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llO USE1I(OL[K CIRE REV. DRTAM E FN ON TH DUTIES CF iC'.E LiF. Words of cern nEN- u Dauightera a~ itr~ :mi Them :htTh:y A3 DcC c.h. nal Besting of the Ic: . Dr. Talmag&s sr : c through hone li ie :. C one who has seen al it s and sympathizes . _. s .i.: has words c cheer r a a sm mothers, dau-hteis .z si: ' Luke x, 40: "L'rd, dst . c that my sister hath :eft me ; . e alone? Bid her, t ,t she help me." Yon~der asba beuiu il. eI stead. The nHan of .e huc e s dead, and his widow is tk: c premises. This s ?hi w - r- a of Bethany. Yes, I wl so u a.: the pet of the houscholi. Ths is r. the younger sister, wi:aaooun her arm and he. =ace hary"n Lc ap pearance of anxiety cr care. Compay has come. Christ standcs c"usa d door, and of course tme is a goca deal of excit-ment insice the coo-. The disarranged :uitu're L put aside, and the asi- is ue back, and the dresses see adj.:sed es well as in so short a tim aary a:c Martha can attend to deCe -ar They did not keep Cris s:ard a the door until they were re. y ap pareled or until they Lid da:-octryy arranged their dresses, thct e n out with their afccted surprise as though they had not heard :ne two or three previous hacckings, say 2_g, "Why, is that you N . ;ley were ladies and were always presentaie, although they may Lot ha e salwys had on their best, for none of us ad ways has on cur best, Itv e did our best would not be worth aving cn. They throw cpen the coor and greet Christ. They say: "Good mcning, Master. Come in and be seated." Christ did not come alone. He had a group of friends with him, and such an influx of city visitors would throw any country home into perturbation. I suppose also the walk thom the city had been a goad appetizer. The kitch en department that day was a very important department, and I suppose that Martha had no sooner greeted the guests than she fled to taat room. Mary had no worriment about house hold affairs. She had full confidence that Martha could get up the best din ner in Bethany. She seems to say: "Now let us have a division of labor. Martha, you cook, and I'l sit down and be good." So you have of ten seen a great difference oetween two sisters. There is Martha, hard worki g, painstaking, a good manager, ever in ventive of some new pastry or discov ing something in the art of cookery and housekeeping. There is Mary, also fond of conversation, literary, so engaged in deep questions of ethics she has no time to attend to the q ;es tions of household welfare. it is noon. Mary is in the parlor with Christ. Martha is in the kitchen. It would have been better if they had divided the work,and then they could have divided the opportunity of list ening to Jesus, but Mary r.nopo-. -lizes Christ while Martha swelters atI the fire. It was a very important thing that they should have a gocod dinner that day. Christ was hungry, and he did not often have a luxurtous enter tainment. Alas me, if the duty had devolved upon Mary, what a repast that would have been ! But something went wrong in the kitchen. Perhaps the fire would not burn, or the bread would not baze, or Martha scalded her hand, or somethinig was burned' black that ought only to have been made brown, and Martha lcst her p-a tience and forgetting the proprieties of the occasion, with oesweated br' iv, and, perhaps, with pitcher in one hand and tongs in the other, she rushes out of the kitchen into the pres ence of Christ, Eaying, "Lord, dost thou not care that my sister hath left me to serve alonel" Christ scolded not a word. If it were Ecolding,I should rather have his scolding than anybody else's blessing. There was nothing acerb. He kneiv Martba had almost worked herself to death to get him something to eat, and so he throws a world of tenderness into his intonation as he seems to say: "My dear woman, do not worry. Let the dinner go. Sit down on this ottoman beside Mary, your younger sister. Martha, thcu art careful and troubled about many things, but one thing is needful-" As Martha throws open that kitchen door, I look into and see a great many household perplexities and antxieties. .First there is the trial of nonappre ciation. That is what made Martha so mad with Mary. The younger sis ter had no estimate of her older sis ter's fatigues. As now, men bothered with the anxieties of the store and of fice and shop, or, coming from the Stock Exchange, they say when they get home: "Oh, you cught to be in our factory a little while. You ought to have to manage 8 or 10 or 20 subor dinates, and then you would know what trouble and anxiety are." Oh, sir, the wife and the mother has to conduct at the same time a university, a clothing establishment, a restaurant, a laundry, a library, while she is health offieer, police and president of her realm. She must do a thousand things and do them well in order to keep things going smoothly, and so her brain and her nerves are taxed to the utmost. I know there are house keepers who are so fortun ate that they can sit in an armchair in the library or lie on the belated pillow and throw off all the care upon suboordinates who, having large wages and great' experience, can attend to all of the affairs of the honsehold. Those are the exceptions. I am speaking now of the great mass of housekeeners the women to whom life is a strur'gie, and who at 30 years of a;;e loka though they were 40. and at 40) 1ock as though they were 50, and at 5 L o as though they were 60. The fen at, Chalons and Austerlitz and~ Geu s burg and WYaterloo a~e a small. 1num her compared with ihe slain 'a the great Armageddon of thre Litchen.I You go out to the cemetery, ac d y oc will see that the tombstones all? r-ead beautifully poetic, but if those toma stones would sneak the truth thou ands of them would say: "Here lies a woman killed by too mouch mae.nding and sewing and baking and scrubbi and scouring. The -wee pan with which she was slain was a broom or a se" VUI machine or a ladle." Yctu 'a nk,() man of the world, that -cu have all the cares and anxietis. '-te cre and anxieties of te -oseol sh uld come upon ycu fc: one wd, you would be fit for r-e inane- as'- -im. The halt resteai hctusaee er art I the morning. She am'- av e I morning repast prepared1 a- a" irrevo cable hour. What if th~e a:eil c light, what if th aei did -, come, what if the clocr ras sto s nonmatter, shenmust hav te ae. i repast at an irrevocable hour. Then the child-e but o schcoL What iftherg~m r torn, what if thter do not 0o' lessons, what if tcey tave lat ac o sash-they must b'e r-eady. Tae r c have all mne diet of thecaday, ae pr haps of several day s, to plan; but w"a' ifthe butcher has sont meat unmastica e er therecr s sent arties of a r u an d what it some e nv r :2 ;:en, or some favorite or theroof leak, or orany neofathou cv c- ;u mustbe ready. .ha coes. and there must ui in the f a ily wardrobe, and you must shut r n"a~t; but what if the --" s. E tcd you to the chest, w:.. : uG the sear the children e t on the apparel of last year t ii he fashions have changed. use n.ust be sn apothecary's : p;;:. rust be a dispensarv there u e rncicinos for all sorts of ail ni- :nnhi h 'to loosen the croup o to cool theburn, something o paulie the is':r.mation, some r to si.nee the jumping tooth, mthi g to sa' "e the earache. You *u.t :e in hs places at the ame tit-e e v u ust attempt to be. 1:, unr l tis ear and tear of life. tarLa _.-s an: .mpatiettrush upon :1:e ~ L :.11o rai ro, be patient 0 though I may F. :o stir u , appreciatien in the r gard to your house -cde~se m e assure you, from the ith which Jesus Christ e I4.t tat he appreciates all orw. m garret to cellar, and iae of Deborah and Hannah sndAbI and Grandother Lois amd; E:zabeth Fry and Hannah More S Gof te housekeeper. Jesus l t vo: married, that be might be ._ especial friend and confidant of a rce. er Li of troubled womanhood. I bu Christ was married. The .b.' savs tiat the church is the L-I' ife, and that makesme know t Christian women have a right to go to Christ and tell him of their laneoyaces and troubles, since by his erth of conjagal fidelity he is sworn to sympathize. George Herbert, the 2h istian poet, wrote two cr three verses on this subject: . The ervant by this clause Makes drudgery divine Who s weeps a room, as for thy laws, Mlakes this and the action fine. A : ourg woman of brilliant educa tion and prosperous circumstances was called down stars to help in the kitchen in the absence of the servants. The dorbell ringing, she went to open it and found a gentleman friend,who said ss he came in: 'I thought that I heard music. Wss it en this piano cr on this ham ' She answered: "No I was aywing on a gridiron ; with frying pan accompanin:ent. The servants are gone, and I am learning how to do this work." Well done! When will women in all circles find out that it is honorable to do anything that ought to be done? Again, there is the trial of severe zcolomy. Nine hundred and ninety nine households out of the thousand are su ected to it-some under more and som'ae under less stress of circum stances. Especially if a man smoke very expensive cigars and take very ostly dinners at the restaurants he will be severe in demanding domestic economies. This is what kills tens of thousands of women-attempting to make $5 do the work of $7. A young woman about to enter the married state said to her mother, "How long does the honeymoon last?" The mother answered, "The honeymoon at until you ask your husbend for one." How some men do dole cut oney to their vwives :"How much do you want? F "A dollar." "Ycu are al ays warnting a dollar. Can'c you do ith 50 cents" f' f the husband has not he money, let him plainly say so. If e has it, let him make cheerful re ponse, remembering that his wife has s much right to it as he has. How he bills come in: The woman is the anker cof the household, she is the >reident, the cashier, the teller, the uscunL clerk, a:.d there is a panic very few weeks. This 30 years' war tainst high prices, this perpetual tudy of economics and this life long attempt to keep the outgoes less than the income exhaust innumerable house eepers. Oil, my sisters, this is a part of the ivine d'iscipline! If it were best for Scu, all ycu would have to do would e to open the front windows, and the avens would fly in with food, and af ter you had baked 50 times from the arrel in the pantry, like the or e of brephathi, would be full, and the hoes of tne children would last as !ong as the sboes of the Israelites in the wilderness-40 years. Besides that this is going to make heaven the nore attractive in the contrast. They ever hunger there, and consequently there will be none of the nuisances of :atering for appetites, and in the land f the white robe they never have to nend anything, and the~ air in that bill country makes everybody well. here are no rents to pay. Every an owns his own house, and a man ~ion at that. It will not be so great a change for you to have a chariot in eaven if you have been in the habit f riding in this world. It will not be o great a change for you to sit down n the bauks of the river of life if in this world you had a county seat, but if you have walked with tired feet in this world what a glorious change to nount celestial equipage! And if your life on earth was domestic mar rdom, oh, the joy of an eternity in hich you shall have nothing to do cent what you choose to do! Mar tha has had no drudgery for 18 centu. ies, I quarrel with the theologians who~ want to distribute all the thrones f heaven among the John Knoxes nd the Hugh Latimers and the The ban legion. Some of the brightest thrones of heayen will b3 kept for hristian housekeepers. Oh, what a hange from here to there-from the time when they put down the rolling pin to when they take un the scepter ! f Chatsworth park and the Vander il: mansion were to be lifted into the eestial city, they would be consid ered uninhabitable rookeries, and glorifed Lozeras would be ashamed o be going in and cut of either of tem. There are many housekeepers who ould get along with their toils if it were not for sickness and troble. The fact is, one half of the women of the land are more or les invalids. The ountain lass, who has never had an cer a pain, may consider household oil inconsiderable, and toward even ing she may skip away miles to the ilds and drive home the cattle, and she may until 10 o'clock at night fill te house with laughing racket; but, oh, to do the work of life with worn out constitution, when whooping cogh has been raging for six weeks in the household, making the night as sleepless as the day-that is not so eas: Perhaps this comes after the nerves have been shattered by some be reavemnt that has left desolation in every room of the house and set the cri in h garret because the cczu Fas hs been hushed into a slumber a hch needs no mother's lulaby. Oh, sce cou:i provide f or the whole group a rat deal better than she can for a can~ of *he group, now the rest are boe Togh y ou may tell her God :s air cae of those who are gone, a i moerlke o brood both fiocks, d a wing Zhe puais over the flock in ite home the cer wing she puts ourthena n te grave. Th : -ohn bu~'t the old fashior es religio' of asa Chaiit that will hea w'oman happily through the is of home life At first there ma- be a ro'mance or a novelty that riage hoiur has jtst passed, and the perplex itics of tne household are more than atoned by ti e joy of being to getber and by the fact that when it is late they do not have to discuss the question as to whetter it is time to go. The mishaps of the household, in stead of being a matte: of anxiety and reprehension, are a matter of merri ment-the loaf of bread turucd into a geological spec'men. the slushy cus tards, the jaundiced or measy t is-t cuits. It is a very bright sunlight that falls on the cutlery and the man- { tel ornaments of a new home. But after awhile the romance is all gone, and there is somethiag t-; be prtparid for the table that the book called' *Cookery Taught In Twelve Ltssors" will not teach. The recipe for making it is not a handful of this, a cup of that and a spoonful of same thing else. It is not something swa t ened with ordinary conciments or 11x vored with ordinary flhvara or baked in ordinary ovens. It is the loaf of domestic happiness, and all the iugre dients come down from heaven, and the fruits are plucked from the tree of life, and it is sweetened with the r ea wine of the kingdom, and it is b.ked in the oven of home trial. Solomon wrote out of his own experienc?. ii had a wretched home. A mm can not be happy with two wiver, much less 600, and he says, wri'ing cut o his own experience, 'Better is a dinner of herbs where love is than a stalled ox and hatred therewith." How great are the res;onsibilities of i housekeepers ! Sometimes an indliges. tible article of food by its Effect upon a king, has overthrown an empire. A distinguished statistician says of 1,COU unmarried men there are 38 criminals, and of 1,000 married men only 1S are criminals: What a suggestion of home influences! Let the most b. made of them. housekeepers by the food they provide, by the couches they spread, by the books they intro duce, by the influences they bring around their home, are deciding the physical, intellccaual, moral, eternal destiny cf the race. Ycu say yoi life is one of sacrifbe. I know it. But, my sisters, that is the only life worth living. That was Florence Nightengale's life; that was Payson's life; that was Christ's life. We ad mire it in others, but how very hard it is for us to exercise it cucselves: When, in Brookiny, ysung Dr. Hutch inson, having spent a whole night in a diptheritic room for the relief of a patient, became saturated with the poison and died, we all felt as if we would like to put gar'ands on his grave. Everybody appreciates that. When, in the burning hotel at St. Louis a young man on the fifth story broke open the door of the room where his mother was slepping and lunged in amid smnoke and fire, crying, "Moth er, where are you?" and never came out, our hearts applauded that young man. But how few of us have the Christ. like spirit-a willingness to suffer for others. A rough teacher in a school called upon a poor, half starved lad who had offended against the laws of the school and said. "rake off your coat directly, sir." The boy refused to take it off, whereupon the teacher said again, "Take off your coat, sir," as he swung the whip through the air. The boy ref used. It was not because he feared the lash-he was used to hat at home-but it was from shame -he had no undergarment-and as at be third command he pulled slowly ff his coat there went a sob througu he school. They sa w then why he id not want to remove his coat, and hey saw the shoulder blades had al most cut through the skin, and a tout, healthy boy rose up and went o the teacher of the school and said: "Oh, sir, please don't hurt this poor fellow. Whip me. See, he's nothing ut a poor chap. Don'r. hurt himi; e's poor. Whip me." "Well," said he teacher, "it's going to be a severe whipping. I am willing to take you s a substitute." "Well" said the boy, "I don't care. You whip me, if ou will let this poor fello wgo," The stout, healthy boy took the scourging without an outcry. "Bravo," says ev ry man. "Bravo!" Hw many of s are willing to take the scourging, and the suffering and the toil, and he anxiety for other people. Be~uti ful things to admire, but ho v little we ave of that spirit! God give us that e'.f denying spirit, Eo that whether we are in humble spheres or in cor picuous spheres we may perform our whole duty-for this struggle will son be over. One of the most affecting reminie ences of my mother is my rememnber ance of her as a Christian housekeep r. She worked very hard, and when e would come in from summer play and sit down at the table at noon I re ember how she used to come in with bead of perspiration along the ine of gray hair, and how sometimes he would sit down at the table and put her head against her wrinkled and and say, "Well, the fact is I'm oo tirdx to eat." Long after she ight have delegated this duty to thers she would not be satisfied un ess she attended to the matter herself. n fact, we all preferred to have her o so, for somehaow things tasted bet er wnen she prepared them. Some ime ago in an sexpress train I shot ast that old homestead. I looked ot of the window and tried to peer hrough the darkness. While I was oing so one ot my cld schoolmates, whom I had not seen for many years, apped me on the shoulder and said, De~itt, I see you are looking out at he scenes of your boyhood." "Oh, yes," I replied, '-1 was looking out at he old place where my mother lived ad died." That night in the cars the whole scene came back to me. There was the country home. There was he noonday table. There were the hildren on either side of the table, most of them gone never to come ack. At one end of the table, my fa ther, with a smile that never left his ountenance even when he lay in his offin. It was an 84 years' smile-not the smile of inanition, bat of Chris tian courage and of Christian hope. At the other end of the table wass a beautiful, benignant, hardworking, aged Christian housekeper my mother. he was very tired. I am glad th as so good a place to rest in. *.Bless ed are the dead who die in the Lord; tey rest from their labors and their works do follow them." BaptisS statistics. The statistical table in tha minutes of the South Carolina Baptist conven tion shows a total white membership of 92,593; an increase during the year of 5.304 by baptism, 712 by restora tion; monies raised for all purposes', 8195,632.27; total value of church pro perty, j1,048,057; number of churcihes 5; Sunday Schcols, 667 with 4,670 teachers and officers. 40,338 purils, and contributions amounting to 64, 64 85. ADVERTISING PAYs.-A iman wL~o has leasure to devote to statistics, ht-s attempted to figure oat how much money there was in the Christmes issue of the New York Sun day Jcur-' a. He says there. were sixteen co-u! red advertising pages, at $t, 2e a page, and other adverting suthcient to bring the total up to bet ween $35,00 and $15,000, which is quJite a respc-ta-1 be sum for one issue ot a daily paper; in these flush McKinley-boom times. Yet we occasionally find a gone-to eed merchant who says adlvertising oes not nay.5 HE GIVES CUT A STAT E.ENT TO THE PES Het Tc11e the Nw ::to LM ii's F.m 1'y AfOi.,t:d .l y H, -. . Sj p l io r -e D:ep'*-.sry I t~l ral E"': diU The followir : r:r Se-oatrTillmar ws.. publishe i:tie ree t They .ntore in sutil~~g' i, mes i tcat-es it had' e art fom d i I have neariv a1ass bcr:e th: r.andlers an faiu.:zu ? fv-h fi hat frm tie Cto ti sp r; od inye sa prinSuhG liwi have on ptohd me sie I E:.ra b: in rub live. I ca not c rrect al id tht ate mte or nol ; hi boChe it i.: raste of tie and 1:,t of my f:;:aFd heow ttem the fiiUais. st forn ii ee ale tet.y Tlhive t de:n a:ut they c.ma see noi1ting gcoo la me aLm lve to feed their uh'ed on any fo o that keeps i alive. I depart from thi rule i te presen nsta aC bcause is areorl brvs fers l and fa-ni y mpata ter. in the Colamb is State of yesSerday, the felCic2 ineitorial appeared: "SELFISH, NOT FIENDISH " 'inat.or Time is reported to be very sick man, but it i said that wthe tse possiblity of Lis brother Geor e accmin a ndida'.e for governd~r. as sacsted he asaaed t) say that he woud ale the i d against him if health rzermnitted. The evadent hat r.:d B. R. Tilman b rs his elder brother a hatren ich led hirm to on pno to defeat r him for congretso is soeting fiendish. Acampaign wit tso Till-..ass str actors would be a re cord-breaker for foraciy--Spartan barg Herald. "Tne Herald is un just to Seat Tillman. He does not hate his broth er torge, and it was not hatred in ifluhnced is cours e le contgres sional camlpaign of 1892 It wasmere 17 selisuess. He was afraid tha Talbert would run against hin foi rgovernor andt cause his dlefeat, so he turned him into George's preserve not to defeat George, but to get hie out of his own way. "So now, when he threatens to rut against his brotheror rthe governor ship next year it does not imply ha tred. It means that he considers the er etuity of the dispensary necesa ry to keep alive the factional ris on which he relies for re election to the :senate in 1900. He ould not object to George's election if it did not inter fere with his own plans. B t as it surely would do this, he is prepared ic Btrihe Brother Geitore as he did be fore. "OC. course he has no notion of r a-n ing for governor himself, for he will ct let to the senatorship on any bhance what ever. Heon.ymeans that be will put up a proxy for the office if Le cannot otherwise disturb the peace. We are not all sure that the success of Ellerbe on a cus i prohibition and unity platform would not be quite as >ffensive to him as that of his brother >n a strain t licente platform. "Watch !" Both of these editorials are the du )le distilled eenca of falsehood and "fiendish"malignity. aI, hae nt enM. T B. to s, nahe oienen rac The cStiates inti opey toep stan bys thlawon the etetad and nd stae said toth-ee ngv thim faiout iSsuth Cartlbnaaf-e aieve and Is have bnot salion to theo oaimy otoeersnlectr mabsouldoppos. Wha fI rae leciod I id reoet ctat I aeiolspthat inf Crned be, r. ;uthor and teal fane the dpembers .and thr unwinghoutrgad for mh nayme fro thei rcetrmn as idaes nopusrt sta by te vii th eNotean in her state not htre "kee nye brther atoarie," ndut beause [ .lievbzit iste bet s outiongorte qury polem.in refon'rey n e s inalsn to gre-eonledct knsold It oi era for riteeit.s did ever ete oasothoats Iinsuted Carl. N.l ert wonas alued J.nd C.fHemphiare ta itthoathey reqethe em. bers >fo co s she ha ight to19 noflmsi 82 to ndws elecundin hatedeei nom :deormsl from criment asuers el aorstrane ainrheSaeko h Nowe iin readefem"ated excp Tne reheroge, aniard awdin nr abetca ofbetrhiyafo candrs Evtery codg regrin te. only dcrgsshison distravnosit and intruae o ascntilaovdne >albor critteno xssor haver ested eor overnor asssheard didert wasn aboey "ads ff,"e than that t y Brot hess Ifeqhes er.iTalr -an Coronrsas he had aetrih leov no, and mywaelye. relaensvedn and tuvice trhe pli f moEeyelt >oi s thi atmaic in s tate w iw ics.tIfry retirduct isthme, only todetises ofs own derit and b Talbet abould bo morahv. bse nahnhonke te asero to5prov ny"sefishns. If thesD editra A'plfiors"l rey wantu"peade ine outhkr Caofin teyhad betJa ater-lav ne andtomy family emhis aloeiad ics.~e ef pyresidoent of the bonlyo :ondti one of tec" it~ canotb >rhtcin au sby byr. ashbingt, Dec.dow, 189'yn7.L An Is in a Deadg cDtto atd, Aehsplabl. rage ocured in then aon. Dogrs he Romesae profeo if ana~toy atr thes Memphse Medica :allee.eprdn of the :rbomas ~ ~ of pht ysir. The sho by~ Mrs.Mry bud sievin adings fro> Mdition otn Joeph'ns onosial.Ateareek. sho-n bld Dr.Roer the dyn tund ath beolve toe breatad toenh accl yet icrhg thr oise f he ht.o he :aus~e fr'rd the ies ile isee stac myry~rgr. T sooier occrt the bc ars~d of Nocone' creek. aNo border todiawe the traauysno wor any bdyhav bee aurte to t h Fridali tyd but ior thaise tha the woa st inithatere fihedpica and iecrsfonsss has cb:a adb thea.liend il porters to hiscoerenc efo h Driccsigh-th msey hs: "oA certn unv *reLed.o Itois ainha the woma hnt-a iatdwhihte agoyicaugd o ber-el in. Ths p resen. rdow a terrents and the hunter crawiced ut ~a h'llow le. When the rain 'd th I g had salied so the mtan culd't moc;e ani inch. While in at uufortunate cdition he began otama? over all of his meauness and -e me ~d that he had not paid his 1ubscription to The Darlinatonian, when he actually felt so small that he rramled right out of the log." |\NDGEN T LOVER LVCH-ED. rl He sa igps.r: t. rGe eifoi L i:g As strara? sto;ry en: f rom lor in COrreii c.unty, c.di. ' Ae L hic': Iv. ;Dare' aiea D: f ,L e ar To the comu'inuu.t :ast: ribl saek db-:the mn is ~ spp.:rure f Niss Lud-'a :1 wO'I ch penslied n.o..r F-ora F r eseal m i: s'., had a r eS iir-g with his pares ,t Yo ur ae ica, a s iiv in tht\ i c? ity, on the night Of hr disapocar ance it de elop;ed that A- e: Lad callI e l for er"a a late Go:" .'t_'whii: bayh disappeared. Wr iii:n lGreen. mnother broth.:er, at th i. --m: was a fugijtive for the mudr- of Amos Birumbaugh, of i Young Amr:e?. and "Buk t 'ar:e of L) = ):pre, in 1: pu"rsuit of W1i iem, f Undl both hi-m n cAer i a ran'.? in T; xi. bul withC rebie. girl rot ihnre. B', ot bromers e r,-e 'tm d ta: Car rblt cou.t y, and b i Grt ra after 'ward triGd for the murder of B un. };;-a, " the csc going to ii con ity on a change of venue, ;:re he was c oviated and givn a ife cen An 3er Grcen ent reoiaed Li wil al Delphi until one ngt hn33 a ners from i e viainy of the Mab bitt home stormed te butile, over ntwr:ring Greeen after a desperate 1zi, and then r deturind ih him t-o twa vicinity of FLra, vsh1re he as 1:,ached uith litte ror eo atrept - serc.his .body beinrg le't s -:ngingL from a co~ivenient tree. H.-- was civ e.e a charc f r his ibif hre 7:old t: wha t bc.une of the mabit girlb womvs sup p d to v, have olv c h mur dsry od, but as the rope tilcnd about his neci he prristd in ecl arirg that aftr reacin Texas she seperat ed from him, and he did L.ot k:ow wh at bearme of her. Several months after Miss Mabbitt's disappearance the s.eleton of a wo man was found in the riv r rear Ll fyette, and te neighbors identified it as the bnes of the missira girl by the filling m the front teeth. This was supposed to have solved the mys tery of he:- absece until recently, hen Rentev. Daniel o ker, whose j ure aings have carried him all over the nest ard in old Mexico, declared that he recently met 'Mies Mabbit: in the City of Mexico. Hne knew the Mabbitt family q-iite w e during his activa ministerial work in Carroll county, and was a frquent visitor to the Mabbitt homestead, where he oft ter talked with both Luella and her s star. For this reason he coul not be mistaken as to her identy. He found Miss Mabbitt the rife of a Jexican gentleman of gooy position. She was averse t talking of her for her Experiences, and she qoicly gave Mr. Parker to ind :-sand that his ques:ionings were unpleaosant to her, and. as he expressed it, "chat his room was much better tha n fis com pany." Mr. Parker is coidsent that Amer Green was not guilty, and that itu his lynching an innocent man was swung into eternity. Mary, people in Carroll cunty, formerly very t ter against Amer Green, are now oa similar ay of thinking. Inp or tepFirt Yo aear'w. e sahewI tCaolfom hredsmaindeus'ra rrt itei choncat colleg asbie rerceiv-o te byte uaintendnt of ednsiuci; - bunfex frt year of352 worklfo ethet colleg. TOeur preiusbwns sn in,1U builing a gtt oready.1 trts orbes boy 400~ who .ap i ed for00 aasnd the e'tceass ts we nsbleto which he re asitecx benainationged and hae ture bTnhe tsesree ther requesat atoa make thene reouithecollge chr-age stt, wilored thlegec~s of ouCr in. hycallithg attention of thesa' i Welegiltre muc eedlloher u In ou retfor lcsur e sain that irom te aprsid e eot itfi shwh at wourb available reircf for theiminten$5,c0 for this andtituiCO forlt year, wre 13577 behile oerecmt tesnge blsatnce.poied"ro Aornoalbyny apprpriatio.f~500 sak ed $orfo00t leavisluuder The totalsi receiot poing the lasetear.s oiud-o te Landsborptwhic, w se as5 anSex pensephnd Ad conequelh emav been rufning Hobeiod ae dc haveso fbmGeen vilelo eur the ong c ts ary tom ra~tu a kqipnd t. Wer clorm. - apre ord bionothale bd oulde beion of 5,000 n ed egsu t-. et. acte nt, withoutn the necesiayof ure, ca llnaentinto uthefu to e.ari want iskon 'i pce"i Whe ery mruchro eed and bui!s the oiniqulseaty our e mcan buing the wappriximte icos-o honorabl and v0 will mathe ilalso proiatha of $,0 for tis ra.n a5,000 fon wsstoar wea sa bsel hbe to erec napp opriaionr cf $15,00 if k e considerm the reesoslature. The tta reapcatneot o at ya~,s~' rt inud I inis00iooarrd was'' -e6,59o9. bt Cr- of the seofr Re' I reentaive stp the skidings n vut* Caroliaby ha preare wobin th: . doubtless te one of tany con the ubjet t beit odue in, thiii aurt r~evn cmn Moarl'ed 0epos thoe ea of truser rat an f the mtt iniu ea whor ~ the oa onnt and: $100fine. h wildls proide tat i foeany renape urlto te Clrmc Courtu wo, i hecsieresrol tescresd ;.'iven by the harnsi to crry elyo Apon.5 pmyethe ofi ersnh cw- a b asse v achsall beGrn o. .*e otieo c-Aaspecia frm sarys " lle,- O"~ , le Tome of epresecnaiv G-c:it . of thes ste l'egilaureo v' is oo the Repulcasi tac is pssd atoa lask Hasin. *S aso -Pol hr e re wil prole theas to vieepre Darge made froaistReresn tahie Gri~net. all. BLICK YEAR AT SEA 1807 LEAVEi A D'IK PAGE OF WSECK=GE 1r.:u;I L ,sa of Life-Milliora of Pre pity :;d Thencuands of Gallant scula 6acrt , d:o,3 the r!s ofthe Deep. I1 is a pcpular belief that the aver :e trav:lr is safer on sea than cn l ad. This say have been true of Icrmer (-ar s, but not of 1897. The ess c iif-: on the deep during the year js-t closed is a black page in the his tery of maritim pursuits. Thousands of livz; have beca sacrificed and mnil iins of dcl!rs worth of property de 1strm'r ed. The list of craft that went a :y. s'rong ard well found in the ojorifof instances, and turned into the grea~t unknown is appalling ini it self. Their names appear on the gov ernment books, either here or abroad, as "missing," and that is all that is know- as to their fate and the gallant fellows who sounded the proverbial thousand fathoms with them. There is something about a missing ship whiah the ordinary wreck does not produc3. No news is good news i- almost every case, except where the fate of an overdue craft is con cerned. Roughly summed up, nearly siven-tenths of the casualties at sea during 1897 were due to foundering. dubnerged rccks, also caused not a fe w of the disasters, but the strand ir s on other than hidden rocks and the destructions by fire were unusually small. One serious wreck, which appealed more than any other to the American public because it happened :t the very doors of the coast, was the loss of the French Line steamer Ville de SI. Nazaire. that foundered off Cape Hat teras, on March 8, while en route to Haiti from this city. It is a matter of public record that the ship went down in a surprisingly short space of time for a well built steamer, as she un doubtedly was. At the time, The Mail and Express insisted that her loss was primarily d ae to a collision with a derelict, and subes quent investigation by the French authorities showed this to be in all probability true. No matter how lest, it was a most shocking tragedy. 1 here were but twenty-four survivors, and these spent days and nights in ti-e open boats, fet zen and starved, before oeing snatched from a watery grave. Some of the cccupants of three boats o;ily were saved. The fourth lifeboat has not been heard of from that day to this. In all, fifty-seven were lost. The loss of the Triton, a transport and coasting steamer, loaded down with Spanish naval and army officers and many soldiers, was another dread ful affair. She foundered near Mariel, on the north coast of Pinar del Rio, Cuba, October 16. Every one, with ;he exception of the watch officers and men, were asleep when the vessel foundered. Few were saved and, in the final fight for life before consign ing themselves to the open sea, sol diers and civil'ans kaccked one an other down and many were trampled to death. The vessel was run fcr the beach and stranded, finally turning tartle altogether. In the wreck of the P. and 0. steam er Aden, eighty-six perished. 'ihis ship lef t T okohama April 28, and at 2:50 a. mn. on June 9 struck off the Island cf Sccotra, and in ten minutes the fires were drowned. Of those who did not take their chances in the open boats, the captain and six passengers were washed off of the wreck, and thirty three passengers ead Lascars remained on the vessel until June 26, or severnteen days in all. T wo boats lefti the ship shortly after she struck and, with their occupants, must have been s wallowed up by the sea, for they are still unheard from. One of thEse boats Contained twelve hands, and set out to rescue aaother lifeboat, which had broken away. The second boat was menned by the third and fourth officers, two quarter masters, t "o engineers, three stew ards, the surgeon, a wirchmar, the carpenter, seventeen Lascars and seventeen pa.ssenger?, rnine of the lat ier being children. The survivors, af ter being on the wreck thirteen days watchmng their companions swept away one by one, celebrated Victoria's jubilee on June 22 by singing "God Save the Queen." A.n Englishman is loyal, couragtous and cheerful even wath cne foot in the grave. Another exhibition of this fearless ness was furnished by the wreck of the Tasmania, which left Auckland July 23 with 35 saloon 33 steerage passengers and a crew of 50. She was lost off the extreme northern point of the Mahal Peninsula. T'here was no sign of a panic when the ship took the rocks, and it was apparently with good intent, though in clear bravado, tat one man set himself to play the pano in order to keep up the women's ssirits. The loss of life occurred in landn~r St. Malo, which annually gives so many fearless sons to old Neptune, made another sacrifice this year. The Frnhbar kentime Valiant, with 74 ti'heren on board, ran into an ice brg Amril14. She was off the Banks Iof Nevwfoundland and under full sail at the time. The collison stove in her bows and brought her rigging down on dcck. It was the same old story. The bark foundered, the men took to the open boats, bailed them out with wooden shoes that some of them wore, lay huddled together for days and, finally from hunger, thirst and ex p sure, it being intensely cold all the Itime, tie men dropped off one by one liie so many fiiES from a Ceiling. Then came the awful torture of imine, where the survivors had to slaughter a pet dog, and finally com mit canrnibalism itself. The Victor Enene, a barkentine, and the brigan tie Amedee came along at the eleventh hour and saved seven wild beasts, where had been origina.ly seventy-four men!-New York Mail and Ex press. Mr. Lane very S'ck, Friends all over the Sout dern States wi eira witn regret of the serious iiiness of Piesident Hector D. Line of the Cotton Growers' Association. Hle i uerin from two strokes of para! CONGPzssMs Nortou, of Ohio, de card in the house that "Most of the mn en the pension rolls are perjur rs *He wished to change "most" to "many" and the privilege was cenied hi. He should have stood by his decaation. I: can he proved in cold S ures. There are at present over 9C0,' 00 names on the pension rolls,I wile the~ best statistics obtainable mae the number of living federal sders lesthan1,000.000. Mr Norton nit the nail squarely on the head. It ia frau~d and a steal in comparison wihwhich the credit Mobelier and Paam affairs are out cascs cf petty' The Pailadelphia Record impuden l !v itq sires whE re "'the thirsty colones s of the Pela e~t >State" will carry ineir Ipocket flasks if the legislature should pass a law prohibiting the wearing of I Tt Catto.: Crop The ca:cular cf L ;tham"n, Alinder & Co , issued -ast Mond V, s'rg ens the grorirg covic 'on bat the ct cr has c e,. ereraly cver estimat:d and icr:asi 1'3 "rc- c' of a better prce I' c n in the early futr1,. T _(e :tta "-mou1nt C/ canonl~ that :ad cn' ?..t ;'t from th. neLir oF 'Prse: : s .s- n to Ji n uary 1 was 7 260,(33 bal. ;ich is 86184 1 S more n Ia tn he yr. 2.315 813 bolos r or" tann in 1S'9, and 265.360 'als, m ,r'= :h . in 1895. Such a lar ge r e ctage of the crcn is mark t? d be January 1 theat unless the amount htld back now is cut of all proporthi to w hat is suai it should be p.:sible .;t this time to make a very rood cstimat- of th? crop. Latham. Alexader i\- Co sits: "The receip s to January I src 661,141 bales greater than those of lait ,ear, when the crop proved to be S 757.964 and with a ccr respondin gain uril the en~d of the season on2 3f": 772 bale". which were the rtc-ip's from Jar uary 1 to Sep tember 1. t 'e total crop wou:d approx imate 9 936,014 byes. The receipts to Janiuarv 1 are 2i5,360 bales larger than 1S95, when the largo crop of 9,' 901,251 was made, a:d with a corres ponding gain until the end of the sea sou on 2.906,578 bales, which were the receipts from January 1 to Sep tember 1, :be 1:.t:-l crop would approx imate 10.277,061 bares. As there has been an increase in receipts of only 265 360 bales in the marketing of 7, 260.033 bales to January 1 over the large crop of 189 93, it cannot be ex mcted that a like increase of 265,360 bales will b2 r:aiized is the narketing of 2 936,578 bales, which were the re ceipts after January 1 last year. Even should this prove to be the case, the total crop then would nct reach any thing like the extravagant estimates that have bee n made." We believa that this is a fair vie v of the situation The rredictic'ns of a 11.000,000 bale crop, or even a crop of 10,500.000 bales we are convinced are far above tie mark. tobberr Near Newb- ry. A dispatch from Newberry says a merchant of that place has experi enced a regular wild Western rob bery Wedgesday about dus'r, while travelling in a buggy on his way home frcm Saluda County, whither he went last Saturday to convey his brother to his father's home. Mr. John R. Ruff was accosted by two men, about two and a half miles from Newberry, in the public road, and relieved of $76 in cash, his watch, his keys and all his pocket trinkets. Jastas he had crossed Rocky Creek the highwaymen emerged from the roadside, and, while one pre sented a pistol at his breast, the other man went through his pockets. The road at ths place of the robbery de scends a steep hill and makes a sharp deflection as it crosses the creek, which emerges from thick undergrowth, af fording an ideal spot for the execution of such a plot. he made no resistance, and could not tell whether the high waymen were wbite or black, but thnks the men wore disguises. A Shrcktng Accident A special dispatch to the State from Pacolet, S. C., says while sitting in a rocking chair before the fire laughing and talking, with the family grouped about, the 14 year old daughter of Mr. 3. D. E'cott roclsed ov-er backward with fatal results. Her neck was roken and before a physician could e called in the young girl, surround d by the horrified family died. The hild was in a merry mocd and all were enjoying her fbw of spirits. She was talking in a lively manner and rc'uicg back and fortn when sudden ly the chair toppl~ed over and the child fell to the finor with a thud. Her eid struck first and the en' ire weight f the body was thrown on tne neck, which broke under the strsin. Daath was almost immediate. Mr. Scott is a well known citiz m of Pazolet. whipped Him to Death. A meager account of the whipping to death of Dave Hunter, a negro, by party of farmers, at Clinton has been published. Tne man had been a ten nt on a farm in the neighborhood nd had violated his contract by ecretly moving off the place. This orning he was caugh t by a party of n, tied and given a terrible whip ing, from the effects of which he ied at Clinton, Laurens c unty, hrsday evening. No inquest has et been held. It is believed the man ave the names of his assailan's to the athorities before dyiog. A Good Suggeston. Gentlemen of the legislature, kind y apply yourzealves to working out a olution of the problem bow to reduce axes. One way of aczomplishing that esult is by holding a short session. 'he dispoensary law cannot be over hrowe at this session and the tax ayers have no dcsire to foot the bills or two or threa week'4 talk on that :easure. Tt~ere is no reason why all accessary legishtion canot be enact d witnia tw'eny one d&ys, if the leg stora will get righit down to bard work at once.-Columnoia Record. Save d vhstr Lives. A ycung college at hlete ai; Rich ond Hill, Long Island, saved two ives the other day by making a leap f six feet through tne air and strik ng with his shoulder a man and wo an, who stood on the edge of a rail oad track with a irarn almost on them. The shock threw them to the ground just over the edge of the track, and barely in time. A New Name For IC. G. L. Whitfield, a brother of the state Treasurer of Florida was sen eaced to fifteen days in jail for steal ing an overcoat from t e Kimball ouse, Atlanta, Ga. He says he was n a trance while committing the heft. DRAGGED TO DEATH -A colored boy y the name of Richard Fritz, who worked on "True Blue" plantation ear Fort Motte met with a horrible eath on last Thursday. On~ the afiter oon of that day the bo~r was sent on mule to drive n the cows. About wo hours later to'e boy and maule were ound along the roadzide. The boy as dead with his feet still hanging to the bridle and his head beaten almost o a jelly. He had been dragged three r four hundred yards across a fied. oroner D. E. Dakes held an inquest ver the remains and as there was no vidence of foul play, the jury found verdict that ihe deceased was killed ccidently by being thrown from tne ule and dragged. Toe boy was about 4 years old. BISHOP B. W. Arnect, D.D- t~ hisorian of the African Methodist Episcopal Chu'rch. at the 34ta annual sessio fltheo cofrec of tnat ehurch n Charleston ate2 declared that the word -rmegro" wa gcod enough for him. He does not hanker after the title " Afrc A"'erican." Bishop rnett is a sensible man. THE city of Boston, which gave Mc kinley a mjo~rity of nearly twenty housand lest year has just gone )emocratic by nearly five thousand ajority. The people of Boston do ot seem to anpreciate the kind of rsperity McKinley's election has ,rougaht to them. } Royal makes the food pyre, wholcsomo and delicious. OY LKI POWDER Absolutely Pure ROYAL BAKINO POW ER C0-, NEW YORK. Start:trg Revelations. The report of the pensitn commis sur nmakes some stariing revela. .tins that merit pubcL attertion. Here are a few facts terrely stated that are worth thinkink .bcut: "Of those ,ho endsrcd scrvice as soldiers mus tered i;. the service of the United Sta es, t be reccrds s'how that there are 727,122 n cw living. The records also show that there are now 733,527 draw irg pensions as surviving soldiers who were mustered into the service and served during the war. In addi tion to the number of surviving soldi ers who are drawing pensicns, there are applications pending in the pension office from 187,500 persons claiming to be surviving veterans who rendered service daring the war. Thus we have," says the Philadelphia Times, "6,405 more pensioners on the roll to day than there are actual survivors of the soldiers who rendered service dur ing the war, exclusive of widows, par ents and orphans, and in addition there are pending applications for 187, 500 who claim to have rendered actual military services and demand pen. s.ons." The same official report shows that there are 213,325 widows of soldiers who are drawing pensions, and 104, 938 whose applications as widows of soldiers are pending in the depart. ment. In addition to the foregoing there are 255,849 of the present pen sioners who have claims pending for an increase of the pensions they now receive. "With only 727,122 actual surviving soldiers of the civil war, the pensions now granted to all classes of pensionars, and those demanding pensions," says the Philadelphia Times. aggregate the appalling num ber of 1,139,317, being many more than ever were in the Union army at any time during the war." "When the newspapers of the north are thus outspoken in denunciation ci the pension scan del," says the Augusta Cronicl%, "it is evidence th-at reforms must come. Southern states which pay yearly millionsof dollars intothis insatiable maw, arnd get none of it ack, have long cried out against the cuirage; but the northern states, that a-e enriched by the millions receive d y early from the treasury by its inhabi, tints on the pension list, have looked with great equanimity upon the giant frtud. But the stench is becomiog too tronourctd even for the norstrills of tbosc wh~o gro v fat on its financial funs, and a day of reckoning is at hand.Te Republican treasury short. shall q-iicken R epublican conscience to an appreciation of the necessity thai. exisms for cutting off the tremendous drain upon the energies and rescurces of the country that is made by fraudal et pensioners. Mike the pension lit a roll of honor, and none will ob ject to it; but in order t> cvr it with shame and fill us with reproach it is only necessarv to read the figures of - ficially furnished by the pension com missioner."_______ An Honest Conreaion. The New York Mail and Express, the bitterest anti Scuth paoer pub lished on the wrong side of M!ason and Dixsons line, makes this significant confession of the inability of the North to compate with Dixie in manufac turing: "Still there comes to us re prts of the proposed transfer to Seuth ern states of New Englhnd cotton mill plants, in whole or in part. ThAe latest migrant to enter the lists is the British Ho's~ry company at Taornton, R. L, whica will eniablish a plant at Nashville and romove a par; of it; business and considerable numbsr of employes as instructors to the Tennes se city. Tne present condition in the New Eegiand mills are unsatis'actory enugh, but these conditions are not likely to be bettered permancently, so long as Southaern competition is not recognized as a controlling force in the calculetions of the fu ure. T aose mills which disarm such competition by en; ering the Southern fie~ds them selves, and using its cheaper water power, lower taxation and negro labor will survive and orcsper. O bers will decay and die. New England pride is slow to acknowledge ttis, but tm~e will vindicate the predic.ion, which rests above the relief of remeiiial leg islation by congress." Ne w England as a cotton manufacturing center is a thing of the past. In a fe v years more a cotton mill in that section will be a curiosity. Newsvapar MoraUmy. One of th~e most curiCu t in s ao:~ the newspaper, says L Godkus, m.~ the January Atlanug, is that the pub lic does not expect Irom a nerspaper cprittor the smnee sort of morality it expects from periors in o:her cligs. It would disovwn a bookseber and cease all irstercourse withi him for a tithe of th falsehoods and petty fraud ich it pasies unnoticc d in a news. carer proprieter. It nmay cisceneve avry wordi he says, and yet profess to~ restet him, an d may ocssionl'tiy re wa'd him; s> that it is gmite be to find a newspaper w hich laar'y every body condemns, andi who~se iu fluence he wculd repudiate, crcuiat ing very freely among reli~ious and moral people, and making handsome profis for its proprietor. A newspa per proprietor, therefore, who firnds that his profits remain hig h, no mat ter what views he premulgates and what kind of morality he practices, can hardly, with fairness to the com munity, be treated as an exponent uf its opini ni. He e il r ot c nsid: r a h iI:hinlkr, when he finds he has only :0 consiaer what it will buy, and that it will buy his paper without agrein with it.