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THE OPEN WIM)OWS. A SERMON OF CHRISTAIN CHEERFUL NESS AND ENCOURAGEMENT. Rev. 1r. Taimage oil )anIers nvotions Before the Window thit Faced His Ni five Jerusaem-The Battle with Sin and Death-The Victory. NEW yORK. Sept .-In his sermon for today Rev. Dr. Talmage has chos en a theme overflowing with Chris tian cheerfulness and encouragement. The subject is "Open Windows," and the text selected was Daniel vi, 10, "His windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem." The scoundrelly princes of Persia, urged by political jealousy against Daniel have succeeded in getting a law passed that whosever prays to God shall be put under the paws and teeth of the lions, who are lashing them selves in rage and hunger up and down the stone cage, or putting their lower jaws on the ground, bellowing till the earth trembles. But the leon ine threat did not hinder the devotions of Daniel, the Coeur de Lion of ages. His enemies might as well have a law that the sun should not draw water, or that the south wind should not sweep across a garden of maonolias, or that God should be abolishe. They could not scare him with the redhot furnaces, and they cannot now scare him with the lions. As soon as Dan iel hears of this enactment he leaves his office of secretary of state, with its upholstery of crimson and gold, and comes down the white marble steps and goes to his own house. He opens his window and puts the shutters back and pulls the curtain aside so that he can look toward the sacred city of Jerusalem, and then prays. I suppose the people in the street gathered under and before his window and said: "Just see that man defying the law. He ought to be arrested." And the constabulary of the city rush to the police headquarters and report that Daniel is on his knees at the wfde open window. "You are my prisou er," says the officer of the law, drop ping a heavy hand on the shoulder of the kneelino Daniel. As the consta bles open e door of the cavern to thrust in their prisoner they see the glarin eyes of the monsters. But Dani becomes the first lion tamer, and they lick his hand and fawn at his feet, and that night he sleeps with the shaggy mane of a wild beast for his pillow, while the king that night, sleepless in the palace, as on 'him the paw and teeth of a lion he cannot tame-the lion of a remorseless con science. What a picture it would be for some artist! Darious, in the early dusk of morning, not waiting for footman or chariot, hastening to the den, all flushed and nervous and in dishabille and looking through the crevices of the cage to see what had become of his prime minister! "What, .;o sound?" he says. "'Daniel is surely devoured, and the lions are sleeping after their horrid meal, the bones of the poor man scattered across the floor ofthe cavern." With tremblinor voice Darius calls out, "Daniel!" aP7o an swer, for the prophet is yet in pro found slumber. But a lion, more easily awakened, advances, and with hot breath blown through the crevice seems angrily to demand the cause of this interruption, and then another 'wild beast lif'ts his mane from under Daniet's head, and the prophet, wak in u, comes forth to report himself allfunhurt and well. But our text stands us at Daniel's window,open toward Jerusalem. Why in that direction open? Jerusalem was his native land and all the pomp of his Babylonish successes could -not make him forget it. He came there from Jerusalem at 18 years of age and he never visited it, thouo'h he lived to be 85 years of age. 'Tet, when he wanted to arouse the deepest emotions and grandest aspirations of his heart, he had his window open toward his native Jerusalem. There are many of you today who understand that with out any exposition. This is getting to be a nation of foreigners. -They have come into all occupations, and profes sibns. They sit in all churches. It rafbe 20 years ago since you got your naturalization papers and you may be thoroughly Amnericanized, but you can't forget the land of your birth and your warmest sympathies go out toward it. Your windows are open to Jerusalem. Your father and mother are buried there. It may have been a very humble home in which you were born, but your memory often plays around it and you hop some day to go and see it-the hl, the tree, the brook, the house, the place so sacred, the door from which you started off with parental blessing- to make your own way in the world, and God only knows how sometimes you have longed to see the familiar places of your childhood and how in awful crises oflie you would like to have caught a glimpse of the old, wrinkled face that bent over you as you lay on the gentle lap 20 or 40 or 50 years ago. You may have on this side of the sea risen in fortune, and, like Daniel, have become great and may have come into prosperities which you never could have reached if you had staid there, and you may have many windows to your house-bay windows and skylight windows and windows of conservatory and windows on all sides -but you have at least one window open toward Jerusalem. When the foreign. steamer comes to the wharf you see the long line of sailors, with shouldered mailbags, coming down thie plnks, carrying as many letters as you might suppose to be enough for a year's correspondence and this repeated again and aoain during the week. Multitudes of tem are letters from home and at all the postoffices of the land people will go to the window and anxiously ask for them, hundreds of thousands of per sons finding that window of foreign mail the open window towa~ddJeru salem. Messges thatfv -. "Wen ~m to see us? Brothter has 0-one into the armyj. Sis ter is dead. -ather and mother are getting very feeble. We are having a great struggle to get on here. Would you advise us to come to you, or will youco me to us? All join in love and hptomeet you, if not in this world then in a better. Goodby." Yes, yes. In all these cities and amid the flowering western prairies and on the slopes of the Pacific and amid the Sierras and on the banks of the lagoon and on the ranches of Tex as there is an uncounted multitude who, this hour, stand and sit and knee with their windows open to ward Jerusalem. Some of these peo ple played on the heather of the Scot tish hills. Some of them were driven out by Irish famine. Some of them, in early life, drilled in the German army. Some of them were accustomed at Lyons or Mareilles or Paris to see on the .street Victor Eiuaoand Gain betta. i.Some - chased the chamois among the Alpine precipices. Some plucked the ripe clusters from Italian vineyard. Some lifted their faces uin der the midnight sun of Norway. It is no dishonor to our land that they remember the place of their nativity. Miscreants would they be if, while they have some of their windows open to take in the free air of America and no kingly deposit has ever breathed, they forgot sometimes to open the window toward Jerusalem. No wonder that the son of the Swiss when far away from home, hearing the national air of his country sung, the malady of homesickness comes on him so powerfully as to cause his death. You have the example of he roic Daniel of my text for keeping early memories fresh. Forget not the old folks at home. Write often, and, if you have surplus of means and they are poor, make practical contribution and rejoice that America is bound to all the world by ties of sanguinity as in no other nation. Who can doubt but it is appointed for the-evangeliza tion of other lands? What a stirring. melting, gospelizing theory that all the doors of other nations are open to ward us, while our windows are open toward them! But Daniel, in the text, kept this porthole of his domestic fortress un clbsod because Jerusalem was the cap ital of sacred influences. There had smoked the sacrifice. There was the holy of holies. There was the ark of the covenant. There stood the temple. We are all tempted to keep our win dows open on the opposite side, to ward the world, that we may see and hear and appropriate its advantages. What does the world say? What does the world think? What does the world do? Worshippers of the world in stead of worshippers of God. Win dows open toward Babylon. Win dows open toward Corinth. Windows open toward Athens. Windows open toward Sodom. Windows open to ward the flats, instead of windows open toward the hills. Sad mistake, for this world - as a god is like some thing I saw in the museum of Stras burg, Germany-the figure of a virgin in wood and iron. The victim in old en time was brought there, and this figure would open its arms to receive him, and, once enfolded, the figure closed with a hundred knives and lan ces upon him, and then let him drop 180 feet sheer down. So the world first embraces its idolaters, then closes upon them with many tortures, and then lets them drop forever down. The highest hionor the world could confer was to make a man Roman em peror, but out of 63 emperors, it al lowed only six to die peacefully in their beds. The dominion of this world over multitudes is illustrated by the namse of coins of many countries. They have their pieces of money which they call sovereigns and half sovereigns, crowns and half crowns, Napoleons and half Napoleons, Fredericks and double Fredericks and ducats and Isa bellinos, all of which names mean not so much usefulness as dominion. The most of our windows open toward the exchange, toward the saloon of fash ion, toward the god of this world. In olden times the length of the English yard was fixed by the length of the arm of King Henry I, and we are apt to measure things by a variable stand ard and by the human arm that in the great crises of lifecan give us no help. We need, like Daniel, to open our windows toward God and religion. But, mark you, that good lion tam er is not standing at the window, but kneeling, while he looks out. Most photographs are taken of those in standing or sitting posture. I now remember but one picture of a man kneeling, and that was David Living stone, who in the cause of God and civilization sacrificed himself, and in the heart of Africa his servant, Maj war-a, found him in the tent by the light of a candle, stuck on the top of a box, his head in his hands upon the pilows and dead on his knees. But hrisa geat lion tamer, livish un der the dash of the light, and his hair disheveled of the breeze, praying. The fact is that a man can see farther on knees than standing on tiptoe. Jerusalem was about 550 statute miles from Babylon, and the vast Arabian desert shifted its sands between them. Yet through that open window Daniel saw Jerusalem, saw all between it, saw beyond, saw time, saw eternityv, saw earth and saw heaven. Would you like to see the way through your sins to pardon, through your troubles to comfort, through temptation to rescue, through dire sickdess to im mortal health, through night to day, through things terrestrial to things celestial, you will not see them till you take Daniel's posture. No cap of bone to the joints of the fingers, no cap of bone to the joints of the elbow, but cap of bone to the knees, made so because the God of the body was the -God of the soul, and especial provision for those who want to pray, and phy siological structure joins with- spirit ual necessity in bidding us pray and pray and pray. In olden time the Earl of WVest moreland said he had no need to pray because he had enough pious tenants on his estate to pray for him, but all the pr-ayers of the church universal amount to nothing unless,like Daniel, we pray for ourselves. O men and women, bounded on one side by Shad rach's redhot furnace and the other side by devouring lions, learn the se cret of courage and deliverance by looking at that Babylonish window open toward the southwest!'0"h," you .say, "that is the direction of the Arabian desert !" Yes, but on the other side of the desert is God, is Christ, is Jerusalem, is heaven. The brussels lace is superior to all other lace, so beautiful, so multiform, so expensive-400 francs a round. All the world seeks it. Do you know how it is made? The spinning is done in a dark room, the only light admit ted through a small aperture and that light falling directly on the pattern. And the finest specimens of christian character I have ever seen or ever ex pect to see are those to be found in liyes all of whose windows have been darkened by bereavement and misfor tune save one, but under that one window of prayer the interlacing of divine workmanship went on until it was fit to deck a throne, a celestial embroidery which angelsadmired and God approved. IBit, es a'nother Jerusalem toward which we now need to open our win dows. The exiled evangelist of Ephe sus saw it one day as the surf of the Icarian sea foamed and splashed over the bowlders at his feet, and his vision reminded me of a wedding day when the bride by sister and maid was hay ing o-arlands twisted for her hair and jewe~s strung for her neck just befor-e she puts her betrothed hand into the hand of her affianced.- "I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, 'com ing down from God out of heaven p repared as a bride adorned for her husband. Toward that bridal Jeru salem are our windows opened? We would do well to think more of heaven. It is not a mere annex of earth. It is not a desolate outpost. As Jerusalem was the capital of Ju dea, and Babylon the capital of the Babylonian monarchy, and London is the capital of Great Britain, and Washington is the capital of our own republic, the New Jerusalem is the capital of the universe. The King lives there,and the royal family of the redeemed have their palaces there, and there is a congress of many na tions and the parliament of all the world. Yea, as Daniel had kind red in Jerusalem of whom he often thought, though he left home when a very young man perhaps father mother and brothers and sisters still living, and was homesick to see them, and they ty, Daniel himself having royal blood in his - eins, so we have in the New Jerusalem a gr'eat many kindred, and we are sometimes homesick to see them. and they are all p:inces and princesses, in ihem the blood imperial, and we do well to keep our windows open toward their eternal residence. It is a joy for usto believe that while we are interested in them they are in terested in us. Much thought'of heav en makes one heavenly. The airs that blow through that open window are charged with life and sweep up to us aromas from gardens that never wither, under skies that never cloud, in a springtide that never terminates. Com pared with it all other heavens are dead failures. Homer's heaven was an elvsiuin which he describes as a plain at the end of the earth or beneath, with no snow nor rainfall, and the sun uever goes down, and Rhadamanthus, the justest of men, rules. Hesiod's heaven is what he calls the islands of the blessed, in the midst of the ocean, three times a year blooming with most exquisite flowers, and the air is tinted with purple, while games and music and horse races occupy the time. The Scandinavian's heaven was the hail of Walhalla. where the god Odin gave un ending wine suppers to earthly heroes and heroines. The Mohammedan's heaven passes its disciples in over the bridge Al-Sirat, which is finer than a hair and sharper than a sword, and then they are let loose into a riot of everlasting sensuality. The American aborigines look for ward to a heaven of illimitable hunt ing ground, partridge and deer and wild duck more than nlentiful, and the hounds never off the scent, and guns never missing fire. But the geo grapher has followed the earth round and found no Homer's elysium. Voy agers have traversed the deep in all directions and found no Hesiod's is lands, of the blessed. The Mohammed an's celestial debauchery and the In dian's eternal hunting ground for vast multitudes have no charm. But here rolls in the Bible heaven. No more sea-that is, no wide separation. No more night-that is, no insomnia. No more tears-that is, no heartbreak. No more pain-that is, no dismissal of lancet and bitter draft and miasma and banishment of neuralgias and catalep sies and consumptions. All colors in the wall except gloomy black; all the music in the major key, because celebrative and jubilant. River crystalline, gate crystalline and skies crystalline, because everything is clear and witho ut doubt. White robes, and that means sinlessness. Vials full of odors, and that means pure regalement of the senses. Rain bow, and that means the storm is over. Marriage supper and that means glad dest festivity. Twelve manner of fruits. and that means luscious and unending variety. Harp, trumpet, orrand march, anthem, amen and hal ieluiah in the same orchestra. Cho ral meeting solo and overture meeting antiphon, and strophe joining dithy ramb. as they roll into the ocean of doxologies. And you and I may have all that and have it forever through Christ if we will let him, with the blood of one wounded hand, rub out our sin and with the other wounded hand swing open the shining portals. Day and night keep your window open toward that Jerusalem. Sing about it. Prav about it. Think about it. Talk about it. Dream about it. Do not be inconsolable about your friends who have gone into it. Do not worry if something in your heart in dicates that you are not far off from its ecstacies. Do not think that when a Christian dies he stops, for he goes on. An ingenuous man has taken the heavenly furlongs as mentioned in Revelation and has calculated that there will be in heaven 100 rooms 16 feet square for each ascending soul, though this world should lose 100,000, 000 yearly. But all the rooms of heaven will be ours, for they are fam ily rooms, and as no room in your house is too good for your children so all the rooms of all the palaces of the heavenly Jerusalem will be free to God's children, and even the throne room will not be denied, and you may run up the steps of the throne and put your hand on the side of the throne and sit down beside the King accord ing to the promise, "To him that over-| cometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne," TBut you cannot go in except as con querors. Many years ago the Turks and Christians were in battle, and the Christians were defeated, and with their commander Stephen flied toward a fortress where the mother of this commander was staying. When she saw her son and his army in disgrace ful retreat, she had the gates of tne fortress rolled shut, and then from the top of the. battlement cried out to her son, "You cannot enter here except as conqueror'!" Then Steph en rallied his forces and re sumed the battle and gained the day, 20,000 driving back 200, 000. For those who are defeated in battle with sin and death and hell, nothing but shame and contempt, but for those who gain the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ the gates of the New Jerusalem will hoist, and there shall be an abundant entrance into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord, to ward which you do well to keep your windows open. Democratic Division Inevitable. KA~s&s Crry, Sept. 7.-Ex-Con gressmai Bland was here yesterday. He was asked: "In case the national convention should refuse to adopt the free silver platform, what would be the result?" '-There would be a division between the Eastern and Western Democracy. It is, it seems to me, inevitable, any way. The party is not harmonioas. 'War issues, the tarif f and other things have kept the party together hereto fore, but they are being lost sight of. The only thing the free silver Demo crats can do now is to keep organizing. L~ern4hflhtg bnother b-md issue before long, it woul i~e a great ef fect. It was the issue of thiLi 6, 000,000 that set the people to thinking.s The Eastern capitalists know this and will try to prevent another issue." "Is not a compromise possible?" "They tried it in Kentucky. They put up a free silver candidate there ona gold standard platform. What is the result? 'Why, they are in worse shape than they were before the eon vention." Suicided on His Wife's Grave. CHArPIAN, Kas., Sept. 9.-John Crowley, an old resident, disappeared last Wednesday, and was searched for in vain. At 10 o'clock today he was found dead at the foot of his wife's g rave in the Catholic cemetery, where he had committed suicide. ~Worms had eaten his face and body so that he was unrecognizable, except by his clothing. His wife, who died some time ago, had been mourned deeply by the suicide, and lately he had been very despondent. Wiped Out by Storm. O-rnwa, Kas, Sept. 9.-Gridley. a town of 400 people, on the Santa Fe road, five miles Southwest of here, suff'ered the total destruction of many of its best buildings by. last night's stornt, while hardly a structure in the place escaped injury. It is believed no one was seriously hurt. The pecuni THE STATE CONVENTION. cONTINUED FROM PAE ONE. bers of the Senate and House of Rep resentatives every four years. Each county shall have one Senator except Charleston, which shall have two as now provided for. Perhaps the most startling innova tion is contained in the following two sections: Section 12. No person shall be eligi ble to, or take or retain a seat in the House of Representatives, unless he is a white man, who hath attained the age of twenty-one years, hath been a citizen and a resident of this State three ;ears preceeding the day of elec tion, and hath been for the 'last six months of this time. and shall con tinue to be a resident of the county which lie is to represent. Section.13 Yo person shall be eligi bleto or take or retain a seatin the Sen ate. unless he is a white man, who hath attained the age of twenty-five years. hath been a citizen and resident of this State five years next preceding day of election, and hath been for the last six months of this time, and shall continue to be, a resident of the coun ty which he is to represent. Section 14. Senators and merabers of the House of Representatives shall be chosen at a general election on the first Tuesday of November in the year Anno Domini 1896, and on the same day in every fourth year thereafter. in such manner and for such terms of office as are herein directed. They shall meet on the second Tuesday in January bi-annually, at Columbia, (which shall remain the seat of gov ernment until otherwise determined by the concurrence of two-thirds of both branches of the whole represen tation,) unless the casualties of war or contagious disorders shall render it unsafe to meet there; in either of which cases, the Governor or Com mander in Chief, for the time being, may, by proclamation, appoint a more secure and convenient place of meet in. Section. 25. The members of the General Assembly who shall meet under this Constitution, shall be en titled to receive out of the public treasury for their expenses during their attendance on, going to, and re turning from the General Assembly, five dollars for each day's attendance, and twenty cents for every mile of the ordinary route to travel between the residence of the member and the capi tal or other place of sitting of the General Assembly, both going and re turning- and the same may be in creased or diminished by law if cir cumstances shall require; but no al teration shall be made to take effect during the existence of the General Assembly which shall make such al teration. Article II and Section Two provides: The Governor shall be elected at the same time and by the electors duly oualified to vote for members of the Aouse of Representatives, and shall hold his office for four years, and un til his successor shall be chosen and qualified. The Supreme Court, according to this instrument, must consist of a Chief Justice and three Associate Jus tices, to be elected by the people and who shall hold their office durinm -ood behavior. They must meet at' Teast once a year at the seat of government and as many times at other places as may be determined on by the Legisla ture. In case judges are di fulfed from hearing any cause, the Governor shall appoint men "learned in the law" to take their places. Circuit Jud tes shall also be elected by the people. There shall be Common Pleas and General Sessions Courts, Probate Courts and others that the Legislature may direct. An educational qualification is pro vided for the right of suffrage, the ed ucation required being the ability of the voter to read and write the Eng lish language. These are some of the chief features of a document that will no doubt cause a great deal of debate when it properly comes before the convention. Col. Aldrich asked that it be~printed and laid on the desks of members. After some debate the convention de clined to have the document printed, and it was referred to the proper com mittee. Early in the proceedings Tom Miller had given notice that the seats of the Williamsburg delegation would be contested by the Republican candi dates. He asked that the chair aip point a special committee to hear the contestants. Mr. Gillard moved to table the whole business, but before it was put Miller withdrew his motion on a sug gestion from the Chair, who referred the matter to the committee on suf f rage. The convention then began the re ception of various resolutions proposed by members, which were read for the first time by members and referred to proper committees. Senator B.- R. Tillmnan introduced a resolution for the formation of a ne w county. to be called "Mart Gary" County, out of portions of Edgetield and A bbeville counties. Mr. Geo. D. Tillman introduced a resolution for the formation of "Salu da" county out of a portion of Edge field. This is the same plan that has been before Legislatures for upwards of forty years. Mr. Dudley introduced a resolution that divorce from the bond of matri mony is prohibited. Mr. Sull ivan introduced aresolutioni forbidding the consolidition of rail roads in this State. Mr.- Gray introduced a resolution providing for a board of pardons. It provides that no pardon sliall be grant ed by the Governor except uponi the recommendation in writing of the Lieutenant Governor, Secretar-y of State, Attorney General and Super-in tendent of the penitentiary, or any three of them after full hearing, upon due public notice and in open session. Mr. Sullivan of fered a resolution that the General Assembly may tax in gomes provided that no income shall be staxed wvhen the property from whic'idhe income is derived is taxed. Resolf~ions were introduced also in reference i? the homestead law, pro hIbiting towm aiding corporations, the State credit, grating of charters, pro hibiting lotteries -and some others of minor importance. - The convention then adjourned for the. duy. FRIDAY. sEPTEMER 13. The greater portion of 4,he day was devoted to the consideration of the rules of the convention. The mami fight was upon the question whether all papers introduced shiould'e print ed, or only such papers as should be reported favorably by some commlittee. The Convention decided to print every thing. Miller of Beaufort tried to ~et in a rule rquiring the Convention ~to sub mit the Constitution to a vote. of the people, on the second Tucsday jn Jan ary, 18%). The president rued that such1 a resolution should be considered s a separate act of the Convenltion; mid it was refer-red to its proper com mittee. NEw ORINANCE$., Mr. W. C. Smith of Pickens intro luced an ordinance for bidding the ranting of scholarships or any spe ial privileges to students in any Stt U E THOU M1Y PILOT. Be Thou my pilot in this troub!ed sea; No other hand can guide a bark &s this that bear, my soirit back to Thee- 0 Celectial Eelinsman! gu'de itthrough the dark. &nd as the twered llght upon the sh3re, 1 Is to the wandering marioer at sea, With the home the harbor that his hopes 6 at for. My father and my guide be Thou to me. b Be thou the mouth toward which my com pass tends &nd when at last the stormy voyage ends, i May Heaven be the calm atd welcome port. h 0, MARY'S MISSION. 0 UY W. J. HENDERSON. P The professor dropped the letter d which he had just read for the sixth time. He rose with nervous energy and went to the window. He gazed into the street and saw children. children, children-every where children-laughing, running t skipping and generally disporting themselves with the amiable idiocy s of Vouth. "What on earth shall I do with itf' muttered the professor, drum- t ming on the window with his eye- . glasses. "What put it into my sis- t ter's head that I would be the best person in the world to take care of her child ? Why didn't her husband t outlive her? Why did she die? n The whole thing has been simply a plan to break up my-hem I I don't mean that! I suppose poor Jane would have lived if she could. "But what am I to do with a three- r year-old child in my bachelor quar ters? I don't know, I'm sure. If Mottsboro were a big city perhaps it wouldn't be so bad. But in a mis erable little village like this, where everyone's business is known to everyone else. I shall be driven mad, I know I shall." As he stood gazing out of the win dow across the green stretch of level green lawn and over the snowy pick ets of the well kept fence he became aware of a face at the window of the next house. "Oh. mercy:" exclaimed the pro- i fessor. half aloud, "what will she think? I nver spoke to her but once, and that was at Mrs. Barbey's lawn party, where I was introduced to her. Then she said it was a pretty sight, and I answered 'Yes, it looks like rain.' "I couldn't help it. She was so beautiful, and I was so-so-so modest-or-bashful-or idiotic-or something." It is quite true. Ever since Prof. Arthur Brewster, instructor in math ematicssnd astronomy at the Motts boro high academy, had been pre sented to Miss Mabel Riker he had never dared to speak to her again. She had passed him on the street often and had always greeted him with a pleasant smile and a bow, but he never. dared to do more than lift his hat awkwardly and hasten on, He would have given a month's salary to find courage to say some ting, and a year's for the audacity to join her in her walk. But he real ized that courage was not a purchasa ble commodity. She saw him at the window and smiled, whereupon he retired into the room with great celerity. Her smile always frightened him. It always made him feel as if his heart had jumped out of place. He had nearly recovered from his alarm when the aged woman who acted as housekeeper, cook and gen eral servant in his small cottage knocked at the door and on entering said: ".There's a man here wid a child" "Oh, Lord, it's come," said the professor, the perspiration starting out on his brow. He went down into the sitting room and there he found the express messenger. The professor did not dare to take his eyes off the man lest they should fall on the queer bundled up object on the sofa. "Professor," said the messenger, "here's the kid, safe and sound. Brought 'er all tho way myself. She's a jim dandy, she is. Her trunk is in the wagon. Wot'll I do with it?" "Bring it in and put it in the small room upstairs. While the man vixas out of the room the professor walked to the e empty fireplace and stood gazing into it, painfully aware that his very movement was solemnly observed by two coal black eyes. C He could not have told how he knew they were black, but he was morally certatn of it. C The mnan returned with the trunk and deposited in the small room be side a brand new iron bedstead. "That's all 0. K., professor," saidd the man, pocketing certain bills. "I I hope you'll like the kid, for she's a C jim dandy." *A strange intonation in the man's v'oice caused the professor to tremble. ~ There was a dismal silence for sev-. eral minutes and then a high pitchedt treble voice said: "Is you my Uncle Art'ur?" The~ professor started, turned and b ound the eyes looking up at him. s There was no mistake; they werez as black as a crow's wing. So was the bair that hung in tangles around the t live brow. The lips were red enough and the YI .eeth white enough, but those eyes sere dreadful. 1 "I am your uncle. Mary," lie said, 0 eebly. "Mamma said you'd be dood to me. Iamma's dead ." There was a queer monotonous ~ athos in the speech. The professor a 'elt a new emotion. He did not ~now what it was, but it made him s end down and lay his hand gently F m the child's head as he said. "I'll be good to you, Mary." "Den take otY' my lings."t This was more than the professor t 1ad bargained for, so he called the old lP voan. But the child refused to be , ouched by her.s "Do 'way," she said, with a most q nalignant expression; "do 'way. Vants Uncle Art'ur to be dood to me. 0 on't want ole womnans. I scratch ole c xomans. The professor was fain to make anc ttempt to take oilf the "fings" He P ;truge led bravely and got the p~oint of ~ tpir in his finger, which drew from iim a rude exclamation. i 'Pin 'tick ?". gravely inquired Mary. "It did," as gravely answered the h rofessor.r 'Well, youi mus'n say so naughtyr vords," continued Mary, "or you can't _ o to to heaven. My mamma's dere. [wish I was." t And then the little black head fell t orward and a tear or two fell. t Prof. Arthur Brewster looked un- t ofortably at the old woman for a i noment. Then he motioned for her o go. She obeyed. but when she peeped n *hrough the keyhole a moment later he saw the professor tenderly take v he grypsy looking mite in his arms n~ md hold~ it close to his breast, where he tears ceased to Ilow and the unnat :ral gravity resumed its sway. At supper the child asked for all y orts of things that the professor sup osed were poisonous to children and si l of -which lhe promised to have in the ouse the next day, provided Mary I ould not carry out her one dread n hreata~nd cry.e Dut. tinally" bedtime came and then h .Ir-. aly refused to allow the old '] Mr. 0. O .Dyle i::troduced ain (r dinaneo to limnit the cnosts of partition ing. divtdi, and adninistXring es tates fJl eat exceed 10 per cent of the valu of the same. Mr. d P. GI tn introduced an ocdi nance to regoi-e the several countiPs to nia ke propi-r provisinn for its poor. By Mr. J. k. Otts: To establish the Court of Probate, in the same form in which it now exists. By Dr. J. Wim. Stokes of Orange burg: To abolish the Supreme Court and constitute a court of appeals to consist of all the circuit judges except the one who heard the cause; to esta blish a county court to sit once : month: and to substitute a county so licitor for the present circuit solicitors. By Mr. Hiers: To authorize majori ty of the taxpayes of any section, to form a new county, provided the counties cut shall not go below an area of 400 square miles. Mr. Russell of Anderson: To form the new county of Washington, to be made up of parts of Abbeville, Anderson, Greenville and Laurens. By Mr. Burns: To make the home stead exemption $1500, to be taken in either real or personal property. By Mr. Geo. D. Tillman. To assign the Representatives from each county to particular townships or sections thereof. By Mr. McCown: To prohibit the sale of liquors by individuals but au thorizing "laws regulating the traffic by State control. By Mr. Rogers: To abolish the right of dower in lands aliened by the hus band in his lifetime. By Senato: Tillman: To provide for the fortnation of new counties each to contain not less than 400 square miles, and not less than one one hun dred and twenty-fourth part of all the inhabitants of the State, nor less than $1,000,000 of taxable property-pro dided that no existing county's area shall be reduced below 400 square miles. By Mr. Brice of York: To make the term of all State and county officers four years. Bv Mr. Patton of Richland: To regulate the suffrage--giving the right to vote to all male citizens who can read and write; or who -pay taxes or at least $300 dollars worth of property; or who served in the Con federate army or navy; or who is the lineal descendent of a Confed erate soldier or sailor. By Mr. Rogers of Marlboro: To fix in the Constitution the salary of every State and county officer. By Mr. Buist of Greenville: To re quire the Legislature to provide for Clemson College. By M. Hodges: To require the Leg islature to levy an annual tax of three mills for the support of public schools, and to authorize every taxpayer to in dicate to what school or schools his payment shall be applied. By Mr. .Hodges, of Abberville: To prohibit minsters of the gospel from holdino "any office of honor or trust in South Carolina. " By Mr. Geo. Johnstone of New berry: To regulate the suffrage, by re quiring of every voter that he be able to read and write or that he own a certain amount of taxable property. By Mr. Brice of Chester: To make the term of all oflicers and of mem bers of the Legislature four years. By Mr. Brice: To make the session of the Legislature bi-ennial instead of annual. By Mr. Stanyarne Wilson: .To cr-e ate "Enoree" county, out of portions of Spartanburg, Union, Laurens and Greenville, with Woodruff as its county seat. By Mr. R. H. Smith: To fix the homestead at $300 in land, not to ex ceed 50 acres, and all household and kitchen furniture By Mr.- Farrow of Charleston: To organize the judiciary, comprising Su preme Court, Circuit Court and Coun ty Courts. None of the committees having yet reported-nodiscussion was had or any ordinance yet introduced. The committee on printing made a majority report reccomnmending that the present State printer continue the work at existing rates.- The minority (Messrs.-Behre of Colleton and Dent of Richland) dissented from this recomn mnendation CHARGED WITH MURDER. Bea~utliul Mrs. Howe MZust Answer For the Death of Her Stepson. BIRMINGHA31, Ala., Sept. 9.-There is great indignation here on account of the developments in the inquest over remains of the little 3-year-old son of Mr. M. S.- Howe. who died un der suspicious circumstances about a week ago. The evidence disclosed the facts thai Mrs. Howe, the second wife of M.- S. Howe, and the children's stepmother, had been guilty of the most brutal treatment toward all of the children, and especially Tommie, the little tot now dead. Two of the children. Fred and liar ry,- an-ed respectively 11 and 9, told of Eiow %Irs. Howe had beat them and threatened their lives on divers occa sions if they complained to their fa :her;.-and finally, Fred was forced to leave home, Mrs. Howe threatening to till him if he ever returned. He Found kind people at Coalburg who ~ook him in and lie was away when ais little brother died. The other boy, Harry, gave a horri ~le account of the treatment of the aaby the morning it died. He said Mlrs. Howe caught the child up and ;hrew it out into the yard. breaking a tole in its head. Blood came out of :he little one's mouth, after she had jabbed a stick into its throat. There wvas other damaging testimony igainst the woman, one party, a con stable, swearing that the woman had mee been an inmate of a lewd ho use .n this city and frequen ted the lowest luarter' of the town. A negro woman swore to the cruel ;reatment of the children. by Mrs. - Elowe and said that on two occasions she saw Mrs. Howe whip the baby xith her hands because it insisted ipon holding its breath. The testimony of the two little boys, v-hich was given in a straightforward nanner, seemed to fall with convinc ng fece upon the eai-s of the jurors, mud they were, prompt in reaching a rerdict charging the woman with the :rime of murder. Kinled on the Iiridge. I AUG USTA, GA., Sept. 10--PerryI XlcKinnie, while living ini Langley, S. J., was killed by a train on the South carolina and Georgia railroad bridge] 1ere this morning. Three men, Per -y McKinnie, the deceased, and two >f.his friends, named Evans and Sul ivan, while drinking heavily, wvent < .o sleep .on the bridge. Evans and sullivan were lying in the footpath ont he side of the track and McKinnie w~as lying on the track. A freight 1 rain pulled by shifting engine No. 8. yf the South Carolina and Georgiat -ailroad, went throug the bridge. No meC knows any more than this' t A curio'us use for a husbaud is re 3orted from Clerkenwell, near Lon ion, where a Mr. Lamb and his wife 1 epa small shop. For fourteen years ,he firm has avoided paying taxes by lhe wvife's sending the husband to jail o serve cut thte legal time for unpaid I axes, while she remains at the store tttendne t buness. oman to undress her. The professor perspired, but he anaged to get the little garments T aud to find in the poorly stocked unk anightdress. Robed in the long white gow Mary oked more than ever like a lit.tle Fpsy, but when, without a word of arning, she dropprd on her knees fore him and murmured in her .oken language a little prayer, .he tought that she might not be so pain d a burden after all. But the end was not yet. When he ad retired some hours later to his wn bed. and was endeavoring to com )se himself to sleep he became aware the little figure standing beside his illow. "Why, Mary," he said, "whatever : you want now?" "I lonely," she said. "Wants to eep wiv you." "Oh, no," he said, rather shortly, i his surprise, "that's quite out of ie question." He turned his back on her, hoping ie would return to her room. But a moment later he heard a meek ttle sob, and turning again found 1at she had fully carried out her su reme threat and was crying. He tried to be angry, but some iing tugred at his heartstrings and e reachedout his arms and took her ) his bosom, where she purred a mo ient like a kitten and dropped to sleep rith the peace of a perfect trust on er queer little face But the next day the trouble began gain, when, after looking over his iorning mail. he found that Mary ad disappeared. "Good gracious!" lie exclaimed, where has she gone?" He called but she did not answer. le went into the next room, but she mas not there. He looked into the kitchen, but e old woman declared that the -blessed little imp" had not been. near er. Upstairs went the professor in great aste, loudly calling for Mary. He ried to reason with himself that he tught to rejoice at her sudden disap earance and hope that she never, Lever would return, but his argu nents could not hold their ground gainst that new thrill of anxiety hich had got possession of his heart. He went out of the house and called oudly: "Mary !" "What you wants?" came the shrill .nswer from the other side of the ence. There was Mary, comfortably seated n Mabel Riker's lap, while the girl ffectionately patted her tangle of lack curls. "0- ah-yes-I beg pardon," stam nered the professor; "you see-well he went away when I was not look ng." "I quite understand your anxiety, >rofessor," replied Mabel, a pretty lush mounting to her ~cheeks. "I hould Le anxious if I were in your >ace. She's such a sweet child." "I wonder if she's making game of ne?" thought the professor. Then ie said. "Now, Mary. you must :ome hone; you mustn't bother Miss liker." "Oh. but she doesn't," exclaimed abel. "Wants to stay here," said Mary. "Let me keep her a little while," >leaded Mabel. She could have kept he professor's entire world. "Oh-why-of course, certainly, if rou like." "Uncle Art'ur's dood to me," cooed farv. "Let's me s'eep in he's bed, dI kiss 'm." "Ha! Hum! Good morning," said he professor, retiring in the utmost :onfusion. After that little Mary spent most f her time with Mable Riker, and he professor's hours of studious re irement were not greatly abbre iated. And he was always glad when the hild came trotting in at meal time ith some new story of Mabel's good tes. "Yes, Mary," he said, emphatically >ne day, "she's the best girl in the orld." Little Mary treasured that astound ag declaration and in the afternocn emarked to Mabel: "You'se dood to me; you'se best -irn in de world." "Oh, Mary!" said Mabel; "that's ao much; you mustn't say that." "Will say date. You'se best girl in e world; Uncle Art'ur says you is." "Oh-oh-oh!" said Mabel in a low ne, her eyes softening and her face nloring. When little Mary returned to her nele she was bursting with eager ess to repeat Mabel's reply. Sud enly, while the old woman was ourino' out some milk, the child ex aime : "Uncle Art'ur, you'se handsome.' "Saints alive !" cried the woman, piling the milk. "Why-why-Mary !" ejaculated 1e professor. "You is Mabel says you is." The professor said not a word, but e ate heartily and after supper noked his pipe with uncommon: When Mary went to visit Mabel! ie next day she carried with hera ery pretty box of bon-bons for that cung woman and when she returned ie bore some choice berries plucked : Mrs. LRikers garden by Mabel's wn ingers. The last detail caused the professor refrain from eating the barries. e put thaern away in a secret place, here they were subsequently-found, lot of har'd, black pellets. How long this communication of irits might have gone on it is im ossible to say, but it was interrupt 3 in a way whi'ch brought great anxie Sto the professor's heart. One evening Mary was much pa>-e ten usual and she complained 'Jf in in her head. "You've been playing too hard," id the professor, with his newly ac aired air of paternal wisdom. So he sent her to bed early-to hes wn bed, in which she had finally; >nsented to sleep. But in the silence of the night she tie to his side, crying and cons Laining of the pain. He found he:'r ia feverish state. The professor was a man of decision i most things. He promptly dressed imself, aroused the old woman, bade er sit by the child and went for the octor. That dignified person on ar ving looked wise and said: "I am afraid she is in for the meales -or the scarlet fever-or else a bilious wer. It is really impossible to tell at is stage." ie gave explicit directions as to eatment and promised to call again the afternoon. When he did so he iook his head and said: "Professor, this child needs a wo tan's care. "I- I suppose you are right But -hat shall I do? She will not allow sy cook to come near her." "Get a professional nurse." "There are only two in town-and -they are both young-and-well, ou know-I-I live here alone." "el, sir, you must manage it mehow." The doctor went away, leaving the rofessor miuch disturbed. .A few inutes later the old woman inform I him that Miss Riker was at the itchen door inquiring about Mary. 'h Profieo felt that lie ought to POWDER AbsolutelY Pure.. A cream or tartar Darig powder lighest of all In leavening strength.-La est United States Government Food Re port. Royal Baking Powder Company, 106 Wall St.,N. Y. answer such an inquiry in person.4 "I am much troubled," he said "for the doctor thinks Mary ought to have a woman's care and she wil not toler ate the cook." "Yes, so the cook told me, "answer ed Mabel. After a minute's hesitation she added: "I think Mary would let me take care of her." "I am sure she would," declared the professor, warmly. "That is, of course, if-if-it were-possible." "I think it might be donesaid Mabel softly. 'Do you? How?" "Let her come to our house." "But would your mother be will ing? "Oh, yes; she suggested it. She's very fond of Mary." Ab, yes; it is extremly good of you -and your mother. I'll speak to the doctor about it." "Oh, thank you," exclaimed Mabel "How good-I mean-you-well please let me know what the doctor says. And she departed in some haste and in evident confusion. As'for the professor he would have worshiped her more than ever had that possible. The doctor came again and consent ed to the removal. Indeed, he u ed that the child be t'ken to the Rier house at once, for 'ie himself was at a loss to cope with the disease without a woman's help. So Mary was very carefully wrap ped in blankets and Uncle Arthur car ried her to the little bed which had been prepared for her. "I don't-I don't know how to ex press my gratitude to you, Miss Riker he said, with feeling. "The child has become very dear to me." "Don't speak of gratitude, professor said Mabel, traniky, extending her hand; "I love Mary." The professor took the proffered hand and they stood gazing silently at one another till Mabel seemed sudden ly to recover consciousness, drew her hand away and went about duties as nurse with bright eyes. At night little Mary became deliri ous. Sometimes she called for Mabel and sometimes for Uncle Arthur. She told Mabel over and over again that she was the best girl in the world because Uncle Art'ur said she was; and she told the professor that he'was handsome, because Mable had so deci ded. And there was much confusion in two anxious minds. In the course of time, flo wever, the disease passed its climax and youthful naturetriuwphed. The burning waves of fever broke and rolled backward, leaving the pale face paler than ever,. with its startling contrast of black, shing eyes and tangled raven hair. After a time a little Mary was a con valescent. Then the professor, bend ing gently over her, said "To-morrow my dear little girl sball go home again." "An' tate Mabel, too," she said. "Ha-well-Mabel will come to see you." "Won' do 'less Mabel does, too." "Well-ah-Mabel's mamma wants er to stay here." "Den I stay here too." "And must Uncle Arthur go home without his dear little girl ?" "No. Uncle Artur stay here with ar and Mabel." "Oh-ah-I'm afraid I can't do Mary looked first at Mabel and then t the professor, her piercing eyes showing all her wonder at the unrea sonable obstacles in the way of her :aniness." 'Mary, dear," said Mabel, softly, "you must go home with your uncle, and I'll come to see you every day " "Won't do away from you. Won't o away from Uncle Art'ur. Bofe lotto sta id, Mary or she get sick And the black eyes became moist, ;hile the lips quivered. The profes or straightened up with a sudden ;nap. "It might be managed to her satis action," he said. "How?" asked Mabel, softly. -as my-wife." They were both bending over the hild now, looking into her eyes. "You come home with me-for good As the professor ceased speaking Niabe's head bent lower till her lips ouched Mary's cheek. The professor's ead sank till he kissed the other heek. Then lifting their lips from he pale face they let their eyes meet. iary very softly put her hand in his, ent to kiss tho child again and mur nured: "We shall go home together, dear." -Boston Herald. Three Hundred Lives~ Lost. TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras, Sept. 12. -Earthquake here. Three hundred eople killed. Property loss $50,000. n Sunday, the shocks commenced, ating, all day and night, at ntervails, causing much dam ge and the greatest fear among. ihe inhabitants of the coity and neigh orhood. By .Monday the city was tilled by an addion of .3,500 people nountainis and outlayimg villae uring Monday night, sheets of flame tppeared at points to the northward, ising to immense heights. Tuesday norning the shocks ceased, quiet was restored and people left town for their omes At 9o'clock that night however rumbling noises were heard, shortly after followed by a reappearance of the flames in the mountains, which hot up- several hundred feet. Fright Lened people again flocked to town, nd at midnight the church tower. rell carrying with it the roofs of thr e ouses. Nine people were killed) .ad eighteen wounded. Shocks ended ver the whole Yetapan etjain and [lames are seen also in the Pacava ountains. Ther shock's have nEow ,eased, but he smroke is still discernible ~lifferent pints in the :nountains. It is feared tt the endin not yet. IT is said by the NevrYork Sun that the German smokelesi; power is unsat isfactory. Its smell is so frightful that ven nostrils accustor ned to the ripe heese of the Father'iand cannot en Iure it. Who knows that blank car ~ridges of the stutE -may be sufficient o put the enemy to flight. REv. Thomas Dixon declared in his ermon last Sunday that New York is the most godless city on this continent aving only one church for every