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THE CHAIN GONE, Dr. Talmage Clearly Disproves the "Missing Link" Theory. EVOLUTIONISTS PORTRAYED. At Every Stage of Human Life There Is Direct Evidence of Divine Will. Unbridgeable Gulf Between Man and Beast. Utr. Thia;e in :his dIScour e aiv.. -es a Christian -.v0uno in cII W enn t. a"; ituidel evolution at.d der ih t the o;iy rA.dically inlproving force in t:e worl.l is Christianitx: zer. RomanS i. 22, '24, "!'rO fessing tbeni:elves to be wize, they bEcL.me fools and changed the -!(r of tbe utc r ruptible G d into an i-u-ee tmtAte ike to coyruptible ma, and to hirds tud four foot ed beasts and c:eeping thing-. This is a full length I orti a I of an evolu tionist who substitutes the htusial (riin for the divine origin. I showed %.u last week that evolution was contra jietet .y the Bible by science, by ohrv.&ton arit nsy comnw sense; that the Bib:e account of the creatioi of man and of brute and ot t e world. und the evolutionilt s accountco i.d with ea:h other as certainty a, two eaxr-i tr:ius co ing in oppoie direerions at t.0 mnies the hour, their locomoives weeti:g ot the- same track. I show d tnat a. the evoivltion SCi entists. without exeep:ion. were pro nounccd intidels: thA. evolurin. w, a Iea then:sm thotsand, of years old: that such men as Agassiz au Hugh miler and Far raday and Daws.>n and Dana h. for that doctrine of evolution uniimited contempt I showed you that their favorite theory of the "survival of the fittest" was an absurdity and an untruth, and that natural evolution was always downward 2.nd never upward, and that there had never been any improve ment for man or beast or world except through the direct or indirect influence of our glorious Christianity. And in the clos ing part of thst sermon I told you I was not. a pesssimist, but an optimist, that instead of it being 11 o'clock at night it is half past 6 in the morning. Now, I go on to tell you, it seems to me that evolutionists are trying to impress the great masses of the people with the idea taat there is an ancestral line leading the serpent and on up through the quadruped and on up through the gorilla to man. They admit that th re is a "missing link" as they call it, but there is not a missing link-it is a whole chain gone. Between the physical construction of the highest animal and the physical construction of the lowest man there is a chasm as wide as the Atlantic ocean. Evolutionists tell us that somewhere in central Africa or in Borneo there is a creature half way between the brute and the man, and that that creature is the highest step in the animal ascent and the lowest step in the human creation. But what are the facts? The brain of the largest gorilla that was ever found is 30 cubic inches, while the brain of the most ignorant man that was ever found is 70. Vast difference between 30 and 73. It needs a bridge of 40 arches to span that gulf. besides that there is a difference between the gorilla and the man-a difference of blood globule, a difference of nerve, a dif ference of muscle, a difference of bone, a difference of sinew. The horse is more like man in intelligence, the bird is more like him in musical capacity, the mastiff is more like him in affection. That eulogized beast of which we hear so much, represented on the walls of cities thousands of years ago, is just as complete as it is now, showing that there has not been a particle of change. Besides that, if a pair of apes had a man for descendant, why would not all the apes have the same kind of descendants? Can it be that that one ravored pair only was hon ored with human progeny? Besides that, evolution says that as one species rises to another species the old type dies off. Then . how~ is it that there are whole kingdoms of chimpsaee and gorilla and baboon? The evolutionis's have come together and have tried to explain a bird's wing- Their theory has always been that a faculty of an animal while being developed must always be usefuland always beneficial, but the wing of a bird, in the thousands of years it was being developed, so far from being any help must nave been a hindrance until it could be brought into practical use away on down in the ages. Must there not have been an intelligent will somewhere that formed that wonderful flying instrument, so that a bird 600 times heavier than the air can mount it and put gravitation under claw and beak? That wonderful mechanical instrument the wing, with between 20 and 30 different ap parati curiously constructed, does it not im ply a divine intelligence? Does it not imply a direct act of some outside being? All the evolutionists in the world cannot explain a bird's wing or an insect's wing. So they are confounded by the rattle of the rattlesnake Ages before that reptile had any enemies this warning weapon was created. " by was it created? When the reptile, far back in the ages, had no ene mies, why this warning weapon? There must have been a divine intelligence fore seeing and knowing that in ages to come that reptile would have enemies, and then -this warning weapon would be brought into use. You see evolution at every step is a contradiction or a monstrosity. At every stage of animal life as well as at every stage of humanlife there is evidence of direct ac tion of divine will Besides that, it is very evident from an other fact that we are an entirely different creation and that there is no kinship. The animal in a few hours or months comos to full strength and can take care of itself. The human race for the first one, two, three five, ten years is in complcte helplessness. The chick just come out of its shell begins to pick up its own food. The dog, the wolf, the lion, soon earn their own livelihood and act for their own defense. The human race does not come to development until 20 or 30 years of age, and by that time the antmals that were born the same year the man was born; the vast majority of them, have died of old age. This shows there is no kinship, there is no similarity. If we had been b~orn of the beast, we would have had the beast's strength at the start or it would have had our weakness. Not only different, but op posite. Darwin admitted that the dovecot pigoon has not changed in thousands of years. It is demonstrated over and over again that the lizard on the lowest formation of rocks was just as complete as the lizard now. It is shown that the ganoid, the first fish, was just as complete as the sturgeon, another name for the same fish now. Darwin's en tire system is a guess, and Huxley and John Stuart Mi:1 and Tyndall and especial ly Professor Haeckel come to help him in the guess, and guess about the brute, and guess about man, and goess about worlds, but as to having one sotid foot of ground to stand on they never have had it and never will have it. I put in opposition to these evolutionist theories the inward conscious ness that we have no consanguinity with the dog that fawns at our feet, or the spider that iliawis on the wall, or the fish that tlops in the frying pan, or the crow that swoops on the field carcass, or the swine that wallows in the mire. Everybody sees the outrage it would be to put asiae the Bible record that Abraham begat Isaac, and Isaac begat Jacob. and Jacob begat Judah, for the record that the microscopic animal cule begat the tadpole, and the tadpole be gat the polliwog, and the polliwog begat the serpent, and the serpent begat the quadru ped, and the quadruped begat the baboon, and the baboon begat man. The evolutionists tell us that the apes were originally fond of climbing the trees, but after awhile they lost their prehensile power and therefore could not climb with any facility, and hence they surrendered monkeydom and set up in bus:ness as men. Failures as apes, successes as men. Accord inc to the evolutionists, a man is a bankrupt monkey. I pity the person who in every nerve and muscle and bone and mental faculty .and spiritual experience dcnes not r ealize that he is higher in origin and has had a grander ancestry than the neasts which perish. Howev'xr degraded men and yom en m'y be, and though the~y may t are foundered on tbe rocks of ctrme ar d sin, and t..otugh w.- shudder we p~aa thent, .....t..el1ss there is suehin- within us I hat ,tel i ' hrotbero :: r or r and our 'm tilt hies ar ro :l'I in l-:Lrd e, r tpot 1!:e Tropic t hird . most T!:.u1 t wi:-I . or u;pon he curv - 'oorsor - i eI ve fe I ithere i6 ~trorl-r that, they. i- thie iou wi'h one stroke of his paw coul.l ptr i.s into the dI-t. It ;s Tnot, 'bar we J:ve hetter eye 'ight for the eaCle cat: dieserv a ruolo a Mile awIy. It i' not ibat we are -Ieeter of fout. for a roebuck io a rlasti is cut of sig t, just seeming to touch the earth as he 'oes N19nv, of the unintd crelion sur patsing us in :1-ettress o toot .d in keen ness of nostril and in srrgh of limb. but rotwlsadod M r :a' 1h1g witninti us thm- hw:. e lesti-S pedigree. N <t lit of the rizip'd, not of - . :.- ' u of the living and .nouiv-te;t 6,i. L:n ea-e of t ,e di-s Gene:ll.y he Ltei I tel Vou plain v h t- i y i "er wia iu-krat : v:- yizr movi er an op, sui aLu your "~t ut :0,t~~i 11 ile tnids atd b , uan 'urt:e.." were 'was G . I know it I !ee; llS througlt iue with an emphi :td an ec.a5sy which ii your argumtL-it drawn from ati hr.r,po'ogy ard hi y an zoogy and rul.e- a:d pa.oogy a1 all iheo:her N.Oi I L a ne -: Lro:uti.n i- ot e great itytt ry it bh t.oil o<u t ster, an i tie 5O0 ha'ca 0 i O. iti tie 1100 haich out IL'0. riO. Why, my brozher, :o: adait the one rrea. mystery or God and have that s tte al ite other mystriev: I can mire easi y .ppteiate the fact that God, hy one -troke of his orintpot-nce. cou~d niae twan than I c:u:d real:ze bow out of o,00OOt ages te cotld have evolved one putrivg Ou a ;rtle he re and a little there. It would have been just as great a ni-acle for Go' to have turLed an orang outr.ng into a maa as to make a man out and out, the one joh just as big as the other It seens to me we had ettor let God have a little place in our wortd srmewhere it scems to me if we cannot nave hiin make all creatures we had better hav- hutn make t wo or three. Tnere ought to he sone place where he could stay without intetfering with the evolutionists. "No says Darwin, and so for ,ears he is trying to raise lantailed pigeons and to turn these fantail p'geons into some other kind of pigeons or to have them go into , ome'hing that is not a pigeon -torning them into quail or barnyard fowl or brown thrasher. But pigeon it is. And others have tried with the ox and the dog and the horse, but they staid in their species If they attempt to cross over, it is a hy. brid, and a hybrid is always s'erile and goes into extinction. There has been only one successful attempt to pass over from speech less animal to the at ticulation of man, and that was the attempt which Bala un witnessed in the beast that he rode, but an angel of the Lord with drawn sword soon stopped that long eared e 'olutionist. But says sore one, "If we cannot have God make a man, let us have him make a horse." "Oh. no!" says Huxley in his great lectures in New York years ago. No. tie does not want any God around tae orem ises. G ;d did not make the horse. The horse came of the pliohippus, ard the plio hippus came from the protohippus, and the protohippus came from the'miohippus, and the miohippus came from the meshohippus, and the meshihippus came from the orohip pus, and so away back, all the living crea tures, we trace it in a line until we get to the moneron. and no evidence of divine in termeddling with the creation until vou get to the moneron, and that, Iluxley t is, is of so low a form of life that the probability is it just made itself r r was the result of spontaneous generation. What a narrow esc ipe from the nece! sity of having a God: As near as I can tell, these evolutionists seem to think that God at the start had not made up his mind as to exactly what he would make, and having made up his mind partially he has been changing it all through the ages. I believe that God made the world as he wanted to have it and that the happi ness of all the species will depend upon thieir staying in the species where they were created Bat, my friends, evolution is not only in idel and atheistic and absurd. It is bru talizing in its tendencies. If there is any thing in the world that will makes a man bestial in his habits, it is the idea that he was descended from the beast. Why, ac cording to the idea of these evolutionists, we are a only superior kind of cattle, a sort of Alde. ney among other heards. To be sure, we browse on better pasture, and we have better stall and better accommodations, but then we are only South lowns among the great fiocks of sheep. Born of a beast, to die like a beast, to die like a beast, for the evolutionists have no idea .of a fture world They s y the mind is only a superior part of the body. They say our thoughts are only molecular forma-ion. They say when the boly dies the whole nature dies. The slab of the sepulcher is net a milestone on the jour ney up ward, but a wall shutting us into eter dal nothingness. We all die alike-the cow, the horse, the sheep, tie man, the reptile. Annihilation is the haaven of the evolution ist. From such a s'etnchful and damn ~A~ doctrine turn away. Compare that idea of your origin an idea filled with the chat cer of apes and the hiss -f serpents and th croak of frogs-to an idea in one or t- z:.. * which I quiote from an old boc of more than Demosthenic or Homeric cr Dantesque power; '-What is man that thou art min d ful of him? And the son of man, that thou visitest him? Thou hast made him a little lower than the angels and hast crowned him with glory and honor. Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hand. Thou hast put all things under his feet All sheep and oxen-yea, and the basts of the field the fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the piaths of the seas.. 0 Lord, our Lord how excellent is Gixy name in all the earth." How do you line that origin? The lion the monarch of the field, the eagle the mon arch of the air, behemoth the monarch of the deep, but man monarch of abi! Ah, my friends, I have to say to you that I am not so anxious to know what was my origin as to know what wi:l be my destiny. I do not care so much where I came from as where I am going to. I ant not so interested in who was my ancestry 10,000,000 years ago a am to know where I will be 10,000,000 years from now. I am not so much interested in the preface to my cradle as 1 am interested in tihe app--ndix to my grave 1 do not erre so inch about protoplasm as I do abotut etern asm. The "wa&" is overwhelmed with the "to be.'' And here comes in the evolution I believe in-not natural evolution, but gracious and divine aud heavenly evolution -evoldtion out of sin into holiness, out of grief into gladness, out of mortality into im mortality, out of earth into heaven. That is the evolution I believe in. 31onarchs on earth of all lower orders of creation and then lifted to be hierarchs in heaven. lasterpiece of God's wisdom and goodness, our hunmanity; masterpiece of di vine grace, our enthronement. I put one foot on Darwin's "Origin of the Species,'' and I put the other foot on Spencer's "--J ology," and then, holding in one hand the book of Mloses, I see our Genesis, and, hold ing in the other band the book of Rtevelation I see our celestial arrival. For all wars 1 prescribe the Bethlehem chant of the angels, for all sepulchers I prescribe the archangel's trumpet, for all the earthly griefs I pire scribe the hand that uipes away all tears from all eyes. Not an evolution troma beast to man, but an evolution from contestant to conqueror, and from the struggle with wild bats in the arena of the amphitheater to a soft, high, blissful seat in the King s gaile' Gets His Reward-. Several attempts have recently beetn ade to p)oison the famuily of Cat. J oh ni E.~ Loc~awood of Athens, La. one of the most prominent mteni in the ate. IAt 1:lr o'clack this tiornting Dick I ab nevi' colored, one of the persons wvho was suspeccted was shot anid killed by Chares Logatwoodt son of Capt.ILoga 'wood, whio d~te2Cd Daboney andu ar other negro" in thec act of t"rying to kill ('pt :L1woodt while tile latter was a~leep I T negroe- etre~rd the hiouse and wetre (ttacIl'ted ty Ve lu11araood lt 10Iiase~d thienti to tile yard and ird Dahneyc\ fell 0:1d. but the orther GEM. Y1 SiLS~ T 'X?PLAIN. Olash of the Wa Seei'etary and Co. ,mander-in-Chief. \fhen Gen..lb1*0 riuin t.* 'u a it, lhe wvill 'e ,ke'i fr ai exliaia tion of reent :iteriewsappearina with himn. and1 the public.at ion if certain di patch~e wich the wair dep aitmni t ha not made pulic. Whet her the :lives tiaat i ill take the course of a 1i tarv Court fIiuiry ir a private - teview btweenl thle Prdnthe cretary f War and Gen. .Mile - vet ti be Secl. Until the arrh al of 60N. Mille the war deiartmieit w1 d dicuss the matter. Secretary A 'fer ays that the departlent will not enter into any controversy with its sub ordinates, and lie does nit propose to discuss matters affecting G en Miles dir inf his absenece. Tlhe department is of tpinioni that Gen. Miles made public the dispatches of the Secretary. Gen. Shafter nd hiim seIf. Such action it r ras a breach of military regilations. but no military Court can secure proof that Geln Mile Iadie public tle dispatches it I and the person to wloi they were furnilsied refuse to) give the information. as sev-i eral military trials have made it set tiet law that no military Court can compel a civilian to testify if le doe s not want to. Gen. 3liles also may be called to account for the interviews with lim. as. unless disavowed, they would place him in the attitude of criticing his superior officers, and subject him to military discipline. The publication of the dispatches taken together with previous interviews in the Kansas City Star. were the topic of conversation among offieers of the war department. and already there is a disposition by some to take sides in the matter. while others deplore the cond tions as tending to lower the tone of the zirmy and to do irreparable injury to the service. It is expected the con troversy will extend to both houses of Congress. and it is feared will have an adverse effect upon the legislation which will be asked to better the army. It is generally understood that the regu lar force will have to be largely in creased. at least uptil the conquered islands are disposed of, and it is feared that legislation in this directon will be aampred by the inevitable controversy between the Secretary of War and the general commanding the army. The Game Laws. Inquiries are frequently made as to the requirements of the South Carolina game laws. so that the following terse sumiiary of the laws just gotten out by the Union Metallic Co. will be of gen eral interest to sportsmen and others who do not care to wade through the nu merous acts on the subject: Deer-It is illegal to kill or huint deer, or chase them with dogs, between February 1, and September 1. except in the counties of Clarendon, Berkeley, Georgetown, Marion, Colleton, Darling ton, Williamsburg, Horry, 31arlboro and Kershaw, in which counties it is nov lawful between February 1 and Au ust 1. Other Birds (open season)-It is il legal, between April 1 and November 1, to hunt or kill any wild turkey, par tridge, quail, woodcock or pheasant, or, between MIarch 1 and August 1, any dove, or to kill at any time during the year any of the birds! named, by fire light or flash light. Non-resident licence-Non-residents may purchase a licence for shooting ame of any kind. Cost $25. This oes not apply to persons hunting or killing game on their own land. Lost in the Mountains. Thursday morning. Alice. daughter of George and Caroline Peek, who live in the northeastern end of Burns val ley. Pennsylvania. near the mountains. wandered from home, and being only 3 years old, was soon lost in that ex tensive chain of mountains extending from Concord to Cumberland county. An alarm was immediately given and the people of Burns valley and vicini ty turned out to search for the lost one. The search was continued night and day until Sunday morning without finding any trace of her. On that mor ning about 150 men gathered at the foot of the mountains. Forming a line they marched through the woods searching among the rocks and brush. About five miles from where they en trd the mountains she was discovered standing upon a large rock. Her cloth 1t12 had been torn and tattered by the bruP 'id reeks, and but for a few slight steehes, she was uninjured. A few bei ries had been her diet for over three clays.-khiladelphia Times. The Cobr Line Again. Solliers passin-; through Altoona tell strange story regarding the death of Quartermaster George U. Fraiiks, of Company G. 12th New York regiment. The regiment is encamped at Chat tanoogia. Because of the death of three hospital patients after drinking milk sold by negroes living ini the neighborhood. the quartermaster of f Company G. would not allow the ne groes to sell anything to his company. riday night a gang of negroes caught ranks outside of the camp grounds, nd. after beating him nearly to death. hrew him under a passing railroad train. Since then the guards have been or e^-d to shoot any negroc who attempts o piass the canip lines. Rewards in the Navy. (aptain l'hilip, of the Texas. who distinguished himself so nobly at Santi go. has entered a protest against his wn promotion over the heads of offi ers who ranked him before and who lie clared would surely have conducted hemselves with gallantry equal to that of the participiants Inl our recent in our recent naval battles if they had beeni riven an opporttunity. Captain Philip has not only given pro'f of a high senise f justice and remarkable unseltishncss. but lie has called attention to the un fairness of our present system tif be stowingz rewards for distingunisheid ser vice in the navy. Outrage By Ohio Soldiers. A Bruns wiek. Ga. special to the orniing News says: >ection Foreman artman, his wvife and his sister. M1iss a rie IlldIley, of Everett. were insulit a by a party of soldiers near their hiome a iniht. They wvere watchiin the 1t Uhio regiment go thlroughl to llunts ville. when some of the p'ivates nme ore remar'ks ti thenm They retreat d ti theimr homne. and the old ier fol l we.Two (of thle ,lie r fired at irtnan.i Hartnman and th womenca fo lkt retured the tire. wvoi' unn two Tore Down a Church. A\ large mnb led by women101 demioli.h ed. thle InIdepiienden IPolish Caholi churicht of ijt. \delbert N. Y ., Frid'ay. Th frame wallmsi' of the simall structture wer torn d iwn anid hurled into the stret. Tlwenty-thr.e riters were ar res ted anld fu'rt her. ' ' t r ile san tici a ted. The assault wias in-1: ti dissat isfactioni with thle 'pa t ir. De)an 'i tas. HIis removal was regut tedc. Onlyv a Bid EATERS OF i THE OLD DAYS Sevan a1d a Half Pounds of Becf Part of One Man's Dinner. all ii w a1 'iiit * V IT L' I t lie anvi a Ii rI. r ,- I nlU his*- r,-miee'l d to'i i Thma Walkfc er. Aother t1hings hie speak. f3r Walker's per I.,et adoayOf a very- few. pr. feevtly servei iIshei- It a ilile lleal. Among others 'Lie mentions a Christ ma lininer give ilb IIr. Valker. in which three pier-nSIlI Includinhg the host. Ipartticipated. It was cominposei of crilipedl Co.!. woodei:1ick and 1 plum pudding. just a: imuch oi eaih a: wai w:llted. with cham1ipagne in abundance as the :ole wine. This dinner excited considerable Coniilit at the tiie. for it was given at a period when it was coniidered good forn to laid the table with an endless ,nantity of viands and drink in profusion. many varieties of wines. This dinier of' Walker's leads Ir. Hayward to connent upon the foriid able appetites with which people were endowed inl the early years of the Cen tury. One of Walker's meals was miere ly a nibble to the robust eaters of this pieriod. The lord lieuteiant of a certain west ern county of England ate a covey of partridges in their season every morn ing for breakfast. Another man of title consuied daily an equal number of these birds as a mere whet, and his ap petite was only sharpened by the per forlailnce. This feeder, before he had finished with a round of beef, had eaten seven and a half pounds of solid meat and a proportionate quantity of vegeta bles. Mr. Hayward tells of a distinguished literary and political character who was in the habit of ferquenting the notorious Crockford's. His appetite anid capacity were so prodigious that the proprietor of the establishment determined to offer him a substantial fee to refrain from eating there. Ile was about to do so. when he was in formed that this glutton had been bought off by the proprietors of all of the other exclusive feeding and gamb ling resorts of London. Troubles of a Trust. The Atlanta Journal says "the Sugar Trust has a rough sea ahead of it. If there ::ver was a trust which was thoroughly disreputable. and which dis tinguished itself by its defiance of de ceney as well as of public opinion, this is the one. The probability that the sugar trust has seen its best days will. therefore. be viewed with general satis faction by the public, which it has fleeced for so longa tiie. The dangers that beset this gigantie corporation are manifold. It has recently found a powerful rival in the Arbuckle Com pany, which has built and opened a great sugar refinery in Brooklyn. An other refinery on Long Island, to be operated by the Doscher Company, will be ready for businessin October. Still another refinery that will make war on the sugar trust has just been completed inl San Francisco. The trust now pro duces about three-fourths of all the re filled sugar used in this country, but it is estimated that its powerful compcti tors, who are now in the field will take away nearly half of its business. The rapidly growing beet sugar industry is also giving the sugar trust trouble. It is necessary, in order to make the pro Suetion of beet sugar profitable, to re ne sugar where the beets are grown. and thus make a large saving in freight. The business of refining sugar near the Louisiana plantations is also increasing every year for a similar reason. But the most serious danger which now beset the sugar trust is one which was broght on by its own greed and the exercise of influence with Congress. The lobby ists of the trust and its tools in Con gress succeeded in putting a differen tial duty of one cent a pound on refined sugar into the Dingley tariff Act. This gave the trust an enormous bounty, but was too good a thing. IL is this big differential which has lured other pow erful companies into the sugar refining business. If the sugar trust had not grabbed for so much in the way of legis lative favors it would now be in a much stronger position than it holds. And now the trust is brought face to face with another perplexing problem. Trhe sugar of Porto Rico and Hawaii will be admitted free of duty. The sugar product of Cuba will ->.!o come in free when Cuba beconmes ours, as it prob ably will before ho ig. There will cer tainly be refineries established in those islands to put the sugar into shape for market before it is shipped to this country. The trust will have a gay ime keepii; down this competition. This conce' n now has common and pre erred stoec to the amount of $75.000, 300. On this it is expected to pay handsome dividends. It has been orced by its policy of crushing com petition to pay for comp)eting refineries prices immensely above their real value. [t is said that all the plants of the trust :ould be duplicated for one-fifth of the unount for which they are stocked. l'his gives the rival refineries recently buiit an enormous advantage. To buy ap these refineries would put a stop to :he trust's dividends and run its stock lown to something like real value. To ~ace and fight the gzrcat comp~etitioni low before it will be to lose one-half of ts mloniopoly. The situation is badly nixed for the trust, but all peraons who io inot hold its watered stock may conl :mplate the situation with eq uanimuity nid hope for the collapse of' a comibiina ioni whlichl has forfeited all claims to ympathy or respect. To Be Mustered Out. The following troops were ordered to e mustered out of' service Friday: First South Carolinla. dJucksonville to :olumibial. S. C.. First Pennsvhvaniai. ~econd anid Third Pennsylvania. Fourth Wisconsin. Sevcntv-first New York. First New .Jersey. Thirty-second Mich galn. two squadrons First Ohio cavalry. Eirhith Ohio. One Illundred anid Fifty -il'hth Indiana. Third (Ohio. Seconid orthi Carolina. Simon's Island. GIla.. Lio RlaleiChi: First and Second Alabamai, I'hird U. S. volunteer cavalry. Seconid Massaichunsetts. Mail Robber Punishe d. Thle finding~s of the .teneral Court - miartial ill thle case of Floyd W. (Gay. Comipany F. 5th New York regimnent. 'hared with robbing the mails at Camnp 'lger were published Wednesday miornI II'' iia been dislionorahly d'Lisellai'ged from'l thie service of the Un Iited States. fiirfeiting~ all pay and allowances aind senlten'ced to serve thI:ree years at hard labir in' the' il~itaryv prisonl at Filt Lea Rolled Into the River. Wh' ile asleep I ni a whiarf iln lne of the stuiburbs oif d1acksinv ille. Fla. . lin Fridlaxy eveinz . IPri vateL Will iam~ 31e IHuvih. u'f (Co. G. Second Alab~iama reg ni:enti. riolied oil into the wvater andl was driownIied before aissi stanice co uld bei iVenl Li himn. The bidy wvas rec' vere FFTY DEAD 1N OE DAY. List of Deaths and Prfostradons Fvoin Heat in New York. telI1r city 11 day lou. N:it fomav ed abnist like day. aiin the deIath: from the heat reported at intervals in the various hospital. plice headquarter and coroner': o6ce. coldI wave. ac coipan ied )y sitowers and thunder stotrms. is the prognastieatioI for to morrow nigh it. but until then no relief is expected. Th Thighest point reached by the thernioieter to-day was at 2 o'Clock. when the nercury registered 92 degrees. T[he humiity averaged 85 per cent. Following is a list of the dead: Ed ward Ranter. 92 years old: lRobert Ea ton. 54: -John Sloan. 70: Jos. Norneti. 44: Philip Patie. 15 days: Ellen Potter, 40 ycar,: Robert Malupski. 7 months: Margaret Lavery. G" years: Winifred Whalen. 49: flobert 31iles. 38: Samuel Goodwin. 48: Lawrence Zenns. 40: Frederick C. Williams. G7: Lawrence Greon, :30: Mary Cornell. 20: Jamcs )Iodine. 1) monuths: Ernest Garbeith. :3 years: Minnie Mitchell. 39; Joseph Hudson. 65: Ihugh McDevitt. 35; Ed ward Wall. 38; Rocco NIontasano. 38: Edward Ivers. 40; Joseph Smith. 3: Eliza AJ. Goff. 70: Alfred Gardner. -: Cornelius D. Klein. -: Michael Alsick 35: Patrick Devive, 35; Charles Sehl man. j2: Charles Cohen, Patrick Defo van. 50: J. Mohl. 38, Daniel MaCarthy 26: Frederick Mosser. W\illian Harlan. 54: John Young. 45: Vittoria Prolli. 26: Philomena Wandela. 25: John Brown. (0: David Keef,- 32: ETward Seibel 45; George Meyer. 28: (harles l egel, 41: Lizzie Weabel. 21. Louis Sciomble, 1;: one unknown woman: three unknown men. In Brooklyn there were six deaths and fourteen prostrations. BLOWN UP. The Government Steamboat John R. Meigs Destroyed by Explosion. The Government steamboat John R. 31eigs was totally destroyed by an ex plosion at Fort St. Philip near New Orleans Saturday. She had on board Licut. Jervey and a party engaged in removing the torpedoes laid in the Mississippi River during the beginning of the war. Licut. Jervey had a nar row escape. The killed were Capt. Starr, commander of the boat: Sergt. John Newman, of the engineers; Pat Carlos and Ralph Rogers. Those wounded were Fritz Koch and 1). B. Reddy. Major Quinn, of the engineer c)rI)s, was advised that the Mcigs had b2en blown up by a torpedo or mine. The Government engineers had been unable to recover the mines and torpe does from shore by means of the cables to which they had been attached, owing to the fact that the sand in the river had weighted them down -and caused the cables to part. On this account a crew was ordered down on the Meigs to grapple for the mines and bring them to the surface. The crew had almost completed the work wh.n the accident occurred. The dispatch to Major Quinn -says that the 3Meigs sank out of sight in deep water near Fort St. Philip. Carlos and Newman. among those lost, belonged to the United States en ineer battalion that came here sonme time ago from Willets Point, N. Y. Capt. Starr is from Vicksburg, but is a Northern man, and was with the fleet during the attack on Vicksburg. The M1eigs was owned by MIajior Williard and had been used as a snag boat in Red lRver. She was 190 feet long. LOVES ONLIY HIS PARAMOUR. Pecliar Answer of Atlanta Lawyer to a Divorce Suit. A suit for divorce. filed by MIrs. T. J. Leftwich of Atlant a against her hus band, who in 'ddition to being one of the best known lawers of Atlanta. is the son of Dr. J. T. Leftwich, a Pres byterien preacher of wide reputation. has provoked a rejoinder today from the defendent which bristles with remarka ble features. The defendant admits that he was unduly intimate withi Maad Jordan. as his wife asserts, and declares openly that for years he has given her the affection and and atten tion which was due his wife. and that it is his intention to marry her as soon as released from his present matrimo nial bonds. H~e says that his marriage fifteen years ago was in every way un fortunate, and that when he met 3Iaude Jordan he realized her as his soul's ideal. He treated her as a wife and has had two children, a boy of 5 years and a girl of S months. by her. He al leges that he recently called a council of his most intimate friend .told them the circumstances. and decu~red that she and he would prefer disgi ace and imrisonmient rather than undergo sep aration. ie asserts that lie dearly loves the Jordan woman and his twvo illegitimate children. and any sacrifice which he can make for their welfare will not be too great. Prepare for Wheat. Let the farniers, possessed of fore sight. energy and business tact. con sider the value of the wheat crop. Ieretofore there was little demand for surplus wheat except for seed. It was too convenient to buy store flour. For the last few years our merchants would hardly have known what to do with 5010 bushels of wheat put on the market in one day. With scvcral roller mills in the country and a large one nearly ready to grind in the city. wheat will demand cash almost as readily as cotton. The ambition of the farmer is t bring his cotton crop up to a 500 bale to the acre. The same land pro pery prepared will make 20 to 310 bushels of wheat. It reuires a man and horse two dayvs to prepaire the land and put in one aicre of wheait. It takes six times as imuch labor to planlt. culti vate and gather a cotton crop as it does wheat. The wheat land .will also ptrt duce ai laite corn and pea cropaznd with the addition of a little manure. the land will bec improved. Let &hme fairmiers consider this question from a business Stndi~ point. With these mills going up. wheat will brinr ready cash. Seven Men Drowned It has just been reported tiikt Lient. oran I'. S. Engine er cogs was drieed otl' Tybee in the Stornri Wed nesdaiy with six regulair soldiers- IIe went out in ai yawl to rescue the tsailors of :Un Italian bark. The yawl capsized ind 3Morran with his tuen were drowncd. This is aiuthecntie. MIoriran ivas a Ea -thquake at Santiago.\ TIwo earthqutake shocks were felt at S ntiago na:turday aifterno n. The jarst. which occurred at 2:15. wasi. of uniusual sverty andi sh~ook ever lions in the cty. The frightened people ratn put nto the streets. The secondl shopAk, which was lighter. occurred .inst kan LOT IN A STORY, Ni1se ki.uidred Spaniards -h . i ' port Drowned. The i leI t cin <li l:: 'j , p lothe ir ies eoral nweros ao when thre spanixc h oloatt~eye war :itri byraunitral bl.ning Stoo .d ia D eC' S11mWlr. Th ete a b stationed in an adjinn zisand whlere the insurgent * were numeirouls and1( al Trssve The latter wore .ann '1r41und1 rapidly. c-ausin,- 900 Spainardsi to baril these sailing VesseIs in an en ieavor to escape from tie nzati\ves. wo. I ThegunoatLeyte. un1dertook to) tow these three transports to Manila bay where the Spaniards aboard then wereI to surr'ender to, Admiral Dewey if they did not sueceel in landing soiiewherei and reaching Manila under cover of darkness. After the Leyte had towed them down Panpangas river and some distance alonlz the coast. a heavy storm came up, making it necessary for the gunboat to cut her tows lioose and pro eced to Manila for assistance. Before iietting there she was captured by the Americans next day and an American vessel was dispatched to find the three transports. but failed to. discover any trace of them. The natives on the adjoining caast say they saw nothing of any vessels. The conclusion was finally reached that the vessels foundered with all on board. The Chinese emperor has issued an edict that European and American 4 missionaries and their converts in his empire be fully protected. He says that in this respect all Chinese officials have heretofore been derelict. He is sues this edict as a final warning and declares his determination that there shall be no more riots. Japanese pa pers announce that all export duties now imposed in Japan are to be grad ually abolished with the object of in creasing foreign trade. The Cotton Outlook. The outlook for cotton is not very en cauraringi. With middling cotton selling around 5 cents there is not much left to the producer, after the freight and middlemen's charges are deducted. If we take i22.50 as about the av erage value per bale on the farm, there is very little remuneration for either capital or labor. under the most favora ble conditions of yield and with the most economical management. As cot ton is the basis of values throughout most of the South. this eo:.idition of things is bound to make itself felt in many ways. Of course, any depression in the price of a staple commodity will work its own cure. in the long run.but the process is both painful and expen sive. The main cause of the present low price is the general conviction that the world is face to face with another monster crop. Whether that conviction is based on facts or not. the result is the same. for the time being. 'ufor tunately. the Southern farmer learned nothing from the bitter experience of last season, and the acreage is practi cally the same. While the world will undoubtedly. take a largc crop of Amer iean cotton at the present level of price. it does not require a crop of 11,)000.000 bales. and will only take it on a specu lative basis. As a matter of fact, the size of the present crop is still a matter of uncertainty. as its backwardness would make it peculiarly susceptible to injury by an early frost. Yet the size of the crop is taken for granted, and affects the price, for the imoment. precisely as if tihe result were certain. As things now stand, there is only one infinence that could check the decline. The Southern farmer has got to bull his own commodity. if it is to be bulled at all. Gems of Thought. Half our mistakes in life come from being in aihurry. Every human soul has something of the nature of God left in it. Try to learn the hard lesson of con centration without absorption. Assuredly a sore and subtle tempta tion of middle age is to nurse wrongs. The end of life is not personal happi ness. It is the image and glory of God. If it is a reproach not to have friends it may be even a greater not to h'ave enemies. No man can do another's work for him. If it is not done by each one for himself, it is not done at all. It is not greatness, but littleness, that can easily dispense with human love and coldly prefers. to suffer alone. A gentleman's first instinct is to put every one at his ease and especially to avoid giving unnecessary pain.-Bishop Thorold._________ He Was Drunk. Joe Kinney of Company II. First MIississippi. nmade an unsuccessful at tempt to) assassinate Col. Govan of the First MIississippi regiment at Chicka mauga Saturday night. IIe entered Col. Govan's tent, saying he had a present for him, with pistols drawn. The colonel made an effort to get his pistol. but Kenney had taken the col onel's pistol from his tent earlier in the evening. Col. Govan kept perfect ly cool and told him to leave or he would kill him. Kinney backed out of the tent and started away and was captured by Privates Gibbs, Smnythe, Slocum, lioyd and Turner of Company F. but not until lie had fired several shots at his capturers. The colonel's pistol was found on him when capt ured. Kinney vwas drunk and is said to be addicted to the morphine habit. ie is an ex-convict. Don't. ])on't judge a disinfe'ctant by its smell. D)on't seek to become a lif'e member ofa suicide club. D on't present a grass widow with a bottle of new-inownm hay perfume. iDon't think you cani get rid ot y'our typewriter by miarryingr her. D on't attemp~t to conv~ert a person by reason ing in stead of' by good example. D on't 1hhame the rocir for' giving \ou ski i't weiglit it Viiu give Iini a l'ini wvat. Do~n't dr'op your hook in the samte hole with others if you would succeed as a fisherman. Don'tt think free will gzives you the i'ight ti do wvhatcver you like, regard less ofi tihe rights of others. Released Steamers. T~wo steamers flying thie Spanish flag. sailed trout New York Wednesday. They were former prizes. the 31iguel Jover and Caitinai'. A few days ago the Washington authorities decided that these steameris should not hia-e been seized and irdered their release. The- .Jover and Catalina cleaireud for Spiaini via l labana and man neil hiv their old crews. went to sea W\ednlesday. The Courtesy of Macias. guard, brougiht 4Gen. Brok iaturday underi a flag of truce. a dlipatch from Ameiic'an ge nerad the use ofiiI his pite re"idence' at iI in Pias Inear "'an Abo-ut Reducing Cotton Acreage. l et New t nd Courie.r unde ii ic tltin' 'I6 hco "it G rwc c*s in I ,1111 il' sa that the Natioat''c litint roweri:Neititi it .i e*tais iic. l:dr.L i t' ori . l'ne. l i'- itn -I-di raitiei of crops.'alnd tIhis is to b kep b efore the eves of the farmers hev the distribution of literature. To this end the firnation if a society simi lar to the Grain-e and Alliance. free froml politics. is reconnended. This seenis to be a wise direction given to the Cotton Growers' association, if it 4,1cn he c' irried int., practiec. The cf forts andcc experlenccs of years in this section show the folly of the effort to reduce the acreage in cotton by agreement. It is a saving among farm ers tlciselves. that farmers can t combine." They will acknowledge th at as a general rule. less cotton should be planted. but every individual man of them thinks that it is good for all the other fellows and not for him this year. Ile has money to raise to meet a debt in the fall. He can't sell his corn, fodder and other produce with out a sacrifice and cotton is so low. he must plant largely to raise the money. This is the way they talk and consider ing the low price he gets for everything he has to sell. the farmer has to plough a stumpy row. The cotton is such an easy crop to cultivate. it woos him away from tobacco which requires so much trouble and skill in the curing. -There are a number of good farmers around us who know that tobacco is a far more profitable crop than cotton, that there is a cash demaad for it as early as August. but "it is so troublesome." So after all the element of ease in the cul tivation and gathering of the crop and the application of knowledge already acquired. are important considera tions with many. By concert of action, the farmers and those interested with them, could make the plan proposed very useful. The question is, will it be done? A Greater Navy. Congress at its next session will be asked to appropriate a good sum for improvements of the navy. The results of the war with Spain makes the strengthing of our navy an absolute necessity. The Oregon must be con sidered the most powerful ship of our present navy. But we have building and nearing completion the Kentucky, the Kearsarge. the Alabama, and the Illinois. all more powerful than the Oregon. Bids will soon be asked for three battleships of even greaterstrength They are to be one-third larger and one fourth swifter than the Oregon. They will also be stronger in armor and ar mament. Then we are to have three immense cruisers. superior in every respect to the New York and the Brook lyn. They will be a third larger and at least two knots faster than those noble vessels. Three vessels of the Olym pia's class are to be built. but they will be more powerful and considerably faster. In addition to all these mighty new ships we are to have six smaller cruisers, something like the Marblehead but superior to that cruiser both in speed and coal capacity. In their plans for all the new ships the board has had a special view to the capacity for carrying an ample supply of coal. Even the the big battleships will be able to go 8,000 knots without recoaling. This will give them an advantage over the best of our present battlesships quite as great as their sup~erior power of attack and resistance. Our nawy strengthened by the additions we have named will move up from fourth to third place in size and in effective strength will probably be surpassed only by the navies of England and France. But the man in the shipi is a factor to be considered, and with the new vessels which we shall add to our navy in the next four or five years we will, with our daring sea-fighters and our matchless gunners. be able to hold our own against any navy that it may be neces sary to fight. Rains Damage Cotton. The weather bureau in its review of crop conditions for the week ending Au ust 29 says: Continued heavy rains have proved unfavorable in the South Atlantic and East Gulf States, while drought pre vails in portions of Texas. Arkansas and MIissouri and generally through the States of the eastern Rocky Mountain slope. The week has been very unfai vorable to cotton, especially over the greater part of the eastern portion of the cotton belt, where it has suffered from heavy rains. r7hich have been con: tinuous for the past mionth, causing rust, shedding and too rapid growth of stalk. In portions of North Carolina and over the general part of the cotton region. conditions of the past week ha've been somewhat ~more favorable, and the crop is improved in Tennessee. ~issouri and portions of 3Mississippi nd Arkansas. Cotton has also im roved in central and northern Texas. but insects are causing damage in many toalities, and premiature opening and shedding arc reported from the central ind southern portiong of the State. Picking is becoming general in north 3rn portions. Rainfall in the State. Thue past week was characteaized by teady. even, norn'al temperatures. -anging between a 3Maximum of 96 de ;res on the 21st at Batesburg, and a :ciiniium of GG degrees on the 17 at reenville. The State miean. for the eek was 79 degrees, which is also the aoriical. With the exception of limited ireas in Newvberry. Aiken. Florence. Dorhester and Chesterfield c unties, where less than an inch of rain fell. :hc rainfall amounted to from 1 to 9 inches over the entire State. the latter .ccessve rainfall occurred in Piekens youncty. and lowland erc cps in that. reenville and Spcartanb~ura counties. avhere from 2 to nearly 5 inches of rain EelI, were in places severely injured or 1nti reIly destroyedi. C loudy and show 2ry weatheri prevailed generally during the irst of the week. butt :after Friday Lhere was more suncshi: e :ind less fr' uent showers. T1he acveragze raincfall ior the State was 2..~2 inches. and the normal for the samie period is appcr x ina ely 1.48 inches. Gold Coming South. The Savannah News says that it the statement sent out by the Ncew Yicrk banks is correet. co tton i cker will be paid to a veryv great extenit this year in gold. It is the customc of Southern banks to net currency fromi thle New ork banks. at the beniiginnio the otton seasccn, with which ti harvest tind miivei the 'ttcn erop. They get small 'lls tc f acilitate the pacying off lie cottn ii ticki'rs. Thingcar it seems hat thec Neu York baunks arc not able to -eijcnd t.i the dencand of their custo n - inc thle South for palper money. her have inot m )re thani eniough for h it- in neds. and they can hnot net yc from the treasucry. Thie con!cse ut ncc it noidi will hacve tc be uisedl nic ntoin' tie button crop. TIhce pr's e'it c-il'thrr that there will lie pleni ,. of., ;,. 'c ..;,., t.o cc icc Ihe South this The Piyai' Is the highest grade baking powder known. Actual tests show it goes one ftird fwrther tha any other bread. POWDER Absolutely Pure ROYAL DAK:NO POWDER CO., %ew yO The Price of Cotton. At this date last year cotton was quoted in New York at S 1 cents. Be fore the 1st of November without any suspicion that the crop would approxi mate any such astonii.hing figures as eleven million bales, cotton declined over two cents per pound. Cotton is now quoted in New York at 5 2 ceni with an estimated surplus on hand of one and one half -.illion bales greater than this ti--, last year to be supplemented by a crop equal. if not exceeding last years crop. Should this enormous volume of cotton be hurriedly thrown upon the market. already glutted with an over supply, i would be hard to pre dict how low prices would be forced: it is not at all improbable that cotton would touch four cents. The Spartan burg Herald says the Cotton Growers Union have evolved a plan for market ing cotton with system and judgment rather than by throwing large quantities on the market at once. They propose to offer the farmers a practical plan which will accomplish this result and the farmers of South Carolina should lose no time in getting in shape to adopt it. Full details of the plan have not yet been given out, but the state organization of which Hon. J. C. Wel born, of Yorkville. is president. should call a convention and inaugurate the organizations in counties and townships so that the plan can be made effective promptly. If the plan of the Cotton Growers' Union dould be put in opera tion it would insure 6 cents net for every pound of cotton regulated by it. The difference between 4 cents and 6 on ten million bales would be one hun dred million dollars; a stake, sufficient it seems to us. to interest the entire South. With almost every Southern interest, more or less interwoven with the interest of the cotton growers, it does seem that they might combine with the cotton growers in their effort to consumate a policy which promises such great benefit to our section." Spain Pays the Penalty. Spanish official reports recently pub lished show how terrible wgre the los ses by disease of the Spanish army in Cuba during the two years from March 1895, to March, 1S97. In that perioi Spain sent to Cuba 187,000 troops. These with the garrison already there brought the total Spanish force in the island up to something like 200,000 men. ,Dairing the two years specified there were killed in the battle 61 offi cers, 1,314 privates, 62 offiers and 704 privates died of wounds. These losses were comparatively light. but when we turn to the mortality from disease we see a frightful record. Yellow fever took off 313 offiers and 13,000 privates. Other diseases, mostly malarial, re moved 127 offeers and 40,000 privates During two years out of every 1,0001 Spanish soldiers in Cuba 10 were killed in battle or died of wounds: 66 died of yellow fever, 201 of other diseases, and 143 were sent home invalided, a total loss of 420 men out of every 1,000. The reports for the period since March 1897, are not given, but it is reason able to suppose that no less than JNO, 000 Spaniards have lost their lives in Cuba since the insurrection began, probably nine-tenths of them by dis ease. We agree with th Atlanta Jour nal that this was a terrible i-etribution worked on Spain. She had never made any effort to improve the sanitary condi tion of Cuba. So long as she got her enormous tribute from the island Spain seemed not to care abont anything else. Cuba was permitted to become and re main one of the foulest hotbeds of dis ease in the world, whereas a great na tion might in time have made it as healthful as it is fertile and beautiful. A Good Plan. It is almostecertain that from 100,000 to 150,000 soldiers who have been call ed into service to meet the emergencies of the war with Spain will soon be mus tered out. In this connection Adju tant General Corbin made recently a most gratifying annonneement. He said: "'Before any troops are mustcred out the department will issue an order which is being made ready. and which will be of the utmost importance to both the soldiers and the government. It has been geneally noticed that the ex aminations to which the men were sub jeted prior to acceptance were quite se vere. Some of the states complained of them as being too severe. At all events, throdgh these severe examina tions we got a high class of men physi - cally. Now. before they are mustered out they atrc to go through just such another examination. Having the re cord of their examinattions oin their ae eeptance the medical ofiieers will know whether or not they are sound when they arc mustered out. The later ex anination will reveal whether they were wounded, sprained, impairedI in hecari ng or injured in sight, and if they have suffered any disability that they know of or that the physician can find. This is to be put down in black and white, and the soldier is to sign it. if he knows of no objections to it." This is an eminently practical sug gestion and a perfectly properly one. If such a plan had been adopted when the Federal troops were mustered out at the close of the civil war many a pension fraud would have been prevent ed and the treasury would have been - aved many millions of dollars which'' have gonet to undeserving pensioners. Crops in the State. The condition of corn has changed ut little and the crop is a lairly good one. but has been damaged by high wa ter in the extreme north-western coun ice and by an excess of moisture on stubble lands. The weather was unfa orable for saving fodder: mnuch of that pulled during the week wa uamagedl and some totally djestroye byi in\ . hbe cotton crop is fairly pr h. nm mlut s et uncertain, and dete'riorateu dui inc the wek The continuous cloudy' tu rai nv weathecr hai ca used an in rease of rust and shedding. both of wh ich are conmnon ov er the entire State. .atured b lls are rottmnz to som~e ex tent. ('otton i- opeing freely in dlaces. but generally slowly. and pick ng has fairly began mn the eastern por tions of the State. and will soon be