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REV- R.TAIhMA23E Fi NDS T!ON !N TH E D S E;T. Oar Duty !s to Find Our ) - we J Stick to It -We Are Frono to Try * t: When We Ate Only Ftleed I') lutinence of Parents n Ch .::n The discourse of Dr. TamSe '::; s from an oriental scee s:2 sr . lessons and points to We s of : in unexpected places: :, 'fnes:s xxi, 19, "And God e-e t: e 5Es, and she saw a welt o wa-r. and She went and tilled the boD:-e with water and gave theladdri. Morning breaks upoc Beersheba. There is an early stir m the house of old Abraham. There has been trouble among the domesti:r Hagar, an as sistant in the household, and her son, a brisk lad of 16 years, have beccme impudent and insolent, and Sarabibe mistress of the household, puts her foot down very hard and says th, a'. they will have to leave the premises. They are packing un now. Abraham, knowing that the j urney befcre his servant and her son will be very lo::g across desolate places, in the kindness of his heart sets about putting up some bread and a bottle with water in it. It is a very plain lunch that Abraham provides, but I warrant you there would have been enough of it ;ad they not lost their way. "God be with you," said old Abraham as he gave the lunch to Hagar and a good many charges as to how she shculd conduct the journey. Ishmael, the boy, I sup pose, bounded away in the morming light. Boys always like a change. Poor Ishmael! He has no idea of the disasters that are ahead of him. Hagar gives one long, lingering look on the familiar place where she had spent so many happy days, each scene associa ated with the pride and joy of her heart, young Ishmael. The scorching noon comes on. The air is stifling and moves across the de sert with insufferable su facation. Ishmael, the boy, begins to complain and lies down, but Hagar rousas him up, saying nothing about her own weariness or the sweltering heat; for mothers can endure anything. Trudge, trudge, trudge. Crossing the dead level of the desert, how wearily and slowly the miles slip. A tsmarind that seemed hours ago to stand only just a little ahead, inviting the travelers to come under its shadow, now is as far off as ever or seemingly so. Night drops upon the desert, and the travel ers are pillowless. Ishmael, very weary, I suppose instantly falls asleep. Hagar, as the shadows of the night begin to lap over each other-Hagar hugs her weary boy to her bosom and thinks of the fact that it is her fault that they are in the desert. A star looks out, and every falling tear it kisses with a sparkle. A wing cf wind comes over the hot earth and lifts the locks:from the fevered brow of her boy. Hagar sleeps fitfully, and in her dreams travels over the weary day and half awakes her son by crying out in hersleep: "Ishmael! Ishmael." And so they go on day after day and night after night, for they have lost their way. No path in the* shifting sands; no sign in the burning sky. The sack empty of the flour: the water gone from the bottle. What shall she do? As she puts her fainting Ishmael under a stunted shrub of the arid plain she sees the bloodshot eye and. feels the hot hand and watches the blood bursting from the cracked tongue, and there is a shriek in the desert of Beersheba: "We shall die! We shall die !" Now, no mother was ever made strong enough to hear her son cry in vain for a drink. Hereto fore she had cheered her boy by prom-* ising a speedy end of the journey, and even smiled upon him when she felt desperately enough. Now there isi nothing to do but place him under a shrub and let him die. She had thought that she would sit there and1 watc until the spirit of her boy would go away forever, and then she would breathe out her own life on his silent heart, but as the boy begins to claw his tongue in agony of thirst and* struggle in distortion, and begs his mother to slay him she cannot endure the spectacle. She puts him under a shrub and goes off a bow shot, and be gins to weep until all the desert seems sobbg'n, and her cry strikes clear truhthe heavens, and an angel of God comes out on a cloud and looks down upon the appalling grief and cries, "Hagar, what aileth thee?" She looks up and she sees the angel point ing to a well of water, where she fills the bottle for the lad. Thank God ! Thank God: Our first duty is to find our sphere; our second isto keep it. Wernay be born in a sphere far on from the one for which God finally intends us. Sixtus V was born on the low ground and was a swineherd. God called him up to wave a scepter. Ferguson spent his early days in looking after sheep. God called han up to look after stars and be a shepherd watohing the flocks of light on the hillsides of heaven. Hogarth began by engraving newter pots. God raisedz him to stand in the enchanted realm of a painter. The shoemaker's bench held Bloomfield for a little while, but Gcd raised him to sit in the chair of a pnilosopher and Christian scholar. The soap boiler of London could not keep his son in that business, for Gcd had decided that Hawley was to be one of the greatest astronomers or Englaud. Again, I find in this oriental scene a lesson of sympathy with woman when she goes forth trudging in the desert. What a great change it was for this Hagar! There was the tent, and all the surroundings of Abraham's house, ceautiful and luxurious, no doubt. Now she is going out into the hot sands of the desert. On, what a change; it was! And in cur day we often see the wheel of fortune turn. Here is some one who lived in the very bright home of her father. She haa everything possible to administer to he.z happinees-plenty at the table, music in the drawing rcom, welcome at the door. She is led forth into life by some one who cannet appreciate her. A dissipated soul comes and takes her out in the desert. Cruelties blot out all the lights of that home circle. Harsh words wear cut her spirits. The high hope that shone cut over the marriage altar while the ring wasbeing set, and the vows given, and the benediction pronounced, ha-ve all faded with the orange blossoms, and there she is today broken hearted, thinking of past joys and present de solation and coming anguish. Lagar in the wildernesss Here is a beautiful home. You can not think of anything that can be ad. ded to it. For years thre has not been the suggestion of a slugle trouble. Bright and hapi4 children t!! ne house with laugiuter and song. i :c a to read. Pictures to lock at.L ne to rest on. Cup of diomr tic joy f al and running over. Dark x igh: rops. Pillow hot. Pulses flutter. Eyes close. And the foot whose wel known steps on the doorsiiibrought the whole household cut at e'-entide crying, "-Father's coming willinear sound on the doorsill again. A long, deep grief plowed through all the: brightness of domestic life. - arao:se lost. Widowhood. Hagar in the wil der-ness: Who is stae a ee. in the early pale with ex on.o l slept cut with b s oi Lst nght, tragedies -.ittea ali over her face, Sss eyes :oo ing far ahead, -ouhr the coming of some Sr e & Her parents called her Mary or Brina or Agnes on the day Wvena they held her up to the font and U hristn ministersprinkled on the infan.S face the washings of a holy -'aptsm. Her namieis changed now. I hear it in the shull1 cf the wornout shos se it in the iigure of the faded chlico. I and it in the lineanients of the woe begone countenarc3. Not Mary ncr Bertha nor Agnes. but Ha gar in the wilderness. May God have mercy upon woman in her toils, her strugglEs, her hardships, her desola tion, an.d may the great heart of di vioe sympath-v inclose her forever: Again. I nud in this oriental scene the fact that every mother leads forth tremendous destinies. You say, "That isn't an unusual scene a mother leading her child by the band." Who is it that she is leading? Ishmael, you sry. Who is Ishmael? A great nation is to be founde-i-a na tion so strong that it is to stand for thousands of years against all the armies of the world. Egypt and As svrisa thunder against it, but in vain. Gaulus brings up his army and his army is smitten. Alexander decides upoa a campaign, brings up his hosts and dies. For a long while that nation moinopolizes the learning of the world. It is the nation of the Arabs. Who founded it? Ish mael, the lad that Hagar led into the wilderness. She had no idea she was leading forth such destinies. Neither does any mother. You pass along the street and see and pass boys and girls who will yet make the earth quake with their influence. A Christian mother a good many ago sat teaching lessons of religion to her child, and he drank in those les sons. She never knew that Lamphier would come forth and establish the Fulton street prayer meeting, and by one meetirg revolutionizB the devo tions of the whole earth and thrill the eternities with his Christian influence. Lamphier said it was his mother who brought him to Jesus Christ. She never had an idea that she was lead ing forth such destinies. But, oh, when I see a mother reckless of her in fluence, rattling on toward destruc tion, garlanded for the sacrifice with unseemly mirth and godlessness, danc ing on down to perdition, taking her children in the same direction, pre paring them for a lit of frivolity. a death of shame and an eternity of dis aster, I cannot help but say, "There they go. there thev go-Hagar and Ishmael "' I tell you there are wilder deserts than Beershbba in many of the fashionable circles of this day. Dissi pated parents leading dissipated chil drei. Avaricious parents leading avaricious cnildren. Prayerless rar ents leading prayerless children. They go trough every street, up every dark alley, into every cellar, along every highway. Hagar and Ishmael! And while I pronounce their names, like the meanir g of the desert wind, "Ha gar and Ishmael !" I learn one more lesson from this oriental scene, and that is that every wilderness has a well in it. Hagar and Ishmael gave up to die. Hagar's heart sank within her as she heard her child crying: "Water! Water! Water !"' "Ah," she says. "my dai ing, there is no water ! This is a des ert." And tben God's angel said from the cloud, "What aileth thee, Hagar?'' And she looked up and saw him point ing to a well of water, where she filled the bottle for the lad. Blessed be God that there is in every wilderness a well, if you only know how to find it-fountains for all these thirsty souls! On that lsst day, on that great rday of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, "If any man thirst, let him come to me and drink." All these other foun tains you find are mere mirages of the the aesert. Paracelsus, you know, spent his time in trying to find out the elixir of life-a ligquid, which if taken, would keep one perpetually young in this world and would change the aged back again to youth. Of course he was disappointed. He found not the elixir. But here I tell you of the elixir of everlasting life bursting from the "Rock of Ages," and that drinking that water you shall never get old, and you will never be sick, and you will never die. "Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters I' Ah, here is a man who says, "I have been locking for thw fountain a great while, but can't find it." And here is some one else v ho says, "I believe all you say. out I have been trudging along in *.he wa? derness and can't fina the fc'untain." Do you know the reasoni.1 will tell y ou. You never looked in the right direction. "Oh," you say, "I have looked everywhere. I have looked north, south, east and west, and I haven't found the fountain." Why, you are not looking in the right di rection at all. Look up, where Hagar looked. She never would have found the fountain at all, but when she beard the voice of the angel she looked up an d she saw the finger pointing to the supply. rAnd, 0 soul, if today with one earn est, intense prayer you would only look up to Christ, he would point you down to the supply in the wilderness. 'Look unto me, all ye ends of the earth, and be ye saveda; for I am God, and there is none else E' Look! Look, as Hagar looked ! Yes, there is a well for every deser' of bereavement. Looking over any audience I notice signs of mourning and woe. Have you found consola *ion? Oh, man bereft, have you found consolation? Hearse attei hearse. We step fromone grave hil lock to another grave hillock. We follow corpses, ourselves scon to be like them. The world is in mourning for its dead. E very heart has become the sepulcher of some buried joy. But sing ye to Gkod; every wilderness has a well in it. and I come to that well today, and I begin to draw water for -y ou from thst well. If you have hived in the country, vou have sometimes taken hold of the rope of the old well sweep, and you know hovw the bucket came up, drip ping wzith bright, ccol water. And I lay toldi cf the rope of God's mercy, and I begin to draw on that gospel Iwell sweep, and I see the buesets coming upi. Thirsty soul: Here is or~e bucket of iff! Come and drink of it. " Nhosoever will, let him come I pull away again at the rope, and anctaer bucket comes up. It is this promise:- "Weepin~g may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morn in. ; ay n~oi c f the rope again, a I pu:1 aw ay with all my strength, Iad the bucket comes up, bright and beau-iful and cool. Here is the prom ':-Come unto me, all ye who are weary snd heavy laden, and I will gie yo rest. Te cid astrolcgers used to cheat -h peo l ii the idea that they could *el from the position of the stars what~w wol occur in the future, and i' a' cise of stars stood in one rela ion, why, that would be a prophecy ofei- a eister of slars stood in another reation, that would be a prophecy of gocd. What supersti tion! ut''rre is a new astrology y looking up t o t h c J acob, the morning star of the Redeemer, I can make this prophecy in regard to those who put their trust in God: "All things work together for good to those who love God." DW you love him. Have you seen the nyctanthes? It is a beautiful tlwer, but it gives very little fragrarnce until after sunset. Then it pours its richness on the air. And this grace of the gospel that I commend to you now, while it may be very sweet during the day of pros verity, it pours forth its richest aroma after sundown. A.ad it will be sun down with you and me after awhile. When you come to go out of this world, will it be a desert march, or willit be drinking at a fountain? A converted Hindoo was dying, and his heathen comrades came around him and tried to comfort him by read ing some of the pages of their theolo gy, but he waved his hand, as mucn as to say, "I don't want to hear it." Then they called the heathen priest, and he said, "If you will only recite the Numtra, it will deliver you from hell." He waved his hand, as much as to say, ''I don't want to hear that." Then they said, "Call on Juggernaut." He shsook his head, as much as to say, "I can't do that.[ Then they thought perhaps he was too weary to sneak, and they said, "Now, if you can't say Juggernaut, think of him." He shook bis head again, as much as to say, "No, no, no!" Then they bent down to his pillow, and they said, "In what will you trust?" His face light ed up with the very glories of the ce lestial sphere as he cried out, rallying all his dying energies, "Jesus:" Oh, come this hour to the fountain! I will tell you the whole story in two or three sentences. Pardon for all sin. Comfort for all trouble. Light for all darkness. And every wilderness has a well in it. ANOTHER BIG COTTON CROP Means Great Loss to the S.)uthern Farmer and Merchant. Messrs. Latbam, Alexander & Co., have issued a circular letter that shows the cotton situation on March 18Ath in a manner that should warn the cotton farmers against planting another elev en million bale crop. If the crop of 1898 shall be as great as the crop of 1897. the farmers of the Soutn will be bankrupt and the business interests of this section will be in a worse condi tion than in 1893-94. The following extracts are made from the circular letter referred to above: "The total visible supply of cotton in the world is 613.829 bales more than last year, 660,092 bales more than in 1896, and 477,568 bales less than in 1895. The amount of cotton that has been marketed to date is 2,105,027 more than last year, 3,694.781 bales more than in 1896, and 1,045,980 more than in 1895. The exports this year are 977,896 bales more than last year, 2,365,470 bales more than in 1896, and 514,674 bales more than in 1895. The stock in United States ports is 288,385 bales more than last year. 357.330 bales more than in 1896, and 9t,S56 bales more than in 1895. Middling uplands is now selling at an advance of only 5.16 cents per pound above the lowest price touched this season, and contracts for August delivery at an advance of only 0.25 cents above the lowest. In our circular letters of January 19th and February 5th we endeavored to show the undeniably enormous losses that the South has invariably sustained when more cotton was pro duced than necessary to supply the wants of the world. If we should bring the tabulated figures made then, up to this date, the losses to the farmers on this year's crop would appear still more startling; and, with the condition of affairs now prevailing throughout the world, tlie necessity for a reduction in acreage this year should appeal to every farm er with greater force and induce him to largely increase the production of food crops. The planters of the South have no encouragement to plant cotton largely this year, with the Anglo-Russian Chinese complications existing in the East, which might before the new crop could be marketed, greatly re duce the value of cotton, and the strained relations of our own Govern ment with Spain, which possibly might result in war, staring them in the face. Even with permanernt peace exist ing between all the nations of the globe, the consumptive demand for catton would not be sufficient to war rant the production of another such large American crop as last year. An neviabl~e loss to the whole South, in out ::-"nion, would surely follow. From ' recent circular of Messrs. Ellison S; C-., Liverpool, the highest authority on cotton consumption in the wonid, we n-ake the following ex tract a s to future~ prospects: 'In our Ann tal Report issued in January, we st~owed that with an American crop of 10,750,000 balee,and a consumption of about 9,650,000 bales the stock of Amer'ean cotton in the ports of the United States, Europe,and the surplus stocks at the American and European mills would be about 1,900,000 bales, against only 800,000 last year, and we remarked that in re gard to the future of prices everything would depend upon the prospects of the r ew crop. "With as great a reduction in acre age as took place in the spring of 1895, we should see a repetition of the up ward movement in values witnessed in that year; but, if planters are satis ied ;7ith present prices and do not re duce the area planted, then cotton will become a greater drug than it ever has been in the history of the trade, and planters will not get any thing like present prices." In their report Messrs. Ellison & Co. based their calculations upon a crop of only 10.750,000 bales, when 9,975, 118 balrs have already been received, and the indications favor 11,000,000. bales or more. The present unravorable outlook for prices of next y ear's crop should in duce every merchant in the South to use his influence with the planters to :ause a marked reduction in acreage which would be surely followed by better prices and greater confidence in general business operations through out the South- Yours truly, Latham, Alexander & Co. TUrr Spain is preparing to resist the retort of the United States Naval Court of Inq~uiry is shown in a semi oflietal expxession made public in Madrid Tnursday that, while the Spanish report is not yet received, it is known that it will say that the ex plosion that wrecked the Maine came from the inside. It is further stated that if the United States finding :s simply that the explosion is external, any demand for indemnity will be ref ustd. THE Adjutant General ot the Army has issuen an order that the new regi ment off artillery shall he composed exclusively of the unmarried men, the War Department oticials having con cluded that married men are not the best fighters. The wives of the mar ried men will be inclined to resent this imputation. The War Depart ment is taking a great risk in making this sort of war upon the matrimonial THE A(CTS OF ASSEMIB. LAWS PASSED AT THE RECENT SES SESSION OF THE LEGISLATURE. The Text in Fall of Some of the P:incipal Additions to the Statutes of South Caro lina. INSPECTION FOOD, DRUGS, ETC. An Act to provide for the inspection of food, drugs, spirituous, ferment ed and malt liquors, and to provide f or the punishment for adulteration thereof. Section 1. Be it enacted by the Gen eral Assembly of the State of South Carolina: That no person shall within this State manufacture, brew, distill, have, offer for sale, or sell, any arti cles of food, drugs, spirituous, fer mented or malt liquors which are adulterated within the meaning of this Act, and any person violating this provision shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon convic tion thereof shall be punished by a fine not exceeding fifty dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding fitteen days, for the first offence; and not ex ceeding one hundred dollars or im prisonment for thirty days, or both, for each subsequent offence. Section 2. Tne term "food" as used in this Act shall include every article used for food or drink by man,includ ing all candies, teas, coffees and spir ituous, fermented and malt liquors. The term "drug" as used in this Act shall include all medicines for inter nal or external use. Section 3. An article shall be deem ed to be adulterated within the mean ing of this Act: (a) In the case of drugs: 1. If, when sold under or by a name recognized in the United States Phar macopoeia, it differs from the stand ard of strength, auality or purity laid down therein. 2. If, when sold under or by a name not recognized in the United States Pharmacopoeia, but which is found in some other Pharmacopoeia or other standard work on Pharmacopoeia Ma teria Medica,it differs materially from the standard of strength, quality or purity laid down in such work. 3. If its strengtn or purity falls be low the professed standard under which it is sold. (b) In case of food or drink: 1. If any substance or substances has or have been mixed with it so as to reduce or lower or injuriously af fect its quality or strength. 2. If any inferior or cheaper sub stance or substances has or have been substituted wholly or in part for the article. 3. If any valuable constituent of the article has been wholly or in part ab - stracted. 4. If it be an imitation of or be sold under the name of snother article. 5. If it consists wholly or in part of a deceased, or decomposed, or putrid, or rotten animal or vegetable sub stance, whether manufactured or not, or in the case of milk, if it is the pro duce of a diseased animal. 6. If it be colored, or coated, or pol ished, or powdered, whereby damage is concealed, or it is made to appear better than it really is or of greater value. 7. If it contains any added poison ous ingredient, or any ingredient which may render such article inju rious to the health of the person con suming. Provided, that the State board of health may declare from time to time certain articles or preparations to be exempt from the provisions of this Act: And provided, further, that the provisions of this Act shall not apply to mixtures or compounds re cognized as ordinary articles of food, provided that the same are not injuri ous to health and that the articles are distinctly labelled as a mixture, stat ing the components of the mixture. (c) In the case of spirituous, fer mented and malt liquors, if it contains any sustance or ingredient not nor mal or healthful to exist in spirituous, fermented or malt liquors, or which may be deleterious or detrimental to health when such liquors are used as a beverage or as a medicine; and if it does not conform in respect to strength and purity required by the laws of this State. Section 4. It shall be the duty of the State board of health to prepare and publish from time to time lists of the articles, mixtures or compounds declared to be exempt from the provi sions of this Act in accordance with the preceding section. The State board of health shall from time to time fix the limits of variability permissib!b in any article of food or drug, '- com pound, the standard of which is not established by any nr.onal Pharma copoia. Section 5. The S3tate board of health shall take cognizaince of the interests of the public health as it relates to the sale of food, dr'ugs, spirituous, fer mented and malt liquors, and the ad ulteration th'ereof, and make all neces sary inquiries and investigations re lating thereto, and for such purposes may appoint inspectors, analysis and chemists, who shall be subject to its supervision and removal. Within sixty days after the passage of this Act the said State board of health shall adopt such measure as it may deem necessary to facilitate the enforcement thereof. It shall prepare rules and regulations with regard to the proper method of collecting and examining drugs, articles of food and spirituous, fermented and malt liquors. Section 6. Every person offering or exposing fer sale, or delivering to a purchaser, any drug or article of food, or spirituous, fermented or malt li quors included under the provisions of this Act, shall furnish to any jan alyst, or other officer or agent appoint ed hereunder, who shall apply to him for the purpose, and shall tender to him the value of the same, a sample sufficient for the purpose of analysis of any such drug or article of food or drink wbhich is in his possession. Whoever hinders, obstructs or in any way interferes with any inspector, an alyst or other officer appointed here under in the performance of his duty shall be deemed guilty of a misde mea nor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars or imprisonment not exceeding sixty days. Approved the 19th day of February, A. D. 1898. BIRTHDAY OF 31R. DAVIS. An Act to amend Section 1,636 of the General Statutes of 1882, (apoearing as Section 2,5-44 in the Revised Statutes of 1S9.3) as amended by the Act approved 7th February, 1896, No 1 and No 80 relating to legal holidays. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina: That Section 1,636 of the General Statutes of 1882 (ap pearing as section 2,541 in the Revist d Statutes of 1893,) as amended by the Act approved 7th February, 1896, No 1 and No 80 be, and the same is hereby further amende-i by inserting tin act dition to "the nineteenth day or Jan uary" and "the tenth day of May") the words "the third day of June," and changed so that the said section as amended shall read: "National thanks giving day and all general election days, and also the first day of January, the twenty-second day of February, the tenth day of May, the third day of June, the fouth day of July, the first ty fiftn day n! Uecc~nber in aca :~d e'e'ery Tear shall bz legal holidayt: Provided, that nothing herein con tained shall be sr construed as to af fect judicial sales as now provided by law, or any cthr legai ransaction. on the the first Monday in Stptem be r. "I Amproved th 1 h day of February, A. D. 189S. FEE FOR LIENS ON Pl'LSUNALTY. An Act to regulate the fees for tiling. indexing and certifying chattel mortgages, M s of sale and other in struments in toe nature of liens on personal property, where the amount secured is not more than one hun dred dollars. Section 1. Be it enacted by the Gen eral Assembly of the Stat' of South Carolina: That on and sfter the ap proval of this Act no greater fee than fifteen cents %hall be char2ed or cal lected by any clerk of Court in this State for filing, indexing and certiny ing any bhl of sale, chattel mortgage or other instrument in the nature of lien on personal, where the amount secured is not nore than one hundred dollars. Section 2 That all Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed. Anproved the 11th day of February, A. D. 189S. TO AUTHORIZE FREE FERRIES. An Act to authorize and empower the county boards of commissioners of the several counties of this State to establish and maintain free ferries. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina: That from and after the passage of this Act the county boards of commissioners of the several counties of this State, or the officer or officers upon whom the same or sim ilar duties may devolve, be and are hereby authorized and empowered, j:intly or separately, to establish and maintain such free ferries over the streams of this State, and to discoa tinue the same, as in their judgment may seem best. Approved the 19th day of February, A. D. 1898. STUDENTS FREE OF ROAD DUTY. An Act to exempt students of colleges from road duty or I he payment of commutation tax in the towns and cities of this State. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina: That from and after the approval of this Act all students attending the colleges of this State shall be exempt from road duty or the payment of any commutation tax in the towns and cities of this State where colleges are located. Approved the 19th day of February, A. D. 1898. TAXED TO DEATH. The Enoxmons Amounts Cuba Pays to spanish OMcals. There are some people who contend that the Cubans are entitled to little if any sympathy from the fact that they brought their trouble on them by re belling against the Spaniards. Such people have never given the Cuban question much consideration, or they would not talk in that way. If a people ever had just cause for rebell ing the people of Cuba certainly had. For the sake of argument we will eliminate their rights to rebel from a political standpoint and only consider it from a commercial and financial stand point. A glance at the govern ment and the manner of administering it will show what cause the islanders have bad for revolting again and again, and why people who hate op pression, the world over, are in sym pathy with them. The governor general of the island is appomnted by the King of Spain. This governor general has under him a large number of petty officers, whose chief duty is to draw large salaries from the public treasury. The Spanish Constitution binds the government to establish and maintain the Roman Catholic Church at home and in the Colonies, and in Cuba there are two ecclesiastical di visions, the Archbishopric of Santiago and the Bishopric of Havana. Some i~iea of what it costs Cub,. to maintain the parasites that have for a long time been draining her life-blood (the Spanish civil, military and other func tionaries set to misgovern and keep her in subjection), is furnished by salary items. The population of Cuba is only 1,632,000, but the governor general having in charge that small populatlon, which is only about one and a half times as many people as there are in Sohth Carolina, dra~7s a salary of $50,000, as much as the President of the United Slates re ceives. Besides he has furnished a palace in Havana, and a summer house in the country, 'with servants, coaches, and a fund at his disposal for the employment of spies and pimps is maintained at the expense of the Cuban people in a sort of regal digni ty to which our Chief Magistrate is a stranger. Here follows a list of sala ries paid other civil offizers, arnd of those appointed to military, naval and other crown positions; Director-General of the Treasury....s.500 Archbhiship of Santiago...........-- 0 Uishop of havana.................... 1 ,000 Commander Ger-eral of the Y~ val Station...............'. .... ,-, -- The General who is second in con. mand in the island............... 1(.000 The President of the Audiencia......1,00 Governor of Havana............ 000 Secretary of the General Government >,000O Postmaster G;ene ral............. 5000 Collector of the Havana Custom h ouse 4,'40 Manager of Lotteries.................. 4,0000 Chief clerks of Administration, first class............... -............... . 000 Chief clerks of Administration see ond class......................-," Chief clerks of Administration, third class..............................-- 00'' 3Iajor Generals, each-......... -0 Brigadier G enerals, each ........ -.;00 Brigadier Generals, each, whe" in command..................- ....-- ,- 0 Colonels, each, isalary is increased when in command-.......... .5 Captains of largest men~of-war, each ,a Captains of frigates, each...........-, Lieutanants of the navy, first class each.............................. Some of the items of annual expen diture help to bring into stronger light the financial burdens barne by this people for the purpose of keeping themselves enslaved. These are the fgures for a year under ordinary con ditions; how much more astounding must they be in time of war, if we ad mit that the islanders will eventually be made to pay: Interest on the Spanish national debt........................- 1 , Army and navy..-.............. . J$0.0" Civil li~ t............... , 0, 0 Pensions to retired mnilit-sry andt civil o!!icers andl their widows "u Departments of .lustice..........1.' jepartment of tinance.........-.. 7 U Even these figures mark ar' excen citure of $15.44 per capita, or ta per cent of the emt're currency ter captta of tne United States. The paternal government makes no9 approprialtion to educate the masses. it would be harder than it has been to keep the people in bondage if popular education was provided for. In addlition to th direct ext ctions spoken of, thle tar: and other commercial laws passed by the Cortcs are so framed as to benet Spain, wh le they discourage industry and enterprise in Cuba and prevent the full development of her great re sources, la tne face of these facts who can blame the Cubans !or trying to throw off the Spanish lerci te' A Coi u iC Ir S 1 ii ish to count your eick.ens uefore day break. Brigadier Genera, r a o mandingz the department cI th lf. insoec 'e 'orts arouid Charl-stoni M a.d hores are af r s a rv a tio n in r M 211y 1 a c r - er- idaine lunAtercamp. Tis wi'ter has been a hard one for them. A statement prepared at the Pension Olice shows that oore than 810000 o00 have bei legally paid by pension ers to pension attor:;eys during the last seven 'earz A Brooklyn man yeor.; of age married a woman of ;o b~c~use she could tie his cravat so nicely. LEs children are tryijg to have him ad ju.idged insane. Ingratitude would be sharper than a repsirea tooth at Moultria, Ga., if Con federate veterans 'here should forsake Dr. Cock!, who c Vrs to do all dental work for tne needy among them free. A well on Samibel Island, Fla, which had always been fresh water, changed to sulphur water a few weeks af ter a windmill had been built over it to utiize the water for irrigatiog pur poses. It is said that Birmingham, Eng Isn'd, turns out five tons of hairpins every week. What a blow it would be to Birminham if the women should a'l tske a notion to shingle their neads: Spencer Barnes. a negro, living three miles from E1gefield, was shot from ambush Thursday night He was shot in the lungs and very dan gerously wounded. No parties im plicated as yet. A St. Louis judge recently decided that a man's wife can dance at a pub lic ball as long as she wishes, and with whom she chooses, and fined her sensitive husband $10 and costs for kicking up a row over it. When trwo friends were wrestling at Shelbyville, Ind., one of them was burned on the chin by a cigar which the other was smoking Blood poison ing set in, and it is -.aid that there is no bope fcr thu burned man's recov ery. The tribe of :300 indians located along the Tanana river, in Alaska, have been battling with starvation the last winter. It is reported that they have eaten all their dogs. A relief ex peditioni has been Eent with foed from Seattle. The Adjotant General of the Army has issuea an order that the new regi ment of artillEry shall be composed exclusively of the unmarried men, the War Department otficials having concluded that married men are not the best'fighters. The London Times is authority for the statement that the money spent for liior last year in Eagiand amounted to $19 for every man, wo man and child in the country. Gee whitaker, but rhat a paying institu tion the dispensary wculd be over tr-ere: In summing up the good he hid done during a revival meeting, an itinerant minister said: "The meet ing was greatly blessed; besides, rup ning whiskey out of the town, we converted seven i-eal estate agents, who are new regular attend:.nts at church." A walnut tren in Letcher County, Ky., which has been sold for $400, is nearly 16 feet in circumference, and runs up 90 feet to the irst ltmb. It will cost over $1000 to get the wood to the nearest riliroad, but it is 'expected that $15,000 worth &: furniture will be made from it. -The cleric-militant was uppermots in a parson of Kokomo, Ind., when a -r'ortgage collector called on him, and he used a club so vigorouly that he was hauled to court, and, atter plead ing guilty of assault, he found him self ooliged to stand trial on a charge of using profanity. New Orleans streets are ao accom modatingly named that, according to a veracious chronicler a tram-car con ductor was enaoled recently to put off a time killer at Pleasant street, a blowhard at Bragg, a hurry fiend at Short, a bore at Cnestnut, and a negro at Blackberry street. Signor Lugi Capucci, an Italian architect, who his just returned from a long captivity ia Abyssinia, says tbat Menelek is little better th an a savage, and, nLot withstanding the favorable reports which have been circulated, neither he nor his subject have the slightest desire for civiliza tion. A Boston man who refuses to ac cept the modern process of photogra pay as an improvement, is still taking dauerrsotypes, as he has been doing for the last 50 years. He says that they remain the most correct likeness es yet prodcied. and he does business of sutiicient volume to warrant his sticking to his hcoy. A German military crtiie says if we could have all the armies of the conti nent on a war fcoting and drawn up in one Jong precession, wit-h their guns and ammunition and naggage weapons, the column would be more than 24,000 miles long and marching day and night it would take nearly a yiar to pa~ss a given point. Patrick Ford, of Lincoln, Neb., was convicted of burglary two years ago and escaped from prison. Tih rough his father iae tiled an application to Governor dolcomb for pardon on the rou-:d that he enlisted in the navy. as assigned to duty on the Maine, and was one of the crew of that ill fated chio who escaped death in the great catastrophe. When a certain general was camp ing on the lower Missisippi, nis negro boy, Hrarry, was one day aske d by a friend whether the general was not terribly annoyed by mcsq-uitoes 'No sah:' said Harry; "in ::he evenin' Mars' George is so toxicate d he don't mind the sketers, and in tee morninV the skeeter. is so toxicated tey don' mind Mars' George. A railroad man of1 Frsland, Or., is 'acrit*y for "-e story that twenty tive tramps o-rgi:d a meeting in a ox ca in the sub-urb of that city and afte ar-mted discussion, dottect with atrioti dcl~amations resolved with oa-a a--ord to their services as soldiers i the event c w-ar with Spain, and, fur -r to -eevor to get all tra:nps in tecunty to do likewi~se. Ct- in W.' H. rson, chief clerk -n te GSeorgia h:ste Comaptroller Geneal's o::ie'. wants to hold an eleC -o O' 1very emtnty in J2auary of ech1 yea " or the pu'rose of dtcd: y be.Ilut who is the man~t~ man. Ie ma eceiving the highestnm ber of vos is to be na ed, andi as there a'-' 137 c-ounties in Ge-crai>. t'he state would get rid of 1;37 of i:s vorst e-rater '-very year. Morc elecorn, wvho d sin mils ormas o -a G r.ET TT R EADY GFOn WAi Tie War Feeling at the Captir. Grows .$ore Iatenso Each Hour. Dhpacbes from Washingtcn say that the Administration gave every siZIu Monday of girding up its loins for the fray that now seems inevitable betw:een this country and Spain. But little attempt is now made to disuise the real situation. Even the ?mosL arlent peace advocates now graveley wag their heads and declare mev d> rot see how trouble can be avirled. Every etfort by the so-called cc'servatives who have steadfastly endeavored to make of the Maine dis aster and the Cuban question a diplo matic and commercial issue has proven fiuti'e. All schemes groviding for handling o the country's honor in the spirit of "forbearance" have fallen to the 2round. For that reason there will be no adjournment of Congress before the pending difficulty is ad justed. If there was any doubt iL the Presi dent's mind as to how Congress feels that doubt was removed during the last forty-eight hours, when delegation af ter delegation of Congressmen called at the White House and informed President McKinley that unless the Maine and Cuban questions are settled vigorously and promptly, it would be useless for a Republican Representa tive to be returned to the next Con gress. President McKinley asired these gentlemen that all the reports as to the weakening of the Administra tion were groundless; that there would be no retreat from the firm position taken, and that the Republican Repre sentatives need not fear fcr their poli tical lives on that sc~re. IC r5 tDg If-ms. THE war news from Washington indicates that the Government stil expects trouble with Spain. SrAiN is doing all she can to put her navy in readiness for a conflict with the United States, which at this time seems almost certain. Spain has paid heavily for the thous ands cf men, women and children she has starved to death in Cuba. It is reported that about 70,000 Spanish soldiers have fallen victims to disease ia Cuba. JUDGE John Wycliff, chief justice of the supreme court of the Cherokee nation, is languishing in jail at Vin ita, I. T., on the charge of cattle stealing. Justice Wycliff is a full blooded Cherokee. A billl has passed the Ohio senate which requires applicants for a mar riage license to appear befcra a medi cal board, and fcrbidding the issue of a license to those alicted with dipso mania, kleptomania, insanity, or tuberculosis. FRINX Chase, of Waterville, Me, some years ago invented a machine simplyfying the manufacture of shoes. A New England company purchased his invention for $100,000 cash and gave him $2,500 per year for life, provided he would do no more invent ing. In a recent interview he bitter ly regrets having made that contract. SECRETARY of the Navy Long issued ;.n order Monday that the Amazonas, the cruiser recently purchased at New Castle-On-Tyne from the Brazilian government, hereaf ter shall bear the name of New Orleans, in honor of the principal city of Louisiana. The cruiser Abrouall has been renamed the Albany, in honor of the capital of the Empire State. A wEAK KNEED marine deserted from tue Unarleston Navy Yard on Thursday last under the impression that his service might be required in fighting the Spaniards. d~e was found in Chelsea within three hours after he had been reported missing, and was promptly dragged back to the Navy Yard in order that an ex ample might be made of his case. SAM Jones has met his match at re partee at last, says an exchange. He has been indulging in some caustic criticism of Governor Taylor, of Ten nessee, for his liberal use of the pard oning power. To which Governor Taylur makes re ply as follows: "I think it comes in poor taste for Sam Jones to talk in this way. Had it not been for the pardoning power, Sam Jones would have been in hell long ago." As lt Shouia B. United States soldiers at St. Augus tine, Fla., last Tnursday joined the sailors of the British warship Cardelia in the ceremonies attendirg the burial of J. McCcrmac, a seaman who died aboard the ship. When the death of McCormac was made known to Col. Rawles, in command of St. Francis barracks, he immediately sent word to Captain Boarke, of the Cordelia, that a grave would be set aside for the interment in the national cemetery and that he would be pleased to detail the First United States artillery band and a squad of company B. Fifth United States infantry, to attend the funeral as a mark of respect. The offer was graciously accepted by Cap tain Bourke, and ceremonies were carried out on that line. A NE W GAME LAw. -The Columbia Register says book agents may be kiled from October 1 to September 1: Spring poets from Mai ch 1 to June 1; scandal mongers April 1 to February 1; umbrella borrowers August 1 tp November 1; and from February 1 to May 1, while every man who accepts a paper six months but when his bill is precsonted says, "I never ordered it," may be killel on sight witnlout reserve or res i :f from or appraisement laws and buried face downward, without bonelit of clec; . TH E MOCKJ.sa BinD.-Few persons in the: South are aware of the iket that the mocking bird is fouud on. i in the South. Mason and Dixon's h - is the northern boundary line of its nomne, and it is seen in the north only in cip tivity. IL is by tar the sweetest sing er or the feathered tribe. Swvaz-rland may rejoice ini tne tuzefut 1aitLs, la belie France glory in her so! t-throated orioles, the Meliterranean isles exult in tneir liquid voiceli songsters, but our Southiand ex~els them all in the oossession of the heaven-voiced mock ing bird. ETICK TO HOME i1-.PLE -Every thig dire to advance amtie talent, encourage home industry er forward h~me er.terprise acts wi'. a r~ex benefit u:pmnthe communt * '1 every inividual embraced in the i d s cf this limit is more or less bent; a by it. If we would tuild u~ 'our town~t let us invest cour m're, - r. nu~ r7i - aare upi to e Wt a tling. Give youir patrogi~e to them :.d they will respond toyour demands b- b v &v- so fastidious or extrava . .~ noirage especially the mner chat jn dic~tiSC inyour e~unty paer. won yu WoUmD GET.-In case of e, cr Sth Carolina militia oe wold receive the following -. : oonel $3S 500: iieutenant col ofl#;1; major, $2.500; captain. aouuted , 000; captain, not mount -d ItU00;first lieutenant, mounted. -dt,6 U- not mounted, $1,500; second lieutenant, mounted, $1,500: not mounted $t 40O0. The private, ho wev er would receive only $1 por month.1 Royal makes the food pure. wholesome and delicius. Kil POWDER Absolutely Pure S0YA . AKC POWZR CO., NEW YORK. BRIEF AND FORMAL. Ext-act V :- Rer.- t ,- t Ii- Board E cuairy. The report of the Board of E_ quiry who investigated t'ie blowing up of the Mriiv A' mwade up of eight parts, as follows: First. The court finds that at the time of the (xplosion the battleship Maine was lying in five and one-half to six fathoms of water. Second. The discipline aboard the ship was excellent; everything stowed according to crders--ammunition, 0us, stores, etc The temperature of the mags zines at 8 p. m., was normal, except in the after ten inch magsz'ie, and that did not explole. Third. The explosion occurrtd at 9.40 o'clcck on the evening of Febru ary 15. There were two explosions, with a 'very short interval between them. The ship lifted on the first ex plosion. Fourth. The court can form no defi nite opinion of the condition of the wreck from the divers' evidence. 1 if th. Technical details of wreckage from which court deduces that a mine was exploded under the ship on the port side. Sixth. The explosion was due to no fault of those on board. Seventh. Opinion of the court stat ing that the explosion of the mine caused the explosion of the two maga zines. Eighth. The court declared that it canngt find evidence to fix resporsi bility. The report is unanimous and is signed by allth e members of the court It does not refer to the existence or non existence of mines in the harbor of Havana, except in the finding that a mine was exploded under the ship and the opinion that the explosion of the two magazines was caused by the explosion of a mine. Free Barai Delvery. A dispatch from Washington says Congressman Stokes has completed arangements at the postoffice depart ment for the extension of the rural ree delivery of mail in his district. Naturally he feels some elation over this, as he was largely instrumental in procuring increased facilities for thle rural districts when the appropria .ion bill was pending. His argument ont the bill in general, and especially on the free delivery inen, was consmn ered by his friends as strong and con vincing. Congressman Stokes's dis trict is perhaps one of the happie.t selections for a test of the system. Though it has about 180,000 population it is almost wholly a rural communi ty, there being only three Presidential offices in its limits, and they of the third class. It is none too well sup plied with even the poor facilities afforded by fourth-class pcstoffices and star routes, the~re being only 183 post office within its limits. A Tragedy at Bamberg. A dispatch from Bamberg to The State says "Thursday afternoon while t wo little boys, Vernon Brabham and Frank Jennings. both cousins and playmates and not over 12 years of age, were hunting within town limi s with only one gun bet ween, the gun - was accidently discharged while in the hands of young Brabhaw, the whole load taking effect in the atbdo men of little Frank Jennings, and will cause his death. 'The tragedy on cured just in the limits of tile town and one of the saddest, accidents that has ever occured here. Bath boys be long to the most prominent families/ here, and jittle Vernon Braham is heartbroken and grief-stricken at kilh ing his dearest friend and causin." An Atantla S,lt U -. At Atlanta Sunday morning fire men responding to -a alarm of tire found the bodi:s of Mr aatt Mrs. Wi. H. Briley, white, and Rooert Wilkcen son, color ed, itt a stor e at 75 Haau pa ries street, whicil was rapiy cesiroy ed by fire. Trhe bodies, however, weree gotton out without being marred by lames. All we r horribly muttatea, the instruments of aeath-t wo neavy hatchets and a meat knife-being found on the floor. Mr. Bruey was the proprietor of the store and it is believed robbery was ace motive !cr the terrible crime. Manr respic KI .i. A tE rrific wind storm s-eept over the country between South MAlis~er and Lehigh and Colgate Sunuay' night Four farm houses were denaolisrnd and the occupants of three or thew are reported to have O-enl muied. Passengers arriving frc m L:flis h state that in tile country soJUIaeet or Mc Ahister the tom nado d:e :it dosmage and that many are reporta d kultac aud injured. Pflyzicians fru vario- a to ns along the Missouri, lunsuasa Texas raiilroad have beenl sent .0 tiae scene of reported desriu,:tion. Shcckicg Loar, .: Lite The sealing steamer Greeniac.d, w~co put into Bay de Verce Satur day night with a story of terrible ais astr to her crew on Wedneu day antd Thursday wbile among the ice il ;es in earh of seals, arrived at St. Jon'is u day afternoon. She reported 25 en dead, 23 missing and 66; so fear fully frost bitten that about 2J or them will lcse their limb:. The men while unting seals were caug at in a sno w storm and could not :ind their mvy ak to the ship. F're pae .: War. A dispatch from Hlas.sa says Suu day nigcut it was pers.steu -y sttd on allegea good authority inast the palaoe oficials nere had ie::eived a cipaer ais acth fromt Madrid wniulh m effect said: '-Prepare for war." It is ruot ikely that anything so alarmiag or peremptry was rezeived, but it is retty certain that intimation was given that the time for evasion or de iay on the part of Spain was drawing