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ONE IUND)RED YEN1 1 S. REV. DR. TALMAGE. PR:..AHEZ UPN "THE DYING CENTURY. The 1arvelA of th Nineteanth Cot-v The Money Po-war-Lulor and Capital. The Great Dallvery of N V i m -1 i-,i ofT St. John. WASHMsTON. Nov. 2 t.-Consider ing the time and nlace of its delivery, this sermon of D:. Talmage is o^ ab sorbing and startling interest. It is not only national but international in its significance. His subjec: was "l'he Dying Century." and the tex. I1 Kings xx, 1, "Thus saith the Lord, S't thine house in order, for thou shalt die and not live." No alarm bell do I rinz in the utter ance of this tcxt, for in the healthy glow of your countenanc)s I h1na cause only for chreerful prophecy, but 1 shall apply the text as spoken in the ear of Hezekiah. down with a bid carbuncle, to the nineteenth century. now clsing. It will take only four more long breaths, each year a breath, and the century will expire. My theme is "The Dying Century." 1 discuss it at an hour when our nation al legislature is about to assemble, some of the members now here pres ent and others soon to arrive from the north, south, east and west. All the public conveyances coming this way will bring important additions of pub lic men, so that when on Dec. 7, at high noon, the gavels of senate and house of representatives shall lift and fall the destinies of this nation, and thr3ugh it the destinies of all nations struggling to be free, will be put on solemn and tremendous trial. Amid such intensifying cirumstances I stand by the venerable century v:d address it in the words of mv te:<. "Thus saith the Lord, Set thine house in order, for thou shalt die and not live." Eternity is too big a subject for us to understand. Some one has said it is a graat clock that says "Tick" in one century and "Tack" in another. But we can better understand old time, who has many children-and they are the centuries--and many grand childreu-and they are the years. With the dying nineteenth century we shall this morning have a plain talk, telling him some of the good things he has done, and telling him some of the things he ought to adjust before he quits this sphera and passes out tojointhe eternities. We generally wait until people are dead before we say much in praise of them. Funeral eulogium is generally very pathetic and eloquent with things that ought to have been said years before. We put on co'.dtombstones what we ought to have put in the warm ears of the living. We curse Charles Summer while he is living and cudgel him into spinal meningitis and wait until, in the rooms where I have been living the last year, he puts his hand on his heart and cries "Oh!" and is gone, and then we make long procession in his honor, Dr. Sunderland, chaplain of the American senate, accompanying; stop ping enough to allow the dead senator to lie in state in Independence hall, Philadelphia, and halting at Boston statehouse, whera not long before damnatory resolutions had been passed in regard to him, and then move or, amid the tolling bells and the boom of minute guns, until we bury him at Mt. Auburn and cover him with flow ers five feet deep. What a pity he could not have been awake at his own funeral to hear the gratitude of the nation! What a pity that one green leaf could not have been taken fran each o fthe mortuary garlands and wasyet them. that out of the great choirs who c' -a ed at his obsequies one little girlI dressed in white might not have sung to his living ear a complimentary solo! The postmortem expression con tradicted the antemortemn. The nation could not have spoken the truth both1 times about Charles sumner. Was it before or after his decease it lied? No such injustice shall be inflicted upon this venerable nineteenth centu ry. Before he goes we recite in his hearing some of the good things he -has accomplished. What an addition tothe world's intelligence he has made! Look at the old school house, with the snow sifting through the roof and the filthy tin cup hanging over the water pail in the corner, and the little vic tims on the long benches without backs and the illiterate schoolmaster with his hickory gad, and then look at our modern palaces of free schools under men and women cultured and refined to the highest excellence, so that -whereas in our childhood we had to be whipred to go to school, children now cryihen they cannot go. Thank you, venerable century, while at the same time we thank God ! What an addition to the world's inventions within our century the cotton gin, the agricultural machines for planting, reaping and thrashing; the telegraph, the phonograph, capable of preserving a human voice from generation to generation; the typewriter, that rescues the world from worse and worse penmanship, and stenography, capturtng from the lips of the swiftest speaker more than 200 words a minute! Never was I so amazed at the facilities of our time as when a few days ago I telegraphed from Washington to New York along and elaborate manuscript, and a few minutes later, to show its accuracy, it was read to me through the long distance telephone, and it was exact down to the last semicolon and comma. What hath God wrought: Oh, I am so glad I was not born sooner. For the tallow candle the electric light. For the writhings of the sur geon's table God given antesthetics, and the whole physical organism ex plored by sharpest instrument, and giving not so much pain as the tai~bng of a splinter from under a child's fin ger nail. For the lumbering stage. coach the limited express train. And there is the spectroscope of Fraunhof er', by which our modern scientist feels the pulse of other worlds, throb bing with light. Jenner's arrest by inoculation of one of the world's worst plagues. Dr. Keeley's emancipation for inebriety. Intimation that the vi rus of maddened canine and cancer and consumption are yet to be balked by magnificent mEdical treatment. The eyesight of the doctor sharpened till he can look through thick flesh and find the hiding place of the bullet. What advancement in geology, -or the catechism of the mountains; chemistry, or the catechism of the elements; astronomy, or the cat echism of the stars; electrology, or the catechism of ihe light nings. What advancement in music. At the beginning of this country, con fining itself, so far as the great masses ~of the people were concerned, to a few - isdrawn out on accordion or massa ~eon church bass viol, now enchant ingly dropping from thousaued s of fing ers in Handel's "Concerto In B Fiat," or Guilmant's "Sonata In D Miner." Thanks-to you, 0 century, before you die, for ther asylums of mercy that you - have founded. Thanks to this century for the improved condition of most nations. The reason that Napoleon made such a successful sweep across Europe at the beginning of the century was that most of the thrones of Europe ere noupied either by imbeciles or of _V r.11Y nu Ni 2 and quens c've about 50 free eiu t . 1 aU tod in ropth western continent I cia call Vie ro I of many reoublis-Mexico Gaatemiala, Sa:i SalIador, C:.sta Ricay Paraguay, Urn;ua_, Honduras, New Granad. Venczueia, Pera, E'uidor, Bllivia, Chile. Argentine R publi.c Brazil. t The once straggling village of Wash ington to which the United States gov ernment moved, it entir? bagg:ge and equipment packed up i2 seven boxes, which got lost in the woods near this place, now the architectural glory I of the contimn!t and admIration of the< world. The money p-,ver s> mu-h de- I nounced and often iastly criticised, has covered this ccntinent with uni- i versities and free libraries and asy. - lums of merey. The new- paper press. i which at the beginning of the century 1 was an ink roller, by hand movedi over one sheet of paper at a time, has t become the miraculous manufacturer I of four or live or six hundred thous- s and sheets for one daily newspaper's , issue. Within your memory, 0 dy- t ing century, has been the genesis of nearly all the great institutious evan- f gelistic. At London tavern. March t 7,1802. British and loreizn Bible so- t ciety was born. In 1S11 Amerizan I Bible society was born. In 1S2 Ameri- i can Sunday School union was born. c In 1S10 Amercan board of commission- t ers for foreign missions, which has i put its saving hand on every nation of t the round earth, was born at a hay- I stack in Massachusetts. The National I Temperance society, the Wonan's t Temperance society and all the other c temperance movenmzs were born in t this centurv. Africa, hidden to other t centuries, by exploration in this cen tury has been put at thefeet ofeiviliza- a tion to be occupied by commerce and r Christianity. Tne Chinese wall. once an impassable barrier, nox is a use- I less pile of stone and brick. Oar I American nation at the opening of I this century only a slice of land of along the Atlantic coast, now the s whole continent in possession of our t schools and churches and missionary stations. Sermons and religious in telligence which in other times, if noticed at all by the newspapers press, I were allowed only a paragraph of I three or four lines, now find the i columns of the secular press in all the c cities thrown wide open, and every i week for 26 years, without the omis- i sion of a single week, I have been per- i mitted to preach one entire gospel ser- S mon through the ne wspaper press. I thank.Godfor this great opportunity. 1 Glorious old century ! You shall not E be entombed unti' we have, face to I face, extolled you. You were rocked t in a rough cradle, atL - '.he inheri'ance t you received was fot the most part s poverty and struggle and hardship, i and poorly covered graves of heroes I and heroines of whom the world had i not been worthy, and atheism and mii- c tary despotism, and the wreck of the s French revolution. You inherited o the influences that resulted in Aaron Burr's treason, and another war with i England, aftd battle of Lake Erie, and Indian savagery, and Lundy's Lane I and Dartmoor massace, and dissen- t sion, bitter and wild beyond measure i ment, and African slavery, which was yet to cost a national hemorrhage of four awful years and a million preci ous lives.t Yes, dear old century, you had an1 awful start, and you have done more than well, considering your parent age and your early environment. It is a wonder you did not turn out to bec the vagabond century of all time. t You had a bad mother and a'bad I grandgher. Satrre-f the pisceding I en s wssmft fit tdime in-their' ~s were so bad, their fashionst were so soutrageous, their ignorance I was so dense, their inhumanity so ter riic. 0 dying nineteenth century,. before you go we take this opportuni-t ty of telling you that you are the best - and the mightiest of all the centuriest of the Christian era except the first which gave us the Christ, and you rival that century in the fact that you < more than all the other centuries put - together are g iving the Christ to all the world. Ore hundred and twelve thousand dollars at one meeting a few t days ago contributed for the world's evangelization. Loak at what you] have done, O ithou abused and de- 1 preciated century !All the Pacific isles, barred and bolted against the gospel .when you began to reign, now all open, and some of them more < Christianized than America. No more. as once written over the church doors in Cape Colony, "Dogs and Ihot-i tentots not admit ted." The late Mr. Darwin contributing $25 to the South ern Missionary scciety. Cannibalismi driven off the face of the earth. The] gates of all nations wide open for thei gospel entrance when the church shalli give up its intellectual dandyism, and quite fooling with higher criticism, and plunge into the work, as at a life1 saving station the crew pull out with the lifeboat to take the sailor off a shipi going to pieces in the SkerriES. I] thank you. eld and dying century.1 All heaven thanks you, and surely all] the nations of the earth ought to< thank you. I put before your eyes,< soon to be dim for the last sleep, the facts tremendous. I take your: wrinkled old hand and shake it int congratulation. I bathe your fevered brow and freshen your parched lips from the fountains of eternal victory. "What we want," says capital, "is a tighter grip on Ithe working classes and compulsion to take what wages1 we choose to pay, without referencei to their needs." Both wrong as sin. Both defiant. Until the day of judg ment no settlement of the quarrel if you leave it to Bi itish,Russia or Ame-] rican politics. The religion of Jesus Christ ought to come in within the: next four years and take the hand of< capital and employee and say: "You have tried everything else and failed. - Now try the gospel of kindness." No': more oppression and no more strikes.1 The gospel of Jesus Christ will sweet-: en this acerbity,or it w'il go on to the] end of time, and the fires that burn the world up will crackle in the. ears of< wrathful prosperity and indignant toil while their hands are still clutching at others throats. Another thing that ineeds to be set in order before the veteran century quits us is a more thorough and all embracing plan for the world's garn denization. We have been trying to save the world from the top and it cannot be done that w ay. It has got to be saved from the bottom.- The church ought to be only a West Point to drill soldiers for outside battle. What if a military academy should keep its students from age to age in the messroom and the barracks: No,1 no: They are wanted at Montezuma and Chapultepec and South Mountain and Missionary Ridge, and the church is no place for a christian to stay vy < long. He is wanted a! the front.- He; is needed in the desperate charge of taking the parapets. The last great battle for God is not to be fought on1 the campus of a college or the lawn of a church. It is to oe fough~t at Mis sionary Ridge. Before this century quits us let us establid the habit of< giving the forenoon of the Sabbathi to the churches and the afternoon and < the evening of the Sabbath to gospel work in the hails and theaters and fieds and slums and wildernesses of vho ha-_a su'fued themselves with the ran n the word and all go;pe! n ath foroaoons want to O scod s.erge and tul e v again? These old grmana i t the gospel feast nee: to ett n:o outdoo r w,),rk wth the outdor' ,ospel th-at was preache d on thz binks >f the Jordan, arld oa th f shing macks of Like Galile?, and in the )leak air of Assyrian mu n,;, lIam old that throughout all our A 'ncrica :ities the second Sabbath ser viec in the' najority of charches is s-arselv, yea. isgracefully attendid. and is tie dis ress of the conseccated and eloquent )astors who bring their learning and )iety before pews ghastly for their in- I zcupancy. Wait is the providential neaning? Tie greatest of all cange ists since Ible times recently sug :ested that the evening services is al he c'iurohes b, turned into the im )t yOpalar sty ~l' of esaugelI~isnn netinss or ou* I. S'r ly that s an exper ment x >rth. w n: g c. TI: tot~ does In)' i:-ient e nn t-oi - e oul t i" Q v'' I ". ' ''I-5 -5 1)~ t hat up their baildiais a'. ight and aO whre th: pe'ople are and invite hem1 to come to the gospel bing uet. L et ti_ christian souls, bountifully ed in the morning, go forth in the af ernoon xand evengi, to feed the mul itudes of outsiders starving for the yread of wich if a inan eat he shall ever again hunger. Among those :lear down the gospel woruld mike nore rapid conquest than am ng those vho know ) much and have so much hat God cannot tea-h or help them. n those lower depths are splendid fel ows in the rough, like the shoeblack hat a reporter siw near New York ity hail. He asked a bay to black' his oots. The boy came up to his work >rovokingly slow and had just begun Vhen a lhrge boy shoved him aside n1d began the work. and the reporter eproved him as being a bully, and he boy replied: "Oh, that's all right. am going to do it for 'im. You see Le's been sick in the hospital more'n a nonth, so us boys turn in and give im a lift." Do all the boys help him?" sked the reporter. "Yes, sir. W'nen hey ain't got no job themselves and im gets one they turn in and help im, for he ain'i strong you see." 'How much percentage does he give roa?" s tid the reporter. The boy re lied: "I doa't keen none of it. I ain't o such sneak as that. All the boys ive up what they git on his job. I vould like to catch any feller sneak ng ona sick boy, I would." The re orter gave him a 2> cent piece and aid, "You keep 10 cents for yourself Lnd give the rest to Jim." "Can't do t, sir. -It's his customer. Here Jim." uc'h big s)uls as that strew all the ower depths of the cities, and, get hem coaverted to God this would be he last full century of the world's sin Lnd but littie work of evangelization ould be left for tha next century. 3efore this century expires let there >e a combined effort to save the great :ities of America and Great Britain ,nd of all Caristendom. What an .ful thing it would be for you! 0 dying century, to bequeath to he coming century, as yet innocent nd unscarred with a single sin or >rdened with a single sorrow, the >aspbemy, the lawlessness, the athe s, the profligacy and the woes of reat cities still unevangelized. What ye ought to see, 0 dying century, is revival of religion that would wrap he continents in conflagrations of re igious awakening, and that would nake legislation and merchandise and dli styles of worldly business wait awhile at the telegraph and telephone >fices because thty are oczupied with elling the story of cities and nations 'iin-a day.- Nearly all the centut ies close with something tremendous. Why may not this century close in he salvation of America? I do not mow whether our theological friends, ho have studied the subject more han I have, are right or wrong when hey say Christ will come in person to let up nis kingdom in this world; but hough we would be overwhelmed ith our unworthiness I would like to ;ee Carist descend from heaven in one f the clouds of this morning, and !anting his feet on this earth, which ie came centuries ago to save, declare is reign of love and mercy and salva ion on earth begun. And what more ppropriate place-I say it reverential y-for such a divine landing thanL he capital of a continent never cursed > the tyrannies and superstitions of he old world ? What has this dying ninetee;'th ~entry to tell us before he goes? W\> il love to hear septuagenarians, octo ~enarians, nonagenarians and cente aarians talk. We gather around the Lrmchair and listen till it-is far on in o the night and never weary of hear ng their experiences. But Lord lyndhurst, at SS years of age, pour ng into the ears of the house of lords n a four hours' address the experienc s of a lifetime and Apollonius, at 100 ears of age, recounting his travels to brilled listeners and Charles Macklin, t 107 pears of age, absorbing the at ention of his hearers, and Ralph arnham of our country at 107 years, elling the Prince of Wales the story of Bunker Hill, can create no such inter :st as this dying centenarian if he will nly speak. Tell us, 0 nineteenth century, before ou go in a score of sentences some of he things you have heard and seen. lhe veteran turns around and says: I saw Thomas Jetferson riding in mattended from Monticello, only a ~ew steps from where you stand, dis nount from his horse and hitch the ridle to a post and on yonder hill ~ake the oatn of the presidential ollce. saw yonder capitol ablaze with war's neeniarism. I sa w the puff of the irst steam engine in America, 1 eard the thunders of Waterloo, of Se wastopol and Sedan gnd Gettysburg. [ was present at all of the coronations >f the kings and queens and emperors and empresses now in the world's palaces. I have seen two billows roll cross the continent and from ocean o ocean-a billow of revival joy in 157 and a bilrow of blood in 18ti. I ave seen four genarations of the hu nan race march across this world and lisappear. I saw their cradles rocked md their graves dug. I have heard :he wedding bells and the death knells f near a 'hundred years. I have :lapped my hands for millions of joys md wrung them in millions of ago ies. I avw Macred and Edwin For rest act and Ed ward Pay son pray. I eard the first chime of Longfel low's rhymes, and before any one else saw them I read t'o first line af Bancroft's history arMl the first verse of Bryant's "Thanatopsis" and :he first word of Victor Hugo's almost supernatural romance. I heard the nusic of all the grand marches and ;he lament of all the requiems that for agh ten decades made the cathedral nvindows shake. I have seen more moral and spiritual victories than all >f my predecessors put together. For all ou who hear or read this valedictory [ ha'e kindled all the domestic firesides oy which you ever sat and roused all he halloos and roundelays and mer ~ients you ee e-er heard and un olled adi a etared sunsets and ;tarry banner's of the mai'night heav ns that you have ever ga/e st. Bit re I go take this admonition atnd ee liction of a dying century. The long st life,like mine,m'ust close. O)pportu ities gone never come bac:, as I ~onld prove from nigh ahure that will sonm take me will soon take1 %ou. Th _ ikel liv3 not out half their days, as I have seen in 1!, "ou) instancs_. The only influence for ma-ingc the world happy is an influence that . the 1i neteenth century, inherited from the first century of the Christian era the Christ or all the centuries. Be not deceived by the fact that I have lived so long, for a century is a large wheel that turns 100 smaller wheels, which are the years. and each one of those years turns 36:5 smaller wheels. which are the days, and each of the 365; days turns 21 smaller wheels, which are the hours, and each of those 21 hours turns (3) smaller wheels,which are the minutes, and those G3) minutes turn still smaller wheels, which are the seconds. And all of this vast ma chinery is in perpetual motion and pushes us on and on to ward the great eternity whose doors will, at 12 o'clock of the winter night between the year 100 and the year 19.1 opea before me, the dlying century. I quote from the three inscriptions over the three doors of the cathedral of Milan. Over one door, amid a wreath of sculptured roses, I read, "All that which pleases us is but fcr a moment." Over another door, around a sculptured cross. I read. "All thit which troubles us is but for a moment." Bat over the central door I read, "l'hat oaly is im portant which is eternal." My hearers, as the nineteenth cen tury was born while the face of this nation was yet wet with tesrs beciuse of the fatil horsebick ride that Wash inzton took out here at Mount Ver non through a December snowstorm. I wish the next century might be born at a time when the fae - of this nation shall be wet with the tears of the lite ral or spiritual arrival of the Great Deliverer of Nations, of whom St. John wrote wita apocalyptic pen, "And I saw, and behold a white horse: And he that sat on him had a bow, and a crown was given unto him, and he went forth conquering ani to c)n quer." Spanish Atrocitis. Ham, Nov. 25.-Jose Viera, S0 years of age, was murderel a few days ago in Carabillo, near Jaracco, pro vince of Hivana, by the Spanish guer rillas commanded by Major Gregorio Soria. Tne case of the unfortunate Viera is another proof of the cruel warfare carried on in Cuba by the Spanish army. Viera was a man of wealth in Caraballo and esteemed by his neighbors for his charity. Among his properties was a rich larm near the village, to which Soria went with his guerrilla and notified him that be fore two days he must leave his estate, wiich would be burned. Viera pro tested against this measure to the mu nicipal authorities of Caraballo, but the only answer was his arrest, and the only jadge of his cause the same Soria was appointed. He was chained and guaded in the church, which in Caraballo as in every other s mil town under the Spaniards, is now a prison. He was left there two days without even water to drink Meinwhile So ria and his men reduced the buildings on his farm to ashes and outraged his family. After this atrocious act the guerrillas returned to Caraballo, and, taking Viera out of the church at 11 o'clock at night, they tied nim up and after a short verbal sentence pro nounced by Soria, he was torn to pieces by the matchets of the soldiers. H'.. terrible cries did not save him from the-assassins. The son of Viera, as soon as he knew the fate of his father, enlisted with Cuban guerrillas. He wrote a letter to Soria in these terms: "I will avenge the death of my father, be sure. You and all yo urI countrymen only know how to kill old men, women and children, but not to-fight face to face those who can stand against you. Is this the weay in which Spain intends to win the love of the CabansiT' The guerrillas of S-oria killed near Caraballo another old man of 74 years. He was D. Felipe Piloto, also a wealthy farmer. He was ar rested with his five daughters and was shot before their eyes as a traitor. His only crime was asking Soria not to burn his estates. But these are not the only crimes of the Spanish troops near Caraballo. Senor Secundino Rodriguez, a mer chant of large capital, whose business is worth from $t0,000 to $80,O00 a year and who was also engaged in sugar raising on the estate "Rosario," re ceived word from the Spanish Major Lanrada to abandon all his properties in accordance with the last decree of Gen. Weyler ordering all the country people to gather in the towns. He asked permission to appoint some guai-ds on his estates to take care of them during his absence. Laprada ar rested him and sentenced him to death with out trial. Cases liae these are of daily occurrence since the decree of Wecyler above referred to. The Span ish columns burn all the country es tates and kill all the pacificos they find in their way. As in the first months of Weyler's rule in Cuba a reign of terror is in full sway again. In the Spanish ofticial reports of imag inary engagements with the rebels all the victims of barbarous massacres appear as insurgents killed A Convenient invention. An Orangeburg farmer comes to the front with a new invention in the shape of a Lubricator for oiling ve hicle wheels without taking them off the axle, It is inserted in the hub between two of the spokes. When you want to grease your wheel all you have to do is to withdraw a plunger, which operates with a spring, and put as much oil as is needed on the axle. Upon being released the spring closes up the oil hole until it is opened for oiling up again. It is a very ingeni ous and clever device, and is bound to be used generally. With these lubri cators a vehicle can be oiled up any where along the road in less than one minute. The patent for this valuable invention is owned by the National Lubricator Company of Orangeburg, S. C. Mr. Jas. L. Sims, Editor and Proprietor of the Orangeburg Times and'Democrat, is the manager of the company, which is a guarantee that it is all right. 'The company wants an agent in this county to sell the Luabri cators. See advertisement in another column. Thawed with a Vengeauce. JAY, Me., Dee. 2.-Fifty or more sticks of dynamite exploded about 8 a. mn., while being thawed out by Italians at work neak Jay, on the Portland and Rumford Falls railroad extension. Orlando Rocca, an Italian, aged 18, was killed almost - instantly, both legs being blown c if and his head seriously crushed. Antonio D'A morita was seriously injured and four Englishmen were badly shaken up, two of whom were carried to the hos pital. About 50 men were working near and many were thrown down, but were not seriously injured. The explosion shook many buildings across tae And--oscoggin rver, in Jay. Frozen to Death. LEXNGTON, S. C., Dec. 3.-Mr. Jeff Shealy, on his way to Columbia this morning, found tne dead body of one Pick Gartman, near the Orangeburg road, about six miles below here. The body was almnost completely cov ered with snow, and as there are no bruises on it he is supposed to have frozen to death. The man is about 45 years old, and his home is about ive or six miles further down in the sand hills from there. The coroner SCIENTIFICALLY HANDLED. What, Obrver - ItuerSays About the Phe. 11nmenal Com.bI inatlonl. Wednedy Observer Bauer, in charge uf the l'nited States weather bureau or Columbia, was seen by The State and asked to furnish some light on the peculiar storm. Ie gave The State the following, which will be of peculiar and general interest: Today's storm is the result of com bination of circnmstances under waich alone this section of the country ever experiences weather, the like of which is common in more northern latitudes. Oa Saturday a storm centre devel oped in the Gulf of Mexico and took an east-northerly course, moving across Alabama and Georgia to the coast, and thence over the ocean fol lowing closely the Gulf Stream, a oath usual for south Atlantic storms. The influence of that storm began to be felt in Columbia on Sunday evening, when - the- wind suddenly changed from the soutn to the northeast. and shortly afterward rain began and con tinued until Monday night, by which time the storm had move: so far to the eastward that its influence was no longer felt in this section, and clear ing weather could be expected. The charted weather on Tuesday morning showed that a storm of considerable enerzy had appeared to the southward of Florida, causing the northeast winds to continue in this vicinity all day Tuesday,and by the middle of the afternoon light rain began again due to the second storm. This second, or Florida storm, had its starting point far to the eastward of the first or Gulf stohn, and its cen tre probably did not at any time touch the mainland. The course of the second storm was along the Gulf Stream, practically parallel to the coast. The above out lines the first part of the combination, aad would in the summer time have given this section only precipitation in the form of rain. The second part of the combination of conditions, and to which is due the moisture of rain,sleet and snow which marks the unusual character of this storm, was a vast arca of high barom eter with unusually low temneratures covering almost the entire continent, excepting only the southeastern por tions of the United States, and includ iug South Carolina, Georgia and Florida. As has already been stated, the prevailing winds were from the northeast and north since Saturday night, flowing into first the Gulf and then the Fiorida storm. and gradual ly lowering the temperature approxi mating the degree of cold from whence the winds came. The foregoing explains the phenom ena of snow and sleet so early in the season, which, had it come two or three months later, would not have been at all remarkable. To explain why such a storm was possible so early would require a re view of the weather of the entire month of November just ended, and behind that the more difficult and im possible question why November ex hibited the weather it did over the en tire North American continent, for the latter question is beyond the ken of meteorology in the present stage of its advancement. However, the accu rate observations of the weather bu reau afford a basis of comparison be tween the past month's weather and that of the previous year's weather, and also enables certain deductions to be made as to the result~ihare like ly to follow certain types of condi tions. By this means the possibility and more than that, the probability of the present weather can be explained. Briefly stated, November exhibited abnormal weather over the entire range cf observation, especially dur ing the latter portion of the month. The climate and crop bulletin of the weather bureau for the month of No vember, 1896, gives a terse sum mary of the temperature conditions, as fol lows: "November, 1896. has been a month of very exceptional tempera ture conditions. ***The most note worthy feature of the month was the exceptionally low temperatures which prevailed almostecontinuously through out the month from the upper Missis sippi valley westward to the north Paciac coast, giving most remarkable departure from the normal, the defi ciency being greatest over Montana and the western portions of the Dako tas, where it ranged from 15 to 27 de o-rees per day throughout the month. Over the entire region from the north Pacific coast to the upper Mississippi valley, the average daily deliciency generally exceeded 8 degrees per day. On the middle Pacific coast, over the central plateau region and middle Rocky Mountain slope, the rmonth av eraged colder than usual, but the de ficiency in temperature was generally slight." Extreme low temperature and ex treme high barometer readings are generally coincident. In other words, when the barometer pressure is high the temperature is low. In the sum mer type of weather there exists an area of quite stationary high barome ter far to the northward of the borders of the United States, and storms gen erally form near, when it is remem bered that continental distances are considered, the southern edge moves to the southward, further south dur ing some years than on others, and consequently the area of probable storm development moves also farther south.If this deduction is true it should lollow that during the November just past, especially during the latter por tion of the month, the storms of the north should have developed in the middle and Rocky Mountain slopes instead of the northern slope and the British northwest. An examination of the daily weather maps for the past two weeks shows this to have been the case. This answers briefly why we are experiencing mid- winter weather ful - ly a month or two in advance of the time it is usual to expect it. As the reason for the early south ward movement of the high area is not known, it is impossible to accurately predict its continuance, or to say pos itively that the winter wilt be one of unusual severity, or that the advent of spring will be early or late. It is not even known whether the solution of the problem involves ter restial or solar investigation, but the first manifestation of the answer will be seen in the north western portions of the United States and British Amner ica. J. W. Bauer, Observer Weather Bureau. A COUNTR Eu1Ton DEFGlED.-A' cording to the Alabama Enquirerer a country editor is one who reads ne ws papers, writes on any subject, sticks type, folds papers, and makes up mail, runs errandis, saws wood, works in the garden, is blamed for a thousand and one things he never thought of, works hard all day, is subject to spring fever, helps people into otlice who for get all ahout it afterwards, and fre quently gets cheated out of his earn ings. He puffs up and does more to build up a town than anybody. The miser and the fogy are benefitted, yet they do not pay for his paper, but will borrow it and read it, and cuss the fool of an editor. Violins are very susceptible to ::hange of the weatner. The strings of a violin always become more taut, and thus give a sharper tone, when a TWiCE V/OOED; THEN WON. Young1 i.nMind Wlank am to is First Is Courrtthip. CL:VELmND, Ohio, Dec. 2.-Miss Edith Marchus, of No. 263 Forest C street, this city, who has just married d William E. Higgins of Sandusky, has t been twice wooed and won by the a same man, the latter, however, having no recollection of the first siege he laid s to Miss Marchus' heart. Mr. Higgins ii about twenty-two q years old, and up to the summer of 1895 lived with his parents in Sandusky. t He went to Elyria, where he obtained t a situation with the Johnson Electric d Railway Company, and one day in August of that year, while at work as a lineman, an insulator fell from a crosstop and struck him on the fore- s head. At the time he complained of a e peculiar sensation about the head, and as time passed he daily became more confused in his thoughts. . Fearing that he would be ill he re a turned home and was prostrated for I four weeks. When he had recovered his health, apparently, he returned to Elyria and re-entered the employ of e the railway company. On Saturday s evening he announced to his landlady t that he was going home to spend Sun day, and she became alarmed when the young man did not return. For a long time no trace of the young man's whereabouts could be s found, though his father'traveled hun dreds of miles in the hope of learning where he was. Finally, a friend of the family who had been to St. Louis N said he believed he had seen the young man in that city. The father went there, and found his son working for an electric company. To his father's joyous greeting however, he coldly said: "Excuse me, but I do not know you." Then for the first time did the father suspect the truth. The young man had lost his memory, and all efforts to revive it proved fruitless. The boy i didn't know where he came from, and as he was desirous of resolving the mystery of the past, he accepted his father's invitation to return home with him in the hope that his memory might be awakened. It was supposed that when young Higgins should reached hone and see his mother be would again be himself in every respect. But he did not know her, although she wept on his shoulder and repeated to him all those fond < names she used in addressing him when he was an infant and a growing child. He could not recall anything of his past. Then a delicate surprise was arranged i for him, which, it was hoped as a last resort, would awaken his memory. Miss Edith Marchus, of 263 Forest street, this city whom Mr. Higgins had I been engaged to marry in October, 1895, was sent for. She arrived, and was much moved by the presence of her lover, whom she had mourned as dead for so many months. The young man treated her with re spect, but his demeanor plainly indi cated that Miss Marchus, whom he would have married but for his mis fotune, was as a stranger to Tim. Miss Marchus had formerly lived in San- i dusky, and having moved to Cleve- I land, she was prevailed upon to re main at the Higgins home for several days, in the hope that constant asso ciation would rekindle young Hig- . gins' memory. All efforts failed, however, but Mr. Higgins developed a strong attach ment for Miss Marchus, which ripened into love, and they were finally mar ried in this city. The Keeping of Liquor. COLt-DI, S. C., Dec. 3.-In the Supreme Couit yeteraay there came up a case on appeal, the circum-stances of which are unknown to the people generally, and whidh involves not only the rights of the citizen, but the legality of the Dispensary law itself, From the facts submitted to the Su preme Court it appears th-at Anderson Chastian, a white man, was arrested last July, charged with sto-ing and keeping liquors contrary to the Dispen sary law. The case came up from Oconee County. On the face of th proceeding appers that Chastain as raided by constables and in his place-o business there was found two and a half gallons of corn liquor which was seized and confiscated. Chastain. was brought up before the court, Judge Townsend presiding, for trial.- The defendant argued, through his attor neys, that it was no crime for a man 3 to have liquor in his possession in his ". own house for personal use, and thatI the State must show that he kept it for the unlawful purpose of barter or 5 trade or sale. J udge Townsend, in his charge to the jury, used the following! language: "If one keep liquors he must have the proper stamp on it. The question is, did he have legally the right to keep the liquor without the stamps? If so, he must show that he bought it through the regular chan-1 nels, the Dispensary, or that he ob tained from the commissioner the proper stamp." The attorneys for Chastain, Messrs. James and bbelor, hold that the Judge erred in makingI such a charge, because he should have charged that there was no crime in having liquor in one's possession for one's own personal .use, and that orno. had a right to so keep it unless it could be shown that he kept it for purposes. of violation of the law, which Coes. not seem to have been proven. Thbe decision of the Supreme Court in this case will be awaited with much inte est, for upon it depends whether the most law abiding citizen can kep liquors for his own use in his. ow - house under the Dispensary .ow, -or whether every man who dcas so is liable to be hauled up before a court. The Register learns that the geuatle man in question was not, i.s no t nor never has been a dealer- in "blind tiger liquor" and if that is so the sen tence oF one year on the chain gang should be abrogated.- -Register. Unfnzilled Prophecy, NEw YoRK, Dev. .-The tidal wv~e of renewed prosperity- which was pre dicted to follow McKinley's eieztion has not yet reached New York. So far from it every one says business is poorer now than it was before the elec-1 tion. O f course, :the thorough fares present their usual thronged and rush- ~ ing appearance at this season, but the stores are not doing th~e business they are accustomed to, and every othere line of business is suffering in propor tion. The only explanation otfered is the old familiar one: "There is; no money in circulation." But how it is, to be got into circulation is a conun drum which no one now evenattempts1 to solve. The claim of the newspapers that a healty business revi;-al is being felt is mere stock in trade, which the, great metropolitan journals do not see to be above condescending to, in common with the more provincial press at a need. One of the brightest , business men on one of the bigg est of ~he big dailies is authority for the3 tatement that busineoss all along the ine is even more depressed than be-1 ore the election. He comes in contact with business men of every descrir ion and should know whereof he - peaks. The opening up of a few fac ories after the election was the merest!1 retense and was lacking in bottom ~nd substance. But the reaction will3 ome becauseit must come, say all,:t ~he most conservative prophets are c ain reluctantly to defer- the tuirn of htide to next fall. -Columbia Misi To sit in a gorgeo: box at som-e plendid theatre, amid a scene of life nd brilliaut glitter. and hear the. aarvelous voice of Iatti ripple away ,n the melody of "Way Down Upon .e S'wauee Ribber," is one thing, and 3 travel South until. suddenly, with squeak from the locomotive, one aoks from the window of a car and ees for the first time in all his life, the lear, silent water of this stream, is uite a different thing. How many ave seen the Suwanee river through he veil of sentiment and song, under Le environment of the first named or-, er; and how few, comparatively, ave actually stood upon the banks of he river itself, listened to the soft, :w murmur ol its meandering waters, o clear, so beautiful, and so blue in ddy places, with trees bending over s bosom, all festooned with long, aving Spanish moss, which so bounds in the western regions of 'lorida. Fewer still are those wno ave lived upon ttie banks of this riv r known throughout the world of ong, long enough to make a study of he people who dwell permanently in ts long, sweeping vale-the land of lowers, song-.birds and sunshine. Just how a river, a narrow little and-bottomed, blue-watered river, hat plays so small a part in the map f the United States as does the Su anee, could ever have become so amous in this wide world, does seem trange when one comes to think of it, a1 because of a mere sorg, says *a vriter in Leslie's Weekly. But, after 11, it has a charm all its own, and the erage visitor will find, when he mce falls under its spell, that it will inger with him with surprising tenac ty. grow upon him like the shadow f some mysterious fascination. No loubt there was some such inspiration ehind the lines: Way down upon de S'wanee ribber, Far, far away, Dar's whar my heart am turnin' ebber, Dar's whar de old folks stay. Be that as it may, no such ideal pic ure book songs as this are ever heard. n the Suwanee river in real life, un ess it be, now and then, when some *esident of this section chooses to hum. L few lines of this same song in a spirit nuch the same as that of the deacon .n church who says "Amen" when the areacher has finished the morning rayer-simply agreeing to what the mthor of this immortal song has writ en. But there are songs along the Su anee river that are characteristic d unique in all their plaintive mel >dy, pathos and humor. The negroes Nho are found at work along the river, ither on the little boats that haul imber up and down from the mills or )hosphate from the mines, or out in he lumber camps and fields along the iver bank, seem to be all given to ong. They go about their work in he rorning with a song and sing all e hvelong day, crooning some plain ive air in a monotonous fashion, 0r lse joining in a chorus where there are several of them, and, making the woods around fairly reverberate with the echoes of their camp-meeting hymns, such as this: '.Jes' look over y'onder what I see Angels bid me ter come See two angels callin' at me Angels bid me ter :ome. Rise an' shine, mourner, Rise an' shine, mourner, Rise an' shine, mourner. Fur de angels bid 'er me ter come" How their rich, mellow voiies dc melt away in the distance as they joii in this sweet old air, and how- the plaintive strain seems to die awa; upon the sighing waters of the famed river! And when they get to the cho urus how they swing around at thei) work and bear down on the loud peda: of their voices and throw the genuin< old jubilee vigor of camp-meeting times into the song. If they are cut ting logs for the saw-mill nigh at hans they are apt to swing their axes: in ful time with the measure of the sorg and this gives it all the more interes and peculiar charm. One of the lively "jig-songs" tha tre often heard in the lumbe r anc sh.osphate camps along the Suwane i1 ger runs something like this: "Jay-bird up do sugar tree, Sparrow on de ground', Jay-bird shake de sugar down, Sparrow pass hit eroun'. Shoo, ladies. shoo, Shoo, ladies, shoo, Shoo, ladies, shoo my gal. I'm boun' for Stugar 11111. Five cents is my pocket L x~ Ten cents is my bill; If times don't git no bettah brah I'm bound for Sugar Hill." Etc., etc. The music to. this song is much i ' the fashion of the common negrc songs, lhvely, yet full of pathos and plaintive melody. There is that in all negro songs that is plaintive, ever their most exasperating foot-shaking and soul-stirring "jig-songs " True, typical negro songs rarely evel show any particular effort at prapara tion. Tney seem to just boil rig .t oul >f the darkies' heart and soul, 'id il by chance they manage to get a IairIy ood rhyme or jingle to them, it is by no special poetical painstaking 0t th< part of the author, and, in Iact, is o0 but little consequence to him. Such are the songs that one hem. m the Suwanee rive", in these modern :lays of progress and meterial deve lop ment. Florida is a great field for the promoter of new enter prises now, and .he world of song- among tne darkies s pretty closely abrgned with t he nev ndustrial world of developmen . vhicl ;uch men as Mr. H. B. Plant, d: : rait road and steamship magnate, a.loru. nder' the touch of such men's wands lorida is .rapidly hacrming' a State of 'ailoads, manuafactories and ardcicul ural industries, and the old luxur'.ous ttmsphere of sentiment and song is ising like mist frora the .region of the swanee river in the siunshine of righter day. ShcekI-a Fate of a' Lady. :3 o'clock this after'noon Mrs. Bauck ei wife of Carles A. Buckheit, the alor of this city, was burned to death. Vhsle in one of the rooms of lher welling house, by some means or ter her clothing catugt on lire and efore assistance can tier life was de tiroyed. Sne leaves ;i'vechildren, the Ides not nmme the ri twee years. bKIN POWDER Absolutely Pure. A cream of tartar baking power. 111 hest of all in leavening strength. - Tttest TUnited Stales (iorerunwnlt IFood Repo(.rt. - OYAL BlAmK1S( PowDER Co., New York. AS TO NEW COUNTIES. Dorcheitter County Will Win and Edisto County Be Defeated. The Walterboro Press and Standard says: "In certain sections a great hanke r ing seems to have taken possession oi certain people for choice bits of the territory named in honor of the late Sir John Colleton. It is the avowed purpose of these ambitious folks, by the procuration of these coveted pos .sessions, to form themselves into bodies politic and corporate after the ianner of counties now existing in South Carolina. Whether or not they shall be successful in having their wishes gratified are questions which will be solved, in a measure, at least, according to due process of law, on the 15th of the present month. The pro clamation of the Chief Executive of the great Palmetto State authorizing elections to be held, has been issued, and it remains for all the qualified electors living within the bounds of the proposed new counties to expre-s their will at the ballot box on the 15th. Both new counties, however, cannot materialize, as the success of either would deprive the other of certain ter ritory necessary to its formrtion. In the circumstances, the general opinion is that Dorchester will win. Another question, however, which excites much interest in connection with the Dor chester county problem is the location of the county-seat. St. George and Summerville are both candidates, and the friends of each are working hatd for the prize. It seems, however, that St. George has advantanges over its aspiring competitor. Its location, it is claimed, is superior from every point of view, and the citizens have already pledged themselves to build the Courthouse and Jail, thus reliev ing the taxpayers of the burden of taxation for this.purpose. The ques tion:of establishing the county and lo cating the Courthouse at St. George will be discussed in all of its phases at St. George on the 12th instant, at a mass meeting which has been called for the purpose. As to the proposed county of E.disto, with the county-seat at Branchville, which must have a portion of the ter ritory claimed by Dorchester in order to succeed, in any event, there are, it is understood, other good reasons from which to reach the'conclusion that it will fail to materialize.- In the first place-Edisto must not only capture the strip of territory upon which Dor chester hagiet its claim, but Warren and Broxton townships, in Colleton, as well. This is a fe~twhich~the-Ed isto radvocates cannot, itis said, ac complish. Broxton to wnship will not vote for the new county for several reasons. In the first place, if Broxton desired to leave the old county it would prefer forming a part, of a new county with the Courthouse at Hope or Ehrhardt. Transferring their Courthouse from Walterboro to Branchville would not benefit Bros ton at all, but on the conttrary, would subject the citizens to no little incon venience. With the railroad facilities Sthey now have Walterboro is easily accesible. A Broxton man may board the train in the morning, come to Walterboro, transact his business and return home in the afternoon. Branchville is, therefore, not likely to Ireceive the support of the Broiton 1people... The voters of Warren will also, it is understood, vote to remain in old Colleton a while longer. At present the township enjoys a political pres Stiege not vouchsaf'.d any other in the county. For twenty years past a Warre i.Luhp man has held the oie of sheriff and now the treasur er, the clerk of the court and thecoun ty superintendent of education are from Warren. The township also sends one of the representatives to which St. Bartholomew's parish is en titled to the Legislature. Walterboro is easily reached by means of the railroad facilities now existing and there is no reason why the people should ally themselves with Branch ville. The distance is almost as great to Branchville as it is to Walterboro and the only way to get t Branch ville is by private conveyance. A few are found advocating Branchville, Cbut the general teeling seems to be Sagainst the idea. Voters who view the situation in the light of reason are not willing, it is said, to sacrific the best interests of f.--torisiip for the sake of gratifyi'ng a ferr politicians Iwh have been promised oiices in the new county- So far as the offices go, they havc a chinch on them in the old county and the folly of throwing -up their hand for an uncertainty is apparent to all. For these and other good reasons, it is said, Braxton and Warren will vote to remain in old Cool leton." some More Prosperity. cost $500,000), is to be sold. At a meeting of the directors, held on Tuesday, it was determined to settle up the atcairs of the company and let the plant go to sale. In this connec tion the following from the Green Iville Mountaineer will not ber-p LIportune: IIt is a pity that the much vaunted Iresumption and improvement in busi Iness, which was heralded far' and wide as soon as McKinley's election -had been made certain, should receive -a black eye almost every day by the failure of banks, the closing of mills and factories, and the bankruptcy of m erchants. These things have hap pened with wonderful regularity since the panic of 189:1, under the adminis tration of Mr. Cleveland and the ma nioulation of the bond syndicate, but Ith~e triumph of the gold standar d w-as Ito produce a change at on(ce, and a made to-order prosperity was to take possesion of the land. Tne failures and bankruptcies are due to the fact that the conditions are not at all c-hang ed since the election. and that the re ~toration of coniidence is largely cm :-1 to -a fa'vored class of men, who Ifatten and thrive upon the muisfort anes of others, and Lhose chief reniance for money mzaki:ng is a conrtin-aance 01 the present conditos. They are re sponsible for- the outery against Bryan.