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WELCOME WOMEN! A GRAET COLLEGE OPENS W!DE ITS PORTALS. Opening of the Wiuthrop Normal and IndustriaL Insititute Un<der Most Aus picious Circumstances--i'ride of all the People. RocK HILL, Oct. 15.-This is a red letter day in the history of Rock Hill. The Winthrop Normaliand Industrial College was today op.-ised to stud,!nts under most favorable auspcies. There are already here two hundred and sixty-five girls There were probably a hundred stu dents on the train from Columbia yes terdav afternoon coming from many different part. of the State. Tipy were a jolly set -wlaurhig aid talking and singiung quite a differle-ntnt from the one many of them will viry likely singr after they have been here a few days and begin to long" for fioi-. As the train pulled out of the Blaiding street station the girls tried their Iinne . giving thefollowiingyell: ' ara, ra, ra, re, hurrah girls of W. . C. 'W e train stopped at greeted that town with MUMsame yell. The train .reached Rock Hill about 8 p. m.-a half hour late-and was met by quite a number of the citizens of Rock Hill-men and women. Street cars and vehicles of various descrip tions conveyed the crowd to the mnag - nificent college building. which was brilliantly lighted with electricity to welcome its future occupants. The dif ficult task of assigning the girls to rooms was finally accomplished, and they were soon dreaming dreams 'neath the roof of as fine a college building as can be found in the South. When they awoke this morning they saw above them a lowering sky that threatened to send rain during the day. Though the heavens do not smile on the college at its opening the citizens of Rock 1lill certainly do. The whole town is swelling with pride at its achievement in securing the institu tion. If there is one thing in the State into which no politics enters it is surely this college. The attendance is made up K the daughters of South Carolin ians of various creeds. Senator Till man's two daughters ar'e here, as are the daughters of some of his most earn est opponents. Dr. Curry, who was expected to be resent to make the address of the dywrote that he was unable to cobae, muoh46 the regret of citizens and vis itors alike. tTffis unlooked-for mishap shortened the proceedings somewhat. The ad dress on behalf of the citizens of Rock Hill by Mr. W. J. Roddey and the re ply thereto was made by Governor Evans. Senator Tillman then deliv ered his speech. ' The teachers are here and tomorrow the regular school work will begin. The lighting, heating and cooking ap paratus are in good working order. To into the power house and see the boilers there for heating the school and running the laundry one would almost think an engine for running a good-sized factory was be -fore one. The building is a model and modern one in every respect. The entire interior is of dark stained oak, and presents a bea'utiful appearance There is- only one corner of the entire building where the sunlight does not pnetrate and President Johnson says - ewill have a gas jet constantly burn ing there. Thechapelor auditorium is probably more beautiful than any' such place or any thetin theStatewith thepo sible exception of Sumter's beautiful op~ahouse. Over the -stage is a beau c~upsiating of the- South Carolina coatof arms by Rock Hill's own artist, -Mr. H. A.- Brown. The painting is ?from a photograph of Mrs. T. C. Rob ertson's original painbing. -Each of te 260 dormitory rooms is furnished with two single beds, a wash stand, a table and chairs; is heated by steam and thoroughly ventilated. There is rooni for 240 girls in the dor ' ' ie-the remaining rooms being frthe use of teachers. All students over this number will have to get board in the homes of the citizens of ;Rock Hill, for which ample provision has been made by President Johnson, ~andthe hard working;Rock Hill mem bers of tebrdof tr'ustees, Dr. T. A. -Crawford and Mr. W. J. Roddey. The school will have a well-equip pdgymnasium anda swimming pool. Te wder for drinking purposes and fire protection is all that could be de surd.e An enormous tank -has been Kplaced on the roof of the main building fast beneath the clock tower, into -which clear, healthy water is pumped from five artesian wells that have been sunk in the neighborhood. From the tank the water is conveyed by pipes to all parts of the building. The building is surrounded by hydrants to insure a bountiful supply of water in case of fire. A large basin has been' sunk near the college into which the rain water from the building will be conducted and held as a reserve sup ply in case of extreme need at a fire. All in all the building is most com plete. If a most flattering beginning is any indication of permanent success ,the success of the Winthrop Normal and Industrial College of South Carolina is certainly assured. It is said that the girls will be taken to Atlanta in November, along with -the cadets from Clemson College. Before noon today the sun came from behind -the clouds and made Win throp's initial day a bright one. The spcous auditorium was crowded when hortly after the hour of noon Gover nor Evans, acting as master of cere monies, announced that the exercises would begin with the -singing of the long metre doxology. The 105 psalm was then read by Rv. Mr. Morley, and prayer offered by Rev. A. Sprunt. After the solo "Santa Maria" had been sung by Mrs. Brown, Governor Evans introduced MR. w. 3. RODDEY, who made a pretty speech in the name -of the citizens of Rock Hill. He said that from beholding a drop of water an expert logician might infer a possi ble Atlantic or Pacific. If an expert logician were to look upon this build ing and this audience he would proba bly arrive at three deductions. First. Such a creation in stone and mortai is. the embodiment of a magnificent idea -all honor to the conception which was the birth of the Winthrop Normal college, and which by its force carried the pole of the State. Semnd. The ppeare to be admired who would taeup.rith enthusiasm such an idea. and third. He would be filled with unbounded enthusiasm for Rock Hill. the pride of South Carolina, which pad$60,000 to get . thisi institutiou; These three factors have contributed to its erection.- Whether it be a mon ument to Tillmancto South Carolina or to Rock Hill it is a "corker" and theref is no' mistake about it. Rock Hill wil.14 her odutyl the college lute fieyner. ,Rock ,Hill can point with pride to ~whiit she has 'done and with still rea ter pride to what she' twll do. He predicted~that before the end of the century this town will haveI 12 or 15,000 inhabitantis. lie hoped that soon Rock Hill will be t he great est city and this ins'.itution the great est school in the State. Thie trustees! have dne their part. If the students would do the,-s stess wm hLve been obtairA and this ill b- the greatest feniale colh . o lr 'air so)uthland. GE!:NR EVNS. At tlit e.C.! o Mr. Roddey's spzi ch 6(;V, rac-r 1F' :1 .a reply spoke in sibsTune. as In bc-hal f of ti- Siate of South, Car lina and the board of trusters it is a plea.abt duty for ie to declare this institution ready sor business. In do ino so we have cause for pridc in be half of our State eqal to that of Rock Hill. and in bebaif'Uf the State I df sire to taan?k the citizens of Rock Hill for their enw-rgy in the upbuildaog of their city pi.d of this intitutioI. When otlier cities were wranlgling from political motives as to Which should have the honor of building the school Rock Hill said: -It is for South Carolina's jewels, and we will build the school." To the students of z >ology it is in teresting to note tie evolution of wo man from the time she was a boast of burden til. she becaie a helpmeet for MnIM antid tuen a beamiful hothouse bud for the aidornment of the varlor. BuT. th-at is not tinal evolution. That was the old idCa that she was tit only to grace ti he parlor, and that educa tion of her ii the industrial arts is spending moi-y for purp:ses for which education was not intended. This idea is familiar to your mothers, who are the greatest mothers that ever lived. For this greatuess, however, they are not, indebted to your fathers or to their fathers or to their brothers, but to their Maker. When at the close of the war the father returned home without having a plouah or a s-.ord to beat into a plough. it was the wife s noble spirit that made hini a hero in adversity as well as in prosperity. It was her s.ivit that told him never to put nis hand to the plow and then turn back. To our women we ow. this and more. They have contended for their rights and have at last begun to get them: she is developing intothe new woman-such a one as will go forth from the Winthrop Normal col lege prepared to assume woman's du ties anywhere. That is the object of this sehool. Parlor butterlies are not the mothers of statesmen, or the wo men who exert in fluence on their coun try. The days when work was a disgrace to a woman are past. We are going to teach woman to reason, and ex punge from her veabtulary her old reason "because" married men say that though women can't reason in work they always reach the right con clusion. We hope that graduates of Winthrop will be able to give their mothers the reason "why." Turning to Senator Tillman, Gov. Evans said: "When you die, if no marble slab covers your grave, or no shaf t is erected in your capital city the people of the State will always point with pride to this institution and sav ing b'ehold his monument, will be in the hearts of the people. The shaft may fall, the marble may crumble, but the heart of the woman is always true.'' Gov. Evans then announced that the expected orator of the day, Dr. J. L. M. Curry, had been unable to come. His letter of regret was read by Mr. J. E. Ellerbe. Gov. Evans then in half of the trus tees turned the college over to PRHESIDNT D). B. JOHNSON who spoke as follows: "It is with a full heart and a deep sense of the responsibility resting upon me and riy colleagues that I stand here at the threshold of the work assigned us and assume the sacred charge committed to us by the board of trustees. I feel that the opportuni ty for accomplishing gsod is unbound ed, that here may be orignated the most telling and far-reaching forces in the society of the S$tate. . The idea, of artificial growth, that woman was created for ornamental purposes only that she had not the acterstrength of mind and purpose and charate: to grapple successfully with the highest intellectual problems and the earnest practical questions of lifeI is rapidly passing, has passed away. Such an idea could not withstand the many successful denmonstrations to the contrary. Jane Austin, Georg'e Elliott, Mrs. Browning. Miss Mitchell, the astronomer, Miss Faucett and a host~ of others h'ave conclusively proven in the field of literature, of science and in other fields that the as sumption of intellectual superiority on the part of the lords of creation was unwarranted, and that all that women needed to show their eaual abilities, to say the least, w~as a chance. South Carolina proposes to give them this chance in this noble institu tion, and I feel confident as I look upon the bright faces of the young ladies before me that theyi will utilize it worthily. A civilization can be gauged by the treatment received by women under it. In darkest Africa the woman is the slave, the burden bearer. In Chr-is tian lands, where the light of the Gos pel is brightest and the civilization theefore the best, she i~s liberated from this serfdlow, this suppression, and her power set free to accomplish the great results already set down to her credit in such lands. How appropriate, then, that she sould have been last at the cross and first at the sepulchre; and how unnatural that any woman today should not be a follower of the lowly Nazarene whose life and death have brought so much of life and light to her. The new social conditions of the present and the probable develop ment of the near future demand, not more for woman's sake than for the sake of society, higher technical edu cation for women. There have been great changes in her activities and re sponsibilities in the last half century everywhere, but nowhere have they been greater than in the south, where as a result of the civil wvar has occur red one of the greatest social revolu tions of modern times, which has brought southern women face to face with the unfamiliar problem of self support. Hence the special need of normal and industrial training for the women of the south. It is to be hoped that every southern State will speedily awake to this need. They have all long since made ample provision for their sons, but, in this particular, many of them have seem ingly failed to realize that the State's welfare is more dependent upon the women, on account of their greater influence upon societ'y and citijzenship through the bomne, where are origin ated the forzes which determine the chracter of the community, the State and the nation. All great men have had great mothers. The relation of woman is close to the government of the State, for when women are educated the children neer grow up in ignoranlce. The happiest people are the best educated eople. All governments are looked upon ia accordance with the way they treat their women. This institution is a monument to r-eform, for it is a true reormn. The idea was conceived by a great ridd wh. upon his humble farm,. studied the abuses of is tinrte, and has had er'ected this monument to his State if not to himself. It is with pride that we are able to say that South Carcolina nobly meets the highest test of h~er enlightenment. While maintaining for the benefit of her sons the Sout h Car-olina college, the Citadel and Clemrrson college, she has responded to the demands of love, most numerous and important body of her citizts-her fair daughters-and has made provision for the education, the training of a1l their God-given tacultie. and abilities to prepare theni to make .-ood homes, good common scools and a good sup)ort for them selves and for those dependent on h.thim i; need be. Recognizing that woman is the natural, logical teacher of the young and that it is economy, as well as a necessity for the SLate to provide skilled instrucLors for her common schools, iii which over 200.000 of her children are being educated at an an nmul public expense of nearly .500. Qod-. South Carolina has made gener ous provision for normal training here -while i-tot subordinating in the least the industrial training which will en able our young women to beconme bread-winners in more ways than in teaching and to become good house keepers and home-makers. It being recognized that the fryingpan is at the botto:n of such misery and moral ob liquity that dyspepsia leads to moroid ness, weakness of the will, unhappi ness in t- e home, failure in life and much wrong-doing; that a good din ner is a great moral uplift; that a sweet and well-kept home strengthens and preserves many a man in time of trouble and trial. The State has done her part in ac complishinag these results-the build ings are splendid, in proportion and are well adopted to the work and every convenience is at hand. But after all, results must depend unoi the efforts of those for whom these preparations have been made. There is no royal road to learning. No inventi-:e genius will ever discover a way of dropping a nickel in a slot and taking out a complete education. Heaven is not reached at a single bound. Bricks and mortar will not make a college. Without effort on the part of the faculty and students,the stone and brick wili be but the monument of a dead hope. May you, young ladies, who are to be our students, bear clearly in mind that the success of your college will larcly depend upon your spirit and attitude and work. May you regard it as'a loving mother, and may it shelter you and nourish you into fullest in iellectual and spirited life. I feel sure that with you taking a pride and in terestin its success, with the energy and public spirit of Rock Hill behind it. and the public spirit of the whole State immensely for it, the Winthrop Normal and Iudustrial College will surely and speedily become what it was intended to be-a great and noble and enduring institution for the edu cation of the haud, the heart and the head of South Carolina's young wom anhood. After the close of Professor John son's speech, the audience was treated to some instrumental music by Profes sor Brown and Miss Waddill. Gover nor Evans then. introduced as the father of industrial education in South Carolina, SENATOR B. R. TILLMAN, who said: "The divine bard who put into the mind of Mark Antony the arotion over the body of Caesar uses these words: "The evil that men do lives after them. but the good is oft interred w ith their bones." The rea soni must be apparent to any one from the allusions that have been made by t wo or three of the speakers that I spak of somewhat under embarrass iug conditions. I have been credited by some of the gentlenmen who spoke in advance of me with being the orig inator of the idea whose creation we have witnessed today. There are times when words seemt poor and ineffectual fromn their inability to convey proper ly the thoughts that come into the mind of man. Such an occasion as this is one of them, as most of you understand. When I began nine years a'o to aa-itate the question of indus trial ancY tecbnical education for men and women both as almost the only way in which South Carolina could build up her waste p laces, there was nothing of the kind here. In five years we see Clemson and Winthrop, which were erected at a cost of a half million dollars. Some have called me the originator of this-let the credit go to whom it may. God be blessed that we have it. You will understand that it was the expectation that we should have today as the orator Hon. J. L. M. Curry, southern agent of the Peabody fund. His letter explains his absence, and until yesterday I thought that my part on the programme would be merely that of one of the board of trustees. There are a number of things I wish to say to these young ladies before me and to this faculty we have selected regarding the work we have laid out for them to do. The year 1895 will go down in the history of this common wealth as an epoch. Our prosperity will point to it and say: "Here we be gail the upbuilding of South Caroli na." Why do I say this? There is today in the capital of this State a gathering of represensatives of this commonwealth for the purpose of framing a new Constitution-a law framed by South Carolinians for South Carolinians, and under which you must live. This school, which we open marks an epoch in our history, will always be pointed to as having been inaugurated in the year 1895. Now what have we a right to expect from this school? for I will not dwell upon the Constitution; I only allud ed to it in passing. I say without hesitation and in no boasting spirit, that the last five years have marked in this State a change of things such has not been known in the history of this commonwealth since it was taken fromn the Indians. We have had tur moil and strife and households have been divided, but let us hope for this school as for Clemson that it will be for the upbuilding of the people and the State. What'do we need most in South Carolina? Education. How are we to get it? By raising more money by taxation, and by sending out more trained teachers to lead the children. Most of you will go from this house with a deeper sense of the need of which I speak. I feel that I appeal to our sense as well as to your sensibili ties in speaking of this school which marks an epoch such as no other in stace in our history can afford. Who of you have not been impressed with the beauty and magnificence of these buildings t I saiy without hesitation we have in this building the most mag niicent institutuon of learning in the South. Some may be disposed to say that we have spent money lavishly, that we have expended more than we needed. But there has not been any thing small or picayunish connected with our building: we preferred to build largely rather than have a poor cheal) John college. Mr. President and members of the faclty, we, the board of trustees,have dne our part as far as we were able; we know there are many defects, that te appliances and apparatus are not all that could be desired, butt we look with confidence to the State to support it. Upon you and your associates will depend whether this school will em body the great work we have marked out for it. The fitting of its pupils for their woris in life, so that no matter under what coinditions they live, they may be equipped for it. If the faculty wil remember that they were selected from a large number of applicants, in f((' ci plAinented. I spzak without he,itatioun when I say that we have se S d lie best that we could obtain. It v~luld be almost a miracle if we h., it made soue mistakes. but I st'I re notice on you that if we find hwe have a weed or noxious ilower in fibis; irarden of ours, we will un doul!ed!y pluck it up and cast it forth A R . man story-teller relates that on one oceision some of the noblest la dies in U-me, wires of Senators and other grat men, were comparing their jewels: oe. showing a diamond tiara, aiitt r a ring, another a bracelet and so on. when one of the ladies unnoticed by the others, left the room. She ple'ently returued. leading her two baby boys, twins (the senator forgot there was about 12 years difference in the ages of the boys) and presenting th-mta to the ladies, who rose at her approach, said: "These are my jew els." I don't think there is any wom an more venerated in Roman history than that matron-the mother of the Gracchi. Her two sons lost their lives in a struggle with the aristocracy for the emancipation of the masses. But the words of that matron have echoed down the corridors of time. Can I not say with pride, to youyoung ladies, that you are South Carolina's jewels? We have brought you here to this institution of higher education for the purpose of training. You will remember, or if not, I will tell you that some of the most beauti ful gems are dull and lustreless stones when taken from the mine. It takes grinding and polishing, sometimes a great deal of it, to bring out the light which the Creator put into them, and which we see in the perfect gem. You are jewels, and as I look upon you I do not wonder at the eloquence of my bachelor friend here. There is hope for him yet. ladies. But to return to the simile. You are here to have the grinding and polishing that the gem requires, to be shaped to perfect wom anhood, you who are the hope of the State. You have come here from the graded and common schools, some, perhaps, without many of the oppor tunities which you ought to have had. Let me give you a word of encourage ment. It is this: A great thinker has said, "He who trains his faculties to the utmost of their possibility and he who does the duties that lie before him has made a success." Do your best, angels can do no more. And I only hope that if some of you are con fronted with the problem of having a worthless husband to care for you may be able to support him. Do the best you can and I feel sure you will succeed. I know you must be hungry from the expression of your eyes. I want to say one thing, however. The thought is recalled to my mind by the view of this beautiful rosebud garden of birds. Bobby Burns the great Scot tish poet whose genius is revered by all Scotchmen and all English-speak ing peoples. loved women better, I think, than almost any man who ever lived, judging from the tribute he pays to them in his verse, and this is what he says: "Old Nature swears The lovely dears, Her greatest work she classes, 0, Her 'prertice hand She tried on man, And then she made the lassies, 0." Now I say in parting I will carry with me to my dying day the memory of your bright faces. It will always be a pleasure to me to point to the opening of this school at Rock Hill. Remember what we have a right to expeet from you, young ladies, make much of the opportunities before you, and may it prove that every girl who leaves this institution may have a right to feel proud to say "I was at Winthrop," and may we say "we are~ proud that we have Winthrop." After Miss Souther had sung a sol , Mr. J. E. Breazeale was introduced and assured the audience that Win' throp College should never lack State support if all the legislators thought as hedid on the subject. Mr. W. D. Mayfield then made an earnest plea for the common schools of the State, atter which the benedic tion was proclaimed and the exercises were over. F. C. WrrHERS. Emanuel Wiliams Killed. Emanuel Williams, the notorious outlaw, has met his fate at last. He was killed at Seivern in Aiken Coun ty last Staurday night by Mr. Oscar Meyer, a conductor on the Carolina Midland Railroad. It seems -that Meyer and Williams had had some trouble sorne t wo or three weeks since at Seivern, and Meyer had been ad. vised by numerous friends to be on the alert, lest Williams would take an advantage some time and kill him in the dark. Meyer. who runs regularly as conductor on the Carolina Midland Railroad, received a dispatch at Wag ener last night reading thus: "Be on the lookout; something wrong in towvn." Thus he was on his guard. When he went into Seivern hie first asked the agent and afterwards Engineer Good win to walk with him to his boarding house. Goodwin agreed to do it, and when they had come in about two steps of his house door Meyer saw a man rise out of the bushes to his left with his left hand ii his bosom as if gripping a weapon. Meyer fired and the shot took effect in the left side about one-half inch from a line with the nipple and t wo inches to the right of it. The ball passed through the ~heart and lung and pressed against the skin on the iack side. Acting Coroner G. Jones Baltzgear held the inquest, and the jury, with Mr. Eman uel Busbee as foreman, brought in a verdict that "Emanuel Williamscame to his death from a gunshot wound in the hands of Oscar Meyer, and that the said Oscar Meyer's life was in im minent danger at the time." Meyer has numerous friends, and everybody seems to think that the verdict was perfectly righteous and entirely consistent with the facts. It will be remembered that Williams is the man who, for all intents and pur poses, has been outlawed by several States. He is the man who was sup posed to have killed Mitchell Poole, of this county, about two years ago. Af ter his trial for this he was carried to Alabama to answer for crimes he was supposed to have committed, and put out on bail there. His bondsmen proved that lie had been drowned in the Alabama River and the bonds were satisfied. From that time he was'successively in Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and Florida, till January, 1895, when he was brought back to South Carolina on suspicion that he was the murderer of County Treasurer Copes. Under this charge he was lodged in the Peni tentiary and retained there till some time in April last. Williams's career has been a notorious one of crime and depredation. Oscar Meyer is a young man, honest, frugal, industrious and strictly attentive to his own business, of a quiet disposition and perfectly calm and considerate. H~e stands very hig-h in the opinion of his employers, the-Carolina Midland Riailroad, and Southern Express Company, who, no doubt, will see that he hiasa fair show ing in the Courts.-Times and Demo crat. Cholera in Egypt. ALEXANIDRIA, Bgy pt, Oct. 16.-The total number of cases of cholera as Daietta up to the evening of Octobet 15 was 10 and the number of deathr OUR SHOWING AT ATLANTA. Whatu iui Carolina Contributes to the Exhi bit ioni. Naturally, the first thing a South Carolinian wants to know is what place his own State occupies in the picture. While the Palnetto State has no building as New York, Pennsylvania. Alabama, California, Illinois and several other States, yet the display she makes is very creditable indeed. She has displays in four buildings the agricultural, the woman's building and the woman's annex. In the agricultural building the ex hibit is in the care of Commissioner Roche. who deserves much credit for the good taste and judgment shown, as well as the energy used in getting together so much with so little finan cial backing. As is to be supposed, phosphate rock plays an important part in the South Carolina exhibit. There are two large pillars of it, made of alternate layers of land and river rock. Then there are a large number of specimens of the fossils taken from the phosphate beds. Next in importAnce comes a temple of grain 21x21x35. It is made of corn and wheat and oats and rye, all ar ranged in a very attractive way. The tower of rice comes next. The Winnsboro granite quarries have a display of their polished and upnol ished stone. The Walker, Evans & Cogswell company have probably the best bookbinding and general station ary supply display to lie found on the grounds. The Columbia Cotton mills have, without question, the most at tractive display of products of any cot ton mill display to be found at the ex position. The Courtenay mills of New berry have an attractive exhibit, and a number of the other mills have added to the general display of cotton ooods made in this State. The Caro Fina Mining company of Blacksburg with Col. J. F. Black as its manager, has a most creditable display of min erals and South Carolinians will open their eyes to find that so many valua ble minerals are found in the soil of their State. The Charleston College museum has been drawn upon and many of its choicest specimens for students of natural history are on dis play. Then, too, there are stuffed fishes of every va iety found in the waters of the State and stuffed birds. many of which cannot claim South Carolina as their home. The State dispensary is to have a display, but it has not been arranged yet, and Clem son College has been assigned a corner-. THE CHARLESTON R003. Mrs. Andrew Simonds will win many plaudits for herself for the ad mirable manner in which she has dec orated "Charleston Room" which is in the woman's building. The room as signed to Charleston was used as the assembly hall and is about the largest room in the building, but Mrs. Sim onds has not only filled it with the choicest paintings, tapestries, curious and interesting heirlooms from Char leston's homes, but her exhibit has overflowed into the main hall, and been distributed in other rooms in the buildings. On the walls of the Char leston are over eighty portraits of co lonial arid revolutionary governors of South Carolina, leading men of the State in later years, and representa titives of nearly all of the leading families in th3 State. The ceiling of one section of the room is decorated with a handsome centrepice, a freize, the handiwork of Charleston ladies. This is one of the few things in the Charleston room which will be sold when the exposition is over, and the highest bidder for this centre-piece and frieze will have very handsome decorations for a room. The Charles ton room compares favorably in dis play with any room in the woman's building. and in extent is hardly equalled by any other. IN THlE WOMANS'S ANNEX. Mrs. Dr. Robertson of Columbia has s- own her great taste and energy. in the South Carolina woman's room in the annex to the woman's building. Here are interesting exhibits too num erous to mention. Among the paint ings can be found those of Mrs. Rob ertson, Miss Earle, Mrs. Bachman and Mrs. Kendall of Columbia, Miss More land of Charleston, Mrs. Wynne of Greenville; china painting by Miss Blondelle Malone of Columbia: tapes tries from the Ursuline convent; the Jackson vase and Palmetto regiment flag's tall head from the vaults of the Central National Bank, and a num ber of pieces of very handsome entique silver from Mrs. John E - Bacon, Mrs. Thomas Heyward and Mrs. F. A. Miles. There is a tea cup used, by Lafayette in 1802 at a tea party given by Mrs. Eliza Green Earle. A num ber of Italian relics are shown, besides hundreds of other articles which the antiquarian could spend days in ex amining. This display does great credit to the ladies. Other South Carolina exhibitors worthy of mention are: Dr. C.- U. Shepard of Summerville, who has the only American tea exhibit to be found on the grounds.- the J. Wilson Gibbes Stationary company, which shows a number of model typewriters' desks, and other oflice fixturesof their partic ular patent. Altogether South Carolina makes a very creditable show and one of which every one from this State can well be proud.-H._H. McMaster in The State. A Murder Mystery. PACOLET, Oct. 15 -The body of Silas Maney, colored, was found early this mormngn about one mile above the sta tion on the railroad, terribly mutilated The head was severed from the body and one arm cut off. There was a bask et and two or three bottles of whiskey by the side of the body. It is known that the dead man came down from Spartanburg as far as Rich Hill with another colored man, late yesterday afternoon and he left a col - ored man's house near where his body now lies about 10 o'clock. At the inquest evidence may be pro duced showing the cause of his deathb. Silas worked at the stone quarry and was rather a favorite with his emplo yers.-State________ Four Bridge B~uilders Ki'led. BU-TE MONT., Oct. 15.-John Mc Varish, foreman of a gang of Nor-thien Pacific bridge builders, was instantly killed last night and John Holmes, Joe Abrahams and Dan Harrison so seriously injured that they have since died. The men were engaged rebuilding a burned trestle on the Northen Pacit ic eight miles north of Butte and were hoisting a big timber to position above them when it became loosened and falling, knocking the four men off the trestle down 60 feet among rocks. Mc Varish was instantly killed. Harrison and Abrahams never regained consci ousness and died this morning Hlarri son died this afternoon. BMnNEY Barnate, the man most talk ed about in London today, is not yet forty years of age. He is said to have made'from $25, 000,000 to $100,000,000 in South African speculation. ,He has been a barber, a drummer, a bra kers clerk and a messenger. Aso plunger his success has been pheno menal. Just how he got started in Africa, the New York World says is not known, but he made a big fortune ee, andis now adding to it in Lon-f LESSON OF A RESCUE. REV. DR. TALMAGE PREACHES ON THE SACRIFICE OF ABRAHAM. "The Lamb of God Who Takes Away the sins of tlw' WorII"--A Remarkaw)]y Pow ful and Clear 1:ile Story--A brahtam and Isaac. NEW YORK. Oct. 13 -In his sermon for today Rev. Dr. Talmage chose for his subject Abraliam's supreme trial of faith and the angelic rescue of Isaac from oeing offered by his father as a sacrifice. The text was Genesis xxii, 6, "Behold the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb?" Here are Abraham and Isaac, the one a kind, old, gracious, affectionate father, the other a brave, obedient. religious son. From his bronzed ap pearance you can tell that this son has been much in the fields, and from his shaggy dress you know that he has been watching the herds. The moun tain air has painted his cheek rubi cund. He is 20 or 25, or, as some sup pose, 33 years of age, nevertheless a boy, considering the length of life to which people: lived in those times and the fact that a son is never anything but a boy to a father. I remember that my father used to come into the house when the children were home ou some festal occasion and say, "where are the boys?" although "the boys" were 25 and 30 and :35 years of age. So this -Isaac is only a boy to Abraham, and this father's heart is in him. It is Isaac here and Isaac there. If there is any festivity around the father's tent, Isaac must enjoy it. It is Isaac's walk and Isaac's apparel and Isaac's manners and Isaac's prospects and Isaac's prosperity. The father's heartstrings are all wrapped around that boy, and wrapped again, until nine-tenths of the old man's life is in Isaac. I can just imagine how loving ly and proudly he looked at bis only scn. Well. the dear old man had borne a great deal of trouble, and it had left its mark upon him. In hieroglyphics of wrinkle the story was written from forehead to chin. But now his trouble seems all gone, and we are glad that he is very soon to rest forever. If the old man shall get decrepit, Isaac is strong enough to wait on him. If the father gets dim of eyesight, Isaac will lead him by the hand. If the father become destitute, Isaac will earn him bread. How glad we are that the ship that has been in such a stormy sea is coming at last into the harbor. Are you not rejoiced that glorious old Abraham is through with his troubles? No, no! A thunderbolt! From that clear eastern sky there drops into that father's tent a voice with an announce ment enough to turn black h ir white and to stun the patriarch into instant annihilation. God said, "A'Sraham!" The old man answered, "Here I am." God said to him. "Take thy son, thy only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah and offer him there as a burnt offering." In other words, slay him, cut his body into fragments, put the fragments on the wood, set fire to the wood and let Isaac's body be consumed to ashes. "Cannibalism: Murder!" says some one. "Not so," said Abraham. I hear him soliloquize: -Here is the boy on whom I have depended. Oh, how I loved him: He was given in answer to prayer, and nowv must I sur render him? 0 Isaac, my son! Isaac, how shall I put with you? But, then it is always safer to do as God asks me to. I have been in dark places before, and God got me out. I will implicitly do as God has told me, although it is very dark. I can't see my way, but I know God makes no mistakes, and to him I commit myself and my darling Early in the morning there is a stir around Abraham's tent. A beast of burden is fed- and saddled. Abraham makes no disclosure of the awful se cret. At the break of day he says: "Come, come, Isaac, get upa Weare going off on a two or three dafj.kr; ney." I hear the ax hewi.an splitting amid the wood un A. sticks are made the right length and the right thickness, and then they are fastened on the beast of burden. They pass on-there are four of them Abraham, the father; Isaac, the son, and two servants. Going along the road, I se.e Isaac looking up into his father's face and saying: "Father, what is the matter? Are you not well? Has anything happened? Are you tired ? Lean on my arm." Then, turn ing around to the servants, the son says, "Ah, father is getting old, and he has had trouble enough in other days to kill him !" The third day has come, and it is the day of the tragedy. The t wo ser vants are left with the beast of burden, while Abraham and his son Isaac. as was the custom of good people in those times, went up on the hill to sacrifice to the Lord. The wood is taken off the beast's back and put on Isaac's back. Abraham has in one hand a pan of coals or a lamp, and in the oth er a sharp, keen knife. Here are all the appliances for sacriace, you say. No, there is one thing wanting- there is no victim-no pigeon, or heifer or lamb. Isaac, not knowing that he is to be the victim, looks up into his father's face and asks a question which must have cut the old man to the bone-"My father:" The father said, "My son Isaac, here I am." The son said, "Behold the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb?" The father's lip quivered, and his heart fainted, and his knees knocked together, and his entire body, mind and soul shiver in sickening anguish as he struggles to gain equipoise, for he does not want to break down. And then he looks into his son's face. with a thousand rushing tendernesses, and says, "My son, God will provide himself a lamb." The twain are now at the foot of the hill, the place which is to be famous for a most transcendent occurrence. They gather some stones out of the fieiand build an altar 3 or 4 feet high. Then they take this wood oilf Isaac's back and surinkle it over the stones, so as to help and invite the Ilame. The altar is done-it is all done. Isaac has helped to build it. With his father he has discussed whether the top of the table is ev'en and whether the wood is properly prepared. Then there is a pan7se. The son looks around to see if there is not some living ani nal that can be caught and butchered for the offering. Abraham tries to choke down his fatherly feelings and suppress his grief, in order that he may break to his son the tcrrifle news that he is to be the victim. Ah: Isaac never looked more beau tiful than on that day to his father. As the old man ran his emaciated fingers through his son's hair he said to himself: "HIow shal!I give him up What will his mother say when I come back without my boy: I thougat he would have been the hope of ages to come. Beautiful and loving and yet to die under nmy own hand. U God, is there not some other sacrifice that will do? Take my life and spare his: Pour out my blood and save Isaac for his mother and the world:" But this was an inward struggle. The father controls his feelings and looks into his son's face and says, "Isaac, must I tell you all?" His son said: "Yes, father-. 1 thought you had something on your mind. Tell it.'' The father aid .r son Isaac thou art the amb 1 )"'" you Say. "wny didn't that Vouou man, if he was 2u or :30 years of age. smite into the dust his infirm father? He could have done it." A h: Isaac knew by this time that the sce'ne was typical of a Messiah who was to come, and so he made no struggle. They fell on each other's necks and wailed out the parting. Awful and matchless scene of the wil derness. The rocks echo back the breaking of their hearts. The cry: "My son: MNy son!" The answer: "My father! 31y father:" Do not compare this, as some people have, to Agamemnnon. willing to offer up his daughter, Iphigenia, to please the gods. There is nothing comparable to this wonderful obedi ence to the true God. You know that victims for sacrifice were always bound, so that they might not strug gle away. Rawlings, the martyr, when he was dying for Christ's sake. said to the blacksmith who held the manacles, "Fasten those chains tight now. for my flesh may struggle migh tily." So Isaac's arms are fastened, his feet are tied. The old man, rally ing all his strength, lifts him on to a pile ;of wood. Fastening a thong on one side of the altar, he makes it span the body of Isaac, and fastens the thong at the other side the altar, and another thona, and another thong. There is the Tamp flickering in the wind, ready to be put inder the brush wood of the altar. There is theknife, sharp and keen. Abraham-struggl ing with his mortal feelings on the one side and the commands of God on the other-takes that knife, rubs the flat of it on the palm of his hand, cries to God for help, comes up to the side of the altar, puts a parting kiss on the brow of his body, takes a message from him for mother and home, and then, lifting theaglittering weapon for the plunge of the death stroke-his mus c'es knitting for the work-the hand begins to descend. It falls! Not on the heart of Isaac, but on the arm of God, who arrests the stroke. making the wilderness quake with the cry: "Abraham! Abraham: Lay not thy hand upon the lad nor do him any harm!" What is this sound back in the woods! It is a crackling as of tree branches, a bleating and a struggle. Go, Abraham, and see what it is. Oh, it was a ram that, going through the woods, has its crooked horns fastened and entangled in the brushwood and could not get loose, and Abraham seizes it gladly and quickly unloosens Isaac from the altar, puts the ram on in his place, sets the lamp under the brushwood of the altar, and as the dense smoke of the sacrifice begins to rise the blood rolls down the sides of the altar and drops hissing into the fire, aud I hear thE words, "Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world." Well, what are you going to get out of this? There is an aged minister of the gospel. He says: "I should get out of it that when God tells you to do a thing, whether it seems reasonable to you or not, go ahead and do it. Here Abraham couldn't have been mistaken. God didn't speak so indis tinctly that it was not certain whether he called Sarah orAbimelech or some body else, but with divine articulation. divine emphasis, he said, 'Abraham!' Abraham [rushed blindly ahead to do his duty, knowing that things would come out right. Likewise do so your selves. There is a mystery of your life. There is some burden you have to carry. You don't know why God has put it on you. There is some per secution, some trial, and you dont know why God allows it. There is a work for you to do, and you have not enough grace, you think, to do it. Do as Abraham did. Advance. aud do your whole duty. Be willing .to give up Isaac, and perhaps you will not have to give up anything. 'Jeho vahjireh'-the Lord will provide." A capital lesson this old minister gives uOut yonder in his house is an aged woman. The light of heaven in her face :she is half way through the door; he ,Ras her hand on the pearl of the g.a#: Mother, what would you get o6rt 4 this subject? "Oh," she says, "I would learn that it is in the last pinch that God comes to the relief. You see, the altar was ready, and Isaac was fastened on it, and the knife was lifted and just at the last moment God broke in and stopped proceedings. So it has been in my life of 70 years. W~hy, sir, there was a time when the flour was all out of the house, and I set the table at noon and had nothing to put on it, but five minutes of 1 oclock a loaf of brea3. came. The Lord will provide. My son was very sick, anid I said: 'Dear Lord. you don't mean to take him away from me do you? Please, Lord, don't take him away. Why, there are neigh bors who have three and four sons. This is my only son, this is my Isaac. Lord, you won't take him away from me, will you?' But I sa w he was get ting worse and worse 'all thei time, and I turned round and praye-, until after awvhile I felt subnmi:sive, and I could say, 'Thy will 0 Lord. be done:' The doctors gave him up. and we all gave him up. Aud as was the customr in those times. we had made the grave clothes, and we were wisperingabout the last exercises when I looked, and I sawv sorne persoirationl on his brow. showing that thie fever had broken and he spoke to us so naturally that I knew he was going to get well. lHe did get well, and my son 'Isaac, whom I thought was going to be slain and consumed of disease, was loosened from that alta. And, bless your souls, that's been so for 70 years, and if my voice weie not so weak, and if I could see better, I could preach to you youn ger people a sermon, for though I can't see much Ican see this: When ever you get into a tough place. and your heart is breaking, if you will look a little farthiento the woods you will see, caught in the branches, a substi tute and a deliverance. 'My son, God will provide himself a lamb.'"' Thank you, mother, for that short sermon. 'I could preach back to you for a minute or two and say, never do you fear. I wish I had half as goo-1 a hope of heaven as yon have. D~o not fear. mother. Whatever happens, no harm will ever happen to you. I was going up a long flight of stairs, and I saw an aged woman, very decrepit and with a cane, creeping on up. She made but very little progress, and I felt very exuberant, and I said to her, "Why,~mother. that is no way to go up stair's," and I threw my arms around her and I carried her up and put her down ou the landing at the -top of the stairs. She said: '-Thank you, thank you. I am very thankful." Oh, mother, when you get through this life's work and you want to go up stairs and rest in the good place that God has provided for -ou, you will nt have to climb up --you will not have to crawl up painfully. The two a-ms that were stretched on the cross will be tlung around you and you will be hoisted with a glorious lift b-eyonid all weariness and all struggle. May the God of Abraham and Isaac be with you until you see the Lamb on the hilltops. Now, that aged minister has made a suggestion and this aged woman has mae a suggestionl. I will make a suge.tion -Isaac going up the hill maes mec think of the great sacrinice. Isaac. the on ly son of Abraham. .Jesus. the only son'of God. On those two "onls'" I build a tearfutl emphasis. O Isaa: 0 TJeus' But t'nis last sacrifice UAKIt POWDER Absolutely Pure. A cream of tartar Darmng powd Higlest of all in leavening strength.-La test United States Government Food Ra port IVoyal Ilakinew Powder Company 10 wallst..N. y was a more tremendous one. When the knife was lifted over Calvary. there was no voice that cried "Stop!"' and no hand arrested it. Sharp, keen and tremendous, it cut.dow a through nerve and artery until the blood spraved the faces of the executioners and the midday sun dropped a veil of cloud over its face because it could not endure the spectacle. 0 Isaac of Mount Moriab! 0 Jesus of Mount Calvary: Better could God have thrown away into annihilation a thousand worlds than to have sacri ficed his on only Son. It was not one of ten sons-it was his only Son. If he had not given up him, you and I would have-perished. "God so loved the world that he g -e his only"-I stop there, not becaust. I have' forgot ten the quotation, but because I want to think. "God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlast: ing.life." Great God, break my heart at the thought of that sacrifice. Isaac the only, typical of Jesus the only. You see Isaac going up the hill and carrying the wood. 0 Abraham, why not take the load off the boy? If he is going to die so soon. why not make his last hours easy? Abraham knew that in carrying that wood up Mount Moriah Isaac was to be a symbol of Christ carrying his own cross up Cal vary. I do not know how heavy that cross was-whether it was made of oak or acacia or Lebanon cedar. I suppose it may have weighed 100 or 200 or 300 pounds. That was the lightest part of the burden. All the sins and sorrows of the world were wound around that cross. The-heft of one, the heft of two, worlds-earth and hell were on his shoulders. 0 Isaac, carrying the wood of sacrifice up Mount Moriah. 0 Jesus, carrying the wood of sacrifice up Mount Calva ry, the agonies of earth and hell wrap ped around that cross. I shall never see the heavy load on Isaac's back that I shall not think of the crushing load on Christ's back. For whom that. load? For you. For you. For me. For me. Would that all the tears that we have ever wept over our sorrows had been saved until this morning, and that Te might now pour them out on the lacerated back and feet and heart of the Son of God. You say: "If this young man was. 20 or :30 years' of age. why did not he resist? Why was it not Isaac binding Abraham instead of'Abraham binding Isaac? The muscle in Isaac's arm was stronger than the muscle in Abraham's. withered arm. No young man 25 years of age would submit to have his father fasten him to a pile of wood with in tention of burning him. Isaac was a willing sacrifice, and so a type of Christ who willingly came to save tue world. If all the armies of heaenf had resolved to force Christ out from. the gate, they could not have done it. Christ was equal with God. If all the' battallions of glory had armed them selves and resolved to put Christ forth and maake him come out and save this. world, they could not have succeeded in it. 'With one stroke he would have topped over angelic and archangelic dommnion. But there was one thing that the omnipotent Christ could not stand. Our sorrows mastered him. He could not bear to see the world die without. an otfer of pardon and help, and if all heaven had armed itself to keep him back, if the gates of life had been bolt ed and double barred, Christ would have flung the everlasting doors from their hinges and would have sprung forth, scattering the hind'ering hosts. of heaven like chaff before the whirl wind, as he cried: "La, I come to suf fer: Lo, I come to die:" Christ-a willing sacrifice. 'Willing to take Bethlehem humiliation and sanhedrin outr-age and whipping post maltreat ment and Golgotha butchery. Will ingc to be bound. Willing to suffer. Willing to die. Willing to save. How does this affect you? Do not your very best impulses bound out to ward this painstruck Christ? Get down at his feet, 0 ye people. Put your lips against the wound of his right foot and help kiss away the pang. Wipe the foam from his dying lip. Get under the cross until you feel the baptism of his rushing tears.. Take him into your heart, with warm est love and undying enthusiasm. By your resistances you have abused him long o'ough. Christ is willing to save you. Are you willing to be saved? It. seems to me as if this moment were throbbing with the invitations of an all compassionate God. I nave been told that the cathedral of St. Mark stands in a quarter in the center of the city of Vemce, and that when the clock strikes 12 at noon all the birds from the city and the regious round about the city fly to the square and settle dlown. It came in this wise. A large hearted woman passing one noonday across the square saw some birds shivering in the cold. and she scattered some crumbs of bread among them. The iiext day at the same hour she scattered more crumbs of bread among them, and so on fr-om year to year until the day of her death. In her will she bequeathed a certain amount of money to keep up the same practice. and now, at the first stroke of the bell at noon, the birds begin to come there, and when the clock has struck 12 the square is covered with them. How beautifully suggestive. Christ comes out to feed thy soul to day. The more hungry you feel your selves to be the better it is. It is noon, and the gespel clock strikes 12. Come in flocks: Come as doves to the win dow: All the air is filled with the li quid chime: Come: Come: Come: ('ylindrical Cotton Bales. The saving of one dollor- a bale for compresingis certainly one good fea ture: the saving to the producer on account of liberal "sampling"~ is anoth er, and the fact that coarse cotton cloth can be employed to cover the bales is another and important one, as it will provide a new use for low grade cotton nd enhance its price. As the bales remain compr-essed. when compressed. in the rol], fewer ties should also be required to keep them in form, and an ther item'of expense should oe saved to the producers accordingly. Altogether he new bale anyar-s to have many ulv:'ntages to commend it to produ ers and manufa~cturers of cotton alike, and it has pro'.ably come to stay. -