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THE AFTEXIGLOW. The weary day has reached its end rt last; Eich sunset tints ta datkness slowly tarn; Now night descend. over a'l, while Sittir past The dainty fire-fly's signals brightly burn. Shrill pipe the cricket and the katydid, The swallows sweeps in du-ky circles slow, The whippowill calls, in the wocdland hid; Suddenly gleams the west in crimson lo! There comes the afterglow. Love's weary day is done, and fades in pain; Tho' love has fled, 'tis better to forget, Letters and broken pledges y et remain, Sorrow, remorse and every late regret. Darkness is o'er my life; yet when at eve, As twilight gathers and the shadows grow, Fond thoughts of her, my love of yore, I weave, My heart bea's strangely quick again, for lo! It is love's afterglow, A NEIGHBORLY FEUD. "I'll tell you, Frank, its got to the point where something must be done," said Mrs. Burnett, and as she spoke she rapped at the small knuckles that were moving toward the sugar bowl. Morton, aged nine, jerked his hand out of the way and laaghed at his mother, who pursed up her lips to conceal a smile. ':Don't do that, Mortn. siu '-r. Burnett. Then turning to is wte he asked: "What have they been do in' now "That boy and some more of his crowd put tin cans along the top of the fence and then threw at them to knock them off. About every other stone went over the top of the fence and went sailin' across our back yard. If one cf them had struck anybody he wouldn't have known what hurt him.:' "What did you do?" "What did I do? I went out and told them if they didn't stop I'd send for a policeman. I said to that Dea kin boy: 'It's a shame your mother can't teach you to be a little better than a savage "Maybe she didn't know they were doin' it." "I do believe she puts 'em up to it. That boy's enough to try the patience of a saint." "Next time he comes into our yard "'ll bet I throw something at him," -ut in Morton, whose chin was drip ping with a mild mixture of milk and coffee. "You leave him alone," said the male parent, "You get into enough , fights already." "Well, Frank, those boys are for ever picking on to him," said Mrs. Burnett. "Boys are a good deal alike;" re sponded her husband. "I'll bet when he oets out he's the same as the rest of elem." Morton grinned and said nothing. The only member of the Burnett family who had not joined in the ar raignment of the neighbors was Alice. six years of age. She knew all about the feud and shared in the suspicions of her mother, but at present she was too busy with supper. The beakins lived next door, and although there was a dividing fence it had not kept the two families apart. In the year during which the two households had dwelt side by side there had been a growing enmity. Yet Mrs. Burnett had never spoken a w-ord to Mrs. Deakin, and her husband knew nothing of Mr. Deakin except that he worked with his hands for a living and spent a great many of his evenings at home. It would have been rather difficult for either the Burnetts or the Deakins to explain how the feud started, but it was o~aed from the start through the chlren. There were two Deakin children, Lawrence, or Lnrry, aged ten, and little Willie, who, at thie tender age of three, had learned to regard the Burnett tribe with scorn and 'hatred and suffer, to some degree, under the indig'nities h -pon his family by that arch fie' .juvenility, Morton For when the Deakins sat around the supper table and cast up the ac counts of the day it was Larry who posed as the prsecuted and abused child, while M orton Burnett was pic tured as an infant of dark intents. headed straight for the Bridewell. "If I was a man, Tom Deakin," said the wife, "I'll warrant y-ou I'd go over to that house and .give notice that things are simply going too far. Today that boy got up on the fence and called Lawrence all kinds of names," "He said that his mother said that ma didn't have clothes fit to wear," suggested Lawrence, who had beowun tobetehard during the recit' of his grievances. "Anyway, I don't try to make my self look like a peacock every time I start to church," said Mrs. Deakin. This comparison of Mrs. Burnett tickled the children, and they laughed immoderately. Tom Deakin restrained them with a quiet "tut, tut," and said that the proper way to get along was to pay no attention to the neigh bors. "I'd like to know how you can do it," said his wife. "That boy is up to some mischief every hour of the day, and his mother seems to encourage him in everything he does. He throws things over into our yard, teases Wil lie and makes faces at me." "Next time I see him pick on Willie I'll give him another licking." suggest edLarry. "You'll do nothing of the kind," exclaimed his mother. "Don't you remember the talking to I gave von the other time you had that tight with him?" Lawrence remembered the mild re buke, and his inward resolution was not changed. Tom Deakin went for his pipe, oppressed with the thoug'ht that he had been very unlucky in hiis selection of neighbors. These complaints had come to him day after day from the downtrodden members of his family. The feud had grown from a thious and aggravating circumstances. Suppose Morton Burnett to be on the fence. His mother would open the back door and say loud enough to make herself heard throc'gh the open windows of the Deakin house: "Morty, get down from that fence: Haven't I told you about that?" Mrs. Denkin would hear and under stand. Then she would wait her op portunity to appear on the back stoop and retaliate. In summer time, when both women were out of doors much of the time, they occasionally exchanged glances which were more significant than any thine they could have said. - Wen ~Mrs. Burnett put out her washing she knew that Mrs. Deakin was watching her and countino the number of pillow slips and tableeloths. When Mrs. Burnett came to thle back door and called out, "Come. Alice, dear, and practice your music lesson,' it was equivalent to saying to Mrs. Deakin: "Aha, we have a cot tage organ .in our house, but you haven't any in yours. Mrs. Deakin had frequently in'or'm ed Tom that the Burnett organ was a cheap, second-hand thinxg. One day, when Mrs. Deak-in came home from a funeral in a covered car riage, there was consternation in the Burnett family, and accounts were not fairly balanced until the new coat of paint was put on the Burnett house. Then Deai~ children told the B~ur nett e irena aul ;eir mother had said b:out I'" probable character of 3Mrs. l 'urnett. Likewise the Burnett hi1dren r ecated to the Deakin chil deae tat they heard at the supper table. Mrs. Burnett knew that she was being reported to Mrs. Deakin. and Mrs. I'eakin felt it to be her duty to leharn wht the viperish thing had been saying. Frank Burnett and Tom Deakin became convinced each that the other's family was probably more to blame over the fence, clothes-line and garbage-box issues. Allie Burnett started to run across the street one day in front of a deliv ery wagon. She fell, scrambled to her feet again and a horse's knee struck her in the back again. She fell on the block pavement and lay quiet. Mrs. Deakin saw it all from her front window. She ran into the street and gathercd the muddy child in her arms. The frightened driver had left his wagen. and he followed her timid I to the front door of the Burnett house. Mrs. luirnett screamed and then be an to cr;. m r a docor, vou loony," said Mr. Dakin to the driver as she placed the limp little body on a bed and then ran for cold water and cloths. 'hen the girl opened her eyes she found her mother on one side, Mrs. Ie. :kin on the other, while a reassur ing physician smiled at her over the foot board. She's a little jolted up and bumped her head when she fell, but it was mostly shock." he said. "Law me" gasped Mrs. Deakin, "when I saw that child fall my heart just went into my throat. Don't cry, Allie, you ain't a bit hurt. The doc tor says I canm put some more poultice on your bad old bump. "'I'll get it," said Mrs. Burnett. "No, vo sit still. You are as pale as a ghost. That is how it happened that Frank li;ernett, coming home from the works by t:he back way, found in his kitchen the heated vixen. the trainer of crin inals, the woman without character Mr's. Deakin. She told him what had happened and begged him not to frighten his wife, as there wasn't any real dan ger.Mr. Deakin was likewise surprised upon arriving home. Supper was not ready and his wife had gone over to the enemy. He went after and was taken in. Mrs. Deakin told him she couldn't came home because Mrs. Burnett was all upset, and some one would have to take care of the child. So Mr. Deakin and his two boys ate a cold lunch with Mr. Burnett and his boy. Mr. Burnett sent Morton out to get two cigars, and while the women sat by the bed in the front room the men satin the back room and smoked, while the three boys, awed by the revolution, kept very quiet. "If Morton ever bothers you, Mr. Deakin," said Mr. Burnett, "you just let me know. and I'll tend to him. "I was just going to say to you that Larry's apt to be too gay now and then, and if I ever hear of him pick ing on your children I'll make him re member it." In the front room Mr. Burnett was thanking Mrs. Deakin, who was hop ing that her children had never both ered Mrs. Burnett very much. The little girl went to sleep and the Deak in family went home. That was the end of the feud. In each household there was a general order that in case of neighborhood riot punishment should visited upon those nearest at hand. Those two houses, side by side, be came the peace centre of the west di vision. The Deakin children were at liberty to go over and thump on the Burnett's cottage organ. But who ended the feud-the men, the women or the six-year-old ?-Chi cago Record. TH E FROST KING. Many Points Report isi Appearance-It Snows at.Some rlaces. DETROIT, Mich., May 1.-There was another heavy froet throughout the western portion of Michigan last night. In Kent and Ottawa counties, early strawberries and grapes are ruined and other small fruits damaged. Grand Traverse county reports all small fruits wiped out. In Muskegon county strawberries and cherries are badly damaged and 800 acres of pep permint in Moorland township are ruined. The fruit crop in Genessee county is completely destroyed and Hilsdale county fruit is badly dam aged. ST. Louis, MIay 16.-Signal Officer Frankenfield reports a killing frost at Springfield, Ills., and vicinity and a light frost in this'vicinity and through out Missouri extending up into Ohio. It is not thought that any serious damage to crops resulted unless it may have been in the low lands. Dispatches received here by the Mi1s souri state board of agriculture report some damage to crops by the frosts of Saturday and Sunday nights in north west andl north central section of the state. GALESBURG, Ills., May I6--A ca lamitous frost prevailed hiere-every thing was frozen. Ice a quarter of an inch thick w~as formed. Vegetation was far advanced. The grape and strawberry crops were killed. It is feared fruits of all kinds are badly in jured. Corn was cut down, early veg etables of all kinds were killed. No such disastrous frost has occurred here for years. The money loss is believed to b'e large. It is feared a large acre age of corn must be replanted. CisCINNATI, May 16.-A Times Star special from Middletown, 0., says the whole Miami river valley was covered with white frost, killing early vegeta tion. Corn wvas injured, but will re cover. Many farmers have delayed planting corn, fearing cold weather following the intensely warm weather of the past two weeks. OsuIgosa, Wis., May 16.-There has been another heavy frost, the third in succession, and the destruction of gar dens, fruits, berries and early grain is almost complete. The mercury sank to 30, and water froze an inch thick. The leading' market gardener says the ground was frozen to adepthi of nearly two inches. MINoNx, Ills., May 16.--Frost has destroyed fruit, killed garden truck and ecit down growing corn half an inch below the ground. Farmers are confident that earliest planting must be replanted. AsHEvILLE. Mar 10.-Snow can be plainly seen for a distance of several miles on the mountains ini this vicini t-. Very little damage has been done t' vegetation in the valleys. WArONOKETA, May 16.-It has been snowing here all the morning, the therometer registering 20 degrees. The damage to fruits and crops can not be estimated. A Fight in the. State House. TALLuAASsEE. FLA., May 16.-The incident of the day was a personal en counter outside the door of the Senate chamber between Senator Reeves and Snte Superintendent of Education Sheats. The trouble grew out of an educational bill of Senator Reeves, and af tee' somxe words the latter struck Superintendent Sheats full between the eves, slightly breaking the skin. Bystanders interfered before further damage could be done, though the men tried to get together. Senator WORDS TO YOUING MEN. REV. DR. TALMAGE TALKS TO THE BEGINNERS IN LIFE'S BAT TLES. The Soul, the Body. the Intelleet. the As pmiration, the Goal and I Glance Ah-ad. An Inspiring ant Forceful Sermon to the Young. Nvw Yo0K, Maf 12.-In his audi ences at the Academy of Music Dr. Talmage meeis niany hundreds of young iten from different parts of the Union and representing almost every calling and profession in life. To them he specially addressed his dis course this afternoon, the subject be ing "Words With Young Men. But few people who have passed 50 years of age are capable of giving advice to young men. Too many begin their counsel by forgetting they ever were young men themselves. Ncvember snows do not understand May time blossom week. The east windy never did understand the south wind. Au tumnal goldenrod makes a poor list at lecturing about early violets. Gen erally after a man has rheumatism in his right foot he is not competent to discuss juvenile elasticity. Not one man out of a hundred can enlihst and keep the attention of the young after there is a bald spot on the cranium. I attended a large meeting in Phil adelphia, assembled to discuss how the Young Men's Christain association of that city might be made more attrac tive for young people. when a man arose and made some suggestions wit b such lugubrious tone of voice a man ner that seemed to deplore that every thing was going toruin, when an old friend of mine, at 75 years as young in feeling as any one at 20, arose and said "That good brother who has just ad dressed you will excuse me for saying that a young man would no sooner go and spend an evening among such funeral tones of voice and funeral ideas of religion which that brother seems to have adopted than lie would go and spend the evening in Laurel Hill cemetery." And yet these young men of Ohio, and all young men, have a right to ask those who have had many opportunities of studying this world and the next world to give helpful suggestion as to what theories of life one ought to adort, and what dangers lie ought to shun. Attention, young men: First, get your soul right. You see, that is the most valuable part of you. It is the most important room in your house. It is the parlor of your entire nature. Put the best pictures on its walls. Put the best music under its arches. It is important to have the kitchen right, and the dining room right, and all the other rooms of your nature right; but, oh, theparlor the of soul! Be particular about the guests who enter it. Shut its doors in the faces of those who would despoil and pollute it. There are princes and kings who would like to come into it, while there are assassins who would like to come out from behind its curtains, and with silent foot attempt the desperate and murderous. Let the King come in. He is now at the door. Let me be usher to announce his arrival and in troduce his arrival and introduce the King of this world, the King of all worlds, the King eternal, immortal, invisible. Make room. Stand back. Clear the way. Bow, kneel, worship the King. Have him once for your guest, an?d it does not make much dif ference who comes or goes. Would you have a warranty against moral disaster and surety of a noble career? Read at least one chapter of the Bible on your knees every day of your life. Hlave your body right. "How are you ?" I often say when I meet a friend of mine in Brooklyn. He is over 70. and alert and vigorous, and very prominent in the law. His answer is, "I am living on the capital of a well spent youth." On the contrary, there are hundreds of thousands of good people who are suffering the results of early sins. The grace of God giveas one a new heart, but not a new body. David, the Psalmist, had to cry out. "Remember not the sins of my youth." Let a young man make his body a wine closet, or a rum jug, or a whiskey cask, or a beer barrel, and smoke poi soned cigarettes until his hand trem bles, and lie is black under the eyes, and his cheeks fall in, and then at some church seek and find religion. Yet all the praying he can do will not hinder the physical consequences of natural law fractured. You six young men of Ohio and all the young men take care of your eyes, those windows of the soul. Take care of your ears and listen to nothing that depraves. Take care of your lips and see that they utter no profanities. Take care of your nerves by enough sleep and avoiding unhealthy exceitments, and by taking outdoor exercise, whether by ball or horseback, lawn tennis or ehilarating bicycle, if you sit upright and do not join that throng of sever al hundred thousands who by the wheel are cultivating crooked backs, and crampled chests, and deformed bodies, rapidly coming down toward all fours and the attitude of the beasts that perish. Anythinig that pei'ish. Anything that bends body. mind or soul to the earth is unhealthy. Oh, it is a grand thing to be well, but do not depend on pharmacy and the doctors to make vou well. Stay well. Read John Toadd's MIanual and Combs' Phy siology and everything you can lay our hands on about mastication and digestion and assimilation. Where you find one healthy man or woman you find 50 half dead. From my own experience I can testify that, being a disciple of the gymnasium, many a time just before going to the parallel bars and punching bags and pulhies and weights I thought satan was about taking possession of society and the chnrch and the world, but after one hour of climbing and lifting and pulling I felt like hastening home so as to be there when the millennium set in. Take a good stout run every day. I find in that habit, which I have kept up since at iS years I reatd the aforesaid Todd's MIanual, more recuperation than in anything else. Those six men of Ohio will need all possible nerve, and all possible eye sight, and all possible muscular devel opment before they get through the terrific struggle of this life. Word the next: Take care of your intellect. Here comes the flood of novelettes, 99 out of 100 belittling to every one that opens them. Here come depraved newspapers, .submerging ood and elevated American journal ism. Here comes a whole perdition of printed abomination, dumped on the breakfast table and tea table and parlor table. Take at least one good newspaper with able editorial and re porters' columns mostly occuptied with helpful intelligence, announcing mar riages and deaths and reformatory and religious assemblages, and charities bestowed, and the doings of good peo ple, and giving but little place to nas tv divorce cases and stories of crime, w~hichi, like cobras. sting those that touch them. Oh, for more newspa pers that put virtue in what is called great primer typ)e and vice in nonpa reil or agate. You have all seen the photographer's negative. He took a picture from it 10 or 20 years ago. You ask him now for a picture from that same negative, lie opens the reat chest containing the black neg atve of 1SS or 1875. and lie repro dues the' picture. Young imen, your m"emory is m1ade up of the negatives of an iiunortal photograph. All that you sce or heir goc; into your Soul to make pictures for the future. You will have with you till the iudgment lay the negatives of all the bad pict l ures you have ever looked at and of all the debauched scenes -on have read about. Show n:e the newspapers you take and the books you read, and I will tell you what are your prospects for well being in this life, and what will be your residence 1,000.000 years after the star on which we now live shall have dropped out of the constel lation. I never travel on Suuday un less it be a case of necessity or mercy. But last autumn I was in India in a city plague struck. By the hundreds the people were down with fearful ill ness. We went to the apothecary's to get some preventive of the fever. and the place was crowded with invalids, and we had no con fidence in the pre ventive we purchased firon the Hin doos. The nail train was to start Sabbath creving. I said. "Frank I think the Lord will excuse us if we get out of this place with the first train,"and we took it notfeeling quite comfortable till we were hundreds of miles away. I felt we were right in fiyinZ from the plague. Well. the air in many of our cities is struck through with a worse plague-the plague of corrupt and damnable liter ature. Get away from it as soon as. possible. It has already ruined the bodies; minds and souls of a multitude which, if stood in solid column.would reach from New York Battery to Gold en Horn. The plague! The plague! Never go to any place where you would be ashamed to die. Adopt that plan, and you will never go to any evil amusement nor be found in com promiaing surroundings. How many startling cases within the past few years of men called suddenly out of this world, and the newspapers sur prised us when they mentioned the locality and the companionship. To 1 put it on the least important ground, you ought not to go to any such for bidden place, because if you depart this life in such circumstances you put officiating ministers in great em barrassment. You know that some of the ministers believe that all who leave this life go straight to heaven. however they have acted in this world or whatever they have believed. To get you through from such surround ings is an appalling theological under taldng. One of the most arduous and besweating efforts of that kind that I ever knew of was at the obsequeies of a man who was found dead in a snow band with his rum jug close beside him. But the minister did the work of happy transference as well as possi ble, although it did seem a little inap propriate when he read: "Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord." They rest from their labors, and their works do follow them." If you have no mercy upon yourself,have mercy upon the minister who may be called to of ficiate after your demise. Die at home, 1 or in some place of honest business, or where the laughter is clean, or amid companionships pure and elevating. Remember that any place we go to may become our starting point for the next world. When we enter the har bor of heaven and the officer of light comes aboard, let us be able to show that our clearing papers were dated at the right port. - As soon as you can, by industry and economy, have a home of your own. What do I mean by a home? I mean two rooms and the blessing of God on both of them-one room for slumber, one for food, its preparation and the partaking thereof. Mark you, I would like you to have a home with thirty rooms, all upholstered, pictured and statuetted, but IJam putting it down at the minimum'. A husband and wife1 who cannot be happy with a home made up of two rooms would not be, happy in heaven if they got there. He who wins and keeps the affection of a good practical -woman has done: loriously. What do I mean by a good woman ? I mean one who loved God before she loved you. What do I mean by a practical woman? I mean one who can help you to earn a living, for a time comes in almost every man's life when he is flung of hard misfortune, and you do not want a weakling going around the house whining and snifling about how she had it before you married her. The simple reason why thousands of men' never get on in the world is because they married nonentities and never got over it. The only thing that Job's wife proposed for his boils was a warm poultice of profanity, saying, "Curse God and die." It adds to our admira tion of John Wesley the manner in which hec onquered domestic unhappi ness. His wife had slandered him all over England until, standing in his pulpit in City Road Chapel, he com plained to the people, saying. "I have2 been charged with every crime in the catalogue except drunkenness," when his wife arose in the back part of the church and said, 'John, you know you were drunk last night." Then1 Wesley exclaimed, 'Thank God, the catalogue is complete." When a man marries,he marries for heaven or hell, and it is more so when a woman mar ries. You six young men in Fayette, ., had better look out. Do not rate yourself too high. Bet- 1 ter rate yourself too low. If you rate: yourself too low, the world will say, "Come up." If you rate yourself too high, the world will say, -"Come down." It is a bad thing wvhen a man 1 gets so exaggerated an idea of himself as did Earl of Buchan, whose speech Ballantyne, the Edinburg printer, could nmot set up for publication be cause he had not enough capital I's among his type. Remember that the world got along without you nearlyt 0,000 years before you were born, and unless some meteor collides with us or some internal explosion occurs thet world will probably last severel thous and years after you are dead. Fi'll yourself with bigoraphies ofr men who did gloriously in the busi- s ness or occupation or profession you r are about to choose or have already chosen. Going to be a merchant? Read e up Peter Cooper and Abbot Lawrencet and .Janmes Lenox and William E.i Dodge and George Peabody. See how most of the mer-chants at the start i munched their noon luncheon, made I up of dry bread and a hunk of cheese f behind a counter or in a stor-eroom as they started in a business which t brouzht them to the top of iniluences 3 which ecabled them to bless the world c with millions of dollars consecrated to I hospitals and schools and churches and I pivate benefactions, where neither I right hand nor left hand knew what jt the other- hand did. Going to be a i physician ? Read up Harvey and Gr-oss c and Sir Adam Clarke and James X.1 Simpsonl, tihe discoverer of chloroform as an anwesthetic, and Leslie Keeley,t who, notwithstanding all the damage done by his incompetent imitator-s, e stands one of the gr-eatest benefactors c of the centuries, and all the other r mighty physicians who have mended( broken bones, and enthroned agamin deposed intellects, and given theirt lives to healing the long, deep gash of the wor-d's agony. Going to be a mechanic: Read up the inventors of swing miachines and cotton gins andc life saving apparatus and thme men whot as arcehitects and builders and inanu-t facturers and (lay laborers have made I a life of 30) years in this century worth I more than the full 100 years of any s Jii h l(l'tit tue~ tw'i:.1ici.1i _\i:,ri-v 110 !T'."t 5'.'s 01'. V()l!'.; Only ive sumniwrs more. ii-e!autunLM more. li e wi nters no're, live springs more. :dt thei the clck of time will strike the death of the old century aid the birth of the new. I do not kno: what sort of a December night it will be when this century lies dowi to (lie: whether it will be starlit or tempestu :>us: whether the snows will be drift ing or the soft winds willbreathe Amon the pillow of the expiring centenarian. But millions will mourn its going. for miany have received from it kindnesses innumerable, and they will kiss fare well the aged brow wrinkled with S many vicissitudes. Old nineteenth :entury of weddings and burials, of -efeats and victories, of nations born mnd nations (lead. thy pulses growing feebler now, will soon stop on that 31st night of December. But right be ide it will be the infant century, held ap for baptism. Its smooth brow will glow with bright e::pectations. The hen more than 1,7C0,000,000 inhabi nuts of the earth will hail its birth md pray for its prosperity. its reign Avill be f!x 14o m.car niLtha ost of your life I think will be under th ;way of its scepter. Get ready for it. Elave your heart right: your nerves ight: your brain right; your digestion ight. We will hand over to you our :ommerce, our mechanism, our arts md sciences, our professions, our pul pits, our inheritance. We believe in you. We trust you. We pray for you. We bless you. And though by the time you get into the thickest of the figrht for God and righteousness we may have disappeared from earth ly scenes, we will not lose our interest in your struggle, and if the dear Lord ill excuse us for a little while from he temple service ar d the house of nany mansions we will come out on he battlements of jasper and cheer ou, and perhaps if that night of this world be very quiet you may hear our voices dropping from afar as we cry, "Be thou faithful unto death, and thou ;halt have a crown:" WriERE WCMEN VOTE. t List of the Counties That Have Feniala Suffrage. The countries of the world where vomen already have some suffrage ave an area of over 18,000,000 square miles and their population is over 350, )00,o0. In Great Britain women vote for all lective officers excent members of ,arliament. In France the women teachers elect vomen members on all boards of edu ation. In Sweden women vote for all elec ,ive officers except representatives; lso, indirectly for members of the ouse of lords. In Norway they have school suff age. In Ireland the women vote for the arbor boards, poor law guardians, md in Belfast for municipal officers. In Russia womin householders vote or all elective of-icers and on all local natters. In Finland they vote for all elective >fiicers. In Austria-Hungary they vote, by proxy, for all elective officers. In Croatia and Dalmatia they have ~he privilege of doing so in local elec ions in person. I:n Italy women vote for members of ~arliament. In the Madras presidency and ;he Bombay presidency (Hindostan) the vomen exercise the right of suffrage n all municipalities. In all countries of Russian Asia they ~an do whatever a Russian colony set les. The Russians are colonizing the vhole of their vast Asian possessions mnd carrying with them everywhere 'he "mir,"~ or self-govering village. vherein women who are heads of iouseholds are permitted to vote. Women have municipal suffrage in rape Colony, which rules 1,000,000 quare miles. Municipal woman suffrage rules in ~ew Zeland, a-ad, I think, at parli. rentrty elections. Iceland, in the North Atlantic, the sle of Man (between England and reland.) and Pitcairn Island in the outh Pacific, have full woman suf rage. In the Dominion of Canada women mave municipal suffrage in every pro rince and also in Northwest territo ies. In Ontario they vote for all lective officers, except in the election f members in the legislature and par iament. In the United States 2S States and erritories have given women some orm of suffrage. School suffrage in various degrees is ~ranted to wvoren in Arizona, Colo ado, Connecticut, Delaware, Idaho, udiana, Kansas,' Kentucky, Massa htusetts, Michigan. Minnesota, Ne >raska, New Hampshire, New Jersey. Cew York, North Dakota, Texas, Ver nont and Wisconsin. In Arkansas and Missouri women -ote, by petition, on liquor license in nany cases. In'Delaware suffrage is exercised by omen in several mumicipals. In Kansas they have equal suffrage mith men at all municipal elections. Lbout 50,000 women voted in 1890. In Montana they vote on all local axation. In New York they can and do vote .t school elections. ~The question of he constitutionality of the law is still ndecided. They vote also in many places in the State on local improve-1 aent, such as gas and electric < treet lighting, paving, sewerage and 1 aunicipal bonds. In Utah wo-men voted until disfran hised by the Edmunds law, when hey promptly organized to demand Ls repeal. In Pennsylvania a law was passed< a 1889, under which women vote on ocal improvements by signing or re using to sign petitions therefor. 1 In Wyoming women have voted onii lie same terms with men since 1870. he convention of 1889 to form a State t onstitution unanimously inserted a rovision securing them full sutfrage. I hlis constitution was ratified by the oters at a special election by about< hee-fourths majority. Congress re- I used to require the disfranchisement 1 f women and admitted the State July 0, 181)0. And let it not be forgotten that in1 he senate cf the United States. Febru ry 7, 1889. a select committee report d in favor of amending the Federal onstitution so as to forbid States to ake sex a cause of disfranchisement. ongress adjourned, however, on I larch 4, following without reaching I le subject. Com mitted Suicide. LEXINGTON, Mo.. May 17.-Ex-May- I r Ben Russell, of tais city, commit- t ed suicide today by shooting himself t brough thme he~1. Despondency over< inancial troubles and failure to get ausiness was the cause. He was thet on of Win. Russell, of the famousi ARP 11 ETS NEW LIGHT. HE HAS SEEN READING COIN AND HAS LEARNED MUCH. Iarvey, it. Auth.or. is a Sontlierner--le Wa i n tie War aid Lost an Arm at Fort J)onelson--No An:cr to Coin Has Yet Appeared. I have just finished reading Coin's '.ast book "Up to Date." If somebody doesn't answer it and prove it a lie it will shake this country from center to circumference. Tile bankers and spec ulators and money kings will be over thrown and the danger is that the masses will go too far in revenging their wrongs and, like Sampson, pull down the temple and crush all alike. Wheni he shows up the inequalities of taxation and how the rich escape, it makes the blood boil with indignation. Mde from the silver question he gives a certificate of David Gore. the auditor of public accounts for the State of Illi nois, which shows that all that the bankers and brokers of Chicago had assessed for taxation was only $44.000 of money, while farmers of that county were assessed $34,000 for agricultural '- -inmlements. Think of it' The farmers tools are assem-+ twice as much as all the money credits and securities of all the banks, bank ers and brokers of that great city. And all diamonds and jewelry in Chicago were asssssed at $17,750, when it is known that single families live there who own diamonds and iewelry ten times that sum in value. The money of these banks amounts to hundreds of millions, but through the manipula tion of municipalpolitics the rich con trol the assessors and escape taxation. Can this be true? If it is false why doesn't Eli Perkins say so. I see that he has taken the field against Coin, but I can't tell exactly from his last piece whether lie is lying or joking. He closes it by sayingthat after he had shown Coin his errors and fallacies Coin gave it up and the tears rolled down his cheeks and he dismissed his school and declared he wasn't gwine to teach any more. I like Eli. I like any lie that is funny and harmless. I used to like to read Baron Murchausen and I like to read Eli now. I confess that it strains my credulity to believe what Coin writes about the Chicago bankers' tax, but there is the certificate of the State auditor. Surely there is some explanation of all this. We know what Solomon and Paul and the Saviour said about rich men, but I never believed that our rich men were that bad. We poor folks whose in come was under the mark, believed that to tax large incomes was the right thing to do, but it seems that we can't do it. We are taxed all the time on the outgo through the opera tions of the tariff-a tariff for revenue only with incidental protection. It is the incidental that gets us. An Amer ican sewing machine or a mower or reaper can be bought in London or Brazil 30 per cent cheaper than we can buy one here. There comes in the in cidental. It is protected here from foreign competition and the profit is so great that Mr. Singer or Mr. McCor mick can pay the freight across the ocean and then sell it for less than he will sell it to us. Isn't that funny? Harper's Magazine sells all over this country for 35 cents, but sells all over Eagland for 25 zents. An American cedar pencil of the best quality sells here for a nickle, but you can buy the very same in London for a copper. And just so it is with hundreds of oth er things that are made in this coun try. This incidental is not accidental but was done on purpose at Washing ton and our lawmakers say we must stand it. Boys, let's light. No, I don't mean that exactly, but let's meet and pass some resoulutions-let's do something. Now, the Chicago goldbugs have called a meeting to see if they can't stop all this rumpus about silver, but they might as well try to stop a torna do. I wasn't taking so much stock mn these financial affairs, for I had read so much on both sides that it made my head swim, and so when a friend sent me Coin's first book I took it up with prejudice against it for I supposed that Mr. Harvey was a C~iicago yankee and was paid by The Inter Ocean to write on that side, and so I fortified myself against being seduced by' his book. I read it rather hurriedly, uahing for traps and triggers, but I didn't find them, and I found so much information that was news to me that I read it more carefully the second time, and I came to the conclusion that Coin was a very smart man, or I was very great fool-one or the other. His last book is better than the first, and if these two little books are made up of fallacies, the goldbugs had bet ter get some body else besides Eli to expose them-Eli's forte is fun, not fi nance-though I'll bet a dollar he was opposed to the income tax. But I received a very interesting letter from a lady of West Virginia, telling me that Wflliam Hope Harvey, who writes these little books on finance >elongs to our side, and was born and raised in Putnani County, not far from her home; that his father resides in Huntington, and wasa Confederate soldier; that his elder brother, Thom is, was the Democratic candidate last year for Congress. but was defeated ecause of the blunders of the admin stration; that he, too, was in the war nd lost an arm at Fort Donelson; ~hat the whole family are Democrats md Southerners to the core and have is good blood in their veins as any in .he Old Dominion, being related to the ees and to Stonewall Jackson. She ays we who know the Harveys are roud of them and especially of Wil iam Hope, the author of Coin's >ooks. That settles it with me. That kind >f a man can't be - bought or bribed mud he'believes what lie writes. whe her it is so or not. So let the ball roll >n. If the whole property of the na ion is twenty-five thousand millions md our indebtedness is eighteen thious mnd millioiis and the property keep hrinking and the debts keep swelling nd taxes keep getting higher and iighr, sve can't be worsted by any harge. So let's try the silver again as ye had it in 1873. Neither the Presi ent nor Congerss can realize the sit ation. No nimn can who is drawing salary of $5,000 and is daily dining nd wining with the rich. It is only he poor who pray in earnest and say 'Givs us this dayx our daily bread.' saw a crowd of strong men yesterday rho were going to Rlome to see if they ould not get work on the new cotton actory that sonme Lowell men are uildiug there-heard one of them ask man for a chew of tobacco and he pologized by saying he never had to >eg his tob~acco before. The bread inners want to work, but can't find ork to do. What (lees Mr. Cleveland :now about this: What can he know?I Cow I like old Grovei', and I have :oitnpt forhis slanderers, especially ie preachers, but I am oldeniough to now that he is nothing hut a man, id so am I. We are influenced by he comp~aniy we keep and his com >anv is mainly the bainkers and mil ion'ers and magnates of the nation le v-ery men who control the debts of le goverinmenit and thme railroads anid ities and towns and the 1 eope. (If course they want hese dlebt ,paid in gold. That a nature, and scripture, too, but we 1 at do it, andi when the popnle are driven to the walt they will fight. tight not with the builrt', but with b allot. "A weapon thatcomes down as c ti As snow flakes fall 4poi tlhe sod Blut executes a freeman's will As lightning doesthe will of God: This silver and gold question is fast disintegrating the old parties. New alignments are forming every day. Mr. Lowry, the Atlanta banker, is just as pronounced on one side as Mir. Inman, the millionaire, is on the other, Mr. In man's manly, patriotic. phil anthropic letter in favor of silver was the best that I have seen in a news paper. All honor to him for it. It was hardly to be expected from a man who holds so much' of other people's obligations. So let the ball roll on and break up the old parties. if need be: we can't be worsted. BILL AR'. Shame on Them. There is said to be honor among theives, but, says the Charleston Even- I ing Sun, it is a type of honor concern ing which those patriotic sons of South Carolina, Chas. A Douglass, Samp son Pope and J. F. J. Caldwell have no conception. Both direct and in direct beneficiaries of a system of fraud on the ballot the only admissible ex cuse for which was the plea of self turn upon their State an xos heee of the world at a time whe s patriotic men of another sort in South Carolina were desirous of eliminating the questionable statutes from ~ our books and substituting just and whole some laws instead thereof. Especially has Mr. Chas. A. Douglass put his tal ents to a perverted use in returning to his native State from his adopted resi dence in another to rend her as crimi nal for the enactment of unrighteous laws in the direct results off which he was a silent partner. if not a direct participant. The culprit who turns state's evidence and informis on his "pals" is worse than the culprit who takes his place in the dock. Were the great names of Hampton, Hagood and Butler, of whom Douglass, of the younger generation, was the ard ent disciple and admirer, sufficient to relieve the unconstitutional statutes of thier fraudulent character? He would sooner have thrust his hand into the flames than have raised his voice to the pitch even of a whisper against them while these men controlled the destiny of the State. Do the fortunes of a pol itical reverse have the effect to make that dishonorable which was honora ble? If a crime has been committed, is not the bar of justice the proper place for Douglass, Pope and Cald well to stand, instead of masquerading in the role of public prosecutors? Let them beware that their people, whom they have sought to betray, do not launch at their heads the anathema marentha of their condemnation. New Money Order Blanks. The Postoffice authorities at Wash ington have for some time been dis satisfied with the form of money order now used, which was designed a year ago, and put in use with the begin ning of the present fiscal year. It is criticised on account of the size, which adds a good deal of unnecessary bulk to the mails, and besides this objection the design is not altogether pleasing. Fon several weeks efforts have been made to fashion a blank that would combine the requisite characteristics. It is intended to secure a handsome form if possible. The present blank has been sevei'ely criticised on this score. The form to be next introduced wl be unlike all its predecessors in shape, resembling a bank draft rather than a sheet of foolscap. The presentscheme of tearing off the end so as to leave the amount of the order fixed in the fig ures torn off at the stub will be retain ed. While it is sometimes said that there is danger of these notched stubs being torn off and the amount of the order changed or vitiated, this is something that has yet to occur for the first time to the knowledge of any one connected with the money order office. This feature will be retained for the security- it affords against fore ery or altercation, and the new blank will be instead of an upright note form an elongated slip like a bank draft, which by two folds can be put in a letter just as a check or draft would be, and add very little to its weight or bulk. The new form will doubtless be ready for use with the beginning of the new postal year. Southern Progress. BALTIMORE. May 16.-Special r'e ports from all parts of the South to the Manufacturers Record show a general upward tendency. in business. The bank clearings of the South for the last week reported show an increase of 12.5 per cent. over the correspond ing week of 1894 against an increase of 7 per cent. for the balance of the country, not including~ New York city. There is a very marked increase in the number of industrial enterprises that are being established. This is especially noticeable in cotton mills, an addition of 10,000 spindles to a duck mill at Columbia, S. C., is re ported; 5,000 spindles and 168 looms to a Greenwood, S. C., mill; 2,500 spindles to a King's Mountain. N. C.. mill, and 1,500 spindles to another mill at the same place. A $20e000 mill is projected in South Carolina: a $100,000 mill at Rock Hill, in the same State; $50,000 mill at Franklin ton, N. C., $50,000 mill at Clemson, S. C., a $100,000 company at Elizabeth city. N. C.. and a $100,000 company at Selma, Ala. Other important en terprises include a $1,000,000 beet sugar factory at Bowling Green, Ky., 108-barrel paint factory in New Or leans; 400,000 electric light power and railroad company in Florida. a $300, 000 cotton seed' oil manufacturing company at Galaeston, cotton seed oil mills at Calvert and Caldwell, Texas. a $50,000 mining company at Birmingham, also two cotton seedf oil mills at Girard, Ala. Hampton Speaks.I CHARLESTON, S. C., May 15.-Gen eral Wade Hampton spoke at the Ac- I idemy of music here at the invitation >f th~e Charleston Chapter Daughters >f the Confederacy and Camp Mfoul-I rie Sons of Confederate Veterans. He was met on his arrival at Atlantic oast Line depot by 14 companies of militia, including all the white troops1 ni the city. the Citadel Cadets of the Porter military academy. each 130 trong, Camp Sumter of Confederate' eterans, the two associations at whose nvitation he came, and prominent of Pcials and citizens in carriages, lie was then escorted through the princi >al streets to the residence of Colonel Rawins Lowndes, on East battery, where he was entertained. There the >ocession halted and was reviewed > General Hampton. As the proces ion nmoved through the city General ampton was given continuous ova ion. Thousands of people thronged he sidewalks and cheered him as he >assed. The whole city was wild with ~nthusiasm, great numbers of ladiesr Lud children were out shouting with 1 he rest, confederate and Estate flags S vere displayed everywhere, everybody ore ribbon badges with ~Iuamption's I icture. bands played Dixie and in c very way the demonstration showed le mnost ~ardent affection for the old reneral. The proceeds from the sale jt f tickets to the address will be devoted r o the relief of confederate veterans Is an their widows. AKIN POWDER Absolutely Pure. A cream or tartar Darmg powde' Highest of all in leavening strength.-La test United States Government Food Re port. Royal Baking Powder Company, 106 Wall st., N. Y. White Unity a Necessity. By the decision of Judge Goff South Carolina is placed in a critical and embarrassing situation, but we must not despair. The Constitutional Con vention willbe held, and none need worr- themselves about that body be white people of the State are noffoo. It will be controlled by good and true white menand anybody who obstructs and opposes will drop beneath the waves of political oblivion. We fully agree with the Columbia EveningNews that "the white men of South Carolina hold the key to the situation, and can unlock the doors of our prison-house, if they will. But if by continued fol ly they seek to promote division and foment strife, they will reap the re ward of their sowing. Of course, there remains but one logical course, and that is for everybody to come into the first compromise-the Tillman-Barn well-Hemphill agreement and agree upon that - basis of reconcilation. This is an agreement backed by power and plainly stated intentions, and does not deal in vague, indefinite gen eralities. The white people of the State should rally to a man, for it will require all the manhood of the State to meet the emergency and for a. time all thought of partisan gain ought to be sunk ought of sight. The negro will find before he is through with it that he is between the 'devil and the deep sea.' The decision put. his entire race in jeopardy, and only' the severest prudence can avert a ca tastrophe. If indiscretion is indulged it will be paid for at a ruinous price. There never was a time when the ne gro race walked so near the verge of a. precipice; a single false step now and it is hurled to ruin." Glorying in their Own Shame. The Columbia Evening News very truely says 'that the men who toiled through the heat of '76 and helped to win the victory may not relish Judge Gotf's caustic satire-may wince as he lays his judicial whip upon their bare shoulders-but it seems that an insult from such a sourceisswallowed, never theless, as almost anything would be by men desirous of dominating their brothern in South Carolina, and whose imperious will brooks no obstacles, and tolerates no interference. In every line of the decision can be seen the leerina' and exultant face of this Fed eral ,iudge, who now has the much - coveted boon of chastising a people long odious to him. Against whom was Judge Goff's irate speechdirected? Not, surely, against the Reformers. who had nothing to no with forming the registration law, but in fact against. the more prominent Conservatives whose work it is. Upon them, and them alone, has fellen the frown of the mighty and puissant limb of the law. They are those that tread thes' "borderland that divides outrage froma crime." They are those whose actions. are such, in the opinion of' his judge ship, "that the konst- said about them: the better." And yet this wanton in sult is applauded by some of the menm who were responsible for the law that. gave this partizon judge the opportun'i ty to offer it. Heavy on samps. The Barnwell Sentinel, which is a Conservative paper, is pretty hard on Dr. Samps Pope. Our cotemporary very truly says he was elected to the Legislature in 1884 and in 1886 under the same registration law which his :onscience (?) has forced him to attack. Hie wa's a member of the committee on - rivileges and elections in 1887, when: he registration law was under consi - ration. at which time he failed. to. aise a 'protest. This same Sampson, as a loyal supporter of the registra-. ion law until recently, and was. quite. illing to be elected Governor last fall uder the law which lie sees fit to. haracterize as fraudulent. What a - hange has come over this pio us soul!* ow lie charges his former bosom com- - >anions with corruption and fraud.. s championing the Radical cause,. eils his birthright for a few dollars. tud is endeavormng to destroy a white: nan's governmient and restore the ne ro to power. When the dispensary aw was before the Senate this patriotic' td noble Sampson was Clerk. and he' ~aid it was the grandest law that had: ~ver been brought up for conisidera ion. For fear (to use his own lan uage) that some "infernal Straight ut" might steal the bill he carried it. o0 his hotel and slept with it under his illow. Now he says the dispensary~ aw is an infringement on personal , iberty and exhausts his vocabulary in enouncing it, striving to brealk it lown. His utterances have the ring f an infuriated and disappointed pol tician with the motto of "rule or 'in." All glory and honor to a true ndi tried patriot, but shame will ever ang over the traitor. Consistency is, udeed. a jewel. 31nrder in Sumter. ScaTrre. May 1.- Albert Deblain. hot and killed Peter Diair this morn g: both are colored. The murder as the~ most coldblooded and cruel. ver committed in this vicinity. Dc lain is a mulatto painter of a 'bad re utation. Blair was a common laborer f a good reputation. especially among ie negroes. The cause which led ups the killing was brought about by ie wives oi the me'n. The men had a. ow last Sunday. and Deblain procur d a pistol. telling his wife he was, oing to kill Blair this moaning. As lair was returning from up town to s home. which is adjoining that of )eblain. Dc'blain met him in the road aught him in tile colr, and before e could make any resistance Debln ad shot hinm three times, killing him stantly. The coroner's jury, after eaing the testinmony, rendered a ver it in accordance with the above In 4ail fo.r ''Cunjering." AUG;USTA, GA.. Mar- 18.-A colored an, who calls himself Eustis Wil amns is in jail in Hamburg, across the avannah river fromn Augusta, for cunjeing" a Negro woman of that lace. Eustis claims to be a "cunjer" octor and was pretending' to treat his woman wvhen shte wvent inlto-con ulsions. The charge brought against - e "doctor" is poisoning. The wo an has recovered fronm the convul on, but is still sick and declares that.