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TIE LiGhT tu !Ar'L. DR. TALMAGE PORT5A YS TE SS :NGS O F NSFOR URNE Feaple WL 'e - Bright 1 ght in the C:>uds- Ea -hly Ber' mnts Essentimi to H. -v<Air w. - GIO' succeeds G:o'am. This sermen C Dr. yaLae will have a tendency to take ite glcom out of many lives ard stir up a spirit of healthful anticipation; ta:, Job xxxvii, 21, "And now n-en see rot the briaht light which is in the clouds. Wind esst. Barom<ter fallirg. Storm signals cut. Ship reenne main toDEail. Awnings taken in. Prophe cies of foul weather everywhere. The clouds congregate around the sun, proposing to abc-lish him. But after awhile he assails ite flangs of the clouds with flying at illery of light, and here and there is a stgn of clear ing weather. Many do uct observe it. Many do not realize it. -At d now men sEe not the brigbt light which is in the clouds." In other wor ds, there are one hundred men looking for storm where there fs ore man lcoking for sunshine. My cj et will be to get you andmyself iato the delight ful habit of making the est. ci every thing. You may 1:ave won dered at the s'a tistics that in India in t, e year 1875 there were cver 19,0CO people slain bv wild beasts, and that in the year 1S70 there were in Ir dia cvtr 20(00 peop7e destroyed by wild animals. Bu: there is a monster in our own land which is year by year destrcy ng more than that. It is the old bea'r min .neholy, and with gospel weapors I propose to chase it back to its midi;:hl caverns. I mean to do tvro sumi-a sun in subtraction acd a sum ;n additicr - asubtraction from your days of de pression and an add ion to y cur days of joy. If God will help me, I will compe. you to see the Lright light that there is in the c!oud s an.d compel you to make the best of everything. In the first placeyou ought to make the very best of all y our fnancial mis fortunes. During mze panic a few years ago you all lost money. Scme of you lost it in most unaccountable ways. For the question, "How many thousands of dollars shall I put sside this year?" you substituted the qurs tion, "How shall I pay my butcher and baker and ciothier and landlord?" Ycu had the sen ation of rowing hard with two oars and y et all the time going down stre:im. You did not ,ay mon aucut it be cause it was not posurc to s~peak much of financial embarrassment, tut ycur wife knew. Less variety of wardroee, more econcmy at the table, self denial in art and tapestry. Ccmprelsion, retrenchment. Who did rot feel the necessity of it? My friend, did y oa make the best of this? Are you aware of how narrow an escape y ou made ?" Suppose you had reached the fortune toward which you were rapidly going? What then? You would have been as proud as Lucifer. How few men have succeeded large ly in a financial sense and yet main tained their simplicity and religious consecration. Net one man out of 100. There are glorious exreptiois, but the general rule is that in propor tion as a man gets well off for this world he gets poorly off fcr the next. .He loses his sernse o: dependence on God. He gets a distaste for prayer meetings. With plenty of bank stocks and plenty of Government securities, what does that man know of the pray er, "Give me this day mry daily bread?'' How few men la~gely suc cessful in this world are Dringing souls to Christ or showing self denial for others or are enminen for piety ? You can count them all r.pon your eight fingers and two thun bs. One of the old ecovetous souls, when he was saek and sick unto death, used to have a basin brought in, a basin filled with gold, and his only amuse ment and the only relief he got for his infiamed hands was running them down through the gold and turning it up in the basin. Oh, what infatua tion and what destroying power mon ey has for many a man. Now, you were sailing at 30 knots the hour to ward these vortices of worldliness what a mercy it was, that honest de falcation. ihe same divine hand that crushed your storehouse, your bank, your office, your insurance company, lifted you cut of destruction. The day you honestly su: ptnded in busi ness made y our fortune fcr eternity. "Oh," you say, 'I could get along very well myself. but I am so disap pointed that I cannot leave a c~mpe tence for my children." My brother, the same financial misfortune that is going to save your soul will save y our children. With the anticipation of large fortune, how much industry would your children have, without which habit of industry there is no safetyi The young man would say, "'Well, there's no need of my work ing. My father wlli soon step out, and then i'll have just. what I want." You cannot hide from him how much you are worth. You think you are hiding it. He knows all about it. He can tell you almost to a dollar. Per - haps he has been to the county cfflice and searched the records and mortga ges, and he has added it all up, and he has made an estimate of rLow long you will probably stay in this world, and is not as much worried about your rheumatism and shortness of breath as you are. The only fortune worth anything that you can give yocur child is the fortune you put in his head and heart. Of all the young men who started life with $40,000 capital, how many turned out well? I do not know half a dozen. The best inheritance a young man can have is the feeling that he has to fight his own batule, arud that life is a struggle into which lhe mutt throw body, mind and s-nul or be disgrace lully worsted. Wrt re arc the btu-ial places of the men vwho started life with a fortune ? Some of :nem in the potter's field, son in the suicide' grave. But few of there men reached 35 years of age. T hey drar 2 they smoked, they gamblei In thema the beast destroyed the man. Samne of them lived long enough to get treir fortunes and went through then. The vast majority of them d:d not yie to get their inheritance. Fromn the gin shop or house of infamy they were brought home to their father's house and in delirium began to pick c if loathsome reptiles from tne emnbroid ered pillow and to ight back imagi nary devils. And th::u they were laid out in highly upholste-red psrlor, the casket covered with ibwers by inc'ul gent parents, fl iwers saggestive of a resurrection with no ho-pe. "How hardly sta 1they tat have riches enter nto thekir gom of God:" "It i:n easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye than for - r'ch man to e nter the kirngdom of ' e-. What does that mean? It men that the grandest blessing God ever bestowed upon you was to take sour money away trom you. Let me are say, in passing, do not put auch stress on the treasures of this woU. You. cannot take them along wit yr'vu. At any ate, you cannot tae the scre than two er th:ee miles. Yo' will have to leave them at the cemtryv. Attila should be bur:n a :i a c e: S that then that scd b 0 Cna cin or s~ilvr. and tas" be inclOstL inac;aon, at 'r: a 'arae amount of tre.asur should. be thrown in over his bdy. A, . so he was buried. and the nen who buried him were s'ain so that ro cOe mi.ht know where le naslburisd ard rsoone might there interfere with his t:easure. 0 men of tl e world who want to tase VcUr mnor.ey with vou, better 'rave three coffins: Again, I remark cu cught to ae the very best of your birzavremeL . The whole tenderey is to brood ovcr separationr, and to gte much tine the handlir g of rne! ee's of tle ce parted, and to =&ke 1-r.c vi:-itator~s to the cemetery, and to sy : v Oa, I ein never icok up nnsin: y rope gore. My courage is e. Myv re ligion is gone. My faiL i a rd 'S gone. Oh, the wear and tear and ex h austion of t his lonelrnerc-s s- T-;he most frequent bereavemiezt Is the loss of children. If your depsred cmla 'had lived as long as you 'ave ve d, do you nct suppcs- tiat re wo have had about the same amt ut of trcuble and trial that you nave had: I11 you could make a cbo ce for vour child between 4) years of annoyance, loss, vtxation, Ex.speration ana hr. reavements and 40 years in heaveu, would you take the respor sibility of choosing tte former ? Would ou snatch away the cup of eternal biss and put itto that child's hands th11 cup of many bereavementsi Irstead of the complete safety into which that child has been lifted, would you lige to hold it down to the risks of ths mcrial state Would ycu like to e it out on a sea in which there have been more ship;7recks than safe voy ages? Is il. nota comfort to you to know that that child, instead of bi besoiled and flung into ie sire' sin, is swung clear into the skiet: Are not these children to be con2ratulattd Ih t the point of cekrstial bliss -wbich you expect to reach by a pilgramage ~of 50 cr 60 or 70 y ears they reached at a flasL? I' the last 10.00U childreu who had entered heaven had gcne through the a;erage cf human life on earth, are you sure all those 10,060 children would have finally rEachEd the blissful terminusl Bsides that, my friends, you are to look at this matter as a self denial on -your part for their benefit. If ou- children want togo off ia a May day pary, if your chi'dren want to go on newery and musical excursion, yo.u coaset. You might prefer to have them with you, but their jubilant abserne aStis fies you. Well, your departcd cil dren have only gone out in May day party, amid flowery and iusical en terta ament, am:d jDys an" L!rs forever. Tha cugut 4o q--i scmec ; your grie, the thu eh. Qf their giee. So L ought to ce tLat ycu Ccu*, make the clcst of all bo;ezens. The fazt that you have so many friends in heaven will make your own departure very chcerful. When you are going on a voyage, every thing depends upon where yot.?i' friends are-if they are on the wharf that you leave or on the wharf to ward which you are going to sail. In other words, the more feienes you have in heaven the easier it will be to get away from this world. The morte friends you have here the more bitter gcodbys. The more friends there the more glorious welcomes. Some of ycu have so many brother-s, sisters, children, friends, in heaven that I do not kcow hardly how you are going to crow d through. When the vessel came from foreign lan ds and brcuzht a prince to our harbor, the ships were covered with bunting, and you remensber how the men of war thundered broadsides, hut there was no jy there compared with the joy which shall be demoustrated when you sai'. up the tror d bay of heavenly salutation. The more friends you hive their the easier your own transit. What is deauh to a mother whose chil dren are in heaven? There is no more grief in it than there is in her going into a nursery amid the romp and aughter of her household. Though all around may be dirk, see v ou not the bright light in the clouds, that light the irradiated faoes of your glo rIfied kindred1 So also, my friends, I would have you make the best of your sicknesses. When you see one move c tY with elastic step and in full physical vigor, sometimes you became impatient with your lame foot. When a iman de scribes an objeot a mile of! and you can not Eee it at all, you become im patient of y our dim eye. When y ou hear or a well man makirng a great achievement you become very impatient with your depressed nervous sys'em or your dilapidated health. I will tell you how you can make the worst of it. Brood over it-brood over all these illnesses-and your nerves will became more twitchy, and your dyspepsia more aggravated, and y our weakness more appalling. But that is the devil's work to tell you how to make the worst of it. It is my work to show you a bright light in the clouds. Which of the Bible men most at tract your attentioni You say Mos~s, Job, David, Jeremiah, Paul. Why, what a strange thieg it is that you have chosen tho~e who were physical ly disordered ! Moses-I kno w he was nervous from the clip he gave the Ezyptian. Jeb-his blood was vitiat ed and diseased and his skin distress fully eruptive. David-he had a ru:m ning sore, which be speaks or when he says, "My sore ran in the night and ceased not." Jeremiah had en largement of the spleen. Wno can doubt it who reads Lamentation? Paul-he had a lifetime sickness which the commentators have been gussn about for years, not knowing exactly what the apostle 'meant by~ "a ''uorn in the flesh." I do not k'ow eu'her, but it was something th~tat stck him. I gather from ati ths at~ phy sical or der may be the means of g race to the soul. You say you have so many temptations from bodily all ments, and if ycu were orl v ei you think you could be a good Christi n. From my observation, I jadge 1hu. invalids have a more rapturous vie w of the next world than will peopleerrn will have bizher renoun in heave. The best vi v of the delcable m. us ans is throu.:h 'ae la'ic of i& s ?e k room. They are transits .rui every hour between pilv and throne, bet ween ncspital at di masi 'a, between bandages and rob betwee cruch and palan branch. u , I wish some of your people who are co~-oell ed :o cry: "Mv head. myvhea : M foot. my foot: My sca. my bc -E' would try some of the L~rc's ~d. - cine. Yoau are going to be well any how befor9 long. Hea.es is an old city, but has never yet reported onae ce of sickness or one bil of mcria'i y. No opthalmia for th e ys. N preumoaia for t' ~i:-g Nj pl'ew'i v .for the sice, Li neriaia ar in nerves. No rheumatism for tae sus ces. "The mnhabitants sha inever say, I am sick." "There shall be n more psa." Again, you ought to make toe best of hr'e's rinality. Now, you thinkI have a very tcugh subject. You ao rot see how I am to strike a spssrk of light out of the tiint of the tombstos e. Tnere are many people who have an :dea that death is the submergence of everything pleasant by everything doleful. I! my subject could close in the upsetting of all such preccnceived notions, it would close wel Who n a or -C 'Wat t ar cc Ian C S n n jz i iai Ck.~ , C -7- 1 obe2 cerce . u~. A- T b 0 he n : o a:: ookk'g ac p r oDr dais e a rva. We-K t h land becaus- re r r in Z ti '-at wee iy we; i c f th"e 0 - as D Y n.so Vn c :: A: tht s "aa te- ure waer'd -S to ri C~ - L e 1 S s i s i prav- e ,,e : -. a - bass I e - e-r i . s r Ul r' a 2aS . C S- C) I "A' V of0 p.rad.e. et toa Ne C1ru SL. I I ~ ~ ~~N I~ Tr'~-)a ~ W inw~ hica: aL . e* Dr-et to gohrn e eit cmD ar to,,ard h1n 7l , ac " noe es h ~ sa ere va c.h d go J o rd D c b wet bih v e n~ r ei - . fror wr n to - mh Brc ..;c iof y tr) l L et: w e s r we eu r s a~ d?~ .oat .vad wuog so w r sa ret a r o :hay so w E ihe 10:;% i. I f :he ariht tof truble thard me tropls h ;i which w1 cie tat ve ::.ro ara:a to go up and live on the hillic p. 'We ae slarm ed b .c.aus- v, ons cmirg. E,:erual suQlight and Uk.cst prozramme of celetial n ce ani al no idmt.Le-t us sta-y here azsu, kep cid an dgnor.tand weak.- 1. om ucnh-o c s.to Elija I d J.,S on fet ond the harpWcb' so'nes oL'arso nstend of plantiYz them ont bak d asn:th yo e 's en. Gw a s this smol slnd tof have kroe wor onsar jof e t hen o n sitie of spene d de etd or e k iu the. y e ar h-o e: it r~ts.v "D a L-r ,,e lem 3t3ay yo fr ons1 e P '' -.in us })'hert to lmighc liv andrg an re- c. ter fo thi~s.'a u.i.1ne hc we llret. de y uul sups intib orl inst -'-ad of sigfih I moratulatei erybd h a sickesu cannot avr' o hou accid-e ~yo'ruc vi yu 1o ki ~iM" said ora e litte c lu ' - ant r a09.''e relid 'ybUid e t h odgoua u a t a o muhtoii' ha m s ls loo co m oe.'Vud o s it. Yo omrels ou yb deat thn yo loe yar wrenwhe yo .edi ohv t epieo u j 'lw e1 o ed tt ae i e set, orte* aeapia-e hn usn itt av' itiu:e V r'h h t get 1,i . Pyo ilg aP rln t j-.quhadr' esw' uni Ener ' '-li '4E WE K'.Y SULLETiN CF THE PAESENT SEASN ? waz'ce :t e e: Zso-wht thle ino i Fr'nm t' e U. K. Obei4'es A; Szua.e ah.;w :ii to Ix'si:. C i T c ean tempera:ure !or t* e v a w.-s Ec ra but . the rez " r'.::C er, &Ld nor t stra c -.iL te niaht T:ere too' ecoA for tho rar:h o' cross while tie day temperatt:es :resuiliciently high to v-arm it.e d and bring p ce d rEcr i pla nntEd. Tae mean t-mr~r_ m Ire fo-r the, wEeek was 65 which i; a'st e nc r for the simep pri),d Tn re w2s a w:da ran e o tem r *ure betwe-n ;h! west ern Id eo*r psons, v z; between 1 on the al G;ihonvIl'e and 36 on tne 21o G~nv ~L , L'ht fro.s x.ere o ir i r i of the 2, ) r' 21it in k Pcns, Gree -nville, Zu u,A -s-er and Lu cister cout::i a; ncI irg was in.jared. T-e rainfall for the week wa3 n;av aru well distributed, an-d ovlr te ester portion of tle State was net - ,d and will prove bentieis. wh.e over limiited areas in the wes' ceiral ccuntics the ground was previously Swet and farmwork will be farther deleqvd. Oer the stuth-eastCrn eastern, ann north eastern coufti(s he rain was timely for oats art for pur'ing the soil 1a ecndition ror trats planting tobacco. T werdy are plac:s, re oresenting all portions of the :at. reportcd amounts of rain'all of or e or nore, fuir of wLich had C.;.r o iscnes, with excessive falls of 4 73 and 4 25 at St. Paul and Eila re e'-tively. The average of allre-parBt 1 19 a.d the normal for tuc -ama period is apprey-inately C S. Li'. 1 felon the Eii at Govn ad iC>eraw but did no damage. Tae sunshine varied gre;iy over 1he State but averaged 86 er cint, of osibl. Hi-h wind ac:ompani Ed the t uader storms over N.woerry couty destroying fruit tr.es and I a:o .ing down fe2ces. Tne weather on the -hcle was :,y rabla for farmawork, waica pro pssxd rapid;y and is now well ad canel d. :(9rn v sating made fair progress - d woiard corn la :nost c.>aAies is nearly all planted. some bottont lands have been planted. OCmpl ai:ts of poor stands of corn are ,e.eral and icclude all portions r the ':ete. Same of the earliest ar,ted has been pioxea u, and 1a Via7 td, while repianting is necessary hi mnany places owing to cut, and bud &orms and the poor germination of -.e-Ed.a "Irly corn that was cut down by froit is coming cut siowly. in general the nights have been too coal for corn to grow well. Early corn, in pla'ges. is large enough to plow. The buik of the Uotton crop was planted during the week, and only in .he extreme northwestern cunies does any considerawle area remain to be IanT d. arly plaating is coming up to irregular stands waile later pianting is coming up nicely. No ..e nas betnn chopped out yet. In tue northeastern ouanties rain was needed bat has been copiously supplied. Oats are small and oack ward iii B.srnwedl, Hamptoa and Beau'ort cunties owing to the dry winter, b i; th recen rains wilt hm eat theat. In other portions of the State oats are very premzi:sing and are heading. The rairns of the week will assure a full croap. The work or transplanting tobacco "raad rpdprogress, although the grudwas too dry ia places during the ilrst of the week, but the weather cnditions were generally favra ole. In the lower rice dis'.ricts plantiog is nearing completion and good stan&d are the riae throaghoat the entirc rice raisin g sections. I rish potatoes are being dug in Charleston and B3eaufori counti s, but the yields are poor; later plant ing look more promising. Potatc bags have appeared in Cnarieston county. Sweet potato slips are comirn u nicely iu most piaces, althogh a fu complaints are received of thseir not trowiug well. Musk melons are coming up poorl' and are later than usual. Water melcas have poor stands in E lgeaeid, Barn well, 0:ang e ->rg, Fiorenc~ aan Williamsburg counties. More corn and other food c:ops, than usual being planted in Spatrtan burg county. Farmers are well up with their work except in portions of Liurens and S~a iuda countiCs where it has been delay - ed by too much rain. WATCri THE RASCALS. A Mcio Tros: Furmned tJ FI. c~ :Lte Gon e ramen: Whernever the government is u::d-r thenecesityof laying ia large sup plies in ashcre time there is al way s danger of ccmbinations to swindle. It appears that a game of this sort has recently been attemy t:d by mule deal. ers ini the wst. The quartermatsr I eneral advertised for 1 u00 mte Bi3ds were received frora S:,. Louis 0:ncianati and Kansas City. Tne gaartermas:er general was as t.unded when he read thesz bids. He eas ascertained that tae prices of first class mules in the ci~ies namecd ha d ranged just at the tiame of rhis adget isueat from $70 to $90 The uv rn ntwas n~sked to pay frota $13 L) St3 The uniformity of the i ectascd prices in the bids convinced hie q aurtermuster gener.:l tnata onemation had been made by na1 mnwho controal the mule trede m is Atte: scoring thne bidders se';-rt' or t..eir "uupatriatic cniduct,''in qia trmas.er general indigrnantly re j-ted. all their ciffers a'nd a-vtie di mte toa h fr males It wil bI ) tuate~~" for the govermikent if l h haethe making of contra't fr *r suple hall be as watcnful a::dA sr e. in he performance .ti X m -s was the quartermnast'r "e'eral in~ thisin.stancs. Lock out for the s cls w'o are scheming to swindlcth goverafment rm war conatracts Gn'\m tn Roser n a ltr wc no:mas oerth vue o clcs dIr nthe.~ war with~ Spain. He 'I "y outag m fr eilis soldias, an s1m are hat G nea Rneed, a-. raut.ayee.and b\ind an ther U :n' ~.cusC o co:st ngo. of cde mapots, who canc 0rl :g . ,inu a propekry n atd e ..a es: itnou a reader. ghiocs is uti lit rainer threey, bunths, anre a hcpr .ruthi in ray fara Rv ssr a arthet veteans, tithal hirgi scomb n a 1:e aeno ae '. -_ Jr, S S'.ej) A as the cir' I'Ir -.the v l ter '. V~~ on~a. C -T e :hi-. the LI -- C eL is wntnde fee ldow cf sec. tios is-n sen th a apresident's nr,. -ess and3 ratio.e icly at d ane 7 'gstr vf c e of our -1. . i i u i, and we e rr irl 'y n cj f o tis :rn:s ndve mSt sesy-ct.fully C : c ar irt a "Mavor*S uutte 1 eeve E roIIrg .g of one or -V ' a a embrs 'ro-m each S:-aera. and veieran s c ,cur cy and vici , in ..c a re)r -;entative from Cr; orga zd. b v adng to said c n -mI t! 1:-n. t busines 'Lien, charman, ss . l, cll the conmitte oe -. - sta'--sa nesdquarters in or a:e of vour public buildiov, n chc! houses. .odge erin an mting ilEs of the vari o Org asmenI.s cach evening for a e sr 1 days for the purpose of en coli' LIa s. cvIng enrollments N ilocal Vo'uatee zeserve. d te-ta:ive mili:ary compaies Le 1:c e !!ralfrd, the;; .;n te Na ioaql Volunteer er. :.a bo , as si.oild o'.hers , s - ri zt frn ' n-letr *-.o contain.Ed thlw e ntr a.g rampirative s'emeni n) '. 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A disoatchj from Was -hingtonj Sayjs is ntirely probaleo tha e operdt a tions Cf th y Americsn at in Couban .aters in he mitter of seizing Spanish veitels as prin7,s will be soon -om,-,plete 13y eclipsed by the perfcrmance of the swift, ocea'n grE3hounds r.-cently bgo o oby the govemetsfrom the -Aur~in line. TIese vssels St I. iS:..Paul and iHrvard, haive tdn Te wU aeinr proection over ai a ar t x poed machinery and have alrady reeivd gothobteriwos.,It wa n nt-etinfter darmn tobul cassider andly su. ralemet th attiey 't t h av yaerdts.s un owin from aI da ofc the o moensn~e cvery~ riey an b.>enscre aeselo the du amenotdes ae cponid tatimear c-u- ers tpit ih.:re work i the r:-t-a trey atr he na oafs oa' wreir nm ith otier waitfoo therans.one lirer of re topbe tsh-i pcdl -to se ad itroe is redthtifcey rill carr iner hs c se guns hav a e wmcat fin aye muntod tashed cc ther i crbueiwaer.Noci cla sattr~ntca - sec uresto the des~iationohese splendid aiiar cIi:.ers, but it is ru .of thar the rethed.dit. i foro he pubast oen : b aa were teil: li'n t for observ ~atin aorcciofthe fullyih itn the2no eitrraniag compse oetr pedaa s 5.anddsryr.i enoc he ccuanso the cures re As t'eb.o hating an t end t Angk so uss phuou;n~ the. xl ise foiozing exrweson of H a. a resR a ta. cofuBrr, a a Lae o the Dorinion toenate and one ada' forpe mostgi' publi mnen, 'ill beri fod ar es "Tnepec ple ofh -aud appreci ate lly thei uati - ow c otng yout bodern *m-?t, and omend, unrservedlyn te ccrsei1'w t7 at resient f Mciney has daken.c I~ putn actng en toh dra u or ditionx ofe things an ngloa ~ te I d ate s pcrforindeinl z-t:. E 5LIIsn eteryshment are o 'yp- uly- with It out a nd~io .pp aL cratin fo d an oppresideopl s1r nggliae for tier asud honoa ad- this, Iktake ito sthe -n Aaeiar o. I:aseems to m worl, w~chcan y ictyg m uni so,~ di:.t o al oe. goelfrme nds. For -e-~rs s hae faoen itsgso a-dt..(... 'd Ste ca reeui estinabi s e to thei wnciti zess, trough e estabishm e of wt~af be's p>efil ha al thna 3:r i. an itwou d ake o nier H :s rosm m- A C.d It ems i esaudra~iu of n v-ina euareu an wil o- an:.i~y I our presento auasuabwe e idec o er fred sa~p whca il e-.r ary ote Eu r: p m ec anon .rom giIun Ssivactl est es:t~e. :royera usanle orne seste th EO sea ir and - m-t *- o advancemeaut o f re-m:dGd e the ed ay whe SHE WAS AN iTA Ll AN. Th oe biock ad ig s quadron o:t ihc of Cuboa is kept gli'e buasy. Sanday morning the cruiser Cincinnati was seen or the eastern hora , smAe pouring froa hr funnels e d been heoded2. for antrzas an E;i dently hsd tuenrned back to cniae som vessel. Tne obj-ct o' her %r7.2s wand heo coasts. T h-e . tue eMar s -enesa at , a the , aunb a , ii z t i i miae"- v 'ur-:ed out cf U rse t0 he ' warshi off I- rem ai diner of th z acnron r d o the west wErd. srnooe i:ured frcrn our ships The 1.gship xwas- n :irg 'k nos. t h whole Vesel t b'r-c wih the vibra t:ons C.f her sc- ws T.e little Wil1 inton steai-d up in spl-ndil ,tqe. I snd the fas: crisr Marblehead kept nearlyv abreaut. The .ormid abe trio bore d"7n unonthe wario". The1 a sI-ut viert up "She is a Sraniard Fo.r thre text 10 minute 'he esie menit was terrific The d stance xhic-h sepsrted the vessels rerdreJ it im' Dcssib'e to make oat th war's identity. She was thought to be the Viz -:a or the Al-miente 04u ndo, heading hard for Habana. The mcn at the guns shou'ed with he Te stckers c 1' duy telow chered vcci'er Gusly a-:d bg-Zaed to b. ai )wed A go on dzck to helpshoot 'At the Lirst arIted enemy mne:. The oflic-:rs cr-dcd a the q iarter dEck as elated ao the men, though under better control The bugler blew "general quarters." All bands lew to their posts. Do -n came the shrouds with a rattle. The life lines vanishEd from the deck R-ar Admiral Sampson, stazdiang On the bridge, said deliberat: ly to Cap-1s. Caadwick, "Yes, the Oouiand6o ot V:zraya," and tten adced "I shculd like to bag thom both." Then it was seen that the chWs ws flying an Italian IiaU, but this was no proof that hehicd her siil inviible guns Span iards vere not coitc-ealed, ready to shcot urder adatage of sabterfu;e. - A"! the nuns cii the New York's port side and in the forivard and after tur rets were trained on the stranger. A few nAinutes later when about 1,500 yards separated the New York from her target, the American flig was run up by the warship, and then it was kco -n she wss not a Spaniar d. A puff of snroke issued from har sides, and the boom of a gun stund d a.ross the waters. It was cnly a sa iute, but at tirtt many on board thcuaht Rear Admiral Sampsoa had bezn deciv.d. Bat the warsnip fired 15 g uus as a salute, which also !1ew th- Ialiau thig. The stranger wasI thzn :ade out to be the Giovani Bausan, a powerful cruiser. Withoat further formalities she pursued her course and entered Habana harbor. Thus an excitirg incident ended in disappointment, but it served to sho how anxious all handz ara for a real nght and how splendid the discipline is when a contingency stems imni L :lt. R'ght or Wraor. Oar country. "TIere may be, and there are, two opinions as to the justiacation and righteousness of the war with Spain upon which the United States has now practically entered," says the Charles, ton Critic. "There al way s i; a con servative sentiment which questions the moral j astidea'.ion of any war. There were men in the generation which preceded us who hela tue war of secession ur jastidable. In fact, there never was, sin ce tihe world be gao, and neve:- wil be unanimity of opioion oui any 1iuC af such :cunim tude as to involve the icsue o' war Oar father: and ccnterto oraties who opened .tre on Fort Saater may have blundered in 1861. Clingress may have committted a similar blad::r nowv. These are question~s whic~h ad mit of argument. But there is one auestion which is resadjudicata in the domain of patriotiem and of senti ments of natianal pride and honor which we have not yet grown wise or calculating enough to disregard as unmeaning claptrap-and that is, that or ce war is declared by the duly au thorized representatives of our gov erhment, rightly or wroagly, individ uai oainion of its wisdom or jastidea lien inust be suspeadedi and give way, for the time, to the uii-ed purpose of of Americans er ery wnera to maintain tt-ie cause and make god tie preten-' sions to which we have been cumn-.tj ted. Every other consideration muAt be s valloled up, for the time being, in the honor of our country. We may meet with disaster and defeat. We do not anticipate such poesibility. Yet these may came. The war may be an individual and a national sin fo: which we alal yet have to account to God. But if there is any meaning in the term patriotism; in love for anid fldelhty to one's native country and jalousy of her honor, these are the things wi.h which we now have to do. Disaster and d::feat we can sustain with honor unimpaired, it the proper ecursge, fasith and manliness of ourI people are Lot impeached. But sow ing the seeds of d tssension and disaf- - fection amo::g the people in the face of a foreign war; assiduously disparag tgthe country's cause, slurring its ctions and tasing pleasure in its an icipate d discomfiture is not commen dabie, as it certaiy is act either dig id..:d or in good taste. Miany of tne ~enerais who led the armies c f the South and most signally illustrated the manhood and glor3 of our people did not belitrye in the wisdom of our ivil war." For t Oe e02r atee te. The Coarirston C; i ~c says "between hemn, the dc ius action o' the editor, of the Nows and Courier and r-f the Washington correspondent < f that sper, has put South Carolina in a. vry un'nviable light before the ountry at this delicate juncture. The .dior wired his corresp:.ndent: "ziate militia eiling to fight, i a. do rot wisn to tight in Cracr outsidej he S ate." Tois was the persona1 cpinion of he editor and it Lad been furnishe4 als cor spx dr it mrereiy as pri ;ate nformatuin it so d v? h-en all igh t B3 ' ter correspu ii ent se-en s to rave~~ ehit te t-'eg-am a ou dl a, an authoitaive sta'tement ot t:. e auttude of t'e ilitia cf tiais Sutt. and the N : 're Tribure anti o'her unecessarily give this State a bhea yve in threeys of'the contry. Amaoa e egram we e cormunam e oSn to the genr*al in c nmard ni th rrth? B-gade n ~CitC2no t> is oTh N-'ws and (:.ure wins 'ier '-rtareent that e ou Ca a1 ,iit rfn-e to *tiz-t cuia - i ofth 1tae.Fo the ho or of the -. a i 'nlov any suc a::i na t ;a sweet '"orse toer e is d li- ac thn e 8:t' n''an: :o3mancs as se' Ty san th cries an ix. do to snr t Thus a(~ hee tir (:11 2ieret A BATCH M"F WAR NEWS, TH. '' 1 i FLEET SA-L3 FRCM ( APE VERE . AL I )pan ti C, p:ur-> Ly tt F - -t Key west ce t:. g Nmioas Abot Belog Bcm 12-!,I A itak' Dinled -Tro ps Eeirg T I 2 -es :;agNe rs Friday a no u dle da dis;p ech fromn t.\eC ,e Vrde Islands. say saAim ( gnda, Vz7e.yaand Co l C o, acimpinied by the ;a at-:.- e o .at dehroyers Piu , T !rra Furcr. hd. at Lne hc u - thei dipa e' was "'ed (9 o'clock Fr. iy mor::? jy. sauted 'n a rem~y ire~io, peumblygoiig oa T:.e dispatech adJs that to Scpito:sa 0opedo t;Az~ra, RAyo and Arie-e and th! SaLisb transoorts S.a F'rrCi ard C. U iad de Cadiz ailed at the SaLI time la a no:therly directikn, proeabgoin gto theCana ry Islares. DH11'o1'T NT CAPrCRT. A small Spaisj s:ojp, the E igra ciS cit:urd by the Uniel States gun boatNew'ort, CaotAlia B. F. Tilley, ti Cf Ab-as Tiursday was brotaght into Kqy West Flday morning She was Inchrg of a p:.z crev coniist ing of a couple of b*utjckets. Oly one blank siot wvas necessary to briag h e Ei gra.-ia to. 8S had on board a crew of seven nen and a cargo of Lih The rmu on board the pr:z had een la the Sp h ih nivy, and serve as a sort of nV ieserve. Tae ctii curs of t: Newport say the cap'u:-e is an maportaat one, in view o tne fact that 'nat the l.ttie vessel was attempt in.. to carry into Havana news of the Uu:tea S:ates fleet. KEY wEST GETTING NERVOUS. The timid aver tnat K!y Weit is sure t 1:e the irst point o attsek by the 1ti feet, and ta whereabouts of 1e iter taey place-some at Po:to Ribo, otbhers off BraudA, while some will almost cerufy taat the hostile crulsers. aya less thia aa hundred iws ay. A reasons for their belief that Key West wi.1 b! selected, aLany say Spain his aa especial gud e againsttae plac, as having b e tor many years a ho'bed of t'eascn to tae croxin, nait the coil anin-tralsores b.lAu;in tot ae United S.ates ati nowv here to supply the fleet would b o iac.lcalable ben t'.t tue Sdaaiards, and tnat Lth VIs cayA and O iendo alone oall capture the place I- a feax ho.rs ardSATIONAL SYORY. Taere ii ao.zour.ety na foanda ion for !t sensational repors ciael 'rom Key Wes: t. the efft -tat a case a. treasonri has beea cisoovered ca board the United S'ates monitor Parira. Tue rumors arcse from the strange ac tions of a firemau, with a Spanish sounding naame, nov under restraint on the warship becau e o: his recanL eccentricities. Tne officers of the Pa ritan declare there is no tacusht of trying tae man by art-:nartial, and the. all the talk about treason is ab aod. M ASSING AT TAMPA. The Uz-atu States is massing large bodies of troops at Tampa Fiorida, and qa invasion of Ca*A will soon take place. F.R ST SPAN.SH SHO r. ;orprdo E s t FacHa1 U t 3eHor at B' ing the T a: get. Tie United Sate3 torpcde boat Foote, I.ieutenant L. W. R~dgers c mr~mndng, has the honor of having been the target for the first shot fired by the Spaniards at the American 11.1g during the wrar juit begun. The firing occumrd bet ween 5 and 6 o'clcck on Saturday afternoon while the tor r edo bost was taking scu adings in the harbor cff Mar.tas z Cs. She was with in t .vo or thrce u-idred yards of the shore. Saddenly a Spanish masked boati~erv on the east side of the harbor and ntct very far distant from the Foote, fired three sho's at the torpedo boat. They sli. went ride of their mark snI the Foote returned leisure iy to the Cincinnati where she report ed the result of her soundings and then annctunced she had been fired uoon. T ae Cinciauati was anxious to steam instantly and reduc3 the Span ish batteries, out she was not vermit tcd to do so. ______ wh:.t P. 1-e at o Fr~rming1 The art of farmi.- g mainly consists i i the art of manuri-:g, or supply ing to the crop the proper kind of focd in proper proportiofls or suf~cient quan tities. Theatmcsphere is inexhaut~i bie; the suit is hot, but God has given man the materia~s ior its r efertiliz ition and he must cutivate his understand ing and physicai powers in order to apply them. Tue mechanical charac ter of the soil very mu~h controls the kind c f plants th a naiurally grow on it. Oa very light lands, rye, of all gratins, gro ws ber.; on heavy clay lands, wueat. clover tud gi rass grow mest le ariantly. Thus we find that h t physesal cbaracter of the 5oils are cf great cor.Sc q sence, and determine the agriaultural productsof the region where thtey exi:t Soiis may be im proved mechanically as well as ene m ically ; in faci all the conditions must b y fullled if we wouli have a perfect result. Deep ploughing and subsoil mng turn up new earth atd loosen the s ail so that the roots may penetrate. This mode of culture improves sttiY clay sois, but it wrould injure light ar d aucy eiis. si:ch as pirney woods ato t;you e'~uni break up the ran ar~d :nur s5i1 wjl2l rether hod] manu e nt r wac. ) -ainage U!s anotcer moida3 cf mechauer i~nprove men. rnot only by taking cff superfiu ons ..ater, but the soil is readered warar.r Or:eS cut eo mer after rains;~ isom. r cui:ivated ia~ the em. :g of tL year, a'~d the plant gr ot more reacily. YourV :0. rouuasa'e the la'.t to be plart'd iu coro. U'ter rains, a!sc', :he water n k i th ;.rur, cI~r::Io' el:. :n- ic .:.icoug p-inciloes aosorbed iu? ;ts cescent hi -;ug a the~ atmospohere. Drainage cimtitish s fo-s, sdetrimentalto some 'i:d: o' e ii ndlg but not lea-t, is comui' UCr-o 'd-to and saves doc -ra"n" r tra in No 20.'atn in di ac2' . y'e Te~r d eo txloi.r a -ed and 11- . r. a-.. ad vr to!r r ,.,arsquadro in the a - e. >.h srmoe soa-er the ef Ap prde ads proced r not to Porto e ha ut to attack our shi: s e P. There is Lit le prob' hat an ever tanaght of such n .Tr Sa a-is> Ce woutld be -~ *-es o,~r or' P~el etqe di bh !r.t s0:1 pro? V y 1ot Royal makes the food pure, wholasomo and deUclous. bAKIO4 POWDER Absolutely Pure POYAL BAKINO PCWDER CO., fW YORL I HE TWO FLEETS. United atesa-d fpaalft . g In tIe Battle, The f )o wing is a list of the twe Sihets engaged in the confict at Ma. nila: UNITED STATE8 SHIPS. Olympia, first class protected cru's-r, 5,800 tons, launched, 1892; sosed, SL knots; battery, four 8 inch rifles, tea 5irc'i rapid fire guns, fourteeng - pounders, six 1 pounders and four machine gun-.* Baltimore, se:ond rate, 4,600 tons; soeed 20 6 knots; battery, four 8 inah, six 6 inch rifes. four 6 poundeirapil tire, two 2 pounders, two 1 poinders, two 18 inch, two 1.4 inch and two machine guns.] Boston, se cand rate, 3,189 tons spd 15 knots; battery, two8 inch, six g inch rifles, two 6 pounder rapid fre, two 3 pounders, two 1 pounders, two one point 8 inch, two one-point4 inc't and two machine guns. Rtleigh, second-class, speed, It knots; battery, one 6 inch and ten S in2ch rapd fira rifles, eight 6 pounders, four 1 p:unders and two machine guns. Concord. third rate,. 1,700 tons; speed, 17 k2ots; battery, six 6 ineb, t Lo 6 pounder rapid fiee, two 3 pmwa, ders, one 1 pounder and fourmachian guns, Petrel, fourth rate, 893 t )w; 1S keots. battery, four 6 inch ga two 3 pounder rapid fire, onel ou and four machine guns. McCulloch, revenue cutter. Nanshan, collier. Z tlra. supply vessel. THE SPANISH FLEET. R ina Maria Christina, 3,520 built 1886; speed, 17 knots; six 6 2-ie i Hontoria guns; t inch and three 2.2-inch rapid rifles, six 1.4-inch and two' guns. Castilla, 3.342 tons: built 1881; bat tery, four 5 9-inch Krupp rifles, two 4 7-:nch, two 3.3-inh, four 2.5-inch rapid fire and two machine guns. Velac:, 1,153 tons; battery thre 5.9-inch Armstrong inss, two 27 inch Ho2ntorias and two machine guar. Dun Antoni3 de Ulloa and Don Juan de Austria, each 1,130 tons; spued, 14; knots; battery, four 4 7-inch Eortorias, two 2.2-inch rapid fire, t wo 1,5-inch and two machine gLuns. General Le za and El Can', gun yes ,ils, 524 tons; built 188E; speedi11. niots. The General Iz has two atoria r~fles of 4 7-inch calibre, one 3 5 inch, t wo small rapid fire 'and one machine gun; the E!cano, three 4,7 inch guns, two small rapid firs and t wo machine guns. Ma q es del Duero, dispatch boat, 500 tonsa; one smooth bore 6 8-Inch calibre, t wo 4 7-inch and one "mMcin The Isla de Cuba and the Isla de Luzon are both small gunboats. They are of 1,030 tons dislaement and carry four 4.7-inch H 'to two small guns and two machine guna, Ila do Mindarao, of the Compal Trans Atlantica of Cadiz, arme as a cruiser; length, 376 5; beam, 42,3; gross tons, 4,195; speed, 13 5. The True Spirna. Senator Teller has on mere than one oc::asion proved that he is the brain iest, broadest and most patriatic stae man in the Uaited States &nnte. No where has the attitude of this cena try towaerds Spain been more terUSel stated or the real American idea more clearly set forth than in Senator Till er's speech wheu-he said: "This war upon which we ar-e enteuing cann bring us no material gaia. It will result ia i he loss of millions to our commerea. It will s weep our ships from the me and wa will leave thousands of our yo ing men dead from fevers and di. ease in the tropics. AUl this must e counted in advance, aa d we have counted it. I believe the day of Cuban freedom has come, but when we have achieve d the victory there wall be no territory to indemnify us for our sae rifices, because we do not want terri tcry . There will be no money to in demnify us, because Spain is bnk rupt. We must fi- d our supreme a-t isfaction for our bl.:od and treasures in relieving the cry of suffering and the cause of humanity. This war must be fought, because in the eyes of the world we stand as thie sentinel of 10 erty on the western hemisphere, a -d because, if we fail to iste to t voice of the stiffering and downtraa den, we will be untrue to the prihei ples upon which this government is fout. ded as upon a rc." slivar and B anas oaptai e4 The United States mo..i.or Terror., Cap-. Ludlow,- captured tne small Spanish coasting steamer Anorsio BAivar off Cardenas W-daesday night. When captured she nad $60, 000 in Spanish silver aboard. in addi tion a cargo -of bananas. The silver was taken on baard thie Terror. The steamer was bound from P,>rt Limom, Costa Rica. for Habana, wne n capi ured off Catrdenas by ths mOaitor. She w:.s brought in here by Gxaner iartin and a prize crew. Spunisr 'ifee oept2ine. B snco cables that American war shit~s blockading Cienfuegus capture . Spanish merchant iteame'-. A colo-.n rad, surgeon, sax officers and three nor -commissioned officers were held a'- prisoners. Civilian passengerh lity era.ed. T HE opinion seems to pru vail amnoag hli naval c ffic-rs taat Havana w1ll not be bmbarded; but will only be olcckaded ic'r the present It is mad to be the desire of the administration to take the city with as little bloodihed and destruction of prop rty as posible But all this, of course, is subject to speedy change. ACCoRDING to the SAwitac Center, Mithl, Repub'iaan, a big mejarity of the c Tz ns of that place favor an im mediate war with Spain but a careful esiimate of the number o' recruits willing to help drive Sin fr o a 'he Western Hemnisahere p s.ea t-e toutal at t wo. And Sanilae is not the only npace wrew this condition ~mflta