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A MOTHER'S POWER I Rev. Dr. Talmage Preaches on influence of Heridity. ALL GOOD IS HANDED DOWN. Mother Responsible for Future of Her Children. Woman's Qual ities Are Transmitted to Her Offsprings. The argumentation f parentl filu ence as the centuries oy Dr Tal mage here sets forth while uiseoursing, about one of the grandm others of Bible times. The text is 11 Tiniothy 5, "-The unfeigned faith thatt is n thee. which dwelt first in thy- granamother Lois. In this pastoral letter which Paul. the old minister, is writing to Timothy. the young minister. the fauiily record is brought out. Paul practically says: "Timothy what a good irandmother you had. You ought to be better than most folks. because not onily was your mother good, but your grandmother was good also.' Two preceeding generations of piety ought to give you a mighty push in the right direction," The fact was that Timothy needed encouragement. He was in poor health. having a weak stomach, and was a dyspeptie. and Paul prescribed for hiii a tonic,.a little wine for thy stomach's sake - not much wine. but a little wine, and only as a medicine. And if the wine then had been as much adulterated with logwood and strvehniwe as our modern wines he would not have pre scribed any. But Timothy. not strong physically. is encouraged spiritually by the recital of grandmother's excellence, Paul hint ing to him. as I hint this to you, that God sometimes gathers up as in a res ervoir, away back of the active genera tions of today, a godly influence and then, in response to prayer, lets down the power upon children and grandchil dren and great-grandchildren. The world is woeful in want of a table of statistics in regard to what is the pro tractedness and immensity of influence of one good woman in the church and world. We have accounts of how much evil has been wrought by a woman who lived nearly a hundred years ago. and of how many criminals her descendants furnished for the penitentiary and the gallows, and how many hundreds of thousands of dollars they cost our coun try in their arraignment and prison support, as well as in the property they burglarized and destroyed, but will not some one come out with brain compre hensive enough and heart warm enough and pen keen enough to give us the facts in regard to some good woman of a hundred years ago and let us know how many Christian men and women and reformers and useful people have ben found among her desceudants.and how many asylums and colleges and churche s they built, and how many millions of dollars they contributed for humanitarian and Christian purposes? The good women whose tombstones were planted in the eighteenth century are more alive for good in the nine teenth century than they were before, as the good women of this nineteenth century will be more alive for good in the twentieth century than now. MIark you, I have no idea that the grand mothers were any better than their granddaughters. You cannot get v'ery old people to talk much about how things were when they were boys and girls. They have a reticence and a non committlismn which make me think~ they feel themselves to be the custodi' ans of the reputation of their early comrades. While our dear old folks are rehearsing the follies of the present. if we put them on the witness stanc and cross examine them as to. how things were 70 years ago the silence becomes oppressive.one The celebrated Frenchman,'Vlny visited this country in 1796, and h< *says of woman's diet in those times. "If a premium was offered for a regi men most destructive to health, non< could be devised more efficacious foi these ends than that in use among these people." That eclipses our lob ster salad at midnight. Everybod: talks about the dissipation of modert society and how womanly health goet down under it, but it was worse 10( years ago, for the chaplain of a Frencl regiment in our Revolutionary wa: wrote in 1782 in his "Book o American Women," saying: "They ar< tall and well proportioned; their feat nres are generally regular; their com plexions are generally fair and withou color. At 20 years of age the womet have no longer the freshness of youth At 30 or 40 they are decrepit." I1 112 a foreign consul wrote a book en titled, "A Sketch of the United State at the Commencement of the Presen Century." and he says of the women c those times, "At the age of 30 all thei harms have disappeared." One glane at the portraits of the women 100 year ago, and their style of dress makes u wonder how they ever got their breath All this makes me think that the es press rail train is no more an improve ment on the old canal boat or the tele graph no more an improvement on th eld time saddlebags than the womenC our day are an improvement on th women of the last century. Do not let the grandmothers any lor ger think that they are retired an sit clear back out of sight from tb world, feeling that they have no relh tion to it. The mothers of the la century are today in the person of the descendants, in the senates, the parhi ments, the palaces, the pulpits, ti banking houses, the professional cha1i the prisons, the almshouses, the con pany of midnight brigands, the cellar; the ditches of this century. You ha' been thinking about the importance.< having the right influence upon or nursery. You have been thinking the importance of getting those tv little feet on the right path. l ou has been thinking of your child's destii for the next S0 years if it should pa on to be an octogenarian. That is we but my subject sweeps a thousand year Na million years, a quadrillion years. cannet stop at one cradle. I am loo "ig at the cradles that reach all aroni ewrdand across all time. I a a igof Mother Eunice. I a tl ~ fGrandiither Lois. The on way you can tell the ftorce of a curre is by sailing up stream or -thr~.force an ocean wave by running .the sh against it. Running along with it. canot appreeciate the force. In es mating maternal influence we general run along with it down the stream time, and so we don't understandt full force. Let us come up to it fr< the eternity side, after it has be working on for centuries. anc. see the good it has done and all the evil has accomnplished multiplied in m: iicnt or appalling compound intere The difference between that mothe influence on her children now and t influence when it has been multipi in hundreds of thousands of lives is difference between the Mississippi ri awayup a th topof he cnt , miouth a: tl of lexeo, wre naVies nite ri t ween tl birt I f that ritr 'mi' ' itsburial il tile sea the li-ouri purs i1. aild the , Iio pours in. :ami t he Arkansas' pours m, and the led and White and the Yazoo rivers pour in. and all the states and1 territories between the Alleghany and llocky mountains make contribution. Now. in order to test the power of a ntither's influence. we need to comie In otf the ocean of eternity and sail up to ward the one cradle, and we will tind 10,(10 tributaries of influence pouring in and pouring down. ulit it is. after all. one great river of power rolling On and rolling forever. Whn-o call fathon: it? Who can bridge it? Whno call sto it? IHad not mothers better be intenuif ing their prayers? Had they not bet ter be elevating, their exapllley Had they not better be rou.;ngm themiSele, with the colsiderlatioln that by then' fitlhlneS5 or ne&.ect thev are start ing an intincuce which wVill be stupend ous after the last nuntain oC earth is flat. and tle last see has dricu up. alt the last flake of the ashes of a consuied worldi shall have been blown away. an all the telescopes of other worlds di reeted to the track around which our world once swntn shall discover not so mucl as a cinder of the burned down and swept off planet? In Ceylon there is a granite column :n square feet in size which is thought by the natives to decide the world's continuance. An anlel with robes spun fron zephyrs is onice a century to descend and sweep the Lem of that robe across the granite, and when by that attrition the column is worn away they say time will end. ut by that process that granite column would be worn out of existence before mother's influence will begin to give way. If a mother tell a child if lie is not good some bugaboo will come and catch him. the fear excited may make the child a coward. and the fact that ie finds that there is no bugaboo may make him a liar, and the echo of that false alarm may be heard after 15 genera tions have been born and have expire-. If a mother promises a child a reward for good behavior and after the good behavior forgets to give the reward, the cheat may crop out in some faithless ness half a thousand years farther on. If a imother cultivate a child's vanity and eulogize his curls and extol the night black or sky blue or nut brown of the child's eyes and 2all out in his presence the admiration of spectators, pride and arrogance may be prolonged after half a dozen family records have been obliterated. If a mother express doubt about some statement of the Holy Bible in a child's presence. lore after the !ates of this historical erm have closed and the gates of another era have opened the result may be seen in a champion blasphemer. But, on the other hand, if a mother walking with a child see a stoffering one by the wayside and says, "My child, give that 10 cent piece to that lame boy." the result may be seen on the other side of the follow ing century in some George Muller building a whole village of orphanages. If a mother sit almost every evening by the trundle bed of a child and teach it lessons of a Saviour's love and a Sav iour's example, of the importance of truth and the horror of a lie and the vritues of industry and kindness and sympathy and self sacrifice, long after the mother has gone and the child has gone and the lettering on both the tomb stones shall have been washed out by the storms of innumerable winters there may be standing as a result of those trundle bed lessons flaming evan gels, world moving reformers seraphic Summerfields, weeping Paysons, thun dering Whitefields, emancipating Washingtons. Good or bad influence may skip ont generation or two generations, but il will be sure to land in third or fourth generation, just as the Ten Command ments, speaking of the visitation of God on families, says nothing about the second generation, but entirely skip! the second and speaks of the thin' and fourth generation-" visiting th< iniquities of the fathers upon the tkiri and fourth generation of them tbha m.'' Parental influence, rig at anc wrong. may jump over a generation, bu it will come down further on as sure a: ou sit there and I stand here. Tinio thy's ministry was projected by hi randmother. Lois. There are met and women here, the sons and daugh ters of the Christian church, who ar 1'such as a rusult of the consecration o great-great-grandmothers. Why. whi - do you think the Lord is? You tsalk a though his memory was weak. He ca as easily remember a pra ar offered fiy Scenturies ago as a prayer offered fly minutes ago. This explains what w 1 often see-some man or woman distin - guished for benevolence when the fathe s and mother were distinguished fo t penuriousness, or you see some youn f man or woman with a bad father and r hard mother come out gloriously fo e Christ .rnd make the church sob an s shout and sing under their exhortations s We stand in corners of the vestry an .whisper over the matter and say, "Ho' -is this, such great piety in sons da - daughters of such parental worldlines - and sin?" I will explain it to you e you will fetch me the old family Bib] f containing the full record. Let som e septuagenarian look with me clear upo the page of births and marriages an -tell me who that woman was with tb d old fashioned name of Jemima or Bets e or Mehitable Ah, there she is. tb eold grandmother, or great-grandmothe' t who had enough religion to saturate Er century L- You must see those wonmen of tl . early part of the nineteenth centom -s and those of the eighteenth centur; r the answer of whose prayers is in yoi , welfare today. God bless all the ag< ' women up and down the land and in 11 >f lands! What a happy thing for Por te ponius Atticus to say when making tI f funeral address of his mother. "Thou; t I have resided with her t;~ years, I w: e never oiice reconciled to her. becau: ty there never happened the least disco3 s :between us, and consequently there w; .1, no need of reconciliation." . Make it as easy for the old folks; I you can. When they are sick- get f k- them the best doctors. Give them vo idarm when the streets arc slippery. Stt m with them all the time you can. ( m home and see the folks. Find t1 ly place for them in the hymnbook. Ncv nt be ashamed if they prefer styles of a of parl which arc a little antiquate ipINever say anything that iniplies th re they are in the way. Mlake the ro ti- for the last mile as smooth as you ea ly Oh. my, how you will miss her wh of she is gone! How much would I gi hee to see my mother! I have so ma > things I would like to tell her, thlt en thathave hlappened in the 30O years sit: all Ishe went away. Morning, noon a it night let us thank God for the good -fiuences that have come down from go st. mothers all the way back. Tinmoth rrs don't forget your mother Eunice a he don't forget vour grandmother La ed And hand down to others this patnimo le of blessin:. Pass along: thle cor1one Mr3ake relbini an heirloomi fr-om~ gene to oi. And yo u - .-' a tLhe ge Voing. n not mi r younr eba'nee o wielding an inthrenc~e that hall lok ,i' ok uiw t, you I r n tile tower, 41n ; ndl.ture. I know Martin 1 it luther was riht w hen lie C)i1 soledhs wife ovce the death of their daughter by sayin: len. t take Or so wife. ltemember that tis is a haru world for il Yes. I go further and say it is a hard world for women. Aye. I go further and =.ay it is a hard world for mien. But for all women and men who trust their bodies and souls in the hand of Ch brist the shin in ' gates wvill .oon swingui openl. Po n you n ee the ,ickly pallor :n the kv? Tai is the pallo~r In thle Cold Cheek of' thle dying i ion't yoI see the 1i' htening of the clouds? That is tie fiusi on the warTmi forehiead of thie mornin. Cheer up' you are Coning within sigIt of the Celestial City. "EACH MAN FOR HIMSELF." The Board says the Santiago Naval Battle Was a "Captains Fight." Although the American fleet in the battle off Santiago on July 8 obeyed the gencral orders of Rear Admiral Sampson, given in advance to meet just Such an energency, it was essenti- i ally a eaptain's fight." This is the substance of the report of the naval board. which has been investigating disputed points in the battle. Rear Admiral Sampson was not pres ent. and the two orders signalled by Sehley. "close in." and "eLtrage the enemy," did no good. and were unnee essary, for the ships had already closed in and were engaging the enemy when the orders were run up. The board iuds in a more general way that each ship in the fleet knew exactly what to do should Cervera come out. and did it when he actually came out. Each cap tain fought his ship on plans prepared and orders given by Sampson. The findings of the board are sum mari zed as follows: 1. The battle was fought and won upon plans prepared by Rear Admiral Sampson. 2. The directing of the movements of ships doncby Schley during the battle was inconsiderable. I. The New York had no active part in the fight. 4. The Brooklyn was not engaged at so close quarters as had been repre sented by the first report. On an aver age she was two miles away from the en emv. 5. The brunt of the fighting was borne by the Oregon. Texas and Iowa. 6. The New York was about nine iles from the Colon when that ship surrendered and between four and five miles from the nearest sister ship en gaged (from which signal distance is taken.) 7. The average range of the ships most engaged was about a mile and a half. The New York. the board tinds. did nothing to affect the issue of the bat tle. At the time of the hottest fighting (between 10 and 10:15 a. m.) the Brook lyn was in line with the Oregon. but three-fourths of a mile farther out to sea. The Oregon at that time was pouring fire into the MIaria Teresa. The Oquendo was about 3.000 yards dis tant, with the Texas and Iowa a half mile to the rear of her. The issues of the battle, the board learned, was not affected by any signals that Schley made from the flagship. The Oregon dashed out from the very beginning of the engagement and kept within range of the enemy uratil the fight ended. The board was made up of Lieuten ant Commander Richard Wainwright of the Glouchester. presiding officer: Lieut. Samuel Comly of the Indiana. Lieut. Lewis C. Heilner of the Texas. Lieut. Wmn. H. Schuetze of the Iowa. Lieut. Alben C'. Hlodgson of the Brook lyn, Lieut. Wni. Allen of the Oregon ad Lieut. Edward E. Capehart of the Ne-v York. A GOODSTORY. Which A'? ?armers Who Buy their Sapplies Should Read. IAt tl e close of lie war in 1865 the -South w is too poor to engage in manu facturing, and its people turned ther: attention very generally to agriculture, though, -with an unfortunately largi Sproportion, polities became the chief occupation'. Since then the South has Saccomplished wonders in industral de Svelopment. But has it really done ite best? As a people we are prone to la - ment the fact that we arc not growin: r rich as rapidly as we desire, and th< r politicians are finding all sorts of ex uses for this. The Greenville. Texas Banner tells an interesting story of r farmer near that place which well illus . traes the condition of many of then -throu~hout the South. It is as follows i -A cer~ain farmer in Texas not a hun dred miles from Greenville sat dowr - with his family to breakfast. They sa s in chairs made in Indiana. the tabl< f was made it St. Louis, the dishes wer< made in New York. the knives, fork and spoons were imported from England i biscuits were made of flour from Nansa' a shortened with lard from M1issouri cooked on a stove made in Chicago, ani Y. his coffee was served with sugam fron e Louisiana. When breakfast was ove he drove to town in a wagon made Ohio. while his son went out with 4 gun made in Pennsylvania and a1 e inported $10 dog to kill five cent birdi y for dinner. His daughter wvent ridin .on aST5 bicycle made in 31assachusett: r His wife swept the floor with a broot d from Cincinnati. took up the dust in 1l pani made in Vemiont with a brus m- made in Rhode Island. The farme ee brought a plow made in Illinois. a cul hi tivator made in Mlichigan. hoes an s rakes made in Indiana. and a reap' e made in Chicago. Hie took these hon *d and set them~ out on a vacant lot. e. s posed to the rain ands sumshirne. whie Ithey were ruined in one year. lbh sfarer is always compaining of ha: >r times." iv A Delusive Hope. oIf Chairman Tolbert of the Repub] 1can State committee is a man of inte rligenee lie must know that lie i- biok p- inug out to the negr'es of South Carol a. na a most delusive hope. Th ceu at liean narty~ of the north ha- fina lly ai i foreer abaiidoned the poll1ey of ite. n. erigi with the suffrage in the sout1 annern States: it has inally4 and forev< e abandoned the negro to the control avthe white men of~ the south. Pubi cs oiionn4 in the north suta in. all les c and coiistitutional method, by whi ad the intelligence and the property of tl n- south maintain aseendanicy, aiid it od heartily sick of the comiplaints th .y. come from this section. That i,1 nd plain and proven truth. Any ime~ is. p~arty in this State exists merely to pr ny vide government places for its man ts'.eers and a supp4ly of delegates to be su ra- ably bribed at nationial He!uhlican A NEW SANDAL Tremendous Sensation Sprung by the New York Journal. CUBA TO BE COBBLED UP. A Spanish-American Money Ring to Have the United States to Assume the Phili pine Debt. A cable dispatch fr,:n Paris to the New York Journal says it is possible that the scandal aiut the iismanagc- I ment of u -imv during the war may be succeeded by a greater scandal about the negotiations for peace in Paris. The prceamtions taken to prevent the American public fron getting at the secrets of this extraordinary and pie turesjue conelave of Aiericans who 1 nit spe-.k pan iSh and Spaniards who do not speak English are almost incredible. The dispatch says: It was Day. a country lawver. and next door nighbr and fam iiy friend of President McKinley, who made the motion in joint session of the Spanish American Commission that the pro ceedings be kept an absolute secret. This secrecy is maintained not only with respect to the joint sessions. but .also covers seperate meetings of the hmerican Comniissioners. Already a vast financial conspiracy. or series of conspiracies. has been hatched in the boson of this elaborate lv contrived mvstery. Not only is the American public to be kept in utter ig narance of what the United States will propose to Spain as a basis of peace in order that the pending congressional elections may not be afiected. but a few choice spirits have been let into the secret of the situation so rigidly guarded from the public. In consequence a ring has been formed to buy Philippine bonds, and the market is being scoured for them. I discovered a few days ago that powerful friends of both Spanish and American commissions had receiv ed inside information that the United States would insist upon annexing the whole Philippine Archipelago. and would assume responsibility for the Philippine debt, although the interest on the bonds might be reduced from f per cent to 4 or even 3 per cent. I know that communications on the subject of these bonds had been passing between Paris and Madrid. In orderto test the situation, I tried to buy some Phil ippine bonds in Madrid through French agents. I at once discovered that a powerful movement was on foot to gather up the Philippine bonds. This is one of the most suggestive results of former Secre tary Day's scheme of secrecy. Under its shelter gigantic combinations seem to be forming sinister enterprises that would be impossible were the air and sur.light of publicity let into the main features of negotiations. The situation is curiously like that which existed in Washington when two senators ar ranged the sugar schedule of the tariff in secret session, while their friends imade millions of dollars in the stock market on the basis of private informa tion. I cannot yet ascertain how far there may be a Wall street end to this ugliy intrigue. but there is certainly a MIadrid Bourse end to it. No wonder thare is a strong, almost irresistible, pressure on the commissioners to keep such valuable secrets from the general public. The blackest element of the situation is the masterful craft which is now be Iing employed to defeat the principal Ioisjeet of the war department by sup pressing thme Cuban republic, which has gallantly fought for three years in the field of libertya and annexing the island to the United States. This scheme of national dishonor is being pressed by a gigantic combina tion of Spanish capitalists backed by the Spanish government and aided by the very Americans who tried to pre vent the war and sympathized wki Spain in her merciless camipaan ol murder in Cuba. Spaniards and theil American accomplices know that an nexation to the United States means at enormous and imm adiate rise in th< - value of Cuban property, which would net take place tunder -.ative rule. They have even secret hopes that with annexation the United Statem might guarantte some fraction of th< -immense Cubin debt. But in this the) will surely be disappointed, for I knov~ of a certainty that every Americar commissioner is determined to resis every responsibility, direct or indirect for the so called Cuban debt, a deb which in reality has nothing to do witi Cuba or its people. but is properl: chargeable on the Royal Treasury a 3Madrid. Every effort will be made t< -induce the United States to annex Cu ba, or in some way to prevent the peo ple of Cuba from ruling the island. I is said that Whitelaw lRcid is strongl: opposed to any idea of a permanen -Cuban republic and the Spaniards claim that lhe will side with thern in thei efforts to persuade the United States t tviolate its public pledges or honor b; stamping out the Cuban republic b, annexing the island or Egyptianizin MIen like Atkins. of Birton, who lon aided D)upuy D~e Lome to batle th American people in their effort to pit jstop to the barbarous struggle in Cubs are frantic with a desire to force at nexation.- but this is a purely Spanis nscheme. Its sole object is to increas athe vleof Spanish property and er hance Spanish interests. It has behin Sit all the cunning and power of th wealthiest men in Spain. It is dirt Sand treacherous in its origin and in it purpose. I draw the veil aside thu~ far in order that the American peol Iimay understand the kind of rascalit Iwhich is to be attempted under thi cov er of Mr. 1Day's carefully though' d out scheme of secrecy. Mr. Day. it well known here. is acting under dire< instructions from McKinley, just: Al'er was when lie created a graveyai for the Amerie~an army. Paris hote are filled with the members of the va: Spanish ring, but in spite of all the plan., I shall try to keel) the-light turi edi on until the American people real] understanyd what secrecy means ju: now. l- Getting Tired of It. Mi-\ McKinley is said to be v'ei m uc.h disguisted at the position tak( by~ Teddy Roosevelt, that his electii d : he coernor of New York is necessai r-as anm indor-semiint of the admni str-atih i nd tihe war, and it would not be su eprising if lie shoultd take sonie way ofletting it become known that he wvou ienot consider Roosevelt's defeat an a al fronlt to himself or his admn inist ratio -h atlthou'h pressure is bjeing brought Ie keep his~ iiouth shut. at Soaked Uncle Sam's Guns. meo oh. Win. Hi. Robertson, command roo the naitional guards in C'harlesto o- wasi arrested one day lsst week f a-pwnn four rities belongine to t It- litedC 'tates and obtainii ng money n-. the. ('l. lI bertsoin : nd his cm nmi -rc all c-olored, ST0O._2S' ANTI-OPTION FIGHT. Tle Conigressnian Will Push Hie. Bill in Congress. ('ii: "-KO r:11zi >' .ad MV.4. Sbkvs returned Thursday om a visit to Glenn Springs, both feeling much improved in health. The congrcssnan has a fex ncaiemnents for addresses to fill and then lie purposes to coneentrate his en ergics upon his anti-oltio n fight for the approaching session of congress. Ie talked quite interestingly of his nieas ure to the Orangeburg correspondent of the Columbia State and the prospects of its Success. -This measure. lie said. -is wit proposed as a panacca ir as a substitute for free silver. Iut its importance as a factor in bringing about better condi tions is too little appreciated. All fu ture dealings are not obnoxious. There is a legitiniate future business that should not be interfered with. My mneasure seeks to limit future dealings to actual products and thus eliminates the speculative trading in wind cotton. In order to appreciate the injurious ef fects of speculative (lealings in futures it must be understood that the sellers of futures must make money by a de cline of price. The seller of real cot ton makes money by an advance in price. Their interests are diametri cally opposed. The buyer of cotton for manufacture usually inaugurates his buying operations by large selling orders. The effect of large selling orders for future delivery is to de press the price of futures. This en ables the manufacturer to make a pro fit on his future transaction and then buy his real cotton at the decline. If a Manchester mill wants 100.000 bales of cotton to spait it would prob ably cable an order to New York. but not to buy 100.000 bales. The order would probably be to sell large future contracts for the aceount of the mill. The price of futures being forced down by the large sales. the mill would then buy back its own future contracts at a profit. So far no one but the specula tors are hurt or helped. But the price of real cotton has declined with even pace and the mill buys its real cotton at the decline. Thus the foreign man ufacturer uses the machinery of our cotton exchanges to the detriment of our cotton growers. "Are you opposed to the exchange?' "No. There is a legitimate field for them, too. I cordially approve and second all the editor of The State so well said on this subject a few days ago when advocating a cotton exchange for Columbia. But legislation is need ed to prevent the prostitution of such organizations to gambling purpoEes." "Do you think such legislation can be made effective?" "Undoubtedly. The Louisiana lot tery was driven out by legislation and its pernicious influence upon the peo ple scarcely surpassed that of the cotton exchange. The State has several times given strong support to this fight and I trust it will continue to lend a hand. One of the most interesting and valu able features of your paper to my mind, has been the notes of Editor Gonzales on his campaign in Cuba. These notes should be put in permanent for. I think a publication in book or pamphlet form would meet ready sale." FIGHTING AMONG THEMSELVES. One Cavalryman Killed; Two Fatally and Two Seriously Wounded. A sp~ecial dispatch from Ihuntsville. Ala.. says that one soldier was killed, two fatally wounded and two seriously wounded at Camp Wheeler Tuesday. The Tenth cavalry (colored) arrived from MIontauk that morning and had not been off the train an hour before some of its members became involved in a difficulty with the provost guard. One mao was killed and five wounded, two fatally. Killed: Corp'l MIcLaughlin, Co. L. Sixth infantry. Fatally wounded: Private James Gleeton, Troop M., Tenth cavalry, and a trooper of the Tenth cavalry, name unknown. Wounded: Pr'vate E. Willis. Co. 31, Sixth infantry; Private Larkin. Co. L. Sixteenth infantry, and a trooper of the Tenth cavalry, name not known. Soon after the men left the train one of the cavalrymen went to a house fre quented by white mecn and attempted to clean out the place. He was arrested by a corporal's detail of four men of te provost guard. The arrest was quickly noised about and t. enegxro cavalrymen attempted to rescue the prisoner. The first man who advanced toward the guard was halted and as he turned to run was fired upon. Firing then became almost general and con tinued several minutes. Corp'l MIc Laughlin, Co. L. Sixth infantry, com manding the detail, was killed at th< first fire. Private E. Wiles. Co. 31 Sixth infantry, was shot in the knet and Private Larkin, Co. L. Sixteentl infantry, received a ball in the leg Wiles' leg was amputated later at th< hospital. Private James Gleeton. trool 1. Tenth cavalry, received a bullet ui the spine and will die. Two othe: Tenth cavalrymen whose names are no known, were wounded, one of then fatally. The affair would have beer Sattended by more serious consequence: had not a mounted platoon from th< Tenth cavalry scattered the beligeren negroes with drawn sabres. The whit< soldiers here entertain a very bitte feeling against the negro troopers an< Sit is feared trouble will occur wheneve -the two races meet. The Tenth wa Igiven a camp situated more than a mil e froim any other regiment. s Smothered With Cotton Seed. * While playing hide and seek in a larize pile of cotton seed Sunday after noon. a little child of 3Mr. lRobt. Pruitt eprominent famrliving five mile south of Anderson. S. C.. was smoth s ered to death with the help of othe Schildren. A large hole had been hol s~ lowed out in the seed, and this litti d one fell in and was buried beneath th seed. When rescued the body wa warnm and covered with pierspiration .r but all efforts to resusitate the chil failed. t The Way to Act. A rural bridal couple boarded a trai ut west tihe o-her day. Their "spoor 'v in&" attracted -lie attention of thle pa: u seers and :-aused some auditabl nn:-rteism. wher e-upon the burly groo - irose and said: "We are married.1 n Iwas a case of lu--. We sparked for ses' r.. rears. She's my vilet. and lIm I< ftowerin' oak. We've got 1S80 milest n. and we arc goin' to spoon ever d-iurned rod of it. and if thar's any cri 3ter here who thinks lie can't stand1 ihe can git out and walk!V -A Good Specimen. M1r. .Jacoib Simon. the new senat< er froim Oregon. is rather an interestir , person. lIe is a G;erinian .Jew. 47 yea :ir old. and has lived in this country ie years oif his life, ie is a lawyer. mleiepbican. a gold standard advorat nan expansionist and an adherent of 11 u.-an~ mlehlineC. A FATAL EXPLOSION. Five Men Killed and Eleven Wouided in a Colliery. Five menl were kuiled ai ei.n in jured by an explosiion )f _as Thursday afternoon in colliery No. S. at Coaldale. Pa. The dead are: Fire Boss Thomas Sith. William P. Reese. Nattis Olarkey. of Coaldale. William Cok. John Konika. of Lansfori. Konika died after he had been taken from the mii ne. but the others inet in stant death. All were married and. leave lare families. The colliery is the lirgest producer ('f four in that valley, owned by the Lehigh Coal and Navigation em pany. It has a capacity over :00.000 tons of coal and em iploys five hundred hands. In consequence of fire which origi nated in the left span of the mine some months ago. s.hifts of men were put to work driving holes from the gang way. through which water was to be foreed upon the famies. While the gang of men was building a dam to back up the water thiis afternoon the gangway caught fire. -Nearly a hundred thous and gallons of water was turned into the holes and almost instantly a terrific ex plosion occurred. followed in quick suc cession by four lighter explosion:. of such force that the gangway was torn up for over :) feet and the workmen were blown about in ill directions. Rescue gangs were put to work and an hour later it was thought that all the dead and injured had been found, although the search was under way to night, when the fire was still burning. The supposition is that the great body of water sent into the holes forced volumes of escaping gas from some of the old workings back upon the flames causing the explosion. Too Much Fertilizer Uused. It seenis to us that the use of com mercial fertilizers is to some extent. at least, responsible for the present crip pled condition of the farmers, and for the prevailing price of cotton. says a prominent agriculturist. In years past. before these fertilizers came into gen eral use, the cost of manures was not near so heavy as now and the crop, stimulated by stable manure and woods litter, continued green late into the fall, and it was no uncommon thing to see cotton-picking going on at Christ mas time, and the crop, thus put upon the market slowly, brought fair prices. Now, by the use of commercial fertiliz ers, the crop is forced to an early maturi ty; the plant ceases to grow and all the bolls upon it open at once. making it necessary for the farmer to neglect hay cutting and other necessary f arm work. in order to pick it out. The ncxt step is to put it upon the market and this rush of cotton certainly creates the im pression that a big crop is being made, and the price drops accordingly. But without considering this aspect of the case, it seems to us that the use of less of this fertilizer would save money for farmers even at present prices and would prove a blessing in lengthening out the picking season, enabling him to prevent such heavy losses from rains beating out the lint. Has Quit Cotton. IThe Darlington .31essenger says: "We have long been convinced of the profit to be made by the farmers' plant ing small farms, giving them better cul tivation and making them richer. The handsome net profit made on a one horse crop by MIr. Joshua Flowers; near Darlington, this year, increases our confidence in the handsomL yield to be realized by concent'ating ones energies on a few acres of land. Mr. Flowers don't care anything about the price of cotton why? Because he dosen't plant any; he quit cotton two or three years ago, and has been better off every year since. He planted six acres in tobacco this year and finished out a small one horse farm in provision crops. HeI sold recently ;24 pounds for $140.01) net profit, and has realized from his six acres $600 clean cut cash, which is more than the value of thirty bales of cotton. to say nothing of the expenses of mak ing it. He made more on one acre clear than six bales of cotton will bring. Who says there is not gold in Darling ton land?"' Some Good Advice. sThe best place to "store" the cottox iatthe farm. This saves storage and. if~ you wish, for the time. insurance. There will be enough cotton forced upon the market for temporary use. sc that mill men and dealcrs can wait upor you and when the time comes for th< mass of the cotton to be placed for sale. -what surety is there that the price oj -the staple will have risen? The onl.5 -advantage in storing it is that you ma' secure a small advance per bale but this will be deducted with the in terest. insurance, storage. etc.. at the ruling price. The only time that cot ton rises in price is just before th planting season. Then let us be wis in time, and not be fooled any more. bu Iprepare to sow dowri grain and raiso hogs, intensify the system of farmin, anid, if possible. make two tales of cot iton grow where only one grew before ibut make something to eat and lesse' Sthe lien in order to gradually grov measurably independent both of it an t the cotton market. r A Bad State of Affairs. I A respectable white woman who wa r arrested by a Negro constable in Crave1 county, N. C.. and taken before a N egr e niaistrate for trial for some "misde nieanor.~ was prosecuted by a Negr lawyer at the instance of a Negro w' man who had been in the white woman' a employ, :She was required to give boni -in the suni of $250 and was not allowe< to leave the magistrate's "office" in or s der to find bondsmen. Thc offiee - uestion was a filthy barber shop wher r idle Negroes drank and cursed to the' - hart's content. If the North Carolin e ians fail to free themselves from th e condition, they will deserve the horri fate that has overtaken the State. d. A Bright Outlook. Nothinmg could show miore enecourart met for'Democrats in the Congress ional campaign than the fact that Rc n publicans acknowledge their fear - losing four out of the eleven Iowa di tricts, now all represented by liepubl ecans. A gain of thirty seats is all thn nis neceded by the Democrats to put ti t Repulicanms in a snort unnrity in th' Snext llouse, and the prospects of ge1 rting them and1 many~ more--is ver~ o biht at this time. y After Eight Years. A reward for $50 which has bee .standing for eight years has recent. been won by Police (O)licers 31eCarre and 1!atcher of Greenville. In Mlarch r190). the reward was offered.L by ivel nor llich'ardson fior the arrest of ~n Grnitin. colored, accused of the mnur& Ii of ITite Carson in Abbeville. lIor ei~'I avers the negro has evade the i lic e of the law,. but is no0w 1 in cal h"l S"miet. IThe two ofieer- w ill re .ceie th reward of ,I)- Columbia tate. The Lw pre o f Otton. Ii onl 'h pit .f our 'arimters. It t.imyim iheto ratise out ac itprnt pieamijit willev na - Iv ruin aiv farmer who attempts it. Atfter the 'guano and picking is paid for as well as the expenlse of makiig the crop the farmer has nothing left out Lroans and tears. Some say that over pro.uction is the real cause of the low price of cotton. but we do not be licve a word of it simply from the fact the great maSSes of the people if they had the meoner to invest could soon conisumnqe the world's supply of cotton. The editir ,I the Fair 1luft Times travels arlund a great dcal and to sat isfy hi- iind on the theorv of over pro duction he has frequently asked this *uestion: "Suppose money was as plenltiful as in by gone days how much cottol goods or holmespunr could you use in our family?" The almost uni versal response to this question is as follows: "'[ could use several bolts of homespun in my family and not be ex travagrant: our bed sheets and pillow cases are worn as well as other useful articles and we need more." If any one will take the trouble to canvass the country he will find that the editor is statingL facts which cannot be denied. Cotton is the great money crop of the South and it is one of those necessary articles which cannot be dispensed with. therefore the price of cotton ought to guarantee its production. We cannot live without cotton goods and we cannot expect our farmers to toil in summer's heat and winter's cold to pro vide the world with cotton and at the same time starve themselves in its pro duction. If it is true that a band of wicked gamblers in New York and else where is regulating the price of cotton, this ien of infamy should be broken up by the strong arm of just and right cous law. It is not right that millions of farmers should be driven to the wall by gambling in futures and other un righteous methods of handling cotton. If law will not come to the assistance of the farmers and put a stop to dis honest speculation, the farmers them selves can soon change the situation by reducing the cotton crop down to the smiallest point. A vast reduction in the acreage will soon settle the ques tion of over production and help the farmer to locate the cause of the pres ent trouble. But if cotton should in ninety days bring seven or eight cents. look out for next year. A large crop will be planted again and next fall four cents cotton will cause the farmer to groan in spirit again. Something for Girls to Read. Girls. do you realize that the happi ness, both present and future. of your mothers is largely in your keeping? Of course, you all acknowledge that nu dearer relationship exists than that be tween a loving mother and daughter, but do all of you believe it? A girl cannot afford to let this blessedness I slip out of her life. And yet many do: and by hasty word, neglect, and ever by continuous rudeness to theirmothers. cast shadows where they could so easily bring sunshine. Some mothers, wise mothers. assert themselves, but too of ten the wrinkled brow, the weary step and the permanent look of sadness, so noticeable in many mothers, come from want of appreciation in their sons and daughters. So much of her earthly happiness is banked upon her children, for whom she would yield her life, that when this prop is knocked from under all seems to go with it. And the home without a competent head. and an ex perienced hand to guide amrid the vicis situdes of.joy and sorrow is not the happy home that it could be, and should be. M1uch of the neglect of mothers by their daughters come from want of thought, and miany a girl would be appalled at her own portrait could she see "herself as others see her," and would be the first to condemn such con duct in~ another girl' Yet day by day see goes on accepting and never return ing. and ruthlessly tramping uponl the he'art of one whose every thought is centered upon her happiness and ad vancement, and that one mother! Sure ly, this is not the girl who deems her self -noble hearted, who weeps over the woes of mankind in general, and is at tentive to outside friends, even to othe. girl's mothers. I Both Were Xilled. Howard Clark, who was wanted ii Louisville for murder and burglary and his girl, Hattie Mahoney. were boti killed while resisting arrest on the In diana side of the river near Owensboro. Ky., Wednesday. Clark was wanted for the murder of officer Hefferman. os Louisville last August and was attempt irng to escape by rowing down the Ohic river in a skiff. Word had been sen1 along tire river by telegraph to arres1 him. Officers from Owenisboro were it pursuit when Clark tied up hris skiff Ct the Indiana side and took to the wood: W\hen detected at burglary in Louis yulle hie killed the officer who caugh him. When the officers came upon hin Clark and the girl both opened fire it desperate resistance. Clark was we] armed and the girl also. Both Clarl -and the girl were shot dead. In th fight that ensued the escape of the offi cers was miraculous. Populism Dead. i Tire Atlanta Journal invited th Porulists back into the folds of Democ raecy on Satturday. Thre Augusta Tri bune. the only Populist daily in th south, yesterday advised thre acceptanc of the invitation, admitting that th a populist party is dead nationally, an: a no reason to keep a separate State or D ganization. All eyes are now on Tor - Watson. IT E S'rAn: FAIa.--All the railroad have agreed to furnish reduced ratest .the State Fair in Columibia next mronth The rates are one first-ciass fare f. athe round trip plus 50 cents for admi: into the fair ground: tickets to b r odNovemiber 12th to18th. inclusivc linuited to one continuous passagei both directioris. with final limit. No' 21st. lo9S. Tickct, at this rate to bt s~ld to fair officials anr 'tock mcen on] on Novemnrber 10th arid 11 th on Pr< sentation of certificates signed by th' ec'retry of State Agrie::1' :ral an 31echanleal society-iron clard form n rot required. J n:Pr nnStuertzbachr. of S even'r t IPoit. Wisconisin. has emne to thIe cor e elusion that at woodshed is rnot the bes e ind of a place to deposit rmorney- 1. Stricd it. lHe hiad a nice hole dtrg y tire 'loor. put Ihis rmorney rin a tin bo: arid cov ered it so that rno one woul, look for lucre there. Whrile he wan gone fro urn ie tihe other day p'rspee i tors strnek the leaid atnd lifted the bo: with the 's .50 lit contained. ID) . Hchiheimner. tire ;eteran RabI: tn I altimrtue. puts muen in the followin ei'case according to their charitt r I eistinects: First. those who giv iore than you ask; second. those wvh re sromething, but give it unwillingly furth. those who don't give anything efifth. those who refuse to give and ir thrdo .c be:. KIN POWDER Absolutely Pure sOyAL AM%0 POw0CR CO., M'W YORK. Money in Sawdust. Victor L. Emerson, the Baltimore in ventor who is now in Ottawa. is said to have discovered a process for carbo nizing sawdust and extriting the..by products. A long series of experiments-, in one of the largest sawnills of the A Dominion has just been ecncluded a'.d the Ottawa papers say they surpass all expectations. even those of the sanguine inventor. The experiments are said to have proved that "the 500 tons or more of sawdust and refuse that these mills have been throwing away daily for years should sudenly be dis covered to be worth $30 a ton-in other words, equal in value to the highest grade of gold quartz-is enough to make the average man catch his breath with surprise, and produce in the cynic a smile." Mr. Emerson went to Canada several months ago upon invitation of the owners of the Edwards' sawmills there, who had learned of his supposed dis covery. The sawmnill people had been ordered by the government to discon tinue emptying sawdust into the Otta wa river, and they secured a delay of the enforcement of the order to al low experiments to be made on a large scale by Mr. Emerson. In Ottawa the result which the experiments have produced has been received with greatest interest. The industrial effect in the lumber region of that part of Canada is predicted to be one of daz zling possibilities, and it is said that in addition to the central plant, erected at a large cost for the experi ments just concluded, a number of auxiliary industries are likely to com mence operation in Ottawa, including iron and steel smelting works, white lead manufactories, printers' ink manu factories, and acetylene gas or calcium carbide works. From the hydrogen as given off by the sawdust during the carbonizing process it is said that the whole city can be furnished with light and heat at 10 cents a thousand feet. The Game Law. The aroma of the frost upon the purpling of the western sky at sun down; the crackling of the stiff. dead leaves under foot set the sportsman's bood to tingling, for it is the time when 'possums, pumpkins, potatoes and partridges are getting ripe. Un less he be wary his thirst for the pheas ants gore will lead him into trouble, anl he will be tempted to kill the brown-feathered beauties before the law gives him license. Listen to the reading of the game law, sportsmen: "It shall not be lawful for any persons in this state, between the first day of April and the first day of November in any year hereafter, to catch, kill, or injure, or to pursue with such intent, or to sell or expose for sale, any wild turkey, partridge, woodeok or pheasant; or between the first day of March and the first day of August, any dove, or any time during the year to catch, kill or injure, or to pursue with such intent, by fire-light, any of the birds named in this section. And any person so doing shall be deemed guilty of a midemeanor. and upon conviction, thereof shall be fined not more than $20 or be impri soned not more than thirty days." THE Chicago Tribune, that radical gold standard paper, says 'that the "rank and file of the Democracy of the country are as ignorant as dumb driven cattle." T say that over six million of voters, representing nearly one-half of the entire population of the country,-are as ignorant as dumb driven cattle because they refuse to become the slaves of the Wall Street money power which Russel Sage says now absolutely con trols the country, simp~ly illustrates to what desperate straits the great finan cial trust is driven to. But as vinegar will catch no fies neitaer will abuse of the far mers and laborers of the country catch votes. "SouTH Carolina is sending cam 1paign orators and other assistance to North Carolina to help in the good work of freeing the Old North State from scalawags and negro domination,"' 'says the Savannah Morning News. "Twenty-two years ago North Carolina iand Georgia performed similar services for South Carolina. Can it ever be for gotten how. on eleetion day, in 1876. Sinquiries in South Carolina as to how -the ballot was going would be met with Ithe response, 'Everything going for Hampton; and four more counties in Georgia to be heard from.' -For the first time in its history. Quebec recently cheered the Stars and CStripes, borne at the head of Americani Csoldiers in its streets. Uncle Sam and iss Canada are having a rapproche ment these days, but a coolness gene rally springs up when the Bering sea is nalluded to. LIECTENANT Hobson has recovered Sfrom the 31aria Teresa, the O}1uendo 'and the Viscaya. guns valued at $300. 000. This is about the value of the rcollier 31errimac which Hobson sank in Santiago's channel. so that he has paid efor his little fun out of Spanish pock BEGG;ING pay in Italy. When Tori, ea well known Italian professional men vdicant. died last year. there were found hidden away in his rooms bank ebooks. secu'rities and gold and silver amounting collectively to the value of upward otf 2,000.000ii franes, or 0, TrAT eitizen of Coninecticutwh boldnt have at monument 'Iuringh life time determined to enjoy that lux urv after he was dead. anti provided in Chis will that his whole firtune of a'l. 000 should be used in erectogn a :nionu ment to himself. 3 a..Joshua Levering, president of the IBaltimore board of tradle. in his aginual report. says: "This country is toaay in the miidst of a prosperity the like of' w~hih it has probably never before een Oh. .Joshua! How can you yarn so? A s.hop girl in New York tried sui eide,~ becau.se she got tired wating fo the "tall, handsome man, with daisy mustache, light, brown hair and lau'ih in eyes.' that a fortune-teller told her bu, to come aon and woo her.