ZENAS THE LAWYER
REV. DR. TALMAGE PAYS A HIGH TRi
BUTETO THE B\R.
He Treats Profession of Law Froni a
Moral and Religious Stacdpotnt-Un
ties of the Christian Lawyer-Mary
Temptations.
Dr. Talmage's sermon Sunday hud a spe
cial interest for lawyers. and all why epect
to be lawyers. and all who are the frau '
lawyers. His text was Titus iii. 1 'ri
Zenas the lawyer.'
The profession of the law is here intro
duced, and within two day- in the Capital
City :303 young men joined it. and at this
season in various parts of the land other
hundreds are taking their diplomas for that
illustrious profession. and is it net appropri
ate that I address such young men from a
moral and religious standpoint, as upon
them are now rolling the responsibilities of
that calling represented in the text by Zenas
the lawyer.
We all admire the heroic and rigorous
side of Paul's nature, as when he stands
coolly deliberate on the deck of the coru
ship while the jack tars of the Mediterran
ean are cowering in the cyclone: as when he
stagis undaunted amid the marbles of the
palace before thick necked Nero, surround
ed with his 12 cruel lictors: as when we fid
him earning his livelihood with his own nee
dle, sewing haircloth and preaching the gos
pelin the interstices; as when we tind him
able to take the 39 lashes. every stroke of
which fetched the blood, yet continuing in
his missionary work: as when we find him.
regardless of the consequence to himself, de
livering a temperance lecture to Felix, the
government inebriate. But sometimes we
catch a glimpse of the mild and genial side
of Paul's nature. It seems that he had a
friend who was a barrister by profession.
His name was Zenas, and he wanted to see
him. Perhaps he had foa med the acquaint
ance of this lawyer in the courtroom. l'er
haps sometimes when he wanted to ask some
question in regard to Roman law he went to
this Zenas the lawyer. At any rate he had
a warm attachment for the man, and he pro
vides for his comfortable escort and enter
tainment as he writes to Titus, -Bring Zenas
the lawyer."
This man of my text belonged to a pro
fession in which are many ardent supporters
of Christ and the gospel, among them lack
stone, the great commentator on English
law, and Wilberforce, the emancipator, and
the late Benjamin F. Butler, attorney gener
al of New York, and the late Charles Chaun
cey, the leader of the Philadelphia bar, and
Cheif Justices Marshall and Tenterden and
Campbell and Sir Thomas Moore. who died
for the truth on the scaffold, saying to his
aghast executioner: Pluck up courage,
man, and do your duty. My neck is very
short. Be careful, therefore, and do not
strike awry."
Among the mightiest pleas that ever have
been =ade by tongue of barrister have been
pleas in be lAf of the Bible and Christianity,
as when Daniel Webster stood in the supreme
court at Washington pleading in the famous
Girard will case, denouncing any attempt to
educate the people without giving them at
the same time moral sentiments as "low, ri
bald and vulgar deism and infidelity;" as
when Samuel L. Southard of New Jersey,
the leader of the forum in his day, stood on
the platform at Princeton college commence
ment advocating the literary excellency of
the Scriptures; as when Edmund Burke, in
the famous trial of Warren Hastings, not
only in behalf of the English government,
but in behalf of elevated morals, closed his
speech in the midst of the most august as
semblage ever gathered in Westminster hail
by saying: "I impeach Warren Hastings in
the name of the house of commons, whose
national character he has dishonered: I im
peach him in the name of' the people ef In
dia, whose rights and liberties he has sub
verted; I impeach him in the name of human
nature, which he has disgraced. In the
name of both sexes, and of every rank, and
of every station, and o' every situation in
the world, I impeach Warren Hastings."
let, notwithstanding all the pleas which
that profession has made in behalf of God,
and the church, and the gospel, and the
rights of man, there has come down through
the generations among many people an ab
surd and wisked prejudice against it. Sc
long ago as in the time of Oliver Cromwell
that lawyers might not errter the parliament
house as members, and they were called
"sons of Zeruirh." The learned Dr. John
son wrote an epitaph for one of them in
these words:
God works wonders now and then. -
Here lies a lawyer, an honest man.:
Two hundred years ago a treatise was is
sued with the title, "Doomsday Approaching
With Thiunder and Lightning For Lawyers.'
A prominent clergyman of the last century
wrote in regard to that profession tnese
words. "There is a society of men among
us bred up from their youth in the art of
proving, according as they are paid, by
words multiplied for the purpose that white
is black and black is white. For example,
if my neighbor has a mind to my cow, he
hires a lawyer to prove that he ought to
have my cow from me. I must hire another
]awyer to defend my right, it being against
tll rules of law that a man should speak for
himself. In pleading they do not dwell
upon the merits of the cause, but upon cir
cumstances foreign thereto. For instance,
they do not take the shortest method to
know what title my adversary has to my
cow, but'whether the cow be red or black,
her horns long or short, or the like. A fter
that they adjourn the cause from time to
time and in 20 years they come to an issue.
This society likewise has a peculiar cant or
jargon of their own, in which all their laws
are written, and these they take especial
care to multiply, whereby they have so con
founded truth and falsehood that it will rake
12 years to decide whether the field left to
me oy my ancestors for six generations be
longs to me or to one 300 miles off."
I say these things to show you that there
has been a prejudice going on down against
that profession from generation to genera.
tion. I account for it on the ground that
they compel men to pay debts that they do
not pay, and that they arraign criminals
who want to escape the consequernces of their
crime, and as long as that is so, and it al
ways will be so, just so long there will be
classes of men who will affect at any rate to
despise the legal profession. I know not
how it is in other countries, but I have had
long and wide acquaintance with men of that
profession-I have found them in all my
parishes, I tarried in one of their oflices for
three years, where there came real estate
lawyers, insurance lawyers, criminal law.
years, marine lawyers-and I havo yet to
find a class of men more genial or more
straightforward. There are in that occupa
tion, as in all our occupations, men utterly
obnoxious to God and man. But if I were
on trial for my integrity or my life, and I
wanted even handed justice administered to
me, I would rather have my case submitted
to ajury of 12 lawyers than to a jury ofl12
elergymen. The legal profession, I believe,
has less violence of prejudice than is to b
found in the sacred calling.
There is, however, no man who has more
temptations or graver responsibilities than
the barrister, and he who attempts to dis
charge the duties of his position with only
earthly resources is maing a very great mis
take. Witness the scores of men who have
in that profession made eternal shipwreck.
Witnees the men who with the law of the
land under their arm, have violated every
statute of the eternal God. Witness the men
who have argued placidIly before earthly
tribunals, who shall shiver in dismay before
the Judge of quick and dead. Witness Lord
Thurlow, announcing his loyalty to earthly
government in the sentence, --if I forget ty
earthly sovereign, may God forget me." and
yet stooping to unaccountable mieannesses.
Witness Lord Coke, the learned and the reek
less. Witness Sir George McKenzie, thec
execrated of all Scotch Convenanters, -o
that untithis day, in Gray Friir chur
yard, Edinburgh, the chilarmu wh'
through the bars of the tomb, erring
Bloody Mackenzie. come out ify: dr
Lift the sneck and draw the r
No other profession more e-stere
of God to deliver them in their tec ates
to comfort them in theirtr .to ai
them in the discharge of their duty. Whl
I would have you bring the merchant tc
Christ, and while I would have you bring
the farmer to Christ, and while I would
a . w' sr o much as
t esarede e a i reat, by so muucht
. 1 tlus and safe
u y " eg.::e e.ients. I do not
e a 0 years of age who
e li- to has not been af
wsuit. your name is as
r'u-t have legal protection.
*o.r invaded. and the
o,":;, :1u-t :re -: ti lish it. Your patent is
frnr iae. u:n, and. you must make the of
:ing :n'tufacturer pay the p'inalty. Your
tri:-ers are taken, and the thief must be
ar'eheunied. You want to make your will.
ant vou dL not want to follow the example
of those who, for the sake of saving '100
frogt an attorney. imt:peril 5'2.'t'.i t, and
keep the genertiaon following for I years
cuarrelimug about the estae, until it is all ex
hausted. ct ate stru:c at l an assassin,
atnd you mut invoke for hi.. the penitentiary.
All cla--es of "ersons in ccuirae of time be
com:e clients. and therefore they are all in
terested in the morality and the 'hri:an
iategrity of the legali professiogn. "liriug
Zenis the lawyer
But how is an atttrney to decide as to
what are the rinciples by which he should
conduct himself in regard to his clients. On
one extreme Lord Brouh in will appear, say
itmc: "The Innocence or guilt of your client
is nothing to vou You are to save your
client re": :diesa of the torment, the suttering,
the destruction of all others. You are to
know btNt one man in the world-your client.
Y: 11 are to save h"n though you should bring
your country into confusion. At all hazards
you toast save your client.'' So says Lord
itroucha::. But no right minded lawyer
could adoot that sentiment On the other
extreme Cicero will come to you and say.
.-You must never plead the cause of a bad
man,'' forgetful of the fact that the greatest
yillain on' earth ought to have a fair trial
and that an attorney cannot be judge and ad
vocate at the same time. It was grand when
Lord Erskine sacrificed his attorney general
shio for the sake of defending Thomas Paine
in his publication of his book called "The
Rights of MIan," while at the same time he.
the advocate, abhorred Thomas Paine's irre
ligious sentiments. Between these two op
posite theories of what is right, what shall
the attorney do:' God alone can direct him.
To that chancery he must be appellant, and
he will get an answer ' an hour. Blessed
is that attorney oetween whose office and
the throne of God there is perpetual. rever
ential and prayerful communication. That
attorney will never make an irreparable mis
take. True to the habits of your profession
you say. "Cite us some authority on the sub
ject." Well, I quote to you the decision of
the supreme court of heaven, "If any lack
wisdom, let him ask of God. who giveth to
all tmen liberally and upbr..ideth not. and it
shall be given him.
What a scene is the office of a busy at
torney: In addition to the men who come
to you from right motives, bad men will
come to you. They will otler you a large
fee for counsel in the wrong direction. They
want to know from you how they can es
cape from solemn material obligation. They
cotue to you wanting to know how they can
fail advantageously for themselves. They
come to you wanting to know how they can
make the insurance company pay for a de
stroyed house which they burned down with
their own hands. or they come to you on the
simple errand of wanting to escape payment
of their honest debts.
Now, it is no easy thing to advise set
tlement, when by urging litigation you could
strike a mine of remuneration. It is not a
very easy thing to dampen the ardor of an
intiamed contestant, when you know
through a prolonged lawsuit you could get
from him whatever you asked. It is no
easy thing to attempt to discourage the suit
for the breaking of a will in the surrog te's
court because you know the testator was of
sound mind and body when he signed the
document. It requires no small heroism to
do as I once heard an attorney do in an
office in a western city. I overheard the
conversation when he said, "John, you can
go on with this lawsuit, and I will see you
through as well as I can, but I want to tell
you before you start that a lawsuit is equal
to a fire." Under the tremendous tempta
tions that come upon the legal profession
there are scores of men who have gone down,
and some of thenm from being the pride of
the highest tribunal of the state have become
a disgrace to the Tombs courtroom. Every
attorney, in addition to the innate sense of
right, wants the sustaining power of the old
fashioned religion ot Jesus Christ. "Bring
Zenas the lawyer."
There are two or three forms of tempta
tion to which the legal professian is espec
ially subject. The first of all is skepticism.
Controversy is the lifetime business of that
occupation. Controversy n'ay be incidental
with us, but with you it is perpettual. You
get so used to pushing the sharp question
'-Why?" and mtaking unaided reason supe
rior to the emotions, that the religion of
Jesus Christ, which is a simple matter of
faith and above human reason, although not
contrary to it, has but little chance with
some of you. A brilliant orator wrote a
book on the first page of which he announc
ed this sentiment. "An honest God is the
noblest work of tman:" Skepticism is the
mightiest temptation of the legal profession,
and that man who can stand in that profes
sion, resisting all solicitations to infidelity,
and can be as brave as George Briggs of
31assachusetts, who stepped from the gnt
bernatorial chair to the missionary conven
tion, to plead the cause of a dying race;
then on his way home from the convention.
on a cold day, took off his warm cloak and
threw it over the shoulders of a thinly clad
missionary, saying, "Take that and wear it;
it will do you more good than it will mte,"
or. like Judge John MceLean, who can step
from the supiremne court room of tihe T'nited
States on to the anniversary platform of the
American sunday School utnion, its most
powerful orator, deserves cngratulation and
encomiumn. Oh. muen of the legal profession,
let inc beg of you to quit asking questions in
regard to religion and begin believing:
The mighty men of your profession. Story
::nd Kent and MIansfield, became Christians.
not through their heads, but through their
hearts. "Except ye become as a little
child, ye shall in no wise enter the kingdom
of God." If you do not become a Christian,
U man of the legal profession, until you can
reason this whole thing out in regard to God
and Christ and the immnortality of the soul,
you will never become a Christian at all.
Only believe. "Bring Ztnaa the lawyer.''
Another nmighty temptation for the legal
profession is Sabbath breaking. The trial
has been going on for 10J to 15 days. The
evididence is all in. It is Saturday night.
The judge's gavel falls on the desk, atnd he
says. "Crier, adjourn the court until I10
o'cek MIonday morning.'' On MIon day
morning the counselor is to sum up the case.
'hosands of dollars yea, the reputation and
life of hi- client may depend upon the suc
cess of his plea. Ilow will he spend the in
tervening Sutnday? There is not one lawyer
out of a htundred that can withstand the
tenptation to break the Lord's day under
such circumstances. and yet if he does he
hurts his own soul. What, my brother,
you cannot do before 12 o'clock Saturday
niht, or after 12 o' clock Sunday night G;od
does not want you to do at all. Besides
that. you want the 24 hours of Sabbath rest
to give you that electrical and magnetic force
which will be worth more to you before the
jury than all the elaboration of your case on
the sacred day. 3My intimate and lament
ed friend, the late Jugde Neilson, in his in
terestig re:::1niscences of Rxufus Choate,
that dutring the last case that gentleman
tried ir New York the court adjoured fro:
Friday until M1onday on account of the ill
ness of Mir. Choate. But the chronicler
says that on the intervnieng Sabbath he saw
Mr. Choate in the old Urick church listening
toRev.1i)r. Gardiner Springer. I do not know
whether on theL following day Rufus Choate
won hts cause or lost it, but I do know that his
S a- mic rest did not do hiu any hartm. Er
ery l.'wye~r isentitled to one -lay>' rest out
ofseneu I' het surrenders thtat. he rob:
tree-God, hiis owtn -'ut and his client.
L"d Cu-'lereagh and Sir The-uas Romilly
wre th lea ter- of the bar in their day'.
Theybothdie s.ucide. Wilberforce ae
t~s o "'"ei aerac''tion of intellect on
:o :sm :L the were unzitermittent itn
Ici ""' m:-'i they never rcstedi On Sin
v.' --o'r fe low :Id Wilberforce in
rea1 tcot rah:"ar fellow, it was
:ie !:lemy , "We tudo not proerlyus
keeptheLeri hy al tc reot of the week
.' n'pp an' "rsuce 'a~'li my worldly
Iemploymnen'.
I quote today from" then highest statute
bath day to keep it holy." The lezal gen
;leman who breaks that statute may seem
for a while to be advantaei. but in the 1,in=
run the mnen who observe this law f t;oi
will have larger retainers, v -ter itiene'.
greater protessional sutccess th:an those men
who break the statute. Obervance of the
law ctf Gel pays not only spiritually anu
eternally, but it rys in hard tiellars of iik
hilts.
Another power:ui temuptation of the legal
rofession is to artitici:l stimulus. \o one
excet't titose who have :teldressed audec
itows about the nervous exh:iti-ion that
stuetiues conle, afterward. Tte te'pta'n
to troug driuk approaeltes the legal p'rofes
sion at that very lpoint. Thlen, a Trill is Comt-J
ing on. Tartuh the ia 'ventilate i court
room the Earrie:er's hen h hs been de'
pressed fr days and for weeks, iHe watts
t I r::ly iis enlergy. Hie is :empte.1i to r~esort
toi artircial stir:hitu It is e'ither'to :.:t
e upb or let hi. .elf down :aat this
temipt:tttin cote- upo htn. The :lower et
the .::ericu har. riinl in rputattioti ind
ruined in e-tate. i1 in his :eI-t u:u:nent:
"Thi- is the en 1. 1 an dying on a horrow
ed bed, covered with ai orrowed ;heet, in a
house 1,ult by public charity. lb:ry te
unier that tree in the niddle of the eieh.
thai: I nay not ie crowded. I a'.wiys have
been crowded.
Another powerful temptation of the leal
prufession is to alow tae aP orbing duttes
of the profession to shut out tioughts of the
great future. You know very weil that you
who have so often tried others will after
awhile be put on trial yourselves. Death
will serve on you a writ of ejectment. and
you will be put off these earthly premises.
Oa th':t day all the atlfiirs of your life will
be presented in a "bill of particulars." No
certiorari from a higher court, for this is the
highest court. The day when L)rd Exeter
was tried for high treason; the day when the
house of commons moved for the impeach
ment of the Lord Lovat: the days when
Charles I and toeen Caroline were put upon
trial: the day when Robert Emmet was ar
raigned as an insurgent: the day when Blen
nerhasset was brought into the courtroom
because he had tried to overthrow the Uni
ted States government, and all the other
great trials of the world are nothing com
pared with the great trial in which you and
I shall appear, summoned before the Juidge
of quick and dead.
There will be no pleading there '-the
statute of lituitations,' no "turning state's
evidence." trying to get off ourselves while
others suffer, no 'moving for a non suit."
The case will come on inexorably, and we
shall be tried. You, my brother, who have
so often been advocate for others, will then
need an advocate for yourself. Have you
selected him, the Lord Chancellor of the
Universt': If any man sin, we have an advo
cate-Jesus Christ the righteous. It is un
certain when your case will be called on.
"Be ye also ready."
Lord Ashburton and Mr. Wallace were
leading barristers in their day. They died
about the same timue. A few months before
their decease they happened to be in the
same hotel in a village, the one counsel go
ing to Devonshire. the other going to Lon
don. They had both been seized upon by a
disease which they knew would be fatal, and
they requested that they be carried into the
same room and laid down on sofas side by
side that they might talk over old times and
talk over the future. So they were carried
in, and lying there on opposite sofas they
talked over their old contests at the bar, and
then they talked of the future world, upon
which they must soon enter. It was said to
have been a very affecting and solemn in
terview between Mr. Wallace and Lord
Ashburton. My subject today puts you side
by side with those men in your profession
who have departed this life, some of them
skeptical and rebellious, some of them peni.
tent, childlike and Christian. Those were
wandering stars for whom is reserved the
blackness of darkness forever, while these
others went up from the courtroom of earth
to the throne of eternal dominion. Through
Christ the advocate these got glorious ac-'
quittal. In the other ease it was a hopeless
lawsuit-an unpardoned sinner versus the
Lord God Almighty. Oh, what disastrous
litigation: Behold, he comes: The Judge,
the Judge, the clouds of heaven, the judicial
ermine, the great white throne, the judicial
bench, the archangel's voice that shall wake
the dead, the crier, "Come, ye blessed; de
part ye cursed:" the acquittal or the con
demnation. "And I saw the dead, small
and great, stand before God, and the books
were opened."
Coming south.
The Chicago News says the latest
colonization enterprise was organized
in Madison couinty, Ind., and some
fifty families from there will go to
Southern Alabama this fall. The
members of the company are well to
do and fairly prosperous, as farmers
in this section invariably are. There
is little doubt but that the extension
of transportation facilities in this
country has considerably modified
Northern agricultural puruits. Now
the people of Northern cities are sup
plied with vegetables and fruits of All
kinds from Southerr points, and by
the time the Northern farmer has an
opprtuityto put his own products
oth maket the demand for them
has passed and the earlier grown pro
ducts from the South meet the de
mands, so that the Southern producer
is always a little ahead of the North
erner at his own door. This has prac
tically destroyed all lighter branches
of agricultural industry at the North
and increased the heavier, more bar -
densome and less remunerative sort.
The Right Kind of Stuff.
The Rock Hill Herald say Mr. T. H.
Spence. who graduated at Davidson
college, is in the city. Mr. Spence is a
"man with a history." He came from
Belamer~a, county Antrim, Ireland,
about 10 years ago, being at the time
19 years old. He engaged in the
blacksmith's trade in Lancaster for
several years, and was known around
as the best workman any where in the
country. By the money thus obtain
ed he has put himself through school
and college, winning the Bible prize
at the Presbyterian high school and
the orator's tiedal and a Bible prize at
Davidson.
Too Much Pain Killer.
Five Indians, including Chief Wee
Su,, are dead at Matines Point, on
Mle Lacs Lake, and teveral others
are exnected to die, as the result of
dringing pain killer, hair oi!, and
other preparations containing alcohol.
The Indian payment has been going
on there and the red skins gorged
themselves with this stuff whic'h was
brought from trading posts. Indian
riders are scourin~g every part of the
reservation to bring the band together
at the point, and serious trouble may
result, as the red skins think Agent
Malone is to blame for the deaths ann
if whiskey can be gotten there is no
telling what will happen.
SoUd for rree silver.
The Ohio Democratic State conven
tion has nominated Horace L. Chap-'
man for Governor, ex State Senator
Meville C. Shaw for Lieutenant Gov
ernor and a full State ticket. It was a
free silver convention throughoait.
and there was not a dissenting voice~
to the declaration for the free and un
limited coiarge of silver at the ratio
of 1U to:, without the co-operation of
any other nation; and the name of
Wiiliami J. Bryan was mentioned in
soeway by every speak~er as the only
sure way of bringing a chorus of ap
plaute. ______
Flew swifter that' the WInd.
Eleven of 13 carrier pigeons releas
ed by Mr. A. L. Fogg of the Adam?s
Epress company,' Cinc'innati, on a'
recent morning at 7 o'clock reached
their destination, Oil City, Pa., at
5 :20 p. m. on the same day making'
their average speed while on the flight
9d5 yards per minute, or at the rate of
one nulec in 1.S6 minutes. The dis
tance by air line is :300 miles. Anota
er of the birds arrived some time
lator, but the thirteenth has not yet1
[ben heardfrm
NO TAX O 1M D 1KANTV
SENATCR TILMAN' SC-E E RE
J.C F' 'Y THE SENATE.
in HU: Specch in rapport of 'he P:11 SerP
tor Triinan Said it waK Time to Do
Sonething to Pro'ect Aeirican La
bor.
After tedious corsiderelion of the
L.ritf bill throughc'ur Taisdav tmeSen
sie vwourd up v ish a half hour of
ey u a'rusing colcqiy bet-peen
e Ti!_ of .uth Carclina
at2d C n1 r of N: Hsrr pshire.
The' fcr ..r h prop-cd an amend
mert to the tariff bill providir g SiCO
htad tax on immi rants and a restric
.cu ';-airst all those not com
in: to the United Stacs to ben:me cit
zTS. Mr. Tiilmar of South Carolina
c s reCo: i2]Zed for a s :tch in sunecrt
cf the amer0drr cu' o the bi::
"That there shall be collected a
head tax of $t10 on ali 7emigrants
coming to the United S.ates by land
or water.
"That it s'l be a rmiscemeanc-r,
pnishahbe by tine or imprisonment,
f. r any alie - who dos no: intend to
bece an _-erica ci'z n, or who
retairs his citizenship i : a ft reign
country, to enter the United States for
the purpose of engging in any me
chanical trade or mnas pl labor within
the borders thereof; urovided that this
section and the one i:uinediately nre
ceding shall only remai of force un
til silver shall he admited to cur
mints for coinae" ai the ratio of 16 to 1,
on the same corndition with gold."
Mr. Tillain spoke of the rapid
spread of pauperisn, i *howl by tne
statistics of the jails and prisons. It
was time, he said, to keep platform
promises, to do sometking for labor,
to keep bac'k the half mil'!on immi
grants arriving annually and to place
a value en A mericanu citizrtship.
'To soli it et - itc a head.': suggest
ed Mr. Chandler, i.'onicaiiy.
"Oh. if the Senatcr wants a collo
quy at m- he can hare it before I get
Lrough, answered Mr. Tillman.
Mr. TUl an spcke of the miserable
condition of the coal miners of Penr
svlvania, and read from ofliial re
ports, saying many of the miners ivere
compelled to lire like beasts.
"And this." exclaimed Mr. Tillman,
derisively, "when Senators were fram
ing thcir laws for the protection of
American labor and American indus
try."
Mr. Q :ay rerrarked that the report
from which Mr. Tillman read was
made by a Republican committee ap
pointed by a Republican legislature.
"And I am asking a Republican
Congress to protect these people
against cornpetition," declared Mr.
Tillman. "Will you do it ? Dare
ycu do it? or will you be sstisfied with
giving labor lip serv:ce ?"
He gave the extent of the slum ele
ment in New York, Bltimore, Chica
go and other cities, and said that
showed where the big Republican ma
jorities came from last year.
The Senator dealt more in statistics
than usual. although he added the
characteristic vehemence of voice and
gesture to his remarks. He closed
with a gloomy prediction that if the
tide of immigration was not turned
back the country would be torn by
revolution and bloodsahed and a repe
tition of the Paris commune.
Mr. Chandler briefly responded to
the South Carolina Senator, and asked
wh twas that the immigration bill
passedb Republican majorities in
the last Congress bad been defeated ?
"Because your Republican Presi
dent, Grover Cleveland, vetoed it,'
shouted Mr. Tillman, amid laughter.
Mr. Chandler protested againzt hay
ieg Mr.Cleveland designated a Repub
lican when the Senator from South~
Carolina (Tillmnan) had joined other
Demncrats in electing that President
as a Democrat.
"Yes," observed Mr. Tillman, while
the the galleries roared, "I ask for
oiveness for that, and I promise, sc
$elp me God, I'll never do it again"
Mr. Chandler went on to say thai
the failure of the only recent amend
ment to the immigration laws was de
featen oy a Democratic President.
"And the Senator should have
turned the tinos of his pitchfork on
Grover Cleveland and left the Repub
lican party for another day," contin
ued the Senator in droll tones.
Here Mr. Tillman insisted on setting
himself straight on Grover Cleveland.
and in spite of protests he prcceeded
rapidly to assert that in 1892 he went
to the national conventien at the head
of the South Carolina delegation, af
ter the State convention bad declared
Mr. Cleveland to be a "prostitu'.e of
Democracy."
Mr. Chandler here interposed a pro'
est, and with mock seriousness con
vulsed the Senate by refusing to yield
longer. "I cannot permit," he said,
"such language ageinst the President
of the Snsto'r's Party." He would
yield only in case this benator adopted
"his usual courteous and rervecitful
style tow'ard the late Presiden t."
Mr. Tillma~n started to review the
circumstances of his suppori, of Mr.
Cleveland. The Senator said the
South Carolina deleg-ation had voted
aainst Mr. Clev'eland up to the time
of the national convention, being four
vears in advance of their brethren of
the South in learning his character.
But afer he was nomnina ted, South
Carolina accepted thre result, havin
narti'cipat"od in the convention, ano
cave MrC Cleveland one of the biggest
majoriti s inl the history of the State
So that if there was prostitution of
h shg oilice, exclaimed M r. Tillman,
he blame rested on the President in.
diially and not on those bound by
party ties. who had supported him.
"zn "ow," cnclude~d Mr. Tillmnan,
as he rock his seat. "I hone the Sena
tor will not twit trae againi for having
made a~ foolof mnyself once."
Mr. Chandler, z~ntinuing his mock
serousrmanner, insisted that now that
the p-e.;ident w.as gone, thre memabers
of the Democratic party were respon
eile for all h:s acts, good andi bad.
The Senator w~as speedily involved
in anctoer collcquy wEth ir. Tillmna ,
drinlg which the S'uth Carolina Sen
aor r'eferred to Mr. Charndier as"you."
'I must obj-et to tbis unpariza
mentary action," inter posed Mr. Chan
der, "as tbe Senator's direct use of
'you' frirhtens me more than he is
aware of."
"I have no pitchfork," cslied back
Mr. Tillman, who added that he re
cgnized Mr. Chandier's purpose to
ridicuile him.
The vote wa~s then taken on Mr.
Tilman's smendments, anid they were
rejected, :3 to 4S. The three votes in
the :rtrni'e were Butler, @~ay and
Timan
When Mr. (QWay voted for the
amendr meuts there was ai hearty laugh,
in which the Seznators j-ined.
Paying in Kiind.
A farmer, having lost some ducks,
was asked by the con osel for the pris
oner accused of stealig them to die
scribe their peculiarity. After he had
done so the counse rmarked. "They
can't be suca a rare breed as I have
some like them in my vard." "That's
very likely," said the farmer. "These
are not the only ducks of the same
sort I've had stolen lately. "-Mark
TLmon's .Tet Book.
The itadel Acstemy.
A s. vial dispatch to the State from
andern o";s 't com-mencement ex
c:ss ,of te iIe-1 A':demy we'e
imi intht ti onWeesdy.The
Fhr () La tir ,, pe:::mdc the exerci:cs
wi: 11rave- r wh.an Cal Asburv
Cowar"d, the .uperintendent in a few
wel chosen s-nter ces explained tae
uresse.ce of the South Carolina Mili
tar" academy cadets in Anderson and
in a very appropr&te manner intro
ni ced the 'on. Jor+uA H. Ludson, to
whom he refe: red as soidier, scholar,
jurist-js name is enshrined in the
t t~rt ' of the peoile This distin:
gi.ed gentlemas deliveed an ad
dr pracucIl in its imp,>r., full of
oed seseand dLv'iCe to you. men
....in exlee walis and entering
ur-c the duties of life. The address
;a : wll received, and the fact that
J dge Hudaon delivered it, is a sumi
ci:: iuarntee. tat what was said
wa.s :.ortn preservin?... S. Bartlett of
tce gradua an clas, cadet lieutenaot,
1:ry el:vered an oration, his subjct
being "The Prcress of Invention in
the ' 5t0 Yeats" He was followed
by R D. Epps, cadesptain, who de
l v red the valfdictory to the class,
Fight is Lefre U>. Shall We
Win :' Colenel Cowerd thed pre
sected the class to General Iagood,
wuo by direction of the board of visi
tors, coierred the diplomas. The fol
r g a list of the graduates in
al phatticed order: Bartiess. Coward,
Deat, Dick, DuBce, Epp-us, F isb urne,
H .hns, Hor 4)n, H. Langley, Mazack,
ScEiry, McLeod, Stokes, Terrell, B.
Tillman Colonel Coward, on behalf
o the odicers of the academy, the
Soard of visitors and the cadets, ex
pressed his appresciation of the cordial
welcome gi en them and the courtesies
shone them. The exercises were
closed with the benedicton.
July Weather.
The following data concerning July
weather, covering a period of 26 years,
have been compiled from the Weath
er Bureau records at Charlaston:
Tem .erature-Mean or normal tem
cerature, 82 degrees; the warmest
monia was that of 1,75, with an ever
age of 85 degrs; the coldest month
was that of 1675. with an average of
79 degrees; the h!ghessot temperature
was 101 deg rees on July 12, 1889; the
lowest temp-rature was 61 deg:ees on
July 10, 1891; average date on which
first "killing" frost occurred in au
tumn, November 27.h; average date
on which last "killing" frest occurred
in spring, March 2nd.
Precipitation-Average for the
month, 7.70 inches; averane number
of days with .01 of an inch or more,
12; tlhe greatest monthly precipitation
was 13.74 inche;, in 1874; the -least
monthly precipitation was 1.05 inches,
in 1875; rine greatest amount of precip
itation recorded in any 24 consecutive
hours was 5.14 inches, on July 14,
18:8.
Clouds and weathsr-Average num
bar of clear days, 8; partly cloudy
days, 16; cloudy days, 7.
Wind--The prerailie wiads have
been from the Southwest. 34 per cent;
the highest velocity of the wind was
33 miles, from the northeast, on July
27. 1393.
Five Possal Clerks Drowned.
Seven coffns were forwarded to St.
Louis Saturday from Misouri City.
They cmtained the remains of victims
of Saturday night's wreck on the Wa
bash road. A correct list of the dead
is as follows: J. W. Mills. postal
clerk, St. Louis. 0 M. Smith, postal
clerk, St. Louir. Gustave A Smith,
postal clerk, St. Louis. Charles Win
ters, postal clerk, St. Lmuis. F. W.
Brink, postal clerk. St L->uis. Ed
ward Grinerod, baggageman, St.
Louis. Charles P. Greaseley, brake
man, St. Louis. The conductor of
tbe train, G. C. Copeland of St. Louis,
who appeared last night among the
dead, is still alive. He was removed
this morning to the railroad hospital
at Moberly, with a fractured skull and
several broken ribs. He lingers be
t ween life and death, but the surgeons
express a hope that he will- recover.
Conductor Copeland was supposed to
be dead when taken from the wreck,
and his body, with a handkerchief
over the face, was ranged in a row
with the seven dead. A few minutes
later some one observed a sizn of life
and he was quickly transferred to a
stretcher and given every possible at
tention. Of the 19 others injured, not
one is in a critical condition. Among
them all there is not one broken limb,
though many of them were thrown
three-quarters of the length of the
cach in which they were ridizng.
Disbanded.
The Columbia State siys at their
meeting in th~eir armory one
night lsst week the Richland Volun
teers disbanded on account of
the findirg of the~ court of inquiry
'and the order of the sovernor or
dering the dismissal of Private Fish
burne and the reprimnanding of Priv
ate Dunning. When the company
had a.ssembled Private Dunning re
turned his gun, accoutrements and
uniform to his captain. He no longer
desired to remaain a member of tae
ccmpany. This was the signal of an
outuarst of feeling. Almost to a man
the company declared iui favor of dis
banding. _______
Took Mtorphine.
A dispatch from Union. S. C., to
the Columbia State says R. W. Har
ris, a promainent citizen of that place,
.ttmmed suicide there Monday by
takird 30 grains of morphine. Mr.
Harris is postmaster at Union, and
has held that oiliie for the past four
years. It seems that he retired to his
room about 8 o'clock and immediately
s-vallowed the morphine, and was
found by his wife about half an hour
later. Doctors were immediately sum
moned and used every me:.ns in their
oo wer to save his li'e, but tue chance
seetrs hopees. He is sinking fast,
and will no doubt be dead in a very
short time.T ~ &e~gs
Tern torm in Goga
A special fro~m Dakocta, Ga., says:
Moudav afternoo" a severe storm of
wind s;nd rain struck~ this city. L'ghat
ningsruck the convict stockade,com
oletlvteari ng it p. T wo convicts,
sam Prestoi of Clay coanty and Sol
ts of Webster county, were h iled
i*sely thirteen more were hurt.
somen~ of thi n badly crippled. Two
othe~r c'nvics mnade their escape and
'ave r:'ot ;et te~m captured. A great
dea cf timiber was blotvn down and
the teleohone wires are all down.
There was some hail but it did very
itte damnage.
The News and Courier says the ad
vance agent of prosperity ought to
visit St. L~uis when he goes West
tids week. His presence appears to be
needed there. A woman 63 years old
was discov ered in a half starred con.
diami.nathe city; a ihw diays ago. Sh~e
hlad L ecL itryingi to earn a living by
maaking jeanls trousers at 15 cents a
dozen. B3y the hardest labor she could
earn only 8 cent-sa day.
Let Thomn Amone.
'The work of the storm in tearing
down electrie wires," says the Topeka
Capital, "and the accident to Jenie
&dutton cail to mind the extreme cau
txan which should be exercised ou
such an occasion. Any wire w7hich is,
found dauzling should be avoided,
for it may be crossed with a live wire.
The only sa.'e way is to let all wire.
however innocent looking, severely
"B--K:S IS WILLING "
Ex.SenDaor I:by R1 ady to Run for Utte d
tat" -erator.
The !iambia Pegistr savs that
Sen:ser Irby rectly 7, li r'. r hi n
self thus in that eity : " fhe Reform
mnoveent. of which I was a nae-nber
in IS.}O. was si.non pure, genuine
Democratic organ zatio .. pledging it
self in writing to surnit all of its de
mands to the decision of that paty,
and furtLe'- 'ledgirgits L:o or to abide
its result U r)u thi exores; cnditvin
the Demccrats :i te State turned the
machinery of the party over to the
iesdTrs of the R-W i u.ovemet*. T e
meanh rs of it R 'o-rn ;rgan'ztion
behv d ir l- ' t " their cs'),e was
right ard just, -mdr k y see no resson
to cange thtir minds Lox. While
the people were att work and unsus
pact1ng, they have ber b~trayed An
attempt is being made to deliver them
into the hands of tneir enemy who
fought them from the beginning until
nov:. To consummate this treachery,
they have precipitated a canvass on
the State in the hottest and busiest
months in the year, when the result
of the o:imary, which has been called,
at most, is merely a suggestion to the
L-gislature which meets in January,
1898. There is no ekction foliowing
this primary. It cculd have been heid
,f the conver i nce of the people had
teea consulted as ia'e as December,
wnen all could have heard the discus
sion and participated in the primary
withcut the least inconvenience. In
short, the enemies of the Reform
mcvement expected a drag race. In
that. they are going to be mistaken.
It looks as if the colors of the t form
movement are trailing in the dust,
and no one is willing to take them up
and bear the brunt of battle. The peo
ple are as firm in their convictions as
in 1890, and those who expect an ab
ject surrender of the Reform forces,
will certainly be disappoiuted."
"But. Senator," interposed the repor
ter, "are you going to mske the race?'
To this Col. Irby replied very signifi
canily:
"It does not suit me to re enter poli
tics for many reasons. I will gladly
yield to any true blue Reformer, but
if he ddes not appear, I will do so,
let consegences be what they may."
In connection with this, it may be!
stated that the report that Senator
Irby and Gov. Evans had buried the
hatchet is true. They met yesterday
at the Grand Central and had a long
and pleasant chat, and many of the"
visitors who called were quite surprised
to see the erstwhile political enemies
getting along so swimmingly.
What to Teach Boys.
A philosopher has said that true ed
ucation to boys is to teach them what
they ought to know when they be
come men.
1, To be true and to be genuine. No
education is worth anything that does
not include this.
2. To be pure in thought, language,
and life-pure in mind and in body.
3. To be unselfish. To care for the
feelings and comforts of others To be
generous, noble and manly. This
will include a genuine reverence for
the aged and for things sacred.
4 To be self reliant and self-help
ful, even from childhood. To be in
dustrious always, and self supporting
at the earliest proper age. Teach them
that an idle life of dependence on oth
ers is disgraceful.
When a boy has learned these four
things, when be has made these ideas
a part of his being-however poor, or
ho wever rich-he has learne:i the most
important things he ought to know
when he becomes a man.
He Won the Priz.
The late Bishop Selwyn delighted to
tell the following incident in his varied
experience: While bishop of Lich
field, he was walking one day in the
black country, and obser ving a group
'of colliers seated by the roadside in a
semi-circle which a brass kettle in
front of them, he had the curiosity to
inquire what was going on.- "Why,
yer honor," replied a grave looking
member of the group, "it's a sort of
wager. Yon kettle isa prize for thie
Melo w who can tell the biggest lie, and
I am the umpire." Amazed and
sh ocked, the good bishop said reprov
ingly: "-Wny, my friends, I have
never tod a lie that I know or since I
was born." There was a dead silence,
only broken by the voice of the um
pire, who said in a deliberate tone:
Give the bishop the kettle !"
wmU be Hang II caaght.
A bold and dastardly attempt to
criminally assault a young lady of
Anderson by a mulatto fiend 18 or 20
years old, bearing the name of Chris
Uarris, was made Monday mcrning in
broad daylight about 9 o'clock- The
home of the young lady is on the out
skirts of the city; she ana her sister
were alone. The lady assaulted went
to the garden.- The negro was watch
ing from the rear of the gar den and
entrir~g hastily he seized the lady
and attempted to throw her down, but'
being of dne pbysique, she resisted
effectually, screamed for help and the
degro tied. The quiet of the city is
but the foreboding of th&e storm which
will break in terrible fury when the
fiend is cantured and the affair made
public. ________
Duck With a Hen's Head.
IA freak of nature has appeared in
the carnyard of Constable Georgie
Hock, of Metropolitan avenue, East
WiliasbugN.Y., in the share ofl
a duck with a pertect hen's nead on
its body. The frea1k is about eight
inches high, a foot long, and a month
old. It waeadles around in duck
fashion on web feet, and looks at you
cu'i of hen's eyes s-t in a heu's head,
resting on a herns neck. The bird's
body is white, and its neck mottled
gray, like that of any ordinary barn
yard hen. Hock has refused an offer
of $150 from a dume museum manager
of New York City, and says if i: is
worth $150 to them it is worth $200 to
him, and that he will keep it as a curi
osity. _________
Wil NM Re~primand watte.
The goverreor S~Aturday iss'ued the.
folowingt order anent. the court of in
quiry. " -The report of the court of
inquiry and record of its proceedings
will be at the p-roper time transmitted
to the general assembly for such ac
tion as that body may deemn proper,
with reference to the ad jitant and in
spect'r gener-a. who in tnis State is a
constitutions~i o dcer: and it is ordered,
nrst, that Private Fishburne, of the
Richland Volunteers, be discharged
from the military service of the State;
second, that the captain of the Rich
land Volunteers publish an order repri
manding Private Dunning of said
company for leaving ranks without
peraussion.
Announcement of the resignation
of Dr. Charles Manly frm the oiice
of president of Furman urLIversity,
which he has filled with ability and
success since 1881, has occasioned much'
surprise. The xe~ign.'tiou of Dr. Man
iv is due to a friener iv iherence 'oc
teen him and tie' trustees. For
ear-s he has supplemnemed his salary
by serving the churehes at Seneca a::d
Beliou. The trustees at a recent
:neeting passed a resolution rc questing
that. he give all his time to ine umn
versity. Thereupon, he promptly
A Big Scandal in Alken.
Aiken has on hand a first class sen
sation. The News nd Courier car
r&pdfnt -t that place says during
the tter pirt of May a man and wo
man riving tieir nams As Mr ard
Mrs M. I. Turner a'rrived in Aiken
from Jacksorvilie, Fla, and rented
the Harnmordcottage. Turner claimed
to have sold out his rmerchantile busi
ness in Jacksonville, and was corntem.
plating going in business at Aiken.
He brought with him a pair of fine
horses, a buggy and wagon, and in
addition be and his wife each had a
bics cle. As Mrs Turner had been
pay ly raised in Ai'en and is well co
c:cted there, the couule was well re
c-ived, ard ::,me of Aiken's hest peo
pbl cdlled upou them. Shortly after
tur-ir arri1al the chief of police receiv
ed a let'er from a Mrs. Mary F. Pa
no, of Jacksonville, Fla., stating that
her husband, Kinstantice Pano, bal
sold out his steck of goods tw ; ek
before 'etter dated June 3) ror one
thousand dellars, and had takar, ore
thousand doliars in cash belor~ging to
her. a lady's diamond rin, two hers
es, uzgy aind delivery wagon, and
had ran off with a woman that bad
come f rom Aiker'. S. C. This wcman:
had ben in Jacksonville sev-ral
times, and had passed unrer diti-rert
aliases first as Miss Flossie Davis,
alias Miss M.ry Jamnson, alias Mrs
M I Turner, and the chief was atk-d
to look cut for them. The chief wire
ed that tr.e parties were at Aik-n, and
Thursday night Mrs. P:+no arrived on
the 10 o'clock train. Frid -y m'r:i o L
sne employed M. B. Wcedirad and
sworn out a warrant against Turnrcr
and ne was arreste d while out trkiu
a bicycle ride He admitted that
Mrs. Pano was his lawful wife and
that tne woman he was ii ing with
was not. He was very penitent and
was willing to grant whatever he
might demand. Mrs. Parno we ulk not
see nin. but she slid she woila >e
satisfied if he wound return htr fiv
Lundrid dollars of the money be hid
takef the horse and bugey acid the
dianond ring. He readilv c nse tt d
t, do this, and Mrs Pano signed an
agreemrent reless n- him from al!
further obii-ii 2ns She s:a s- :e does
not ,ant to nrestcute tne imn ror
do's she ever' want to liv - with hi
agaio. but sue wanted her p-')perty
Paao is a Gre-k. Mayor Wod card
has givre P io and his cwmpani:n
notice to lev the city at o'c,. whici
th'y will no doubt do withcu: fartrer
notic?. Tnis asifir has crea-ed a pro
f. u d sensation in Aiken.
A Sad Accideut.
The town of Aiken was der ply sad
dened on Tbured iy mornicg by a very
std accident, which cost one of the
but ard most popular young nvn of
that city hs life. About nve c-'eleck
Thursday morning Mr. Wade Hamp
ton E ison was assisting in plhcinz
some freight cars on the side track at
Aiken ar d acting is capacity of s wit -h
man. He was riding the pilot and
fr n some cause not yet ascertained,
he fell c-fo and across the trace and
was instintly cut in two, through the
middle b; the train of cars which
passed over him. The engiaear said
he roticed hiao while on there but did
not see him fall, but felt the j lting
and junping and stopped the train
and round him in this mangled con
diu:on. Young E lison was just of
age and hsd been in the service of the
Sou- h Carolina and Gcorgi i railroad
for abcut three years. It is said the
young man had to work on the day
ran and night run also, makir g 16 to
17 hours a day. He thus becam
sleepy and unconscious and fell off
and tbat death was scarcely fe-It by
in. Nevertheless the coroner was
teegraplt d for and arrived at once
end set to work to hold the inquest.
Tne coroner's jury in the inquest ren
dered a verdict that the young man
came to his death by being run over
by engine 44 while his duty for the
South Carolina and Georgia railroad
was being performe d.
Ber ke1 le' Sanday Schools.
The Berkeley County International
Sunday-school Association was organ
ized at Pinopolis on June 24, at John's
Baptist Church- Under the circumn
stances, the call for the meeting not
having been given much publicity,
the attenance was fairly goad. Tne
interest shown in the Sunday school
work was encouraging and the out
look for the Association is thought to
be excellent. A local association was
first formed, to be known as the Pinonc
lis association. Tbis was officered as
follows: L IF. Murray, president; J.
G. Stevens, vice president; J. B Mor
risson, secretary. The constitution
governing a county asssociation was
then read and adopted and the fol
lowing offibers were electei: A. J.
Jones, presdent; H G. Sheridan,
secretary; J. A. Harvey, assistant
secretary. Executive committee, R.
B. McR~>y, J. B. Mxrrison and F. W.
Danzier. The vice prasident will be
appointed by the executiv'e c >mmittee.
Tne delegates to the State Convenation
are as follows: J S. Cannor, J. B.
Morrison a nd T. S. R asseli. The asso
ciation then ad journed subject to the
call of the executive committee.
Mabkes a Good thing Oat of Bonay.
The Rock Hill Herald s ays Mr. M.
Simpkius, of Cata wbs Junction, is a
very successul "all around" farmer:
but his bee farm is Proportionately the
best investment he has yet made. His
apiary contairns about 100 hives at his
home at Catawba, and another of 50
hives at his place on F-sbine creek.
Last year he obt~aine.1 3 000 piads of
delicious honey, which tinds a ready
sale at 12) cents per pound. Mr.
Simpson he-s a patent machine for
separating the honey from the comb,
extricating every drap (f the syrup
and leaving the camb i.. .. not a
cell being broken. When relAiced in
the nive the b.:es commence to refill
hem immtediately.
Got Damager.
At Asheville, N. C., Wedae;'o
the United States court gave El H a
a verdict for $8.500 damages again->t
George W. Vander bil t. Severn '-ea rs
ago Hunt was a trave'ir We-a
and while at Asheville he 3:ot hiL ieg
troken 'by a piece of s~one blown out
an excavation that was being made
for Varderbilt. He brought suit for
damages to the amount of $20,0C0.
The case has just bceen encluded with
the result above stated. M r. Hunt is
well satistied with ti -. m-- dict, arnd
only hopes that the case i: not go
to the supreme court. Mr. H- w" now
holds a pcsition as salesman i:.- ja.ar.
bia.
Theater Fire.
Since 1797 there have been 1,100
theatre fires with 10,000 fstas i-s ac
cordir.gz to tir. S.:ca' "br-s i.'. PA
lie Esternia~;tnts.' j3cat i,uohmed.
Of these 462 tor k place in t oe United
States, 133 in G:-at Britain and 101 in
Germany, Frat es having nearly the~
sae numbier. L indon has had thir
v five tires and Paris twenty-eight.
Umt of :313 thieatr-es destrcyed by fire,
ota half were barned witnina ten years
.fter tey were constructes, forty of
thim within the first year.
where I4 L?
Aegin Saturday the seting Chainan
of true United States Sen-ate ini the
course of his pray-er to the advent c-f
prosperity, saying: "We thank Th e
for the signs of returniing prosper.:y
and that the long and wide-spread de
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The sweet Girl G:aduate.
The ever fascinatingseason of school
commencemen's is now upon us and
the graduates of both sexes, with their
severe tasks le'aind them and the
world before them, are enjoying a
well-ea-ned breathing spll and pre
paring for the momentous day when,
bercre their assembled friends, they
will receive their diplomas. the girl
graduate, to whom all the world bows
in homage, is an especially interesting
object at this season, and some
thoughts on the subject by that clever
writer, Edward W. Bok, may not be
out of place at this time. Addressing
himself directly to graduates of insti
tutions of learning-to those whose
schcol oays are ov r -Mr. Bok says:
",.A girl reaches one of the most im
portant times of her life when, with
ner school days behind her, she steps
cu: upon the threshold of a new
p ase of life. What is she to do? She
has the power of knowledge within
1:er. How will she use it? It is not
an easy decision this The home,
when she returns to it, seems small in
comparison with the college halls.
The life of her parents seems a bit
orecise and circamscribed compared
to the hours of girlish companion
ships in college. She fee's just a lit
tLe shut in, cramped. Sue longs to
put her knowledge to some use. But
is what direction? How? Commou
duties seem hardly worth to her! It
is a noble trait in a girl, when, re
turning home from college, she re
alizes the necessity for bread winning,
and feels impelled to put her knowl
edge to use. Under such conditions a
girl has not much choice. Her duty
is very clear to her. But where thede
sire for a career opens itself before agirl
irom an absorbing ambition, thent is
hat the road opens before her, and two
diverging paths appear. Tne desire
is to do something in the world is ever
laudable. But sometimes a young
woman is apt to misconstrue the
'something' aLd to see the wrong
world. And here, unless she is very
careful, the young woman just out
of college, and standing on the thres
hold of a new life, may make her
gravest mistake. "The author of a
wonderful little claasic for girls
'What is Worth WhileV'-shows the
g reat danger which besets the young
woman wno allo as some intellectual
ambition to be substituted for the
simpler duties of life. Ambi;ion is n
many ways the most deadly foe to a
young woman's character. An intel
lectual ambitiont draws many agirt
away from her true place in life, and
makes her a cold, unloved and un
helpful woman, instead of a joyous
affectionate and unselfish blessing to
home and friends. We need not try
to annihilate ambition, this. writei
goes on to say in her clear way, but
let us keep it within bounds, let us see
to it that it holds a just proportion to
our lives We need not let our talents
lie idle, nor neglect to make the most
of them; there is a place a and grand
work for them all. But let us keep their
development forever subordinate to
simple human duties usually to be
found at homre "
A Convert to Bryan.
T be opposition to Bryan sought to
mak~e a great deal out of the selection
of Bailey, of Texas, as leader of the
Democratic minority in congress. It
was claimed that Bailey was opposed
to Bry an, and the promotion of Bailey
as leader of the Demccratic party in.
congress was a pronounced de feat for
Bryan. Though it is true that Bryan
was not in the race, and therefore
Bailey's election or defeat could not
fairly be called % triumph or defeat
for Bryan, nevertheless much was
made of it by the anti-Beyan press.
In the light of that fset the interview
which Mr. Bailey has given to the
press after his return fromi the con
gressional fight in Mssour i has more
;han ordinary inaterest ldere is what
sir. Bailey says about Me Bryan,
now:
"Mr. Br yan is id-niied with the
Chicaso pl-atcro and x'ir the issues
of 1895, indissolubly. N'> man can so
fully represent that plath rn in 1900
4s tI2e cacodidate o' ta~ Ci':ago con
vent'on of last Jily. In my judt
mnent his renomjiusnion is a foregoce
conclusion. Mr. Bryau is a better
Democrat now than he was when he
was ncmainated. I differ from him in
many 0! his earlier opiniorns and con
victions, but since his nomination he
has k.-pt Limself in everything he has
1id and Lone s rictlyv witni ' the linta
ens of the Cuie ceo plat%rm, and
thlat platfcrm i- g'ood ert u !h fnr me
or Vy othe' De~xor-r t, stand on.
Ai.esi \i B-van it' e:te-ed con
iress x y arsago se as a triff spec
ialist , i sudies havi:ng been confin
ed largej to economic questions.
Siuce mwen he has broadensa out im
mnfsely, atnd I kaow of no man who
more fully represents the popular
:dea of pure Demecescy than he does.
He is a ti ue American, a patriot, and
a reao whorn the D<:mocres of the
country isel thiat they can :rast. Yes,
Bry an e' ill be the nomince, the plat
form will be x e-adopted, and the peop'.e
will win."
It is very clear from the foregoag
that if Mr. Bailev hi :any redi dfi er
-uce with Mr. Bryan he has found
tney are not popular, and he has
changed his mind. Of course it. is
more pleasicg to our personal vanity
to say that itne other feo Las broad
ened than to admit that we have, and
if Mr. Bailey prefers to make it ap
pear that the mountain has come to
Mahomnet, why it is a pleasing delusion
that can? do no harm. Tne only point
worth making is that if ay differenc
es ever existd betw-een these two
brainy young Demccrats, they no
longer- exist, and Demccrats are get
ing ready to present a solid front
when the next light comes.
Crusthed by U ock.
T wenty-six miners have been killed
by a fall of rock in the Labrar mines,
in the province of A tacama.