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:DERBY rO LEE. The grand old bard who never dies,. Receive him in our EBueish toUgue; I send thee, but with weepin. eyes. The story that he sun 4. Thy Troy has fal!en-thy dear land Is marred beneath the spoilers heel, 1 eannot trust my ticreblitig hand To write the thlig-> I feel., Oh, realm of tears-but let her bear This b'azon to the end of Tim-,. No %ation rose so white and f air, None fell so pare of crime. The widow's moan, the orphan's wail, Ao'e 'jound thee. but in truth be strong, Eternal ight, though all things fail, Can never be :made wrong. And the Earl adds: An angel's mluih. an angel's tongue, Not Homer's coul alone for me Hymn lortn the great Confederate South, ireintra tirst-tn-n Le. 'Ilha lines weyo written by the Earl of Derby in th- fly.reat of a'translation ot Homer, which the Earl sent to Geo. Lee. FEUD SEITLED. The feuds of Kenltucky have been celebrated in song and story, and many a stirring refrain or bloody tale has been founded on the family wars of "Ihe dark and bloody grouna," but no feud, ancient or modern, was ever set tled in a more satisfactory manner or resulted in a more lasting * tween the factions >rought about bv ent of the feud rown and Jones families county bordering on the Ohio river which shall be nameless. How the enmity between the families arose in the first place belongs ~not to a story of modern times, for the begin ning was far back in the early history of the State.^ At first it was bloody enough to suit the most sanguinary partisan, but as the county became more settled and peaceful the Brown Jones feud took the shape of a politi cal rivalry no less bitter than the old warfare, but not q'rite so destructive of the population of the county. Busi ness rivalry also sprang up, and the family of Brown- was arrayed against the family of Jones on every possible occasion, and their respective retain ers always stood by their chiefs. This led to some deplorable affairs on such occasions as conventions, election days and other gatherings, where both parties came in contact, but the leaders of the factions, advising law abiding conduct on every occasion, managed to keep the ill feeling from breaking into open warfare as a general thing. No one accused either of the parties to the feud of cowardice, and when at the breaking out of the warBrown cast his lot with the Federals it followed of course that Jones took up arms for the Confederacy, as he was in duty bound to do even if his sympathies had not been with that cause. Each began as a captain of a compa ny, and during the whole progress of the strife each fought valiantly, and on morethanoneoccasiontheircommands met in thel midst of the-horrid storm of war and helped to make a few pages of history sodden with the blood of heroes for in those days, when men in gray met men in blue, deeds of daring were performed that made the actors immor tals and wrote their names high in the temple of fame. The le at home -watched anx iously te course of their respe.:tive leaders, and when Brown was promot ed his partisans held a grand mass meeting which was still the talk of the town when word came that Jones had been promoted also, and his retainers met to rejoice. So the tight went ou, and Brown and Jones were in the thick of it and their bravery was rewarded, until when the days of peace came at last, it was Gen eral Brown and General Jones who came back to the little town and neither of them had nerformed a deed of valor thatbad not been equaled by the other. General Brown had a son, John, and General Jones had a daughter, Janette, but they passed each other by in scorn when school children together, and as they grew older they were nev-er known to speak to each other. In fact, they rarely met at any social function, be cause there was no middle ground in that county. He who was not for Brown was against him, and the same -might be said concerning Jones. Society was divided into the Browns amid the Joneses, anid the members of one party did not associate with the other more than was absolutely neces sary. When a Brown partisan died, the Brown faction buried him from the Methodist church north, and when a Jonea died he was carried to the ceme tery from the Methodist church south, and the only place where the two par ties rested together in peace and quiet was the little cemetery on the hills be yond the town.. John Brown and Jeanette Jones were 12 and 10 respectively when the war ended, and they grew up hating, each the name of the other, as had their an cestors since the memory of man went not back to the time, and the Brown Jones feud was as bitter as it ever was as the years went on. * Then came a sad blow to each. On the very same day General Brown was thrown from his horse and killed and Mrs. Jones died sitting in her chair from some sudden stroke, and the cor oner of the county rendered his ver dictsaccordingly, and from the church north and from the church south sel emn processions moved, composed of the friends of each party, and there was one day when the two factions met and passed no jeering word or in sulting remark between them and when each went his way decorously as becomes Christians in a civilized land. Then the years went on again. Mrs. Brown, fair to look upon, and as stately as a queen, became the leader of the Brown faction, while General Jones, the courtly and polished gentl'eman in all things, pursued the even tenor of his way, having regard for the sex of his opponent, and gradually peace be gan to settle over the community. The Browns and the .Joneses were as bitter toward each other as ever, but their partisans noticed that there was an unwonted quiet bet ween th'e imnme diate members of the families, andm~ those who were not of the blood of either began to see that one might be long to the faction they were opposed to and still be a decent sort of a per son, and grdually a better feeling be gant a footing' in the community. weaker, but the charity that covereth a multitude of sins spread its white mantle over the whole people and made them understand that others might be good men and women and not believe in all things as they did . Now a strange thing happened. John Brown and Jean ette Jones were sent north to finish their education, and it happened that they were sent to the same college, and it. being a co educational institution both entered the same class. Then the old feud took a new shape, for these two heirs apparent to the leadership of the an cient feud began a struggle for educa tionalsupremacy that hasted from the day they enitered the dellege'until the day they graduated, Eind on that day Jeanette Jones was the victor, with John Brown next to her. It was no triumph for .Jeanette though, for she was very well satisaed ir her own mind that John Brown had made his examination to fit the occasion, and had given her first place deliberately and intentionally, and this made her feel that there are feat. They had been on speaking term! for-sonie time, because it was necessary on occasions for them to speak, bul there was nothing like intimacy oi even friendship existing betweer them. The more Jeanette thought aboul the matter the more fully was sht convinced that she was the~ victimn :o] John Brown's courtesy, and shedel1 that she must let him know that she understood this to be the fact, or the laurels sb had won would for-eve2 burn her brow. She c6uld not mak any excuse for approaching him until she was ready to go home. The coaches were filled, and it sc happened that she got a lower berth it the Wagner that was to carry their home. John saw the situation at 2 glance, and betook himself to thesmok ing compartment and staid there un til midnight in orddi- notto anndy hii fair neighbor and enemy, but she had made up her mind to speak to him, anc when he sau ntered down the aisle tore tire he saw Miss Jeanette sitting in hei seat and was about to turn back whet she called to him: "One minute, please, Mr. Brown, she said. John doffed his cap and bowed with out speaking. I V to you," began Jear ette in some confusion, "thatiI am pei fectly aware of the fact that you placei the honors of our class on my head b; not doing your best. I owe you than k from the ordinary point of View, ha under the circumstances I can but wis that you had pursued a differei course. This spevch was a rather prim',on( and was not well delivered, in spite c the fact that Jeanette had been comin it for hours and had it worded perfect The youn ug man was no whit less cor fused than was the young lady, ai for a molent he stood unable t'o reply He could not lie by saying that sh was mistaken, and he did not: want t acknowledge that she was correct. 'You have no reason for your beliel Miss Jones," he said, resolving on. middle course, "and if your surmist could by any possible chance be coi rect the honors go to Kentucky and t our home, and that is honor enough. This was a question that require considerable discussion, and befor either of them was aware. of it th light of the ne w day broke through th windows and the porter smiled griml to himself as heslipped the dollar Joh: gave him into the proper receptaci and said something in an undertone t the conductor of the car about som folks being "awfully sweet on eac1 other." The dispute between the young pec ple was not definitely 'settled ths nigbt, and after their arrival at horn every time they met'casually when gc ing about the country it was renewed It was surprising, too, how often thei rides on horseback were over the sam roads and at the same tiuie, and i there had been any one in their secret that one would have concluded tha the old dispute between the familie was going to break out in a new form though it must be said that the argu ments of the young people were ver; decorously conducted and frequentl, strayed awvay from the original initte of the school honors. One day as John went up the hill h met Jeanette coming down. This wa not a very unsual occurrence, ani neither of them made any pretense o being surprsied. In fact, John sai< plainly that he came thatway.ecarp he hoped to meet Jeanette. There was that in,John's eyes tha day that made Jeanette's brown orb droop when she looked at him. Witi a woman's prescience she knew tha he was going to talk to her of thing that had not-been spoken of before ani tell her a story that would sound- iii finitely sweet to her coming from hi lips. John turned his horse, and togethe: they went slowly down the hill along the winding road beneath the greey frees. All the glory of summer wa about them, and the sapphire skie seemed to bend just above the hills t< the south, while across the river to thi north the blue Ohio heights la r bask ing in beauty, dim, blue and far away '"Jeanette, darling, I love you. Wil you be my wife?" John spoke without . preface an< without warning. amf the girl'gaspe< at the suddenness of it all. "Don't say no," pleaded the big an< handsome John. as the girl bent he: eyes toherhorse's mane and paled an< flushed :from the. .sweet enaotion- tha surged through her heart. "Don' throw me over, for I love you bette: than life, befter than ever any othe: one can, and will love you always You say you owe your college honor: to me and want me to have them. Yon do not owe me anything that your loy will not repay a million times over an< leave me hopelessly indebted to you I know we belong to two factions wh< have been at'\var always, but canno we .go down the way in peace witi ecote? Cannot we forget tha our families are enemies, and by joia ing hands make the old hateful feud thing of the past to be forgotten for ever? Won't you say yes, dearest ?" The young man grew eloquent iu his earnestness, and yet the girl saic no word nor gave him even a glance Surely this wasthe day of triumph foi her when she saw the hereditary enemy begging a favor at her hands, and tri umph was in her heart. but not of the sort that the warrior feels when hi~ enemy lies vanquished4hefore hittill was the triumph that caused the maid en in far Jandma, long years agone. to sing. "My lover is mine aind I att his," and she simply put out her hanc in a bland sort of a way toward John, who seized it and kissed it as if lie were saluting an embassadress. What further was said belongs noi to this story, for there are some thing: that sound well when time and circum stance may be fully considered, bul which seem to be quite silly when pul in cold words in black and white. Suf fice it to say that the guestion of whal the people ~would sayiothe up, arn these, t wo brave young people conclud 'ed that they had not quite the courage to make open announcement of the treaty of .everlasting peace which had been duly ratitied and sealed after the manner known to lovers since 'the world began, and they then planned and conspired to escape to Ohio and at the towna of Aberdeen, knows and famued as the "Gretna Green cI Ohio," be married unknown to friends and relatives, who, after it was too latt might discuss the questionof what they would do about it. The night when~the elopment was to take place was set and the you-ng people went their respective way sAmp py as young people are on such occa sios. The night when John Brown wai to steal his lady fair and cazry . her awy across the river came as dark as the mnost timid lovers could wish, and John could hardly wait till the day was done. He consulted his watch~ every two minutes and wandered about like unto one possessed -of the spirit of unrest. And tinally the night fell. hi- h mo n The thick clouds hdtemo n cast a dense gloom over the whole face of the earth, and the young man rejoiced and told himseiu that Fate had favored him in all things. iSad nig two horsrs he proceeded to a wood near the home of his inamorata, and hardlye had lie got there when a femal fr m a i lak and deenly veiled, stepped from the darkness un der the trees and stood dimly revealed. "Are youirad darig wh is pred'.; "Ye "'was the whipered response.1 "but I thought you said you wouldj come in a carriage." "You must have misunderstood me, sweetheart," replied John, "for I don't ,remember-saying'how I would come. -Let me assist you to mount." 'I don't know whether I can ride or not, I feel so queer and foolish." "That is natural under the circum stances. .Nou are nervous, dear, and will sooribe all-ight. YinpstWr ry, for I have hired the ferrynran to wait for me. In a minute later the-two were fly ing down the road. Soon the sound of carriage wheels came to their ears. For a few minutes Johi said nothing, put it was not lone before he was 6n vinced that some one was following him. - "Don't be frightene., dear," he said in a loud whisper, "btif let us' ride faster." - "Wh-y?' "I think we are pursued, and if not I do not care to have the carriage be hind us overtake us." 'Thija 6.ceuhtler. hreatju in a moment they were going at top speed along the-level.river road to .the landinr: place.of the.ferry, .. I The carriag6'siilf kept itliin hear P ing distance, but did not seem to gain s on them. Presently they came to the t ferry. and hastily tying the horses i JohuiIed t'he la'dy doni atid stole - t ki ss from under her veil -as he did so.. The ferrymant was waiting. but it seenid to the flying lovers that lie f would never be ready to cast off. "Make haste," said John to him un-. der his breath.-AV are Tollowed,~ and our pursiare.drawi-ng near." ... . SThe stu'pid boatman made a desper ate effort to hurry, and in so doing unshipped one of his oars and it flew from his hand and was lost in the dark waters of the river. Just then'thefuriously driven car riage drove - up and a gentleman s juniped oti; widioit eeminig- to ob serve the three at the boat side. "Hello:" cried the newcomer in a stentorian voice. "Where in blazes are you, you lazy lubber?" "Here I be, sir, if you are meaning me." answered the boatman. As the newcomer's voice rang out there were two exclamations in ii nian from the ladies, and eaeb tore her veil from her face. just as the moon broke through a rift in the clouds,and there was such a tableau as is rarely seen any where. At the sile of the boat stood John Brown and Mrs. Jones, while near the carriage stood General t Brown and Jeanettc. - For a space the length of which none of the parties present have ever tried to comput2 these four stood as if r transfixed, while the boatman looked with wondering eyes from one.tQ the fother. s The gir eral -was the first to recover t hinmelf. . 5 "John-madam," ~he said "Will you please explain yourselves?". -. To this very reasonable request 7 neither replied. -- - "' r "It seems," resumed the general, r after a solemn pause, "that some mis take:has occurred." S"Mamma, were you .coing to elope. Stoo?" inquired Jeanett( -those ipind Ihad gone from cause to effect and - fback again, and aided by woman's'in Ituition began so divine as dim .way] w-hat had happened. .1 Then- explanatioats followed; and it' was discovered that there -had been two elopements planned for the night instead of the onte wd.know of. -=. ."We'redisg.overed," said the general g '&ellfter the- matter had been Iful~l. expl'ainedL. "Shall wyeg0oigJ-like foo]s or ~g& banik like sensible peopIe sand get married each to the wo~man of his choice, like, men and womien and That is all. They went back and wer6inxaried'nd the writer hereof sets it down as his own conviction that they have lived happily ever since-. AniF so the -feud en'ded. Merophi-s Commercig Appeal. iouse of Cotton. NEWYoR s ept. 25.'-This was by far the wfldest day the. cotton market has seen for' a long time. The course of the trading was full of surprises. "Liverpool.sent us aiandeorne adyanice but was compiletely ignored by our market, which opened lower, the first sales of January being at S. 58. Heavy liquidation of lang -cotton''for-Soatthe ern, acagzntdepressed prices in the fore nioon, J'anuary receding to 8.53, but when the pressure of selling orders was lifted the nmarket quickly rallied2 about 8-points from the Rowest' aind. for a long time about midday January 1 kept fluctuating quietly between 8.59 and S.61, without any decided indica tion either of strength or of weakness. 1 In the early afternoon,-however,priees suddenly blegan to harden. -NobodyI seemed able to give an entirely satis factrv splanation of the course of the ' igbu thei-eas a ild rush! to buy cotton, and prices for a while seemed to be a niatter of secondary importance. There were occasional halts in the rise when a reaction seem ed imminent but the advance was 1 soon resuile&i 'and was not finally checked until January had sold at 8.81. just 28 points above the lowest of the day. Realizing sales on a large scale by a prominent local trader caus ed January to recede to 8.73 in the last fifteen minutes. The close wassteady, iwith January at S.74 and 8.75. The trade is at least .filled with genuine alarm at the prospect of a short crop.-3 The market is altogether in the hands2 of the outside public. As long as they I continue to buy prices will continue -to advaance; but after such rise a quick ~ and-shiarp reaction is among the.'ossi- 9 bilities, and we would now advise our friends to keep close to hore and not. disdain to turn their paper profits into hard cash. Riordan & Co.* Told ina Dreatn. , AsHIEvILLE,. N. C.. Sept.-2...-Yes terday -afternoon the 17 months old girl ~ baby~ of James Green, living five t miles south of Asheville, sud'denly ~ disappeared. By -dark hundreds of persons were searching -for the little . toddler, One of the searchers -was Ja cob Morris, ermployed on the Vander- ' bilt estate. He searched till midnight 3 and then went home and to~ bed where he had a vivid dream to thie~f- I fect that the child was lying asleep in an old field three quarters of a mile I from her home. Morris started for ' wor.-this morning, but soon felt com pelled to turn back and visit the loca tion indicated in his dream. There he C found the baby sleepihg' soundly, ~ where it had wandered, rag doll in I hand, pillowed on a stone. She was ~ unliaiied except-that hei'-l'egs were ~ torn by briars. - C 5 P~oor'Kirb' Tupper. C A'v'LANA, Sept. 23.-Kirby S. Tup-e per, 'a deputy collector of customs at f Charleston, S. C-, shot himself here C tis-moriing. His brother, S. Y. Tup- ( pert eecretary of the Southeastern-As& t sociation;. has att -office .itt the ERquita- t bTe building on north 1'rior stree s Kir by Tupyer w~eitto the EquitabIl'i s seven.o'loik-his morning and-adaf- e tor-unloked SaitiTupper's oticydiof' l; Kirby Tupper ..,wrote a note to .hlis $ brother,,-and notes to two rel iv after-whic~h he shot himsel& Lhro. E the head. No cause is known:fqn t suicide. He was to report at t PWTTRES EXAMINED. I k EY.- DR. TALMAGE PRES4TS A d CLUSTER OF RAOHAELS. d tril iant Word Painting of Scenes In'the c Life of Stephen- The Discoxtrse Grouped f Into Five Pictures-A emarkably Elo quent Sermon. s NEW YORK, Sept. 15.-In his sermon or today Rev. Dr. Talmage has chos n a theme a Xicturesque as it is pirituallp'inspiling.- He groups his 9 liscourse into "Five Pictures.'. The ext-seleCted was. "Behold, 1 see the s keavens opened."-Acts vii, 56-60. Stephen had been preaching a rous ng sermon. and the people could not t1 tand it.- T.ey resolved to do as men ometimes- would like to do in this P lay, ;f they dared, with some plain a >reacher of righteousness-kill him. t) Choly way to silence this man was e o knock the breath out of him. So t hey iu'sieA Stephen out of the gates f the city; and, with curse and whoop ) md. bellow, they brought him to the liff, aswas the custom when they , ng - Ymto the edge of the :liff, they pushed him off. After he Eihd fialenthey cameand looked down. nd 'seeing that he was not yet dead hey began to drop stones upon him. 5tNne after $.tone.. Amid this horrible rain of 'MissitsAStephenolambers upon is knees and folds his hands, while h blood drips from his temples, and hen looking up, lie makes two pray rs-one for himsel f and one for his rurderes.." Iord Jesus, receive my ;pirit." Tiaifwas for himself. "Lord, lay. not.this sin to their charge." That was-f6r his murderers. Then, from Dain and loss of blood, he swooned iway and fell asleep. I want to show you today flve pie- a tuces:.. Stephen gazing into heaven, tephen looking at Christ, Stephen t stoned, Stephen in is dymg prayer, Step aea asleep. First, look at Stephen gazing into hFven. Before you take a leap you want to know where youzaregoin.g.to land. Before you climb a ladder you want to know to what point the ladder reaches. And it was right that Ste phen, within a few moments of hear n should begazing into it. We would III do well to be found in the same posture. There is enough in heaven to keep us gazing. A man of large. wealth may have statuary in the hall, ind paintings in the sittin room, and s works of art jaall parts of the house, but he ha. the*Eiif pictures in the art gallery, and there houfafterhour you alk with catalogue and glass and ver increasing admiration. Well, eaven isthe gallery.wbere God has ,athered the. chief treasures of his realm. The whole universe is his pal tee In this lower -room where we stop there are many adornments, tes sellatetd foo.r of amethyst, and on the winding cloud stairs are..stretched out yanvases on which comingle a'zure and r purple. and -saffron and gold. But eaven is the gallery in which the ihief glories are gathered. --There are he brightest robes. There are the ichest crowns: There are the highest ,hilarations. St. -John saysLbyf -it, 'The kings of the earti shall bring heir honor and glory .o. it." A-nd t [ see the procession .formitig, and in ~he line come$Ml' 4mpires, and the S ~tars' spring up into an arch for the iosts to march under. They keep step o the sound of. earthquake, and the itch of avalanche from the moun-C ains, and 'the flag they bear is the lae o'f a consuming world, -and all I seaven turns out-4rthrharps and triinK ets and myriad voiced acelasttion of f angelic dominions to welcome their..I n,and so the kings of thesearth-bling heir honor and glory into it. D6;you ionder that food people often stand, ike Stephen, looking into heaven: We have many frieads- there. -. There is znot :i man here so -isolated n life but there is some one in heaven . ith whom he one shook hands. As a1 nan gets older the number of his elestial acquaintances very~ rapidly nultiplies. We have not had "one limpse of 'them since the night we tissed them goodby, and they went tway, but still we stand ..gaigg atb ieaven. As when son~te of our friends. o across the sea,' sestand on the dock r on the steinrtug, and.watch them, ndafter awhile the hulk of the yes el disappears, and then there is only a patch of sail on the spky, and soon; hat is- gone,- and they, ar~e all out of ight, and yet we stand.dookipg in the! ame direction. So when ouir friends o away from us~into the future hv51-ld ye keep' -loo'king daown through the arrows and-gazing as though we ex ecte4.hat they would come out ar.d tand on some cloud and give us one; lipse of their blissful and trans~g-~ ired faces. While you long to join their corn- 1 >anianship, and the years and the days1 o with such tedium that they break rour heart, and the vipers of pain and rrow and bereavement keep gnaw- ti ng at -your vitals, you. will ttand, likebh stepnen, gazing into heaven. Y oun yonder if they have changed since d -ou saw them last. You wonder it hey would recognize your face no iv,n o changed' has it been with trouble. oir wonder if, amid- the myriad de ights they have, they care as mneh. or you as they used to when they gavea 'ou a helping hand and put their houlders under your burdens. Y on sonder if 'they look dny older,; and b ometimes in the evening tide-when he house is all quiet you wonder ifn 'u- shonid'--ell them by their first Lame if they WOdid:-not -answer, and erhaps sometimes you do make the b x periment, and when no one but God ad yourself are there you distinctly all their names and listen and sit gaz ng into heaven. -- - ---- - - Pass on. now and see Stephen look- tI ng upon Christ. My text says he saw t he.. Son of Man at .the right hand of.., rod. Just how Christ looked inm this t orld, just how he looks in heaven, d. re cannot say. The painters of the - iffeent aes have tried to-imagiie -C ie features of Christ and put them s pn canvas, but we will have to waitc ntil with our own eyes we see him ,nd with our own ears we can hear him.b tnd yet there is a way of seeing him d hearing him now. I have to tell h o that unless you see and hear I ~hrist on earth you will never see and ear him in heaven. - - Look: There he is: Behold the 4amb of God. Can you not see him? 'hen pray to God to take the scales off our eyes. Look tliat way--try to ok that way. 'his voice comes l ow to you this day-comes do~wn to he blindest, to the -deafest soul-say ag, -E'ook-trto me,'ail ye ends of- the. arth,~ and be ye saved, for I am- God, nd there is none else" Proclamation el f universal emancipation for all pi laves. Tell me, ye who know most cc the world's history *?atother king si ver asked::th abandoned, .ant11th i :rlorn, and the wretched, and th-e if utcast..to come and sit beside him? it ih-sonderfuli - invitati-on You can d ke it today. and stand.at.the head of mn 2e darkest alley in all' this city and tc iy: "Come ! -Clothes for. yourmrgs, lc rive for your sores, athrone for your be eniM~eignig" A Christ thattalks re ke that and acts like that and par- :li a '1ike" that'-do you'-'worder that ti: sis--dd ,boking at him?' I is1 pe toserd'sternity doinjg the same bi i e.I must look Ia; cee clouided with my at -nt wvith my pardon. lif want to touch that- hand- that nocked off my shackles. I want to ear the voice that pronounced my li-exende. ':3eh6jd hlirm, little chil ren, for if-you live-to threescore tArs and ten you will see none so fair. ehold him. ye aged ones, for lie only in shine through the dimness of your iling eyesight. Behold him, earth. ehold him, heaven. What a mo tent when all the nations r.' the saved iall gather around Christ! All faces iat way. All thrones that way, gaz ig on Jesus. is worth if all Ihe nationi knew sit the whole-efrhh would:oie him too. 'I pass on now'a'ad look at Stepnen oned. The world has always want I to get rid of good men. Their very fe is an assault upon wickedness. 'ut with Stephen through the gates of ie city. Down with him over the recipices. Let every man come up nddrop a-stone upon his head. But 1ese men did not so much kill Steph a as they killed themselves. Every ;one- rebounded upon them. While iese murderers are transfixed by the :orn of all good men Stephen livesin 1e admiration of all Christendom. tephen stoned, but Stephen alive. So JIITgTut- i__ iUZoe peatect. t rho will live godly in Christ Jesus nust suffer persecution ." it is no eu ogy of a man to say that everybody ikes him. Show me any one who is loing all his duty to stite and.church, .nd I will show you scores of men rho utterly abhor him. If all men speak well of you. it is ecause you are either a laggard or a olt. If a steamer makes rapid pro ress through the waves. the water rill boil and foam all arouad it. srave soldiers of Jesus ~:Chirist -will ear the carbines click. When I see mail with voice and money and in luence all on the right side. and some aricature him', and some sneer at him, .ud some-denounce him, and men who reteud to be actuated by right mo ives conspire to cripple him, to cast im out, to destroy him, I say. St hemnstoned." . i'T s'ee a man in sorme great aoral or- religious reform battling gainst grogshops, exposing wicked tess iithigh placesi by active means rying to purify the church and bet er the'world's estate, and I find that he newspapers anathematize him, and aen. even good men, oppose him and enounce him because, though he doe ood, he does not do it in their way, I ay, "Stephen stoned." But you no ice, my friends, that while they as aulted Stephen they did not succeed eally in killing him. You may as ault a good man, but you cannot kill Lim. On the day of his death Stephen poke before a few people in the san tedrin. This Sabb'ath morning he ad' resses Christendom. Paul, the apos le, stood on Mars hill addressing a uandful of philosophers who knew not o much about science as a modern eboolgirl. Today lie talks to all the aillions of Christendom about' the onders of justification and the glo ies of resurrection. John Wesley as howled down by the mob to whom e preached, and they threw bricks at im, and they denounced him, and hey jostled him, and they spat upon m, and yet today, in all lands; he is dmitted to be the great father of ethodism. Booth's bullet vacated he presidentia chair, but from that pot of coagulated blood on" the Iloor a the box of Ford's theater there prang up' the new life of a nation. tephen stoned, but Stephen alive. Pass on now and see Stephen in his ying prayer. His first thought was ot how the stones' hurt his head, nor hat would become of his body. His rst thought was about his spirit. Lord Jesus receive my spirit." The aurderer standing on the trapdoor, the lack cap being drawnm over his head efore the execution, may grimace bout the future, but you and I have . shame in confessing some anx ty about. where we are going acome out'. " You are not all body, here is within you a soul. I see gleam from your eyes today, and I ee it irradiating your countenance. ometimes I am abashed before an au ience, not because I conec under your hysical eyesight, but because I real e the truth that I stand before so uany immortal spirits. The proba ility is that your body will at l'ast nd a sepulcher in some of the ceme ries that s'urround'this city. .There ;n doubt that your obseques will be ecent and respectful. and you will be ble to pillow youir head under the 1aple, or the Norway spruce, or the vpress, or the blossoming fir, but mis spirit about which Stephen prayed, bat direction will that take ? What uide will escort it ? .What gate will pen to receive it?: What cloud will e cleft for its pathway After it has ot beyond the light of our sun will 1ere be torches ighted for it the rest f the way? Wi. the sgul have to travel through ng deserts before it reaches the good od ? If we should Tose oui path way 'ill there be a castle at whose g'ate we iay ask the wvay to the city ? Oh, iis mysterious spirit within us It as two wings, but it is in a cage now. :is locked fast to keep it, but .let the or to this cage open the least, and tat soul is a6ff. Eagle's wing could ot catch it. The lightnings are not vift enough to come up with it. 7hen the soul leaves the body it takes ). vorlds at.a bound. And have I no axiety about it ? Have vou no anx sty about it? I do not care what you do with Imy ady when my soul is gone, or-wheth -you belive in eremation or inhu ation. I shall sleep just as well in a rapping of sackeloth as in satin lined ith eagle's down. But my soul afore I close this discourse I wIl find at where it will land. Thank God >r the intimation of my text. that hen we die Jesus takes us. That an vers all' quistions: for me. What iough there were massive bars be veen here and the City of Light, sus could remcove them. What Lough there wvere great 'Saharas o'f arkness, Jesus couldilluniine them. That though I get weary on the way, hrist could lift nuie on his omnipotent oulder. What though there wvere 1asms to cross, his hand could trans )rt me. Then let Stephen's prayer mny dy ing litanmy, "Lord Jesus, re istnfspiritf"k It may beda that >ur we will be too feeble' tosa ng prayer. It may be in that hour e will not be -able to say the Lord's r'ayer, for it has seven petitions. erhaps we may be too feeble~even to .y. t'e'. iiifant..prayer- our mothers .ught.u,'*hiclJo'hn QuincyXaams;-' I years of age, said every night when Sput his head upon his pilw Now I lay mae down t.) sleep,. I'vray..the lmrs my sotu to keep. We Giay be too feeble to employ ther of these familiar forms, but this ayer of Stephen is-so short, is so eise; is so. ear'nest, is so comprehen re, w su-rely- will be able to say .that 'ord Jests. receive my spirit." . that prayer is answered, how sweet will be to d ie :This world is oever disgn to us. Pdt'haps it has ti-eated< a great deal better than we deserv edt b~ treated, but if on the dy ing pil-1 w there shall break the light of thatt tter wvor'ld we shall have no nmore < zet than about leav'ing a small, Lrk, d'amp house for' one large, beau t-1:and c-apacioums. That dyingn mn e er in Philadelphia, sonme years ao, t autifully 'depiefed it when, in the ( st moment, he thr'w up his hands ,j Pass on now, and I will show you mn more >icture, and that is Stephen .sleep. \ith a pathos and simplicity >ecuiliar to the Scriptures the text says >f Stephen, "He fell asleep " "Oh," rou say. "what a place that was to deep? A hard rock under him, stones 'ailing down upon him, the blood ,treaninz, the mob howling. What i place .it was to sleep!" And yet my ext takes that symbol of slumber to lescribe'his departure, so sweet was it. o contented was it, so peaceful was it. Rtephen had lived a very laborious ife. His chief work had been to care 'or the poor. 1How many loaves of read lie had distributed, how many are feet lie had sandaled, how many ots of sickness and distress he had )lessed with ministries of kindness md love. I do not know. Yet from he way lie lived, and the way he >reached, and the way lie died, I Cnow he was a laborious Christian. But that is all over now. He has )ressed the cup to the last fainting lip. Ie has taken the last insult- from his mnemies. The last stone to whose crush ng weight he is susceptible has been iurled. Stephen is dead! The dis :iples come. They take him u . They yh i a I e wound Tney straighten out the bruised limbs. They brush back the tangled hair from the brow, and then they pass around to look upon the ca'm counte nance of him who had lived for the poor and died for the truth. ' Stephen asleep ! I have seen the sea driven with the hurricane until the tangled foam caught in the rigging, and wave ris ing above wave seemed as if about to storm the heavens, and then I have seen the tempest drop, and the waves crouch, and everything become smooth and burnished as though a camping place for the glories of heaven. So I have seen a man whose life has been tossed and driven com ing down at last to an infinite calm in which there was a hush of heaven's lullaby. Stephen asleep: saw such a one. He fought all his days against poverty and against abuse. They traduced his name. They rattled at the doorknob while lie was dyving with dans for debts he could not pay. Yet the peace of God brood ed over his pillow, and while the world faded heaven dawned, and the deepening twilight of earth's night was only the- opening twilight of heaven's morn. Not a sigh. Not a struggle. Hush! Stephen asleep. I have not the faculty as many have to tell the weather. I can never tell by the setting sun whether there will be a drought or not. I cannot tell by the'blowing of the wind whether it will be fair weather or foul on the morrow. But I can prophesy and I will prophesy what weather it will be when you, th.e Christian, come to die. You may have it very rough now. It may be this week one annoyance, the next another annoyance. It may be this year one bereavement, the next another bereavement. But at the last Christ will come in, and darkness will go out. And though there may be no hand to close your eyes, and no breast on which to rest your dying head. and no candle to lif t the night, he odors of God's hanging garden will regale your soul, and at your bed side will halt the chariots of the king. No more rents to pay, no more agony bcause flour has gone up, no more strugglie with "the world, the flesh and the devil," but peace-long, deep, ev erlasting peace. Stephen asleep ! Asleep in Jesus, lei el isleap, From whic'2iinone ever wa're t> weep: A cairn and undisturbeud rep'se, Uninjured by the last of ~for. Asieep in jesus, far from thee Tn'fy kindred and thy graves ma~y be, But the'e is. still a bessed sleep. From which none ever wake to weep You have seen enough for one day. No one can successfully examine more than five pictures in a (lay. There fore we stop, having seen this cluster of divine Raphols-Stephen gazing into heaven, Stephen looking at Christ, Stephen stoned, Stephen ini his, dying prayer, Stephen asleep. What Free siver Would Do. We have long thought that, should the United States admit silver free to her mints, that she would play havoc with the trade of England in several countries, arid it is gratifying to us to be endorsed-in our opinion by so able a journal ais the London Financial News. Ini a recent issue that paper said: ' There can be no doubt about it that if the United States were to adopt a silver basis to-morrow, British trade would be ruined before the year was out. Every Amer-ican industry would be protected, not only at home. but in ev-erv -.other- market. Of course, the~ United States would su t~er to a certain extent through hav ing to pay her obligations abroad in old: but the loss-of exchange under this head would be a'mere drop in the bucket, compared with the profits to be reaped from the markets of South America and Asia, to say nothing of Europe. The marvel is that the United States has not long ago seized he opp~ortuxnity, and but for the belief that the way of England is necessarily the way to commercial success and proserity. undoubtedly it would have een done long ago. Now Americans ire awakening to the fact tha:, 'so long is they narrow, their ambition to be ore a larger England, they cannot >eat us. It has been a piece of luck or uts that it has never before occurred o the Americans to scoop us out of he world's markets by going on a sil ;er basis, and it might serve us right, f irritated b'f.the cotitemptuous apathy >f our Government to the gravity of he silver problem the Americanc re liate by freezing out gold. It could ~asily be (lone, and we propose to show >V evidence collected from perfectly nprejudiced sources, that even now he process has begun, and is proceed ng at a i-ate that will astonish most >eople and'probably make this country ~egret that it .did not, at an earlier tage, fashion its monetary policy on >rinciples of friendliness to other na ions, instead of on a basis of short ighted selfishness"-Times and Dem >e-rat. A Girl Minus Two Lovers. SAvxmf, Sept. 24.-A Thomas rille* special to the Morning News avs: News has reached this city of a re~ry bloody impromptu duel between 3. . aan and M. T. Shaw. two oung men living nea: Meigs. Thej :ounty. Each man fired five shots at is an~tagonist, four shots taking etiecti n each case. Ragan, was killed oni he spot~, while Shaw: was mortally vounded and died yesterday. It is aid the young men quarrelled over L girl. They had gone to. see thme girl ogether and were returning home vhen the quarrel took place. They et out of their buggy and fought it ~t. The young men belonged to the 'espectable farming class. MAUUUTA, Sept. 25.-The Augusta ltton Exchange held a mceting to av to act en theC letter sent ouit from h~e Liverpool Exchanige in recgard to he uniform baling of cotton. It was lie senseC of the meeting to take action *n the letter- latr. U poni motioni of Ir. Tobin it was decided to request h- cotton exchanugos of Charleston. avan nah. New Orleans and Memphis >have a joint session to meet in any ne o' the cities named, andi act con nctively. A committee was ap *ointed to draft a circular letter and WEATHER AND CROPS. The Ipt D~ry Weather Hurts Cotton.-The Corn Crop) Safe. ThI weather of last week. particu larly tie last five days cf it. exhibited unprecedented heat, not alone in this State, buL over the entire country cast of the Mississippi, and west of it a short time previously. The temperature on the 17h (Tues day) was about normal with a quite cool night, but after that date it rose rapidly until Monday the daily excess in temperature ranged from 5 degrees on -the coast to 12 degrees in the wes teri portion of the State. The average daily excess for the week was 5 degrees per day, and the week was but slightly cooler than the hottest week in July, reports having been received from 8 places having a mean temperature for the week of from 80 to 82 degrees. The highest temperature reported was 102 on the 23d (Monday) at Lit tle Mountain, and the lowest, 55, at McColl, Marlboro county, on the 17th (Tuesday). The mean temperature of the week deduced from 31 stations wasy , I the normal for the same period is aproxin:17 73. There was practically no rainfain the entire State during the week, the only two stations reporting any were Reid 0.25, and Greenville 0.10, both in the same county and on the same date, the 17th. Never in the three years' history of this series of bulle tins has there been a week with so, little rail in South Carolina. The normal rainfall for the week is ap proximately 1 14 inches. There was scarcely any cloudiness except that the 17th was partially cloudy, and the amount of sunshine for the State averaged 92 per cent. of the possible. The winds were generally light southerly or westerly. The hot dry weather has affected cotton seriously, by stopping growth on light, thin soils and causing shed ding on rich soil. It has also had the efYecLof causing half grown bolls to pop open prematurely. There will be little or no crop, even in the western portions of tie State where up to a week ago it was most promising. In the lower and central portions of the State picking is progressing rapidly and the correspondents all agree that it will be picked out by the middle of Oc tober at the latest, if the weather re mains favorable. Growth of the plant has stopped and it is wilting and drying up in the upcountry where ordinarily growth continues until the plant is killed oy frost. Cotton is being gath ered in excellent condition, but with few exceptions, the crop is falling far short of what was expected from the acreage and condition up to within ten days ago. Complaint is made that the extreme heat interferes with labor of picking cotton and is causing much sickness among pickers in a number of counties. The weather was unfavorable fpr drying out corn and putting it in con dition to be housedr which work was carried on in the eastern portion of the State, and the yields at husking shows the crop to be even more satis factory than it appeared in the field. The hot, dry weather was injurious to a very few late fields of corn in the extreme "upcountry," but tne crop is practically safe everywhere r~nd re ports from almost every county state the crops will be -sufficient for local needs, and many report a surplas. Rice harvesting was favored by the weather conditions, and the river rice has all beep cut except some very late fields which represent a small fraction of the entire crop. Upland rice is be ing harvested in the eastern and cen-. tral portions of the State with ver-y satisfactory yield. In the, western portion, where upland rice is just heading, the dry, hot weather is affect-I ing it injuriously, and unless rain comes soon it will partially ruin the crop. It was an ideal week for gathering and curing pea vine and other hay,I and large quantities of forage were saved in all portions of the State. The dry weather practically-stopped the growth of peas in the western counties, where the crop would ordi narily not be r-eady to gather for some weeks.. Making mnolasses 'from cane is pro-; gressing favorable, and good yields are reported as a rule. Sweet potatoes are being gathered in the eastern counties, but are in jired by the heat and dryness in the western counties, where the tubers have not attained their full growth. It is entirely too dry for fall plow ing and consequently oats seedins has stopped and cannot be resumed until raiQ puts the ground in condition. The past week ended the gathering of tobacco, anad it is said the yield of late planting was just as satisfactory as the first cutting, In Horry county late fruit is of good liuality, but with the exception of grapes, not plentiful. The past week's weather was very trying and damaging on growing crops generally, an~d particularly on gardens, but it was perfection for gathering and saving such crops as wvere ready to harvest. The south's New Cereal. As Alabama receives a generous share of Old Sol's mundane attentions there is '>.ery reason to believe that another reef can be taken in the old saw: "There is nothing new under the sun." Down in the cane-brakesof Russell county a new cereal has been discovered. That is, it is presumably new, although there is no way of prov ing that it was not scattered in the bul rushes where Moses was hidden so many centuries aoo There is nobody connected with the Agricultural De partment in Uncle Sam's big official family who can "place" this Alabama rain. It has been found on the low lying banks of streams. Hanging from the tips of cane are great tassels of leaves and seeds resembling oats. The discovery of the strange vegetable phenomenon was made in a queer manner. Cattle and horses seemed to delight in trips to thle lowlands, where they were found feeding on these tassels. The grain in them re sembles oats, and is s weet and starchy. Thus far no attempts have been made to convert it into flour or meal for' gruel, bread or pastry. No one at tempts to explain the presence of the rain. There are some who hint at a atrimonial union in the vegetable kingdom and believe that cane and oats have been crossed in the fields and brakes. but this solution is not 'accepted at Gove rnmen t Head quarters. Prof. F. Y. Coville, who is in charge of the national herbarium, thinks that the chief dilliculty in regard to the new cereal was the unreliability of its growth. The grain crop is enormous, but ther-e is no assurance that this freak of D~ame Nature's will be repeat d. The grains are sever-al times lone r than ordinary oats being about half an inch inl length. The discov'ery has :eated a sensation among the planters who own low-l yingiands. They figure Lat cr'ops quite as valuable as corn rnay be gathered fromt land that has bee'n considered useless. The future >f the new eireal will be watched with. utent si. If ever'y dag ha'snt had his day this ummer it is his own fault. There ~ertainily has been n'' lack of dlog MAKIt POWDER Absolutely Pure. A cream or tartar Darng powde ighest of all in leavening strength.-La test United States Government Food Re port. Royal Bakig Powder Company, 106 WaUSt.,N. Y. BLACK AND WHITE. REMARKABLE PERFORMANCE OF 'A' LEX;NGTON NEGRESS. A Few Hours After Convictio breaking She Gives Birth to Twins, One Snowy White the Other Potty Black. LEXINGTON, S. C.. Sept. 22.-At the Court of General Sessions for this county, which adjourned yesterday, appeared a female prisoner who will take her place in medical jurisprudence as having aided nature ina phenomen al and anomalous freak. The person who is thus to become so remarkably distinguished is a negro woman who was tried for housebreking and lar ceny. She was convicted and sen tenced to the penitentiary. After re ceiving her sentence she was taken charge of by the sheriff and carried back to the jail. Within six hours after she was recommitted to jail she gave birth to two boys-one absolutely black and the other absolutely white. The mother.is a verr darkskinned ne gress, of the pure Africau type. The excitement of her triai brought on premature delivery, and if the ba bies should live they can lay claim to Lexington as their native heath, not withstanding the fact they were born within the confines of the walls of a jail. Women who can increase the popula tion of the country, white and black, at the same time, are scarce and should be pensioned by the United States government instead of being sent to the penitentiaries.-State. Keep Out the Weevils. It is a very simple thing, says the Southern Cultivator, to keep the weevils out of the corn and wheat if y.ou will adopt the proper preventa tives. There is practically but one method of destroying insects in stored grain and this is by the use of bisul phide of carbon. -This substance is a liquid, of a slightly yellowish tinge. If placed in an open vessel, it evapo rates readily, and the fumes are heavier than air. - In the literature of bisulphide, it is said to be an explosive substance. The word "explosive" is somewhat wrongly used in this con nection, "infiamable" being more cor rect.- It will take fire if touched off by a match, lighted cigar and the like,. but if a little care is taken not to bring it near any sort of fire, there is no danger in its use. The method of us ing the bisulphide is very simple, as it .consists of but pouring the substance over the top of the grain. It was for mnerly left in open dishes to evaporate, but this is not the best mode of app1-. cation. The amount.to be.as-ill vary acoording to the tgnesof t crili or bin inr which the grain 1s placed. But, in general, it may be said, that it will take -a pound of the bisulphide to treat fifty bushels of rain if the grain is in a tight place. if corn is to be treated when in an., open crib. the amount required will be somewhat more than this.. The cost of the bisulphide depends upon where it is obtained. At the drug stores it sells anywhere from twenty cents to a dollar per pound.- It is best obtained direct from the manufactur er, or else ordered through your local druggist. In the case of corn, the crib should be filled first before the treat ment, rather than several treatments after each few loads, etc. The bisul phide being heavier than air, sinks at once through the g-rain, and kills all insects withisn. Fire of any sort should not be brought near until the dor of the bisuiphide has passed. away. Rats at times also .destroy a great deal of grain, but the decasional. .se of the bisuiphide ooured into their. runs will effectually clear them out." The Corn Crop. This is apparently to be the greatest corn year ever known, and the season is now so far advanced, according to a contemporary. as to r-educe the chances of dis-isrter to a miniunm. in 189)1 we raisedl the- grieatest cor-n crop ever grown, but we are going to reni der- it insignificant this year. In 1891 corn cuvetd 70 204,00) secres and yielded an aver.ige of twenty-sev.eni bushels to the acre. This year the corn felds an'ent to 82.3~04.00 acres, or 6,000,000) avnre than in 1S91, and all reports indicate a lairger y ield per acre than in that year-. But at the amIe average yieldh the crop will amount to 2,222,20,00-t wo biL'N-. t wo hiund red and twenty-two mili t wo hun dred and eight thousand bushels. Corn is worth about fifty cents a bushel, not only in the markets, but in feeding hogs. This crop will therefore add 1, 111,104,000 to the country's wealth. Think of it: More than a billhon dol lars of actual- wealth produced in a single year in the shape of a single crop. Pitiable P1Jght of Negroes. IW SHINGTON, Sept. 19.-Acting Sec retary Hamlin today sent a telegram informing the four hundred negroes uarantined at Eagle Pass. Texas, that the government has no appropria tion from which could be paid their expenses to.their home in Alabama. The negroes-some time ago went into Mexico to foi a colony, but the scheme was a failure, and in return ing here reached Eagle Pass, when smallpox broke out among them and they were quarantined. At last ac counts there were 175 cases of small pox among them, and on the advice of friends they appealed to the govern ment to them to their homes in Ala bama as fast as they were discharged by the quarantine officers. Their re lest, for the reasons stated, cannot be granted. - - Two Deputy sheriffs Kiled. PINE BLT'FF, Ark., Sept. 24.-Deputy Sheriffs Harris and Stiff of Arkansas :ounty were shot and killed near Eng tand, Lonoke county, yesterday while ittempting to arrest an escaped pris ner named Lacey, who had made his iscape from Arkansas county jail. He was located in a deserted house three md a half miles from England and vhen called upon to srurrender opened re. The first shot struck and in stantlv killed Harris and the second nortally wounded Stitf. Another re ort states that the crime was commit ed by two escaped criminals named )wens and Nicholas. The murderer >r murderers esc-aped to the woods. 'hey are surrou&nded by a posse and