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THE SON OF DAVID,. REV. DR. TALMAGE PREACH ES A SER MON TO yOUNG MEN. Love of Home--Indutrious Habits--A High IdexI of Life--respect For the Sab bath-The Christlan Religion--l Turn Ing Point. WASUNGTON, Nov'. --11 hisser mon today Rev. Dr. Talmige, preach ing to the usual crowded audience, took up a subject of universal interest to Voupa men. His text was selected froy Iy Samuel xviii. 2), -Is the young man Absalom safe ?" The heart of David, the fAher, was wrapped uo in his boY Absalon. lie was a splendid boy.judged by the rules of -worldly criticism. From the of his head to the souIl of his foot there was not a single bleuish. The Bible said that he had such a lux uriant shock of hair that when oiice a year it was shorn what was Cat off weighed over three pounds. But. notwithstanding all his brilliancy o appearance,. he was a bad boy ami broke his father s heart. S liottinga to get the throuc of Israelc. He had marshaled an arm to over throw his father's goveraneut. The day of battle had come. The conlict was bega-uf. Dav-idl the falther, sat be tween the gates of the palace waiting for the tidings of the conflict. .0h, how rapdlv his heart beat with emo tion! 'Two great questions were to be decided-the safety of his boy and the continuance of the throne of Israel. After awhile a servant, standing on the top of the house, looks oti and sees --,sam -Ole -running- He is conig with great speed, acd the man on me top of the house announces the co ing of the messenger. and the father watches and waitstand assofas the messenger froma the field of battle comes within hailing distance the father cries out. Is it a question i ' regard to the es tablishment of his throne? DoN he say- "Have the armies of Israel been victorious? Am I to continue in my imperial authority? Have I over thrown mv enemies :"Oh. no: There is one question that sprins from the heart to the lip and springs from the 1p into the ear of the besweated and beusted messenger flying from the battlefield-the question, sIs the young man AbSSlOM Safe?' When it youtold to David the king, that, though his armies had been victorious, his son had bEen slain, the father turned his back upon the congratula tions of the nation and went up the stairs of his palace, his heart breaking as he went, w .nging his hands some times and then in pressing them against his empes as though he would press them i, crying ou Ab salom, mY son, my son! W~ould God I had ie for thee, 0 Absalom, my son, my son!" My friends, the question wnich Dav id the king,. asked in regard to his son is the question that resounds today in the hearts of hundreds of parents, Yea, there are a great multitude of young men who know that the ques tion of the text is appropriate when asked in regard to them. The know the tern tations, by which theyv are urroun~ed; they see so many who ave started life with as good resolu tions as they have who have fallen in the path, and they are ready to hea me ask the question of my text, "Ih the young man Absalom safe." Te fact isthat thislife is full of peril. He who undertakes it without the grace *of God and a proper understanding of -the conflict into which he is going must certainly be defeated. Just look off upon society today. Look at the thnswr romised. and who start ed lif with every advantage. Look at those who have dropped from high socialposition, and from great fortune, disgraced for time, disgraced for eter itAll whc sacrifice their integri cometo'Overthrow. .Take a dishon est dollar and bury it in the center of the earth and keep all the roers of the mountains on top of it; then cover these rocks with all the diamonds of Golconda, and all the silver of Nevada, and all the a-old of California and Australia, anal put on top, of these all baning and moneyed institutions, and they cannot keep down that one dis honest dollar. That one dishonest dollar in the center of the earth will bei to heave and rock and upturn itself until it comes to the resurt ection f damnation. ' As the patridge sit teth on eggs and hatcheth them not, so he that getteth riches, and not by riht, shall11eave them min e midst of dys, and at his end shall be a fool."* Now, what are the safeguards of ygmen? The first safeguard of hih I want to speak is a love of home. There are those who have no idea of the pleasures that concentrate around that word "home." Perhaps your early abode was shadowed with vice or poverty; Harsh words and petulance and scowling may have de-1 stroyed all the sanctity of t.hat spot. Love, kindness and, self sacrifice, which haye built their altars in so many abodes, were strangers in your father's house. God pity you, youngi n. You neverhad a home. But, a ultitude in this place can look back] to a spot that they can never forget.1 It may have been a lowly roof, but you cannot think of it now without a dahf emotion. You have seen nothing on earth that so stirred your sol.. A stranger passing along that1 place mig ht see nothing remarkable -about it, but oh! how much it nreans1 t ou. Fresco on palace wall does1 not mean so much to you as those rg hewn rafters. Parks and bow ers and trees at fashionable watering plae or country seat does not mean1 so much to you as that brook that ran2 i front of the plain farmhouse and snging under the weeping willows. Th e barred gateway swung open by< porer miul dress does not mean as much to you as that swing gate, your.t sister on one side of it and' you on the other. She, gone 15 years ago into goy! That scene coming back tot yo today as you swept backwarde and forward on the a-ate sine in the song of your c~iildhool.< Butthere are those here who ] have their second dwelling place. It is1 your adopted home. That also is] sacred for ever. There you establish-t ed the first family altar. There your children were born. In that room< flaped the wing of the deathx angel. Udr that roof, when your work is1 done, ou expect to lie down and die.2 Theeis only one word in all the langu-2 e etat can convey your idea of that ce , and that word is "home.''" Now, let me say that I never knew a man who was faithful to his early and adopted home who was given over at the same time to any gross form of wickedness. If you find mor-e enjo yment in the clubroom, in the lit erary socity, in the art salon, than: you do in these unpretending home: pleasures, you are on the roaxd to ruin. Though you may be cut of f from your early ssociates, and though you may bee seperated from all your kindred, yooung man, is there not a room some wherherethat you can call your own Thhough it be the fourth story of a thiird class boarding house, into thiat rooom gather books. pictures and a haarp. Hang your mother's portrait ~over the mantel. Bid unholy mirth sttand back from that threshold. Coni the knee of prayeir. D- the memo'v of other days, a father's counsel, a imother's lOve and a sister's confidenec, call it home. Another safeguard for these young men is industrious habit. There are a great many people trying to make their way through the world with their wits instead of by honest toil. There is a young man vho comes from the country to the city. Ile fails twice be fore he is as old as his father when he firzt saw the spires of the great town. He is seated in his room at a rent of $2.000 a year. waiting for the banks to declear t'heir dividends and the stocks to run up. After awhile he gets im patient. lie tries to improve his pen mnship by Iakiag copy plates of other merchants' signatures: Never mind-al is right in basiness. After awhile he has his estate. Now is the time for hiin to retire to the country, amid the lioek% and the herdS. to c"l ture the dometic virtus No-. the vonog men who were lis schoolmates in boyhood will cOm)ne, and with their ox teams draw hislogs, Ind with their hard hands will help to hea. up the castle. That is no fancy skec'h. 'It is everyday life. I should not wonder if there w-re a rotten be-am in that palacet- I should not wonder if (od should smite him with a dire sickness and pour into his cup a bitter draft that will thrill him with unbear able agony. I should not wonder if that man's children grew up to be to him a disgrace. and to make his life a shame. I should not wonder if that man died a dishonorable death and were tumbled into a dishonorable grave, and th'en went into the gnash ing of teeth. The way of the ungodly shall perish. Oh. young man. you must have in dustry of head or hand or foot or per ish : Do: not have the idea that vou cau get along in the world by genius. The curse of this country today is ge niuses-men with large self conceit and nothing else. The man who pro poses to make his living by his wits probably has not any. I should rath er be an oi;, plain and plodding and useful, than to be an eagle, high-fly ing and good for nothing but to pick out the eyes of carcases. Even in the garden of Eden it was not safe for Adam to be idle, so God made him a horticulturist, and if the married pair had kept busy dressing the vines they would not have been sauntering under the tree, hankering after fruit that ru ined them and their posterity! Proof positive of the fact that when people d-> not attend to their business they get into mischief. "Go to the ant, thou sluggard. Consider her ways and be wise, which, having no overseer or guide, provideth her food in the sum mer and gathereth her meat in the harvest." Satan is a roaring lion, and vou can never destroy him by gun or istol or sword. The weapons with which you are to beat him back are pen and type and hammer and adze and saw and pickax and yardstick and the weapon of honest toil. Work, work or die. Another safeguard that I want to present to young men is a high ideal of life. Sometimes soldiers going into battle shoot into the ground instead of into the hearts of their enemies. They are apt to take aim too low, and it is very often that the captain, going into onflict with his men, will cry out. "Now, men, aim high :" The fact is that in life a great many men take no aim at all. The artist plans out his entire thought before he puts it upon canvas, before he takes up the crayon or the chisel. An architect thinks out the entire building before the work men begin. Although everything may seem to be unorganized,. that architect has in his mind every Corinthian col umn, every Gothic arch, every Byzan tine capital. A poet thinks out the entire plot of his poem before he be eins to chime the cantos of tinkling rhythms. And yet there are a great many men who start the important tructure of life without knowing whether it is going to be a rude Tar tar's hut or a St. Mark's cathedr-al, and begin to write out the intricate poem of their life without knowing whether it is to be a Homer's "Odyssey" or a rhmster's botch. Out of 1,000, 999) have no life plot. Beaten aud spurr- - ed and compaisoned, they hasten along, and I ran out and say: "Hal 1o, man: Whither away?" 'No where!" they say. O) young man, make every day's duty a Iiling up of the great l'ife plot. Alas, that there shild be on this sea of life so many hips that seem bound for no port:! Fhey are swept every whither by wind md wave, un by the mountains and iown by the valleys, They sail with ro chart. They gaze on no star. They ong for no harbor. 0 young man, - ave a high ideal and press to it. and3 t will be a mighty safeguard. There aever were grander opportunities op ning before young men than are pening now. Young men of the strong arm, and of the stout heart, md of the bounding step, I marshall you today for a great achievement. 1 Another safeguard is a respect fori .he Sabbath. Tell me how a young nan spends his Sabbath and i will tell rou wnat are his prospects in business, 1 md I will tell yon what are his pros ects for the eternal world. God has t hrust into our busy life a sacred day1 when we are to look after our souls. ] [s it exhorbitant, after giving six days - o the teediog and clothing of these 1 erishable bodies, that God should de nand one day for the feeding and lothing of the immortal souls? 1 Our bodies are seven day clocks, and he need to be wound up. and if they - tre not wound up they ran down into] he grave. No man can continuously reak the Sabbath and keep his physi- 1 :al and mental health. Ask those ged men, and they will tell you they 2ever knew men who continuously yroke the Sabbrth who did not fail in nind, body or moral principle. A nanufacturer gave this as his experi me. He said: 'I owned a factory m the Lehigh. Everything prosper d. I kept the Sabbath, and every hing went on well. But one Sabbath norning I bethought myself of a'new 1 huttle, and I thought I would invent hat shuttle before sunset, and I refus d all food and drink until I had comn leted that shuttle. By sundown I hadi ~ompleted it. The next day, Monday - showed to my workmen and friendsi his ne w' shuttle. They;all congratu-] ated me on my great success. I puti hat shuttle into play. 1 enlarged my usiness, but, sir, that S~imday's work1 :ost me 830,000i. From that day ev vrything wvent wrong. I failed in usiness, and I lost my mill." Oh, ny friends, keep the Lord's day. You nay think it old fogy advice, but I I dive it to you now: "Remember the Sabbath day and keep it holy. Six lavs shalt thou labor and do all thyi d6rk, but the seventh is the Sabbath f the Lord thy God. In it thou shalt 1 iot do any work." A man said that 1 'se would prove that all this was a fal- 1 tav, and so he said, "T shall raise a, sunday crop." And lhe plowed the Eield on the Sabbath, and then lie put in the seed on the Sabbath, and he< ultured tihe ground on the Sabbath. When the harvest was ripe, hie reaped it on the Sabbath, and lhe carried it in to the mow on the Sabbath, and then le stood out detiant to his Christian neighboi's and said, "Thetre. that is my Sunday crop, and it is all gar-ner ed." After awhile a stormi c'ame up. and a great darkness, and the light nings of heaven struck the barn anid away went his Sauiday crop. want to present. have sami ' a til the last because I wa-nt it to be ilte mo10re emphatic. The great safeguard for every young man is the Christian religion. Nothing can take the place of it. You may have gracefulness enough to put to the blush Lord Clies terfield, you may have foreign lan guages droPping from your tongue, You may discuss laws and literature, vou may have a ien of unequaled pol ish and power, you may have so much business tact that .you can get the larg est salary in a bank inz house, you may be us sharp as llernl and as stron as Samson and with as long locks as those which hung Absaloni. and yet have no safety against temp tation. Some of you look forward to life with great despondency. I know it. I see it in your faces from time to time. You say. "All the occupa tions alid professions are full, and there's no chance for me.- 0 young man31, cer up. I will tll you how VOu cin make your fortune. Seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, all other things will be added. I know you do not want to be mean in this inatter. You will not drink the brimming cup of life and then pour out the dregs on God's al tar. To a generous Saviour you will not act like that; you have not the heart to act like that. That is not manly. That is not honorable. That is not brave. Your great want is a new heart, and in the name of the Lor2 Jesus Christ. I tell you so todlay, and the blessed Spitrit lresses througtt the solemnities of this hour to put the cup Of life to your thirsty lIps. (hI thrust it not b.Ack. Mercy presents it -bleeding merev, long suffering mer cy. Despise al other friendships, prove recreant to all other bargains, but despise God's love for your dying soul do not do that. There comes a crisis in a man's life, and the trouble is lie does not know it is the crisis. I got a letter in which a man says to me: "I start out now to preach the gos pel of righteousness and temperance to the people. Dlo you renemtier me? lam the man wito appeared at the close of the service when you were worshiing in the chapel after you came from Philadelphia. Do you re member at the close of the service a man coming up to you all a trenble with conviction, and crying out for merey, and telling you he had a very bad business, and he thought he would clange it? That was the tirning point in my history. I gave up mty bad business. I gave my heart to God, and the desire to serve him has grown upon me all these years, until now woe is unto me if I preach not the gospel." That Sunday night was the turning point of that young man's history. This very Sabbath hour will be the turnimg point in the history of a hun dred young men in his house. God hell) us. I once stood on an anniver sary -platform with a clergyman, who told this marvelous story. He saidr "Thirty years ago two young men started out to attend Park theater, New York, to see a play which made religion ridiculous and hypocritical. They had been brought up in Chris tian families. They started for the theatre to see that vile play, and their early convictions came back upon them. They felt it was not right to go, but still they went. They came to the door of the theatre. One of the young men stopped and started for home, but returned and came up to he door, but had not the courage to o in. He again started for home and went home. The other young man went in. He went from one degree of temptation to another. Caught in the whirl of frivolity and sin, he sank lower and lower. H~e lost his business position: he lost his morals; he lost his soul: he died a dreadful death, not ne star of mercy shining on it. I tand before you today," said that min ster, "to thank God that for 20 rears I have been permitted to preach he gospel. I am the other young an." Oh, you see that was the turning oint-the one went back, the other vent on: The great roarine world of ausiness life will soon brea - in upon rou, young men. |Will the wild wave lash out the impressions of this day as n ocean billow dashes letters out on ;he beach? You need something bet er than this world can give you. I eat on your heart, and it sounds hol ow. You want something great and ~rand and glorious to 1ill it, and here s the religion that can (do it. God ae you! A story of the Sea. NEw YOKK, Nov. 25.-Fourteen assengers who arrived on the Ward 1ine steamer Vigilancia from IHavana ~arly to-day were found to be provid d with no acclimated certificates 'ron the medical inspector at Havana. tnd were transferred to IHoffman's [sland, to await the expiration of five las from the time of leaving Hava ta They will be permitted to land n New York to-morrow afternoon. &mong them were Capt. James Gur ey, Jr., and se.ven of the crew of the >ark Bruce Hawkins, which they had handoned in a dismantled and wa erlogged condition, November 14, 95 niles south of Cape Hatteras. The 3ruce Hawvkins was bound from Sa-. rannah for Boston, and left the for ner ~ort November 8th. She experi-1 ned strong winds and tumultuous eas almost from the time of getting nder way, but all these winds wer'e s zephyrs compared to the hurricane hich struck the bark on the 13th. t came out of the northeast and in1 ,ree hours had well nigh dismantled 1 he bar'k and lilled her with water. .ll hands took refuage on the house, *hile huge ',waves continually broke >ver the vessel. One.larger tnan the 'est swept Mate'Fraser oir his feet and >verboard. Lines were thrown to ~ard him, but lie quickly drifted be -ond the reach of themo, and hamper d by his heavy clothing, soon sank. 1 tbe stores~ were ruined and the abin was knee dleep with water. On he next day the Munson Line steam r Ardannherr, from Philadelphia,4 iove in sight, and being signalled, topped and took oiff the crew, land ng them in Havana. The Bruce iawkins was left to her fate, and two lays later, 250 miles east southeast of atteias, she was sighted and taken n tow by the British steamer Hlenriet I., bounid from Port Royal. S. C.. for1 ~lymouth; Eng., and towed into Corfolk.1 A nianiter Aaaznated. WTssToN. N. C., Nov. 20.-John B. onner, banker, broken and vestry nan in the Episcopal church at Au ora, N. C.. was shot and killed Sun lay night in his yard by an unknown >erson. His body was not found un il esterday. lie was shot twice. one1 >all taking eth'ect in the left side and1 ie other in the forehead. his body vas thrown over the fence into the veeds. lhoodhiounds have been sent or and every effort wi'l be made to :tch the guilty person. Everything raluable was taken frotu the body ex yept a 'ing. i'rightfult Re(ven;lii. MaIRiD, Nov. 24.-Sitxty-t wo bodies, f which thirty-two were the remains f women, have already been recoy' red from the ruins of the carti'idge factory at Palma, Ishund of Majorca, which was blovwn up) yesterday. It is said that the explosion was caused b~y a.wrkmn who had been dismisse. CHARLES R. fROUSS. imuriin Ahnut li- Northern Friemd of the South. N w Yt x. Nov. 28.--There is no (liC hardly in the South who would not like to know something more about this wealthy New Yorker. who has otfered :101I. 000 to establish a Con federate museum or depository for relics, and who, following so closely on this magnificent olfer. only a few days since donated -25,010 toward re hllidinz the recently burned Univer sity of Virginia. Of all the interesting characters in this city who have been prominent before the public for the past .30 or 41) years but few now remain. Million aires are numerous, but they are of the numdruim type. and there is little in their lives to occupy the public at tentim. There is ono. however, wlhose history reads much like a fairy story, an.1d wo, though ad vanced in years and iimersed in business cares suli cient to stagger a man of ordinary strength and vitality, is constantly doing something to astonish these >lase New Yorkers, and it is always %onmethitngl worth relating. Nearly evervone in this vast city who can read is familiar with the his tory of Charles lroad way Reuss. the 'inrchiait prince of 1roadway," as he is sonetimes styled. Mr. Roiss, as 00 per cent. of Amer ican .outh. who have aftervards achieved greatness or wealth have done, began his climb very low down the ladder. and slipped once or twice before he had passed many rounds. His history is one of povertv and hardship, first as a poor but respected farmer's boy, leading a dreary, mono tonous life on his rather's farni near Winchester. Va., restlessly longing for nobler things, yet patiently plod ding and performing his duties as he saw them. 'When the war broke out ie was a siall country merchant at Winches ter with command of perhaps less than a thousand dollai s. This faded away before the advancing armies and he hastened to cast in his lot with his beloved State. When the smoke of that conilict cleared away le was one of the many thousand not only out an unrenmunerative job, but minus food and clothes. In this plight he set out for the home of his conqueror and landed in this Christian city with ,1.80 in cool cash. There were no bunko men then and few sideshows on the Bowery, conseouently he was not disturbed on account of his lai ge possession. Fortunately for himself, Mr. Rouss was not so modest with his possessions and with pluck and luck and plenty of Al horse sense he scuilled and bat tled along in one way and another until he became known as a man who had bought out other men's stocks at auction and sold them again for spot cash at reduced prices. After his ascent in prosperity in New York began- he had a tumble, with debts to the amoun. of N51,000 "on his hands," as the saying is, but really I should say on other people's hands. But a little thing like this could not loor ihis "Napoleon of the auction business." He had only had a taste of wea'th and there his real success began when he entered the rmng again. From this time on his career has been one of success upon success. From small cramped quarters he has meved and removed until he finally lecided about five year's ago to erect the grand building he now occupies. the fine iron building at 549, 551, 553 Broadway, and for which he has been offered $1.500,000. Tue handsome edi lice is 10 stories high, is firerodf and . triumph of the architect's skill and irt. in one of these large front windows is a magnificent lifesize painting of 3eneral Robert E. Lee by Bruce. Right here I will mention one of Mr. Rouss's peculiarities. While he is a olle-hearted, broad-minded man. who has lived :30 years and gained uost of his success in the North, yet be is an ardent Southerner and loves he cause and the people for whom he Fought. He is never so nappy as when de is donating something to some :ommendable cause in the South, but or that matter there is no more liber il and charitable man in this city when recal distress is brought to his at ention from whatever section it may :ome. The remarkable thing about his charities and his donations of other :baracters is that they seem never to make him poorer. The more he gives he wealthier he grows. He has, as lie deserves, a charming family, though death has only recent l bereaved him, one of these being a young son on whom lie lavishes much alrection and whom he expects to sue eed him in perpetuating his sound md proflitable business methods. IHis already great business is con tantly growing and prospering under ais guidance, though for the past year mis eyesight has totally failed him. )verwork was the cause of it, yet lie ~ontinues to labor and direct and may e found at his otlice 13~ hours out of vrv 24. Ihis friends in the South end" him many letters of regard and ympathiy for his ailliction, and they tre all gratefull y rceeived. In this short sketch it has been hard .o do justice to a character so rich and thistory soripe in interetn nc lotes, but I have not attempted to do nore than give a mci-e outline sketch o that the people of the South may omie a little nearer a correct idea of ie man who evidently has their in erests so much at heart and who :herishes so tenderly the recollection f the memories of his youth so full >f adversity though they were. Steam~ l'ipe ii u.t. NEw Yonx. Nov. 2in.-The umain team pipe, nine inches in diameter, eding from the main boiler of the ngine room' situated in a deep cellar n Oscar Hiammierscein's Olympia heatre, at Broadway and Forty-fifth treet, burst early today, s.calding leven men. one of whom, Fred Wi mant, the assistant electrician, was tilled instantly. Another man, An irew Huggins, of New York, in the mploy of the people who have charge f the electric plant in the theatre, is n a dying condition. Nine other men vere injured more or less on the ands and face by scalding water. rhe police have made two arrests in he matter of the explosion. Thle risoecrs are Frederici Sau'vau, thu teamiitter who designed aind placed he plant and John Thompson. steam itter- and electrician. Pushed1 IlimI IHefore the Enugtie. SouTH BENi', Ind., Noi-. 2.-A fa .al light among "hoboes" occurred imst night in the western suburbs of le city. Une of the participants, an .mknown trainp, was pushed in front f a passing Lake Shore passenger :rain and was terribly injured. He wvas re-moved 'to Epworth hospital. ihere het died this morning. The ~r-ap who c'oummiitted the murder boarded the train iu an endeavor to scape. He[~ was locked in a coach and brought to this city, where a tierce attle ensued. He delied a coach full :f passengers and fought desperately For liberty, but was finally clubbed into insensibility by the iicers and train crew and placed under arrest. He may die. Hie claims that his com paion, whom lie murdered, was at emptin ton101i him up. MILLiONS FOR MILLS. BOUND TO COME TO DIXiE FROM NEW ENGLAND. Ad Nat.oital Ad%:Lntage For Cotton 3Ta,,n0etia'ce it Favor of the Sotih. Northern Men Who Profiled by Fore Sight. The Augusta Chronicle has pub lished the foiowing interesting inter view with F. B. Deberard. of th:e New York Dry Goods Economist: "If all the cotton goods of Aierica." sa-d Mr. Dcberard, "reached the con sumer hy the most direct rotes, the average cost of transportation would be about one-half cent a pound. The consumer now pays about aaout 11 cents a pound freight charges on ev ery pound of cotton goods lie uses, Threef-ifths of the total cost of trans portation is abnormal, because it is pid for moving the raw material away fron the centers of consumption in stead of toward them. "The New England States produce neither cotton nor fuel. They trans port their cotton 2,000 miles and their fuel 500 miles. and they transrort both away from their final destination in stead of toward it. "'And the consumer pays the freight. Ile pays forcarrying the raw material and the fuel far away, and he pays for bringing it back. "Nevertheless, this abnormal trans portation tax may not be an economic waste. There are many elements of cost in manufactured products. and sonic of them miay be relatively so low as to compensate for those that are excessive. "New England pays dear for its raw material and fuel. To compensate for excessive cost of these factors it must have some exceptional advantages. If it pays more for its traisportation it may pay less for labor, may be supe rior in skill, in management, in equip mtent, in metiois. If it pays more than the soutIh for some things, it may pay less than the south for other things. Machine for machine, it may til i out more product than the south. Operative for operative, it may pro duce more than the south. Yard for yard and pound for pound, New Eng land's cottor goods must cost less than the south's, if it continues to maintain its ground. 'If New England cotton groods cost less than southern cotton goods, it must be because New England gets more out of its machinery and work people than the south gets. If it toes not do this, its products cost more, its days are numbered and the end is tot distant. "What are the facts?" "They are stated impartially in the -Looms of the South,' upon which I am now engaged, and every reader can weigh them for himself. The present conditions of cotton manufacturing in the south will be fully and. honestly set forth. None of the data given are at second-hand. They are the results of careful and prolonged personal in vestigation and inspection. For this purpose nearly every leading cotton mill in the south and a large number of the minor mills have been 'Visited. The data secured are absolutely relia ble. In nearly every instance they obtained from the account books of the mills visited, and all figures relating to outputs and costs were carefully verified from Independent sources. "That the south is entering upon a new era of wonderful prosperity can hardly be doubted by the unbiased ob server. "In the -Looms of the South,' is of fered a true picture of the beginning of that prosperity. "A few years ago New Englaud hatd no rival in the manu facture of cotton goods. Practically, the whole Ameri :an industry was there. With start ling rapidity, the south has developed into a formidable competitor. The long accepted dictum, "cotton goods an't be made in the south," has been provten untrue. Cotton goods are madle in the south, and for the first time New England finds in full opera tion against her economic laws that lave hitherto been latent. "With no competitors, New Eng land was under no disadvantages. With the south as a competitor, her natural disadvantages count against er with full force. The natural ad antages are with the south, most of the artificial advantages are with New England. Which set of forces are the most powerful? "It is an economic truism that nat ral advantages persist and are of pro ressive force, while artificial advan ages diminish and finally disappear. he south produces cotton, coal, tim er', iron: and it is c'.ose to the con umer. Newv England produces neith e and it is distant fromnthe consumer. s po)pu lation becontes denser, this fundamental advantage of the south, hich can never be lessened, will ex rt continually increasing force. heap raw material, cheap labor, and earby markets are economic magnets ar miore powerful than any opposing orces, and they are certain sooner or ater to attract to their support the forces arrayed against them at the out "These opposing forces, spoken of bove as artiflicial advantages, are plen iful capital, highly developed skill, aried developm ent, capab~le manage - nent. All of these New England has n abundance; but she caninot prevent heir free migration. They ar'e all the reatures of opportunity, and if the outh oliers the opportunity, capital td skill will go south and quickly reate the varied developments. "This is not mere theory; it is a lain statement of what is actually appening now every day, and with Lily growing momnentumi. It is thte are truth that the south today has >Ctter' mills than the north-they are he product of the best engineering skill obtainable, and in every detail of onstruction and arrangement are of 'he highest and most scientific type. hey are equipped with thte most mod rn machinery, embodying the latest esiabie labor-saving improvements, nd are of higrher average elliciency, ittested by quiality and quantity of utput, than any but a fewv northen nills. Moreover, they have been con tructed at far less cost than other nills. and represent much less cost per pindle or per' loom than the less efli ~iet northern mills. With less capi al invested, they have greater earn ug pow~er than their northern corn etor. "The test of the relative skill em yoyed is the quality and quantity of te output. in thme comparison of sim lr grades the output of the best south r mills is as great, and in some cases ~reater, than that of the best northern ntills. [t is produced with the same ammber of machines and the samte umber of operatives, and it is pro luced at much less cost than the pro Luct of thme northern mills. Finally' .t is of higher average quality than the o'thern product. So much for the 'esults of skill and exp~erience. "As to capital, hardly a '.aditng ~ouhern mill but numbers amongit ock holders many northern investors. ~outhern energy, southern capacity mnd business shrewdness have beeni h organizing forces. They have hown that southern mien have all the qualities needful to command suc css, ar-d can without for-eign aid de velop a great opportunity until it be omes a great success. Upon the gacious northern capitalistS have aidl( to build a great SuperstructUre. Coufli dent in its firinness. "Lending investors in all river mill stocks are also coniident investors in certain mills in the south. from which they are receiving large divi dends. "Aiong the capitalists of Worth street there are many who have been quiet investors in southern mills. and were it fiting to publish a list of the directors of the mills of the south, the number of Worth street capitalists tol be found amongst them would cause: a sensation. Iu on'. sneh board eliect. ed within a ipv days. is a prorniient Worth street merchant. a great New York clothing moiuramrer. ansd two New England :nanufacturers. identi lied with cotton goods: whilst among the stockholder6 are Boston capitalists, t Maine manufacturers of woolens, and 1 others who have hitherto believed only I in northera in vestmnts. I put my first $15.00 investment in a southern mill, said a Worth street I merchant, 'just to help a man along. i I did not regard my investment as worth anything. Since then. I have changed my opinion about southern mills., "The merchant in question has nowW propably $50i,00 invested in various t parts of the south in cotton mills. He 1 is one of the few whounderstand fully I the greatness of the opportunity. ] Those who realize it are already large I investors. A steady current of north- i ern capital is already flowiug south: and the current seems likely to be cone a torrent before lonr." I A Crazy Lover. Nw _N. J., Nov. 26.-Arling ton I [eights, one of the p;retty residen ce sections on the East banks of the Passaic River, was the sebne of a dou ble shooting alf'ray this afternoot. which will result in the death o,&. Thomas Colt, a photographer of New York city, and the possible manning for !i'e of Miss Carrie Plate, whose life Colt made desperate but futile ef fort to end before he fired a bullet into his own head. Miss Plate, who is 25 years old. is the daughter of the late IHenry Plate, who wasa promi nent cork cutter in Iowa. Colt met Miss Plate some years ago and it is stated !as been a frequent visitor to her home, and it is believed that the shooting this afternoon was the out come of a love affair. According to the story, told by those who saw the shooting, Colt and Miss Plate alight ed from a trolley car laughing and chatting merrily. They had walked - but a short distance in the direction of the girl's home when suddenly Colt drew a revolver and began to fire. Miss Plate tried to escape. The first bullet struck her in the arm and the second in the back. the third went wide of :-ts mark. Believing that he had killel the girl, Colt then shot himself. It was thought he was dead, and he was allowed to remain on the street in the pouring rain until the arrival of the coroner, who, on exam ining him, found that the wouldbe murderer was still alive. His recov ery, however is impossible. 3iss Plate, who is very seriously wounded, is expected to recover. The family denv that there was any love atrair between Miss Plate and Colt. They claim that her relations with him were strictly of a business nature as she was employed by him frequently in color ing photographs. They offer no ex planation, however, of the shooting.t Japan in the Fieid. Sax Fascisc'o, Nov. 24.-Under the capiton "A Japanese Invasion" The Daily Report last evening' published a I story calculated to startle American manufacturers. Japan is about to in vade the United States with the agents of her factories whose ability to pro duce articles of necessity more cheap ly than the rest of the wvorld can no longer be ignored. Japan at least, recognizes its power, its ambition has been aroused and it is now inaugurat ing an irresistible commercial cam- 1 paign. This ne w and aggressive inva sion commenced a few weeks ago whe~a the agents of a powerful manu facturi ng and commission house, whos;e headquarters are in Kobe andI Hiago, arrived in this city and offer ed such inducements to San Francis co merchants that they were compell ed 1.0 place large orders with the new commercial giant. A canvass of the San Francisco mercantile trade re veals the fact that an unprecedented cut in almost every line of staple goods has been made by the Orienital bidder. Buttons by the great grosst are delivered duty free at a fraction. ( less than the actual cost per gross of b the American article. Bycycles, guaranteed equal to the best high g-rade, are listed at $12. Japanese 1 mnatches are laid down at a low price C which is destined to close everyv match t factory in the United States. Sashes, doors,~blinds and all kinds of wooden I ware can be delivered duty paid at :30 s to 50 per cent. less than the wholesale 7 pices of local mnanufactuiers. After placing huge orders in this city, the agent left for the East wvhere agencies 1 wilt be established in New York, Chii- 1 ago, St. Louis, and else where for the purpose of underselling American and European manufacturers as fast as possible." NEW XORK-, Nov. 27.--General e Thomas Jordan dhied 'tonight at 10:30) v :'clock at his home, No 24 East Twen- a. tv-fourth street. The meumbers ofa Gener'al Jordan's family and some of e is intinmate personal friends were a present wvhen lie .died. General Jor- p an had been sutl~ering a long time I from tuberculosis. Genieral Jordan p was born in Luray, Page County', Vir- o rinia, in 1819. At 10 lhe entered West b Point where he was a roomnmate and c lassmate of William T. Shmermnan. a eneral .Jordan served all through the h Seminole campaign . Afterwards lie tl was in the Mexican war. He was also c: ith the troops in California and Ore- d on in the tuartermnaster's Depart- e: nei' The highest rank that lie ob ained in the United States army was a aptain. At the outbreak of the civil it ar he resigned and .ioined the Con ederacy'. lie was made Brigadier ti eneral and~ served as cief of statV si ith General Beau regar'd and fought T t the first battle of 3Ianassas and at il iiloh. At the close of the war he n ook the side of Gen. Beauregard in p: he latter's gaarrel with .JeIferson t, lavis and wrote an article for a imaga- r< tine denouncing D)avis. For this he te was criticised severely in some quar- a ers. He was connected with the r< MImphiis Appeal for' some time aftern he close of the wvar. When the first In uban insurrection br'oke out Glener'al f ordan enlisted and foughit during c: 8S00-7') against Spain . lHe eventually e eame commander of the rebel forces ., n Cuba. At has Mlenas de Tana on si hristmas day, 1s70, with nearly 60 a: en, he held ini check thirty-five hun- sa red Spanish soldiers until his ammu- a: ntion gave out. lie caime to the ei nited States in 1S71 to intercede for v; uba atmd endeavored to have belliger et rights granted the island. He was a rrested on the charge of violating the eutrality laws and held foi' trial. 1[e sas never~ tried. hiowever. Tim:Atlanta Constitution has off'er- T . dt to write tip the South Cai'olina ex- n ibit for 15 cents a line. That ex 1'lains why the Constitution did not d nention thme recent meeting of the TI South Carolina editors in Atlanta. a hey didn't have the 15 cents per' line p MURIDELE) IY110SLEMS REVIEW OF THE RECENT BLOODY WORK IN TURKEY. )ver 1:*.000 Christians Known to H:te Been K t Id--ny One Instance of sio - confl nsistnce-'m ,00 Now Desti tute. CoNST.NTESOPL:. Nov. 27.-Th fol owing matter has been handed to the -uropean manager of the lnited Press, who is now in Constantinople. he statement has the full endorse nent of Minister Terrell During the month .of October, acon iderable part of the Armenian dis ricts in the provinces of Trebizond, Irzeroum, Bitlis, Van, Harpout, Diar >ekr and Sivas, has been laid waste Lnd a number, not yet fully known. )f the Armenian inhabitants have >een killed by men intentoncrusiing nto impotence the Aarnenian race in ['urkey. As the awful tidings have :ome in by driblets. the Turkish gov rnment has diligently telegraphed broad in regard to each place, that irmenians had attacked Mussulmans. hus arousing a frenzy of indignation, ,vhich could not easily be controlled, >ut order had been restored after some oss of life. The effect of these tele rams has been to cultivate belief that here has been some general rising of rmenians and that we are in the resence of a calamity which is mere y the result of lawless proceedings on he part of the Armenians themselves. atural indignation with the Arme ians for rising at the very momen vhen the reform scheme was about o be put into operation may be mod rated, when it is known that up to his date, the only authentic rising of rmenians has taken place at Zeitoum n the province of Aleppo, and far rom the scene of the massacre. More >ver, in such cases as offer opportuni v for examination, several circum tances cited in the Turkish dispatches is cases of bloodshed have been prov d to have been incidents and not auses of the massacres. Men who ound themselves assailed by. the mob Lnd happened to have arms in their ouses, in a number of cases, defend d their lives and their families to lie last. At Diarbker, where the hristians are generally armed, they nade a hard fight and some 1.500 Ioslems are said to have been killed, ut aside fxn this one case, the de truction of from 10,000 to 15,000 hris.ians has not cost the Turks nore than two or tnree hundred lives. The statement describes specially he preparation beginning in Septem )er, made by .he Moslems for the gen ral massacre, and plundering began )n Oct. 20, and goes on to say that only meagre returns have as yet :ome in," but the total number of leaths of Armenian Christians so far -eported is 13,200. The Statement says: "It is not vithin the purpose of this paper to nter upon the question of the respon ibility for these masacres mainly con ined to the six provinces especially nentioned in the reform. scheme, so :mpty and painfully wrung from the )rte. But if the object of the origi ators of this massacre were to dimin sh the Armenian population of these >rovinces, the main object of the men hio did the work was plunder. Many housands who must have perished, tad lhe attack been a -blind outburst >f fanatical fury, escaped because it vas an artificial movement, where eu idity was the chief motive used to nduae men to engag'e in it. And t~o he honor of the Turklish people be it aid that in every one of the places so ar heard from in detail, cases occur d here Moslems sheltered Armeni Lns saved them from death. Near Tri izond, they saved an entire village. But the very fact that plunder was the hief interest with the men engaged in his crime, makes the position of the urvivors most precarious becatuse of he universal destitutio-1 that has re ulted to the victims. "A very low estimate of the num >er thus reduced to absolute want by he loss of all their movable property s 200,000 souls, of wnlom three-fourths are the wives and children of the ru ned traders or farmers. "A survey of the situation of these eople gives the followmng elements of heir desperate condition: "All trade is broken up. All agri ulture in thme devasted districts is blot ed out for the stock has been carried If, and the implements generally urned. All the poor semblance of anufacturing industries in these dis ricts have been wiped out. At least, a numbers of cases, the ruffians took elight in destroying machinery which hey could not use or carry away to ell. Thousands of hotuses and shops ae been burned. Every house or hop plundered was utterly emptied. le first care of the robbers after seiz ag the money and goods in a shop ras to destroy all papers, account ooks and notes pf hand, so that the aerchants might not be able later on a claim payment of debts previously acurred. The people who escaped 4en their houses were attacked fliedI n such clothes as they chanced to ae on, and in somec cases even that as taken from them. All their stores .ffood, painfully acidumulated for thme mnter, as is the custom in the rural istricts in Turkey, have been carried wa. These thousands of wretch d ~creatures, bereaved, despoiled ud despairing, now face the itiless winter, for on those lofty .ighlands of Armenia the winter is itless, and faint at thei con templation f what is before them. Great num ers of them are now dependent on harity for their food. But where whole population is thus smitten, ow long can local charity support :sem? Where can they go: What an they do: In the midst of such esolation, hiow can even the strong st of the men earn their daily bread" Some space is devoted to the present spect of the situation. The conclud - ig paragraph is as follows: "This terrible seiuel to the publicai on of long-delayed reforms was fore sen by thme American miinister. Mr. erreli, who on the very day when iy were published, renewed his de ia~nd for telegraphic orders at the orte and miade demiands for the pr'o ction of A merican mitssionaries. lie fused to leave his post for months at n leave of absence was granted andi ade no secret of his belief that the 'al danger would follow the an ounceent of reforms from Arme-1 ia. Did the gr'eat powers of Europe >rsee the danger: If so, why was no ire taken to prtovide against it. In j v-ery town, guards were provided fort merican mmissionaries; none have at'ered, and the universal expression muong Americans here is that their' ifety is due to Mr. Terrell's prompt nd firm action and to .\xmerican in d - ace at~thie place of the porte. As to 1 hether the central governtment inade an earnest eiort to restraini fa aticismnl it is too early to determine. Tm: miovemeut to offer pa'-yer for '31. Robert G. Ingersoll at noon otn huksiving Day met an enthusiastic sponse at Cleveland, (1. At the lay You Mission the Christian E'n eavor Society held a special meeting. 'e rootm was filled with worshipers nd for an hour the miost fervent ap eals were offered for the con version f he nord, intidll OYAi ?1 POWDER Absolutely Pure. A cream of tartar bazmg powder. Highest of all in leavening strength.-La test United States Government Food Re port. Royal Baking Powder Company, 106 Wall St.. N. Y. SWEPT BY STORM. Much Damange Done by Wind and Rain Along the Ohio River. CININNATI, Nov. 26.-The rain which began here Friday stopped at midoight after having precipitated two and a half inches of water. A high wind cleared the sky and de scending. proceeded to clear the earth. It came in a series of hurricane puffs from various directions. These blows followed in quick succession, and they were as capricio-.is about where -they struck as they were in the direction which they took. The circle of hills protected the business section of the city. yet the storm swooped down and played havoc with fences, roofs, signs, windows, telegraph and telephone wires and many late pedestrians had - to dodge lying shuttersand signs. Bit it was on the river that the havoc was greatest. There the wind had free course. About 12:30 the first hard blow came. It did its best for two o! three minutes, straining the ca bles of the vessels moored along 12 miles of river front. At 1 o'clock it came still stronger and stayed longer than before. This time it got its wild est work in among the boats. Only the mischief on the immediate river front was ascertainable because the telephone and telegraph wires were down. Down the river near Riverdals were moored the John K. Speed, a big New Orleans boat, the Buckeye State. and the large towbot, W. W. O'Neill. The first report from there was that the W. W. O'Neill and the John K. Speed had been blown together and wrecked. Investigation shows that the O'Neill is unscathed and that the Speed and Buckeye State had beer blown across the river and moored without damage. A little later, at the public landing near the Newport bridge, the steamers F. J. O'Connell and Rob Roy were torn from their moorings and blown out of sight at a terrible pace up the river, and at daylight they had not been heard from. Anxiety for their fate is increasing by the fact that each has a watchman aboard. The same hurricane was encounter ed at the same landing by the Pitts burg packet, H. K. Bedford, which was steaming in loaded with passen gers. The Bedford was driven toward the big stone piers of the Louisville and Nashville bridge with ominous speed. For - a long time-steam strug gled against the storm for the safety of the, panic stricken passengers, and finally triumphed, landing the human freight not 100 feet from the big stone pier that had threatened to dash the frail craft to pieces. At the same time - the Hercules Carroll. a powerful tow boat, and the Bonanza parted their cables and were sent spinning up the river in a very irregular course. The big- Carroll was finally stranded high and~ dry on the landing at the foot of Main street. The fitful hurri cane drove the Bonanza with a crash against the Memphis wharf boat. A cable was made fast to the iron cap stan on the wharf and she was saved. How coalbarges and steamboats far ther up and down the river fared is not known at this writing and the an xiety of river men will not be relieved until definite ne ws is received. While there was widespread dam age in the city, it was all in a small way. No loss of life or bodily injury is reported. The eastern fence of the league baseball park was blown down. A portion of the roofs of Odd Fellows' temple and of St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal church were blown off. A cabman who was driving through New port was shocked into -unconsci ousness by a live electric light wire falling on him. His horse fared worse, it was killed. A Marrying 31an. The Walt~erJ.ro Press and Stand ard', of 1: t week says: About two months ago 36. J. H1. Tucker was conducting a mercantile busi ness~ at Walterboro. Wearying of it, howev er, he purchased a photographer's out fit andl, leaving his wife and children here. went over into Barn well countyv and became a photographer. Las Saturda~y he appeared in town with a woman lie claimed he married in (Norgia, having, he sliaid, first secur ed a divorce from his Walterboro wife. He came here and succeeded in spiriting away t wo of his child ren and then demnanded Mrs. Tucker, at the point of a istol. the clothing. She - swore out a warrant charging him with assault with intent to kill and aother charging him with bigamy. Tuker, it is said, defied anyVone to a r rest him. The o::icers, however. have not had a chance to asrr-est him, as he tnd his second~ wife have left the comn nunity c-arr-ying with themt the two hlildreni. As a matter a fact Tucker ~ould not have .secure~d dlivorce from is wife here had lie gone to Georgia. But it is said that the wvomran hre claims . havs married in G-eorgia is fronm Barn well coun ty. oi. m EEAYhas a biacksmrith who, as iwholesale miurder--r, is probably a ittle ahead of Holmes of Philadelphia. lohnes is alleged to have planted ibout half a dozen victims for business mrposes. The German blacks~mith tiled his father. mrother-. wife, br-other n-law and the latter's sonr, and an as ortment of other kin folks. not for nsurance mnoneLy, butt for thre love of illing. HiUs c-ase will hbe tried this veek, and will add another chapter to he hristoryv of curiouscriminality. 1REv. .J. T. -Johnson, D). D., of Jef erson City, Mo.,- who has jist return -d fr-om Palistine. said in a sermon ;unday that Minister Terrellat Con tatiniople had joined the Mohanime an Church, was in league with the 'tu-ks and ought to be hanged. The tatement created a tremendous sensa on. A warrTEn in the Philiadelnhia Rec >rdJ has learned that Mr. EdAison. the ntentor. uses a lar-ge quantity of old :onfederate bills. He buys them by he pound, anrd it is said pays a good rice for them. Mr. Edisoni uses the ills to make carbons for his incandes :nt electr-ic lamps. AemmtasiN to the annual renort of he Sunerinitendent of iluration the mroilh'nenmt of the colored pupils for his year exceeds that of tihe whites