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ART OF FRIENDSUIPN! Dr. Taimand's Sermot on Making And Keeping Friends. A GOD GIVEN REGULATION. Ardent Friends and Ardent Ene mies. Cover Up the Faults and Extol the Virtues. The Hearty Hand shike and Its Great Value. The obtaining of good friends. which most look upon as a matter of happy accident, Dr. Talmage in this sermon shows to be a matter of intelligent selection: text, Proverbs xviii. 24, "A man that hath friends must show him self friendly." About the sacred and divine art of making and keeping friends I speak a subject on which I never heard of any one preaching-and yet God thought it of enough importance to put it in the middle of the Bible, these writings of Solomon, bounded on one side by the popular pslam of David. and on the other by writings of Isaiah. the great est of the prophets. It seens all a mat ter of haphazard how many friends we have or whether we have any friends at all, but there is nothing accidental about it. There is a lw which overns the accretion and dispersion of friend ships. They did not -just happen so any more than the tides just happen to rise or fall or the sun just happens to rise or set. It is a seience, an art, a God given regulation. Tell me how friendly you are to oth ers. and I will tell you how friendly others are to you. I do not say you will not have enemies. Indeed the best way to get ardent friends is to have ardent enemies, if you get their enmity in doing the right thing. Good men and women will always have enemies, because their goodness is a perpetual rebuke to evil, but this antagonism of foes will make more intense the love of your adherents. Your friends will gather closer around you because of the attacks of your assailants. The more your enemies abuse you the better your coadjutors will think of you. The best friends we have ever had appeared at some juncture when we were especially bombarded. There have been times in my life when unjust as sault multiplied my friends, as near as I could calculate, about 50 a minute. You are bound to some people by many cords that neither time nor eternity can break, and I will warrant that many of those cords were twisted by hands malevolent. Human nature was ship wrecked about 59 centuries ago,. the captain of that craft, one Adam, and his first mate running the famous cargo aground on a snag in the river Hiddekel. But there was at least one good trait of human nature that waded safely ashore from that shipwreck, and that is the disposition to take the part of those un fairly dealt with. When it is thorough ly demonstrated' that some one is being persecuted, although at the start slan derous tongues were busy enough, de fenders finally gather around as thick as honeybees on a trellis of bruised honeysuckle. If when set unon by the furies you can have grace' enough to keep. your mouth shut and preserve your equipoise and let others fight your battles, you will find yourself after awhile with a whole cordon of allies. Had not the torld given to Christ on his arrival at Pales tine a very cold shoulder there would not have been one-half as many angels chanting glory out of of the hymnbooks of the sky bound in black lids of mid night. Brad it not been for the heavy and jagged and tortuous cross Christ would not have been the admired and loved of more people than any being who ever touched foot on ,either the eastern or western hemisphere. In stead therefore of giving up in despair beeruse you have enemies rejoice in the fact that they rally for you the most helpful and enthusiastic adriirers. In other words, there is no virulence that can hinder wy text from coming true. "A man that hath friends must show himself friendly." It my ambition to project, especially upon the young, a thought which may benignly shape their -destiny for the here and the hereafter. Before you show yourself friendly you must be friendly. I do not recommend a dra matizeld geniality. There is such a thing as pretending to be en rapport with others when we are their dire de structants and talk against them and wish them calamity, Judas covered up his treachery by a resounding kiss, and caresses may be demoniacal. Better the mythological Cerberus, the three headed dog of hell barking at us, than the wolf in sheep's clothing, its brind led hide covered up by deceptive wool and its deathful howl cadenced into an innocent bleating. Disraeli writes of Lord Manfred, who, after committing many outrages upon the people, seemed suddenly to become friendly and in vited them to a banquet. After most of the courses of food had been served he blew a horn, which was in those times a signal for the servants to bring on the dessert, but in this case it was the signal for assassins to enter and slay the guests. His pretended friendli ness was a cruel fraud, and there are now people whose smile is a falsehood. Bofore you begin to show yourself friendly you must be friendly. Get your heart right with God and man, and this grace will become easy. Y ou may by your own resolution get your nature into a semblance of this virtue, but the grace of God can sublimely lift you inte it, Sailing on the river Thames two vessels ran aground. The owners of one. got 100 horses and pulled on the grounded ship and pulled it to pieces. The owners of the other grounded vessel waited till the tides came in and easily floated the ship out of all trouble. So we may pull and haul at our grounded human nature and try to get it into bet ter condition, but there is nothing like the oceanic 'tides of God's uplifting grace. If, when under the flash of the Holy Ghost, we see our own foibles and defects and depravities, we will be very lenient and very easy with others. We will look into their characters for things commendatory and not damnatory. 13 you would rub your own eye a little more vigorously, you would find a mot~ in it, the extraction of which woule keep you so busy you would not hav< much time to shoulder your broadax zni go forth to split up the beam in yout neighbor's eye. in a Christian spiri keep on exploring the characters o those you meet, and I am sure you wil find something in them fit for a founda tion of friendliness. You invite me to come to your coun try seat and spend a few days. Thanj vou! I arrive about noon of a beauti ful summer day. What do you do As soon as I arrive you take me out un der the shadow of the great elms. Yo take me down to the artificial lake, th spotted trout floating in and out anmon the white piliars of the pond lilies. Yo ter nD: i . ' ii tcd . b aIn, and -ehjn: the cly ugu age theI can :;peak. aninIg for harness orsaddle and a short turn down the road. Thc'n we 'o back to the house. and you Oet tie in the right light, and show ine the KeIsetts and the Bierstadts (In the Wall and take me into the music room and show ne the birdcages. the canaries in the bay window answering the robins in the tree tops. Thank you! I never enjoyed myself more in th. same length of time. Now, why do we not do so with the characters of others. aia show the bloom and the music and the bright fountains? Oh. my friends, better cover up the faults and extol the virtues. and this habit once establihed of universal friendliness will become as easy as it is for a syringa to flood the air with sweet ness. as easy as it will be further on in the season for a ,uail to whistle up from the grass. When se hear some thing bad about somudbody whom we al wars supposed to be good. take out your lea'd pencil and say: ''Let m1e see! Blefore I aceept that baleful story against that man's character I will take off from it 25 per cent for the habit of exaggera tion which belongs to the man who first told the story then I will take off 25 per cent for the additions which the spirit of gossip in every community has put upon the original story; then I will take off 25 per cent from the fact that the man may have been put into cir cumstanecs of overpowering temptation. So I have taken off 75 per cent. But I have not heard his side of the story at all, and for that -reason I take off the remaining 25 per cent. Excuse me, sir. I don't believe a word of it." Now, supposing that you have by a divine regeneration got right toward God and humanity, and you start out to practice my text. A man that hath friends must show himself friendly." Fulfill this by all forms of appropriate salutation. Have you noticed that the head is so poised that the easiest thing on earth is to give a nod of recognition? To swing the head from side to side, as when it is wagged in derision, is un natural and unpleasant; to throw it back invites vertigo, but to drop the chin in greeting is accompanied with so little exertion that all day long and every day you might practice it with out the least semblance of fatigue. So, also, the structure of the hind indi cates hand shaking; the knuckles not made so that the fingers can turn out, but so made that the fingers can turn in, as in clasping hands, and the thumb divided from and set aloof from the tingers, so that while the fingers take your neighbor's hand on one side the thumb takes it -n the other, and. pressed together, all the faculties of the hand give emphasis to the saluta tion. Five sermons in every healthy hand urge us to hand shaking. Besides this every day when you start out load yourself up with kind thoughts, kind words, kind expressions. and kind greetings. When a man or woman does well, tell him so, tell her so. If you meet some one who is im proved in health, and it is demonstra ted in girth and color, say, "How well you look!" But if, on the other hand, under the wear and tear of life he ap pears pale and exhaused, do not intro duce sanitary subject or say anything at all about physical condition. In the case of improved health you have by our words given another impulse to ward the robust and the jocund, while in the case of the failing health you have arrested the decline by your sil ence, by which he concludes, "if I were really so badly off, he would have said something about it." We are all, especially those of a nervous tempera ment, susceptible to kind words and discouraging words. Form a conspira cy against us, and let ten men meet us at certain points on our way over to business, and let each one say. "How sick yo u look!'' though we shonid start out well, after meeting the first and hearing his depressing salute we would begin to examine our symptoms. After meeting the second gloomy accosting we would conclude we did not feel quite as well as usual. After meeting the third our sensations would be dreadful, and after meeting the fourth, unless we suspected a conspiracy, we would go home and go to bed, and the other six pessimists would be a useless surplus of discouragement. We want something like that spirit of sacrifice for others which was seen in the English channel, where in the storm a bo* containing three men was upset, and all three were in the water struggling for their lives. A boat came to their relief, and a rope was thrown to one of them, and he refused to take it saying: "First fling it to Tom. lie is just ready to go down. I can last some time longer." A man like that, be he sailor or landsman, be he in up per ranks of society or lower ranks, will always have plenty of frienks. What is true manward is true Godward. We must be the friends of God if we want him to be our friend. We cannot treat Chsist badly all our lives and expect him to treat us lovingly. I was read ing of a sea fight in which Lord Nelson captured a French officer, and when the French officer offered Lord Nelson his hand, Nelson replied, "First give me your sword, and then give me y our hand." Surrender of our resistance to God must precede God's proffer of par don to us. Kepentance before forgive ness. You must give up your rebel lious sword before you can get a grasp of the divine hand. Oh, what a glorious state of things to have the friendship of God! Why, we could afford to have all the world against us and all other worlds against us if we had God for us. IHe could in a minute blot out this universe, and in another minute make a better universe. I have no idea that God tried hard when hemade all things The most brilliant thing known to us is light,and for the creation of that lhe only used a word of command. As out of a flint a frontirsnan strikes a spark, so out of one word God struck the noonday sun. For the making of the present univers. I do not read that God lifted so imuche as a finger. The Bible frequently speaks of God's hand and God's arm and God's shoulder and God's foot; then suppose he shoulid put hand and arm and shoul der and foot to utmost tension. what could he not make? That God of such demonstrated and undemonstrated strength you may have for your pres' et and secrylasting friend, not a state ly and reticent friend, hard to get at, but as approachable as a country man sion on a summer day when all the oors and windows are wide open. Christ sad "I1 am the door." And h~ i a wide door, a high door, a palac door, an always open door. My 4-year-old child got hurt and di not cry until hours after, whon he: mother caime home, and then she burs1 into weceping, and some of the domes tic, not understanding human nature ai to her. "Why did you not cry be Ifore?" She answered. "There was n< 2one to cry to.' Now. I have to tel eyou that wilie human sympathy ma: be absent, divine sympathy is alway: accessible. dive God your love. am 'Te LA4 14 E!U 6 f a t C all Your :1r~ i 1 id If Nilae '.i den cata:vtrophe should hurIyou ti of earth it ild 'nly !uri '%ou out inAtoi hea ven. If' God is~ your friend. you nt '''0 1ut othe world ti" ,uickly or sud denly. so far as your own happiness is Con erIered. There Wele two Christians who entered heaven. The one was standing at a window in perfect health. watching a shower. and the lightninr instantly slew hiiii. but the lightning did not flash down the sky as swiftly as his spirit lashed upward. The Chris tian moan who died on the same day next door had been for a year or two fl 61in heialth. and for the last three months had suffered from a disease that made ths nights sleepless and tle days an anguish. Do you not really think that thle ease of thle onet who wvent in stantly was more desirable than the one who entered the shining gate throlugh a long lane of insomnia and congestion? In the one case it wa, like your stand ilg wearily at a doo'r. knocking and waiting and wondering if it will ever open. and knocking and witing again. while in the other case it was a1 SwmflL ing open of the door at the first touch of your knuckle. G ive your friendship to God. and have God's friendship for you. anu even the worst accident will be a victory. How refreshing is human friendship. and true friends, what priceless treas uies! When sickness comes and trouble comies and death _,ies. we send for our friends first of all. and their appearance in our doorway in any crisis is re-en forcement, and when they have enter ed we say. "Now it is all right!" Oh. what would we do without personal friends, business friends.family friends? But we wait something mightier than human friendship in the great exigen cies. When Jonathan Edwards. in his final hour, had given the last goodby to all his earthly friends, he turned on his pillow and closed his eyes. confi dently saying, "Now where is -Jesus of Nazareth., my true and never failing Friond?" Yes. I admire human friend ship as seen in the case of David and Jonathan. of Paul and Onesiphorus, of Herder and Goethe, of Goldsmith and Reynolds, of Ceaumont and Fletcher of Cowley and Harvey, of Erasmus and Thomas Moore. of Lessing and Men delssohn, of Lady Churchill and Prin cess Anne. of Orestes and Pylades.eachi requesting that himself might take the point of the dagger, so the other might be spared; of Epaminondas and Pelopi das, who locked their shields in battle, dtermined to die together. but the grandest, the mightiest, the tenderest friendship in all the universe is the friendship between Jesus Christ and a believing soul, yet after all I have said I feel I have only done ,hat James Marshall, the miner, did in 1848 in California, before its gold mines were known. He reached in and put upon the table of his employer. Captain Sut ter, a thimbleful of gold dust. " Where did you get that?" said his employer. The reply was, "I got it this morning from a mill race from which the water had been drawn off." But that gold dust, which could have been taken up between the finger and the thumb. was the proLhecy and specimen that reveal ed California's wealth to all nations, and today I have only put before you a specimen of the value of divine friend ship. only a thimbleful of mines inex haustible and infinite, though all time and all eternity go on with the explo ration.-_________ TREITBT._KURRICANE. Hundreds of People Killed and Thon sands Are Rendered Homeless. A London dispatch says advices had been received there late Wednesday niiht to the effect that a terrible hur ricane had swept over Barbadoes, in the windward group of the Lesser An tilles. The dispatch says two hundred people had been killed and forty thou sand rendered homeless. According to the latest reports from St. Lucia. the storm which broke upon the island Sunday night developed al most unprecedented violence, being ac companied by a tidal wave and tremen dous rains. Numerous landslides were caused, and many houses, bridges and cocoa estates have been destroyed. At least 12 lives have been lost, Gaudaloupe. the French island in the leeward 'group, has experienced heavy weather- Nineteen deaths are reported, and there have been destruc tive landslides, A boat fromiihe Island of St. Vin ent. 100 miles west of Barbadoes. ar rived Wednesday at the Island of Gre nada, and reports that St. Vincent has experienced the most violent and de structive cyclone ever known there. Kingston, the capital of St. Vincent, is totally destroyed. It is estimated that 300 lives have been lost in that island, and that 20.000 peolie are hoiie less. The bodies of the dead are be ing buried it trenches. Thousands are starving or being fed at the public ex pense. The amount of property destroyed in St. Vincent cannot yet be estimated. Every small house is down and many large buildings including churchles, stores and almost all the state build ings. Three large ships are ashore on the windward coast,.and many smaller vessels are stranded. The Maine Election. In Maine. to be exact, the Democrats )oed about the same vote they polled in 1894, while the Republicans lost 20~ per cent. and their plurality forgovernm or in the whfole State will be about 23.000 as against 39.000 four years ago. The New York Tribune has become alarmed because "Republican leaders' of capacity have this -year found sonic occasion to fear the prevailing imipres sion that Republican success was cer tain every -where, owinig to the wvar. And the ~New York Evening Post which fondly hopes for Republican success, is not sure the next house will escape the control of what it calls a 'Bryan ised Democracy. _ Before and After. The elections in Oregon anld R~hode Island were held before the return of the troops. In both cases the result showed large Republican imaj orities. The elections in MIaine and 1 ermolnt were held after the return of the troops. I both cases the result showed a tre mndous falling off in the usual Rlepub liean majorities. The logical seguittar is that Alger did it. There have been about 10)0,000 volunteers ordered muus tered out. most of whom live in north rn1 States. When they get home the IRepublican party may look out for trou ble. -State. * Three Men Drowned. Henry Lester. l~'prretor of the Prin ess Ann cottage at Virginia Beach. -Iand two of his guests, T.~ S. E. DIixon of Chicago and Arthur MIeLaughlin o! Newark. N. .J.. were drowned Wednes day while bathing at the beach. The. bodies of the first two were discovered -floating on the water by Assistant Keeper Nedgett of the Cape Henry lighthouse, while driving along th< The PegU!lar Weekly Weather and Crop Bulletin. WHATTHECROPS ARE DOING. What the Observers All Over the State Report to Headquart ers. The Information Consolidated. The following is the weekly bulletin of the condition of the weather and crops of the State issued last week by Section Director Bauer of the South Carolina bereau of the United States weather and crop service. The opening of the week was very warm. and the last of the week unsea sonably cool. The mean temperature for the week was 73 degrees. and the normal is approximately 75 degrees. Over the central counties heavy lo cal showers occurred. but over the re mainder of the State the rainfall was generally light. with, however, a con tinuation (during the greater portion of the week) of the cloudy weather hereto fore prevailing. Thd average rainfall for the week was 1.14 inches. and the normal about 1.27 inch. The latter portion of the week was dry, generally clear. and with cool northeast winds-conditions favorable for seasonable farm work, such as hay ing, picking cotton, and stripping fod der. A slight improvement was noted in portions of the State in crop conditions owing to better weather, but there is still lack of sunshine and dryness. Farm work, while still backward, ad vanced rapidly in some localities. Late corn doing well, fairly well now. Ripe corn not yet housed, and sonic rotting and sprouting in the husk. Fod dei pulling practically finished, and but little saved in good condition. Cotton picking was hindered and de layed over a large portion of the State and much open cotton was weather stained, beaten to the ground, or dis colored by mildew, while reports of seeds sprouting in the bolls, and ripe bolls rotting. continue to come from all sections. There is much open cotton in the fields, and good weather for pick ing prevailed at the close of the week. No improvement in the condition of the plant itself is noted. it being nearly dead in many places from rust. Sea island cotton is opening and picking is under way, but the general condition of this crop is not promising, especially for a top crop. Early rice harvest has at last begun, but some is sprouting in the shock: up land rice is fine, and ripening. There is promise of a large crop of peavine and other hay. Sugarcane, peanuts. and sweet potatoes are doing finely. CORRESPONDENTS REPORTS. Aiken-Seivern: Rain about half the week, cool the latter portion; fodder all gathered, and fully half ruined; scarcely any cotton picked, cane and potatoes doing well; turnips a bad stand; rice fine.-J. F. Lyles. Anderson.-Iva: No change to re port; still'hraving frequent showers, and all crops daily suffering further dam age.-T. C. Jackson. Bamberg.-Govan: Cotton shedding off all top crop, and doing badly in every way; picking getting on slowly on ac count of rain; peas, cane, rice and po tatoes are fine.-Geo. Mather. Barnwell.--Blackville: Continued rains and lack of sunshine still further injured the cotton; hay and pea vines are getting over ripe, very little harvested; peanuts and peas very prom ising; remarkable growth of sugar cane. G. D. C. Lange. Beaufort. -Hardeeville: All crops ruined, except sugar cane, by recent storm; estimates cannot be gotten at until water recedes, as yet it is impos sible to get arcund even on horseback to make an approximate estimate of damage: corn is rotting in the fields; cotton -badly stained weather wont permit gatheing.-J. S. Coburn, Sr. Berkeley. -Pinopolis: Frequent show ers and cloudy weather have caused contined shedding of cotton; cotton opening rapidly, but picking hindered by rain and cloudiness; same cause also injured peas and potatoes.-Thos. P. Ravenel. Charleston.-Charlest'.a: Had few days of sunshine this week; many far mers are busy putting in, or getting ready to put in, fall beans: all farm work backward.-L. Sahlman. Checsterfield.-Cheraw: The past 20 days of excessive rain have done much damage to all crops, more particularly to cotton, causing it to rot, sprout and shed badly, young corn in lowlands turning yellow, otherwise not seriously damaged by recent freshet; more sun shine this week. and all crops mruch improved.-E. M. Wells. Colleton.-White Hall: Weather fav orable for repairing damage by freshet last week; river banks repaired, and on lower river the handling of damaged rice is under way but up river freshct has riot gone off entirely. -W. E. Has kell. D)arlington.-Society Ilill: Cotton rotting and sprouting in the bolls from continued rains: corn made, and is a satisfactory yield: sugar cane very prom ising; rice ripening; erab grass hay never finer: pea vines injured by ex cessive mnoisture; sweet potatoes a good erop.-J. J. Lucas. Dorchestr.-St. George's: If the coming week turns out fair, one-half of the cotton will be picked; over half of the crop is open and damaged by the reccnt bad weather.-L. A. Harper. Edgefield.--Poverty Hill: Thre week has been very damp and disagreeable. with some rain and very little sunshine cotton rotting badly, even after it has been picked: corn that was blown down is rotting and sprouting.-11L L. Bun ch. Florence.-Jeffries: Th~e past week has been unfavorable to harvest cotton: cotton is damaged by thre rain, one sixth is lost by falling out; haying un der way, but it is a short crop on low lands.-L. S. Bigham. G reenville.-Simpisonville: Rainy and cloudy during the week; cotton shed ding and rotting; what cotton has been picked is damaged; open bolls blued: no good fodder saved yet: potatoes fine; larie yield of sorghumn.-S. T. 3Moore. (3re'enwood. -(3reenwood: Cotton has the rust badly; opening slowly; the crop will be short in this county.-3L )1. Calhoun. Kiershraw.-- amnden: The weather continues wet and has caused consider able damage to cotton; it is rotting in the boll: rains prevent picking and beat out a lot damagin it: tire weather is not favorable for prulling fodder.--B. Ammonr'. Laurenms.-Barksdalc: Fodder gath rin'z is about over. with very little good fodder saved; cotton opening rap idly, and is being picked and ginned: pea crop and -late corn are very good; fruit all rotted.-S. B. Garrett. ILexington.-Ella: Much fodder was damaged by rain of 7th; nearly all cot tn s in a rough condition. rotten and arc t!~ ': ''~ tb cut if enther fa'sor oeannits and pota te aro~ iood: turn I] - gr~wii ra piTll. lat t.r 1a1lh I.f !"h;, wee' IM) t wt for 'athering cloIn r'mi rci'l unuch 5oli der ree inl the fichld-: cItton still sheddiing and rotting inl the boll: hay ini retarded: with favorable weather large crop If pea vinle hay will be made; much late corn blown duwn.-John 3. Sease. 31. D. Orangeburg. - Bownan: Showers till Thursday, fair weather since: cotton picking is very much retarded; some hay has been cut. but not cured satis factorilv: good weather is anxiously awaited for haying. as very little good fodder was saved in this vicinity; rice crop is very fine and turning out well. -B. O. Evans. Pickens.-Loopers: Lack of sunshine ruined nearly all our corn fodder and what was pulled was rotten; eotton is damaged fully one-fourth by the wet, cloudy weather. -W. N. Hughes. Saluda.-Travis: The weather con tinues unfavorable for picking .cotton and pulling fodder: very little sunshine this week. yet it did not raini much; a great deal of late fodder to pull yet. -Jas. 31. Forrest. Spartanburg.-H1illsville: Not much rain. but clovdy weather is injuring cotton and corn; fodder pulling very nearly finished, but was saved in poor condition; turnips poor..-J. 31. Cal vert. Sumter.-Shiloh: The past week has been very unfavorable for picking cot ton and very little has been picked as yet; it is iotting in the bolls: peas and potatoes are doing very well.-S. C. Turbeville. Union.-Santue: The heavy rain of the 7th caught and damaged a large quantity of (ord fodder; corn not up to expectations. yet in places it is good: open cotton was badly injured by dirt and stain: many bolls only half -open, and lint blue from mildew; outlook gloomy; peavines and grass for hay, very fine; turnips not doing well.-E. W. Jeter. Williamsburg.-Chapman: The week generally has been favorable for har vesting cotton and peas; late peas have improved since the rains ceased; rice, chufas, potatoes and ribbon-cane are doing well; cotton seems to be turning out very light since picking has begun; sonic good hay has been saved this week.-D. N. Johnson. York.-Leslie: Weather still unfa vorable for crops; fodder pulling about done, very little good fodder saved; on account of rain, very little cotton pick ed; crop badly injured from rotting, bluing, and sprouting in the boll; if weather permits, the deficiency in fod der can be supplied by peavine and other hay.-D. T. Leslie. STATESMANT.Im ADVICE GIVEN. Mr. Featherstone Urges Undivided Support of Gov. Ellerbe. To the Vditor of The State: Please give me a little space in your columns that I may say a few words in reference to the recent election. ' In the first place, I desire to thank my friends all over the State for the many kindnesses and courtesies shown me during the campaign and for the large vote they gave me on the 30th August and the 1:3th September. From the bottom of my heart I appreciate their kindness and support. I shall endeavor so to conduct myself that those who voted for me shall never have cause to regret it. I have made the best fight that I could. I have made it upon the high est plane of which I was capable. When I entered the race I was con scious that I was advocating what was right. The campaign has but strength ened that consciousness. I have no regrets-my conscience and skirts are clear.. In the second place, I would urge my friends and supporters not to become discouraged. We have made a good fight. We have fought upon high ground and for the sake of principle. We have nothing to be ashamed of. Better things are in store for us in the future. Right must and will triumph in the end. Go to work in earnest for the cause that you love. Be more in earnest than ever and in the future the good results arc bound to come. -In the third place, let mec urge my friends to be true and loyal to the in coming administration. By your earn est cooperation and support it can be made better. It is your duty, as good citizens. to stand by the law, so long as it remains the law, no matter how bad it may be. We have had enough strife and bitterness in South Carolina. We must get together and bolster up our officers and assist them in the dis charge of their duties. It is not the part of good citizenship to abuse and villify those in power. On the con trary, the gzood citizen, no matter whether he belongs to the minority or he majority, will, after he has miade his fight, rally to the support of those by whom he has been beaten, and as sist them in the execution of the laws. I, therefore, urge my friends to throw aside their disappointments and pre judices and act as true Carolinans ougt to act. For those who have fought me upon principle, who have been fair and have used no improper means. I have noth ing but the kindest feeling. They have simply done what they had a right to do. Those who have fought me fronm impropeCr motives and have used doubt ful methods will find punishment enough in the atccusations of their own consciences. I have nothing of the "sore head" about mue. I shall not "sulk in my tent." I am ready and willing to do all in my power to benefit and help old South Carolina. Very truly, C. C. Featherstone. Laurens. S. C.. Sept. 16. 189S. The Beggars at Habana. As predicted, the streets and public llaces of Ilabana have again become crowded with beggars since the closing of the :oup kitchens. Nothing could be more ridiculous tihan the statement of Civil Governor Fernandez de Castro that want and distress have disappear ed. The reasons which caused the opening of these kitchens during the blockade still obtain in the same de gree. and the beggars are no better off today than they were then. The rais ing of the blockade did not have the effect of reducing prices which continue excessive for the poor. T HE Louisville Post says a party of fishermen found a man and his family up the Tennessee river who had never heard of the war with Spain. The man wouldn't believe it until a newspaper h rewports from the battlefields was produced and read. The poorly in formed native said his lack of informa tion was due to the fact that he hadn't "bn overtn town for purty nigh a TI, HDR-ORE SWAPPER. A Mest laughable Tale From the Georgia Scenes. In the i teorg1,i'a Neus" i tyi cal picture il lrse swappin:g in the old dllVays, whiii may pive in ter tmt ill to tile present eneration. It is the storv of how Yellow lios somin bantered Peter Ketch and was properly caught. Yellow Blossou believed that he was just a "leetle bit" of the best man at a horse swap that "ever trod in shoe leather." Af ter describing Bullet. Blossom's horse, and Kit. the 'critter" owned by Peter Ketch. at some length. the story pro eeeds as follows: -I tell you. man. proceeded Yel lowv Blossom. "lie is the best live horse that ever trod the grit of Georgia. Bob Smart knows the horse. Come here. Bob. and mount this horse and show Bullet's motions." Here Bullet bris tied up and looked as ii he had been hunting Bob all day long and had just found him. Bob sprang on his back. "Boo-oo-oo!" said Bob with a fiutter ing noise of the lips, and away went Bullet as if in a quarter race with all his beauties spread in handsome style. "Now fetch him back." said Blossom. Bullet turned and came in pretty much as he went out. "Now. trot him by." Bullet reduced his tail to customary. sided to the right and left fairly, and exhibited at least three var'eies of trot in the short space of fifty yards. "Make him pace." Bob commenced twitching the bridle, and kicking at the same time. These inconsistent move ments obviously and most naturally dis concerted Bullet, for it was impossible for him to learn from the method whether he was to proceed or stand still. Ile started to trot and was told that wouldn't do. He attempted a can ter, and was checked again. le stop. ped and was urged to go on. Bullet now rushed into the wide field of experi ment. and struck out on a gait of his own that completely turned the tables on his rider and certainly deserved a patent. . It seemed to have derived its elemonts from the jig, the minuet, and the cotillion. If it was not a pace it certainly had pace in it, and no man would venture to call it anything else; so it passed off to the satisfaction of the owner. "Walk him!" Bullet was now at home again, and lie walked as if money was staked on him. The stranger whose - name I after wards learned was Peter Ketch, having examined Bullet to his heart's content, ordered his son Neddy to go and bring up Kit. Neddy soon appeared upon Kit. a well-formed sorrel of the middle size, and in good order. His tout en semble through Bullet entirely in the shade, thouge a glance was sufficient to satisfy any one that Bullet had the de cided advantage of him in point of in tellect. After a few banters, Peter Ketch is quoted: "Neddy, take a couple of sticks and beat on that h~gshcad at Kit's tail." Ned made a tremendous rattling at which Bullet took fright, broke his bridle and dashed off in grand style, and would have stopped all further negotiations by going home in disgust had not a traveler arrested him and bronght him back; but Kit did not move. "I tell you gentlemen," continued Peter, "he's the scariest horse you ever saw. He ain't as gentle as Bullet, but he won't do any harm'if you watch him. Shall I put him in a cart, gig or wagon for you, stranger? He will cut the same caper there he does here. lie's a monstrous mean horse." During all this .time Blossom was examining him with the nicest scrutiny. Having examined his frame and limbs he now looked at his eyes. 'He's got a curious look out of his eyes." said Blossom. "Oh, yes, sir," said Peter, "just as blind as a bat. Blind horses always have clear eyes. Make a motion at his if you please, sir." Blossom did so, and Kit threw up his head. rather as if something pricked him under the chin than as if fearing a blow. Blossom repeated the experi ment, and Kit jerked back in consider able astonishment "Stone blind, you see,. gentlemen," proceeded Peter. "but's he's just as good to travel of a dark night -as if he had eves." "Blame my buttons," said Blossom. "if I like them eves-" "No," said Peter. "nor I either. I'd rather have them made of diamonds, but they'll do--if they don't show as much white as Bullet's." "Well, said Blossom. "make a pass at me. "No." said Peter, *'vou made the banter: now make your pass." "Well. I'm never afraid to price my horse. You must give me $25 to boot." "Oh. certainly, say $50 and my sad de and bridle in. Here Neddy, my son, take daddy's horse." .Well." said Blossom, "I've made my pass, now make yours." "I'm for short talk in a horse swap and therefore always tell a gentleman at once what I mean to do. You must ive me $10." SBlossom swore absolutely, roundly and profanely that he never would give boot. "Well." said Peter, "I didn't care about trading; but you cut such high shines, that I thought I'd like to back you out, and I've done it. Gentlemen, you see I've brought him to a hack." "Come. old man," said Blossom. "I've been joking with you. I begin to think you do want to trade. There fore, give me $5 and take Bullet. I'd rather lose $10 any time than not make a trade, though I hate to fling away a ood horse." "Well." said Peter. ''I'll be as lever as you are. .Just put the $5 on Bullet's back. andt hand himu over: it's a trade." Blossom swore again, as roundly as before, that lie would suot give boot, and. said he: "Bullet wouldn't hold $5 on his back. nohow. But as I bantered you. it you sai an even swap. here s at you. '' told you," said Peter. ''I'd be as lever as you; therefore. lhere goes $2 iore. just for trade's sade Give me 3 and it's a bar gain." Blossom repeated his former asser tion: and he rc the parties stood for a long time, and the bystanders, many who were now collected, began to taunt both parties. After sonic time: how ever,'it was pretty unanimously decided that the old man had backed Blossom At length Blossom swore lie 'li n;er would be'backed out for $8, after ban tering a man," and accordingly they closed the trade. 'Now" said Blossom. as lie handed Peter the $8. "'I am a man that, when he makes a bad trade, makes the most of it until lie can make a better. I'm for no rues and afterclaps." 'That's just miy way." said Peter; "I never g!oes to law to mend my bar "M, youn th kid of~ 1.,he I o t trade wit' ILcre's your hoss, o1 m 'n take 0 e addle and bridli od him. aid 'll strir -.ours: bit1ift utithC b tasy from HNullet'fi back. for ie a i It ni kcd hoss." Tihe olI mian rn I tvcI he saddle. IuL tihe hatket .,itik last. Ie atteipted to rai-e it. arid Bullet bowed himself. S'woitChed his tail anid gave signs of bit Don't hurt him. old nian," said IBlossom archly. "take it off easy. I am perhaps. a leetle of the best man at a horse swap that ever catched a coon." Peter continued to pull at the blanket more and more roughly: and Bullet be came more and more cavortish, inso much that. when the blanket came off he had reached the kicking point in grood earnest. The removal of the blanket disclosed a sore on Bullet's backbone that seemed to have defied all medical skill. It measured six full inches in length. and four in breadth. and had as many feat ures as lBullet had motions. 31y heart sickened at the sight, and I felt that tire brute who had been riding him in that situation deserved the halter. The prevailing feeling, however, was that oi mirth. The laugh became loud and general at the old man's expense, aid rustic witticisms were liberally be stowed upon him and his late purchase. These Blossom continued to provoke by various remarks. He asked the old nian if he thought Bullet would let $5 lie on his back. Ile declared most se riously that he had owned that horse three months, and had never discover ed before that he had a sore back. 'or he never would have thought of trad ing him, etc. The old man bore it all with the most philosophic composure. He evinced no astonishment at his late discovery, and made no replies, but his own son Neddy had not disciplined his feelings quite so well. His eyes -opened wider and wider. From the first to the last pull of the blanket. and when the whole sore burst upon his view, astonish ment and fright seemed to contend for the mastery of his countenance. As the blanket disappeared he stuck his hands into his breeches pockets, heaved a deep sigh and lapsed into a profound reverie, from which he was only arous ed by the cuts at his father. He bore them as long as he could; and when he could contain himself no longdr, he be gai, with a certain wildness of expres sion, which gave a peculiar interest to what he uttered: "His back's mighty bad off. but tod trot my soul if he's put it to daddy as bad as he thinks he has, for old Kit's blind and deef, I'll be tod trot if he ein't. "The devil he is," said Blossom. "Yes. dod trot my soul if he ein't. You walk him and see if he ein't. His eyes don't look like it, but he'd just as leave go again the house with you. or in a ditch as anyhow. Now, you go try him. The laugh was now tnrned to test the fidelity of the little boy's re port. A few experiments established its truth beyond controversy. "Neddy," said the old man, "you oughtn't try and make people discon tented with their things. Stranger, don't mind what the little boy says. If you can only get Kit rid of them little failings, you'll find him all sorts of a horse. You are a leetle the best man at a horse swap that I got hold of but don't fool away Kit. Come, Neddy my son, let's be moving; the stranger seems to be getting snappish." The NIext House. The Democrats have not been bold in their dlaims for the eengressional elec tion. which is near at hand, but the in dications have recently become more hopeful for them, and there are many shrewd observers who now believe that the chances of the two great parties for the control of the next house of repre sentatives are about even. It is evident that Chairmrn Babcock, of the Repub lican congressional committee, .is alarmed. He has issued an address to his party in which he says that local quarrel sare beclouding the Republican prospect in many districts, and he warns the Republican factions that the party will be defeated if they keep up their work. Chairman Babcock is afraid that his party is relying too largely upon the successful result of the war, and that this overconfidence has made pos sible quarrels among Republicans in all sections and in nearly every state. It would not require such a change to trn tihe houJse of representatives over to the Democrats as is generally supposed. The-Republicans have only about fifty majority in that body, and there are more than sixty Republican members whose plurality at the last election was less than 1.000. It will therefore be seen that a change of only a few thou sand votes would give the Democrats a majority in the house. The party in power nearly always has a hard time with the intermediate congressional elections. These elections are consid ered excellent opportunities for re bues to administration. They are favorite occasions for the expression of rivances. Within the past twenty years we have seen some remarkable political reverses two years after sweep ing victories, and we may witness another such event next November. Separate Coaches. The Atlanta Journal says - the sepa rate railway coach law has been in op eration in Georgia for many years, and even before it went into effect white peole and negroes were as completely searated while traveling on railroads as they are now. The railroads are impartial in the eniforcement of th is law. Conduc tors will put a white man out of a coach set apart for negroes just as promptly as they will eject a negroe from a coach for white persons. The separate coach law has just gone into force in South Carolina, but it has very little ptractical effet, as custom had already worked a separation of the races on railroad trains. Still the law is a good thin:g. for it pro vides, as does the Georgia la w, that the Iaccommodations for whites and blacks must be equal. This sp~eies of' legisla ton seems to be perfectly srtisfactory to the great majority of negroes. It is a veiy rare thing to tind a negro in Geor ia who insists upon m:'-ing a seat in a white' ear though the ear for people of his race is just as good. There is growing among the negroes a oommend able spirit of self respect whichi deters them from the effort to force ihemiselves where they know they arc not wanted. The separation of the races on rail roads is necessary. This is admitted now by niearly every initelliaent niegro. To imix them would cause frequent dis turbances. The negro should be quite as murch in favor of the separation as is the white mian. A Fine Spectacle. MIount Y\esuvius is now presenting tha grandest spectacle since 1872, due to a'violent outburst of activity. The central crater and a number of new mouths are vomiting lava and ashes. IThree imposing streams are flowing down the mountain side, burning the Ichestnut woods at the base of MIonte Soma, nearly reaching the observa tory, destroying part of the Funicular railroad leading thereto arid threaten ing tihe barracks of the carabirneers. n toyal a th he r-40 ie ,e p" IRS"., AtW tats Mow it 96" o d fartvr theA any other tand i.ZII POWER Absclutely Pure OYAL o 2 owoa J c(RCo.. hW YOMI. Deadly Gasoline. By the explosion of 40 gallons of gasoline in the cellar of a grocery store at 1444 South street Philadelphia Sun day night, four and possibly a dozen more lives were lost. As an immediate consquence of the explkia.,. ic build ing where it occurred and those adjoining it on either side collapsed. Up to 10 o'clock. four hours after tle -m;ec., four bodies had been recovered fron the ruins. The cause of the explosion is unknown. The front of 1444 was blown out and this was followed by the collapse of that structure, and Nos. 1442, occupied by Morris Goldberg's furniture store. and 1446. Louis Sallo nore's shoe store. The West wall of 1440, occupied by L. Wanger's cloth ing store, was blown out. All the build ings were of brick, three stories in height. In the confusion and excite ment following the disaster. it is as yet impossible to secure anything like aq accurate census of the occupants of the buildings, but it is stated that the upper floors were crowded with families, hud dled together in tenement fashion. Coming as it did at the supper hour, it is feared the loss of life was heavy. The list of injured will be long. After the recovery of the four bodies, the authorities decided to postpone the search for additional victims until Monday morning, thus obviating the dangers of working upon the mass of debris and wreckage in the darkness. Estimates of the number of missing vary from 18 to six. The accepted theory of the accident is that Schatten stein went into the cellar with a lighted lamp, which ignited the gasoline. The collapse of the buildings occurred with in two minutes of the explosion, and the occupants had little time or chance to escape. Mrs. Goldberg snatched up her ten months' old child in her arms and rushed from an exit, but the child was so badly injured that it died while being borne to a hospital. The mother escaped with only trifling injuries. Brighter Pros ects. There is one man in the South who has great faith in her future. In an interview published in the New York Commercial Advertiser, Mr.' Richard H. Edmonds, editor of the Manufac turer's Record, emphasizes very strong ly the advantages that will come to the South as a result of the war with Spain. The United States has gained in a few months a position among the nations by the late one-sided conflict that it would have otherwise taken years to secure. [n this advanced position the South occupies a most conspicuous attitude. Mr. Edmonds has been a persistent and untiring laborer ia1 the the cause of Southern advancement. His present great industrial journal of Baltimore was a pioneer in an'unpromising field. But for the pact quarter of a century Mr. Edmonds has presented the resources and advantages of the South to the world in an intelligent, zealous and painstaking manner. He has made a study of the situation. He speaks by authority, in the interview referred to Mr. Edmonds dwells upon the immense resources of the South and shows the dossibili ty of the -manufacture of cotton goods in cotton States. He puts it stronglyv and asserts that this highly-favorLd sction may manufacture in the not far distant future as much cotton goods is all the world now does. Such condition would mean boundless wealth for the South; and yet it is a rational claim that cotton should be manufactured where it grows. Locate the mills in the cot ton fields instead of transporting the cotton across the continent to the mills. With present low price of cot ton and the damaged crop The Times and Decmocrat is glad to hold out to its farmer friends the bright hope which Mr. Edmonds presents through facts and figures that cannot be disputed. It would be a pleasure to publish the article entire, but have space now only for a sample paragraph of the vigorous and inspiring utterances of Mr. Ed' ionds: "In many senses cotton is still king in the world's business affairs, and the importance to our country that the South shall maintain and strengthen its dominating position in this staple cannot be overestimated. I do not re call any other instance where the pro duction of a great staple of almost uni versal consumption, the demand for which must necessarily increase year by year in proportion to the increase of wealth and the progress of civilization, is so completely contiolled by one sec tion or by one country as is the ease with the South and its cotton." No''Superfluous Women." The government has published a map showing for each State in the Union thc number of unmarried men and un married women over twenty years of age. With a peculiarly childlike faith. the eensus officials believe they know the exact ages of all the 'unattached fealef," and accordingly they are grouped in five-year periods, in that particular the statistics are manifestly untrustworthy, but apart f'romn that tho fiures are absolute. And they are ery astonishing. They show definite ly that the - surplus woman" is a myth. There is no surplus of women. There is a shortage of 2.200.000l. There are in the United States 5.427.767 bachelors over twenty years of age. and only 3.224,494 unmarried women above that age. But this is the least astonishing part of the matter. The chart shows that in abso' lutely every State there is an excess of bachelors ov-er maidens. Even in Massachusetts, where tradition fixes the home of the "surplus woman.'' there are 226 084 available~ bac.helors and only 219,255 spinsters. In Rhode Island there are 2 per cent. more oache lors than unmarried women in New Hampshire 9 per cent.. in Connecticut 20 per cent.. in New .Jersey and 'h r ginia 22 per cent., while in Idaiho the excess of bachelors over mid is 1. I000 per cent., there being 10.544, unmarried men and only L.426 e' wmen. Woing and Arizona clo'ejr f ollow while all the Far Western stat~es have reason to regard womien as one of the "precious metals" because of her' sear itv. But theC y fact of greates.m terest is that ti:re is in the contry not one single State which has~ not mnen enough to furnish a husbatnd apiece for all it women.