the goper,' which first go sins-s in a mirror and ien washes e~m away ny divine ablu tion. Oh. happy day, happy day, When Jesus washed my sins away! I have to say that this is.- the only iooking glass in which a man can see himself as he is. There are some m'ir rors that fiatter the features and make you look better than you are. Then there are other mirrors that distort your featues and make you look worse than you are, but I want to tell you that this looking glass of the gospel shows a man just as he is. When the priests entered thie ancient tabernacle, ons glaece at the burnished side of this layer showed themn their need of cleansing, so this gospel shows the soul its need of divine wash ing. "All have sinned and come short of the glory of God." That is one showing. "All we, like sheep, have gone astray." That is another show ing. "From the crown of the head to the sole of the foot there is no health in us" That is another showing. The world calls these defects, imperfections, or eccentricities, or errati.c behavlor, or "wild oats," or "high living," but the gospel calls them sin, transgression, filth-the abominable thamg that God hates. It was just one glanca at the mirror that made Paul cry out, "Oh, wretched man that I am, who shall de hiver me from the body of this death?" and that made David cry out, "Purge me-with hyssop, and I shall be clean," .and that made Martin Luther cry out, ."Oh, my sins, my sins!" I am not talking about bad habits. Yon and I do not need any Bible to tell us that bad habits are wrong; that blasphemy and evil speaking are wrong, but I am ting of a sinful nature, the source of all bad thoughts as well as of all bad actions. The Apostle Paul calls their roll in the first chapter of Romans. They are a regiment of death et camping around every heart, holding it in a ty ranny from which nothing but the grace of God can deliver it. Here, for instance, is ingratitude. Who has not been guilty of that sin? If a man hand us a glass of water, we say, "'Thank you," but for the1l0,000mercies that we are every day receiving from the hand of God how little expression of gratitude-for thirst slaked, for hunger fed, for shelter and sunshine and sound sleep and clothes to wear, how little thanks! I suppose there are men 50 years of age who have never yet been down on their knees in thanksgiving to God for his goodness. Be~sides that ingratitude of our hearts there is pride who has not felt it?-pride that will not submit to God, that wants its own way, a nature that prefers wrong sometimes instead of right, that prefers to wallow instead of rise up. I do not care what you call that. I am not going to quar rel with any theologian or any man who makes any pretensions to theology. I do not care 'whether you call it "total depravity" or something else, I simply make the announcement of God's word, affirmed and confirmed by the experience of hundreds of Uhristiarn people, the imagination of the heart of mtan is evil from youth. "There is none th'at doeth good-no, not one." We hav3 a bad nature. We were born with .t. We got it from cur parents. They got it from their parents. Our thountas are wrong, our action is wrong, cur whole life is obnoxious to Gcd before cenver sion, and after conversion not one good thing in us but that which the grace of God has planted and fostered. "Weli," you say, "I can't believe that to be so." Ah, my dear brother, that is because you have never looaed into this laver of looking glasses. If yon could catch a glimpse ci your i a Ou Wo1uld cry ut in co m ' a alarm. T havery it gospd dces is to cut a dUr dt and -.1; sufilncy. If man us not isel hit lost aud ruined :dion bare G , he does not want mry ospel. I tbirnk the reason that here are -. fsw coveions ia this day s becaume the terdecv oz the ;reachig S to irake men be.eve that they are iretzy zt od anybow-ge.e clev:r. only e vre ra Ce, and t.h e n Vo Ll W e all ,: ht, mn stead orclaiteb'a ee') tru.k ayto and Whi-e!Z thun Iered to a raet. trmbi* On tho Ver2 >i itute and' eterm.1 d':i'.ster. "-No-.v," mrs sre one, "cu this rc'ly be trud E ve e ali ge astray la the'ro no o d in u -" In Han-pon Court I av i room where t-e f.ur sas "s:e cov -eI wih icoic- 'ias it Made ao dit- ese w h wi yu l.A nA wycur.3cf. Ajjd, zo it s inthis _Cos pelo: Chii. 1- v(-ur'ue step witia wole craer re/cted- 'very fea ture C Moral d t, e o euGo , i istuncement iS t ne are ic-. I ece not, in broIZ!r, ow .msuti cently cu may bave Dte bon, or what may, have ieen your hen teor scesry, :.cu are lost by reason o sin. , ycu say, "iwhat is the ue of afl this, of showinz a man's fauls -Lcn b-c can'% get rid of them?" None! "Vihat was the use of that burnished urface to this 1sver of looking glasses spoken of in the text if it only showed the spots on ihe countenance aud the eed ot washing a-d ihere wss nothinz to wash with?" Glory be to God! I 5nd that this laver of looking glasses was filed with fresh water every morn ing, and the priest oo sooner looked on !ts burbished side and sav his need of ceansing than he washed and was c'ean gloricus type of the gospel cf m7 Lord Jesus. that first shows a mn~m his sin and then washee it a"l awa3! I want you to notice that this laver in which the priest washed, tbc laver o! oking glasses, was filled with fresh water every morning. The servants of the tabernacle brought the water in buckets and poured into this layer. So it is with the gospel of Jesus Christ. It has a fresh salvation every day. It is not a stagnant pool filled with accumpalated corruptions. It is living- water, which is brought from the eter nai rock to wash away the sins of yes terday, of one moment ago. Oh," says some one I was a Chretian 20 years ago." That coes not mean anything to me. Wh'at are you nov,? We are not talking, my brother, about pardon ten years ago, but about pardon now, a fresh salvation. Suppose a time of war should come, and I could show the government that I had been loyal to it 12 years ago, would that execuse me from taking an oath of allegiance now? Suppose you ask me about my physical health, and I should say I was well 15 years ago, that does not say how I am now. The gospel of Jesus Christ comes and de. mands present allegiance, present fealty, present moral health, and yet how many Christians there are seeking to live entirely in past'experience, who seem to have no experience or present mercy and pardon! When I was on the sea, and there came up a great storm, and oflicers and crew and passengers all thought we must go down, I began to thiok of my life in surance and whether if I were taken away my family would be cared for, and then I thought. Is the premium paid up: and I said, "Yes," Then I felt com ortable. Yet there are men who in re ligious matters are looking back to past insurance. They have let it run out, and they have nothing for the present, no hope nor pardon, faling back on the id insurance policy of 10, 20, 30 years aso. If 1 waguald.Cit ha - .en fees -t6ward me. do I go to the drawer find some old vellow letters written to me 10 or 12 years ago? No; I go to the letter that was stampec the daty before yesterday in the postof fle, and I find how he feels toward me. It is not inregard to old comimunications we had with Jesus .Christ. It is com. munications we have now. Are we noi in sympathy with him this morning, and is he not in symeathy with us? Do noi spend so much of your time in huntini in the wardrobe for the old, wornou! shoes of Christian profession. Come thi: morning and take the glittering robe 01 Chrit's righteousness f~om the Saviour' hand. You say you were plunged in the fountan of the Sayiour's mercy a quar ter of a century ago. That is notunn to me. I tell you to wash now mn this laer of looking glasses and have your soul made clean. A religion that will not take a mar through an autumn election will not be worth anything to himmi June, July and August. They say he is a useful sort ofa man, but he overreaches in a bargain. I deny the stat'ement. If he is a Christiat anywhere, he wilh be in his business. It is very easy to be good mn the prayet meeting, with eurroundings kindly and blesse'1, but not so easy to he a Chris tian behmnd the counter, when by one skilliul twitch of the goods yon can hide a flaw in tihe ailk so that the customer cannot see it. It is very easy to be a Christian with a psalmook in your hand and a Bible in your lap, but not so easy when you can go into a shop and falsely tell the merchant you cant get those gootds at a cheaper rate in another store, so that he will sell them to yout cheaper than he can afford to sell them, The fact is the religion of Christ is al) pervasive, If you rent a house, you expect full possession of it. You say: "Where are the keys of those roomsa? II I pay for this whole house, I want pos session of those rooms." And the race of God when it comes to a sonl takes full possession of a man or goes away and takes no possession. It wil: ransack every room in the heart, every room in th~e life, from ceilar to attic, touching the very extremities of his na ture. The priests washed hands and feet. I remark, further, that this layer of looking glasses spoken of in the text was a very laige layer. I always thought, from the fact that so many washed there, and also from the fact that Solomon afterward, when he copied that laver in the temple, built it ona very laige scale, that it was large, n so suggestive of the gosole of Jesus Christ and salvation by him-vast in its provision. The whole world may come and wash in this layer and be clean. When our civil war had passed, the government of the United States made proclamation of pardon to the commor soldiery in the Confederate army, but not to the cheif soldiers. The gospel of Christ does not act in that way. It says pardon for all, but especially fer the chief of sinners. I do not now think of a sin gle passage that says a small einner may be saved, bulI. do think of passa ges that say a great sinner may be saved If there be sins only faintly hued, just a little tinged, so faintly colored that you can badly see them, there is no special paron promised in the Bible for those sins, but if they be glaring, red, like crimson, then they shall be as snow. Now, my brotner, I do ncot state this to put a premium upon great iniqu~ty. I merely say this to enc urage thnat mn, whoever he is who feels he is so far gone from God. that there is no mercy Icr him. I waot to tell him there is ai cod chaece. Why Paul was a murderer. He assisted at te excution of Step'hen, and vet Paul ias sved. The dymn; hif did rveryt"ing had. Tht dying thief was ae.R lchard Baxter swore dreafenly. bu t te grace of God mei. is a vast !ever. Go and tell ever-bo j to come and wash in it. Let them ecm up from the penitentiar:es and W:1az away their erimes. Let them come u, fcem the alrmshouse and wash aw their povetty. Let thet come up fr their- raves and washi away their deathO. If there De any one so worn out n sin that he annot !et ul> io the laver, you will take hold of !his heal and pat your I vrms sround him, aid I Wll take ho)ld of his fert, anr we wili p!u-eo him in 1 this ,Idorious Bethesda, the vast laver cf Gnd's mercy and savation. In Solomon's temple there were ten lavers aad one mohen sea-this great reservoir in the midst of the temple fIlled with water-these lavers and thi3 tuolen sea adorned with figures of palm b.:nch and oxen and liona and cherab.m. TAis f'unta'n of God's mercy is a vas ter iol ten sea than that. L- is adornedj uot with plaim brauches out with the wood oF ih:: cross; not with cherubim,t but wita the wings of ta Holy Ghostj aud around its great rim all the race p, niay come and wash in the molten se. f was reading the other day of Ahx in dr tho Great, who, when he was very . thirsty and standin at the head of hts - army, had brought to him a cup of water Ho loaked off upon bis host a.d sate: 1 cinnot drink this. M men are all thirs - e: t," and he dashed it to the ground. S Biessed be God, there in enough waier y for all the host-enough for captains and a host! "Whosoever will may come and take of the water of life freely," a laver broad as the earth, high as the heavens and deep as hell. But I notice also, in regard to this laver of looking glasses spoken of in the s: texl, that the washing in It was impera- f tive and not optional. When the priests c me into the tabernacle (you will find J this in the thirtieth chspter of 1rodus), n God tells them that they must wash in that !area or die. Tae priest might have said "Can't I wash elsewhere? I washed in he laver at home. and now you want m-. to wash here." God say : "No s matter whether or not you have washed J befre. Wash in this laver or die." i "But," says the priest, "there is water I just as clean as this. Why woa't tuat lt d?" "Wash here," says God, "or die." si So it is with the gospel of Christ. It is imperative. There is only this alterna- b tive-keep cur sins and perish, or wash b them away and live. But, says some b one,"Why couldnot Godhave made b more ways to heaven than one?" I do not know, but he couid have made haif t a dezen. I kno)w he made but one. You say, "Why not have a long line of boats running from here to heaven?" I cannot say, but simply know that t there is only one boat. You say, "Are e there not trees as luxuriant as that on f Calvary, more luxuriant, for that had r neither buds nor blossoms; It was strip- t ped and barked?" Yes, yes, there have oeen taller trees than that and more s luxurant, but the only path to heaven is t under that one tree. Instead of quarrel. E ing because there are not more ways, let 1 us be thankful to God there Is one-one name given unto men whereby we can be saved, one laver in which all the world may wash. So you see what a radiant gospel this is I preach, I do not a know how a man can stand stolidly and t present it, for it is such aa exhilarant c gospel. It is not a mere whim or cap- f rics. It is lifa or death. It is heaven or bell. You come before your child, g and ycu have a present In your hand. 1 You put your hands behind your back and say: "Which nand will you take? t In one hand there is a treasure; in the other there is not." The child blindly chooses. But God our Father does not do that way with us. H e spreads cut both hands and says: "No v, this shall be very plim. In that han:d are par don and peace and life and the treasures of heav - that hand are punishmnent sorrow ndoe. Choose, choose for youreelves." '-Helhaeheredy and is baptized shall be saved, bat he ~tt believeth not shall be damned."( Oh, my dear friends, :I which1 I could coax you to accept this gospel. ;If you could just take one look in this layer at looking glasses spoken ot in the text, you would begin now spiritual ablution. The love of Christ-I dare not, toward the close of my sermon, begin to tell about it. The love ot Christ! Do not talk to me about a mountain; it is higher thant that. Do not talk to me about a sa; it is deeper than tniat. An artist in his dreams saw such a splendId dream of the transfiguration of Christ that he awoke and seized his peo Oil and said, "Let me paint this and die." Oh, I have seen the glories of Christ' I have beheld something of the beauty of that sacrifie ocn Calvery, and I have sometime felt I would be willing to give anything if I might just sketch beforej you the wonders of that sacrifice. I s'ould like to do it whlie I live, and I would like to do it when I die. "Let t me paint this and die." He comes along 1 weary and worn, his face wet with tears, I his brow crimson with blood, and he lit s down on Calvary tor you, No, I mis take. Nothing was as comfortable as that. A stone on Calvary would have made a soft pillow for the dying head of Christ. Nothing so comiortable as that. He does not lie down to die. He stands up to die, his spiked bands outspread as it to embrace a world. On, what a hard end for those feet that had traveled alt over Judan, on ministries of mercy! I What a hard end for those hands that wped away tears and bound up broken hearts! Very hard, 0 dying Lamb of God! And yet there are those who know1 it and who do not love thee. They say: "What is all that to me? What if he does weep and groan and die? 1 don't want him." Lord Jesuu Christ, they will not help thee down from the cross! The soldiers will come, and they wilt1 tear thee down tram the cross and pot their arms around thee and lower thee t into the tomb, but they will not help. They see nothing to move them. 0 dy. I ing Christ, turn on them thine eyes of ffection now and see if they will not hange their minds! I saw one hanging on a tree In agony and blood Who dixed his languid eyes on me As near his cross I stood. Oh, never till my latest breath Will I fbrget that look! He seemed to charge me with his death, t Though not a word he spoke. And that is all for you! Obi, can youn not love him? Come around this laver, old and young. It is so burnished you can see your sins and so deep you can n wash them all away. 0 mourner, here a bathe your bruised sonl, and sick one. a here cool your hot temples in this layer! v Peace! Do not cry any more, dear son:! ii Pardon for all thy sins, comfort for all v thy affictions: The black cloud that f, hung thundering over SinaI has fioated is above Calvary and burst into the shower d of a Saviour's tears. I saw in Kensing ton Garden a picture of Waterloo a good t' while after the battle had passed and the a grass had grown all over the field. There u was a dismounted cannon, and a lamb L had cime up from the pasture and lay ti sheicg in the moumh of that cannon. tl o the artist had represented it-a most i: suggestive thing. Then I thought how the war between God and the soul had endd, and instead of the annouccement, "The wages of sin is death," there came S tme words, "my peace Igtve unto thee," and amid the batteries of the law that ~ had once quated with the 11ery hail of death I beheld the Larsib of God, which ' taketh away the sin of :iie world. I went to Jesus as I was, Weary and worn and sad. Ifudin him a resting place, h Adhe has made me glad. i Pure. A. crean or tartar nDa ing powdt ighest of all in leavening strength.-I st United States Government Food 14 )rt. toyal Baking Powder Compa ny, 106 Wail St.. N. Y. SEATTLE, Wadsh., 0at. 27.-At 2 .riy hour this noraingr the We! re.t hotel, corner of Columbia an st stets, was burned with terrib .s of l"te. At 8 o'clock aifteen bidies had bee ke- from the ruins. The search 1il being continued. The following is a list of guests mi g, as snown by the register take om the burning mulditag: A. Welsoi .Bollman, R. D. Simonson, C. 1 >hason, M. McS'riey, John Cheste: an. G. Hicks, Mrs. J. W. Russmai . Fraser. Mrs. J.Srmith and friera F. Clark, Charles A. Peter, Jame rme, W. P. Ccffery, Wm. Mathesoi . J. Lawson, D. MD inald. city; C Gibb. George J.-Moon, Redmond I -:mitt, George Batb, C. L. Bellmai >hn McGuire, Allen D. Chase, Wr [cNair, John Kingson, city; M. G edrickson, Port Blakeley, A. G. Bal r, a brotaer of the proprietor is ml: ng. The iajured are: Bward Havlii dly injurea about the head and bac] v jumping; D. B. Glass, leg brokei tci injured; C. B. Anderson, han arned and badly bruised. The saddest sight of all was found I ie inside room off the passage wa hich led to West street. Ther imly lying in a charred and blackez i bed was evidently an entire famil: he father lay on one side, wife nei > him and a little burned and blael ed arm, the flesh falling in shre< om it, and the small fingers clutche towed that a little child was amon te victims. Crouched in a corner of a small i de room two charred and naked skel ns met the gaz. The flesh was bar: I from eacti and the first, that of ian with blackened stumps of arm ,emed to be fighting an impendir anger. Immediately behind him, al. olt upright and cluthing his wais as the skeleton of a woman. The eyl ere burned from the sockets of eac t even then one could easily imagiz e look of horror, the deadly fear whic ung to the illfated couple, as thi >ught with an unseen foe. There was about twenty transiel uests registered, and Night Clerk Bu r says the hotel had about twenty pe ianent guests. It is absolutely knov at sixteen persons perished and ti ext few hours may add largely to t trible death list. WAsIIENGTON, Nov. 1.-A specih om Birminghamn, Ala., says: As ps mger train No. 3 on the Kansas Cit emphis & Birmingham rairoad pal : out of the statioa at New Alban is., at 1 o'clock this morning, thr asked men jumpted on the engi rd enteriosr the cab, covered Enginie ampa.l and flreman Alexander wi stols. .The robbers commanded t: gineer to stop the train when it hI eahed a point of nilf a mile fro: he station. The engineer an ireman were compelled to dismoi rom the locomotive under cover evolvers marched back to the expre ,ar and ordered to break open the do f the car with a coal pick. The tra rew were alarmed at the stopping e train at this unusual place and Cc uctor W. B. Leonard went forward vestigate. When he showed up e express can door the robbers fi! )ack t'o the coaches. Then the robbe ired a volley in the air to intimida e rest of the crew and pas::engers. I utrance was finally effeeted into tt xress cat and messenger Genette w overed with a pistol and forced iand out the contents of the safe. T 'obbers then backed out of the car al amped from the platform, still holdii eir pistols toward the messenger ai ngine men. The robbers are believ be farmers living in the vicinity e hold up. Express ofliclals say th ~acages secured by robbers contai nly railroad waybills and cheap jewi 'y and that they got no money. Georg1a's New 5enator. ATLANTA, G:a., Nov. 1.-The Dem ratic caucus of the Georgia Gene, ssmbly nominated two Unit tates Senators this afternoon. T ~ppointment of Senator Patrick Wal; y Goveraor Northern was unanimot y conirmed by his election to fill o e unexpired term of the late Senat ~olqitt. For the long term beginnii ach 4, 1895, lHon. Augustus( ~acon was nominated on the flu pallo, he received ninety-ihree vote ~ongressman Henry G. Turner r cived thirty-seven votes, L. F. Ga ard twenty-one votes and Patric Vash nine votes for the long tern he nomination of Major Bacon w hen made unanimous. The conte Las been a very heated one and ti an didates have been on the stump f e past few months. Of the four ca idats, Bacon, Walsh and Garrard a cognzed as silver men and Turn presented the attitude cf the admi tration on the financial questio: otti Bacon and Walsh, the two sen re nominated today, are outspokE i their advocacy of a return to the fri d unlimited coinage of silver at atio of 16 to 1, and each of them faya cton by this country in the settleme: f the financial question without r ard to international agreement. N, 'urner strongly advocated the viev f Mr. Cleveland on the financial quec Ion and based his candidacy on th: ne. The election will take place ne: ~uesday,_________ Tramps Held Up, CLINToN, Ia., Nov. 1.--Somethir w in the line ci a hold-up took plat Est Ch~nton last night. Sixtee ien, some ot them tramps and othe: o had been at work, saving the iouey and beating their way homn. ere in a bcx car. There was a ra )r admission, and those inside suppoi soone one wanted shelter opaned 1U .or. On the outside were f our maakt en armned wi!h pis'.ols and dark lau ras. Two oi the mc~u cntered the ci ad cosmanded the occupants to thro their hands. Tnen' they ordere em o stand in ilue and while one:i em held the sun, hi3 compan on wer ~rouhi the outiit. Tney secured $40 cash and two watches. Storclar Death.. .ecial to the Advertiser trom Abbi jie says: .i'wo scns of .John Branno I Hery county, aged 10 and 11 year rere taken sick last Sunday and seen i to the affected with hydrophobia hey would bite and gnaw at ever' ing in their reach. They continue > grow worse and both died Monda irhin six hours of each other an rere buried in one coiln. None of th imily kne w anything about their ha' OUR SCHOOL CHILDREN. Facto 3rd Filuras Ab->Ut the Cummon schcool 0! the so.te. A peiusal of the annual report of Superintendent of Education Mai field, which has just been minished, shows that for the year ending October -31st, a arand total of 226,766 pupils were en -oiled in the pub.c schools of this State. Of theso 113,081 were male and 113,685 females. The number of colored children enroll ed was 120 590. of which 57,803 were males and 62,787 wor' females. The numb-er of white cbildren enrolled was 106 176, of wh:ch 55,278 wore males and 50,893 females. From these figures it will be seen that the number of colored children in the schools was 14,414 more than whites. Another feature is that of the negro r children in attendance the maj-.rity Is of , female while the white boys have a , majority on the girls of the same race. For the year ending October 31st, 1893 the total enrollmennt was 223.150, of which 120.570 were colored, and 102.571 white. That year there were 111,663 maks and 111,487 f--males. The increase this vear, compared with the previous 3ear. has been something over 3 000. Spartanburg is the banner county in e the number of students. She had 14, 941, of which 5,329 are colored and 9, n 614 white. Greenville is next. She had 12.145, of which 4.164 where colored and 7,981 white. Chesterfield has the small est number, 3,139-1,670 colored and 2, 069 wbite, Ueareetown is next, with a n t.,tal of 3,362-2,478 colored and 884 white. AVERAGE ATTENDANCE. The total average attendance in the State was 165,'115. as folloxr: Total s number of females, 83,455; males, 81, , 660. Total colored, 87,128; females, 45, 344; males, 41.784. Total whites. 77, 987; females, 38,111; males, 39,876. 1, WHAT THELf ARE STUDYING. The number of child:en studying the - various branches is as follows: Alpha bet, 19,727, spellinz, 179,365; reading, 165.671; writing, 132.026; .mental arith metic, 80,966; written arithmetic, 93, 723; geograpy, 73,533; Eaglish gram mar. 5,204; history at South Carolina, 15.246; history of the Uaited States, 35, d 840; physiology and hygeine, 12.688; a higher branches, 8,205. AVERAGE SCHOOL MONTHS. The average number .of school months doring the pait year was 4.3, as against . 3 7 for the previons year. This will be :t gratitying to all advocates of common :- school education. It shows that the is people are determined to increase the 1, length of the school terms. The aver g age number of school months in each county was as follows: - Abbeville, 5; Aiken, 4.6; Anderson. S4.4; Barnwell, 3; Beauiort, 4.5; Berke; ' ley, 4; Charleston, 9; Chester, 3.9 a Chesterfield, 3; Clarendon, 3; Colleton, g 5; Darlington, 8.5; Edgefield, 4; Fair 10 field, 3.5;Ftorence, 2.8; Georgetown, 4; t, Greenville, 4; Hampton, 3.1; Horry, 2; !s Kershaw, 3.2; Lancaster, 3 8; Laurens, 5, 3; Lexington, 2 7; Marion, 3; Marlboro, ie 3; Newberry, 3.8; Oconee, 3; Orange h burz, 3.7; Pickens, 1.8; Richland, 4 5; 7 Spartauburg, 3.7; Sumter, 6; Union, 3 6; Williamsbnrg, 2 8; York, 5. it- SCHOOL HOUSES. - =The toal number of pablic schoo rhoues in the State ib 3,088, and they e are valued at $557,250,5 1 Tae number e of frame buildings is 2,276; log, 767; brick, 39; stone. 6. The school districts own 1.349 and individuals the remnain der. 1 During the past year 149 new school g. houses were built and they are valued at $45,431. The number of new frame .1- buildings is 144; brick, 3; log, 2; and 144 y, of them are owned by the school dis ee tricts.. TEACHERS EMPLOYED. er Tue total number of teichera em played in the schools of the State was 4 ~594. There were 2.636 white teachers, 1.083 of them male and 1,553 females. There were 1,958 colored teachers, 1.058 tmales and 900 females. It will thus be of seen that the colored male teachers out ss number the femaies while the white fe or males far outnumber the males, in The total wazes paid to teachers was f $440,785,11. The average monthly n- wages paid was $23.15 to males and to $19.90 to famaiss. Death of tha Cz ar. rs LONDON, Nov. 1.-The Daiily Ne ws te correspondent in Yalta, who through Ln out the Czar's sojourn thare has obtned te the most trustworthy and interesting in as formation, has sent this dipatch: ~"The to Czar died at 2:15 o'clock this afternoon. le He was folly conscious. When he felt id that his last hour was approaching he gasked fo;r extreme usction. This was dadminisi~ered by Father Ivan, who after wards conversed with the dying man for tsome time. The Czar next asked that b is family should gather round him. He i. sprke with each member separately, but at the greatest length with the Czarins. He then gave all his blessmng. Finally be bade fare well. Little he grew weaker. >- His voice at last became hardly audi al ble. Son after he passed away quietly. ed The oath of allegiance to Nicholas II ie was then administered to the whale sh family and at 4:30 o'clock cannon were ts- fired to announce the fact to the world." Lit Aftter confirming the death and the fun or eral arrangements already described, the correspondent says: "The entire seventh army corps will pay military honors to the dea-: E mperor when the body shall e. be embarked at Yalta. The train fro~n r- Odessa to St. Pettersburg will stop at k every important station, where the local n. garrion will be drawn up to render mill as tary honors to their dead commander. St "The Czarina is quite broken down and ie the doctors are again fearful that her Jr health may not withstand the weight of Sher grief."__________ BrGreat Loss of Life. Li- AUCKLAND, N. Z., Nov. 1.--Farther 1. particulars in regard to the wreck of the a- Union line steamship Wairarapa, Capt. n McIntosh, bound from Sydney, N. S. se W., for this port, which was wrecked a on Sunday night off Great Barrier >r Island, on the northeast coast of Ne w .Zsaland, show that the loss of life was r. not so great as at first reported. The s' first reports had it that 112 of ';he Wair -. arapa's passengers were drowned, but it t now seems that 81 passengers and 40 of t the crew were saved by lines thrown ashore and by the boats of the steamer. On the other had, Capt. McIntosh, S8 gpassengers and 20 of the steamer's crew were drowned. At. least these are the n igures given cut by the Ll~yds' agents here. ~ Sie ,JASPER, Ala., Nov. 1.-Mrs. Emma p Shepherd, widow of the late !?robate ~. Judge of Waker county, went unto her a lot to feed her chickens. eSne did not *d return in time for breakfast and her 1daughter went to find her, when he ireyes were met by the horrible spectale rof her mothers mangled body lyfng on th rud with a lot of hogs feeding don hernhead. It is thought a vicious fboar kocked her down, trying to get at it the pan of meal in her hands, and he 0 and the rest of the swine trampled her to death and munched at the parts of her body on which the meal fell. Burglars Kulled.1 ePIT$BURG, Pa., Oct. 30.-A speeil to a the Leader from Clearfield, Pa., says: ,In a wreck of empty coal cars, this t- morning, on the BIeech Creek railroad, .near Peal Station, five men were in -stantly killed. They are all unknown. d At first it was suppossed that the vie y Itims of the wreck were tramps. An d jinvestigation of their effects, however, e disclosed that they were all armed with -revolvers, and in a satchel was found a complete set of burglar tools . In Poor Health means so much more than you imagine-serious and fatal diseases result from trifling ailments neglected. Don't play with Nature's greatest gift-health. Ifo ou are feeling out Of sorts. weak anid generally ex-, rohausted, n fl thave no ap Bro" 5 and can't work, begin at oncetak ing themostrela ble strengthening9 D I an K medicinewhich is Iion Brown's Iron Bit ters. A few bot tes cure-benefit' * Womn's comes from the Jlt te'rs p efirst dose B ittWN CHM 'A Co. BAT R, ID pleasant to take. It Cures Dyspepsia, Kidney and Liver Neuralgia, Troubles, Constipation, Bad Blood Malaria, Nervous ailments T Women's complaints. Get only the genuine-it a crossed red lines on the wrapper. All others are sub stitutcs. On recejpt of two 2C. stamps we will send set of en Beautiful World's Fair Views and book-free. BROWN CHEMICAL CO. BALTIMORE, MD. WHO CITIZENS OF CLARENDON You have gone throu gh two years of the greatest deprivation, and now there are certain goods you are com pelled to buy. The prospects are for a better crop than you have had for four years, and we trust you are in a condi tion to By Tiess. larg Wtc, Deintendosell+ Weical Gods Finea K n riernds ad orutoz acsine Naendlos,Et e ar oaifid a ntom ore. Yourafriesnd ow-dys ris. b >pTEtwr Men. wil hel yTAoNu . C .m n r Manning Collegiate Institute, MANNING, S. C. Do You Intend to Educate Your Children ? If so, Patronize the Institute. Why ? Because the Institute is well equipped for its work, and offers advantages that are not to be found elsewhere in the county. Besides the advantages in the courses of study, moderate tuition rates, cheap board, healtbfulness of the town, combined with others of equal importance make it to your in terest to send here. Reac1 on.si.er! o-t! Send for catalogue. E. J. BROWNE, Principal. WM. SE PPE RD & CO. L ARGE 4 n ASSO RTM ENT Goods, Etc., -OF Send for circulars Tinwareand price lists. No 232 Meeting St., CHARLESTON, S. C. PERCIVAL M'FG. CO DOORL1 SASH, : AND : BLINDS. 418 to 486 Meeting Street, CHARLESTON, S. C OTTO TIEDEMAN & SQNS, Wholesale Grocers and Provision Dealers, 172, 174, and 176 East Bay Street, CII R E T lT S. C. Palmetto PharmacySave 'Your Eyes' When you need a pair of spectacles don't buy an inferior glass. You will find none lxitter than CompaRy. PERFECTED CRYSTAL LENSES Charleston, S. C. " ftA y. M AIL, Express or Freight goods to any part of the United States or abroaI. Orders receive prompt attention immedi ately upon receipt. In sending mnoney for articles not quoted in this list or our free catalogue, send the amount of retail price less 20-per cent. Any difference will be returned by next mail. Our business is snrIcTLT CAsH. Goods sent C. 0. D. to re sponsible parties. We solicit a share of your mail orders. THE CELEBRATED Alcock's Porous Plasters, O10 ..5u Belladona Plasters, 1.5 25 Capine Plasters, Benson's, l5 25 Allock's Bunion Plasters, large 18 25 -: EYE --GLASSES. --: Allcock's Corn Plasters, 08 10 For sale by Our Little Liver Pills, l5 25 R .M RCITN Cuticura Rlesoivent, 85 1 0( I.~.M RCITN Cuticura Salve, 40 50, Manning, S. C. Cuticura Soap, 15 25 Anti-Pain Plasters, 10 25 - U H Simmon's Liver Regulator 67 1 00 No-To--Bac, 3 boxes for _)5 IWN50G Chichester's Pennyroyal Pills, 1 85 2 00 Hall's Syrup of Hyph'osphites, 90 1 50 Pennyroyal Pills, 75 1 00 Dr. Felix LeBrun's Steel and Pennyroyal Pills, 67 1 00 Alligator Liniment, 25 Scott's Emulsion, 67 1 00 Acid Phos~phaie, Horsford's, S .40 $ .50 Ayer's Pills,2 0 Pierce's Favorite Prescription 75 1 00 - 'I' Hall's Emulsion 25e and 50 Cod Liver Oil, pure, 45c, pint, 50 Cod Liver Oil, pure, 80c, quart, 1 00 Castile Soap, 12 oz cake, 10 15 - Castile Soap, imported, per lb., 20 2 West's Nerve & Brain Treatm.en t 67 1 0 Phoshodine, 85 00 ES: M Extracet Witch Hazel, pints, 20 25 T Carter's Little Liver Pills, 15 25 -UA9~ .#We claim to have the best stock of '-S~ -- j Druggists' Sundries, Perfumery, Tooth, gynry -. ~2 Nail and Hair Brushes, Combs, Sponges, Chamois Skins add Toilet Requisites iu th TH EST IS THE CHEAEST City. We can mrail over 2,000 articles in Sen T Ncnt o2 Uin Sq . Y the Drug line, anywhere, and pay special Sfor our pr tom2, "in q.c," n attention to mai'. orders. We will mail our vrn ou prew Hom Swing Lu"ach n catalogue to any address about April 1st,' i ~w Hm eig Mcie 1894. While this catalogue is not complete Thne New HormeSewing Machine Co. it will give some idea of the stock we CRANICE, MASS. - arry. .448 U-.C1. QUAREEf.S W.7E.BRIWGMANTNRE.TC (One Door North of Wentworth.) 20THR FRUI (1 Opposite Dime Savings Bank. - WL. N. BAHR & BR. W. H. MIXSON, Manager. DEALERS5 IN AND 1AN FAcTUI-En.s or ISI'RTEIs AND) wlloLESArLE D)EALE~ts IN Cakes, Biscuits and Plain FRUIT E PRODUCE. anid Fancy Candies. -- ~ ~ iit ad~ Vpiet1 ~hippin ischygeEtce Penny Candies and Chewving Gams. French Mixtures and ES'B Chrystallized Fruits. ~ 27ES A,( 319 King Street, CHIARLES'ION, S. C. Ch.areston, s. 0. . J. PRRY. x. a. SnIoNs. Ri. A. PRINGL.E. ZWOrlers Solicited, promptly Shipped, caref ully selected. Johnston, Crews & Co., - -WHOLESALE-- 0 JOBBERS OF DRYGOOODS,j Notions and Small Wares, /, to Nos. 49 Hayne & 112 Market Streets e'.12 . . , .2:j u~i CHARLESTON, S. C. n. so-hs~u AFFERS ON OE'A' LA W' " '' .'"-"" "'r ' of*e,9h- l.-" the MANNING, S. C. mi 'Ns ' (.)0 8-'.:0, 83.O0, $4.00, or Ofice in TDIsEs building. Specild ata 65. 0H1: acoring to your needs. ion given all business in his charge. IFor sale only by Moses Levi, Man _____________ - ning, S. C. EO.W. IS T. JO"[ Ir F. UAuE. W . C. DAvis.. SUMTER. S. C. R"'""" DAIS O~ice hours-0 to 1:30- 2:30 to 5. O(J.TOREY 'TLAW evi Brothers' dry goods store. MANNINGY A. L.4 A. LAT))RXEY AT LAW JOUN S. WILSON, MANNING, S. C. Notary Public with seal. Associated with Attorfney and Counselor al Law, n. 0..r..s., in ligate as. MANNING, S. C.