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UPON K. the w.orld to 4 Better ThA In the i)3y of ept. 2d. -lf tie cla seraia delivered at capital could sound istendomi, it would give a new start. ID. Tat twas R>nans xiii, 12, 'The hand." from the mountain and the e, and thesprings, and the farm , your cheeks bronzed and your ts lighted, I hail you home.agalo It the words of Gehazi to the Shu ammite: "Is it well with thee? Is it well with thy husband? Is it well with the child?" On some faces I see the mark of recent grief, but all along the track of tears I see the story of resur rection an I reunion when all tears are done, the deep plowing of the keel. followed by the Rash of the vhospho rescence. Now that I have asked you in regard to your welfare, you natu rally ask how lam. Very well, thank you. Whether it was the bracing air of the mountains, or a bath in the surf of Long Island beach, or whether it is the joy of standing in this great group of warm hearted friends, or whether it is a new appreciation of Ihe goodness of God, I cannot tell. I sim ply know I am happy. It was said that John Motfat, tt- great Methodist preacher, occasionahy got fast in his sermon, and to extricate himself would cry "Halleluiah!" I am in no such predicament today, but I am full of the same rhapsodic ejaculation. Starting out this morning on a new ecclesiastical year, I want to give you the keynote of my next 12 months' ministry. I want to set it to the tunes of "Antioch," "Ariel" and "Corona tion." I want to put a new trumpet stop into my sermons. We do wrong if we allow our personal sorrows to in terfere with the glorious fact that the kingdom is coming. We are wicked if we allow apprehension of national disaster to put down our faith in God and in the mission of our American people. The God who hath been on the side of this nation since the Fourth of July, 1'776, will see to it that this %nation shall not commit suicide on Nov. 3, 1896. By the time the unpar alleled harvests of this summer get down to the seaboard we shall be standing in a sunburst of national prosperity that will paralyze the pessi mists who by their evil prophecies are blaspheming the Godwho hath blessed this nation as he hath blessed no oth er. In all our Christian work you and I want more of the element of gladness. No man had a right to say that Christ never laughed. Do you suppose that he was glum at the wedding in Cana of .Galileet Do you suppose that Christ was unresponsive when the children clamberedover his knee and shoulder at his own invitation? Do you suppose that the evangelist meant no' wher he said of Christ. "He rejoi in spirit?" Do you believe that the divine Christ, who pours all the waters over the rocks at Vernal FaLs' Yosemite, does not believe in the sparkle and gallop and tumultuous joy and rushing raptures of human life? I believe not only that the morn - ing laughs, -and that the mountain; laugh, and ; that the seas laugh, and that the cascades laugh, but that Christ~ Ta'ughed. Moreover, take a laugh and a tear into an alembic and assay them, and test them, and analyze them, and you will often find as much of the pure gold of religion in a laugh as ina tear. Deep spiritual joy always shows itself in facial illumination. John Wesley said he was sure of a good religious impression being pro duced because of what he calls the great gladness he saw among the peo ple. Godless merriment is blasphemy anywhere, but the expression of Chris m" ov is appropriate everywhere. Moevr' M of the world ought to stir us to gladness.- i tronomers disturbed many people by telling them that there was danger of stellar collision. - We were told by these astronomers that there are worlds coming very near together, and that we shall have plagues and wars and tiumults and perhaps the world's de struction. Do not be scared. If you have ever stood si a railroad center where 10 or 20 or 30 rail tracks cross each other and seen that by the move ment of the switch one or two inches the train shoots this way and that without colliding, then you may un derstand how 50 worlds may come within a-i inch of disaster and that inch be as good as a million miles. If a human switch tender can shoot the trains this way ar dthat without harm, cannot the hand that for thousands of years has upheld the universe keep our - litleworld out of harm's way 1 Christian geologists tell us that this world was millions of years in build ing. Well, now, I do not think God would take millions of years to build a house which was to last only ,000 years. There is nothing in the world or outside the world, terrestrial or as tronomical, to excite dismay. I wish that some stout gospel breeze migh1 scatter all the malaria of human fore boding. The sun rose this morning al about 6 o'clock, and 1 think that is just about the hour in the world's his tory. "The day is at hand." The first ray of the dawn I see in the gradual substitution of diplomatic skill for human butchery. Withii the last 25 years there have been inter national differences which would havE brought ashock of arms in any othe2 day, but which were peacefully ad justed, the pen taking the place of thE sword. The Venezuelan controversy in any other age of the world would have 'brought shock of arms, but non is being so quietly adjusted that nc one knows just how it is being settled. The Alabama questions in any othei age of the world would have causec war between the United States and England. How was it settled? By men-of-war off the Narrows or off the Mersey? By the gulf stream of thE ocean crossed by agulf stream of hu man blood? By the pathway of na tions incarnadined? No. A few wise men go into a quiet room at Geneva talk the matter over and telegraph t< Washington and to London, "All set tled" Peace, peace! England pays to the United States the amoun awarded-pays really more than shi ohtto have paid. But still, all tha Albm breil is settled-settled forev er. Arbitration instead of battle. So the quarrel about the Candia! fisheries in any other age would hayi caused war between the United State and England. England sai:.1, "Pa: me for the invasion of my Canadial fisheries." The United 'States said "I will not pay anything." Well the two nations say, "I guess we hai better- leave the whole matter to; commission." The commission is ai: pointed, and the commission exami ines the affair, and the commission re ports, and pay we ought, pay we must pay we do. Not a pound of powde burned, no one hurt so much as b, the scratch of a pin. Arbitrationi ii: stead of liattle. So the Samoan controver-sy in an otherage would havebr-ou g h (ermani lision. 1: it au is satuled. biration instead of battle. France will nev. r a.ai, I think, througi the paendillO of an embssa dor, bring oa a battle with other iia tions. S'ie sees th-it Gd, in punish. ment at Sedan, boLted out the French empire, and the only aspirant for that throne who had any right of expecta tion dies in a warthat has not even the dignity of being respectable. What is the leaf that Eagland would like to tear out of her history ! The Z-ilu war. Down with the sword and up with the tr3atv! We in this country in'ght better have settled our section'dilli m Ities by arbitration thian by the trial of the sword. 1'ilanithropy said to the north. 'Pay do -v a certaiii tuaouut of money for the purchase of the slaves, :n-l lt al tihos- born a-ter a certai II tim 1) b Drn free.' 'Pilanthr1%o V at thle samel" timeir said toth~ souIth, "You sell the slives and( get rid of this great national emin test and troil')le." Tie north replied, -I wont pay a cent." The south repl'ed, "I won't sell." War, w.r! A million (lead nen, anid a natioal debt which might hawe ground this nation to powder! Why did we not let William II. Sneard of New York and Alexander UI. Sephens of G orgia go out and spend a few days under the trees on the binks of the Potomac and talk the matter over and settle it, as settle it th'y c mid, rather than the north pay in ,-st of war $1, 700,009,00) and the south pay $4,750, 000,000, the d-,stroying angel leaving the firstorn dead in so many houses all the way froit the P.nobs e)t to the Alabama? Ye azed men whose so:i fell in the strife, dyou not think thit would have been better? Oh. yes: We have come to Lelieve. I think, in this country that ar itration is better than bittle. I may be mistaken, but I hope that the last war between Christian natiors is ended. Ihrbarians iny mix their war paint and Chinese and Japanese go into wholesale massacres and Af ghan and Z ilu hurl poisoned arrows, but I think Christian nations have gradually learned that war is disaster to victor as well as vanquished, and that almost anything bought by blood is bouc'ht at to dear a price. I wish to Go; this nation might be a model of willingness for arbitration. No need of killing another Indian. N o need of sacrificing any more brave General Casters. Stop exasperating the red man, and there will be no more arrows shot out from the ambush ment. A general of the United States army in high repute throughout this land, and who perhaps had been in more Indian wars than any other ofi cer, and who had been wounded again and again in behalf of our govern ment in battle against the Indians, told me that all the wars that had ever occurred between Indians and white men had been provoked by white men, and that there was no ex e-option to zhe rule. While we are arbitrating with Christian nations let us toward barbarians carry ourselves in a manner unprovocative of contest. Let me puc pyself in t heir place: I inherit a large estate, and the waters are rich with fish, and the woods are songful with birds. and my cornfields are silken and golden. Here is my sister's grave. Out yonder under the large tree my father died. An invader ,onmes and proposes to drive me oil and take possession of my property. He crowds me back, he crowds me on and crowds me into a closer corner, until after awhile I say: "Stand back! Don't crowd me any more, or 'll strikte. What right have you to come here and drive me off my prem ises? I got this farm from my father, and he got it from his father. What right have you to come here and i-ol est me?" You blandly say: "Oh, I know more than you do. I belong to a higher civilination. I cuIt my hair shorter than you do. 1 could put Ihis ground to a great deal better use'than you do." And you keep crowding me back and crowding me onj~t6 a closer co ner and closer crer, until one day I look aroundA-tpon my suffering family, and, fid by their hardships, I hew you in t wain. Forthwith all the world comes to your funeral to pronounce eulogium, comes to my execution to anathematize me. You are the hero. I am the culprit. Behold the United States government and the North American Indian: The red man has stood more wrongs than I would, or you. We would have struck sooner-, deeper. That which is iight in de fense of a Washington homne is right in defense of a home on top of the Sierra Nevada. Before this dwindling red race dies completely out [ wish that this generation might by common justice atone for the inhumanity of its predecessors. In the day of God's judgment I would rather be a blood smeared Modec than a swindling United States oille'er on an Indian re servation. One was a barbarian and a savage, and never pretended to be anything but a barbarian and a say age. The other pretended to be a rep reentative of a Christan nation. Not withstanding all the general disgust with war and the substitution of diplo matic skill for the glittering edge of keen steel is a sign unmistakable that "the day is at hand." I find another ray of dawn in the compression of the world's distances. What a slow, snaillike, almost impos sible thing would have been the world's rectification with 1,400,000,000 of pop ulation and no facile means of com munication, but now. through teleg raphy for the eye and telephonic in timacy for the ear and through steam boating and railroading the 25,000 miles of the world's circumference are shriveling up into insignificant brevi ty. Hlongkong is neqrer to Ne w York than a few years ago New Haven was, Bombay. Moscow, Madras, Melbourne within speaking distance. Purchase a telegraphic chart, and by the blue lines see the telegraphs of the land and by the red lines the cables under the ocean. You see what opportunity this is going to give for the flnal move ments of Christianity. A fortress may be months or years in building, but after it is constructed it may do all its work in 20 minutes. Christianity has oeen planting its bat teries for 19 centuries and may go on in the work through other centuries, but when those batteries are thorough ly planted, those fortresses are fully built, they may all do their work in 24 hours. The world sometimes de ride the church for slowness of move ment. Is science any quicker ? Did it not take science 5,t52 years to find out so simple althing as the circulation of the human blood? With the earth and the sky full of electricity, science took 5,800 years before it even guessed that there was any practical use that might be made of this subtle and mighty element. When good men take posession of all these scientitic forces and all these agencies of inven tion. I do not know that the redemp tion of the world will be more than the work of half a day. lDo we not read the queen's speed, at the pror uing of piarliamenit the day before in - London: If that be so, is it anything marvelous to believe that in 24 hours a divine communication can reach the whole earth? Suppose Christ should descend on the nations - many expect -that Christ will come among the na tions perisonallyv; suppose that tomxor row morn i n the Soni of God from ai hovering cloud should d (escend upou1 kaown all the world over in 21 hours? Sappose ie should present his gospel in a few words, 'aving: "I am the Son of 'od. I c-ime to pardon all your sins and to heal all your sorrow. To prove that I am a su e-atuiral being I have just descended frn the cloads. D,> you believe me, an d. vou b Ilieve me now?" Why. all th'r telcgraph stations of the earth would be m ervded as none of them wiere ever -o .vded just after a shipwreek. t tell you all these things to show You it is 1o amngn the inyossibilities or even tlhe inmorobabiiities th it (/I rist will cnqi r th e wh->ie earth, and d it instanter whni the tim-me ms. There are fore-tolen I ns in the air. S~ething reat is gigt p p-n. I do not think th it . inpiter is going to r.in ui d va or th10. thi aL of the world is (o ng to bre ik, hit I m ani somn-thinge _re.t for thie wold's blessing an I nrot for th' world's d vui age is going to I in:>u. I think the World hasi ha-11 it ha-rdenib E iough th- finu.es and iiur. Elough the Asiatic choleras. Eoough te wars. El iom'ih the shipvreeks. E11Wu.lh the conl d -ations. i think our world could stand right well a pro-ession of prosperities and tri u-nphs. litter be on the lookout. BWtter have your obs-3rvatories opmn toward the heavens and the lenses of your unst p7)werful telescopes well olished. Better haive all your Leyd en jars ready for so:ne new pulsation of mighty intlenl-. IAter have new fonts o. type in yonr printinig ollices to set up som astoinuding good news. ltter have somitt ne banviner that has never been c orried redy for sudden processions. BItter have the bells in your church towers well hang and rope within reach, that you may ring oat the marriage of the King's Son. Cleanse all your courthouses, for the Judge of all the earth may appear. Let all your legislative halls be gilded, for tne Great lawgiver may be about to come. Drive off the thrones of despotis-n all the occupants, for the King of heaven and earth may be about to reign. The darkness of the night is bloo:ning and whitening into thelilies of morning cloud and the lilies reddening into the roses ofstron ger day--it garlands, whether white or red,for him on whose head are many crowns. "The day is at hand." One more ray of the dawn I see in facts chronological and mathematical. Come now, do not let us do another stroke of work until we have settled .one matter. What is going to be the final issue of this great contest be tween sin and righteousness? Wnich is going to prove himself the stronger, God or Diabolus? Is this world going to be all garden or all desert? Now, let us have that matter settled. It we believe Isaiah and Iosea and Micih and Malachi and John and Peter and Paul and the Lord himself, ve believe that it is going to be all girden. Bit let us have it settled. Let us kno.v whether we are working on to ward a succoss or toward a dead. failure. If there is a child in your house sick and you are sure he is going to get well, you sympathize with present pains, but all the foreboding isgone. If you are in a cyclone off the Florida coast and the captain assures you the vessel is stanch, and the winds are changing for a better quarter, and he is sure he will bring you safe into the harbor, you patiently submit to present dis tress with the thought of safe arrival. Now I want to know whether we are coming on t~ward dismay, darkness and defeat or on toward light and blessedness. You and I believe the latter, mnd if so every year we spend is one year subtracted from the world's woe, and every event that passes, whetherbrightor dark, brings us une event nearer a happy consumation, and by all that is inexorable in chiro nology and mathematics I comend you to~ good cheer and curage. SIf it is nearer morning at 3~ o'cloca thani it is at 2, if it is nearer nmorning at 4 o'clock tnan it in at :3, then we are nearer the dawn of the world's deliv erance. God-s clock seems to go yery slowly, but the pendulum s wings, and the hands move, and it will vet strike noon. The sun and the moon stood still once. They will never stand still againuntil they stop forever. If you believe arithmetic as wvell as your Bi ble, you niust believe we are nearer the dawn. "The day is at han~d." There is a class of phenomena which makes me think that the spiritual and heavenly world may after awhile miake a demonstration in this world which will bring mioral and spiritual things to a climax. Now. I am no spiritualist, but every intelligent man has ncticed that there are strange and mysterious things which indicate to him that perhaps tihe spiritual world is not so far otf as some times we con jectu re, and that after awhile from the spiritual and heavenly world there may be a demonstration upon our world for its bettermnent. We cal i it magnetism, or we call it mermierisn, or we call it electricity, because we want some term to cover up our igno rance. I do not know what it is. I never heard an audible voice from the other world. I am persuaded of this, however: That the veil between this world andI the next is getting thinner and thinner, and that perhaps after awhile, at the call of (God--not at the call ot the D~ayenport brothers or Andre w Jackson Davis -some of the old Scriptural warriiors, some of the spirits of other (lays mighty for God-a Joshua, or a Caleb. or a Dav id or a P'aul-mnay come down and help us in the battle against upright eousness. Oh, how I would like to have them here-him of the Red sea, him of the valley of Ajalon, him of Mars' hill. English history says that Robert Clayton of the English c wal ry, at the close of the war, bought up all the old cavalry horses lest they should be turned out to drudgery and hard work and bought a piece of ground at Knavesm ire heath and turned out these old war horses into the thickest and richest pasture to spend the rest of their days as com pensation for what they had done in other days. One day a thunderstorm came up. and these war horses mis took the thunder of the skies for the thunder ot battle, and they wheeled into line, no riders on their backs they wheeled into line ready for the fray. And I doubt me whether, when the last thunder of this battle ior God and truth goes booming through the heavens, the old Scriptural warriors can keep their places on their thrones. Methinks they will spring into the fight and exchange crown for helmet and palm branch for weapon and come down out of the King's galleries into the arona, crying: "Make room: I must fight in this great Armaged don !" The old warhorses mingling in the figot. Beloved people, I preach this sermon because I want you to toil with the sunlight in your faces. I want you old men to understand be fore veu die that all the work you did for God wvhile yet your ears was alert and your foot fleet is going to be counted up in the rinal victories. I want all these younger people to un derstand that when they toil for God they always win thme (lay; that all prayers are answered and all CThristian work is iu somn way effectual. and that the tide is setting in the right di rection, and that all heaven is on our side -saintly. cher mbh -, archiaugelic, omnipote~nt, chiariot and throne, dox ology and proc-essioni, p)rinrcipalities and dominion, lhe who hath the moon uder his feet, and all the armines of liavei on whit horses Brother, brother, all I am afraid of is not that Christ will lose the battle, but that you and I will not get into it quick enough to do something worthy of our blood bought immorality. Ol. (irist, how shall I meet thee, thou of the scarred brow, and the scarred back. and the scarred hand, and the scarred foot, and the scarred breast. if I have no scars or wounds gotten in thy service? It shall not be so. I step out today in front of the battle. Come on ye foes of God, I dare you to con bat. Come on. with pens dipped in mnalignancy. Come on, with tongues forked and viperine. Coime on, with types soaked in the scum of the eter nal pit. I defy you ! Come on, I hire my brow, I uncover my heart. Strike' I cinnot sec my Lord until I have heei limrt for !Ihris'. If we do not sufter with him on earth, we can not be glorilied with himl in leaven. Take good heart. ( n. on. on! See, thle skies have brightened: See, the hour is about to come: Pick out all the cheeriest of the anthems. lqt the orchestra string their best instruments. rhelp night is not far spen -t: the day is atIIli . THEY ARE ALL ANGRY. emner:ti 1. Ladlors I acen-ewi at .1 oh n Woyd Thacher's Letter. NE:w Yona, Sept. 22. -John C. Sheehan, leader of Tammany Hal .and representing twelve State com mitteemen in that organization, has telegraphed to .Tohn Boyd Thacher de manding his resignation from the head of the State Democratic ticket on the ground that his letter, issued last Sunday night, is a stultilication of the platform adopted at Butfalo. New York, according to the view of the D.mocratic and silver managers to day, is irretrievably lost to Bryan, and this feeling comes about over the letter of -John Boyd Thacher, the Dem ocratic nominee for governor, publish ed in the New York papers this morn ing. Probably one third of the man agers hope for the best,since the letter, but they look for the worst. Besides this feeling the majoriy of the lead ers are mad-mad clean through and disposed to look upon their fellow democrats in the empire State as eith er the simplest-minded politicians on the face of the earth or treacherous to the national ticket. Few of the leaders will talk for publication about the letter today, but they admit that Mr. Thacher has plac ed the Democrats in his State in a posi tion that will make them the laugh ing stock of the country and lose them the respect of the party. Some think that the best thing which can be done is for the silver men to sacrifice the State to a dead certainty and maintain their principle by nominating an in dependent or silver Democrat for gov ernor. This, they think, would at least give them a chance to stand on principle and to go down with flying colors. It would be better to go down this way than to go down with the odi um which will, it is asserted, attach to them if Thacher is supported. Senator Tillman of South Carolina, who was here this morning conferring with the managers about his appoint ments to speak, was one of the mad dest of the leader3. Speaking to a Star reporter of the situation in New York, as just developed by the letter of the Democratic nominee, the fiery South Carolinian said: "It is a deal between the Cleveland and Hill wings to betray the national ticket for the State ticket and the Legislature. The silver men ought to put out a candi date of their own for governor, either a Democrat or an independent." Speaking of the campaign generally in the Eastern States, Senator Tillman said that the trouble to cponten'd with was treachery to the national ticket in various places. F~or that reason he did not have much hopes in the East. Senator Tillman is one of the few leaders to talk openly about the New York predicaments. The others feel as he doe-s. but they are keeping quiet. Senator Faulknerwas not in the city ,ids morning, not having returned from his home, where he went Satur day night. Secretary Gardner ref us ed talk about the atfair. Senator Stewart was red hot, and thought the Thacher letter had finished the busi ness for Bryan in New York. Senator Tillman's declaration of a deal to save the State and sacrificee Bryan is regarded as what is actually the situation in New York. Senator H ill's attitude, it is char-ged, has been preliminary to such a course, arnd it will be generally believed that his haud has tigured in this more exten sively than appears on the surface. This aggravates thie silver men more tan is imagined. They had rece:1tly <rrown tired of 11ill's apparent inditfer ence to the national ticket, and they are said :o have made the Senator aware of it... There would be no great surprise if something should break loose ollicial ly from Chicago or from here about Mr. Thacher. There are those who say that Senator .Jones ought to de clare himself on the m~atter. lie ought not to let Bryan be butchered. They think that a stitlr position on the matter from him would (do good in 'Shier States. U is furthermore said that should an intimation be iven Representative Sulzer or some of the other silver en thusiasts in New York they would quickly take ground which would re pudiate Thacher and which would either force his resignation or force something else. Sulzer acquiesced in the nomination of Thjacher, but no body believes he did it with good grace. He is now in a position to say I told you so," and to be more lauded than ever as the leader of the silver forces in New York. There is no tell ing what Sulzer will do, even if he does not get an intimation from olli cial sources as to the position to as same. Unless something is done in New York to restore harmony it is believed that the light there will develop into a regular throat-cutting match between the silver Democrats and the followers of the machine. The national ticket will not only be slaughtered, but Democracy in the State will be practi cally exterminated, so far as this cam paign is concerned. While the foregoing are the vie ws of a majiority of the Democrats and silver managers here there are a fewv who think that Mr. Thacher's letter may not be so serious as apppears at first blush. They think that it is in tended to secure the gold vote for the national ticket, and believe that it will work all right. Tnev do not take into consideration, however, the things considered by the silver men the hatred which will be felt for the ticket by the rabid silver men of the State, the distrust which will ensue on all sides, and the swapping lield which will be opened to the Republicans. There are those wvho say that Mr. Thacer's position does not ditfer ma terially from that of Secretar-y Hloko Smith, who has been praised for his sttnd. Mr. Smith still maintains that he is a gold man, but recommends that the Chicago ticket be supported because of its regularity. The idea that Mr. Thacher's letter- is intended to catch gold De.mocraLts is knocked out, the siiver menm allege, by 'the p)oitioni taken by the Al bany A gus. 'Thiat paper now comes out foi Thachern, but continues its tight on Bryan .- Washington Star. THE ANNUAL RESUME OF THE WEATHER AND CROP CONDI TIONS IN THIS STATE. OP4erver Heior Also [ssnies tie Last of the Weekly Itulletins-The 1nformatioin ir4 Both I 1terestLIugand Readible. CoLUMBIA, Sept. 21: -Below is giv en the last weekly bulletin of the State weather bureau which is accom panied by the annual review of the endition of the weather and crops of the State. The information contained therein will be found of considerable value: This bulletin covers the weath er and crop conditions for the week Saturday, Sept. 1,., and in its prepa ration were used reprwts from one or more r-wrespondents in each county of the State. The past week was very hot. Fri day the hottest day of the seas:n over the entire St-te. Weekly normal mean temperature 60; normal approximate ly 74. Mean temperature ranged be tween 77 at Greenville and Reid and 87 and 66 at Oakwood and Poverty [ill, respectively. Maximum 105 on the 18th at Oakwoo:l; minimum 61 on the 13th at Cheraw, on the 1.ith and 15th at Batesburg. The rainfall was light and confined to the north central counties and to Berkeley county. Mount Clare re ported 3.00; Cheraw 1.02; Chesterfield 1.00. Twelve other places reported light showers. The rainfall in Dar lington damaged open cotton in the vicinity of Mount Clare. The average for the State was 0.19, and the normal is approximately 1. 18. Streams are dried up in many places, wells are very low, and there is a scarcity of stock water in the lower portions of the State. Tuere was very little cloudiness,and the percentage of possible sunshine averaged 90 for the State. Corra is being housed and in places is disappointing. Grain loose on ears, but dry and hard. Latest planting amounts to nothing. Cotton about all open and two-thirds picked. In places the entire crop is gathered. The yield continues to fall below previous estimates and r ow an average of all thA reports would make the probable yield half of the July outlook. The fear is expressed that much of the seed is defective and planters are cautioned to save the best only for next year's planting. Peas are still dying from the heat and late peas are a failure. Turnips are very poor with no stands except in moist bottom lands. Late hay, other than pea vine, a poor crop. Syrup making continues and the yield of crop is small but sweet and the quality of syrup ob tained very good. Sweet potatoes are very poor; have stopped growing. Excellent rice harvest weather and all early rice is about secured. Q ian tity and yield very satisfactory. Late rice not so good. Garden truck along the coast suffer ing for rain, and gardens in the inte rior are burnt up and are failures. Crops are no - in such a condition that rain would not benefit them except turnips which could be resown. R in would put the ground in conditioa for plowing and seeding, which is bding delayed. SEASONAL REVIEW. As this is the bulletin of the season. a short review of the weather since March may prove instructive. The data given in the accompanying table shows State averages made up from 42 regular rainfall and 38 temperature reports weekly, arranged by months. Table giving mean temperature and departure from the normal for the ,seascn. .i18%; also rainfall anid percent age of normal. 189t. Mean. Normal. Total. March...53 54 2.12 47" April......7 70 1.31 41" May.......77 t;9 2.74 c'S June.... ...78 78 5.42 117' July.... ...8 80 8.17 13/ August..8 7'.4 4.14 (SM September...0 75 0 23 5" -to (late (20th.) " -nr cent, of normal. As 'to the temperature the table shows that every month except June was hotter than usual. More extended records than can be given here show that the excess averaged 2 degrees per day. It has been the hottest season since systematic records have been kept, a period of nine years. The iable also shows that May and September were relatively the hottest months of the yar. As to rainfall the season can be divi ded into three periods. The first in chides March, April and May-, with half the usual amount. The second includes June and the first half of July, about six weeks, with a decided excess, amounting to about 151) per cent. of the usual rainfall. The third period includes the first half of Junly, all of August and September to date, with about ;0 per cant. of the normal amount. A brief summary of crop conditions during the season, taken from this se ries of bulletins, shows that the wea thier wa-s favorable for the thorough preparation of lands and for early planting, but that germination was slow on account of lack of moisture, but that eventually good stands of all the principal crops were obtained. To the excessive heat and deficiency in rainfall in April and May is ascribed the poor yield of sm-all grain; the fail ure of the fruit crop, and the poor and under-sized tobacco sets, and the comn plete failure of early gardens. Beginning with June, there were six weeks of the best growing weather that could result from steady warmth and plenty of rain. During this time corn and cotton reached a condition of excellence unequalled in many years past. These two crops, as well as minor ones, grew so fast that they were by the middle of July about three weeks in advance o& their usual devel opments, as shown by the early blooms on cotton, and growth and ripening of early planted corn. The excessive heat immediately fol lowing heavy rains in July, is assign ed by a number of correspondents as the principal cause of the rapid deteri oration in crop conditions, especially cotton, and for the remainder of the season abnormally high day tempera tures and scarcely any rain are ample causes for the continued steady de cline in condition to date. To the public spirited men who have gratuitously given their services as crop correspondents, are extended the thanks of the director and of the pub lic, for the minuteness, the fullness, correctness and entire trust worthiness of the current series of weather an d crop bulletins. As the current scwies of bulletins is discontinued with this issue,. corres pondents will please discontinue their week ly reports. J. WV. BaUma, State Director-, Columbia, S. C. On the ti;;ht Side. KAN:sAS Crrv, Mo., Sept. 25.- 4n grrssman Ri. T. \'an Horn, Republi can, was the principal speaker at a meeting held here last night under thme auspices of the Bryan silver club, lHe declared emphatically for the free coinage of silver and while he did not declare his purp~ose to vote for Bryan, his appearance at the meeting is coni sidered to be a virtual announcement THE WORK OF ROWDIES. ytle students Howl Bryan Down at New Haven. NEw HxvRN, Conn., Sept. 21.-Five hundred students, assisted by a band of the First Regiment of the National Guards of Connecticut, broke up the address of William J. Bryan at this place this arternoon. A platform had neen erected on the historical "New Itaven Green" and about that platform for more than an hour before the nominee arrived from 10,I)tt to 15,000 peovle had surged to and fro. To the right of thestand the students had con gregated, awaiting the arrival of Mr. Dryan. At .2:15 o'clock Mr. Bryan was driven in a carriage through the crowd to the platform. Immediately all was confusion in the front. The students broke forth in their college cheer of the "frog chorous." from Ar istophanes, following with three long Yales, nine "Rahs," a Yale and "Mc Kinley." The crowd surged to and fro in front of the stand and a doz en policemen fought it front the plat form. There were cheers for the nom inee, but from the right of the stand the students repeatedly broke forth with their yell and for twenty-live minutes it was impossible for Mr. Bry an to make himself heard. .Joseph B. Sargent, the Democratic nominee fcr Governor, who was to introduce Mr. Bryan, tried to quiet the yelling mob in front, but he could not be heard ten feet away. In vain did Mr. Bryan attempt to restore order, but it was many minutes before anything like quiet was obtained. Then the crowd began to surge again and the police to fight those in front. Women fainted and several persons were taken from the crowd overcome by the crush. The police used their clubs and one of their number, mounted on a spirited horse, forced the animal to the ront nearly creating a panic. Then again Mr. Bryan tried to speak, but he was interrupted by the yells of the students. This lasted altogether for twenty-five minutes, and when at last the noise had subsided sufliciently for him to make himself heard by those immediately in front, Mr. Bryan started to speak. As he proceed ed the noise quieted, but every few minutes he would be interrupted by the "frog chorous." .Mr. Bryan said: "I am glad that there are students here because I want to say a word to students. Your college has helped to add fame to your city, and those who assembled here are sup posed to come in order that they may better equipp themse'.ves for the duties of life. I am glad to talk to you students because, my friends, we have a cause which appeals to students. If the vindicates and corporations rule the country, then no young man has a fair show unless he is the favorite of a cor poration." Mr. Bryan then proceeded to speak of the right of the people to govern themselves, but was frequently inter rupted by yells from the students, fol lowed by counter-applause from the crowd. He continued: "Business men have been told that the free coinage of silver would ruin them. If it can ruin them, then, my friends, it will be bad indeed; because the gold standard has increased the number of failures among busi ness man and every step that has been fol lowed-(Yells from the students.) I have been so used to talking to young men who earn their own living that I do not know (Great applause and cheering.) I say I have been so used to talking to young men who earn their own living that I hardly know what language to use to address my self to those who -lesire to be known, not as creators of wealth but the distributors of wealth which somebody else created. (Great applause and cheering-) If you will show me a young man who has been taught to be lieve-(Yells and cries for McKinley.) In al my travels I have not found a crowd that needed talking to so much as this crowd does. (Cries of, 'That's right.') I came to this city something more than a year ago, and I learned something of the doumination of your financial classes. I have seen it elsewhere; but, my friends, the great mass cf the people, even of this city, will be better otl under bimetalinms that permits the na tion to grow, than under a gold standard which starves everybody except tihe money changer and the money owner." (Great ap plauge.) Mr.- Bryan proceeded for some time without serious interruption and then a band of the First Regiment,National Guard ~of Connecticut, which had been playing on the E ast side of the Common, where the company had been on dress parade during the meet ing, marched near to the stand and started a lively patriotic air, complete ly drowning his voice. Yale renewed their- cheers. Then, when he could get tihe attention of thle crowd, Mr. 1 iryan proceeded: "It is hard enough to talk where all the conditions are favorable, andl I must aik yout to excusne moe from talking any' fuirther in the pr.nee of the noise a<.inst which we have io itm:ht to-day.' Then S. A. Crandall of Norwich proceeded to atpalogize for the distur Dance, s-ayiug: -As to the young men who have male it imossible for you iBryan) to speak to-day, I ask you, (addressing .\r. Bryan) no2t to believe that they represent Yale any more than McKinley will represent. ius in Novern her. They have been blowing~ otf tteir wind as lie is blowintg ott his wind. Vatle has sent. outtinto the world men, sir, like youtwho have been an hm-nor to thteir tuniversity and to their coitntry, in Congress, in business and in every walk of life." fGreat ap plause.) The meeting then ended._ Politicat Rtot In Indiana. ANDERSON, Ind., September 2.- A free silver meeting at Orestes this af teroon broke up in a riot in which twenty people were more or less mn jured, three, it is feared, fatally. A parade was one feature and the line of march was past thte Republican Glass Workers' club house. Fifteen or twenty members were seated on the porch when the parade passed. Some of the marchers made allusion to the McKinley pictures in the windows. This brought a retort from those on tie porch, and a company of mounted men, followed by a mob on foot, left the ran!.- and attacked the little party, a perfect shower of boulders and tricks fell on the porch, hitting the men and crashing through the wea-her boarding and windows. The fusil lade was kept up for some time, and when the riot was finally quelled and the three or four hundred men dispers ed it was found that abdut twenty men had been injured and three, John Mc Kinley, D. K. Miller and Carl Light foot, were in a dangerous condition. It is feared to-night their injuries will prove fatal. Tihe club house is a wreck. A number of arrests were made, among thlem F. H. Carver, postmaster at Summerville. REV. Ini R. lItciss' PRE:D1CTIONs.- - "If you want a long- range prediction. one that you can make a note of, to be filed away for future reference. I will give you one. The month of D~ecemt ber will be one of the most severe that we have experienced in years. It is nt likely that the storms will be dan gerous, because they do not come at the period of the year whtetin angerous storms are to be expected. But you will get all the old fashioned blizzards you want during the last part of that moth. Things will grow interesting about the limh of t'.e month, and will continue un rtil Dec-mbher ;itth. We will have a good sprinkling of bad weather before that, for the winter will begin early and will be a cold one, but the centr-e of thte wor-st perimod begins D~ec-ember 19t. D~uring this time, tne intluence of Mars will be ad ded to others, producing a comtmotion in the eatt's atmosphere wlbich will A Woman Fooled him. SAN FANtISCO. Cal.. Sept. 22. -By the arrest of Mrs. Martha Everett, alias Gatching, for having obtained money by false pretenses, a novelty in the way of confidence games was brought to lilht yesterday. A few days ago John Daly saw an advertisement in a h eai paper to the eifect that a half in terest in a delicatessen store on Fourth street was fer sale cheap. Being dpsi r ous of embarking in busine.;s, )aly went to the place and found Mrs. Eve rett surrounded with every evidence of a prosperous little business. Along the walls hung rows of nice fat sau sages, hams and smoked fish, while t he shel ves had dozen P of ins of c)rned beef. There were kegs of what seemed to be tripe and pies' feet, dried beef, cheese and tins of pickled goods, and Mrs. Everett showed him a large c - signment of eggs in cases, and barrels of butter. Daly immediately closed the deal and soon afterward took charge of the store, as his partner wanted to go to the country for a fev days. The next morning when he opened u p he made a discovery. He lifted the egg case and found that only the top layers bore fruit. The rest of the pasteboard holes were hollow mockeries. Sawdust took the place of ilesh and bone in the ham covers and the rolls of butter were empty packages rolled in damp cheese cloth. Four hundred bottles wrapped in pinked tis sue paper and supposed to contain wine, proved to be nothing but water. But the cruelest sham of all was the sausages. The skek brown skins were filled with wind and each was ball asted with a bullet to prevent the sau sage from floating up against the ceil ing like a balloon. It was the same way with everything else. The cans were all empty and the pickled tripe was a delusion and a snare. Daly has retired from business and will sell the counter and shelves at a discount. Another Dispenser Short. The Columbia Register, of Wed nes day, says there was cply one dispen sary shortage reported on Tueslay, which, in view of recent developments is an evidence of slight improvement in the shortage market. Tae last vic tim is the dispenser at Springfield, in Orangeburg County, who is reported to be behind about $250. Clerk Scruggs is busy figuring out justewhat the figures actually are, but trne above amount is in the neighborhool of cor rectness. Judge Townsend succeede3 in get ting a true bill against Ex-Dispenser Evans and the trial will come off at the next term of court for Orangeburg County. He has also instituted suit against the bondsmen of Mr. Evans, but it is understood that from oaly one can anything be gotten, though he is able to stand the whole amouat, it is said, which is $1,500. Judge Townsend in speaking of the determination to push all sucn cases said he feared very much that there would be some thirty five or forty of them before he got through. H-: call ed attention to the fact at the same time that the attorney general's office could only proceed when specifically called upon. It is the duty of the county boards to institute all prose cutions, it being expressly provided in Section 8 of the dispensary law. Up to date this provision has not been carried out by the boards. At the Ward Four dispensary of C:umbia it was stated that the exact shortage there could not be stated un til the stock taking was completed, which was being dorne as rapidly as possible._________ The Unexpiredi Ferm., cvernor Evans, in view of the ac tion of congreess in unseating Dr. Stokes, Friday issued the following proclamation: "Whereas, a vacancy exists in the oflice of representative in congress for the seventh congressional district of the 'State of South Carolina caused by a resolution of congress declaring that no legal election had been held in said district; and "Whereas, The Constitution of the United States provides that 'When va cancies happen in the representation from any State the executive thereof shall issue writs of election to fill such vacane-es. "Now, therefore, I. John Gary Ev ans, governor of the State of South Carolina, do hereby direct that an election for a representative jin the fi'l ty- fourth congress of the United States for the seventh congressional district of said State be held in the said sev enth coungressional district on the lirst Tuesday following the lirst Monday in November, 1896: siid election to be held and conducted in the manner prescribed by law for the election of representatives ia ceugress at general elections.' Silver Strong in Ohio. CoIAmEUs, O., Sept. 25 ->1. W. A. Taylor has been giving out same claims that have annoyed the lt-pub licans exceedingly. Ordinarily they would b-e set dlow:i as unwarrz'nteJ, but in this year of uncertainties they are not to b~e so dismissed. Ie claims o have received reports fr-om L ake County to the effect that the aggregate membrrship of fr-ee silver clubs in that county is over 1,700. That is three times the number of vtes that Col. Taylor r-eceived in that county four years ago, when he came within less than 1,100 votes of carrying the State. If such a change has actually been made there, in the heart of the Western reserve, the stronghold of the Republicans in this State, it means trouble for the Republicans this fail 13& there are reports from other sources to the i!-et that the free silver sentiment is qaw:- s rjng all through the Western reserve, c.apxcially among the farmers ONE Moft (2HAN'DE To liEG1sTER The books of registratiuca will be open the first three days of October. The act of thse General AssenO'y pro vides that the books of registrati->n shall be open, "In the mnn'tn of Octo br in th'e same year t M*Sii up t > thir ty days before the general election, and the same shall be closed thirty days before the general election, of 190~ until such general election shall have taken place ;provided that minors who shall become of age during that period if thirty c a shall be entitled to registration : . e- the books are closed or othersvie q -'lilied." The general election this yr = comes on November ;3rd., and t:- Moks will therefore be openi on C- her 1st 2nd and :3rd, which is thirty d tys before the election. A'ter the elecuou, the bokLs will be open on the first Mon day of ea:ch month aw-i se~pt open for thre- su -cssve days i C ~ t until thir ty days before the ceh etion of Too Ouick Fo)r the Highwaym:Ln. Coi.MmmA, S. C., Sept. 23.- --While Isaae G reen, chief of police of Will. iamson, S. C., was returning horseback from the city of Anderson. a man seized his bridle, and presenting a revolver at his head, ordered a halt. Greeni fired, and the high wayman fell and crawled out of the road. G reen reported the case in Williamson, but his friends guyed him, saying he had too much "dispensary" 0on board. Ilowever, an investigation was made and an unknown negro was ionnd by the roadway with a ball throughJ his had. hAKI[4 POWDER Absolutely Puree A cream of tartar baking powder. Iighest of all in leaveningc strength. -La/tt United Stah'tes (orernment F0,0r1 J'eport. ROYAL BAKNG POWDER Co., New York City. Mr. HIar vey and Gold Coin. Some time ago, Mr. William H. Harvey, author of "Coin's Financial School" drew from a bank, where he had a deposit, -2,500 in gold. At once the Republican gold bug papers cackled in chorous that I1ar vey was preparing for a rainy day and had no faith in his own doctrines. Mr. Har vey allowed this exultant seasatioa to travel the rounds, but recently saw fit to explain his c.nduct in a way that disconfited his adversaries. Writing to Mr. Leslie C. Board, of Hagerstown, Md., he says: "I was about to make several s aeches on silver sad went to the bank, where I have a much larger deposit than the $2.500 in gold I required, and was told that they were not paying out gold on checks. I told the cashier of the bank that I wanted to use the gold as an object lesson to illustrate a point in my lecture, and after promis ing to return the gold when tnrough with it they loaned me the foot of gold, or $2,500. I used it on several ocssions. and when I reLurned to Cnicago took the gold back to the bank as per my promise. S-. you see the gold was really borro wed, and it is impossible to get gold from the banks. In my "cOin's So.oa of Ft nance" I claim that all the gold in the world available for use as money will go in a cube 22 feet. To prove tis statement I wanted Io us, o foft of gold in my lectures, whica would en able my audience to make the calcula-. tion and give every one a chance to find out for themseves that the state ment that all the gold in the world available for use as monv will go in a cube 22 feet. Sincerely, W. H. HARVEY." Murdered by hiI Pa~rner. MERi)iA. Miss. Sept. 25. -Mir. A. S. Barnes, who has for several years been the principal photographer of this city, and nis wae returned trotn New Orleans abauL 10:30 last nignt. They nave aparmnLs on tLe tuird fi or of the building, wnica Mr. Barnes occupies as a studio, and short ly af ter 11 o'clock they started upstairs. Ars. Barnes waited at the fooL ol Lae stairs while her husbaud went upstairs. Sae heard him in conversation for a minute with someone and Laen she heard a groan. A mninute af ttra man ca:ne b,>unding down tae steps WiLta a pistol inl his nand, and as ne passed she recognzAd nim as J. C. K isse tosum, a uman w-io nas oeen a~sniated With nier naut. I ini ousliess tn: past two years. Lne .nain n urried out and made good his m .aps. Mrls. 13uiee screamed and people cane rniijg t her assistance. They found Ar. Barnes upstairs dead, his head gashed in several places and his brains scat tered on the lloor. A bloody hatcnet was lying beside the dead man. Be side Mir. Barnes was found two poek etbooks, one containing live dollars, the other empty. is pockets had been rifled and robbery was apparent ly the motive. Officers with blood hounds are atter the murderer and he will be lynched if caugnt. -ne rela tions of the two men were pleasant so far as known. Fuseion in Indian~a. INDIANAPoLIS, Ind., Sept. 25. Thursday afternoon the executive co.nmaittee of the Populist fusion corn mittee met in Unairman R )senheim er's rootns and formulated a pronun ciamento, wnich wa-s issuedlast night. it reads: Tne execaitive committee of thirteen, after a consuitation with M. U. Rankin, of the national comtnittee, who met Mr. Watson, our candidate,. at St. Louis, on the 24th, reports to our committed tfnat it is tae desire oi Mr. Watson th it Iudiana get into line at once. and divide electors on fair terms. We also ha re instructions from our national comnmittee to the same effect and we have decided to put out ten D~emocratie and live Popu lilt electors and to certify the satun as our electoral ticket. PRESEmING EGGS. - Pnose who would lige to keep some of the over supply of eggs unajl tiiere is inure of a demand, may prolit by the rule giv en in Farm Poultry. "f ake one pint. of salt and one quart of fresn lime aud slack with hot water. When slacked, add suilleient w ater to make four gal ons. When well settled, p:>ur otf tne liquid gently into a stoe-fir-Weir with a dish place the eggs in tipping the dish after it tilis witu thei liquid,. so they will roll ou:. without cracS ing the shell, for if the shell is cracked the egg will spoil. P'ut the eggs iu whenever you have them fresh. Keep them covered in a c 20l place and they will keep frerh for one year. Whn it is necessary to pickle a large num ber of eggs, of course the amount of liquid must be correspondingly in creased. Killed Hlerseif and Hausband. CHICAGo, Sept. 24 -Harry M. Con way, 21 years of age, was shot and in stantly killed this evening by his wife, Grace Clark C o away, wno was only 19 years old. The Con ways have been lving in Chicago but three mionths, having ccme from Lyons, Ia., and the home of his wife before mai -iage be ing at Rockford, Ili. The couple had frequent quarrels over the attentions paid by Con way to a young woman in Sterling, Neb , and it was during one of these quarrels that the woman killed her husband. Sne shot herself through the heart immediately after. Loo K (.)UT DELINQ1UEi-NTS-Astro nomers say that there are at this mo ment three comets racing to wards the earth at the fearful spee~d of I,n00,00 mles per hour. The smallest of these comets, or planets, is estimated to be larger than this little globe u pon which we exist, and thme largest one, which is headed directly for the earth is near ly three times as large. Should it continue in its present course it wi'l strike us in aboumt thre-e weeks. and soul d sueh a tida g ocener this world would b.e torn 10 small fragments which wouldl fall through space for ages to come. We unblush the above so as all dielinqluent subscribers can