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CORN HSKING TIME2, DR. TALMA-E DRAWS INS~iRAT:ON FROM THE TEEMING HARVESTS. Vivid Pen Picture of the art1te Bee. Death the Blessing of Blessings to the Good San-The ChMli of the Frosts 'Fol lowed by Gladness. This sermon by Dr. Talu.:e i' ?ecuahrlY seasonable at the Present tine. when t:e teeming harvests all over the lu:I are W ing the husbandman. His text is A', v. "As a shock of corn cometh in in his sot on Going at the rate of 4 mies few days ago I caught :his segn have recentiv been in the Ies . e vania or New Jersey. e w York, or New Ea-lan.i or a - districts, you know that the corn iser all cut. The sharp knife .:rack theagh the stalks and left thet all along the e until a man came with a buneof straw ad twisted a few of these wisps of straw intoa bsnd, and then gathering p as much 0! the corn as he could compass with his ar: he bound it with the wisp of straw, and then stood it in the field in what is clie I a shok. It is estimated that there are now severa. billion bushels of corn standinc in the waiting to be husked :sme time durng the latter part of next month the far:ers wit gather, one day on one far:. anuther d'y on another farm, and they will pu: o t o er rough husking a ron, and they will take husking peg, which is a piece of iron wit : leather loop fastened to tae hand. ani w::s ituhsheath the corn from the husk :il si it into the golden heap. Then the na will come along and take it to the cartr - How vividly to all those o. ts who were born in the country couer the re:ne:t-''gall of husking time: We waited for it :t fr : a gala day of the year. It was clLetd a frol ic. The trees having for the most part she i their foliage, the farmers waded througn tne fallen leaves and came through the keen morning air to the gleeful company. Tie frosts, which had silvered everything during the night, began to melt off of the top of the corn shocks. While the farmers were watt ing for others, they stood blowing their breath through their fingers or thrashing their arms around their bodies to keep up warmth of circulation. Roaring mirth greeted the late farmer as he crawled over the fence. Joke and repar tee and rustic salutation abounded. All ready, now: The men take hold the shock of corn and hurl it prostrate, while the moles and mice which have secreted them selves there for warmth attimpt escape. The withe of straw is unwound from the corn shock, and the stalks. heavy with the wealth of grain, are rolled into two bundles, between which the husker sits down. The husking peg is thrust in until it strikes the corn, and then the fingers rip off the sheathing of the ear and there is a crack as the root of the corn is snapped off from the husk. and the grain disimprisoned, is hurled up into the sunlight. The air is so tonic, the work is so very ex hiliarating, the company is so blithe, that some laugh, and some shout, and some sing, and some banter, and some tease a neighbar for a romantic ride along the edge of the woods in an eventide, in a carriage that holds but two, and some prophesy as to the number of bushels to the field, and others go into competition as to which shall rifle the most corn shocks before sundown. Afterawhile the dinner horn sounds from the farmhouse, and the table is surrounded by a group of jolly and hungry men. From all the pantries and the cellars and the perches of fowl on the place the richest dain ties come, and there are carnival and neigh borhood reunion and a scene which fills our memory, part with smiles, but more with tears, as we remember that the farm belongs now to other owners, and other hands gath er in the fields, and many of those who min gled in that merry husking scene have them selves have been reaped "like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season." There is a difference of opinion as to wheth er the orientais knew anything about the corn as it stands in our fields, but recent discoveries have found out that the Hebrew knew all about Indian maize. for there have been grains of the corn picked up out of an cient crypts and exhumed from hiding places where they were put down centuries ago, and they have been planted in our time and'have come up just such Indian maize as we raise in New York and Ohio. So I am right when I say that my text may refer to a shock of corn just as you and I bound it, j ust as you and l threw it, just as you and I husked it. There may come some practical and useful and comforting lessons to all our souls while we think of coming in at last "like a shock of corn coming in in his season." It is high time that the king of terrors were thrown out of the Christian vocabulaxy. A vast multitude of people talk of death as though it were the disaster of disasters in stead of being to a good man the blessing of blessings. It is moving out of a cold vesti bule into a warm temple. It is migrating into groves of redolence and perpetuv fruit age. It is a change from bleak March to roseate June. It is a change of manacles for garlands. It is the transmuting of the iron handcnffs of earthly incarceration into the diamond wristlets of a bridal party, or, to use the suggestion of my text, it is only husking time. It is the tearing off of the rough sheath of the body that the bight and- the beautiful soul may go free. Coming in "like a shock of corn cometh in in his season" Christ broke up a funeral procession at the gate of Nain by making a resurrection day for a y oung man and his mother. And I wouMd that I could break up your sadnesses and halt the long funeral procession of the world's g iet by some cheering and cheerful view of the last transition. We all know that husking time was a time of frost.- Frost on the fence. Frost on the stubble. Frost on the ground. Frost on the bare branches of the trees. Frost in the air. Frost on the hands of the 'huskers. You remember we used to hide behind toe corn stacks so as to keep off the wind, but still you remember how shivering was the body and how painful was the cheek and how benumbed were the hands. But after awhile the sun was high up and all the frosts went out of the air, and hilarties awakened the echoes and joy from one corn shock went up. "Aha, ahal'' and was answered by joy from another corn shock, "Aha, aha!" So we all realize that the death of our friends is the nipping of many expectations, the freezing, the chilling, the frosting of many of our hopes. It is far from being a south wind. It comes from the frigid north, and when they go away from us we stand bnumbed in body and benumbed in soul. We stand among our dead neighbors, oar dead families, and we say, "~Will we ever get over it?" Yes, we will get over it amid the shoutings of heavenly reunion, and we will look back to all these distresses of be reavement only as the temporary distresses of husking time. "Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning." "Light, and but for a moment," said the apostle as he clapped his hands, "light, and but for a moment." The chill of the frosts followed by the gladness that eemeth in "like as a shock of corn cometh in in hit season." Of course the husking time made roau work with the ear of corn. Tne husking pe2 had to be thrust in and the hard thumb o: the husker had to come down on the swath ing of the ear, and then there was a puh and a ruthless tearing and then a complete snapping off before the corn was free, and i: the husk could have spoken it would have said: "Why do you lacerate me.' Why dc you wrench the?" Ah, my friends, that it the way God has arranged that the ear and husk shall part, and that is the way he ha~ arranged that the body anld soul ::hall rp rate. The pain does its work andI 'hen ' ie Just so many plunges of the crowba tofe the quarry stone for the bulig.' , many strokes of the ehise. to c. p.~et a statue. Just so many p' ng to -e'-a "a soul fromn the body. You~ who.. ar' ailments and di:-orders ar"ny' ~ yn installments that which ..me ofu a to pay in one payment when we pay thede of nature. Thank God,:*erefore y- wh have chronic disorders. tha you ha a much less suffering at the last. Thak that you will have so much ieso te :leei : way of pain at the hands of the nteanen.' Husbandman when "the shock of eo: cometh in in his season." Perhaps now this may be an ans wer to: x " ::: , . l ' withL h x'\ :: :" \\ w rl i is c.\::par:ivelye lI d ouepli t:c: i, a a te nukin;time that the .u!k 'C- wi- tIu 'into ith corn and then there h'e: aS:out oull brefore" the swvathingz w:s of the ear an1 the full, rounl, h1 y, lu"int corni wa: develoe ile ie other hin-t there W.:' cara that n"r1 ec:nei tworth N;. W:brew " 1:t :L:o . p aee all by ite.: andt we CaL le 1 i ' :.e o _ ? it w : t ti . I ::: - .. wvn :ie r:seia ~eo tw .r: :1 .r it 4J:~1I? ' VI. .: ' i Vi l Ir. i:. an i no i' l'. . en a :mi 1 t cr:1i. Na.e, i,: w :ii th e 1 e.-e th ' be ea r' t d i .eu u "::1i". Ie :n r i. r- r e tha ad itwudei anoo poiix 'hea'e ._.d ,t r rn.hed., 1n~ 1 , ske i ami u: l:. -. in ai e I tr- tetn : aia e": tvo, gra ar, { a 'm er: "n:'. wL in t er.. Iw :o the : are".e wih have is tress fes "1a'n iod r-I in Lriael a^.dig:resg of ance.n, the far he not any grade sri nthe V evenig .andI ther Loi lbeh muhe iats: iut ws no: dern tor: it is co meynofry. huskintrer theal lvth far c asteneth."' and it isproof positive 'hat there is something valuable in you, er the Lord would not have husked you. You remember ao that in the time of huskingit aa a neig hoin reunion. By the great tirephee in thee gretet the tires roaring around the gloritiel backlogs on an old fashionel hearth, of whih the modern stores and registers are only the degenerate descenants, the farmers used to gather an1 srand the evening, and there would be much se.:iality, but it Was not any thing uike thze joy of the king tme, for then a l the far mers came, and they came in the very best humor, and they came from beyond the meadow, and they came from beyond the hrok, and they came from regions two and Sthree miles around. Gool spirit reignes sureme, and there were great handshak ies. a:d there tas cone an ther was recital of the brightest experiences in all their live, and there was a neighborhood re union the memory of which makes all the rerves of my body tremble with emotion as the striugs of a harp when the fingers of a player have swept the chords. The husking time has the time of neigh borhool reunion, and s hueaven will le just that. There they come up: They slept in the old1 village churchyard. There tbey coTe uan They reclined amid the fountains and the s uspure and the parterres of a city cemetery. T h ney come up: Tihey went down when the ship foundered off Cape Hatteras. They conie uip from all sides from potter's field and out of the solid ma sonry of Westminister abbey. They come up: They come up: All the binheranees to their better nature husked off. All their physical ailments husked o'f. All their spiritual despondencies husked ofe. All their hindrances to usefulness husked o:f. The grain, the golden grain, the God fash ioned grain, visible and conspicuous, some of them on earth were such is grble Crsin o oudhrl tn it in he l their prsae oein evens thas aree skdn ou Ehrl onowa thpyy Tne heacn iseal thery imperfci hetsave happy ausked can. Theaveln en onra neartho hoo diareeabon. They kieand qelensuall but, the fther, wit hi csickdyou loed arond thim. o yoowy many hal thigs Noe gave cutain alluth yous anditer told ystalo octen theyshad ito tsa opfo glau ingsoene withtle. unti ohd amot that the aay hand seentheainain came itof the es.od no, thisn hee all the dakneess into he cangb. out r o ne e ad heet asihppy hood theunin lig and ens, ad God, theefatnr andthe hs chiln time oarthn him.Nto ig ododby ofal the air. grno grye"likein- al thechil' coRivermofhcrysta chrsopeasn.'' t h e f ls ige with e.an at teate ofe ith roay andie the oyin cae hinguto tie foone inthe sunhine. out' the darknetseak ito the oneghtoto t teargde. Arippingl andil te :listenga tohmles wechrub. aNo bhe laceofting, adorf the hutkin ie hfeaenl nion o~e u the wideopendoo of a ngsmagr ayonlikeas aihokion cor conethisner Yes,'ou havenou in granthe oaber. w ithjo lie nnejo of the airsofingie. Noioe therea maeig o oihlguni he p ssest some onwo mad nt son lande moonhaltel willingm to litno smtiles overub.m mo bortingr of theor of cagsteoat nes heanl maniontoaiee ou the Syitizn hot na smller honoen th cliemotie corne who tper-i wher aboe cldquet anohe dcor. David tking noe pooret wano a iaen. iler tieu emaring nd onehat uis moe ptanres bcue it allsde maysu allge there halt. Paul asn smne astandiong bokver the s gordiry preache yo. righteou"sassomea on whoptasinot te Sin hch ino years where. es ou "geta good somr onmy it, h aid counry wicees Yunbes mnua Ting. are mpoies won earh moen.oTne meist raloas, apace. Tegrhot cofe tie etenity mndii rain dmor trag abou monoply i, welmayn All wh wanre tNot I," seds some oe saendithout uneyh galeusri.s, ou. al "NepotI," say cse use woo hsntens in humtrch inu c5yan shifor Yesad.n youannot e,"ayssom o getho havben f oing50 yas oppsitie pirc'f wth allies i'ckelThrsu. that yone gThe pardonopolieac all eathraceopo o inopl nrlgo. l h att beare," sraysb seon, "dithou roey~ tunsIul e ommooeme in that Yueca oiepty f ge shodrleston by.' tking e would.o I'owad n you cannot. Iexpectto tin 'el inth Lmord tJeus m Chris.n thu hltb ca.WO1~f areug that gond. nat of parn and owe' alith rac~ :na "'go '.1''"lin. y .r "But" sas soe oe t"dyural tink' I ol('" thce nta spra tatithe uingtm teews ira ae.pii ow fen amon"g the Vnhcs Twere aten ccon shca i"'ie would' tunin day;one na d onhoe w. -'"n et vrhe tra ce Tce ' -run : h wade one.k Gra: drene in~ educaen, gr ea: Wi}1;ar. A :her e' nMlo i i : on i t : m . i_ .ohl low r- -a:1 mi.rl"C'1o n eee r:u; in oa"'In :ihtb eN a ii d wn .low a!. frie 'l w .' wi- tip e e 1. ni :1 :'e d l ayin:t': e j':1.1 3 0: 11iue t . o the M.ea . .", al he fri . _ .: . ! : th 1: "i 1 ..i' sim er iid t -sil 3:t ixlii :tr ye loo in ,11! mirrorjit n frrr nt tihe eh1ir w1 en het .:rlw -1In tht nrr .the 1 fa e : rower looking in sit 1110 wi.ow 'ehinl. her :nd ui :" o' thc jewes. She w: in grea t iht, 'n -:i -i 'nd i:mrdly know in why hbe I.is h. s r in to sing :n old nur-ery song her 'ears mi-ting the pathos of of I the t .-ng .mre tI na a rt o .: lely : h moe ntie whe looking at the :nirro i:it :t ie res h1:d gone from the wislow anll ,id not com'e li. -i :ew dayvs :ter the prina donta reeive- a letter from the robber. s:ing. "1 herird that theC ijewes were to be out th nigt in l crime to take them at whaiterer hathe. but when I raeard you sing that nursery o-ngwit which mys mother so often sang me w:-lee,- I coul not stand it and I ted. and I have ro've upan a new and an honest life nnbhted'i ose "l to es in an ol rh, my friend, there are jewe in pr richer than those which lay upon that table tte nol. They are the jlewe^s of the im motlsa.Would Ge l that. some smg~ rollin: ur out of the deserted nursery of yur childhood or some song rolling up out. of the cornfields, the song of the huskers 2 or 40 years ago, might turn all our feet out of the paths of sin into the paths of right eousness. Would God thaa t those memorics waftd in on odor or song might start its this moment with swift leet towa rd that blessed oalace where so many of our loved ones have already preceded us, as a shock of corn cmerthn i his season." Sh d Fate of a Go tha bg. The Western North Carolina Na tional Bank, of Asheville, N. C., re cently closed its doors and posted the fcllowing notice to depositors and creditors: "The closing of the bank this morn ing was rendered absolutely necessary on account of its inability to reduce its assels to cash rapidly enough to m'ee withdra wals, which increast d every day. The officials of the bank were exrenmely loath to take such action, realiziSng that it could not but be de trimental to the business interests of the city, and cause incon veniengce to the depositors. As long as they felt that there was a possibility to avoid this step, they used every en deavor to do so." The cruel Spartanburg Herald, in commenting on the failure, says it is not its intention to pry into the bank's conerns, but merely to call attention to the fact that Mr. L P. McLeod, a talentsd young lawyer of Abbeville, a magneic speaker and popular gen tleman, was casbier. Daring the last presidential campain, Mr. McLeod canvassed the country with DeLancy Nicoll, explaining to the farmers of Wa:ern North Carolina that tis couttry had money enough, that they would not profit by higher prices in fation or as he so ek quently put it cheap money.'' After Mr. Nicall had explained the necessity for maintain ing the present policy of constant con traction, Mr. McLeod would rise and clinch the arguments with his mag netic presence, his fiery eloquence and bis overwhtelmning denunciation of thse who thought anybody would be berefitted by increasing the standard dollars of the nation, the money of fi nal payment. He was particularly forceful in explaining tuat 90 per cent. of the business of this country was done with checks and hence more money was not need. The point we would like to make is. if this theory, so beauti'uil ast fall, is still effective, why should Mr. McLeod's bank close its doors. If it had not money enough, why not pay in check:: With the restoration of 'cmnldence.' incident upon the election of McKinley and toe advent of 'prosperity' under the defeat of intiationists arnd those who would 'debase our currency' why should it be difficult for any bauk to realiin on assets?'' The sugar Beet. The Columbia State urges our far mers to write to the department of agriculture for samples of the seed of the sugar beet. whoase distribution is promised, and for instructions as to cultivation and testing. Experiments ought to be made all over South Car olna during the next year with the view of determining the suitability of our State for what is certain to be one Iof the great American crops of the Ifuture. Southern raised. beets are shown by the department to yield a larger percentage of sugar than those produced in the north and in Earope, and we do not -loubt that South Caro lina can do as well as any State in saccarinating its product. The growth of the beet sugar industry is one of the marvels of modern agricul ture. Ina 1SSS the world's supply of sugar showed the nropertions of 4.6 per cent from beet and 51.4 frcma cane; in 1597 the proportions were 6 2 per cent from beets and '33 S from cane. The United States consu-nes far more sugar than any other coun try, iits production from cane is limit' ed and its beet sugar indt.stry is in its :fancy. There are millions in it Let Scuth Carolina get her share of them. Wants to Get Back. J. Hasirstot', a colored conv'et, who rcently escaped from the VErginia penitentiary, has j ast sent. an appien to the sunerintenatnt of that institu tion to get him back. That odlicial on Tuesday received telegram from Hairs ton, dated at i-armville, in which he said: 'Please ser~d up here after me at once."' This is the first time in the hitory c the institution in which one ofis sg iramates indicated so muc. h anxiety to return. His wiah wil be compiled witn tpromptly. T he Tom ('at. ThI is' a paper published at Hot Sprn' named the A nkansaw Thomas Cat. ' at motto ts, --God help the rich, thie poor can beg." It declares tat it is a paper "of the people, for tme pmople, to b'e paid for by tne peo ne. It advocates "one country, one Uag and one wife at a time," and de caret that it is in favor of the eleva tion of horse thieves and putblic dr', that oc cars rix e rC runion (f ': sh' L.a at her the mansa er of on' Of .,adn hoCs in that Cit-:-1wal ) i t' i t ie rotu:-da od nis :h .t7r nd esernd an o1 Conffed erst, :.ns~e tobe sLepug in aiat h? was as e Cd. t h observ ;s1:'a c, i C "I an ate e e in a .M:a::c Joe -- i ; e h iu, and t:tise wj ja rie oer vio ou;~~~~~~~ me"iC^,~ie~i ee~ a a.i.: e ed it a psie sise ls b ;.atdid y . a -.m i A et ite " : 1": e is Joe -" 'n re C:.? you ner the army r. this jteunc-a - v-,e repied a s os v asoished man. AWh rdid oou tl'e last q estio te other nay fell ins o hi arms weep i .-d sail y Jeter you kno uev.:ea p s'ied hirn MT, p-c unieg tnl ise to, was in aturbuient state of asInid, sued by ima ii.g driks ot- r than water. he man would not be pushed o, and in his sos said: Joe don't you kowe Tnisis John." You areriot tohn, for he was killen at Manassas," said the now through T awakened and much astonished man. "Joe, I am your brother John. I was not killed at the battle of Manas sas, and ever since the war I have looked all over the Unitcd States for you." Conxinced at last, the long-lost brothers, locked in each other's em brace, stood and wept like children. Tney went to room in the hotel, and, doubtless, talked all night. All next day they were seen walking arm in [arm, with glowing faces and relating to every one the fact of their coming together after such a long separation. -Nashville Banner. R-'puolican Prorpsrity. Ex Governor St. John, of Kansas, who is a statietical man, in one of his speeches, in Ohio, shows that the in terest on the mortgage debt at this time, not including railway mortga ges, amounts to $35,000,000 annually, which consumed. the entire market value of the great corn crop of 1S96, and still left a balance of $2,000,000 unpaid, He makes the same compa rison as to other agricultu.ual products and has this to say about wheat: Just now we hear a great deal about "dol lar wheat," but there is no dollar wheat; &nd even if there was, Ohio is not a stranaer to it, for away back in the 50's, with limited means of tr ans portation, the people depending large ly uposthe local markets, the prics os wheat here in Ohio averaged over $1 per bushel, while in the 60's it reached as high as $3 50 par bushel, ond aver aged from 1865 to 1872, inclusive, $ S4 per bushel. and even last year wheat resched $1 per bushel. But now, with a short crop in all the foreign wheat growing countries the pronucerS of Oaio are eskedl to shou themselves hoarse over SS cent wheat. Just as if such a thing bad never been heard of before. The Republican speakers in Ohio are presumably silent about the decline in the price of other commo dities than wheat. The nay crop has gone off one balf the average price for forty years. It has d clined from $15 17 a ton from 1885 to 1895, and is now down tO $7.53. Tae governor rubs in this pessimistic plaster: "Bradstreet's report, just now shows 9 333 failures frot Jarnuiry 1.to Sep tern ter 30, 1897. which, excepting the years '93 and '96 is the largest number of failures in a like period since 1881, atrd I am quite sure it is without a parallel in cur country's history. The third week in Septe-nber showed five more failures than occurred the cor respoiding week of the 'pinic year' of 1S93 Aod still we are told in the face of all these lac-s that 'ganeral prose erity has arrived. If it tie true, it has been so long since he was here be!ore that the people don't recognize him. The truth is, there is no pros parity except for the money lender, the monopolies and trusts" M1ast Bread Go-? Many doctors and scientists of note have juined in regarding the so called --stail of life" the "staff of death," sa iog that the quantity of bread con su'ned is responsible fur many poor working stomachs and premature deata. Dr. (2. D. E rans, a member of the R>yal Colleae for Surgeons, in speaking of this theory, says: "I'he gradual accumulation of earthly mat ter in the system cause; the character istics of -old age,' eud from this it fol lows that the less lime our diet con tains the longer do we liv?. Ruzhly speaking the analysis o1 food in regard to longe vity, hi tre the following order: First ,und bes:) fruit; second, fish; third, animal food:; fourth, vegetables; ffth (and worse) cereals, including bread. Bread, as an article of diet, after the age of tweny, certainly de creases the age of man. HIis 'stat of ife' is often the indirect cause of his premature delension. The L w to be Tested. The union depot law is soon to be tes-ed in the cou-ts. The rairoad commission has given the ra'i-oads more tan a "reasonable amoant of t im to carry out its imandates under the act and nov iliere is to be no more waitng. Decisive a:tion has at last b en t a in regard to the Deomsark dejOT. Chairman W. D. Evans Th'ursday said that they had waited ona tee roads as l ;naasthey could, en deavrig to get them to do something in regard to the Denmark depot: they have nowv placed all the papers in the hards of the attorney general and he w ile tage the matter up in the courts. 16ALL1PL.NT1U CF liREE-s.--U trees are o ocplaned i the fail, the earle er it is done the butter. provided, of course, th \vcod is thoroughly mas tured. The tree may be taken up even before the frost his stripoeJ. i: or its leaves, provided this v-ork is done by and. It will not do to strip the leaves from trees that are not to be trans planted as it will start the buis at tner base, which ougc~ h no t ow uni next spring. Bat the check of ranslanting prevents any danger of of ens, and in a latC fall may be an avantage, as it prevents the prer.a ture s- eling of buds that often makes IT WAS A D1KING FEAT. THE ESCAPE OF MISS CiSNEROS FROM HAVANA. Dlegufi s a Min i s oarded the American Steamer '. ne co, Ontwitting the Detectives, aLd carly A-rive in New Yarh. Evangelina Ca=s o Cisnercs, who recently escaped from a Spanish pri sona in Cuba, was a rassenger on the Waid line stew n-r S-ieca. wbich ar ri-ed at New Y 1rk 'V;da-sdav from Havana. At quararti"e' Miss Cisue i" asked t' b excused from syiJg auytjing atcu' her i-mprisonineat and --cape, as sh had rot yet recovered from seasickness Oa the passenger it she was recistered as Miss Juana SAla. She was traveling under the! cere of a gentleman who accompanied r from Lavana. WIen the Seneca reached quarantine, the towboat J. Fred Lt.man, with several newspa per representatives and four women, I went alongside the steamer, and after the health otlicer's iaspecticn w.,s over they went on board and acco panied Miss Cisneros to this city. I' mediately upon landing, the party took carriages to the Hotel Waldorf and were assigued rooms on the second ii >or. While Senorita Cisneros was fatigu:d, she appeared to be in the very best of spirits and exultant over her. arrival in America. She does not speak English, but her face is very expressive and she seemed to intuitively understand the questions put to her, and answered in Spanish. The senorita retired as soon as she reached the hotel and refused to be seen. Among her narty was Mrs. J. Eilen Foster. of Washington, presi dent of the National Woman's Rtpub lican Asscciation. Miss Cisneros' escape and safe ar rival on the Seneca was one of the most daring feats ever attemnted and successfully carried out. While she was still in prison. her friends secured a passport for one Juan Sola, and state room No. 3 on the Seneca was helc. in the same name. This was three days before the boat sailed. Oa the Satur day when the Seneca was to leave Havana detective watched her gang ways with extra caution. All day long they remained at their post ex amining the passports which all pas sengers have to show bafore leaving Havana. Their vigilance would probably have prevented the departure to Misspisneros from Cuba, had it not been for a little refreshment which was served to them by friends of Miss Cisner os, who were aboard the Seneca. The refreshment included wine. The chief of police of Havana came aboard while the refreshment part of the plot was in progress, and it is alleged that he, too. fell a victim of the wines of the Cisneros faction. A few minutes before the Seneca was ready to pull out from her do. a slim young fellow came runn g across the wharf. He had no baggage [and was fashionably dressed. He walked quickly up the gangplank. Detectives stopped him. "My name is Juan Sola," he said, and he showed his passport. Everything was satis factory, so the senor was allowed to go aboard. It is said that if it had not been for the wine, the strange treble and rather curious figure of Senoi Sola might have excited the suspicion of the Spanish detectives. But the scheme worked successfully. Miss Cisneros' friends, when they saw that everything was satisfactory, disem barked and watched the ship pull slowly out under the frowning Span ish guns, carrying the fugitive to safe ty under the Stars and Stripes. Miss Cisneros did not court danger any~ more than was necessary and at once went to her cabin. The next day, however, when Morro Castle was left far behind, she appeared on deck, transformed into Senorita Juana Sola, alias Cassio Cisneros, and dressed in a becoming red gown. C iptain Stevens, commander of the Seneca, was angry when he discussed the Cisneros incident with the report ers. Said he: "Since the commence meat of the present insurrection it has been the custom of the Spanish au therities to post a couple of detectives at the head of the gang way of ships lying at Havana. We arrived at 6 a. in., on Saturday and left at 8 p. mn., durmng which time the detectives did not leave the head of the gangplank. Just before the Seneca sailed, the chief of police, his deputy and his secretary came aboard. Senorita Cisneros had escaped two days previously, and yet they asked no questions and made no search for her, although upon three former occasions they had searched the Seneca from stem to stern and keel to promenade deck, while look ing for suspects." Captain Stevens said that, to the best of his knowledge; the only persons who went ab:ard at~ Havana were the Lastie family, the Dal Real family, eight Chinamen and a man whose name appeared upon the advance passenger list as Juan Sola and who must have had a passport, other wise he could not have gone aboard. When it was discovered that "Jaan Sola" was a girl, the "Juan was changed to "Juana," and Miss Cis neros came in under that name. Miss Cisneros was gi ren some articles of feminine wearing apparel by the ste wardess of the Seneca. A. C. Stewart. an Englishman who emboarked at Tampico and who speaks Spanish, said that he sat opposite Miss Cisneros at the table during the voy age, and that when she saw the Cape Hatteras light she fell upon her knees on the deck and prayed devoutly. Mr Stewart says he found the rescued Cuban a most pleasant companion. She had her hair pinned up in a coil, worn under a sombrero, when she embarked, disguised as a ranchman. The Cuban junta has issued an in vitation to the people of Greater New York and vicinity interested in~ Senorita Cassio Cisneros and the cause of Cuba to attend a reception to be tendered to the rescued young wo man at Delmonico's on Fifth avenue Sturday night. The reception will really be a demonstration of sympathy with th~e struggling republic and speakers of national renutation will address the gathering. Bold 'Train Robbery. Tuesday afternoon at half-past 5 o'clock, within twelve miles of the. corporate limits of Austin, Texas, the southbound cannonball train on the international and Great Northern railroad, consisting of mail, baggage and express cars and three coaches loaded with passengers, was held up by four men and robbed. The con ductor of the train, Tom Healy, was shot by the robbers while resisting them, but not seriously wounde:d. One of the passengers had his shirt collar carried a say by a pistol ball that was aimed at his neck, and anotner re ceived a bullet wound in the hand. The passengers were robbed of about $3t0 in money. The bandits attempt ed to riile the safe in the express car, but were unsuccessf ulI The D)emocrata Win The municipal election Wednesday in Chattanooga. Tenn., resulted in the overwhelming defeat of the Republi cans, the Democrats electing the May or and six out of the eight Aldermen. Chattanoga is normally from four to lve hundred Republican, but the hard mes is being ch aedr up to th at party. THE BOY PREAC Et. .)ohn Wetley Shild:-, Formarly of Au-er .or, S. C., Aged L i Years. Atlanta hay produced a prodigy in the person of J :hn Wesley Shields, an eight year rid pupil at Fair street school, who Las ueveloped worad-rfui oratcrical powcrs. They call bi-n the "Youn Sam Jones" arcund St. Paui's Methodist Church, on Hunter street, where he preached Saturday afternoon and Sunday. to laree and attentive congregatiois. Johntsi is an int - gent Inahiog liatle b:sck-eyed bov, and has all the air and dia oiy of boring of a grow:, up man. He is stil in the seccud grade at school, but is very fond of Bible stud , anC' has leaned favorite chapter, .lhu 14th, almost by heart. He has a slight impediment in his speech, natural in one so young, but when he gets under Tay his deliv ery is spiendid ard he is a very inter esting taker. 'If there ever was a born preacher in the world he is one," said his mothsr, who lives near the coralr of Moore street on Hunte-. his fa'ier be ing a barber ta the Kinoal hoaue bloak. "He has been prescaing fr a I year and a half and anybody listenig at him might think that he had been! taught what he ku;, bu thiis not so. He savs that wh ever he utters God tells him to say, a.uo he never re heats the same sermon, but ik n b uitferent vy every Time his de livery ;s as free as that of a trained minister. We came from \ire nia about a year and a half ago. My h--. band is Rev. J. W. Shields, a localI preacher connected with St. Paul's Cnurch, and eight months ago John Wesley became a member of the Church. This summer we went up to Anderson, S. C., on a visit, and while there he preached t .rice in the Wes leyan Churen. Saturday afternoon he preached at the children's meeting at St. Pauls, and again Sunday after noon. He preached in nearly every grade of tte school and seems to a born orator and preacher." R v. Mr. Diamond, pastor of St. Pails, has been conducting a chil dren's meeting on Saturday and Sun day afternoonis, and on Saturday after- - noon he cilleI on Joan Wesley Shields. The little fellow responded and preached a very strong sermon of fifteen minutes length. from the text "Be Sure Your Sin Will Find You Oat." "He told the children," said Mr. Diamond, in speaking of the ser mon, "that they, might sow their wild oats and do evil deeds while they were young, but that they might rest assured that their sins would find them out. He cited the cases of Tom Delk, Arthur Haney and young 3pinks. 'See.' s tid he, 'what a drink of free whiskey cost Arthur Haney. It cost him his life. E sure your sin will find you out. It found those boys out and they were made to suffer. It will find you out likewise if you continue in your sinful course.' His sermon was a surprise to all who heard him. Sunday afternoon I called on him again, and at first be told me that he had promised to preach for the holiness people up town, but he changed his mind, and at the children's meeting he appeared with his Bible in hand. I called him in side the chancel and he opened his Bible and read a lesson, announcing his text, 'Behold Istand at the door and knock. If any man will open unto me I will enter in and sup with him and he shall sup with me.' -The sermon that followed was a masterly effort for one so young, and would have done credit to a grown-up preacher. He is a wonderful little fello w and is a natural orator and as fervent in his delivery as if he had been trained for the ministry. About a year and a half ago he was in our infrant class, and he seemed to develop the idea of preaching from talks that he had with my wife. He first began preaching to the children in his moth er's yard, aod from that he' bezan preaching at school, and now he is developing into a regular Methodist preacher." Tne parents of the child are both deeply religious people, his father be ing a local Methodist preacher, and John Wesley has been brought up in a ministerial atmosphere. He seems to absorb scriptural knowledge, and every night before his father comes heme, John Wesley summons the rest of the family to family prayer just as if he were a man grown. His mother says there is not the slightest levity in his makeut:' and that lhe is in earn est in everyth ng that he does. He is very bright in every way and talks with much seriousno~ and gravity about his calling, and apnears to have made up his mind as to his future vocation as a minister of the gospel. Atlanta Journal. Won a Wife With an Egg. Ross Williams of Enid, 0. T , wrote a lovelorn message on an egg ready for shipment several weeks ago, and as a result he won himself a bride. What the young man said on the egg was this: "On a farm in the Cherokee strip I sit a sad and lonely bachelor, think ing sadly over my fate and would love to ecome off the nest and join my life with that of some comely young lady of not too many sumnmers gro wth. Should the message on this egg meet with the eye of a fair one who is matrimonially inclined on short acquaintance, and who thinks she could enj y a prairie life with a student of nature's beauty, address Ross Williams. Enid, 0. T." In due course of time this reply came: "Dear Mr. Williams-From the quiet precincts of my boudoir I write thee. I am lonely, too, an d have of ten longed to quit city life and go west, where the tall, wild grass sways in the wind as if listening to the sweet songs of the chinch bugs. After chop ping wood to kindle the kitchen fire and after the fire was ready for busi ness and the pan was sizzling in the sparkling fat. I was about to break an egg into the pan, when, behold !your message meets my gaze. IL seemed like a dream of a lost, unokn:nVQ lore. I am comely but not fair. Age, twenty-three, no m'oney, but plenty of grit. L-:t us exchange photcgraphs. I: may a.!e~nd in another Americtn uzion, long to be preser'red. Me th:nks I ka';v iou now. "Bessie Carroll, Chicago, Ill" F art her correspondence resulted, and a few days later the young people were maarried. s:mlpson Maikes a Doteful Prophiesy. Congresman Jerry Simpson makes the prediction that within a year this country will ne in the throes of one of the most disastrous panies ever knorron. Ihis opinion is based upnon the fact that the balance of trade is so sgrongly~ in our favor iand that tis condition will result in England damping such a vast amount of Amer-in s eirites upon us that the banas wil be com pelled to refuse to ndrance m-oneyv on the m This, he declares, will cause American securities to be thrown on the market, causing a Scancial panic without a parallel in hir . Hr savs the resources of the banks in New York are non down to danger hlits, the heavy demands of the West for legal tender: and curre-ncy is assigned as another reason for the low state of the resources of the Ne w YorK banks. -HE PL riFiE2 MAN. The (jruvse., Fan41 in the Sauci itEver Reveals a Tragedy. The New York Herald of Sunday tells a doubtful s'ory about the netri t ld maa fourd in the Saluda River :ear Columbia sve ral years ago and whcse bcdv of st,:e was exhibited in the tate. The Herald upon the au thority of Colonel D. A. Dickert, of Sunshine, S. C., divulges the secret which it is said clears up the mystery of the strance find. "This marble man," says the narrative, "is one of the characters in the daring and ad venturous of Dr. Llewelivn P. Hlbs. of Hope Station, S. C , and t:e facts hertin are published with the com ent of his son. Dr. Hobbs died in 1S3, ard all the other -persons involve-i is the fatal affair are also dead." The facts of the peculiar case are these: Dr. Le w-elIyn Hobbs had before the war ended shot a negro outlaw on his plantation. In 1S65, during the turbulent period of recon s:rction, ne had killed a former slave in sell defense. For this he had been court martiall d and sen:ecced to a tern: at C..stle Picekney, in Charles tin Hirb-r. While yet under milita rv guard in Cuiumbia he made a dar ing escape and took to the wocds, making his wasy finally to the home of his comrade and friend, Colonel Dickert, who himself was watched. Meantime a squad of federal soldiers had visited the Dxotor's home where his wife and his chi.+lren lived. TheA soldiers kept up a continued espionage there. Dr. Hobbs, for fear of falling into their hands, for a while avoided them. Colonel DickaR t had cut a door in the tbor of his own home so that he might drop through and make es cape easy in the event of trouble there or an arresting raid upon his house. For some days Dr. Hobbs submitted to restraint in this scciusion with good grace, but at last he began to chafe and to express a desire to go to his home. One dark, gloomy night Dr. Hobbs,with two other white men, ventured to go to his home, and meet ing a sentinel there, fired upon and wcunded him so sericu;ly that he soon died. The Doctor hai presence of mind enough to know that a dead soldier or, worse, a wounded one found in his yard would end all his hopes of freedom and mean the cer taia destruction of his home. Tne three carried the body to the home of Luke Lorick, a negro who kept a den for thieves. Old Luke feared that he would be charged with the murder of the sentinel, so he took the body into the woods and buried it, building a coal kiln over the grave, thinking this would destroy ali traces of the sold ier's sepulcher, and it did until the winter's rains set in, when the fresh earth began to be exposed. Luke then decided that something must be done, so one dark night he exhumed the body and taking it to the Saluda Riv er, threw it in, and there thirty odd years afterwards huntsmen found the sentinal turned to stone, with the bul let hole in the chest, which was the cause of death. This is the Herald's story. We doubt its accuracy for the reason'that there nre mirks on the body of the petrified man which show clearly that his arms and legs were tightly pinioned when death came to him. They Need Money. The following appeal to the veterans of Sou'h Carolina has been made by the commander of the U. C. V. in this State: Lieutenant General Stepen D. Lee has issued a circular to the com rades of the 1,050 camps, U. C V., calling attention to the action of the U. C. V. at the recent Nashville re union, endorsing the memoirs of Pres ident Davis, written by Mrs. Davis and recommending our camps anid comrades to purchase them. General Lee says: "That Mrs. Davis is now old and infirm, and moves about with great difficulty with the aid of a crutch; that she and Miss Winnie Davis ('the Daughther of the Con federacy') need money to supplement their earnings to live." Comrades, the widow and daughter of our devct ed chieftain need our help. It'can be delicately given by at once baying up the copies of the Memoirs as per ctr cular of General Lee. I earnestly urge every camp in this division to respond. It is not only a duty, but a hig a privilege. General L 'e suggests that the money so ra..sed be sent, at Mrs Davis' request, to her son in law, J. A. Hayes, First National Bank, Colorado Springs, Colorado, and the sets paid for will be sent by him. The following are the pricas: In clo:h, 2 volumes, S vo., $5 00; in grained clot b, 2 volumes, 8 vo., $6.50; in half Russia, 2 volumes, 8 vo , $8 00. Camps wili phtase act at their next meetings. South Carolina's share will be the pur chase of 200 sets of two volumes, or averaging two sets to each ca-np. Let us do our duty and do it promptly. C. IRVINE WALKER, Con mending. Official: JnaEs G. HoLMES A d j-tant Gen. ard Chief of Staff. A Deeperate Flght. William Harold, of Delta, Col., arid Under Steriff Raidford of Siskivou counly were s2ot and killed and Dep uty Sheriff Ste wart seriously wounded Thursday morning whi.'e the offi~ers were attempting to arrest Harold for complicity in the ro'obery of tbe Greka and Fort Jones stage on September 25, last. The stolen money was traced by Detectives Thacker and J. Jennings, of the Wells Fargo company, to Delta, and the Siskiyou county officers in ac cordance with instructions, came down from Greka Wednesday night for the pur'pose of arresting Harold. About 8:30 Thursday m'rning Rad ford and Srewart Dresented :h-enselves at Haroid's house' and asked for Har old. When he came to the door Stewart said: "I want to see you, Harold " The latter replied: ' I'm ready," and opened fire upon the "fi cers with a big revolver. The Urst shot took effect in Stewart's leg, while the second bullet struck R idford in the left breast, kiiinng him al.nrst ia stantly. 8:e vart, who had :ale a i;n front of the door when shot, emnptied his gun at Harold, who fell mortally wounded with several bullet holes tin his chest and abdomen. He died shortly a-ter wards. A Noveibag' Macon, Ca. '-as r. *- :'y hel.l a gra-ad trades carnial,1 .au~ was a ercat succs is. rn the attracirs was the collision of t so loco:: iet s in the presence of over t wenty . ais and soectators. A track a m .: in length, straiht as a: arrow, ra thrxugh the race track enclosure. A loc-:notive at either end 'e-J to the utmnost li nt, was h-:d in reai Vs oy an engineer who an:- ed le sg cal to start. At the drop of a lag the shrill whistles toli o' the coming crash and the vas: :sult it- so,:d ou tiptoe of ex pectancy and exe.-ement. The throttl~s orened, the loco~notives wer.t forward and the engineersleapAd to the gr-ound. F'aster and faster the great driving wheels revolved as the eines approascheA each other. There was a brea.::.ess silence and an awful suspenst- a mom.ent before - the crash e: tne: hut when the massive m.:escollided, resulting in splamered fragments of wool worm, broken bars, escaping steam and water, loud cheers rent the air and the vast multitude rushed to witness the wreck, Royal wakes the food pUre, whulcsomC and dclicious. OY bAKIN0 POWDER Absolutely Pure ROYAL A<?'NC rOwER CC., NEW YORK. "Bryanism is L omtng " The Republicans carried the city of Indianapolis last November on the coinage issue by a majority of 6,000. List Tuesday the Demccrats carried in the municipal election by a majority of 5.00. The Democratic city plat form contained the following plank: While recognizing that the issues of the municipal campaign are lo-al and not national, we take this opp->rtunity, the first which has cffered itself since the presidential election of 1896, to re affirm and emphasize the declaration of the last national Democratic con vention in favor of the free and un limited coinsge of silver at the historic ratio of 16 to 1 without awaiting the aid or consent of any other nation on earth, upon which that great states man, William J. Bryan, made his memorable campaign for the presi dency. We condemn the Republican party for its failure to open the mills as it p-omised to do if restored to pow er, for it enactment of a tariff law im posing new and oppressive taxes upon an already over- burdened people for the sole benefit of the great trusts and monopolies to whose power and wealth it owes its present ascendancy in the government; and for perpetuating the business prostration and industrial paralysis from which the country has been suffering for years, by persisting in the mistaken financial policy to which these c nditions are due. Moreover, the Democratic candidate for mayor thus publicly expressed himself before his nomination: If I am nominated I expect to-be the next mayor of Indianapolis. But whether in public station or private life I shall certainly do everything le gitimate in my power to hold the Democratic party in line for the prin ciples which it proclaimed in Chicago, and to secure the success of these prin ciples at the ballot box. I stand today where 1 have stood ever since the national convention which nominated Bryan-squarely on the platform. I have publicly de clared more than once that the Demo cratic party having made the issue of free coinage I could and should not take any backward step, but must fight the battle to the end. Whatever doubts I may had originally as to the policy of free coinage I am fully con vinced that it is the only measure which offers any prospect of escape from the distressing industrial condi tions which nowa prevail in this coun try.. So much for one city. How itis in a far bigger one, Greater Ne w Yorki Let The World testify. It tries to get Platt to pull do wn the straight Repun lican ticket by telling him that this will be the showing af ter election day: First-according to the most unmis takable signs and evidences, Croker's candidate and Henry George, both having voted for B'-yan, both baliev ingin Bryan for 1900, and both now openly running as Bryan men, will have polled together the largest Dem ocratic vote kno vJn in the history of Ne w York and Brooklyn. It will ex ceed even Cleveland's plurality of 112 000 in 1S92. -Second-This enormotis vote and the election of the mayor of the sound money centre of the nation, with co lossal power-s for four years, will give Bryan's friends and Bryan's cause all over the United States more encour agemnent and h ape, more confidence and joy, than any other event short of his own election to the presidency. Third-The Ne w Nork delegation in 1900 will be his, as are no w the dele gations from Massachusetts, Pennsyl vania and the entire south and west. He will be nominated with a whoop. Fourth-While the Bryan Demo crats everywhere would be encouraged to persist not enly in Mr. Bryui but also in the 16 to 1 issue, the sound money Democrats in this city and State who went against Bryan last ' year would be irretrievably discour aged and disgusted with Repblicanismn. No politiral evil will seem greater than the despicable despotism of Platt. And tens of thousands of the indepen dent ani Platt Repaublicans now strug gling throigh Mr. L ivffor honest gov emnent will agree~ with them. This don't look much litre Bryais-n is dead, as the gold big papers would have us believe. B -yaism mil sweegi this country in 1930. All the silver men have to do is to st and firm, and 4 grand and glorious victory wiil be won for the people. It should b a Tried. Some one has advanced a new way . of ru-ining out the original package men, or at least make them .pay their share of the legitimate taxes to sup-. port the municipalities where they are established. Judge Simonton has de cided that, under the interstate comn 'rerce law, the citizms of another state can sell liquor in South Carolina, through an agent, under the sam i-e strictions as tne dispenser. The origi- - nal package agents in erj jying the right granted them by that decision compiy with a number of the restrict live features of the dispensary. Tne dispensaries have to pay a certain per centage of their profits to the city and county in which they are located. Taking these facts into consideration, the question is asked by some of the county boards of control, cannot te original package agents be made to divide their profits with the city, -'oun ty and state, just as the dispensaries ao i This matter is being agitated anc. t will be no surprise if one of the coahty boards of control makes a nave in this direction. in the near fu ture.- And then there will be some heavy fighting in the courts, but we believe the matter should be tested'by the State. He Hated Basliroads. . Arnold Sherman, a hermit, residing near Gould's crossing in West Ktng son, R-. , on the line of the Narra gansett Pier railway, was found dead in his hut a fe w days ago. He was seventy-fivye years of age, agkhad lived anone for t wenty-five years. For a decade he had not permitted any one to enter his abode. O.1 account of a wrong atieged to have sutfered at the hands of the railway officials, Sher man would never look at a passing