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GODS17 I ~ TS~ CC N R Pe. D,. Tzizo zj, z tr Ing is G0a r The cix -ay to the Seat--empj;~ -- Jane. In this dEca Gcd in th: - U ear at dz: prayer: P that ro hear zintin, . Sc s of buidi' 11Z e : may a mau a sublime lif- . -C - .en dm cathedrais. St. Pa.' i -. Pet' ' and sich o-f tc~ :3Ta a empl and Alambra d &ae monumEn!s t 11-. : those who bui'l T!1. B3- r - dr than any a:chI tnev e -:,r ed or an transep' w'-doW th- .y.r illuminec or any Co: ni-n calumn 1.7 e-- e crowned or ay ,- s they ever elabormd :s e ear. Among the m -: ,;';i'u'and sssc uous physicl o u tim"- have been those wio a ae . Cn -eime to ihe examinat'ioa e r .nd tie study of i's .orc, ez, ~:s ita "cor, its 2anals, its--- s - g res its inltricci. as cn oln its divine Ya'i- ad y- ' i- w tae another thousand -r cefere the world ccn-es to ai?f adeuate appreei ation of what Gd.d r -n ne plan ned ard eec-dt. e InEuite and overmstErZ arcie::re Of the hu man ear. The C. oi'.: ible, and the mi-coe -reaks down in the t.ot t explcraLuon. The cartilage w ic' w call ihe ear ,s only the storm door of we great tem ple clear down cut of sight ..xt door to the immortal soul. Such Ecientisis as HoAmbol'z and Conte and Da B'ainville and Rank and Buck have attempted to walk the Ap pian way of the 'human ear, but the mysterious pathway has never been fully trodden but by two feet-the foot of sound and the foot of sod. Three ears on each side tae head-the external ear, the middle ear, the in ternal ear-but -ll connected by most wonderful telegraphy. The external ear in all ages adorned by precious stones or precious metals. The temple of Jernalem partly built by the contribution of earrings, and Homer in the "Iliad" spears of Hera, "the three bright drcps, her glittering gems suspended from the ear," and many of the adornments of modern times were only copies of her ear jewels found in Pompeiian museum and Etruscan -vase. But while the outer ear may be adcrned by human art, the middle and the internal ear are adorned and garnished only by the hand of the Lord Almighty. The stroke of a key of yonder organ sets the air vibrating, and the external ear catches the undulating scund and passes it on thrcugh the bonelets of the middle ear to the internal ear, and the 3,(00 fibers of the human brain take up the vibration and roll the sound on into the soul. The hid den machinery of the ear by physiol ogists called by the names of things familiar to us, iike~ tuac aammer, some thing to strike; like the anvil, some thing to be smitten: like the stirrup of the saddle with which we mcunt the steed; like the drum, beaten in the march; iike the harpsirings, to be swept with music. Coi~e~i like a "snail shell" by which one of the innermost passages of the ear is actually called; like a stairway, the scund to ascend ; like a bent tube of a heating apparat us, taking that which enters round and round; like a labyrinth with wonderful passages into which the thought enters only to be lost in be wilderment. A muscle contracting when the noise is too loud, just as the pupil of the eye contracts when the light is too glaring. Tue external ear is defended by wax which vi.h its bitterness disconrages insectile inva sion. The internal ear imbedied int by ~what is far the hardest bone of the human system, a very rock off strength and defiance. The ear so strange a contrivance that by the estimate of one scientist it can catch the sound of 73.000 vibra tions in a second. The cuter ear tak ing in all lainds of sound, whether the crash of an avalanche or the hum of a bee. The sound passilng to tbe inner door of the outside ear halts until an other mechanism, divine mechanism, passes it on by the bonelets o1 the middle ear, and, coming to the inner dcor of that secoxnd ear, the sound has nio power to come farther until an other divine mechanismn passes it on through into the inner ear, and then the sound ccmes to the rail track of the brain branchlet and rolls on and on until it comns to sensation, and there the curtain drops, and a hund red gates shu-, and the voice of God seems to say to all human inspection, "Thus far and no farther." In this vestle of the palace of the soul how many ki :gs of thought, of medicine, of physiology, have done penance of lifelong study and got no farther than the vestibule. Mysterious home of reverberation and echo. Grand Central depot of sound. Head quarters to w.hich there come quick aispatches, part the way by cartilages, part the way by air, pa-t the way by bone, part the way by nerve-the slowest dispatch pianging into the ear at the speed of 1,Ct2 feet a second. Small instrument of music on which is played all the music you ever heard, from the grandeurs of an Au gust thunderstorm to the softest breathings of a iute. Small instru ment of music, only a guarter of an inch of surface aia thie thinness of one-two hundred and fiftieth part of an inch and that thinness divided in to three lay er s. In ti-at ear musical staff, lines, spaces, Lar and rest. A bridge leading iromt it e outside natu ral warld to the i aside spiritual world; we seeing the aburzient at this end the bridge, but the log of an unlifted mystery hiding the atmrent on the other end the bridge. Whispering gallery of the soul. Troe human voice is God's eulogy the ear. That voiace capable of producing 17 592,180,044, 415 sounds, and all that varjeby made not for tue regalemnt~ of beast or bird but for the human ear. About 15 years ago, in Venice, lay down in death one whorm many con sidered the grma:est muical composer of the century. Gtraglng all the way on to 7o years of ag to con quer the worlds ear In that same attempt to mass:er - iuman ear and gain supremacy ont this gate of were 'cugrht ny mzir:., Gluck arnd Weber, and b Bosoe and Meyer beer, by Rossti -nd by not roil of German an Itai:an a-a Eerch corn posers, some~ o! :.u: te battie leaving ther ~' oGd on1 '-i Keynotes and the n'ascal scres. ,eat Datile fought for the ear-fo'. h b with or-gan p pe, w -ta rume: wi corneta-pstoL, win v anc br-szoa adsi rt v- d' go dweapo' of the oe tra;- rw eaer and cath,.drai Ld Ceu-..my of m'usc e fortr~ts fr i eces fr t e r L. a.i but t.e !ui~cians ofa. ^. h tu h' * ' r ogh t for th~ maVt t-ry fthe:utr c a -,a. anLd the d-:, :ie oz tile st ta Sou. aLd the Thermopy o tru h C , ---CI:C, -S. cad euc For iihe c ng t ofteer :.d he rad -I eitFer e im :r1 Vod en LI' i OnL until undier th :c gea ern a strain of hearlig h11s oxsa er-or;ia of th ep "Creation" per"'e be s e rit Cu to ie bur f.tv Sc Co V h worl d j1 Iy -S piec e ten baios :9 ece 5- E T o on42cuer L; on from th ' can, .d c I allowed In th-e or " a-er the.a: n Iwhen he le 'L to a~ Z drad march our EC i C a andU timpia in " the n~~r e evrry Eser mo r0. To cou'i-:r the ear -uak-ag -ais gate of IGe immer.al ci nehu cormpcsed his gieat *S " - .7 , iZg the staves of te msic on ti of fare in a restsauan~t, until he could leave as a lesc tL: world over a thcutand maguile compositions in usic To c - the car and iane ti s g &!e of castle M ztrt struggitd u ro poverty until he came to a paup a grave, and oie chilly, we af n th-e body of him woo gave to the w ar a the "'Reqiea atd the "G Symphony" was crunch.ed in o h top fo two other paupers into a grav% wbich to this day is epit.apuless For the ear everything inel.l acu;, from the birth hour wnen our eartu was wrapped in swaddiing clothes cf light and serenaded by otner worics. from the time when Jabal thrummed the first harp and pressed a k-3 of the first organ down to the music of this Sabbath day. Yea, for the ear the coming overtures of heaveo, for what ever other part of the body may be left in the dust, the ear, we know, is to come to celestial life; other wise, why the "harpers harping with their harpa " For tte ear carol of lar an-d whistle of quail and chirp of cricket and dash of cascade and roarof tides oceanic and doxology L-f worshipIa i aszembly and minstrels chera b c and archangelic. For the ear all 'andean pipes, all flutes, all clarinets, all haut boys, ali bassoons, all b:ls and al organs-Luzerne and Westminster abbey and Freiburg and Berlin and all the organ pipes set across Christea dom, the great Giant's Causeway for the monarcls of music to pass over. For the ear all chimes, all tickings of chronometers, all anthems, all dirges, all glees, all choruses, all lullabies, all orchestraion. Oh, tae car, the God honored ear, grooved with divine sculpture and poised with divine grace fulness and upholstered with curtains of divine embroidery and corridorAd by divine carpentry and pillared r.ith divine archiecture and 'Thiseled in bore cfdivine nmasonry and conquered by procesions of divine mar s baing. Tne ear! A perpetual point of inrrt tion, asking How? A perpetual oint of apostrophe appealing to Cid None hut God could plan it. None but God could build it. Nore bu'. God dould work it. None but G.xi could keep it. None 'out G~d could understand it. None but God could explain it. Oh. the wor~ders of the human ear ! How surpassingly sacred the hu man ear:! You htd better be careful h w you let the sound of blasphemy or uncleanness step into that holy ci holies. The Bible says that in the ancient temple the priest was set apatrt by the puttin ! f the b~cod of a ram on the tip of the ear, the right ear of the rriest. But, my friends, we need all ot us to havc the sacred touch of rdination on the haoging lobe c both ears and cn the arches of the ears on the eustachian tube of the ear. on the mastoid cells of the ear, on the tympanic cavity of the egr, andi on everything from the outside rizn oi the outside ear clear i2 to the point where sound steps cif the auditory nerve at d rolls on do wn ito th un - fatomable depths of the immzortal soul. The Bible speaks, cof "dull ears,' and of "uncircumcised ears,' and o' "itching ears," and cf "rebellious ears," and of "open ears,"a d of those who have all ine organs of hearing and yet who seetn to be deaf, for it cries to them, "He that hath ears to hear, let him near." To show how much Christ thought c the human ear. he one day n;et a man who was deaf, came up to hii~n and put afinger of the rigat hand iuic the orifice of the left ear of the patient and put a finger of the it f: haud into the orifice of the right ear cf th' pati ent, and agitated the tympanua, and startled the bonelets, and with a voice that rang clear thrcugh into the man's soul cried, "Ephthatha:" and the polyphoid growths gave way, and tae inlamed auricle cooled off, and that men who nad not hear d a sound fcr many years that night heard the wasn of the waves of Galilee against the imestone shelving. To show how much Christ thought of the human car, when the apostle Peter got mia and with one slasa of his s word drop ped the ear cf Malchus into the dust Christ createi s, new external ear fsr Malhus corrseponding with the mid de ear and the internal ear that no swo d could clip away. And to show what God thinks of the ear we are infcrmed of the faot that in the millennial June which shall roseate all the earth the ears of tue deaf will be unstopped, all the vasou lar rowths gone, all deformatiou of the listening organ cured, corr ccied, chaned. Every being on earth wili have a hearing apparatuts as perfect as Gd krnows how to mQake Pt and all the ears wi be ready fo tha gseat symphony in which all the muscal instruments of the earth shal'l play te accompariment, natons of eatin and empires of heaven ning it, eir voces, together witu the deep aa's the sea and the alto of the woohan te tenor of winds. aind the bar'i.one of the thunder, "Hlleluiah!'srgn up meeting the "Haillih~d scending. Oo, yes, my friendr. we n b e looking for God too far away :ns:ad of looking for him eco~c by id i our own crga-:ism: Weu go 'up .n 0 the observae~ a' dL( losz i..: telescope and see God in J uubur a God in~Saturn and God in' Mars o we could see more of hi nougnth microscpe of an aur:s- N\J ngi satified with only onerienad in France it has been S' Uloud and Versailles and the Tuileries sani l Great Britain it has been Wi mdsor aLd Balmoral and (0:borne. A~ uler d.. not always prefer trae i'r r. Ta K'n of earta uod heaven may na ager casties aud grea:.r palau-s, but Ii do not thin: there is ariy Lne more carioud.y .-rrught the in t ann ear. 'Tae baven of heave as cv. 'ot - . 'a - n - er crr !0 :1T, e '. aon or znver'c s : a ra1. ca r -i C4-lpasXyn u. i. : cX: dana Lesa :e Cr~ 1- !he 1 di1 -'L L rive nYc c- . enlythk * e e r l I 's, jaSt aS e vil as -vhea 15yar siee was _c i scarletv~r, and her moth er hard 1'er whLe aS midnigat she IaS0 for a rnk o waar. -H: that elaed te uar sh linenrot hear: c WVhen a scti prays. God does uot sit bolt u ri:ht u ail the . ayer travels :;nmensitv and clims to his car. The B~oie sas ha bends clear over. In more thin one place Isaiah said ie bared don 'Lis ear. In more than o: e pace the psalatt said he inclined hisear, by w h I come to believe (xA, "'pts LIs ca so closely do;vn to rur lis that he can hear ycur fai"tt i' r. t i not G.d away cr1 up y-nte r; i. is Gd away down hre close up, so cloze up that whtn Iyou pray to ni-.m it ;s not mere a whis I-e tha a s A, yes, he hears the caUtive's siug and the plash of the orphan's tear, and the dying sylla biles of te snipwrecked sailor driven on the sktrries, and tie infant's "Now I lay rm doawn to sleep" as distinctly as he hears tue : ortissiino of brazen bands in the Dasseldor festival, as easily as he hLars the slave of artillery when the 13 scares c. English troops open &l their baUtteies at once at Wa"terl He that planted the ear Cr Just as sometiates an entrancing stai o muasic wi.: aleger la soar ears for davs after yoa hive heard it, and j'c as a sharp cry of pain i on::e her iiie ? ra~sfg arough Brllevue csp ia cluto n:year K-' weeks, Stijtr s aeard lsrny in the su- thts mets haurcs cue's ears ier ays, so God to. c2ly nears, bar nolds the songs. '2 j.prey ers, tile groans, the worinp, the biaspxe my. how we have aii wondcred at the phonograph, WLCi cods to: oaly the words y tu utter, tu: the very tones of your voice. so that 100 yecars from now, that instruwtent turwed, tne very rords you now u-.ler and the very tone otfyour voiee mil: o. reprodunew. Afl:.ttg par'o.;-r'pl But mcro 'oSe: is Qxis Lc) -a s'0 holdC, to I A r, Iefr dehul'' enctour avftf .i Io e' ai spe5cLot Be~te i~n ist A a ay fron. I sn. B t er p:. auOder ti: 0 St c. B-- ta a'e t !xay fro ald h..ra u. 13G:9.::1 ane oo'y. Be'te e t.:ecra"e.. rtime a-d eteriyto ):5 p~anad tas ea. -> aa' . "L f c'idl 'ell see p ai 5Fia 5?. p.:c~i - am hipd eaing fl -L eCd asen adL hard tue song o: tnt' wora~? - a:.. :? was sa s-wee: he neda~nagt 7zu mant. .ne -ee uS.Aid-, --m a a . paradise of & d.adtesn a aear is tile sutie n f te 200 L er afl "t.ut' ru of Lu ce~tesiA: :L?.c Raus Seau W..ened ad g up la toe m:d 'a'st - , as c?. ?? -e cold, WrotL dUWU a s. ? i 'uasc t at be LaU near. n weuuer.ui tulne sd at'Ja- :- *iay 1.Ot oitonc and to m a . dia'ac, t". a gic rous resi-y Wue wecoi'1 to tie ngh:. ci death 'and " lie do fn t) Gur hs: oteepa- ''e' e- rS realIy De Laven:'rt t u :.a sags anad the antxrms and ta aruts azid te dO~Oogiesta ha s.i clm0 iae musi cal laduer oa hea enly gamnat. M-JY3 GcNERAL L'-E n;iU I 2 .0 I~ LivIiOJ or Caps I'. alt;. at General Lee"v::.. uatoq'estionl~y bI made aa m: r geutrati tezUnited divisio- (or cru la Cub He will lave f: au..:: \;--u''" '"" -aa if o ordere.1- 'i-r-o r un 'ime da~k a-o cevin :aomIassCU C sm t' t::-' m0. La ien azia ifthe\ r,:ai. ft t..s fou? be u1h - ,.uyh' " woul e ndi a d ct ':ata LZ wire toe Secretry ar 00 1Q, u asn:C Is'r. ' h e2 s p- ibl cloih -.W'::e tan' 'e wouluV rE.:wa sn c.,stm unra 'sune -!,.-Y U J.t:.:IN Oi- THi t'ESENT SEASON. G ,tLce .,t Lie Westle.- Aljo-Wizt the ; t rcm .. '. Obseiv~e All o er:. :e shGiw ;i to Ex!ating Con Th.e ncnd weekly bul'elin of the c of -.he weatler and crops of Slate of the t re e t season v.as is -o ae T aa-: it is as follows: ie xeek was cool and etnerally fl\v-ra) e f-r ' rowi crops. owing a irei low pth: te pp:r -as L _ f was observed on oroins, over 'he grcater por :. ' tLe SLtae and thin ice in the ex.am rns portion, but no per eg-p, I'aie a'e was done by tre I re Th. The nan -Lem;erature vas 56 dgrws wh-ic .s 8 degrecs below the io-al. he weekv ranke of tem 7,rature w.s between a wximua of 7. n the 11h at B ackville and on 16 h at C~ntral, and a minimum 33 on in, 13:h1 at Walhalla. The o ds~s of the week were warm aLl The wcek's raiulail 7%s quite evenly u'ed cy,:r the entire State and light, althou.h sutliaent ~e ne-ds of all crops and to put ojnd into gojd condition for *ig. In Laurens and portions of urrouding counties farm work was n:ered and delayed by the wet con d ici of the soil, tut elsewhere the Sd idO interiero or interrupt work : .rv er.eni., while over the south a-tarr prortions the ground was dry and Lhe rain needed and proved very ver placts, representing all sec L o t :j0!he Sta e, reported one inch o o ra in, and J less than one irzc1. The average for the State was o.77 and the apprcximate normal f..ar the same period is 0.8 inch. Tre week gave 61 per cent. of the nas b'e bright sunshine, ranging from ;52 to 013 per cent. of the possible, but cloudiress varied greatly over the State. The prevailing winds were cold westerly, and from light to brisk in force. On the 14th thunder showers occurred at a number of places, accompanied by small hail, wiich. however, did nodamage. On the same day a flurry of snow was observed in Greenville county. The week was characterized by ccol, windy weather and some rain, the rst two conditions were unfavorable and the last favorable. Vegetation made little growth exept on the im mediate coast, and even there the nights were too cool. Over the cen tral and western counties frost formed on two nights, which while it did not freeze anything, did materially check all growth of vegetation. However, the wee. ended with good, growing weather and a noticeable improvement ;n the appearance of field crof s. Except where interrupted by rain, plkniing operations advanced rapidly during the week, and up'and ccrn is aboat all planted in the more easter ly counties, and from half to twc-thirds finished over the more westerly por tions. Ge rmination has been slow gen erally and stands poor except in Eige field. where excellent stands are the rule.' Corn that was cut down by frost shows signc of recovery, but neverthe kss much replanting is necessary on that account and because of seed rot Iting in the ground, and also on sc count of the ravages of cut worms and oirds in places. Early planted corn is receiving its first workings. It ap p-aars that a somewhat larger acreage will be devoted to corn this year than last. While some cotton has been planted long enough to come up it germina'.es slowly, and that that was un last w e rk will need to be replanted. Planting of cotton has been fairly begun over the whole State, but the bulk of the crop will be planted bet veen this and the 25th, if the weather permits, as the ground is generally prepared for it. In the more easterly counties planting is generally less than half finished over the central and western coun'.ies, Re ports vary as to the area to be planted in ctton, but it appears that a full cron will be planted and that it is high ly ~manured. Sea-island cotton is coming up well, growing nicely, and more being plante d. The work of transplanting tobacco ias bren begun in Kershaw, Claren don, D arlington, Fiorence, Wiliamns burg arnd Horry counties, and will be come general this week. Plants are plantiful and large. More commer cil manures will be used on tobac.:o lands than in previous years, and the acrage is considerably enlarged, esp aci ally in Florence county, and probably over the whole tobacco district. The outlook for a heavy cats crop is very promising, and from three local ties only wer e unfavorable reports re ceived. The frosts of fast week and the cool weather of this made oats look y ellow in places, but it has agood stand and is stooling well. The wheat prospec:s are good. Rye is heading and is being cut for fcrage in places. The reports on the fruit prospect are more aetinite this week, but do not change the conditions as stated in the ens, Greenville, Soartan burg, Gaffney and portions of York and Lancaster the bulk of the peaches and plums are killed, but there are localities where a fair crop is left on the trees; in the next tier of counties the bulk of the fruit is safe, but there are many lo caitzes where it is almost entirely de etroyed; still further eastward it was only in exceptional cases that fruit wvas damaged. Figs may oe an excep rion to that statement, but it cannot yet be determined. The peach crop is practically safe ; apples, pears, grapes and wild berries were unharmed. In the Florence truck district about onetnrid of the early vegetables were destroyed by frost and some fields are being plowed up. L arge shipments of seasonable vegetables continue from Cnarleston, and more northorly truck districts. Melons are growing poorly and re ports from Barnwell indicate a re ducal acreage in that county. Seed are scarce there. Gardens are growing slowly and need warmer weather; pastures are very poor generally. Ribbon cane was not hurt by last week's frost. Considerable sorghum being planted. J. W. BAU-ER, Section Director, Columbia, S. C. Cadets r ;:de- Se .vice ,. The following message from the Seperintendent of the South Carolina \tilitary icademy was sent to Gov. E i-ierbe Wednesday: His Ex-celency, Gov. W. H. ilerbe. Declaration of war with Spain being now an assured fact, I am authorized totener ad you the services of the llesadof the 56 cadets who have remained loyal to duty, for sucn mili ary work in the State as tho exigen ei s of the times may render necessa ry. Their preaecessors have done the same in two wars. Assair CowaRD, Supt. G jvernor Eteerbe replied as follows: Col. Asbury Coward. Sunerintendent Citadel Academy. Charleston, S. C. Your telegram received. Tender L ce pied. -Will call upon oficers and e..dts o! the South Carolina Military ' Li ECOA ' U - CN En a Ga(Ives - !'c -1T:;'n1 it% iS Ca -shd o! War. Oe of the zreatest difflcultics Spa-r will have to conterd with in this war is her weak facilities for a coal supply. She.has little coal in Cub3. ,and could not get it with her main fleet if she had much. Her coil supply at Porto Rico is very limited There is plenty of coal in Spair, but to transport enough of it safely across the sea and to find a secare coaling station is a very diliult pirobleo. A warship cannote arry enough coal to Eerve it for any great leny:ix of time. and Spain wl hav& a i ard task in finding places ware she can rtfr:sh her ccal supply. The British colonial< .e has noti fled-all the British colonies that coal must be considered cotr.band of war. This decision vwss rovcked b7 a re Q lest for informaticn forwarded by t'oe British colonies in West India. They are so mear Cuba fni Porto R'co that they are ha le to 'e called on fcr coal by ihe Spanish warships, and tney want to know how to act. The ruling f the British authorih'es in this case follows the p:-ccdents since coal has bcc.rue the motive pow - er of warships. Under international custom a belligerant ship may take, n in a neutral port only enough coal to carry her to the next friendly port, and itnmust be takin avowedly for that purp:se. Th's riling cp:rated strongly against tne Confederate cruisers which would have been ev-u more effective than they were ii they could have ,I ways obtained coal. We have the bEst facilites for suppiing our ships with coal and great supphls of it will soon be placed by the government in in the south Atlantic and Gulf ports. If Spain should find lorself on this side the Atlantic without coal or the et ance to get it in sufficient quantities her ships would be at our mercy, and this is a con.ingency not unlikely to occur. MILITIA MAY FIGHT. Volunt63rs Wil be Appartiot.i in Fru pnrtIon to Popu'4 :on. A6jutant General Watts Thursday afternoon received a letter from Sec retary of War Alger through Senator Tillman, reassuring him that not only would South Carolina be given a chance to fight but that every state in the union would be given a place in the picture. Seeing in the papers a few days since that troops would be ordered from New York to Charleston and that regiments from Massachu setts, Illinois and Pennsylvania had also been called upon, General Watts wrote to Ser ator Tillman saying that the South Carolina Militia were ready to help defend the nation and especi ally were they anxious to protect their own state. It is probably from this that the report that the governor and the adjutant general would tender the president the services of the state militia, originated. Following is the letter General Watts received Tnurs day af ternoon: War Department, Washington, D. C.. April 19, 1898. Hon. B. R. Tillman, U. S. Senate. Dear Sir: I have your letter of the 16;h instant, inclosing the patriotic letter from Gen. J. Gary Watts. The first call for an increase in the army will be made i pon the national guard of the states, each being allowed to furnish of its militia a number pro portionate to its population of the to tal number required. You will see ho w necessary this is in viewa of tne fact that the entire nat.onal ,guard throughout the country is anxious to ser ve. You can rest assured that there will be no favoritism in this matter, and every state in the Union will ha given an opportunity to serve under the fsgrin event of war. Very truly yours, R A. Alger, Secretary of War. t pare The Birdi. ' Feathers and Fashion" is the title of an excellent article by J. C: rter Beard in Demorest's Family Magazine. Lie says that future generations will wear the fur s of domenstic animals and the plumage of barnyard fowls, for there will be no other furs and feath ers to wee-. Through the wholesome slaughter of birds of beautiful plum age, they are fast te::oming extirot. We quote: "England imports more than twenty-five million of dead b:r.ds every year in order that their corpses anti feathers nmay adorn f: ? i nab.e women. In all Eairope, three hun dred million a:e annua'.ly as cruficed f~r this pu p :se. in Chicago one dealer has received in one season thirty-two million humming birds and three hundred thousand other birds of different varieti s " The beautiful egrets, or snowy white he rons, whicn furnilh the fashionable aigrette, dwelt formierly in thousands of the s wamps of our Southern States, but are now almost exterminated. The delicately beaaitiful plumes, so much prized in milltnery, are worn by the birds only during the nesting tescn. Thus every aigrd.e stanas for a home broken up, parents slaugL t:red and little ones left to starve. But sentiment is not all. There is a practical view to be taken. We quote aamn: "The natural and only effec'. ive check for insects is the birds. Every average insectiverous bird de - stroys at least two thousand four hun dred insects every year of its life. The great majority ot birds are insectiver o:2s. The oaly one condemned as ac tually useleiss and pernicious is the English sparrow" All others are the friends of mankind-c specially of the farmer, gardner and fruit grower. It is said that insect life is already on the increase because of the wholesale slaughter of birds, and in places makes human life almost unendurable. Forto Rica. It is probable that Spain's loss of Cuba, which is now inevitable, will be followed speedily by the lcss of Porto hico. Though we hear very little of this island it is a very valuable and attractive place. It is the fourth in s C of the Greater Antillies and contains 3,500 square miles. The population is between 800.000O and 93,000, about one-third of whom are negroes,- while nearly all the others are of mixed blood. Porto Rico :s quite as fertile as Cuba and produces as great a variety of crops. The cli mate, however, is not as good as that of some of the provinces or Cuba and for a great part of the year is very warm. Of the 18,000,000 square miles which Spain once owned in the west ern world she has lost all but Cuba and Porto Rico and these will not be hers mu::h longer. Eistory does not show an Equal it stance of rapid ni. tio ial dec iar. Ti Flee: Closely Guarded. Additional precautions have been put in force at Key West to insure the safety of the big ships since the reso lutions of congrESs were adopted. All decklights on oerd the New York, Iowa and Indiana, wvhich lie out of Key West harbor, are now extinguish Ied until 8 p. in., when the battle por~s are screwed on and the formidable warships can hardly be seen from each others's deck, except when an occasional searchlight flashing arour~i reveals their dark outlines. Thsides this ureelntifn, tt e night patrol has hn doutbla. TiL- Ii:licnembers of li'KvaXs means committee of tbc hCuIe have ractically completud the prepara tion cf the revenue neasure which vill be passEd to raise revenue su til cient toprosecute the war. The mem bers propose ti t the present genera Lion shall bear the burdens of the war and prccetdirg upon that theory they have prepared a bill that will raise b: tween $100,000,000 or $120,000,000 ad ditional revenue per annum. The till will provide for an additional tax of $1 ptr barrtl upon bet r. Oa manu facturtd tobacco at d snuff tt mL nal revenue tax will be increase d fro-a six to twe:ve ceals. T-.e incresse on cigars at d cigarettes ia;s not betii ab solutcly fxcd, but i; pirocab'y Yill b: $1 on all claTss. The pr.ypoiitioa which the senrae placed on the Lariff bil, b..it which went cut in con ference toallstccks aud transfers of ccrpora tios is embcdied in the measure to gether with practically all the scheIe of internal revenue taxation of the act of 18, whichinciludes a stamp tax on a'! ceck S, drafts, aLda all inStrumts f 6asiness-(mortgages, loans and bonds); a tax o pateut a d proprie tary mediines and a tax on telearapa messages and express packages is also incorporated in the biul. Tnissci:eme of taxation is estimated to raise $35, OCC,00. The tax on proprietary at d patent m(dic.nes will oe two centson packages cr bottles retailing at 25 cents or under and fcu- c:nis on those r: tailing abova that price, Tne tax on telagraph messages will beone cent cn all messages whica cost 25 cents or lezs a -.d 2 cents on all ab:,ve 25 cents. A duty of 10 cents per pound is pLctd upon tea and 3 cents per pour d upon coffee. Dotitd waters are to bear a tax similir to patent medicines. For the pressing r eedsof the government the secretary of the trEasury is given the general powe: t. issue certicates of indebtedress payable in one year and to bear interest not to exceed 3 per cent. The secretoy of ;he treas ury is also author.zed to borrow on the credit of the govez-ament by popu lar subscription a loan of $500, 000,000. This lcan is to be placed through the pcstoffices of the ccuntry, the sub treasurits and governmeit deposi tories in low rate bonds which are to to be sodit at par. They are to bear three per cent. in.erest and to be re deema ble after five 3 ears at the option of the government and to be due in twenty years. The principal and in tarest are to be payable in coin. o ath tarouitad ahare. Secretary of War Alger is reported as saying that if war is declared there will oe an immediate call for 50,000 of the voluntary soldiery of the coua try. It is interesting to know what this call would mean to e,%ch state based upon enlisted militia of the country. According-to a table recent;; ly prepared by Adjutant General Austin Cirbin, of the United States army, a call for 50,000 volunteers would demand from Alabama, 1,000; Arkansas, 633; California, 1,623; Colc rado, 465, Connecticut, 1,226; Del& ware, 194; Florida, 493; Georgia, 1, 973; Idaho, 229, Illinois, 2,550 Ldi ana, 3,190; Iowa, 1,075; Kansas 561; Kentucky, 594; L'.u.siana, 1 229; Maine, 656; Mar3lnd, 920; Massa causet:s, 2.290; Michigan, 1,3C5; Mir nes ta, 840; Mississippi, 790; Missouri, 1.164; Montana, 227; Nebraska, 540; Nevada, 162; New Hampshire, 7c3; Ne v Jexsey, 1.87; Nsew York, 5,706; North Carolina, 708; North Dazota, 38; Onio, 2.644 0 Oegon, 634; Penn sylvania, 1,047 Rhode Island, 452; south Dakota, 278; South Carolina; 2,662; Tennessee, 6.3; Texas. 1,244, Utah, 193; ermont, 344; V.rginia, 1,205; Washington, 324; West \'r ginia, 386; Wiecnsin, 1,205; Wyom ing 205; Ariz ma, 223; District of Co lumbia, 521; Ne w Mexico, 159, and Oslahoma, 220. This will be the first insta'lment. Should the war last any length of tim3 there will be other ca 1s. So none of our troops wi o are spoiling for a dight ned ge uaeaIsy. Sc Ifh:ing in ouba, The last reports sent from Cuba to t'ie state department by our consuls give information which confirms the most distressing reports of suffering among the people. Tne country oe lievedt for a long time that the news paper stories of the conditions in Cuba rere greatly exaggerated, but Senator Proctor's power~ul statement of what he observed in the unhappy island and subsequent reports :rom txust, worthy sources have convinced the pub~lic that the worst had not been old. The number of the destitutes in the pro vince of Havana alone is plac ed at 150,000 by General Lee. Tue number of people who were driven from their homes and deprived of means of subsistence by Weylecr's infa mous order is probably one fourth of Cuba's entire ponulation. The only aid our government has given these starving people was an appropriation of $12,500 for food, but much more than that has been contributed by private charity. Tae newspapers have been very active and efficient in this work, and it is due to them more than any other agency that the course of starvation in Cuba has been cnaecked. Those who are in a position to kno n declare that at least 200,000 people have died of starvation and idiseases that famine brings since Wey ler's murderous older was issued. A government which inflicts such misery upon its people should be wiped from the face of the earth. Fo:L.tei Paraap ys. Irn time of peace prepare for war scare heads. The Easter egg is seldom as fresh as it is painted. Grasshoppers and grass widows jump at the first chance. The farmer who raists poultry is al ways tgreofgoodl crops. The doorlbell never ?sks questions, but it requmres many anewers. When a widower courts a widow they are both in favor of a new trial. There is no limit to the age at which a man can make a fcol of himself. Men may come and men may go, but the Lat-umbrella joke gces on forever. The majority of the world's idols will be shattered at the crack of doom. Painters are seldom of a military turn, but thaey always stand by their coilcre. A bad toy teldom gets his badness from his father; the olo. man generas ly hangs on to all te has. L-ove isn't blind. A girl in love can see ten times more in the otbject of her affections than any one else can. History repeats itself. Joseph of the many-colored coat cornered the corn market, and now our Joseph fol bws suit on wheat.-Chicago News. Anther tahme -ostured, A dispatch from Key West says it is believed there that the prize captured by the diagship New York is the Al fons Xtl., the mail steamer due at Hiavanna today not the warship of that name). The Spanish ship tried to run away, but the Ne w York gave chase, fiimg shot after shot. until the Spanard hove to and surrendered. Tl.e punish Flo K The Spanish ricet which is reported to have sailed from the Cape Vcrde Islands for the United S:ates Thairs day is compczid of twelve vessels. i".cluding four armored ships, three torpedo boat destroyers, three torpedo i.UI IL r a- th ' F eOZmsOt 'a Che D-m1c1at Aticle I. There shall be one cr more Democratic clubs crgarnz d ia each township or ward, esr-h of which clubs shall have a distinct title, "The Democratic Club," and shall elect a president and one or more vice presidents, a recording and a corres pondiog srcre'ary and a treasurer. and shall have the foliwing working c:)mmin~ees, of not bs; than thre: members each, viz: A commIttee on rekistration, an executive committee and such other committees as to each club may seem expedient. Article II. The meetings of the cl-b shall be frcq:ent after the open Ing of the canvass, and some member of the club or invited speaker deliver an address at each mecetiug, if p:-acti - cable. The clubs shall meet on the fcurth Saturday in April and the couu ty convention on the first Monday in May, respectively, of each election year: Provided, that the county ex e utive cmmittee may name any oiher day riti.in the same wcek fc~r such c'ub meeting by givir,g at least two week:' notice by adv-r:isement in county papers. E 4ch cou ,ty shall e entitled to double the number of de legates in the State Convention as it has members in the General Assem bly. Article HI. The pruident or Sve membars shall have ;o 7er to cali an extra meeting of the club, and at such extra meeting one-fourth of the mem bers shall constitute a q-iorum for the transsctioca .f bu-iness. Article IV. The clubs i eac. cun ty shalh be held tiogether and operate under the control of a ccunty execu tive committee, which shall consist of one member from each c:ub, to be elected by the respective ciu->s. Tne executive committee, when elec'.ed shall appoint its own c fficars, f -x,3ept the chairman, who shall be elected by the county convention.: who shall not necessarily be members of said committee, but a vacancy in the mem bership of the co-nmittee shall ba fi;kd by the club through the loss of whote member by death, resigination or other wise the vacancy cccurs: Provided that any cfficer so elected who is not a member of the committee sball not be entitled to a vole on any question t cept the chairman, and then only in case of of a tie vote. The tenure of of fice of the executive committee shall be until the firat Mondy in May of each election year, at which time the county c nvention shall be called to gether to reorganize the party. Every Presidential election year coanty con ventions shall be called by the county executive cmmittee to meet on the first Monday in May, which shall elect delegates to a State Convention called for the purpose of electing delegates t> the National Democratic Conven tion and to elect the member of the National Demccratic Executive Com mittee from this State. The State Convention shall be called by the State ExEcutive Committee to meet every Presidential election year on the third Wednesday in May, and every State election year, county and S:ate conventions shall meet on the first Monday in May and the third Wednesday in May respzctively. Article V. County Democratic Con ventions shall be composed of dele gates elected by th neveral lccal clubs, Ione delegate for every twenty-five Ivoters, as shown by the poll list made Iat the preceding first primary election in an election year, and one delegate for a majority fraction thereof, with t'ie ight to each county convention to enlarge or diminish the reprisen tation according to circumstances. Tne county conventions shall be call ed together by the ('lairman of the respective executive committees un der such rule, not inconsistent with the constitution nor with the rules adoptedi by the State Demonratic Ez ecutive Committee, as each county may adopt, and when assembled shan? be called to order by the chairman of the executive committee, and the con vention shall proceed to nominate and elet from among its members a president one or more vice presidents, a secretary and a treasurer. Any county convention may permit or recognize the formation of a new club or clubs by a ma. j)rity of its members. In all cities with a population of 5,000 and over there may be two clubs in eaci word ; they shall be organiz ed in obedience to tois constitution, as are the c'ubs eles There in this S:ate, at d il trgar:iz ig said clubs they shalt have representation in the county conventions respectf ulyfsssaid convel-* tions shall dcelare in acc >rdar c with the provisions of this constitution. Ar.icie VL. For the purpose of nominating candidates for (.Governor, Lieutenant Governor and all other S'ate officers, including solicitors in the respective circuits, a ad Congress men in their respective districts and United States Senators and all county officers, except magistrates and mas ters and supervisors of regiit:a'.icn, a direct primary election shall be held on the last Tuesday in Augnst of each election year, and a second and tird primary eaca two weeks suc.:essively theres fter if necessary. At this ele tion only Democratic white voters who have been residents of the State t welve months and the county six days preceding the next general election, and such negroes as voted the Demo cratic ticket, in 187d, and as have vot ed tbe Democratic ticket continuously since, to be shown by the certificate 01 ten white Democratic voters, who will pledge theme sives to support the nomisess of such elections, may vote, provided, that no persn shall be al lowed to vote except is r ame be en rolle d on the particul e ub list at which he offers to vote at least five days before the lirst election. Each club shall have a separate poljing place for primary election. The club rolls of the party sh a e rn stitute the registery list and shlad b open to inspection by any memnber of the party, and the elec ion un 'er th is clause shall be held and r ste under the Act of the Genzeral Assem bly of this State, approved December 22, 188S8, and any subsequent Acts of the Legislature cf this State. Th.: State execut~ive comnmittee shall meet on the Friday after each pimary, or such other time as ni b ie designated by the chairman to e a os the vote and declare the resut, e o all State c ticars, Congressmen atmd Unied States serators. All conteY~ 'or all nominations at primary i tions sal1 be heard tirst by the ca v x ecutive committee of the eL a I: irt which s uch irregulari's tr ar hanr cczurrt d, an i may be re+ i--e t Sa'.e e e a l-e ecomiot ee n se ac tion sn Oc caun:ed our may canLi date who doss not dlie with the chair m n of the State ex-ecutive eomittee or with the respecive chair.nen cf the executi.-e committees, a niedge in writing that he will abide the result of such primary and support the nomi nees thereo', and that he is not nor will he br'ome the c:.ndidate of any faction, eittez privately or publicly suggested, other than the regular Dmocratic nomination; provided fur-I tuer that no candidate snail be declar ed nemicated unless he receives a ma. jrityc(f the votes cast for the cl& : or which he is a candidate shall b. filed on or before the day o! the ti: campaign areeting cf the coun'y ci POWDER AbsoLutely Puro Article VI. The :ihee-' or me Staie Convetion~ sby. bed ie-vc prESident frc.,n E~ district, twvo c: .a -. .:- .c r er. ArtiLcle VDH. f-_:10 x cutire7; commit-ee s n, :, clmpo el of one member from eac:iut'. lo be cl-c ted by tte c v cv tio-s on the year. When a ctd s*id. e-.eeutive cornmittee s' il cho.eis onu ctisers, -i0: reccssasrily memrbters teereol prior , said electioS. Pvided, taat any ,).icer so ehc'.d 7-,o s rO: a member ofi he commit'ee s a Lnot *e entitleda t) a vo:e on any q-es.1- n. except the chairmea, ard :iea o in a c se of a tie vote. Tae S:a'e extesive com. mite shail meet at tPe call of chair man or any five m -embers, aLd at such time and place bs he or uney may ap point. The member of the nauonal Democratic Eecu.ive Commitce fro.n Scuth Carolina shall be elected by the May State Convention in 1896, aLd every fcur years ihereafter, and when elected shall -oe ex clicio a memc-ar d9 the State executive committeo. Va cancies on said executive cormmittee by death. resignation cr otherwiie, sall be filled oy tae respective coun ty ex(cutive committees. The State executive committee is charged with tie execution and direction of the pol icy of the party in tmas State, subject to this constitution, tie priniciples de clared in the platform of p:inciples and such instruction, by resoluuon. or otherwise, as a S:at- Covetiotn may from time to time adopt, not in consistent with this constituiuon, and shall continue in oui for tvo years from the time of electioi, or until their successo:s have been elected. Tne ccmmittee shall nominate Presi dential electors, and if any vacaac occur ja tLe State tinke: of electars, or of member of the ntlional ex:cu ive committee, by deatn, resignaton or other cause, the committee shall have tne p3wLr to lii tze vacancy; ail by a majority of the whole committee. Article IX . The vote in thie respect ive counties for all cf the State odi cers, Congressman and Unittd States Senator snall be tranmuted by thle chairman of tne respectiva ccu ty ex ecutive comlmittees to the chairman of tne State executive ecommittee as early as practicaole after eaca Frimary, who snail proceed to ca'-ss Lne ou and declare the resui. Article X Wnea sue S~a:e Conven tion1 anemoies it sna.1 s called t'o or der by the chairmn of tne S~zte exe cutive committee. A tenpjrary chb~ir man shall be naemaated aad elect by tae Convention and af~er its or ganization the Ciave.auon snail pro ceed immedia:eiy to tae execnoa (f permanent clixis aad to the trans action of busmneas. When the bus ness has conclud:.d i. snail adjura sne die% Arutcie X[. Before the election in 1896, and each eiec.ian Lflereaf ter, the State Democraic ex:eu~ive comm t.ee shall issue a caui to aui candidates for State oliises to address tae people of the different catl-iues of ume dla'.e flx ing the dates of ine meelings, and alho iaviting tee candidAteJ foru: re UjitedS.ates Senate and for sjuettars in their resoettive distric;s aad cu-~ cuits, to ube pseat and aditress ..ne people. At suca meetings only mne candidates above set for.a should Oe alioned to speaa. Article X[L. It shail be the duty of each count x:cu:.se commitee to appo:nt meeunags la Lneir respec;ive counties to be acdressc by the canci dates for the GieaerhI Ass:memy ann for the cijferenm e aay ali as, all or wnom ex:ep; magis tra es, am;:~rs a i-t supervisors ot reim :a.us on su oc eLct:.d oy prima.r-e~ u n ia: iiar 1: da3 in a.ugust o: exea entc.on yeau under the samne ru.s aad. reutauius nereinot f re pra t'lee. Aiuele X Ait. E sua C aay dLiega tiun to a $;ate G r:ni m. sa po r to fiiaauf v.Cc u eer.. be amendeu or alts.ea i.ta r any cjnven.ua eL~iies. ne ti.Xany that purpose, in:: c~ui -er w me ~na apecuy :hi: cna.?e~s to o mad:r. Aru~cle X\~ Au~y c.uai.y all.ng ur reuasing to orgaumz. ui~d.r LtO yrua ionls ot this coastutut.on sfni not nave representatn iu min: 6 ;ite . mncrati.: Goneaion. D. H. rompkins, Cnairman State D'ia~em exiire C-ommiatee. U. X Ga-nter, Set.::rsy. ACALL FOR VO-UJNTEcRS. [s Wtii bi Aet~ir z..d by Oagrees a 1a Fe~w Days. Representative Hall o'J '..a, chatir nan of t ae nlous cJmmita: oa ann - tary affairs, intrcdue:d ic:.wJay an administration bi I: aathoez ng thle Prts.der t to i.s a call for valuntet rs to th: nuni-r of 6 tu erC 7m 0U00 men. It was consiilred at oce oj LtIe coan mittee and its pas ace wi De expedi ed as rapidly as p ssible unai m:1 ;ake effc. imEdaaely up)La te Pr i dent's approval. Its tera~s salautuor iz~ Inth Presid.e.t to call 0 t ie v-sri ous 8ates fc~ r ioas in maig uy -. aggregate, 2'y readcng i u's way' ii..tead or specitic'ily lo'an to ' can? ing ouit the variouis 6:an-?riti, wa acli several embrassiag~ i~.aaica ties, a main o:.e being ite Cc:t. .inal inhOitiOn ca eneiig dw~e mlitia out of tue ceuntryv, whijie volun ters so called for can be oxd:red diu] where. It i i:e v Ohat it te st.UQ Ion develops i-to such grave p:opc' lons as is noy' e- xpete a secona c'Ii for 100,00 CTjuv.;ers rwai Oc sk-:d oy the Presi '-s. -e.retary Akgt r, now that we are on the ,-erge of wa~r, as deel ed no; to mace paulic m a.Ve nents of troops or any ne -S i>t might be of advantage to an eey SAios which c~g j :s. a~rsved at S.. Juna N. F., r~pr; caia sighteda uysterious stmner off Cape Rsce. Sne is schooaer rmgta, nas t co a its -:out yards, and ?s a a .. - :m