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EVE'S FRUIT PICKING HOW HER CURIOSITY RUINED 1 HE HUMAN RACE. Rev Dr. Talamge Preaches a Pic Lure' -. Sermon On the Calamity In Parate. Eating Fruit That Does Not hiue to Us. A new interpretation o: :ne ca2 paradise is given by Dr. Talma~e in mon of last Sunday which i :aden w pr: tical lessons. The test is Genest. "And when the woman saw that te tree was good for food and that it way pleasant to the eyes. and a :ree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and diu eat, and give also unto her husband with her, and he did eat. It is the first Saturday afternoon in the world's existence. Ever since sunrise Adan has been watching the brilliant pageantry of wings and scales and clouds. In his irs: lessons in zoology and ornithology and ich thyology he has noticed that the robins the air in twos and that the fish swim the water in twos and that the lions walk the fields in twos and in the warm redolence of that Saturday afternoon he falls o: int slumber, and as if by allegory to teach all ages that the greatest of all earthly ble.ninc is sound sleep, this paradisaical somnolence ends with the discovery on the part of Adam of a corresponding intelligence , ust la t led on a new planet. Of the mother of all the living I speak-Eve, the nrst, the .iret.-' the best. I make me a garden. I inlay the paths with mountain moss. and 1 border them ith pearls from Ceylon and diamon is from ;.1 conda. Here and there are tounions toss ing in the sunlight and ponds that ripple under the paddling of the swans. 1 ater me lilies from the Amazon and orange groves from the tropics and tamarinds from Goynaz. There are woodbine and honeysuck:e climb ing over the wall and starred spaniels sprawling themselves on the grass. I invite amid these trees the larks and the brown thrushes, and the robins. and all the bright est birds of heaven. and they stir the air with infinite chirp and carol. And yet the place is a desert niled with darkness and death as compared with the residence of fhe woman of the text, the subject of my story. Never since have such skies looked down through such leaves into such waters: Nev er has river wave had such curve and sheen and bank as adorned the Pison. the H avilab. Gihon, and the Iliddekel, even the pebbles being bdellium and; onyx stones: What fruits, with no curculio to sting the rind' What flowers, with no slug to gnaw the root: What atmosphere, with no frost to chill and with no heat to consume: Bright colors tangled in the grass. Perfume in the air. Music in the sky. Great scenes of gladness and love and joy. Right there under a bower of leaf and vine and shrub occurred the first marriage. Adam took the hand of this immaculate daughter of God and pronounced the cere mony when he said, -one of my bone and flesh of my flesh." A forbidden tree stood in the midst of that exquisite park. Eve. sauntering out one day alone, looks up at the tree and sees the beautiful fruit and wonders if it is sweet and wonders if it is sour and standing there says: "I think I will just pat my hand upon the fruit. It will do no dam age to the tree. I will not take the fruit to eat, but I will just take it down to examine it." She examined the fruit. She said, "I do not think there can be any harm in my just breaking the rind of it." She put the fruit to her teeth, she tasted, she allowed Adam also to taste the fruit, the door of the world opened and the monster sin entered. Let the heavens gather blackness, and the winds sigh on the bosom of the hills, and cavern, and desert. and e.rth and sky join in one long, deep, hell rening howl, "The world is lost:" Beasts that before were harmless and full of play put forth claw and sting and t ooth and tusk. Birds whet their beak for prey. Clouds troop in the sky. Sharp thorns shoot up through the soft grass; blasting on the leaves. All the chords of that great harmony are snapped. Upon the brightest home this world ever saw otur first parents turned their backs and led forth on a path of sorrow the brokenhearted myriads of a ruined race. Do you not see in the first place the danger of a poorly regulated inquisitive ness? She wanted to know how the fruit tasted. She found out, but 6,000) years have deplored that unhealthful curiosity. Healthful curiosity has done a great deal for letters, for art, for science and for religion. It has gone down into the depths of the earth with the geologist and seen the first chapter of iGenesis written:.in the book of nature, illustrated with engraving en rock, and it stood with the antiquarian while he blew the trumpet of resurrection over buried Her culaneum and Pompeii, until from their sepulcher there came up shaft and terrace. and amphitheater. Healthful curiosity has enlarged the telescopic vision of the astrono mer until worlds hidden in the distant heav ens have trooped forth and have joined the. choir praising the Lord. Planet weighed against planet and wildest comet lassooed with replendent law. Healthful cuiriosity-. has gone down and found the tracks of the eternal God in the polyptand the starfish. under the sea and the majesty of the great Jehovah encamped under the gorgeous cur tains of the dahlia. It has studied the spots; on the sun, and the larva in a beech leaf, and the light under a firefly's wing, and the terrible eye glance of a condor pitching front Chimborazo. It has studied the myriads of animalcula that make up the phosphore scence in a ship's wake, and the mighty maze of suns and spheres and constellations and galaxies that blaze on in the march of God- Healthful curiosity has stoo-l by the inventor until forces that were hidden for ages came to wheels, and levers and shafts and shuttles-forces that fly the air, or swim the sea, or cleave the mountain until the earthjars and roars and rings and crackles and booms with strange mechanism, and' ships with nostrils of hot steam and yokes of fire draw the continents together. I say nothing against healthful curiosity. May it have other Leyden jars, and other electric batteries, and other voltaic piles, and other magnifying glasses, with which to storm the barred castles of the natural world until it shall surrender its last secret. We thank God for the geological curiosity of Professor Hitchcock, and the mechanical curiosity of Liebig, and the zoological curiosity ofCuvier, and the inventive curiosity of Edison, but we must admit that unheathful and irregular inquisitiveness has rushed thousands and tens of thousands into ruin. Eve just tasted the fruit. She was curt ous to find out how it tasted, and that curi osity blasted her and blasted all nations. So there are clergymen in this day, inspired by unhealthful inquisitiveness, who have tried to look through the keyhole of Gods mys teries that were barred and bolted from all human inspection-and they have wrenched their whole moral nature out of ioint hv try ing to pluck fruit from bran'ches beyo:d their reach, or have come out on li'ud~s of the tree from which they tumbled into ruin with out remedy. A thousand trees of religious knowledge from wich we may eat and get advantage, but from certain trees of mystery how many have plucked their ruin. Dec tion, free agency, trinity, resurrection-in the discussion of these subjects hundreds and thousands of people ruin the soul. There are men who actually have been kept. eut of the kingdom of heaven because they could not understand who Melchisedec was not: Oh, how many have been destroyed by an unhealthful in'uisitiveness: It is seen -in all directions. There are those who standI with the eye stare and mouth gap-. of'curio ty. They are the first to hear a faehood, build it another story high and tw'j wince V it. About other people's app arel, ahc other people's business, about vth. peor' financial condition, about other- reles fairs, they are overanx'ius. E-ver piece of gossip stop's at thei do- r and I fatten and luxuriate in the end s rou:1e the great world of tiule tattie. TPy ~ vite and sumptuously entertain att'e:r e Colonel Twaddle and Sauire Chite. Governor Smalltalk. l hocver Latha:i. nuendo, whoever hath a scandal, wh .v. hath a valuable secret, let himu comean rifice it to this goddess of splatter. T s ands of Adams and Eves do nothin' but e fruit that does not belong to them, mien ut well known as mathematicians failitig in thi computation of moral algebra-good sense n through euri . e rel:m of French feel the:,.. 'hey . e to far it re:il he.e i b lce : whl V. ~ ~ "V (':. ., .ri, Zh n z I. nes ;allneasdeuae lreuae1 ti u -ject also ire h :at that fruits that are swe.'et t, : :t nay atterward p roduce.. ret a"y 3.' biddeL frut for .ve wias l'- ca: ' .he in vited het hu.and 1lo to tk ;: - . 1'" her baniment '.m pr'ie an v'ers. ot sorrow and wretcheiuesC's a" w.,ee raid :',r the luxur-. : ":a . verr sweet alt .tstart. and it miay rcl 1ri~ ' i'-tewlt.Tecinu reat w retcheC lues i aftwrd Thle cut o'f is sp k i t the top. but tere det: at thle 10t'.< . lae ia t h::i gr''st t i:ar ti"tn r awhile. and it Ep. the hio(] ..:::d it maly es a1 t:.an see -ve :tryt" whieret -'th1r. can se' only once tar. anud it :nakes the poor nau rich, uii tures chi eks wCi are wi:e reti as re-es Lit what utle dreans f'. :e after, when he seem:7. ..i - rom g t het-igts or is pros trated ,y C: er fat'nci disasters and the a - on the forehead-thet nli' ie of e'erlastigi darkness--and he Sod under the horrible hoof of night Sares shriekiing with lips that crackle with u. suii tortre: "ijfoice Oi you ng in thy youth. and let thy heart cheer thee in the :vs i. thy youti: But know ,thou that fer all these t ings God will bring t int jget ' leet at the start, lorribl a the list. Go into that hall of revelr. where ungoiy mirth staggers and blast.e Listen to the senseless gabble. te 'lelast trace of intelligence dashed out from :a;es made in God's own image. 1Aha, aha:'' says the roistering 'nebriae. "This is joy for you. Fill high jour cup, tuy bovs. I drink to my wifes misery, and my children's rags, and my God's defiance." And he knows not that a fiend stirs the gob let in his hand and that adders uncoil from the dregs and thrust their forked tongues hissing through the froth on the rim. The Philistines jeered and laughed and shouted at Samson. Oh. they wanted him to make sport for them, and he made sport for them: How bright and gay was the scene for a lit tle while: After awhile the giant puts one hand against this pillar and the other hand against that pillar anl bows bimself, and 3,A00t merrymakers are mashed like grapes in a winepress. Sin rapturous at the start, awful at the last. That one Edenic transgression did not seem to be much, but it struck a blow which to this day makes the earth stagger. To rind out the consequences of that one sin you would have to compel the world to throw open all its prison doors and display the crime, and throw open all its hospitals and display the disease, and throw open all the insane asylums and show the wretched ness, and open all the sepulchers and show the lea'd, and open all the doors of the lost wor'l and show the damned. That one Edenic transgression stretched chords of misery across the heart of the world and struck them with dolorous wailing, and it has seated .the plagues upon the air. and the shipwrecks upon the tempest, and fas tened, ike a leech, famine to the heart of the sick and dying nations. Beautiful at the start, horrible at the last. Oh. how many have experienced it: Are there here those who are votaries of pleasure: Let me warn you, my brother. Your pleasure boat is far from shore, and your summer day is ending roughly, for the winds and the waves are loud voiced, and the overcoming clouds are all awrithe ana agleem with terror. You are past the Narrows, and almost outside the Hook, and if the Atlantic take thee, frail mortal, thou shalt never get to shore again. Pot back; row swiftly. swifter, swifter: Jesus from the shore casteth a rope. Clasp it quickly. now or never. Oh, are there not some of you who are freighting all your loves and joys and hopes upon a vessel which shall never reach the port of heaven'. Thou nearest the breakers. One heave upon the rocks. Oh. what aa awful crash was that: Another lunge may crush thee beneath the spars or grind thy bones to owder amid the torn timbers. Overboard for your life, overboard: Trust not that loose plank nor attempt the wave, but quick ly clasp the feet of Jesus walking on the watery pavement, shouting until he hear thee, "Lord, save me or I perish:" Sin beautiful at the start-oh, how sad, how is tressful, at the last: The ground over which it leads von is hollow. The fruit it offers to your taste is poison. The promise it makes to you is a lie. Over that ungodly banquet the keen sword of God's jutdgment hangs, and there are omnious hand writings on the walls. Observe also in t!!is subject how repell ing sin is when appended to great attract iveness. Since Eve's death there has been no such perfection of womanhood. You could not suggest an attractiveness to the body or suggest any retinement to the manner. You could add no gracefulness to the gait, no lustre to the eye, no sweetness to the voice. A perfect God made her a per fet woman, to be the conmpan-on of a per fet man in a perfect home, and her entire nature vibrated in accord with the beauty and song of paradise. But she rebelled against God's government, and with the same hand with which she plucked the fruit she launched .ipon the world the crime, the wars. the tumults that have set the utniverse a-wailing. A terrible offset to all her attractivenese. We are not surprised when we find men and women naturally vulgar going into trans gression. We expect that people who live in the ditch shall have the manners of the ditch, but how shocking when we find gin appended to superior education and to the reinements of social life: The taccotmplish ments of MIary. queen of Scotts, make her patronage of Darnley, the profligate, the more appalling. The genius of Catherine II of Russia only sets forth in more power. ful contrast her unappeasable ambition. The translations from the Greek and the Latin by Elizabeth and her wonderful qualifica tions for a queen make the more disgusting her capriiousness of affection and her hot ness of temper. The greatrness of Byron's mind makes the more alarming Byron's sen suality. Let no one think that reninement of man ner' or ex: uisteness ot taste or superioriny of education can in any wise apologize for ill temper, for an oppressive spirit, for unkind ness. for any kind of si". Disobedience God ward and tran-gression manward can give no excuse. Ac,:cmplishment heaven high is no apology for vice hell deep. 31y subject also impeses me with the re al influence of wonman. When I see Eve with this powerful in tuence over Adam and over the generations that haie fe:!owed, it sugests to me the great power all womnen have for good or for evi. I have no sympra hy, "or have you, with thec hollow tiatteries showered upon womaztn from the plattorm anite cg. They meana notning: they are- a"cepted" :s nothitig. Wtoman's noimy con'i ' in he e'xec of a Cnitianx intia ncadwen i ee this po'werf'ui in:Inence oEv pn her hu,:odj and upon --h who.'e human i-ace 1 unake at' ::s mini t h:t the frail arm er woan en tieabo which will r"-oundt thrug 'al ter"-"i:y down among the dugeons or "p amiong tie thrones. Of~ cour:-c I a" nti sp".n of rep resent atie womernro: 've, who ru e the race byv one truit pickig of ael 'h rove a spike through the nea I fierhew rio: of Esther, who o-'er*cam ea~:o Abiail, who stopped . e-tb er w beautiful prowea;. of 1ay who. nured the me oirli her -rand,n ItM:o n urold tne t ren of fgve a'y courage. I -rpek ." o tigueand orrowby hr ow a'''aty and 'i:rtin the litc-le ie on th i ath t. :he cA lestial (i y, ::1the ters y7 t beir 7 tle. ine - t m rt i'II tIl:'t i.he 'i in G o~ 'rl.l Tlo r lii . ::.. : l we M w1. - t . . lr .. . ist : t'th hoti: have c ..'. t : i0. year. The jont deat of. -l the Calboun 'I :..rrct -!rev! o "e. i r ar t d reto lieysci eties took G ,i place it Tuesa nigt. The" debatwas "Rsolved. Tht a rta'iv. W'iN;'IrG ~ ~ UP A-WFO shudvten acrin to tewihe. o Thi cosiu xerc." s at - oiv-R. weve- L.a Dintzer, Jiennngsr th Oyen. The omitdbtee of judes Mr.ou W. Gde Pres. W.fr s.Rees andoE Newma Teded the debate n faor oeteed Trat e rp.setati theuscciet dcloms tothe eiors an ho caofi erins at Wpprord wer T. . Laier enrningato won ther. The jomtd ee of the Cal-. i RevsT. D. Brat sone. s took Nlace aetde ctlohe debate a:or ong. there wrat aeih e ndatves sthe dere apofa. to the sheos on spees tier. aader:ie Wr. ML . onr Jr, lenton - w "oriean commiees es, Mr. Et G.b Rev. O. raRnger- he . hr wEans Merion-"u Manirat Nemaocre the degreo .BTe inllfavor oftestuternmae. Wr. Gbie Connon Jext phrlesene prie and e paring aearopithe W. . Mlelck Lrageurn-"Wohete Ioe to the.. r. Etn. Mao-aro oa t So" edebtC htunr etoso and Adaes."wt T. . .ayso, Orangeburg-"The ice a 10. Clo n W es orn Nineteenth Centurv Ige-e ake M. L. Mithoc, Sparanbur-"oure Ithe Cort of App.eal W. H. Cton, Jrbe hersyn hc-ic nduneonteCetr. R. T. Truesa, New Hanv-To Co. ereain" oaOls ge . L. C alker, Orangeburg-"he speaking:an.O.Marion- WilimurGt et Suhee." . P. Hainse, Orangeburg-"Te Nineteenth Century."aeBrae. M. A. Mion, Jarmuri-"t Lut igt Curef.pea. r . Stoll, tooes-"e hscA tio nduneo.heCnuy" B. . res, al New HerTee. In. M. was-Onerrd uonnMr.on.oJ teretasio." fanOdAdg. T.S.Raor, ora erg-Fitieg School Theree ofioctrso.La Moronw .rd.fps, MulsapiCrge n inteet inr eaesof teay. Mnig Main S it C.Sthur- 'Our was t Cprtaof Appea beutfu cane H. T. ATresdlefThe Psec bers ofduthe ooed Ceyia chrch oftiSt.M. Truesdalaoer Co. N. COungintr and Chmatin fh Thel serving eseclredxcrethreno dr. P Hi. Stoll took, besides his A. B. Degree, also an A. M. decree. A. bor as coertind poen Mnr.eJ Drc. Carise delired Dte ofpLaw hw onfaee onmev.emen. occa Son Mss wsThe alianatn df enuSpifng normeclasebnD.Caisefrm e bentof io the loga resbtean fuelytsril' thspeecohre rthent don haiff cilleg cosepend ih lhe biorouas ceanuag not bechen unaxas statedmni. oe. ewn fe truwttoonake onm commelncembut occa nove mtliors band o Glennping said:meIceme it. pa o h fogttenr ll man-the taxpayerea.I Soentor Millas specr thoe fromnanoe poncket tarfils wasus oe rised. virouhs labag or whichswea Tas n nttso thsa coldtrinbutio ithb tnyhveeths som right begnn head inth counir tosef the to whgtenhi man-eryitob takern by pocts thleisationm raisnoe adseds fributedoamongoenawhoshaae daya ngttivs consideration isWhto re takenrghe Buhinavan someihttob plutarc in thonis cofnty. nation why en the potery iso eanby ainaoisatre ain te anited Staibted aong menl ho thae pnth fngoners ofon hadfore 1860.a he poicies Bundieaupesad byothe plusterac in this country. Rel tbed. skThe nothe idolny refus man Setae You cnoleont temn that finers pople shand bore outhei lihe poice aondo mehihe adossed bye the cenaati admistrations oe the maonts ihins, conrdy aRepubli cantroliisyefeed thuand folattenedrt be proet adisln demnd tham otersecopl sall oro ther lite Stoatetibutore. felemndd fro tornstor wire passed ove thee bris.a Four of the reruins, bof pLs fsroedChands ofr dlars'n othd F potery wreshedhy inju-d nse o whrnm, the farm ofprite dent wil pronsbl deekine dare: Sylmte strmBaer es O'Brie n the bri.Nourofth Mcnzes Lbao, puals one ofil hom, the nstitution.te Tzlrmans oniect. In dist u:sir g the taruffbillon Thurs day 8erator Tilinan said he was one of the Democrats voting for a duty on aw cotton. He avowed that he wanted. the bill loaded as heavily as oossibe, so as to disgust the people nd make them "tturn the Republicans out - It his Democratic associates coud get any consolation by twittig iim for votin for his section in this "geeral game of grab," well and good. As to the Republican Se:ators. he warned them that no tariff bil wold brirng prcsnerity which ga'-e omI 'yma~tos ties to the manufac !arers out of p. e. c.of the people. John Bronie, writ:e, we l-illed. i a runar'ay acciderst Wecdnesday ceing and his com;paniou W.d A'.inson, mnjured so s:-r.cl thati sey were atgachts e- ine sanur -v partent ar-d Were dri]; a :ry waocn. A wheel was k.ek' of ie wacoa and mn~ee eme. '-o'n on his head. At-.nsou e. as more, fot nate. but the heavy wagon, goin at terride speed, passed over hi-. oudy. fracturing several ribs anid iniictinig MO'NTO GIVE MEDICINE To H~or =r,oat:le and twine-Pitls. Drenchtrg. sic. ,^-r= a ' is to b' dre-ched pit on a iIr ' s'' b;nd o; which is w~ a To do -)7hie rme;ath to be c .- : to ' -.t ex;- te t. Niv tke e-c t .cr. pai it into the mouth. er the uppr jaw a:d by these s elvato t-he head of the animal to prevent the medicine uning out while being poufred i-'to the r'o.uh. Give the medicine car a never trroih the nose, as n iF tien liable to flw into the .;id pipeof the horse, thus ofteu kill 'nz it. hcu.c d :he horse refuse to Ss 0vao-r, a great deal of patience isre qi. -d to dr-ench him trcoer v; never rik er rub the throat or pull oat the tongue. as such precedirgs have a tendency to produce a ccuen. wYich means that the atnial will spit out the med:cine scu is h him to swallow. Animals which are stubboin and will not swallow, are often induced to do so by stroiking the palate right behind the upper front t in order to give the borse a pill or, as it is termed, a ball. draw the tongue out gatly with t he lefi hand and with the other hand hold the pill by bringing the fingers together to a poit. Then let the hand with the piilglid teackly along the roof of the mouth uu l ne: riy half the arm is in the mouth cf the horse, dr-op the pill, withdraw the hand. and row only re'ease the torguie. If this is done properly, the nand in the mouth is not in danger of injury. Medicine. which is irritating. such as bluestone, must not be given as a now der because it is liable to cau'.erize the delicate parts of the digestive pasages. Cows are drenched by holding their horns and grabbing with index finger and thumb the wall which Civides the nasal passages (,he same place in which bulls are riged). Cows rarely are given pills as they arc so easily drenched. The contrary is true of the hog, hence drenching is always con nected with difficulties and danger. If the hog must be drenched, run it with the hind quarters into a corner, place a noose into the mouth and over the upper jaw. in the same manner as recommended for the horse, and most carefully give the drench. Should the :o, begin to cough (this also refers to the hcrse and cow) immediately stop giving the medicine and let the hand come down. Since the drenching of the hog is so disagreeable, medicines are generally given in the shape of powders mixed in the food. W. E. A. WYm , V. S. Clemson College, S. C. Mnrdered For His Money. C. D. Collins, a wealthy Tennessee an, was lured to his probable death Tuesday night by a man he had known since boyhood, and with whom he had been on terms of intimate friendship for six years. His assail ant is Martin Easley of Memphis, 'Penn., whose father, Colonel Enoch Easley, was one of the most promi nent mine ownerb and planters of the south. Ensley induced his compan ion to visit Meramec Height, a sum mer resort 15 mile from St. Louis. On the plea of illness he led him to a clump of bushes abount 75 yards from the hotel. There, stepping behind his victim, be dealt him blow after blow on the head with a hammer be had purchased preaumably for the pur pose of committing the murder. When the pounding had reduced Col lins to a state of irnsensibility, EasleyF stooped over the prostrate b,:dy and tcre from a vest pecket a roll of billsF that amounted to $,000. He started up the hill and passed the money to an accomplice, w ho is helieve:: to have escapeaj on a r' olky car. Tre would be murderer ran down the path lead ing to the Meramece river. T wo men saw the assault and the robbery and, witnessed the transfer of the mcnev and the escane of the princinal and his accomplice. Charles Felter, a baker employed at the inn, and a gardner who had been engaged about the grotrnds a fortnight, were the wit nesses. They ran to the hotel and notitied the night watchman and told him the s-.orv. Collins was removed to Kirk too'd, where a physician dressed his wounds Ensley when arres ted protested his innocence, claim ing that he, too had been assaulted. This occurred about midnight. At 2 o'clock this morning two deputy sher iffs from Cla vton, the county seat, ar rived at Meramec Heights. They ses ched the grounds for a weapon ar d d iscover d a r.e v hammer covered with blood. On Ecsley was found $600O, which was supposed to be part of the stolen money. At daybreak Ensley was driven over to Kirkwood and identitled by Collins as his assailant. A Close C:-11. The Denmark Times says Mr. Chas. MGeiver had an adventure with a monster rattlesnake one day last day that he will remember till the day of death. He was at wo-rk on Senator Ma el' place near Denmark when hdiscovered the snake, which was coiled ready to strike. In au endear or to kill the reptile, the fence rail which he had used as a weapon broke short c-if, and the rattler leaped at its human enemy and fas'ened its fangs in the cloth of Mr. McGeiver's right Trousers leg. Being thus desperately menaced Mr. McGeiver seized the snake around the neck with both hands arti tried to fiirg it from him. The fangs of the reptile were so se curely faster:ed in the cloth of his trousers, however, that be could not break its hold. In his left hand pook et v'as his jWck-tni', aud releasing his grio upon the snike with his left hand Mr. Mc~eirtr fide:.l out the wapon, opened- t~ heCCd with hs te-tn. atdc, usiag his left hand, sue ceeded' i-a overing the sr-ke's 'e-ad from its body. Its fangs were so firm ly imbadded in the trousers, however, ttiat it was rnecessarv to cut out a piece at the clot~h. 'he ser pent was a mou ter, measiring over five feet in erqtii, an,: spar~ing ninete'-n rattles and a buttcn, which, toget-her with the skin of the reotile, Mr. McGeiver will preserve as trophies of his adven wha%' the Mittr With~ Hainna" TheAndersonAvocate sas ti-m m anujcturers of Ne Enalad are making na'an "men's for q-ute anI ex~es~vesumdown du-ring the sum mer and t -at te lar-ge dividends which some ot themn have bhen pay ing were ta'en frmearnioos previo.us t1--3. We have a faint recalection t -a itwsMj 1ciney who stod on :ils front 1.orch a ast su mmer a'~ prcraimed : at if elected ". wouldI openr the ni.-s to Jaor. And anothe s o- of his becamue a campei era " oen- ;b o2- r -h'r ther- tte wtin!s Lef t - -u: i '1 Ie co C -'D . -as wee or a- aistms e gructi-eca ---ru n ear" ig ino -its 'ra-t. "4ss c' ou vyado e a -u eC:C 2 re antro--'" '- e and res ters evra"- 'e eC at wt' they --an plant r -ow ar e 0 o ha:. could bje found art thte sutrroundirng woc us the day af :e? t.- storm,"so says the Abbeyille Trc a All A.lk-. Toe Was 'ington Times says; thep Rf publican leaders have quite ceased to mke tun if Mr. David Labin :nd his is.rmers' ^^ nty rroposition. They? hav di1scovered vjhh someth1. in s-uch rs r'b:ing Ari that. af'er a (ltt. pl-Sient pOcatda Conduct td amon the tirrcuJturai class 'or sevral years. Mr L'i in has ia:ureg rated the farming communitis with his ideas in a way that does not prom ise comfort for thcse patriots who are ever rallying the dear people around the flag of protCction-protec ion, however, btir limited to the trus's and monopolies. Nom, Mr. David Lubia takes the ground that "protec tion" is exactly v, hat the farmr-s, as well as cther interetts, want. He be lierea i'n protecting manu'acturers, baut only o- condition that nthrrs are ac'orded a like benefit. He argues, and unanswerably from any Republi can s:andpcint, tesat if the whole coun try ougnt to be taxed for the profit of trusts and monopolies, it would be perfectly fair that the whole country should be taxed to pay a bounty to farmers on all the grain they might be able to export. Protection which protects everybody, themselves ex cepted, compels the farmers to pay higher prices fhr everything they buy. The logic is simple. They feel that they ought to have either a liber al bounty or free trade. Any ancient thing v.iil do for Mr. Lubin'sfarmers, as ina as they are placed on an even keel with all other people. At last the Administration people, the tariff tinkers and such like, have waked up to the fact that this logical pplication of the pure gospel of Chiuese wall tarid has run like a cry of fire through a small village, all over the agricul tural regions of the Union. Of course, they are not in a position to meet it, or to pay any present attention to it. They have all they can do to settle their tariff, currency and pooling-bill campaign debts, with their contribu tory creditors. But they do know that the movement means something like a million Democratic votes at the ensuing elections, and the thougt is not conducive to hilarity nor yet to sleep." A Death Dealing Cycc'.e. A cyclone swept over the villages of Berzones and Colombes, France, near Paris, Friday afternoon. Houses collapsed, trees were tern up, t le grzpb wires broken, several people in jured and much general damage was done. At the time the cyclone struck Asnieres a fair was in progress. Everything was literally demolisned. Two hundred trees were uprooted. The roof of Coignet's fireworks facto ry was blown off; a tall chimney was blown down and the boiler exploded, killing several persons and injuring fifteen. It is reported that five persons were k lied in a cafe. In every direc tion houses and other buildings were more or less seriously damaged. It is estimated that throughout the district over which the cyclone moved at least twenty persons were killed and nine ty injured. The whole garrison at Curbevoie, about five miles northwest of Paris, went at a double quick pace to Asnieres after the disaster, where the scene is now one of widespread and appalling desolation. Every booth van and merry-go-round in the fair was smashed and the circular railway was ruined. in the distance the cyclone presented the appearance of a cloud of smoke going from the Southwest to northeast. Roofs were son flying in the air like kites. A Mfaypole, fifteen yards long, was car ried over the tops of houses contigu ous to the fair grounds. Ate bular~ces are now' searching for the dead and wounded. Tne people are complet-dy dtzed, and women and cadidren can be seen sitting weeipng upon the door steps. ________ ___ Just a Common Liar. "Old B " says some years ago 'n a Carolina town a crazy man was brought before an examining board to settle ihe ques tion as to whether or not he should be sent to the asylum in Co Jumbia. After the doctor got through with his examination, one of the com mittee, an oXd farmer, said: "My friend, did you ever borrow any hags or j ins?.' *-Ys, lots of! thet:m." "Did you ever borrow your neigh bor's newspaper?" "Yes, many a time" "-Wejl, now, what became of the jigs, bags and newspapers?" "Why, I carried them all back." The old farmer gave a blow almost as loud as a steam whistle, and said: "-Ge ntlemen, te's no lunatic ! Just simply a common liar, and all the asy lums in the world won't cure him of' ling "______ A Negro Euns Amuck. The news comes of the murder of five negroes in the extreme north west ern part of Kemper county, Ala. A negro named Sibley, while drunk, got a gun and started out to kill every person he met; the first he came across napperned to be five negroes, three women and two childreu. He shot them down. He also shot at six other negroes who narrowly escaped. As soon as the bloody work of Sibley was discovered a mob was organiz-:d to lynch the murderer. Sibley took to the woods carrying his gun with him. At last accounts the mob had surroun ded him and a bloody fight was imnmi nent. Wora comes from Dekalo that the sheriff of Kemnper county had gone to the scene with a large posse. A Moi.ster ouban Petition. In the area in front of the speaker's rostrum when the house met Monday was a nonster petition appealing to congress to recoguize the Cuban in surzents as belligerents. It coc tamed over 6,000U.U00 signatures. The p-ti ion was wound about the imb ofa wh el framed so as to allow it t. frce lv revolve. It had breen in ciret;ation tfrogaout the Uidled aa~ for about six morths and was sa to Connressman Suzer of Nov York fur re sontation to Congress by Franz ',:ier, a resident of his dintrict. Without transacting any business thle house ad journed until Thursday. t:--Int to the EnAd. P-arick. Honcheont the wtal hiest r~- n urt ern Irha-a, di-d e, of ~ L. v ws no'wn wide' V r 'i eccenrctie . Helved une ao a-eroof for inirt; ye~are. t'1e sileeC unbrokten. Hie was one of tefounjers of the town of Lacr~osse, al His~ fortune is esumated at ,ne onl1y appuicant. Proessor Newman, who is one of thefomet agricultuiral authori!!s n 'ric cory and wh~o was prof- sg-r of agic ulture a't Clemson for sev-eralI yers iL- aprue-ut ')r th peid: ct, vi lU(. L B. CtJ.. ha r moie~ horo ughlycs hi ofor ce pos aren h tlos ms ea e r t he se: le at d yic poets of r1. icauri The o j i::inal~ pak tge deitson oes ,ay in 18 7. snowing that the iatr "xceeded the former oy 1,e>u cases of wiskey and over a hundred barrels | of hem. 1 LINCOLN REMEMBERED. And the Coufederate Captain Riddle Was Releasel From 'rison. A K.ntucky contributor -'nk to The Yout h's Cmpiin a p! sing :meedut' of Abrachain: Linl n. It Pis. ::ver efore Let-n pallish, he ' :tye. :nd wvas re 'lvl by L im from tts: te oth :- ::ray to th.: _tory, who is shill livin" in' K-: uucky. It llus trates once more the p"-niai. friendly ter per of the reat war presidnt. )uri: n- the p~reshlent!ial campa iren of 10. when Gn erad Wi;lli:Imu Henry Harrison wats the WVhig candidate, Lincoln, th n a you ne mm just rising into pro:ninenet, am. }a'd an invi tation to address an audi -nc-e in Union county. Ky., at a Whig harbecue. lie was met at a landing on the Ohio river about ten miles from the place of the barbiece by a cunttittee headed by Cap tain George W. Riddle and was escorted to l the meeting seat''d in a spring wagon by the side of C:iptnin Riddle, the driver. On the road 31r. Lincoln entertained the committee with several anmusin anee dotes and on arrivin at his des: ination delivered an able and eloquent addres probably the only address that he ever de livered in his native state. After the speaking Captain Riddle, who commanded a military company, fired a salute in honor of the orator of the day. but the cannon, an old six pounder, was overcharged and exploded, though with out any serious results. Captain Riddle raised a subscription to pay Mr. Lincoln': expenses, contributing liberally himself, and then escorted hiln back to the river. Time future president was much pleased with his visit and so expressed himself. Many years passed. Mr. Lincoln was elected chief magistrate of the nation, and the civil war broke out. Captain Riddle took sides with the south and having cx pressed his opinions rather bo>dly was ar rested for treason and sent to Camp Chase, a military prison. "It was a dull and gloomy place for me." said the old gentleman in relating the story. "and after Ihad remained there about ten days I got homesick and con cluded I would remind my friend Lincoln of bygone hours. So I wrote to him as fol lows: "M DEAR Mn. PREsIDENT-After present ing my compliments to you I wish to remind you that a good many years ago I had you in tow at a Whig barbecue, near Motanfield, in Union county. Ky. On tmat occasioc t tried to treat you kindly, and even burst my cannon in firing a salute in your honor. I hope you have not forgotten it. Now, sir, you have me in tow, and I am your prisoner here in Camp Chase. I am lonesome ard homesick and want to get back to my old wife. Picase let me go. Yours truly, GEORGE W. RIDDLE." When Mr. Lincoln received this letter, he laughed heartily and at once wrote up on the back of it: "Please let Captain George W. Riddle go home. A. Lincoln." Brice for Barmony. Ex-Senator Brice. like a good many other gold bug Demccrats, don't feel comfortable as allies of the Republi cans and wants to see harmony re stored in the Democratic party, even if they have to surrender their gold bug views. It is reported that Mr. Brice will go to Ohio in a short time and enter upon an active campaign in ihe interest of Demccratic harmony. Bric's idea is that the gold and silver men should get together i. the State campaign, and make ccmmon cause of the election of a silver man for Govt rnor. To this end Brice will sup port any silver man satisfactory to the party at large. Se believes, accord in to Ohliger, that the smaller ;action should give in to the larger, and that the gold men should therefore sacri fice their preferences te secure party success. He thinks there is a good chance to elect a silver ticket in Ohio, and proposes abat Demccrats shall take advantage of it. Mr. Brice has been in the West Indies, whither he went to recuperate. His re-entry into Ohio polit~ies as a harmonizer of fac tion on a silver platform will create a sensation among Backeye politicians. The Inner Man. In one of his recent addresses Bishop Potter was speaking of the height to which a man may rise in his profession or art. He was talking to organists and said that in order for the musician to play great music his own life or Ideal of lifo must be high. The man at the keys, he said, can not get from the instrument better music than he has in his own soul. "Some time ago," said he, "I stood, in company with an artistic friend, before the portrait of a well known man. The exeration of the picture was excellent, but we both agreed that so:nething was wanting in the expres sion of the face. The artist had not put into the face on the canvas the soul of the man he was portraying. My friend re marked, 'The artist can put upon the can vas only what he has in himself.' " The Germans have made a proverb of Goethe's famous line in "Hernmann and Dorothea," "What is not in man cannot be got out oi him. "--New York Times. Etnled On the Track. Major J. M. Mayo, formerly of Whittaker. N. C., but laly residing at Ocala, Florida, while attempting to 'tross the tracks of the Northeastern R ailroad in Florence Saturday morn ing, was struck by the engine of train 78, the north bound express ar d was so badly injured that he died about 12 o'ch ck. All possible medical atten tion was given him but he never ral lied from the shock. Major Mayo came here on the Columbia train Sat urday morning, on his way to his old North Carolina home, and the train on which he was going being some what late, he went up town on a little business, and was returning to the pat senger station by way of Cohen's gro cery store. Called to His Death. Friday night at 10 o'clock Will Franks of this county liviog abou' eight miles from the town of Laurens, went in co-opany with his fatber, to toe douse of Mr. Mace Clark, a neigh her and calliig him out shot, him five times killing him instantly. Sheriff Mc~ravy was notiid immediately a:.d Franks and his father are both it jai:l tnis me'r ung. Franks is a youmng man of 25 years while Clar-k was prob ably :35 or 41 years of age, a man 01 fa:nily and a prosperous farmer. The killing is said to have been on account of a slanderous report about young Franks' mife eitculated by Clark. The senatoral Race. The Calambia l'uister names Sen ator' McLaurin. Ex GoV. E':ans. Con irtssaa Se- yarae Wilson, St-att Senuator May iield, Solicitor Beliinger'. M. L. Dmn..dson an~d Prcf. Marahant as candidates for United Sttes Sena tor. To CLEAN STRAw HATS -Maske a paste of pounded sulphur and cold wa ter, wet the hat or bonnet, and c )ver i: with past until you do not seeth sr..iw; rub hard, hang the hat up L dry. brush the sulpher ctf with a rush, the strayv gets beautifully elite. This method is easier than t& alpaur bieschmag bo'x, and can b: done very quickly. TinE Cit cianatti Enoutrer thinks that "there is ''ii a suspicion tat te president. meant John Waname -hen lhe iai-ued abJt pessmis ina a Emalai phia s1peen, bu a :er prosperrity to rett:-n an -'ms -'-rad prevalenc&e-o har t-e most giaring anr nt spacheCs of Presient~ <" t.' 'ni a. Secretary Geg~e bae o -te :n in calling any ody else. a p-usi-nit. They have substaily acknowl~edg ed their failure to exorcise hard times hy their romn ixm ainc" ?P. NQ'AUFIN IN THE SENAE He V'-ry Ably D: bates the TatifT Wi1h Stveral of Ha C llea;ues. \Vhern the agrictt utlral sche d was racied the re-v Senator c uld not keep out cf the derate. Having been a meuber of the House committee an ways and means during the framing of the bill, he knew both its sectioral features and weak points. Senator lhcon, of Georgia, offered an amend ment placing a duty of 20 per cent. on raw cotton. The debate very soon be came interesting and quite embarrass inz to the Recpublicanr cormmittee in I charge of the bill. A k&eavy duty h..d been liven to all the cereal pr.ducts of the North and West, and when Seu atcr Bscon ask.d for a simi'ar teat tment f.r Southern1 cotton thee tvis a gentral squirming. The proocsition caught them at a disadva,,tate ,l order to show that other cot tot tnaa Egyptian was being import-d Mr. :c Laurin said: I have here a dispatch from Mexico that bears on this point. I should I ke to give the .en tor from Georgia the bene fit of it, and I ask the st creta rv to read it. The Presiding Officer. Without cb ,j etion, t e stcretary will read as re qufstr d. The Secretary read as friows: M1xro Ci-rr, May 14. Mexico is now shipping cotton in certain forms to the United States, thus reversing what has heretofore been the rule. This is particularly true of cotton waste, whien, at present, is being bought in large quantities by American firms. Tere are seventj cut ton factories in the Republic, and the tutal available amount of w te from them per month is about 50,000 pounds, which is handled here almost exclusively by one. Ile, by the high rate of exchange at present pre vailing, is shipping large consignments of this commodity to the L'nited States Two large lots, the first of 400,000 pounds and the second of 700,000 pounds, have already gone forward. Furtner on he said: May I inter rupt the Senator? Mr. Chilton. Certainly. Mr. McLaurin. Toere is an u lrid long staple cotton, known as tne Al len long staple, and if the ,Senator will investigate he will find that the importation ot Egyptian c-tton has driven our upland country people out of the production of that staple. That has occurred in the upper part &f South Carolina on account of this very im purtation of Egyptian cotton. which prevents the use of the Alien long sta pie in connection with the sea island and upland short staple. Mr. AcL turin. Mr. President, the Senator from Missouri made the state ment that the Egyptian cotton does not come into competition with any American cotton. I deny that statement. When the Egyptian cotton was first imported into tnis country, it was used as a substitute for tong staple cotton in the making of the finer thread. It is now used in the cotton factories for mak.ng the cotton warps in caeap woolen goods and to that extent has supplanted upland cot ton. As I said to the Senator from Texas, we produce agrade of long-sta pie upland cotton, and I defy any body to distinguish between it and the Egyptian cotton. It is almost exactly the same grade, but owing to the dif ference of expense in cultivation we have been forced out of the production of this cotton by tre importation of the Egyptian cotton. I can myself rememoer plantations where ten years ago there were large quantities of the apland long staple groivn which have completely abandoned its production in recent years. Wnile tme brunt of the fight fell upon Senator Bacon it was evident jinat.Senator McLaurin had the entire iuet cn trougnly in band, and had tbennecessary cudhave given the republican committee no end of trouble, The surrender was complete and cctton now stands on an equality before the law with wheat. The rice schedule was then taken up and Senator McLaurio took the lead. In a very fe w moments he had trae attention of the Senate and was giving out some va ua bleand convinc ing information. He s:emed the only one who really understood the sub ject fully and the Republican committee instantly took alarm. Mr. McLaurin said the proposed legislation in regard to rice involves an important industry in South Caro Jina, and I should like to understand if it is proposed to the House rate. Mr. Allison. The rates propcsed are the rates of the other Ec use, ex cept upon broken rice. IMr. McLaurmn. What rate is pro Ipose d on brcken ice? Mr. Allison. One quarter of a cent per pound. Mr. Mcbaurin. There is no change in the classification? Mr. Allison. No change in the class ification and no change in the rate except on broken rice. Mr. Mchaurin. Mr. President, t.ere is a matter cjnnected with the rica in dustry of ntore importance even than the rates of duty; 1. refer to the classi tication under whicai the rice is im ported. I send to the Clerk's desa and ask to have read a letter on this subject from an intelligent rice plant er in South Carolina. The Secretary read as follows: McULELLANVI.LE, S. C , April 9, 1897. DE:.u Sis: I learn frorn the papers that the taritf hill has pa ssed the Hlouse andi is now in the Senate. The bill is apparently all right, but it wtll not stand a clo e exami datonii. It appears on its -acc that tie rice planters haive a protection of -.? ents per pound. which, it true, would do ver well. Cncleane.d rice, or r-ce witu tnt. outer hull on. is duiabe at the rate of r et ier pound. Och riecan be brushed or polished by the mriters for one-eighth of a cent per pound-. Y ou r-ee tht la- of rice c-ould bet. plce .3on t- maure. . L dut of 1.cents per- taud. For ' ' ressou :hIre wou. Ie no eieanerid rice imponed srice itvwouh betm-r prfit le to iuort Rough or p-uddy rice is dutie at-e I-irthi of a cent p-er pomud Nw, to i.a vrteho it wo'u wor- twthr this e t rice, u nd- of -rugh riee i-. a bu-he for l ' bUs- Th ,Ia~ n r-m isatraeetu r i o a- ce - r: ai at . rie t r. S y- e ro -.: ie en bei ~. boreadt reiioeenre T-hr cmal rite anc - lo n- n n .vr ver low rtr- inedInfaeu .r .iring rice can atord :o- pay - s a- ith o who eat it- hreaec-u perp-etraited thriuhhei - - -1ieth oclle t un. -0-i one chs and the r e ior in the other - etraud andI help the wido all --rcnfo etmri youcan fr io a. Y r truly. T.' Mr. McLaur-nm. 1:s -- ~usuu e IPUT POWD"ER Abso .*-%Iy Pure. Celebrai'ed for its great leavening strength and healthfulness. Assures the food against alum and all forms of adulteration common to the cheap brands. ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., NEW YORK. will direct tbe attention of the com mittee in charge of the measure to just one point connected with the clas-ideation of rice. The two classi ications of rice in a general way are cleaned rice, fit for food consumption, and rough rice, as it comes from the farmer. Now, last year the imports of clean ed rice were 41,915,000 pounds; of the uncleaned, 22,748.000; of-the rough or paddy rice, 15.894 pounds; of the rice flour, meal, and broken rice, 63,894, 000 pounds. This statement is sufficient, it seems to me, to conte.nn the present sistem or clasriication. The intermediate grades are the uncleaned, the meal and broken rice, and the rough paddy rice. Of the general classifications there were 41,900,000 pounds imported, while of the intermediate grades 91, 773,000 pounds came in from abroad, end I venture the assertion that of these intermediate grades a large pro portion were, to say the least, irregu lar and a fraud on the revenues of the Government besides being an injuk tice to the rice planters and millers of this country. I have here a book which gives the testimony taken before the Ways and Means Committee, containing the statement of a prominent rice dealer in New Orleans, Mr. Ernst. I shall not consume the time of the Senate to read it. Mr. Ernst stated that the rice is broken up and crushed by for eign exporters in order to take advan tage of one present system of classifi cation, at d to furnish to the brewers of this country a cheap article out of which I suppose they make beer and palm it off as being made from hops, or something of the sort. These facts were well known. They were pre sented to the Ways and Means Com mittee of the House, and 1 doubt not were presented to the committe on this side who had charge of the reasare. Then why, I ask, is, the present sys tem of classiiication allowed to remain in the biil? Are the brewers and speculators of this country of more inportance than its rice planters ane millers? Must a legitimate line of material production be sacrificed to the interests of those two classes? Mr. Gray. I should like to ask the Senator from South Carolina what would be the result on the revenue of the cta~ige he proposes. Mr. McLaurin. O a the revenue? Mr. Gray. Yes. I presume this is a revenue measure. Mr. McLaurin. Yes sir, I should think it Would produce more revenue, because you wi:1 n.ie that wheie there is tne leat importation, as in the. r~ugh or paddy class, there is no change made in the Hos rates. Of course, if you made but two general cassificauions, and pL c.d the rough and bro~ken rice in one of these clasa-as where the rate of duty is much higher, here would be more revenue than is now received under a lower rate of duty and her ce the revenues of the country would be correspondingly in creased. Mr. Gray. This is entirely a revenue duty. Tnaat is the Senator's proposi tion. Mr. McLaurin. I am'nnot proposing any duty at all. It is a cnange in classiication to whicn I refer. Mr. Gray. And a change in the direc:ion of more revenue? Mr. McLaurin. I am not trying to avotd thle question. I will state that, irrespective of revenue duty or any thing else, the rice planters in tais country have just as muca right as any otner cLass of people in the c~un try. That is my posiuon on that ques tion. Mr. Gray. There we agree. Mr. McLturin. Now, if the Senator wants to know my position, I will give it to him. Mr. tirav. I do not want it. I ask he Senator.from South Carolina what the effect will be upon the revenue. I want to know. Mr. McLaurin. I think the effec: will be to increase the revenue. Mr. Gray. So I really wainted to know what effect it was going to have on the revenue wih this enormuxs ad valorem duty. Mr. McLturin. I think that it vould really increase the rdeanes of the Government. Mr. Jones of Arkansss. What is the change in the classificaation whtca the Senator from south Carolina pro Joses? Mr. MecLaurin. Tae change I wvould propose is, instead of four, to mak i nly t wo general cl~usiic to is, andi str:k-e out all of the iuternadiate ~raes and put all ries inaj the gen eral classideation. Mr. Butler. i should like ;.o ask the 3nator frc~a South Car .noa if it is not a fact that under a scnutdule ltme .uis a great deal of ris will e als la s oraken rice at a 1o v rate wnica could comne in and pay nig aer duty if :v-re not for tile lav c.i.Siacittaa mf broken rice? Mr. Mci.aurta. I thiuk thte Sena tor from Nor-th Carolin is e~rrect. Mr. Butler. Does not ttAt explain sischi a'1 se nous muiount of ~roen rice cliasied as brokeL. rica, is Mr. McLaurin. Yes, sir. Mr. Butler. Lirger ta under ny atbir scheduke, and caieil7 be tse a great deal of it imnpor'd as )roken r:ce was. Lot realiy oroken rice. Me. MJcL vrin. Yes sir. Mr. Batier. The ianport-rs take ad atage of the very day oa broken 'ce to imnoort rice under that cassifica u.It is jgst the same thing we ae to conte with is trrurig to~ pro et our mica iNrh via/ olina. UnD *:er the ad valoremn d my ta-y bring in aca under the iosest caitction, or rather they undervlue it and get i: i without v:ng ou h uty, and t yeds very int~e revewn. In the sime w.ay inev wai dodge the duty vi .''S nave tae larga a.un~it 7 :: z'r.edI under thae 1i sest scie -'*ugn tae etytI) ot Mcbiurin the can coamtt-e we compel led ?-i rom its amnendments and go va c2ded a viet'ry t or .ae Souta unewhich rfidec s great cr:Oit on