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THE GEOD PH D SERMON BY TALM GE THAT P;C TURES GREEN PASTURES. An Late o9s:s? Dconre oa -h- p.-? 1' Piald. shepherd's Crok, s.p' Dag , S'i-pa'rd'% Psnre 0 on-ma a he puerd's Flock In t"'is wint-v seson 7): T refreshes us with this g' jr* w 0 1. uttil wt can al;oit r b of the fl'cks in ,re i' text isP-Tosxxi, 1 - my sheperd " W rail reccts , d . u a down, Astr,-kan - s ties O she-p. i" ;: the o'd tiae s a _ - hd atuda c o ' f be h(ours th.e a(c ta i e eu in ;he ,i"t o. tie !i;a-; If the e or the torreaL.s or sus' . e ; " ers tad ev "hne to :y, n:e 'e ver" apt to hear it The Ewrick Sheonerd of Sc Atland. who a't-rwnrd to kh seat in the brilliant circle of W'so and Lckhart, gat his wonder'u! p.) etic insp:rati.n in ie 2 yeas in whce he was watching t.e il cks .dr. Lsidlaw. Tnere is ofte a s t . etry in the rumg'd pto-e -;f "- e Sc c: shepherd. Our of 'bes 'co'e" sae: herds lost his only son, and : e down in prayer and was v rhear o say, '0 Lrd, it ias se med gA o thy providence t- take f roma e staff of my right had at the -e when to us -aud blind m rtals I see n ed to be most in n.ed of it, aid o v I shall cimo uo the hill of sorrow a=' auld age wi'hou: it thou macvst '-:n. but I dinna." David, the shepherd boy, is watch ing his father's sheep. They are o:s turirg on the very hills wiere a-te r ward a Lsmo was corn of which V:u have heard much, "the L..mb of Gcd; wbch taketh away tae sin of tne world." David, the shepherd boy, was beautiful, brave, musical and poetic. I think he oft-n forgot the se e-) in his r- veries. Tnere in the sol u le he struck the hirp string that is thriliing through all ages. David the boy was gathering the material for David tae man. Lain upon his back looking up at the stars and examining the sky, and to his boyish imagination the sky seemed like a piece o' divine embroid ery, the divine fingers working in the threads of light and the beads of stars, and he became a man and wrote, "When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers." W'ien he be came an old man, thinking of the goodness of Gad. ne seened to hear the bleating of his father's sheep across many years ar d to think of the time when he tended them on the Bethlehem hills, and he cries out in the text, "Tne Lord is my snepherd " First I meant to talk about the shep herd's plaid. It wculd be preposter ous for a man going out to rough and besoiling work to put on splendid ap parel. The potter does not work in velvet. The servant maid does not put on satin while toiling at her du ties. The shepherd does not wear a splendid robe m which to go out amid the storms, and the rocks and the net tles;he puts on the roueh apparel at propriate to h s exposed work. The Inrd our shepherd, coming out to hunt the lost sheep, puts on no regal apparel, but the ptain garment of our humanity. There was nothi g pre tentious about it. I know the old painters represent a halo around the babe Jesus, outlI do not suppose that there was any more halo about that child than about the head of any other babe that was born that C aristmas eve in Judea Be::oming a man, he wore a seamless garment. The scis sors and needle had done nothing to make it graceful. I take it to have been a sach with three holes in it, one for the neck and two for the arms. Although the gamblers quarreled over it, that is no evidence of its value. I have seen two ragpickers quarrel over the refuse of an ash barrel. No;mi the wardrobe of heaven he left the sandals df light, the girdles of besuty, the robes of power, and put on the besoiled and tattered raiment of our humanity. sometimes he did not even wear the seamless robe. What is that hanging abcut the waist of Christ? Is it a badge of authority i Is it a royal coat of arms? No; itis a toweL. The disciples' feet ara fitthy from the walk on the long -way and are n'ot fit to be put upon the sofas on which they are to recline at the meal, and so Jesus washes their feat and gathers them up in the to wel to dry them. The work Qf saving this world was rous h work, rugged work, hard work, and Jesus put on the raiment, the plain raiment of our flesh. The storms were to beat him, the crowas were to jostle him, the dust was to sprinkle him, the mobs were to pur. sue him. 0 Shepherd of Israel, leave at home thy bright array !For thee, what stream; to ford, what nighis all unsheltered! He puts upon him the plain raimen~t of our humanity, wears our woes, and while earth and heaven and hell stand amazed at the abnega tion wraps around him the shtephet d's plaid Cold moutains and the midnight air Witnessed the fervor of his prayer. Next I mention the sh p :e-d's crook. This was a rod with a curve at the end, which when a she~p w~as going astray was thrown over its neck and in that way it was pulled back. When the sheep were not going astray, the shepherd would often use it as a sort of crutch, leaning on it, but when the sheep were out of the way the crook was al ways busy pulliug them back. All we, like sheep, have gone astray, and tal it not been for the shepherd's crook we would have fallen long ago over the preci;..ies. Here is a man who is mnakin~g too mach money. He is getting very vamn. He says: "After awhile I shall be independent of all the worid o my soul, eat, orink and be merry E Business disaster comes to him. Wrat is God going to do with him? Has GA any grudge against him? Oh, no! God is throving over nimn the shepherd's crook and pullaog him back into bd ter pastures. H-re is a man wno has al ways been weli. He has never had any sympathy for ii. valids. He calls them ciau.:inz, wheezing nuisces. After awhile sickness comes to nim He do-sno unders'and wnat G-d is goteg to ao with him. He says, "Is the L jrd angry with mtl" 0G2, no! With toe shepherd's crook he has been pulled back into better patures. H -re is a happy housenold Cireie. Tise p.srezt does not reai~ze the truth taat tres& children are nly h aau d to niiiz, .ndi he forgets frota~ what s sures eaome 0:s domestic blessings. Scstesss drops upon those chilcr en an d-aL s upon a Ltile one. Hesa a, "I*G. angry wnh met" No. .His sheperu's crook putis hin osc.t mnto 0ot.:r pas tures. Ido nOt kaos -cha wou have become of us u it b& not u:-en for the snepnerd 's cro 03, a:e mercies of our trou:>ies! Yoa ta.a u.p apples and plua fromn unLer taEI saiade of tme tcees, and the vnry Aat fruits of Caristiaa charater we fiad in the deep saade of troaole. Tnere is no animal taat straggles more violentiy moan a saeep wnen yo.. coraer it and ca:ca noid of it. D.Ava ta tne glen I see a graa of mnei acound a lost sh-eo. A pana ;-i comes s ist : caress sif it would A r hile so-ne one i ' ce. He says, - e p: r thing." B . i. s ris sarms arourd - :n.1 i inmediatel: qui-t s i f ac::aa ithat cones? It ard. h, my friends, b d of the shcph=erd's crook ! It -:r ' usd n ycu sa.ve in !mercy, pul!' -a e. The ha'd, cola ea r, ofrcu *e mill mel in the .m m uL s.-re.:. tf divlme symp 1 t . one passage I thir4- you - -t. e b; ranrd r-ed be ,:i : G-. mek" D. -,vu kioon tht the sha rd in ofdd time played ux-~*d t.e re d ? were very bs-s' d U r - t 7 were m.:e -a T 3 ehadcoule uld .Q t n er. T'- 'u bli says it is .t or Shhd Wheathe i e Out of a ran's soul, - o0 so 1im1in iwaia ano Ve IL euds atd e t e. 'h- ised reed he will When n the c'erhinn heavens of fate -e uning.t e' mi'ls . : tark'ess awell, T "s idaU y watch an.id wait. e we!, it s ill be well. .ci w:a the t.rm hat passed away :i sun,uiae s:niles on :io.d and fell .W swee: to tuiik, how sweet to say, It hie been well, it has been well. ' x I si ak '2f the sI:epht-rd's dogs. T ev watch the straying sheep and dr.-e t'e:n back agaiu. Every shep erd has his dog-from the n< minds of tte B ' time dovn t0 the Scotch herdsman watchiuc his flocks on the 'ramuaa hills. Oar Snepherd em pioys tae criticisms and persecutions o the world as his does. There are those, ycu know, whose whole work it is to watch the icconsistences of Chris-ians and bark at tnem If one of Gd's sheep gets astray, the world bowls. With more avidity than a sarihprd's doe ever ctught a stray shtee by the fl inks or lugged it by the ears woridlings seize the Christian astray. It ought to do us gocd to know that we are tnus watcned It ougni to put us on our guard. They cannol bite u,, if we stay near the Snepherd. The sharp knife of worldly assaull will cly trim tie vices until they produce better grapes. The more yot pound marjoram and rosemary, the sweeter they smell. The more dcgi take after you, the quicker you wil ,et to the gate. You have noticed that different fl icks of sheep have dif erent narks uoon them; sometime! a red mark, sometimes a blue mark, some imes a s:raight mark and some !imesacrooked mark. The L>rd out Shepherd has a mark for his sheep. 11 is a red mark-the mark of the cross 'Blessed are they that are persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs ii the kingdom of heaven." Further zncre, consider the shepherds' pasture grounds. The old shepherds used tc take the sheep upon the mountains in the summer and dwell in the valley: in the winter. The sheep being out of doors perpetually, their wool was bet ter than if they had been aeot in the hot a mosphere of the sheep cot Wlswere dug for thesheep and cov ered with large stones, in order thal the not weather might not spoil the water. And then the shepherd led n ris fiack wherever he would ; nobody disrputea his right. So the L rd om S wpiierl has a iarze pasture around ~Etakes us in the summer t) the mountains and in the winter to the valleys Warm days of prosperdty come and we stand on sun tilt Sab batus, and on hidls of transfiguration, and we are so high up we can catcn glia pie of the pinnacles of the heaven ly caty. Then cold, wintry days of trouble come, and we go down intt the valley of rickness, want and bereavement and we ssy, "Is tbere any sorrow like unto my sorrow ?" But, blessed be God, theLord's sheep can fliac pasture any where. Between two rocki of truble a tuft of succuient promists green pastures beside stilt water long, sweet grass betgveen b tte] graves. You have noticed the struc ture of tne sheep's mouth ? It is sc sharp that it can take up a~ blade 01 grass or clover top fromn tne very nar rowest spot. And so God's sheep cat pick up comfort where others cat gather none. "The secret of the Lord is with them that fear him." Rich pasture, fountain fed pasture, fell al. the naock of the Good Sbepherd! IThe hill of Zion yields A thousand sacred sweet. Before we reach the heavenly fields IOr walk the golden streets. Lastly consider the shepherd's fold. The time of sheep shearing was a very glad time. The neighbors gathered together, and they poured wine and danced for j y. The sheep, were put ~in a place in closed by a wall, where it was easy to count them and know~ whether any of them had been taken by the jackals or dogs The inclosure was called the sheepfold. Good ne wi I bave to tell you, in that our Tarid th Seperd haes a sheepfold, .ind 'hose who are gataered in it shall nev er be struck by tne storm, shall nevei be touched by the j Lekals of tempta tion and troa ble. It has a high wali -so hig. that no troubles cant get in, so high that the j ys caanot get out. Hovw giad the old sheep will be to find te lamnbs that left them a good many yetars ago! Millhons of children in aver. 06, sata merry heaven it will make! Not many long meter psalms there: Tney will be in the m j rity and w'ill run away with our song, carry ing it up to a still higher point of ecstaey. Oh, there will be shoutiig !If children on earth ctap peli taeir hands and canced for j .y, waat w~ii my do whe~n to the gaad ness of caildhood orn eartn is added te gadn--s of cbite hod in heaven i It istime we got over taese morbid deas of 'o w we shall get out of this world. You n aae your religion an uidertske r tApiing colin s and dri ving eris.~ Yuur religion smells of the vraish of a fuaeral caisket. Rather yO yor religien today come ou. and uo. a o the seepfold that God has ;rvi-dfor jou Ah, you say, there i 'arvr betmen this~ and~ that! I k aibut ta Jurdan is only for th s ae asi n, and they snail go u.n tne ot'er Daus snowv whtte. I *r. foo t'e great Snepherd. They ner'r d u~o voi io..:gao. They are ae *' '-on fold a.n'd one Sheterd! Alx. for ths w h) >are fiially found eatsid- mescos Trie night of thir u fu- -i .u j.~ ckals. T ney are tasi-*o- th-r t1 odl. The very momdra 'ta'o-ay be frisking uon the il a tei nsay be iuosir.g Jan 115, toe:e vea a very da 'e sqae L~mdon. T. e prince reien was prezse. , and tne occasi: was maae fca ng by music and b .u*in and rty j5wels. Wnile i qwrieb ' s bnrmred, sadd-nly a -e oi~e ruaned to the windows. W. -at .nue matteri Henr y Percy~ nC d V r 'v 1i he ne ws faat Water luo na eten ltna and Inat Bagland hu woJ the day. Tne dauc - was - uand'.e CA - y dispersed, lords, inie anad mus. ..em asnsed into Lthe s -. and in 15 mnute from the firsi annuCsemuera ot the good neivs tot houuse was empntitd of ail its guests. of this world or whirin in m i s saye ties and frivolities, if you could hear the sweet strains of the gospel trum pet announcing Christ's victory over sin and death and nell, you would rush forth, clad in th' et rnald liver I t antce The Water lo acaiust sin has been fought, and ouar Commander In Chief bath won the day. Oh. the j ys of this salvation! I do not care what m taphor, what com oarison, you have. Bring it !o m*, that I may use it. t Amcs shall bring one si-nile. Isaira unother John an her. B-autiru 'ih tardon Brsu'iful with p-ace. B-au;iful with antic paions. Or to } retur:, t. th - pastoral figure of my text, c rme out of te prx.r pastuisg- of t10s .so'id into the rich fortunes of the G:od Sre.herd. The sepherd of o d used to play otau i'ul music, a; d S imetimes the sheep woild gat' er a-ound 'im and hstevi Toda: m hevenly Sbepherd calls to you wi.n v e very music of heaver, hiddi: y >u to ieave you:- sin and c.et h:s par don. Oh, that all this d :k R uld hear the piping of the Good Shtp herd. ASAD TALE OF THE SEA. Nine Persons Drowned by the Oapslzing of a Boat. The schooner Sopd-vell, C 'pt, Col her, from Marco 'F~a . for Key West, was struck oy a squill Thursday while -if Marqe-sas, IS m.iem from K-y West, and caps z d Nine persons were drowned out of 13, all t ld, on board. Among the victims were the three children of Capt. Collier George, Tom and Wilbur, aged, respectively, fou-, six and tight years. and the en tire Nichols family, Bradley Nichols and his wife, their son and the latter's wife and two grandchildren. The family was from Bridgeport. Conn Tnose saved are: Capt Collier, Sam uel Cate. and Jesse Green, decs bands and R W. Bates. of Myers, Fla , a passenger The Nichols family is said to :ave been well to do. All had been staying for a month or two at a small hotel kept by Capt. Collier at Marco, and they were on their way home The survivors say the Speed well. whic is a small vessel of about 25 tons, was making slow head way this morning against a head wind. About 7 o'clock Capt. Colier was at the wneel and the Nichols family and the Collier children were in the cabin asleep. Suddenly a squall came up and the boat was turned ever. Collier the deck hands and Mr. Bates were swept into the sea, but caught the rig ging in time to save themselves. The men lashed themselves to the rigging After being there for two hours the sea subsided Then they got the dingy loose, baled her out with a hat. broke a board in two pieces, and, with these for oars, rowed toward Marquesas. After going three miles they were picked up exhausted by a fishing sloop and brought here this evening. Samuel Cates, one o the survivors, who was seen at his home here tonight said : "Capt Collier has' been sailing for 25 years in these waters. He is not to blame. Before we ka w it we were lifted nff our feet and into the water. As for these po r people down below they were penned n like rats. l'he wife of the younger Nichols rose to theskylisht. I was clinging to the rigging. Stie waved her hand at me and that's the last I sa w of her. Wnen ye got off t vo hours later they were all dead. We did not see a thing of the children or hear a cry. We had to bale with the hat all the time we were in the dingy an d often came near being swamped " Soon after being brought into port Capt. CAller and Jesse Green went out on the yacht Buccaneer, accompanied by a diver,. to try r cover the bodies. THE WOODS FULL OF T HEM. Names of Those Who Aspire to High The Columbia correspondent of the News and Courier says that although it is several months before the cam paign will open there is no lack of candidates. it is, indeed, rather diffi cult to keep up with all of those who have been mentioned in connection witn the various offices and in mak ing the following htat of self-avowed and prospective candidates there is no intention to omit anyone, the list be ing as perfect as it can b3 hurriedly made up. It is as follows: For Governor-Senator E L A.rcher, Spartanburg; Governor W. H Etlerbe, Marion; S. G Mayfield, Bsmberg; A. Howard Patterson, Barnwell; 0. L Sciumpert, N'-w berry ; George D Tillm'n, Edge feld; R B. Watson, Saluda; G. Walt Whit man, Union. For Lieutenant Governior-M. B. McSweeney, Hampton-; J. A. McCol lough, Greenville. Secretary of State-Marion R. Cooner, Colleton; Thbomas H. Rains ford, Edgefield; D. H. Tompkins, Greenwood, Elimund Bacan, Spartan burg Attornie" General-G. Duncan Bel linger, Barnwell; H H E rans, New berrv; Knox Livingston, Marlboro; C P. Townsend, Marlboro; John T Sloan, Rhchland; W. P. Pollock, Cnesterfield ; C L Winkler, Kersha w. Superintendent of Education-Sena tor W. A. Brown. Marion; Arthur KIbler. Ne woerry ; E. D S:nithb. Sum ter; G L. Toole, Aiken; T. C Robian son, Pckens; T. G. Wnite, Beaufort. Adjutant and Inspector G-neral Col. W. W. Bruce, Marl boro; John Black, C.lle n; Col. J. W Fioyd, K.rshaw; Capt. Henry T. Thompson, Darlington; Gen. R. N Rich'"urg, Richiand; Gen. John Gary Watts, Laurens. Comptroller General-J. P, Der ham, Horry ; L P Epton. Spartanburg. For R ilroad Coma issioner-C W. Garris, Colleton; W. D. May field, Greenville; J. A. Sih, Newberry; hE. R. Thomas, Sumter. Superin endent of the Penitetiary H. H. Crum, Bamberg; D. J. Gr:ffith, Lexington; WV A N -al, Anderson. The list contains the names of some who will not run and there are likely to be several additions to it before the1 entries close Some names that have been mentioned here ar~d there by1 friends, or otherwise have not beenl incorporated. If even half the candi dates'mentioned go on the stump the speechmaking is as bad as a Spanish war. A Faitbir.I Lover. Thursday night at the residence of the bride's par-nts, Mr. and Mrs H. C. He'ise, on Plain street, at S o'clors,1 M:ss Elen Victoria Heise and Mr. WV. A. T anander weri united in marriage. Mr. Tunander left this city t so y ears ago and went to Johannesourg, South Africa He j urneyed all the way1 niek, 11 000 amilrs to claim his oride. Mr. funander had been very success ful in Jonaasnesourg at his busin~ess of deorator and paper hanger, and he camne back to get tee girl he loved to! sare it with him.-2olumnbia Rex is er. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ The Only Parallei. I Referring to Secretary Long's state ment that the cabinet neglected the Maine question for tne Liae City one, the Ne .v Y. rk World remarks: 'What a supero picture of great minds in c tion the discreet Mr. Long has drawa. L ard Palmner~ston lying on his back at cibtnet meetings at~d a bsor bing htim self iai blowing a feaih: up in the air A GREAT _SES AT1UN. GANG OF ROBBERS OPERATE AT PO NARIA. S C. rominent Citizwns of That Section are Found With Stolen Goods in Their Pos session and arm Arrested-No Telling Who are Compitca'ed. A special dispatch to The State says he "bottom has been knocked" out of 3omaria. and war in COba is placed n the background for the time beine. t is well kno vn the most darin_ rob >rs, wan.on burning of build es have been toinz on here for "-cral :Pars and little attenti 'n em-ms to h ve be'-n eiven it, as all houghr iL was " band c f "home raiued s5'e J.mes" and none cared 'o trike for fear of teing struck back. lo bold and darirg had this become hat goo.. white men sa : par;i-s drive r the place in toe bright moon light r early dawn rob and leave without .en reporting the matter or : ames. ow ver well were the partiesknown. or fear of brdiiy itjury or secret urt. First, E R Hipp's store was >urned, robbed first, it was thoueht Chen the railroad depot was forcl)b ,nreed and wagon loads taken. then -z-r & Co's store robbtd of several luLdreu dollars' worth. Then again .he Southern railroad At this time letectives came, secured a large lot of he stolen property, but by a perni :ious practice and methods of the rail oad, "better compromise and get noney than to punish the culprit." .be matter was hushed, although some of the "best citizens," or so sup )osed, were imiicated. Then came ae burning of C d. Holloway's gin house and other buildings Th-n the ast, by which it is hoped the parties ire trapped and broken up, was that ;wo weeks ago. D Hipp's large store f plantation supplies was robbed. fir. Hipp lay appsrently quit t, but a letective, in the guise of a "picture nlarger," came upon the scene. He 'ouid a wagon load and two buggy oads of the stolen goods in the house >f Mr. A F. Riser, a former clerk; also in the barn 40 kegs of blasting powder belonging to the railroad. this was in a house near the railroad built for that purpose. The house was burned, and, it was supposed, the powder, too, until its finding. Mr. Riser lived with his father, a most es timable citizen and a strict church member; a well to do farmer. Goo3s )f a smaller nature were found in ther houses of men of good repute. 3o far, the authorittes have arrested Jas. A. Riser and his three sons, Al pert F , Joe and Wilie, and John Bickley, white, and Willis and Will iam Baker, colored. There is no particle of doubt that there are a large number interested, and what is so astonhsLiing, so much so, as to bor or on disbelief, is that some of the most well-to do farmers, men of fami lies and strict church members, some ven of wealth, are thought to be im plicated and should any one 'peach" an his pals, then, in that case, I can Dnly say, "the end is not yet." The question the good people are asking each other is: "Whither are we drift ing," when some of our best men are turning robbers and firebugs. Something About Mines As there is a great deal of war talk in the air and the subject of mines of iall kinds are being discussed a few word? about the different kinds will co-. be a miss. A submarine, in the naval sense, is an anchored torpedo. [t may be buoyant or placed at the bottom of a chann--l It may be automatic or explced by electricity at the dir ection of an operator on shore. t may be casraed with .unpowder, gun cotte n, dynamite or otber Ditro lycerine exolosive Ezperiments have proved that dyna'nite is the most effective. It furnishes r-at power in small bulk, is not ffected by 1-eat or cold detonmtion does not ensue fro-n ordinary shocks, and its explosive force is not dimin isbe d by being saturated with water. At a depth of twent'-five or thirty feet below the ship 250 pounds of gun otton or dynamite will destroy it. Four hundred pounds of dynamite ffty feet below the surface will de stroy a vessel directly over it. The buoyant mine is the more cer ain, more destructive and as easily manipulated as that at tne bottom. The latter is used only in shallow shannels. The bouyant mice varies in size from twenty four inches to f wir feet [t contains from 50 to 500 pounds of dynamite. The area of destructive nes is called the crat-r. A fifty-pound mine has a crater of from forty to fir ty feet A mine charged with 500 pounds has a crater of sixty to eighty eet. Experiment has indicatr-d that several small mines are more eff-ctive than two or three large ones. It has been shown that a mine charged with fty pounds of dynamite anchored thirty feet below the surface threw a :olumn of water 165 feet in the air. bis force exert-d directly und-r the trongest warship in the world would zave blown her up and sent her to the ottom. The submarine mine is exploded by electricity. The position of each mine ad each group is known exactly. [he position of the ship with relation o then can be fixed with pr ci,,ion. t can be determined what part of a bip the explosion of a particalar nine will attack. Unless a ship is ire c-ly over a mine whern the explo iion takes place she is not likely to be estryed. Tne lateral force of a mine loes not campare with the vertical orce. A fif ty pound dynamite mine xlded directly under a warship would blow a hole in her bottom and wreck her complety. If the mine was ten feet away it night disable a vessel, but she mizht ~sape immediate destruictio2. The 'use is embedded in the charge, Usual y it is mercurial fulminate. The nine is connected with the shore by troored cables. The firing battery vil ignite the fuse if allowed to send Scurrent through it. A sec 2nd bat ery, too feebte to endanger the fuse, s strong enough when flowing brogh the connections to operate a -lay that automatically switches the iring battery. Tnis se cnd current is constantly on vatch. It not only controls the firing :urrent, but operates an electric sig al, that promptly announces any leteriorations in the connections. The die could have been blown up by a uoyant mine. Tne exact time whnen he ship was over it could have been letermined. Toe detonation would 3ave f ollowed instantaneously. The ~xplosion of a submarine mine makes tremendous roar, that is in marked ~ontrast with the sbarp, shattering de .onation of a surface explosion. Another atrocians crime. An old Indian doctor and a little ti who kept house for him, have >een found hanging from trees near .eir cabin, at the head of Irish Creek, iar Morganton, N, C The two went here about a year ago, and spent most f their time in hunting herbs Tnreats tad been maase agalinst the old man. The country Editor Did It. The Loud bill has been defeated. rhe country e d:tors did it. When you come to think about, it is queer hat the weekly press was able to ex at more influecc in a R-publican tongress than it recently ii in the CCUNTY Ac'/ .E - Scme Very sem!bta :-n ekI i rt: the Suc We clip the folioving from the Greenville News: T., cut the prices of county advertising ha- bec-me one of the settled habits o' toe South (Jarcli na legislatures. Year after year, leg islators w'o are as fanmijiar with ad vertising rates and other matters per taining to rewspai.ers as they ar with tne origin o' tr:e G- ek alphabe, pass Jaws and spout speech-s on t surj ct of advertisirg rues. With the exc prion o' t so or '.2e priners not a legislator can t- i 1' e 96-renc between an "m' quad a! d an na f;untin but they tart: it e 11ir d - .te ll i a ll" j : t ;- ta m T o i ~ State's rexspajers, the cur ty av-r ising am(uniSto sot fling .it:or i- has long since ceas-d 'o net thu - large sum in cash In many counties I theadvertising is done by at least t to papers for one price and the protdi. for each is not colossal The le:ilators, sheuld, we think, deal with th- public adverrtisitg prec-ily as dies John Winnamaker or any other inte liigent nerchant with his adver:i-ing. Th-y should huy the advertising space tha;t they i eed pay a fair price for it a,.d stop howling. In cur ogioin, the ne espapers in this Atate dvma'ds t 0 title Tney do entirely tco much free work. They are canstantly nlin themselves with wnat are prop-riy advertisements but which they publish for thanks and the bill for thanks usually goes to protest. E-pecially is this true of the couatry weekly rnewspaper. Here are a fe v examples The South Carolina newspaoers almost without exception publish gratuitously the presentments of grand juri s These presentments are effic-al dccuments If they could not. obtain pu-ilicity, they wou!d be stripped of half their value. To do good, their contents, or the greater part of them mist reach the people and only in a small degree can they reach the people save through newspaper mediums. Has any newspaper economist in the legislator ever offered a bill to pay the county newspapers for this official ad vertising-for which their constituents nevertheless get value received: The county newspapers invariably print the list of petty jurors as soin as they are drawn. That it is a matter of great importance to the people of a county that they should know who the jurymen are will not be denied. But there is no money in it for the newspapers. There are many other examp!es of free county advertising which wil instantly suggest them selves to newspaper men. On election years the county newspapers publish the calls for the State and county de mocratic conventions and club meet ings. They amount to $40 or $50 worth of advertising. The city newspapers get something occasionally from the city political organizations but the weekly newspapers get nothing save in the rarest instances. And yet it is advertising-nothing more or less. It is not county advertising but if the county newspapers charged for it as they have a perfect right to do the money would come out of the pockets of the white people of South Carolina. The amount of free official advertising that the weekly newspapers have gigen the State and subordinate demcc~%tic organizations in South Carolina dun ing the last twenty ave years, the same sort of advertising that the large newspapers in the larger cities, ligce Charleston, axe well paid for, would probably foot up to $100,000 But it is the democratic economits in the South Carolina legislature who are incessantly on their feet to stab the humble country ne wspaper. The only answer to th-se facts that could be at tempted is that the free matter pub lished is worth something to the newas Dapers as ne as and that other wise it ~would not be publishe d That is true but it is not pertin nt to the argument. All advertising that is not in itself in decgt and offensive has vaiue as ne ws The announcements of the grocer and the dry goods man have value as newes A ne wspaper without mercantule ad vertising would lack otie of true chief attractions that lend newspap-rs in terest. But ne mercnant expects space as a gift. The railroad sched ules have value as news but the rail rcads willingly pay for thaen in trans portation or money or both. Toe county treasurer's report which the nwspapeis are paid for puolishing. has great interest as ne ws. Arnd the same is true of an advertis~menut of a bridge contract to let or of the tour of the tax collector. Bat the newspapers can not afford to puolish these adlver tisements for mere amusement or in struc-.ion of their sats-:ribers. The ne wspapers must live. Most of them have a hard time living and they die by the dr zen in South Carolina every year. Yet they go on printing official dccuments for the fun of it and never dream of asking what is justly due them They are satisfied to remain on the defensive, although it is the truth that the press of Siuth Carolhna is poor today, actually to the point that its poverty is a stcck joke, and it is chit fly on account of what it gi'ns away in work, not even asking cr ex pecting "thankee.'' It is high ume that the worm should- turn. The Dangers ofthe Deep. From Marcb, 1840, until March 1893, 122 trans-Atlantic vessuls - steamships plying bet ween Europe and America only- wei e lost en route, and as a direct result of this 6.369 lives were lost. The estimate of lives lest from various other causes is 6U0 The number of steamships never heard from after leaving port was 17. The number burned was 9, and the num ber fouzdered was 12. The ctn er wrecks were caused by collisions, be ing washed ashore, collision with ice bergs, etc. From March, 1893, to the begnning of ihe present year tae loss of life on the Atlantic has been very much less than in former years thoug h one or two large steamers have had serious mishaps and one was never heard from. Big ct r n riz The large cotton warchousu at Fountain Inn, S. C , o wned by J. W. Givens, containing 1,300 bales o' cot ton, was d-atroyed by fire Friday night with its can~ents. Tne less is estimated at $36 000. The fire was of ncendiary origin A crow bar was found near the bu&lding which was used to force an entrance. The door! next to the railroad was open when. the dire was discovered about 1 o'clock in the night, Toe s Asoicion is that some reg oes, who were fined heavily some days ag> for selling contrabanmd whiskey had a hand in tiring thle building as Sir Givcns is a member of the town council An Old veteran Dead. Gen, W. F. Talifero', a Mexicmr vwar veteran and c~mmnderx of the Vir guia troops during toe John Bro y-n raid, a major ger~eral in the Cofeder Iate army aud an ex judge. ire at his home in Gloucester county, \&a, r cently. Gen. Talifero was in com mand of James Island atone time cu: ig the war._______ Asked Himn to Leave. Rev. F. Weber, of Rondout, N. Y , while assistant priest of St. Peter' German Catruolic chu--ch, Randou, on Tuesday made treasonable and un American ritterances. Arahbbhop Corrigian has therefore asked him to LTERARY CURiOSiTY I T.- L" ' t:at a i.jtslator Wro:- to an Editor. The editor of the Independent Re public and one of Horry's l-gislators "ar'e been having a hot controversy over one of the legislator's votes at the last sesion. The Republic gets even by pblishing the following ver ba'.im copy of a letter it received from the af rstid legislator, and now he is pro-aiv sorry that he forgot Job's exe a-naiin, "0i: that mine enemy a w, uid T ri'e a br ck" for the editor e n, w has nomn on thM hip: t 1 e 'den-y re d is of the Indenen den- R nubel in Reply to a arctel of a Fr 0 t24 I d;d voct a G iince the the Childs Bill Wich i, costed by out El as being a s Probichions Bill well that is the Di orre iat men Sea things a Bill 'hat t w GU G e D u Stores 6; Mecbanic4l tie Pwer to S-Il liqu..rs in Scat & Counts Mjors then Dispencry Law I woul. vat a Ga'.ce eney Sach a Bill a Gain ef I had tr e chance I have the C0ilds Bill & the E l Pro mos; ame he woud Pu'iish hir & let the Good Pcrpols o' Horroy read hit fir thare S1f bat I Sea he has Not Dan Lit Rut takes his paper to Pub. i:sa :..e & wants to me:ks the meney readers o esve that I am in favor Wnismey Drinkin I am oppose to eney Such a thing r e Prononce My Name as a Canidat a Gain I have not told h:m that I Loud be a Candidat but hit is D m, to hurt me in futhar But ef I Shyoul be in the feal I Shoud Exptct My Sup rt from the Good Votars cf R >rro', & Not from a one Sidade El & ef I arnt Git the cilice I wll Not have to Go to Some other County for a Job Yores Z)an S C C J Prince Feb th2S 1898 The Usury Law. There were some very important t amendiments to the usury law at the last session of the general assembly. i The mattter is not only of general in te-est bat of especial local interest < Here is the full text of the law as it now reads. Section 1. That no greater interest I than 7 per cent. per annum shall be t charged, taken, agreed upon, or al- 1 loved. upon any contract arising in < this state for the hiring, lending or i use of money, or other commodity, either by way of straight interest, dis- E count or otherwise, except upon writ- f ten contract, wherein by express agreement, a rate of interest not ex- ( ceting 8 percent, may be charged. 1 Sec 2. Any person or corporation i who shall receive or contract to re ceive, as interest, any greater amount than is provided for in the preceding i section, shall forfeit all interest and the cost of the action and such portion or the original debt as shall be due shall be recovered without interest or costs, and where any amount so charg- l ed or contracted for has been actually received by such person or corpora- 1 tion, he or she or they shall forfeit < double the amount received in respect I of interest, to be collected by a sepa rate action brought to recover the principal sum. Sec. 3. That the borrower, and his 1 heirs, devisees, legatees or personal 1 representative, .or any creditor, or any person hav.ng a legal or equitable in terest in the estates or assets of such borrower, may plead the benefit of the provisions of this act, as plaintiff or defendant, and the same shall be ef fectual at any suit at law, or, in equi ty, and any person off-nding against t be same shall oe compelled toanswer, on oath, any cimplaint that may be exoibited against him for the disco-v ery cf aty sum of money or things in acticn. so charge d, agreed upon, re serve d or taken in violation of the foregoing provisions, or either of them. See 4. That all acts and parts of1 acts inc-onsistent with this act, be and the sa'ne are hereby repealed; provid: ed, that this act shall not apply to contracts made before it goes into ef fect. Approved the 10ta day of Feb ruary, A. D., 1808 i pain tsuying Warshipu, A dispatch from Lsondon says Spain has purchased two cruisers which the Armistrongs have been building for Brazil, the Amazanius and a sister shio, unnam':d, of 4,000 tons each, 23 kuots and tea guns Spain is also1 nego,.iating for anid wilt probably se cure two cruisers of a similar type1 which have been building in France fir Brazil. The Amazonius is ready for launching and her sister ship will soon te ready. Tne Spanish govera ment is also endeavoring to secure guns an.d large supplies of anmunition in England and on the continent for immediate use. Would flake~ a Good One, "There is," says an Associated Pre'sn dispatch, "considerable sentiment in congress in favor of passing a bill authorizing the president to appoint from civil life a brigadier general. Tnis sentiment is based upon the be liet and nope that the president wouldI name Fit;zbugh Lee to the post. Re-1 nublicans favor the suggestions, ba hteving thlat it would be a tremendous paji ical stroke. Enis is based on the adnirable conduct of Lee and the ad airation that all parties and men here have for him." Kil11ed With a Has Fin, A drummer was recently killed in Chicago with a hat pin. The autopsy showed not only concussion of the] brain, but a small puncture which began near the corner of the left eye .nd extended far into the interior of the skull. It wa's not of greater diame ter tn the lead of a pencil.< Four detectives have been detailed on t oe case. Bradner entered a hotel at a late hour ble~ding profusely and fell to the floor. Talkel Too SOOn. A few days ago Secretary Long, of the naval department, made a state ment to the effect that, in his opinion nothing had developed to connect Spain with the Maine .disaster in an< olicial capacity. The secretary was quoted as naving said that Spain had teen elimninated He tried to explain thtt. he had said nothing of the kind, and now Secretary of War Alger is trying to still further classify Mr. Lng's pcsition. A Bard osse. The Rev. A. R. Fowler, was recent v convicted at Greenville, S. C., of Grgery and sent to the penitentiary. For a time Fowler was engaged in 1 the mmnistry. serving the Presbyterian curch The Pres by wrians soon found1 him out and re-oudiat:d him and then he conmmnced raising money on fre d papers. Strange to say both Kis 1ands were shot off and it is claimed thbat the loss of his hands was not accidental. Our Minister Was in Danger. The commrisseirat officer, Opachees, who r' c -ntiy called at the residence 4 in Madrid of Gen. S:ewart L. Wood-I ord. tae Umtted 8 ates minister to Spai'). but -was not received and who w'as ar n'rds sent to a military asy- I lumn, the autaoritits d-claring that het was doubtless "patrioticaliy mad," commnited suicide by shooting himself 4 8EE'S RECALL REQUESTED ND THAT SUPPLIES BE NOT SENT IN WARSHIFS. 'rsiWe.t McKin:'y Ecuwe Beth~eque ti -Fully dathfied With Ge", Iee' Coust and the, Plans of Eending To d Will Be carri oI Out. A dispatch from Madrid says Senor rullon, Spanish minister of fnreign (fairs, recently intimated.to United hates Minister Woodford that the panish gov. rnment desired the recall rom Habana of Consul General Lee nd that the American warships rhich have been designated to convey unnulies to Cuba for the relief of the ufferers there should be replaced by aerchint vessels in order to deprive he assistance sent to the reconcentra 'os of an official character. Minister Voodford cabbled the rtquests to the Vashington government, which re dlied, refusing to recall General Lee a the present circumstances or to :ountermand the orders for the dis latch of the war vessels, making the epres ntation that the vessels are not ightiog shies. THE NRWS IN WASHINGTON. The t3aishsi uatio aoeveloped two tew phases in 'Washington when it >ecame known that the Spanish gov 'nment had formally requested the ecall of Consul General Lee at his >ost at Habana, to which request the Jaited States had courteously but r -oly refused to comply; also that tie Spanish government has suggested he impropriety of sending relief sup lies to the Cuban reconcentrados on ruiser Montgomery and gunbeat 'ashvillI, to which suggestion the nited States had given a like answer a the negative. The first intimation >f these steps came in a brief and ex )licit cable dispatch from Madrid ?rior to its receipt, however the au horities here had been fully conver ant with the facts, although no inti nation had been allowed to get to the mublic on either., subject. The dis osures from Madrid left no further ,round for reticence in Washington, Ld after a conference at the White louse between the President, Assi ant Secretary Day of the state depart nent and Secretary Long of the navy lepartment, the following autnorized tatement was handed to the Associat )d Press by Judge Day. as comprising everything that was to be said by the iministration on the subject. "The ?resident will not consider the recall >f General Lee. He has borne hims2!f broughout this crisis with judgment, idelity and courage,to the President's tire satisfaction. As tothe supplies or the relief of the Cuban people all rrangements have been made to ca'ry a consignment this week from Key West by one of the naval vessels, whichever may be best adapted and nost available for the purpose, to tatanzis and Sagua. The ground on which Gen. Lee's -ecall was asked are not officially dis :osed. It is known, however, that ;he Spanish government has chafed or some time over Gen. Lee's pres ace in Habana, although this has sever taken the form of a defin te rotest prior to the present time. It egan to assume a more serious aspect 1hortly after the arrival of the Maine it Habana. At that time Gen. Lee escorted Capt. Sigsbee on his round of fficial calls. These were made witti lue formality, Dut the Spanish offi. :ials took offense when the calls we. restricted to Gen. Blanco, Admir>] Eantt rala and the representative of t military arm of Spain's service, anc ld not inciude Premier Galvez and his associates of the autonomous cabinet, who represent the new civil regime which Spain is seeking to enforce. Phe matter came to the attention of seor Deputy DeLome, then Spanish~ minister at Washington, and althoug b there were no protests the situatiot ioubtless reached the state depart ent, as suit able amends were made by Capt. Sigsbee's calling on Dr. Con geso. the civil secretary general Pre mnier Galvez and his associates. Thern was like irritation over a dinner given by Consul General Lee to the officers f the Maine. The list of guests on hat occasion is said to have omitted the Spanish officers, and to have in :uded quite conspicu ,usly, the names f a number of American newspaper :orrespondenits who were regarded by ;he Spanish officials at Habana as an agonistic to them. This also came tc :he attention of the officials here. but was not made the basis for any action, ut rather of unofficial Spanish criti. :ism of Gen. Lee's general mode 0f irocedure. The~ oost of war. War is a horrible thing and should e averted if possible. But sometimes t seems necessary that nations are ~ompeled to engage in it or lose pres ige among other nations. If there is my honorable way out of the present ificulty with Spain without a resort ;o war we hope war will be averted, yut if there is no honorable way out of he difficulty without war, then we ire in favor of upholding American ionor at whatever cost. As we are tanding face to face with the grism ~pectre of war it is well to count the ot of war. We recently read an in eresting article on the subject in the atlanta Journal. It was an estin ate nade by Mr. Camille Flammarion, a 'renchman, of the cost of war in men mna money to civilized nations during he last hundred year3. The Franco erman war of 1870 71 caused the leath, Mr. Flammnarion te:Is us, of ~50,000 men. In the Crimean war of 854-55, 785,000 lives were lost. The nief Italian war of 1859 brough' about he death of 63,000 men in batte or in looitals, and even the "game of ~hess''yetween Russia and Austria, in .866, deprived 46,000 men of thei ives. Our civil war of 1861-65 meant leath to 450,000 men-an enormous ost. The wars waged by the great Capoleon caused the death of no less han 5,000,000 persor s There is hardly my telling howmao'v thousand mil ions of dollars our civJ war cost, but it ntailed upon us an expense which is tow $183,000,000 a year, thcough the var has been over thirty-thr. years. Che effect of the war on the Federal Iebt was to increase it from $65 000,0C0 o $,773 235,173. Several billions5 of roperty besides were destroyed in the outh, and the paralysis of industry onsequent upon the civil war de tryed billions more, delaying the ull economic development of this ection by over thirty years. THE supreme court of the United 3ates rendered an opinion that a rate >f interest, charged by a national ank, in excess of the interest rate >rescribed by law of the State in which he loan is made, is usurious, and hat the borrower may sue and reco-r ir twice the amount of the loan. This ecision puts national banks and Royal maukes the food Pure wholesome and delic t:'s. OY djNJ POWRER Absolutely Pure ROYAL SAk:\a PCWDER CC., ?.CW YORK. Our Fighting strenz h. Should the United States and Spain unfortunates, go to war the fighting would be ct ?ficed almost entirely to the water, .s Spain would hardly at tempt to ii. wade this country in the face of the enormous size of the a mies we could raise. It is asserted oy those who have investigate d the facts that the United States has a thoroueh ly organiz-d finely equipprd fighting force of 114 362 officers and men that could be assembl'd at any point with in ten days ready for action in every particular. Should the exigencies of war demand that the fighting force of the country be called out 10.415,701 men could be equipped and put into the field in a month's time. The fol lowing table shows the quoto of sol diers each state and territory woull furnish: Alabama................. 165 000 Arkansas.................. 250 000 California.................. 214.029 Colorado ............... 85 000 Connecticut............... 108 646 Delaware.............. 28 080 Florida..................... 70000 Georgia.................... 264 021 Idaho...................... 20,000 Illinois.................. 750 000 Indiana.................... 500.000 Iowa....................... 294 874 Kansas.................... 100 00 Kentucky.........,........ 361,137 Louisiana.............. 135,000 Maine..................... 106,042 Maryland.................. 150 000 Massachusetts............. 433 975 Michigan............... 260 000 Minnesota ................. 175000 Mississippi................. 233,480 Missouri.................... 400 000 Montana................... 31,381 Nebraska.................. 101926 Nevada.................... 6 200 New Hampshire............ 34 000 New Jersey................ 385 273 New York................ 800,000 North Carolina............ 245 000 'North Dakota.............. 19 937 Ohio....................... 650 000 Oregon.................... 59 522 Pennsylvania............. 878 394 Rhode Island............. 8E 000 South Carouina.............. 177 000 South Dakota.............. 55 000 Tennessee............... 180 000 N s........... ........ 300 000 Utah....................... 35 000 Vermont ................. 44 164 IVirginia.............. 364,227 West Virginia............ 125 000 Wisconsin............. 372 152 Wy oming................ 8000 Arizona.....a............,.... 20,000 New Mexico............... 35,000 Oklahoma................ 50.000 District of Columbia.........47,000 Total unorganized....... .10,301 339 Total organized......... 114 362 Grand aggregate......10,415 701 Seriously speaking, the idea of such an army precludes all chances of ant in vasion of this country. It would take the allied armies of Eurone to withstar d such a force as the United States can muster in times of need. --Divorce Farces." Under the above caption the Atlan ta-Journal says "so long as .there is such a variety of laws in our states on the subject of marriage and di vorce it will be impossible to make divorce decrees effective save in such ir siances as the parties involved de sire them to be so. A case which shows how futile our divorce laws are is that of Nat Goodwin, the actor. Three weeks ago his wife gained a di vorce in a New York court. The evi dence showed that Goodwin is not fit to be a husband and the court decreed that he should not marry again dur ing the lire of his divorced wife. What did Goodwin care for this de cree? He knew that it had no force outside of New York and last Sunday when he and Miss Maxine Elliott, the leading lady of his company, found themselves in Clevelan d, Ohio, they procured a license and w ere married. When they go back to New York they will be reccgnized as man and wife because they were legally mar ried in Ohio. Such instances are very frequent. What are we going to do about it? A national statute regulat ing divorces has been advocated by those who believe that the federal government should do everything, but, of course, this matter must rest with the states. A uniformity of state laws on the subject of marriage and divorce would be an excellent thing, but there is little hope of it. The American Bar association has lent its aid to the effort for this uniformity, but with no perceptible effect. It seems certain that we shall have to ?0 along with all sorts of laws as 10 mar riage and divorce. Ir- is a very easy matter in this country for a man to have as many wires as he pleases or a woman as many husbands as she wants, provided they are held one at a time. The divorce business is a szan dat on our civilizition." The last re mark of the Journai is as true as preaching, but we !ail to see hov a national divorce law would help mat ters. If the Journal really wants a remedy f r the divorce businese, which it bas the franlsness to say is aoisgrace to our civilization, we suggesit that the South Carolina plan of not tole raig divorces or divorced people at all. This is the only tru~e rerna dy f or. the evil. __ ___ TaJ Frct- t Havana. A Madrid letter says it is defintitely reported there that a txesh Spy~nish squadron destined for Ca ba, is beinz organized at Cadiz. It consists of four iron clads. the Carlos V, Pelay o, Al fonso X[II, and anothe~r, several gun oats and a trans-Atlant:e steamer. Active work is also proceeding upr n the torpedo boat'r estroyers Prosperi na, Audaz and Ossda, and upon the torpedo boats Habana, Retamncso arnd Barcelo, which form the second boat flotill that Spain is sending to Cuba.