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ORIGIN O1 3AN AINM) Dr. Talmage Pins His Faith to the Divine Account. EVOLUTION IS INFIDELITY. Attemptto Galvanize an Old Hea then Doctrine Into Life. Sci entific Absurdities to Drive Out God and the Bible. The question of human origin. so prominent now in scientific and reli gious circles, is discussed in character istic style by Dr. Taliuage in this dis course. in which he also advocates the theory that all the world's progress has conic through Christianity; text. I Tim othy vi, 20, -O Timothy. keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoid ing oppositions of science falsely. so called!" There is no contest between genuine science and revelation. The same God who by the hand of prophet wrote on parchment, by the hand of storm wrote on the rock. The best telescopes and mi croscopes and electric batteries and philosophical apparatus belong to Chris tian universities. Who gave us mag netic telegraphpy? Professor Morse, a Christian. Who swung the lightmuigs under the sea. cablina the continents together? Cyrus W. Field. the Chris tian. Who discovered the anaestlieti cal properties of chloroforn, doing more for the relief of human pain than any man that ever lived, driving back nine-tenths of the horrors of surgery? James Y. Simpson of Edinburgh, as eminent for piety as for science, on weekdays in the university lecturing on -profoundest scientific subjects and on Sabbaths preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ to the masses of Edin burgh. I saw the universities of that city draped in mourning for his death, and I heard his eulogy pronounced by the destitute populations of the Cow gate. Science and revelation are the bass and soprano of the same tune. The whole world will yet acknowledge the complete harmony, but between what my text describes as science, falsely so called, and revelation there is an uncompromising war, and one or the other must go under. At the present time the air is filled with social and platform and pulpit talk about evolution, and it is high time that the people who have not time to make investigation for themselves understand that evolution, in the first place, is up and down, out and out in fidelity; in the second place, it is con trary to the facts of science and, in the third place, that it is brutalizing in its tendencies. I do not argue that this is a genuine book,I do not say that the Bible is worthy of any kind of cred ence-those are subjects for other Sab baths-but I want you to understand that Thomas Paine and Hume and Voltaire no more thoroughly disbe lieved the Holy Scriptures than do all the leading scientists who believe in evolution. And when I say scientists of course I do not mean literary men or theologians who in essay or in ser mon and without giving their life to scientific investigation look at the sub ject on this side or that. By scientists I mean those who have a specialty in that direction and who through zoologi cal garden and aquarium and astrono mical observatory give their life to the study of the physical earth, its plants and its animals and'the regions beyond so far as optical instruments have ex plored them. I put upon the witness stand living and dead the leading evolutionsts Ernst Heckel, John Stuart Mill, Hux ley, Tyndall, Darwin, Spencer. On the witness stand, ye men of science, liv ing and dead, answer these questions: Do you believe the Holy Scriptures? No. And so they say all. Do you be lieve the Bible story of Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden? No. And so they say all. Do you believe the mira cles of the Old and New Testaments? No. And so they say all. Do you be lieve that Jesus Christ died to save the nations? No. And so they say all. Do you believe in the regenerating power of the Holy Ghost? No. And so they say all. Do you believe that human supplication directed heaven ward ever makes any difference? No. And so they say all. Herbert Spencer, in the only address -he made in this country, in his very first sentence ascribes his physical ail ments to fate, and the authorized re port of that address begins the word fate with a big "F." Professor Heckel, in the very first page of his two great volumes, sneers at the Bible as a so called revelation. Tyndall in his fa mous prayer test, defied the whole of Christendom to show that human sup plication made any difference in the re sult of things. John Stuart Mill wrote elaborately against Christianity, and to show that his rejection of it was com plete ordered this epitaph for his tomb stone, "Most Unhappy." Huxley said that at the first reading of Darwin's book he was convinced of the fact that teleology had received its death blow at the hand of Mr. Darwin. All the leading scientists who believe in evolu tion, without one exception, the world over, are infidel. I say nothing against infidelity, mind you. I only wish to define the belief and the meaning of the rejection. Now. I put opposite to each other, to show that evolution is infidelity, the Bible account of how the huntan race started and the evolutionist account of how the human race started- Bible account: "God said let us make man in our image. -God created man in his own image. ma:e and female created he them." Hie breathed into him the -breath of life, the whole story setting forth the idea that it was not a perfect kangaroo or a perfect orang outang, but a perfect man. That is the Bible ac count. The evolutionist account: Away back in the ages there were four or fiv< primal germs or seminal spores fron which all the living creatures havi been evolved. Go away back, and ther< you will find a vegetable stuff tha might be called a mushroom. Thi mushroom by innate force develops;a tadpole. the tadpole by innate force de velops a polliwog, the polliwog deve lops a fish, the fish by natural fores develops into a reptile, the reptile de velops into a quadruped, the quadrupe< develops into a baboon, the baboon de velops into a man. Darwin says that the human hand only a fish's fin developed, lie say that the human lungs are only a swir bladder. showing that we once floate' . or were amphibious. H~e says the hu man ear could once have been move by force or will just as a horse lifts it ear at a frightful object. lie says th human race were originally webfootec From primal germ to tadpole, from tac pole to fish, from fish to reptile, fro: reptile to wolf, from wolf to chimipai zee and from chimpanzee to man. hov if anybody says that the Ilible accoum of the starting of the human race an the evolutienist account of the .startim re~ t.-. the fi-te " toL th o1"ok04 of Genesis. ut kriw you are' an infidel. As for myself as flerbert Spencer wvas not 1rt'elt at tie creation and the Lord Aimighty was present. I prefer to take the divine account as to what really occurred on that occasion. To show that this evolution is only an attempt to eject God and to postpone him, and to put him clear out of reach I ask a question or two. The baboon imade the man. and the wolf' made the baboon. and the reptile made the quadruped. and the fish made the reptile. and the tadpole made the fish, and tile primal germ made the tadpole. Who made the primal germ? Most of the evolutionists say. "We don't know. Others say it made itself. Others say it was sponta neous .:eneration. hiere is not of theni who will fairly and openiiy and frankly and eiphatically say, "God made it." The nearest to a direct answer is that made by Herbert Spencer in which he says it was made by the great "un knowable mystery." But here comes Huxler with a cup of protoplasm to "x plain tile thing. This protoplasm. er says. is primal life giving quality with which the race away back in the ages was started. With his protoplasm he proposes to explain everything. Dear Mr. hluxley. who made the protoplasm? To showv you that evolution is infidel I place the Bible account of how the brute creation was started opposite to the evolutionists account of the way the brute creation was started. Bible account: You know the Bible tells how that the birds were made at one time, and the cattle made at another time, and the fish made at another time. and that cach brought forth after its kind. Evolutionist's account: From four or five primal germs or seminal spores all the living creatures evolved. Hundreds of thousands of species of insects, of reptiles, of beasts, of fish, from four gers-a statement flatly contradict ing not only the Bible, but the very A B C of science. A species never de velops into anything but its own spe cies. In all the ages and in all the world there has never been an excep tion to it. The shark never comes of a whale, nor the pigeon of a vulture, nor the butterfly of a wasp. Species never cross ever. If there be an attempt at it, it is hybrid, and the hybrid is al ways sterile and has no descendants. These men of science tell us that 100,000 species came from four when the law all through the universe is that, starting in one species, it keeps on that species, and there would be only fou, now if 'there had been four at start:ig. If I should say to you that the w .id is fiat, and that a circle and a squ:re are the same, and that twice two make 15. I would come just as near the truth as when these evolationists tell you that 100,000 species came from four. Evolu tiou would have been left out of ques tion with its theory flatly contradicting all observation and all science had not its authors and their disciples been so set on ejecting God from the universe and destroying the Bible that they will go to any length. though "t lead them into idiotic absurdity. You see what the Bible teaches in regard to it. I have shown you also what evolution teaches in regard to it. Agassiz says that he found in a reef of Florida the remains of insects 30,000 years old-not 3,000 but 30,000 years old-and that they were just like the insects now. There has been no change. All the facts of ornithology and zoology and ichthyology and conchology but an echo of Genesis first and twenty-first, "Every winged fowl after his kind." Every creature after its kind. When common observation and science cor roborate the Bible, I will not stultify myself by surrendering to the elabor ated guesses of evolutionists. Toishow that evolution is infidel I place also the Bible account of how worlds were made o pposite the evolu tionist's account of how worlds were made. Bible account: God made two great lights-the one to rule the day, the other to rule the night; he made the stars also. Evolutionist account: Away back in the ages there was a fire mist or star dust, and this fire mist cooled off into granite, and then this granite by earthquake and by srorm and by light was shaped into mountains and valleys and seas, and so what was originally fire mist became what we call the earth. Who made the fire mist? Who set the fire mist to worldmaking? Who cooled off the first mist into granite? You have pushed God some 60,000,000 or 70,000,000 miles from the earth, but he is too near yet for the health of evolution. For a great while the evolu tionists boasted that they had found the very stuff out of which this world and diworlds were made. They lifted the telescope and they saw it, the very materal out of which worlds made them selves. Nebula of simple gas. They laughed in triumph because they had found the factory where the worlds were manufactured. and there was no God anywhere around the factory. But in an unlucky hour for infidel evolution ists the spectroscopes of Fraunhofer and Kirchoff were invented, by which they saw into that nebula and found it was not a simple gas, but was a com pound, and hence had to be supplied from some other source. and that im plied a God, and away went their theory shattered into everlasting demolition. So these infidel evolutionists go wan dering up and down guessing through the universe. Anything to push away back Jehovah from his empire and make the one book which is his great com munication to the soul of the human race appear obsolete and delusive. But I am glad to know that while some of these scientists have gone into evolution there are many that do not believe it. among them the man who by most i, considered the greatest scientist we ever had this side of the water-Agassiz, a name that makes every intelligent manthe earth over uncover. Aicassiz savs: '"The manner it whih the evolution theory in zoology is treated would lead those who are no' special zoologists to suppose that ob servations have been made byv which i1 can be inferred that there is in naturi such a thing as change among orgamizec -beings actually taking place. There i; no such thingion record. It is shiftin the ground of observation from one fieli -of observation to another to make thi: statement, and when the assertions g< -.so far as to exclude from the domain o sisence those who will not be dragzet into this mire of iiere assertion theni is time to protest." With equal vehemence against th Idoctrine of evolution Hugh M1iller -jFarraday, Brewster, Dana, D~awson an hundreds of scientists in this counitr; 5and other countries have made protest eI know that the few men who hay adoted the theory make more nois -than thie thousands who have rejieetet ait. The Bothnia of the Cunard lin line took 5>00 passengers safely froi New York to Liverpool. Not one th~ o>l) mhae any' e'xcitemient. hBut al dter we hiad beeni four days out, on umorinii, we found on eck aman's ha ottliwith ae ihr ra mr tal about that one i ' Il hu all the .0 par.ener that rode on in sa I1 weniderw e jIpIIIed evCrb-a rd I wonder i hen he juiped over board he would liked to have jumped back againY" "I wonder if a fish caught him orwhether he went clear down to the botton of the scaf" And for three of four days afterward we talke-l about that poor man. lere is the glorious and man'rnificent lteory that God by his oinipotent power made man and by his omnllilotent power made the brute creation and by his omnipotent power made all worlds. and 500 seientists have taken passage on board that magnificent theory. but 10 or 15 have jumlled overboard. They make more talk than all the 50o that did not jump. I am politely asked to jump with them. Thank you gentle men. I am very iiuch obliged to you! I think I shall stick to the old Cun arder. If you want to jump overboard. jump and test for yourselves whether your hand was really a fish's fin and whether you were webfooted originally and whether your lungs are a swim bladdtr. and, as in every experiment there must be a division of labor. some who experiment and some who observe. you make the experiment, and. I will observe! There is one tenet of evolution which it is demanded we adopt-that which Darwin calls "natural selectiou" and that which Wallace calls the "survival of the fittest." By this they mean that the human race and the brute creation are all the time improving because the weak die and the strong live. Those who do not die survive because they are the fittest. They say the breed of sheep and cattle and dogs and men is all the time improving, naturally mi proving. No need of God or any Bible or any religion, but just natural pro gress. There is only one thing worse than English snobbery, and that is American snobbery. I like democracy and I like aristocracy, but there is one kind of ocracy in this country that excites my contempt. and that is what Charles Kingsley, after he had witnessed it himself, called snobocracy. Now, I say it is a gigantic dishonesty when they ascribe this old heathen doctrine of evolution to any modern gentleman! I am not a pessimist, but an optimist. I don't believe everything going to de struction. I believe everything is going on to redemption. But it will not be through the infidel doctrine of evolu ton. ut through our glorious Christiani ty whikh has effected all the good that ever 'een :rought and which is yet to recoun. -lt al the nations. What is t, + iin the offing? A ship gone on tht: roeks at Cape Hatteras. The hulk is breakiwg up, crew and pas sengers ar'; drowning. The storm is in full blast .nd the bai ometer is still sink ing. What does thaL ship want? De velopment. Develol her broken masts. Develop her broken rud der. Develop her dioiwning crew. Develop her freezing passengers. Develop the whole ship. That is all it wants. Development. Oh, I make a mistake. What that ship wants is a lifeboat from the shore. Leap into it, ou men of the life station! Pull away to the wreck! Steady there! Bring the women and children first to the shore! Now the stout men! Wrap them up in flannels, and between their chattering teeth you can pour re stora WelP. my friends, our world is on the rockes God launched it well enough. but through mispilotage and storms of 6.000 years it has gone into the break ers. What does this old ship of a world want? Development? There is enough old evolution in the hyilk to evolve an other mast and another rudder and to evolve all the passengers and evolve the shin out of the breakers. Development? Ah., no, my friends, what this old ship wreck of a world wants is a lifeboat from the shore. And it is coming. Cheer. my lads, cheer! It is coming from the shining shore of heaven, taking the crests - of ten waves with one sweep of the shining paddles. Christ is in the lifeboat. M1any wounds on hands and feet and side and brow, showing he has been long engaged in the work of rescue, but yet mighty to save-to save one, to save all, to save forever. My Lord and my 'God. get us into the lifeboat, Away wiith your rotten, de ceptive,' infidel and blasphemous evolu tion and give us the Bible, salvation through Jesus Christ our Lord! Salvation: Let the echo fly The spacious earth around, While all the armies of' the sky Conspire to raise the sound. Dont's For Mothers. An infant should be given no food containing starch until it cuts its teeth. Starebly foods include biscuits. Corn flour, tapioca, sago, rice, potato. etc. An infant cannot digest any of these until its teeth are cut. Violent noises and rough shakings or tossigs are hurtful to a baby. and should be avoided as much as possible. Infants should never be put into a sitting piosture until they arc at least three months old. when they will prob ably sit up of their own accord. They should be carried fiat in the nurse's arms, as if the little back is at all curved it may lead to curvature of the spine or chest disease. Until children are six or seven years old they should have 12 hours' sleep every night. In addition to this a nap of two hours. either in the morn in or afternoon-especially in hot weather-will do a great deal toward keeping them bright and well. He Will Res ign. The Savannah Morning News. a steady advocate of the single gold stand ard. is moved to say: "It .seems to be virtually settled that the Seventh Army corps, under Maj. Geu. Fitzhugh Lee will 'be sent to Cuba before a ireat while, to do garrison duty. The Third Nebraska regiment, Col. W. J1. Bryan. is attached to this corps. There is nothing to indicate that this regiment will beinustered cut for at least several months. hence it is very probably that when the approaching political cam paign is at its height. Col Bryan will be doing soldier duty in Cuba. unless he should resign. Deadly Ice Cream. Ice cream prepared with lemon ex tract purchased from a traveling sales Iman caused the death of three persons at Middletown. N. Y.. Thursday. and a score of others are sick. Mrs. Iler man Michaels, of New York; Mrs. Wmi. Serder. of Mount Vernon. and Rlobt. ones. of Greenfield, are dead. All summer euests at Arthur Jones' cotta rs at Greentield are sick. The icc ream was eaten at Sunday's dinner. Sixteen Went Down. The Tlhigvalla line steamer Norge, ewhich arrived at New York Thursday :1reports that she sunk the Frenich ilmh ingu schooner La Co iuette of France. on Saturday last oni (rand Ilan ks. 'llT captain and eight seamen were \aedl. Sixteen went down with the unfortu nat vressel. Two Opinions of Him by a North' ern Correspondent. BEFORE AND AFTER BATTLE. The Old Confederate Hero Was the Man Who Really Won the Battle of Santiago de Cuba. i'here is one thing in this war that zets me. and that is how they ever came to make -Joe Wleeler a major zeneral. The speaker was one of several cor respondents who were lying in the trenches of Camp McCalla. at (Guata namo bay. --What's the matter with .be:" I asked --Nothing as a man: and I know his record as a soldier in the rebellion was of the finest. but lie is too old flow-he has not the physical strength or the en durance for active campaigning. I real ly feel sorry for him, for in mty opinion. he will injure his record as a soldier and of course kill himself politically. Three weeks canc and went and that sane correspondent and myself were in the trenches one more. but now they were oo the summit of the San Juan hil. one thousand yards from the rear of Santiago. It was the 2d of -July: the fighting was hot. and over where we lay behind a little mound of sand. the 3Iauser bullets sang in swarms. To lift your head above the embankment was a thing of peril. to stand upright was to make of yourself an extra haz ardous risk for a life insurance conpa ny. and to remain standing was to offer a premiun. for wounds and death. Just then. entirely alone, along the rear of the trenches. came walking a small man. rather stooped in the shoul ders and clad in the uniformt of a gener al officer. A broad army hat was drawn close to his arched eyebrows, which gave him the look of a man in an eter ua state of mild surprise. Under the gray brows his eyes glanced quickly up and down the trenches, and then trav eled to and from the Spanish lines. taking in all the points of attack and defense. Across the pretty green valley that lay between us and Santiago the ugly little bullets still hissed as viei ously and as thickly as ever. Occa sionally a shrapnel shell would burst above the ridge, but the little man moved calmly along. He walked with the air of a man who wanted osnething and knew how and where O find it. It was General Joseph Wheeler inspecting his lines. I poked the man next tome. pointed out to him the slight form of the general as he moved away, still in tent upon gathering information for himself, and still ;almly indifferent to the fire, and asked him the question of three weeks before: "What's the mat ter with Joe?" It was known to us both then the conduct of Gen. Wheeler during the battle of San Juan, the indomitable courage he had shown on that day and the day preceding when he crawled from a sick bed to lead his men to battle, and, better than all. how it was due to him that the American army had not after the victory abandoned the hill of San .Juan which it had won at the cost of so much blood. These things were known to the other man as well as to me, and his acknowledgement was brief and to the point. "He knows more than I thought I knew, and I can't put it stronger than that." There has not been a man in the American army who has made a better fighting record than this small, slender graybearded. kindly gentleman, Joseph Wheeler. of Alabama. On the night of June 29 he was ill with fevoc-so ill that for a time it was difficult for him to raise his head. On the morning of the 30th lhe was no better. On the morning of the fight the general an nounced his intention of geing to the front line, and the members of his staff after some argument, managed to get him into an ambulance, and in this. sorely against his will for he wanted to be astride his horse, he started to the front. A half mile of ambulance rid ing was enough. and then came loud cals for General Wheeler's horse. In a little time the old soldier was riding down the road towards San Juan hill. All though the 1st of July. the general ill as he was, kept his saddle, and at night he was better than he had been for days. The work that had caused the death of many a brave fellow had been his cure. It was Napoleon's saying that in war was the moral part is to the physical part as five to three. General Wheeler or the day of the battle of San Juan had shown himself possessed of the physical three parts, and when night came lie was to show himself the owner of the more valuable traits of a com mander. It is a story not ripe just yet for pub lication, but it is a fact that on the night af ter our men had swept so glori ously up the San Juan hill a feeling pervaded the American army that we had in many respects grabbed a bear by the tail. We might hold on, to the un doing of the bear, and our grasp might loosen to our own destruction. This feeling was so strong that some of the leading officers in the army went to General Wheeler and proposed that he fall back from the position we had cap tured. In other words we should aban don all we had gained at such a fearful cost and assume the position we had taken before the battle. The men who madte this propolsition were no weak lings. They had demonstrated their couraire a hundred times and never more brilliantly than on that very day. but the fury of the fight was over for them -the moral side of the soldier was called for, and they were wanting. General Wheeler listened to them. and saidl: 'We cannot fall back, gentlemen and we would not if we could. If we can not hold this place we can hold nothing in rear of it. We stay here, gentle' men. And lie stayed. During the rebellion sixteen horses at various times were shot under (en eral Wheeler. His record as a tighting man- -antwhiat is far better. as an able Ileader of lighting men-was firmly es tbihed then. and lie has added in both respects to his reputation during the '-hort Cuban campaign. There was in the. irmy no more courteous gentle iman. ai thiere was no better or braver oldier -Chicago Times-Herald. Wants Justice. ('apt. Taylor of the Indiana writesa letter to Sampson complaining that due credit has not been done his ship fot hr part in the battle of .July .2. Ad miral Satupsflon thanks him and regrett ing tile apparent injuistice. proniises tc have Taylor s letter describingr the in din'isi part in the action sent to the de partmenit withi the request thlat it ma1y be attached to and form part of thc 9 1X T V- TWO T H0USA N D on~derate Soldicrs Weni from Sh4th Carolina. Tim q1ustion f (, iot inany men <41uth Carolina furnislIed to the (su federate army is "ne that for various reaois can not be answered with abso lute accuracy. and .wing to the fact that the muster rolls of several rei ments have been iestroyed. and that there were South Carolinians in eyery regiment that went to the front from States west of here. there is no proba bility that it ever will be answered to a man. or to within a few hundreds of the correct figure. In response to the request of a correspondent a reporter undertook to secure the figures recent ly. and by applying to the best avail able sources arrived at as close an esti mate. perh aps. as can be had: fixin-z the total at 62.500. of' which 30.907 volunteered prior to the passage of the Conscript Act. According to the figures furnished by the war department at Washington South Carolina furnished 40 regiments. 13 battalions and 6 independent con panies of infantry: 9 regiients, 12 bat talions and 6 independent companies of cavalry: 3 regiments, 4 battalions and 17 independent companies of artil lery, and ) regiments and 7 battalions of reserves-hone gards: making a total of 62 regiments. 35 battalions and 2:) independent companies. Estimating that a reiment in the civil war had about .' Ji men on its rolls. a battal ion about 600, and a company of 1010. this would make it appear that there were 86,000 men or more in grey from South Carolina. The fact. however. is that there were not nearly so many South Carolina regiments. the mistake having arisea by reason of several of the regiments being renumbered at the time of their reorganization. and in that way counted twice. a fact which very readily accounts for the error into which the war department has fallen. It would be a most remarkabje fact if these figures were true, when it is re called that at the beginning of the war the total arms-bearing population of the State between the ages of IS and 45 was 55.046. and that under the Conscript Act of 18;:) there were only 69.S80 men in the State liable between the ages of 15 and. 50. Therefore. as will be seen, the figures of the war de partment are ruled out of Court by the census figures of the year 1860. which cannot be gone behind and bear out the 62.5) estimate, which may be re garded as nearly correct as can ever be made.-News and Courier. Conductor Cason Murdered. A special to the Macon Telegraph from Dupont, Ga., says that Conductor Cason, of the Plant system. was shot and killed at that place Friday by Mark Graham, a negro. Cason had taken a month's vacation and was on his way to South Carolina, where he was to have been married. When the train reached Dupont, Graham and a white boy boarded the train to get a drink of water. They got intc i fuss and in the absence of the regular con ductor Cason undertook to stop it. As lie approached the negro drew a pistol and shot him, inflicting a wound from which he died almost immediately. The body was taken to Waycross, Ga., where a crowd was formed and started after the murderer. Hounds were pro cured from McRce's lumber camp and started oa the trail. The chase led to ward the Florida line. If the negro is caught he will be lynched. Hobson's Promotion. Assistant Naval Constructor Hobson, was to have been examined for promo tion last week, but owing to his du ties. he could not go before the board. It was ordered that his record be exam ined to see if that would entitle him, to the highest rank. The board says: "The board join with all the world in admiring the skill, courage and gallant conduct of Assistant Naval Construc tor Hobson in conneet,ion| with the Merrimac, as set forth in the letter of the commanding officer of the North Atlantic station." The report then re fers to the various papers submitted in connection with Mr. Hobson's record and closes with a recommendation that he be promoted to naval constructor. Row at Allendale. A dispatch from Allendale to The State says a personal encounter occur red there Thursday night between Chief of Police D)unbar and MIr. Hlamp Brab ham, which resulted in the serious and perhaps fatal wounding of the former. Mr. Dunbar was shot twice, once in each side. The doctors report his re covery very doubtful. Sheriff Creech came over from Baruwell and soon cap tured M1r. Brabham, returning Thurs day afternoon. The affair is greatly deplored by the community. The diffi culty. as reported to your correspoud ent, grew out of an effort by M1r. Dun bar to arrest 1-Ir. Brabhami for cursing on the street. Loves Iim Too Much. Albert J. Deldine. of Toledo. OJh-io. hasbrought an action for divorce against his wife because she loves hiinmtoo dear ly. lHe asserts in his petition that she is so jealous of him that she will iiot permit him to leave her sight. lie says this prevents him from securing work and as he has to earn a living he cannot be in her sight all the time. He prays to be released from a woman who loves him too dearly. They were nmarried-on MIarch 21, 1897, and lie asserts she has kept him under her eyes day and night ever since, and he cannot stand it any longer. -His Last Fight. Alex Scott. the lightweight pugilist who fought with Tommiy Butler at the Green Athletic club. Brooklyn. Thurs day night and was taken from the ring unconscious, died at the Norwegian hospital Friday miorning. lie never re gained consciousness. - Stott's death was peculiar, lie was not trained and was in iio condition to cnter the ring. but put up a good fight until the last few rounids. when heC utterly collapsed. The principals were arrested. pendim:a an iinvestigation. The Crops. IEstimates for the crops this year show a wonderful yield of the fruits of the field. Cotton 11.51)0.000) bales; wheat. 700,0)00.00l0 bushels; corn. 1.000.)) 101)00 bushels: oats. 1.000)1.1000 bushels and hay 6)).00011.000)~ tons. This is unpirecdented. aiid shows that bless ings' have been showered upon the peo pl of this great republic, which call for a ull measure of gratitude and thank fulness. [t is to be regretted that ex eessie rains are inuring the crops in miar places. A Righteous Verdict Tlhie convictio n of Capt. Duncan of Kansas for having desecrated Confed e raite graves, and his sentence to five years in a penitentiary, arcecitable to the court that tried hiim. And so may it be withi all south-haters: " And such as he was let all that hate her Reari MAt~rai Sccty 'nm wer .;me te Wasington. llob1sonl had1 his o in-thelc om R'ideurs i thirs,. tand '.ite-lri. lut all three comlbilled w 0iu l 1t he in to eqjal tile demn iistration at the war, state and navy departmIents Sat iuaV morin ini1 111 honor of Rear Adi mi ral Schley. There has been iothlinL, like it in Washington before. If the offieials of the navy department had any doubt as to who was the popular hero of Santiago their doubt was en tirely dispelled. The magnitude of the ovation .nivei to Schley Friday nlithut about \\ashington and inl front of his hotel was .of a most remarkable charac ter. lBut owing. to the sentiments that exist amnon-, t1he heads of the navy de partments. it was believed that the popular sentiment there could be held in check. Such was not the case. Crowds had been waiting all morn ing in front of the great navy depart ment building. and the shout they raised upon his appearanae was a si. nal for those inside that the gallant ad miral had an ived. As if by mutual consent. all business was suspended. Not only did the clerks and minor clerks and minor officers of the war and navy departments leave tl.eir desks. but the heads of bureaus Joined in the wild rush to welcome the admiral. The corridors could not begin to hold the throngs that pushed around him. General Wilson. head of the engineer department, threw his arms around the admiral's neck and kissed him. For the next ten minutes lie was bombarded with embraces and kisses from men and women alike. There imust have been forty women who thus displayed their love and admiration for the gallant of il'. He stood the ordeal as he aiust have stood the firing from the Spanish fleet. While lie remained in the deyart ment. which was nearly an hour. there was little work done in any bureau. lie tinally escaped into Capt. Crownin schield's office. where the door was locked. From here lie worked his way to various bureaus until lie emerged from the building,. le was to have taken the 11:45 train, but it was im possible to break through the human barricade which had been thrown up around him. Ovei at the white house there was one man who realized lie had not done the wrong thing in ieaping every hon or upon this naval hero. le received every ovation with modesty, almost shrinking at times from the popular ex hibition of approval. He is a small, spare man, not as large as his picture would indicate, but one cannot come within forty yards of him without feel ing his personal magnetism. le will leave this afternoon for Maryland. the state of his birth, which is waiting with open arms to welcome him. CRTMTNAL BLUNDERS. Who is Responsible for the Condition of the Troops? At 'Montauk Point, within a few hours of New York city, in touch with all the comforts and delicacies of life. sick heroes from Santiago are forced to sleep on the soaked ground without proper clothes or covering, and to stand guard duty when they are fainting from the debilitating effeets of fever. But the suffering at 3Montauk is not the only fearful tale. At Camp Thom as, Chicekamanga. 600 deaths have been reorted since the camp was establish ed, and 92 since August 1, and there are 2.294 sick men in the hospitals. These men have not been battling in a tropical feversmitten land. They have been right in the United States all the time. and certainly a healthy location for their camp was the least that should have been provided for them. Before camp Alger was broken up 250 men had died there. That is more than the Spaniards killed at Santiago. and camp Alger is just outside of Washington. The presidnnt almost hear the funeral marches from the white house. Fernandina and Tampa and other camps have also sent up pitiful tales of neglect, sickness, suffering and death. The report of Surgeon-General Terry, regarding the condition of the New York troops in the several camps show ed such a dreadful condition of affairs that Governor Black did not dare to publish it. The condition of the "President's own regiment,' the eighth Ohio, should appeal~ directly to MIr. MceKinley. Surely some one is criminally at fault when transports conie into MIon tauk in such condition as the MIohawk was on hier arrival. The repetition of these transport outrages has become sicken ing. and the appeal . f the nmen of his on state will surely reach the presi dent. SEAY USED K[S XNIFE. Bloody Affray Follows Campaign Meet ing at Lexington. A special to the State from Lexing ton, where the last meetinlg but one of te State campaign was held Friday, says: After the campaign meeting here yes terday, which plassed off pleasantly enough. the town was thrown into a foment by a disturbance among the po lie authorities and a few country cousins. OThe result was MIr. 3I. C. .Johnson. a pioliceman was stabbed in the breast, penetrating the left lung, and 3Mr. Quitman Roberts. an inoffen sive bystander, was accidentally shot in the thigh, and 3Ir. Tomi Seav was shot through the bowels. Young Roberts is only slightly wounded. while both John son and Seayv are in a very critical con dition. M1r. Seay is hardly expected to Policenman .Johnsion, it is said. wvas endeavoringr to arrest Seny for disturb ing the peece. when the latter over powered .Johinson and. after beating him, stabbed him with a knife. The policemen used his weapon in the melee with thet above results. Drs, Ilendrix and Wingard are giving the wounded men all possible surgical Eight Mi lions Dollars. Eight million dollars ill cash was eair ied through the streets of New York in at hantdbag last Thursday by Arthur P. Leach, of a bond buyi*r firm. and a guard. Thle getting togethier of the moey was a task accomplished after half a davys work. ill which the banks helped with bills a big denomination. The package containing the mioney wais about the size of eight bricks. It wats tendered to tile city controller for bemis. but owing to the dispute the sale waus ef'used. The President Coming South. T'he President exlectS t b in .bw sonville. Fla.. in sep temberi 1. andi review the soldhier- of th c th eorp-, Glen. Lee's coimma nd. it is likely that Secretary Alger will aiccompanly the THEni~(~RTS OREWARIKIDl The Coming Campaign and What It Means to the Country. Th e in' r'all eleti on w ill ha :1 h ider slop ihan iis gfencrally ap oreciatCi. Not only is a new United States iiuse )! representatives to be chosen. but legislatures are to be elected which wvill till thirty vacancies in the United States senate. In more than twentv states governors are to be elected this y'ear. two states. Oreron and Ala bama. havin. already chosen governors. There will be election in September in rkansas. Ver'niont and Maine. On October 1.~th Georgia will elect a gover nor. The stateo which elect governors on NOVCmbeIr Sth iare Calafornia. Colo r Connecticut. Idaho. Illinois. Kan sa. 3ary land. Michigan. Minnesota. isr~i' Nebra ka. Nevada. New llamvshtire. New Jersey. North )akota. Pennsylvania. South Carolina. South Dakota. Tennessee. Texas. Washing ton. and West Virginia. Some of these states willalso elect other state officers. The Ohio State Journal. which is published in the state of Mr. MeKin 1ley and of Mark Hanna. the director general of the national Republican par tv. has been counting noses in this con nection. so to speak. and is in high fettle over the outlook. At the sate time. in the exuberance of its joy, it makes admissions that should stimulate the Democracy of extraordinary exer tions. It shows that the results of the congressional elections may be more far rcaching as affecting our institutions than those of any similar.elections that have ever taken place. Having felici tated itself in a general way upon the -1avorable prospect for control of con gress by the Republicans for some time," the Journal goes on to sa-, that "after the 4th of next March the party should have a majority in the senate. and, with a Republican house, the administration will have full power to carry out its poliey." That under these conditions the alinin istratio n-that is, the Repub lican party would have full power to carry out its policy goes without saying. And even if we condsider the word polic as embracing only the party's position on finance and the tariff and its penchant for spending everything in hand and in sight the Jot- nal has shown that it is the duty of the Demo crats to wake up all along the line. The conditions named would put it in the power of the Republicans to perpetuate Dingleism, entrench more securely the present inadequate banking and cur rency system. and create necessity for continuing the war taxes for years to come. But, as our Ohio contemporary confesses, there is involved in the Democrats getting control of the next house a still more important question than that of barring the Republican party from carrying out the program above mentioned. It is not at all prob able, says the Journal, that all the im port questions growing out of the war with Spain will be disposed of at the coming short session of congress. The congress, it adds, to be elected this fall -the Fifty-sixth-will be called upon to deal with many of these vital mat ters. involving the very foundation of the government, and probably a depart ure from a policy that has been in evi dence for more than a hundred years. Precisely. If this means anything, it; means that the Republican party will take no chances on the present senate. The coming short session of congress is to be one of dilly-dallying-one in which the party will not show its hand. But if the Republicans can gain safe con trol of both houses of the Fifty-sixth Congress, we may look for most radical and the boldest sort of -legislation along the line indicateg by MIr. Grosvenor in his speech opening the Ohio state cam paign. In short, the Journal forewarns the Democracy that if they fail to cap ture the next house they need not be surprised at such legislation as will en danger the very foundation of our Re publican form of government. Give Us the Proof. At the recent meeting of the Mun ici pal League, held in Detroit, Mic h.. MIayor Smyth of Charleston, quoted in a dispatch to the News and Courier as saying that there has been more drunken ness in South Carolina under the dis pensary law than prior to i ts enacement. Col. A. Howard Patterson, who takes the reverse position. has replied to MIayor Smyth and calls upon him to produce the facts to bear out his decla ration. The Barawell Sentin'al says in making the statesment he did, Charles ton's mayor has -given the lie to the ministers of South Carolina. for it was their opinion. expressed some time back. that intemperance was largely on the decrease. Whether or not there is less whiskey sold in this county now than under the old system we are not in a position to say. but we do say. and without fear of contradicton. that there has been less drunkness seen on our streets since the dispensary law has beeni in force than formerly. We be lieve that a miajority of those opposed to the law will admit this. Mayor Smyth must prove the correctness of his assertion or lhe will stand convicted before the public. It strikes us Col. Patterson has put him into a deep hole and shoved the hole in after him. Pprto Rico Already Crowded. Young men out of a job. who think it will be a good plan to move to Porto Rico and grow up with the country. will be interested in sonme facts regard ing the island. which are stated by the Springtield .Republican. It says: "Porto Rico is much more densely populatcd than Connecticut-the fig~ tires being 2:34 persons to the square mile in one case and 154 in t be other: and there arc only three States of the Union more densely populated than Connecticut. The island is almost as thickly settled as Massachusettts. the second most populous Sttme in the United Staites. No agricultural sec tion in the United States begins to be sdensely populated as that island. Compare its 2:36 personis to) the square mile. with1 Kansas's 17. or Nebraska's 1:3. r the t;8 of Illin i. ineluding the great city of Chiicago. Florida has mist of the phlysical chtaracteristics of 1Porto Rico. but its population average on ly io the square mile ofland area. and wxe must nceds take ont Porto Rico wit nerlv forty~ times the density of populatmni to give us room. Three Hundred Drowned. A d isa tch fromt Xi.na says that 30 ieswere drownedi by the flood ineof heKaismiiri (K Ial ine at Nience. nar SchniW. Silesia. three ays agro.___ AN rm. :a ,ea calpta in rteports having sitd 1 'a s'r'ean~t. Tis is a most conincti. lte " pace. For more threi whmb now the voluble old salts benkein::t their weather eyes open f N-: ttis warships and had little t ic t obser ve real or mythical freaiks. R) o In Ainbrose. the colored post master ofPickenis. Mass.. was inducedl to make i will in which he I~ ten ethd to a Mr. Pinkston. the post .:lices and all appurtenancees thereunto belong ins. to have :and to hold diurinlg the life time of' the sai Pink,ton. known. Actual tota show 1 soI-s odo third fnretr than ay other be. POWDER Absoluttly Pure ROYAL RAKI(N POWDER CO., saw Yoma Lost in a Hotel Fire. A fire which resulted in the loss of two hotels. a livery stable and several private residences and at least three hu man lives, started in the National hotel at Hot Springs 30'elock Saturday morn ing. A dozen or more were more or less injured, and it is believed by some of the guests and employes of ie 1 to! thut uiorelives were lost, and that when search is made in the ruias several bod ies will be found. A number of guests escaped down the stairway. while others jumped from the windows of the second and third stories in their night clothes, barely getting out with their lives. Sev eral who leaped were severely injured, aad one unknown man is expected to die. The Second Regiment. Scnator McLaurin has secured still another important concession for the Second regiment. It allows So men to the company instead of 106. There is nothing further now that can he asked by those who are trying to organize the Second regiment. and if they fail they certainly have no right to blame either Senator MeLaurin or the war depart ment. UTILIZE THE CULLs.-We of the south spend in the aggregate a large sum annually for vinegar. Every family should take advantage of the full crop of fruit this season to make vinegar enough for several years supply. Vine gar can be made from fruit juices ina few weeks by repeated areation, or the juice may be soured in full vessels in a cool cella:: and kept for years ready for conversion into vinegar. When the vinegar jug is emptied, fill from No.2. Fill No. 2. from No. 3, and fill No. 3 from the cask in the cellar. If the juice is allowed to drip slowly from one vessel to another, the expo sure to the air will rapidly convert it into vinegar. Ex-SENATOR David B. Hill gave the Democratic party of New York a wise suggestion when he declared that ques tions involving national issues should have n \place in the party platform of the approaching state campaign. The local issues are of the greatest importance and have all been forcedto thefront by existing conditions of the republican mnachine of New York. No such oc casion for a good square fight against re publican mis-rule as at present, has of fered itself since the days of Bose Tweed. A member of the Second Alabama regiment at Jacksonville refused to .ac cept any wages when the paymaster came around. He said that he entered the service purely through patriotism. and did not want any compensation. This being the first case of the kind, the pay master had no precedent to guide him. After some thought he drew a red line through the name, indicating that the sum had not been paid. Should the sol dier ever need his pay, the government stands ready to settle the account. Crank's without number appear all over the country at various places and. times. but the king of them all made his appearance the other day in an ob scure Ohio town. His name is George DeVany, and he seems not unknown to fame of this kind. He proposes to runt for president on a platform which prom ises a pension of $35 monthly to Fed eral soldiers and $23 monthly to Con federate soldiers, besides promising: the South ten cents per pound for cot ton. THE COTTON OCTLOOK-The Atlanta. Journal says that the reports from Georgia, Alabama and lower Carolina. show the forms to be rapidly dropping from the stalk and the crop may be cut. off one-half. Many young bolls are rot ting on the stalk and the situation is. very grave. Texas and the Mississippi valley set the pace for cotton, -and the prospect out there is not at all gloomy, as the rains have ceased and cotton is. maturing with its usual vigor. A LITTLE GENTLEMN.-A bo~y fie' years old is none too young to be- taught. to take off his hat to a lady; tot to pass, bet ween people who are taJ.ing together;: to stand until ladies :ge seated. Alli .uch things are ac l'-vd fa.rmore easily by early drilling than they can. ever be afterward. Indeed, it is questionable. whether any one who has been brought. u) without such training can ever ac qire that habitual courtesy wvhich. marias the true gentleman or lady. THE United States Goverment has: never annexed any populated territory of another race and never will. The folks that run things in Hawaii are Americans. anid after annexation the natives will be quickly crowded out and, like the Indian. will read their. doom in the setting sun. When the Anglo Saxon runs against inferior races he gives themi life preservers. teaches them to swim and makes them get off the earth.__________ PRtEsDE.T MIeKinlecy has taken OeeCI sion to express his gratitude for the cordial support given him in thle eon dut of the war by the press. regardless of polities, and he thinks it will be of incalculable benefit to the country by showing to tihe world that .however much we may differ among ourselves as to domestic politics. we atre all Ameri cans when it comles to confronting a for eign foe. ________ In th~e jniet hours of life we learn to hold c nuanunion with our God. to know that he is our best Friend. to whom we can take our every care. If we ise to his dear voice, with the world shut from our senses. he will teach his chil dren. in this school of silent separation and communion with himself the secret oif ther life work. One good wa to keep think's .mloving and to lessen the talk of hard times is for every' man to pay his debts so far as possible. Be honest in the omttcr. and don't say you cannot pa:y when'i you have not tied to do so. Yon pay at~ somel body else will thereby be enabhled to~ Tm: tin uble between liussia and .An 11r1'ow5 apace. T'he demand ,1aie by i.nglan~d upon lana~ that .sne elhall deposi Li H ung Chaing fronm his exalted place because he is a friend of Rlussi:a mean5 war primaltrily upon China, bu in which Rtussia will be drawn.