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.