The Manning times. (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, October 26, 1898, Image 4

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Rev. Dr, Taimage Finds His imo print Everywhere. THE BEAUTIES OF NATURE Furnish a Theme for a Powerful Sermon. Would Abolish All Creeds and Denomi nations. Dr. Talmage in his discourse takes us with him on a journey to the Pacifie and finds *the footsteps of the Creator everywhere, as llugh Miller found them in the old red sandstone: texts. Isaiah xxxv. Gi, "Streams in the desert: L1ahs eiv, 3. "Ile toutheth the hills and they smoke. My first text ineans irrigation. It means the waters of the liimalaya or the Pyrenees or the Sierra Nevadas poured through canals and aqueducts for the fertilization of the valleys. It means the process by which the last mile of American barreaness will be made an apple orchard. or an orange grove, or a wheat field, or a cotton plantation, or a vineyard- -streams in the desert. My sec'nd text means a volcano like Vesuvius or Cotopaxi. or it means the geysers of Yellowstone park or of Califortnia. You see a hill calm and still and for ages immovable. but the Lord out of the heavens puts his finger on the top of it. and from it rise thick and impressive vapors. 'le toucheth the hills and they smoke! Although my journey across the con tinent this summer was for the eighth time, more and more am I impressed with the divine hand in its construe tion and with its greatness and grand eur, and more and more am I thrilled with the fact that it is all to be irriga ted, glorified and Edenized. What a ehan=e from the time when Daniel Webster on yonder Capitoline hill said to the American senate in regard to the center of this continent-and to the regions on the Pacific coast: "What do you want with this vast, worthless area, this region of savages and wild beasts. of deserts and cactus.of shifting sands and prairie dogs? To what use could we ever put these great deserts or these great mountains, impenetrable and cov ered with eternal snow? What can we ever hope to do with the western coast, rock bound, cheerless and uninviting and not a harbor on it? I will never vote one cent from the public treasury to place the Pacific coast one inch near er Boston than it now is." What a mis take the great statesman made when he said that! All who have crossed the continent realize that the states on the Pacific ocean will have quite as grand opportunities as the states on the At lantic, and all this realm from sea to sea to be the Lord's cultivated posses sion. Do you know what in some respects is the most remarkable thing between the Atlantic and Pacific? It is the figure of a cross on a mountain in Colo rado. It is called the "Mount of the Holy Cross." A horizontal crevice fill ed with perpetual snow and a perpen dicular crevice filled with snow, but both the horizontal line and the per pendicular line so marked, so bold, se significant, so unmistakable, that all who pass in the daytime within many miles are compelled to see it. There are some figures, some contours. some mountain appearances, that you grad ually make out after your attention is called to them. So-a man's face on the rocks in the White mountains. So a maiden's form cut in the granite of the Adirondacks. So a city in the moving clouds. Yet you have to look under the pointing of your friend er guide for some time before you can see the simi larity. But the first instant you glance at this side of the mountain in Colora do, you cry out: "A cross! A cross? Do you say that this geological inscrip tion just happens so? No. That cross on the Colorado mountain is not a hu man devioe or an accident -of nature or the freak of an earthquake. The hand of God cut it there and set it up for the nation to look at. Whether set up in rock before the cross of wood was set up on the bluff back of Jerusalem or set up at some time since that assassi nation, 1 believe the Creator meant it to suggest the most notable event in all the history of this planet, and he hung~ it there over the heart of this continent to indicate that the only hope for this nation is in the cross on which our Im manuel died. The clouds were vocal at our Sariour's birth, the rocks rent at his martyrdom, why not the walls of Colorado bear the record of the cruci fixion? First, consider the immensity *of this sontinental possession. If it were not only a small tract of land. eapable of nothing better than sage brush and with ability only to support prairie dogs, I should not have much enthusiasm in wanting Christ to have it added to his dominion. But its imi mensity and affluence no one can imag ine unless in immigrant wagon or stage coach or in rail train of the Union Pa cific or the Northern Pacific or the Ca nadian Pacific or the Southern Pacific he has traversed it. But while I speak of the immensity of the continent I must remark it is not an immensity of monotone or tame ness. The larger some countries are the worse for the world. This conti nent is not more remarkable for its magnitude than for its wonders of con struction. Yosemite and the adjoining California regions. Who that has seen them can think of them without hav ing his blood tingle? Trees now stand ing there that were old when Christ. lived. These monarehs of foliage reign ed before Caesar or Alexander. and the next 1,000 years will not shatter their scepter. They are the masts of the continent, their canvas spread on the winds, while the old ship bears on its way thrdugh the ages. That valley of the Yosemite is eight miles long and a half mile wide and 3,000 feet deep. It seems as if it had been the meaning of Omnipotence to crowd into as small a place as pcssible some of the most stupendous scenery of the world. Some of the cliffs you do not stop to measure by feet, for they are literally a mile high. Steep so that neither foot of man nor beast ever scaled them, they stand in everlasting defiance. If Jehovah has a throne on earth,these are its white pillars. Stand ing down in this great chasm of the valley, you look up, and yonder is Ca thedral rock, vast, gloomy nminster built for the silent worship of the mountains. Yonder is Sentinel rock, 3,270 feet high, bold, solitary, stand ing guard among the ages. its top sel dom touched until a bride one Fourth of July mounted it and planted the na tional standards, and the people down in the valley looked up and saw the head of the mountain turbaned with stars and stripes. Yonder are the Three brothers, 4.000 feet high: Cloud' rest. North and South dome. and the heights never captured save by the tiery bay o ets of the thunderstorm. - No pause for the eye. no stopping~ place for the mini. MIount ains hurled Wahn o wr hreeing them b 6' a n4. selves in one ma"nitiee' ehoru- t f rock and prt cipic andi wa erfail. Si ft in and dashinm thIn ( tie roks the water cones tiown. Tle B ridal Veil falls so thin vou ean see the ace of the nountai behin,l it. Yonder is Yosemnite falls. dropping 2.:1 feet. 1 tines greater descent than that of Ni arat. These waters dashed to (-eath On the rocs. so that the white Spirit of these slain waters IScening in 1be mist -eks the heave:. Yonder is Nevada falls. ph OOing feet. the iater in arrows. the water in rocks. the wat"r in pearlsthe wter in amiethysts. tie wt in iamon'dS. IhIat cafcade Siin k dwn the rocks enouhjewel to array all the (iearth in beauty and rush es on until it drops into a very hell of waters. the smoke of their torment as eeIding forever and ever. Wide reaches of stone of intermin gled colors. blue as the sky. green as the foliae. crinison as the dahlia, white as the suo.v. spottd as the leopard. tawny as the lion, grizziy as the bear. in Circles, in angles, in stars. in coronets, in !talactites. in stalagmites. iere and there are petrified growths. or the dead trees and vegetables of other ages. kept through a process of natural enbalmment. In sone places waters as innocent and smiling as a child makingz a first attempt to walk from its mother's lap. and not far off as foaming and frenzied and ungovernable as a maniac in strugie with his keepers. But after you have wandered along the geyserite enchantment for days and begin to feel that there can be nothing more of interest to see you suddenly come upon the peroration of all majesty and grandeur, theGrand canyon. It is here that it seems to me-and I speak it with regerence-Jehovah seems to have surpassed himself. It seems a ,reat guleh let down into the eternities. Here. hung up and let down and spread abroad. are all the colors of land and sea and sky. Upholstering of the Lord God Almighty. Best work of the Architect of words. Sculpturing by the Infinite. Masonry by an Onnipot ent trowel. Yellow! You never saw yellow unless you saw it there. Red! You never saw red unless you saw it there. Violet! You never saw violet unless you saw it there. Triumphant banners of color. In a cathedral of basalt, sunrise and sunset married by the setting of rainbow ring. Gothic arches, Corinthian capitals and Egy ptian bpsilicas built before hu .an architecture was born. Huge forti fications of granite constructed before war forged its first cannon. Gibraltars and Sevastopols that never can be taken. Alhambras, where kings of strength and queens of beauty reigied before the first earthly crown was em pearled. Thrones on which no one but the King of heaven and earth ever sat. Fount of waters at which the hills are baptized, while the giant eliffs stand around as sponsors. For thousands of years before that scene was unvalled to human sight the elements were busy, and the geysers were hewing away with their hot chisel, and glaciers were pounding with their cold hammers, and hurricanes were cleaving with their lightning strokes. and hailstones giv ing the finishing touches, and after all these forces of nature had done their best in our century the curtain dropped. and the world had a new and divinely inspired revelation, the Old Testament written on papyrus, the New Testament written on parchment and this last Testament written on the rocks. Oh, the sweep of the Amerizan con tinent! Sailing up Pugot sound, its shores so bold that for 1,500 miles a ship's prow would touch the shore be fore its keel touched the bottom! On one of my visits I said. "This is the MIediterranean of America."' Visiting Portland and Tacoma and Seattle and Victoria and Port Townshend and Van couver and other cities of the northwest region I thought to myself, "These are the Bostons. New Yorks, Charlestons and Savannahs of the Pacific coast."' But after all this summer's journeying and my other journeys westward in other summers. 1 found that I had seen only a part of the American continent, for Alaska is as far west of San Fran cisco as the coast of MIaine is east of it, so that the central city of the American ontinent is San Francisco. I have said these things about 'he magnitude of the continent and given you a few specimens of some of its won ders to let you know the comprehen siveness of Christ's dominion when he takes possession of this continent. Be sides that, the salvation of this contin ent means the salvation of Asia, for we are only 36 miles from Asia at the north west. Only Bering straits separates us from Asia, and these will be spanned >y a great bridge. The :36.miles of water between these two continents are ot all deep, sea, but have three is ands. and there arc also shoals which will allow piers for bridges. and for the most of the way the water is only about 20 fathoms deep. The Americo-Asiatic bridge which will yet span those straits will make America, Asia, Europe and Africa one ontinent. So, you see, America vangelized, Asia will be evangelized. Europe taking Asia from one side and merica taking it from the other side. our children will cross that bridge. merica and Asia and Europe all one, what subtraction from the pangs of sea sickness and the prophecies in Revela tio will be fulfilled, "there shall be o more sea." But do I mean literally that this American continent is goinf to be all gospelized? I do. Christo pher Columnbus. when lie went ashore from the Santa MIaria. and his second brother Alonzo, when he went ashore from the Pinta, and his third brothe Vincent, when he went ashore from the Nina, took possession of this country in the name of the Father and the Sc > ' the Holy Ghost. Satan has no more right to this country then I have to your pocketbooit. To hear him talk on the roof of the temple. where he pro osed to give Christ the kingdoms of this world and the glory of them. you might suppose that satan was a great capitalist or that lhe was loaded up with real estate, when the old mis reant never owned an acre or an inch of ground on this plant. For that rca son I protest against something 1 heard and saw this summer anu other sum mers in MIontana and Oregotu and Wyoming and Idaho and Colorado and Caifornia. They have .tiven devilistie ames to many places in tile west and northwest. As soon as you get in Yellowstone park or California you have pointed out to you places cursed with iiames s The D~evil's Slide."' The Decvil's Kitchen" "The D)evil's Thumb," "The Devils Pulpit." "The Devil's MIush pot." 'The D~evil's Teakettle." "The Devi's Sawmill." "Thie D evil's 3Machiine Shop" "The Devil's Iate" and so on. Now it is very much neded that geo logical surveyor or congressional com inittee or group) of distinguished tour ists go through MIontana and Wyom by bclyasia tehicl hi e a i 11%v . ik of he. 1(l ad e world is sick of tile. liut t b ne b the warl hearted. -ym ais 1 eseiitatin onf the fat th'it Chrit i' rady to pardon all ur SinS. id heal a.11I ir wolnd.. and Qave us bot h for is world and the iiext. lt your religion of glacier's eek- tf and fall into the Gulf . treinn and get melted. Take all your creeds of all dlenominations and drop ouat of theii all huiman phraseology and put in olv scriptural phraseology. ani you will see how quick the people 'will juip after hmci. On the Columiibia river we sa* the sal11m ju mp clear out of the water in di'lerent places. I suppose for the puriose of getting the insects. And f when we want to fish for men, we could only have the ricit kind of bait ther will spring out above the flood of their sins and sorrows to reach it. The Young 31en's Christian associat ions of : Aierican will also do part of the work. They are going to take the young men of this nation for God. These institu tion for God. These institutions sceei in better favor with God and man than ever before. Business men and cap italists are awakin-g to the fact that they can lo nothing better in the way of liv enetieenee or in last will and testa ment than to do what 31r. MIarquand did for Brooklyn when he made the Youn 3en'is Christian palace possible. These institutions will get our young men all over the land into a stanpede for heaven. Thus we will all in some way help on the work. you with your ten talents. I with five, somebody else with three. It is estimated that to irri-ate the arid and desert lands of America as they ought to be irrigated it will cost about '$100,000 ,000 to gather the waters into reservoirs. As much contribution and effort as that would irrigate with gospel influences all the waste places of this continent. Let us by prayer and contribution and right living all help to fill the reservoirs. You will carry a bucket, and you a cup. and even a thimbleful would help. And after awhile God will send the floods of merey so gathered pouring down over all the land. and some of us on earth and some of us in heaven will sing with Isaiah, "In the wilderness waters have broken out and streams in ithe desert.' and with David. "There is a river the streams whereof shall make glad the sight of God.- Oh. fill up the reservoirs. America for God! A DASTARDLY MURDER. Mrs. J. 0. Atkinson Assasinated From Ambush. The news of the tragic assasination from ambush of Mrs. J. C. Atkinson was brought to the city last night by traveling men who were at Edgefield Court House where the crime was per petrated. They say that the excite ment in Edgefield village and the sur rounding country is very great and if the assassin is found lhe will be dealt with in a manner that will not 'idd to the court calendar. The story as gain ed from traveling men is as follows: The assassination occurred Tuesday night on the 3Iartintowni road, in a re mote part of the county. MIrs. Atkinson was in Augusta Tues day with her husband. They transact ed their business and left for their business and left for their home about dark. Their home is in Edgefield county, thirteen miles from Augusta and fourteen miles from Edgefield Court House. M1r. and M1rs. Atkinson were driving quite slowly. They had pro ceeded up a slight hill and were de scending on the other side when from a group of black jack bushes a gun was fired. MIrs Atkinson gave vent to a scream of apparent pain and fright. The shot had been fired at very close range. MIr. Atkinson threw his arm about his wife and felt blood falling on his hand. He then noticed that MIrs. At kinson had apparently swooned. H~e threw both arms about her and lowered her to the seat of the vehicle. She was dead in a few seconds. The load was No. 2 bird shot, fired at close range from apparently. a shotgun, that the shot did not have opportunity to scat ter. striking the lady in a clump in the neck, reaching vital points, and pro duing death almost instantaneously. As soon as possible, MIr. Atkinson gave the .larm. In two hours and a half Edgefield county was on the hunt for the cowardly and craven .issassin or assassins who was or were guilty of this dastardly deed. There is absolutely no clue so far as can be learned. Nr. Atkinson. of course, gave his attention solely to his wife. If there was a movement in the bushes after the shot, lie would not have noticed it. The officers and citi zens beat about all night. making the most diligent inquiry, that some clue. some trail of the assassin might be se ured. Tbey have not, so far as learn ed, been in the least successful. The bands, who are still roaming over the country, are determined to leave noth ing undone. The assassination was so heinous. so brutal, that the cry of ven geance is heard. All that the pessees desire is to get hold of the assassin and to be sure that lie is the right man. The deceased was a woman of lovely character, of handsome mien. a good wife and the mother of several cuithdren. She is about 38s years of age. 11er home is one of the happiest in the south. MIr. Atkinson is a well-to-do farmer and an honorable and splendid gentleman. This terrible affair that has come in to his life is wringing his h~eart with an g r.:-d grief. There is no suspicion. It is takc.. -hat dhe assassin aimed his deadly fire a. "r. Atkinson. -Columbia Record.___________ Sealded te Death. The tor >edo boat-Davis which started on its official trial tran Thursday was disabled by the bursting of' a numiber of boiler tubes. Eight of the crew were badly scailded, and three of them died soon3 after reachingi Astoria.. Ore. The dead: C'. 31eNeely. P. Luithleo. HI. Wood. The seriously injui-ed: W. Woods. B. Ryan. A. Johnson. A. uehl. Luitheo was a coal passer and Woods suinerintendent of the boiler room. Th'e others wcre firemen. The accident occurred in the Columbia river, about 20 miles above this city. The nature of' the explosion has not been made known and tihe examination of the boilers will be required to deter um.ine enactly what part of the boilers burst. ':'he best theory obtainable is that some of thle tubes of the outward boiler exploded owing to a dlcrangement of the automatic water gage which per-I mitted the wvater to get too low. Ex eepting for the havoc wroiuight in the boiler room the boat is uiiinjured. Late Thursiay night the four inijured meon d. a king a total ef seven dead. federatt Regiments. SOUTH CAROLNA RESERVES. Golonel Thomas Desires to Get the Rolls of all the Companies that Were CalAd Out. Col. Thomas. State htistorian. Las is sued the fiolw I'llppeal for informa tion conicerin.. 'teVerl' is'sing mili tarv records: T' .ll Whomn it 1a:y Conce'n: The und'rsigne'd ha6vig virtually comlpleted the Work (of collecting1 thle Confederate iols proper. now desires to ma''ke the war record f South Caro l1ina imoret comi'lechensive by addingu, to tle roli hus far received. of the State troops. kinwn as reserves. called into serv'ico 1861--5. Hec propses further to m1ake nore full the roster of what may be dec.signated as the gen:ral staff -engiiieers. surgeons. quartermasters. counlnissaries and chaplains. as well as ordnance oflicers. not attached to regi mlents. battalions or brigades. In the natter of the general staff, the !tate historian has received the valuable aid of the Rev. Dr. Jchnson. of Charleston. C.. formerly the distinguished major of en ineers. C. S. A.. to whom addi tional names niay be sent of such men as come under the title of the "general staff." There were about eight reir ments of' reserves or State troops, mak iin SO ciompanies. There are now on file in this office about 50 companies of this class. These additional rolls now i called for must be handed in by Novem ber 15th next. when it is proposed to elose the record and make up the re port for the general assembly of 1899. John P. Thomas. In making out the muster rolls of the re-iments to be disbanded from the volunteer army, five copies are made. One for the war department, two for the paymaster. one for the adjutant general of the State and one for the regimental adjutant. So in future years there will be no trouble to obtain records of those who served. Pity it is. but 'tis true that the rolls and re cords of those who made the most glori ous struggle in the world's history are very hard to obtain. The State histo rian. Col. Jno. P. Thomas. has had much difficulty in getting rolls of those from South Carolina who served in the Confederacy, and the time will come when these records cannot be found unless they are sent in now. Follow iing is a list of company rolls recently received by Col. Thomas. Additional rolls may be sent in up to Nov. 1~. IS9. Companies A and B. Battalion State Cadets. Citadel. Companies A and B, Battalion State Cadets, Arsenal. South Carolina College Cadets. Spartan Rangers. Stono Scouts. St. Helena Mounted Riflemen. Greenville Home Guard. Marion True Blues. Capt. Percival's company of Mounted MIen. Capt. Russell's company of' Detailed 3IMen and Boys. St .Paul's H~ome Guard. ICapt. Keating Simons' company-in dependent. ICapt. Forster's company. IEdgefield Reserves--Abney. IWalhalla State Guards. Capt. 3Moss' compainy-Bomar'es. Brooks' Home Guards. Arsenal Guards-Charleston. Ordnance Guard-Charleston. Capt. Shiver's company-Columbia. Capt. Dougherty's company-Char' leston. Capt. A bram Jones' company-Edge field. Companies B. C. H. I and K, Second reginent. Company D, Third regiment. Company H. Fourth regiment. Companies E and I, Fifth regiment. Company H. Eighth regiment. Company C, Ninth regiment. Company A. Eleventh regiment. Company A, First battalion, regi ment not named. Compainy A. First battalion. regi ment not named. Companies E and F, Second battalion. regiment not named. Company C, Fifth battalion, regi ment not named. Company A. Capt. Holmnan, regiment ot named. Company A. Capt. Hlipp. regiment not name-d. Company I. Capt. Brooks, regiment not named. Company -, Capt. Kay. regiment not named. Under call for special qfuota: Capt. Barton's company, from First regment S. C.. militia. Capt. King's company, from Fifth regiment S. C.. militia. (apt. Smith's company. fiom Fifth regiment S. C.. militia. Capt. MIaher's company, from Elev nth regiment S. C., militia. Capt. Wise's company. from Elev nth regiment S. C.. militia. Capt. Dantzler's company, from Fouteenthm regiment S. C.. militia. Capt. Tyler's company, from Fif teenth regiment S. C.. militia, Capt. Mellett's company. from Twen tieth regiment S. C., militia. Capt. Brown's comnpanyv. fronm Twen ty-Third regiment S. C., milhtia. Capt. company. fronm Twenty ourth regiment S. C.. militia. Capt. c ompany, fronm Twenty Fifth regiment S. C., militia. Chesterfield Eagles. Capt. Evans' company. from Twenty Eighth regiment S. C.. militia. Capt. Wood's company, from T-sen -Ninth regimient S. C.. nhid~a. (apt. Gibson's comtpaay, front Thir tieth regiment S. C.. n ilitia. Capt. C'hapmtan's '-ompany, front hiry-Ninth regiment '. C., militia. There being no record on hand in the State archives of the State troors or reserves called ot'n in South Carolina iSu to~ 18;-ilceabove list is published o stimunlate tI e htanding in of addi tioal rolls to rn ake more complete this States record in thec war between the State Historian. Columbia. S. C.. Oct. 18. 1898. Asuss As A FErrTIIuze.-All farmers knew that wood ashes are val'a able for fcrtilizer. But this value, as many know. is due v'ery muchl to the material firom which the ashes came. hus ashes miade from hard wood arc tore valuable titan ashes made from soft wood. in fact. sonic ashe~s fromt soft wood have not enough virtue to make it worth while to bothter witht them. It has also been found that the vluc is largely governed by the part of the tree from which the ash is made. It is declared by chemists that the ash of' the young twigs is of more v'alue than the ash of the trtunk of the tree. an .lt. as .i. lav..-es til monr.' valua \\aga.hngton. :and c.ompuent.'( by. .un at tache, who c i three of fore cast in the Republi ai umjtority inthe laot congress. TheM' tigures elect a l)eIocratie conre, s J Is till by a mni mumi of seeteen ma jority. A sum mary of the Fifty-sixth congress gives (;1 dc.uhtfui votes. Of' these. if 41 ar conceded to tl he pubicans and 20 to the Democrats. the result will be 170 lRepublican. oppositin 1I7. Now, if the Republicans carry all the doubtful districts and the opposition the dis driets credited to them. the next houso would stand Reptiublicans. 1!)(): opposi tion. 167-total '57-a Republican ima jority of 28. This is not regarded as possible. and by the method of figuring with the present information in hand. Secretary Kern cannot see how the Repablicans can win. "We have them on the run." says Kern. 'and cannot lose the next house." Here is the New York journal's table: A conservative sunnary of the Fifty - ixth congress is as follows: Democrats ..0....................1 Populists.................... . 1. Silver Republicans............... 4 Total.......... ....167 Republicans....... ..........129! Doubtful..................... 61 Total......................190 Grand total..... ..........357 Of Lhe 61 doubtful the chances favor the Republi-ans in 41 districts and the enmocrats it 20. If it splits that way the next house would stand: Republicans......... ........170 Opposition ...................IS7 An Impprtant Decision The News and Courier, of the 30thI ultimo, gives an abridgement of a very important decision, relating to street paving. which affects all municipalities of the State. We can give no more than a brief statement. It seems that the city council of Greenville levied upon a citizen an assessment of two thirds the costs of laying a sidewalk upon which his land abutted. The citizen sought and obtained in the cir cuit court a perpetual injunction. re straining the city council from collect-! ing the assessment. On appeal to the supreme court the decision of the circuit court was af firmed. The following is the conclu sion: In concluding Mr. Pope says: "This court has announced that his State I has repudiated and still continues to repudiate the doctrine of supposed benefits to owners of lots of land abut ting on public streets in levying taxes. and we are now satisfied that such for mer decision when it upheld assess ments made upon owners of lots abut ting on streets when improved side walks and drains are constructed was wrong and should be reversed, as op posed to our present Constitution. Such conclusions on our part renders it unnecessary that we should pass upon any other question raised by the ap neal. It is. therefore, the judgment of this court that the judgment of the cir cuit court be affirmed.' All of the court except Justice Jones concur in the opinion. His Happiest Moment. "'John." she asked, cuddling up to' him, for it was the seventh anniversary of their marriage, "what was the hap piest moment of your life?" "Ah, dear. I rememrber it well. I shall never forget it. If I live to be a hundred years old that moment will always stand out as plainly as it does tonight." She sihed and nestled a little closer, look ing longingly up into his honest blue eyes. After a moment's silence she urged: "Yes, but John. dearest, you haven't told me when it was." "Oh, he answered. "I thought you had guessed it. Surely it ought to be easy enough for you to do so. It was when you came to me last fall, if you remem ber, aud told me that you had decided to trim over one of your old hats so as to make it do for the winter." Then the celebration of the seventh anniver sary of their marriage became formal and uninteresting. Union or Secesh. MIany Northern women visited the border hospitals during the war, bear ing to the sick and wounded lUnion heroes pies. preserves and numerous delicacies, and to the Confederate he roes tracts on the evils of human slav er. They would ask a sufferer: "Are vonu .Union or Secesh?' The sufferer who answered "Union" got the goodies; the one who answered "Secesh" got only a tract. One day a Confederate of foreign birth happened to be placed on a Union bed. and there he lay when one of these angels, bearing piety and preserves, began her hospital rounds. When she came to him she asked, as' usual. "Are you Union or Secesh?" "ell." replied tho poor devil. "uf you gif ine a dract, I ish Secesh; but uf ou gif me shicken und bie, I ish Union liko hell!" lie got the "shicken und bie." Good Sense. Since the election the newspapers have been kept busy publishing 'cards of thanks' fromn the successful. as well as the unmsuccessful candidates. We hope the season for all these gushing thanks is over, and we could wish it not to return. These cards arc all the pro duct of' a pernicious sentiment. that is. that tihe people elect a man to office for his own personal benetit, whereas the true principle is. or ought to be, that they elect him for their own benefit. We can hardly see how a man with a proper appreciationi of the duties and responsibilities of ofiee can believe or' feel that his personal thanks are due the public for giving him one. We oe the custom will be abolished, for it is in keeping with an idea already1 too prevalent, that office is a favor in stead of a trust.-Gaffney Ledger. Death of Col. Alston. ol. Jas. K. Alston. of the First south C'arolina Reg.iment, died at York-1 ville F'riday morning at 2 o'clock of malarial complications, contracted in the camps. ie had been confined to his bed since October 14. The end was alm and peacefuil, death comiing as a1 refreshing sleep. Col. Alston was1 about thirty-eight years of aire. A HIIIr'-'ro Giiu.s.-A bachelor once asked a married man who hadI an excel lent wfe. where he found her. Th'ie re-t l was' ''At home with her mother. and not on the streets." Of course girls have business on the streets some times. but they should have as littleIt of that kind as possible. MIen who2 make good husbands in looking for -ives. 'go to the homes and not ti the Trczunk bc. lina on Election Day. SOME VERY PLAIN TALK. What the Wilmington and Char lotte Papers Say About the Situation. The Whites Will Win. it is reported in our Charieston ci.or respondence that the hardware houses of that city are -tilling' large orders f4or arms and annuunition for white people in Wihininigton anild other cities of east - tirn Nortii Cardina to defend them selves in ca(eI of negro outbreaks of vi', lence in the November election." The Wilmington papers say that the negroes there are also arming: in fact, they have printed an order for arms sent by ide groes to a northern manufacturing firm and forwarded by thei to their agents in that city. The following editorial from the Wilmington Messenger of Thursday shows the critical tension of affairs there: There is nothing truer in history or politics than that the white men of Wilmington are resolved to continue to he white and free and indendent of the negroes. They have been bossed. ter rorized and oppressed by the fellow -in black" just as long as they intend to be. Sooner than submit to past conditions and have continued present conditions, they will make it very hot for all trans gressors and offenders. This is not bluster. but plain fact. The man who does not know this is either blind or a fool. The white race from the dawn of civilization and the beginning of histor ic records to now has been the ruling race. All that is worth the name of civilization. progress. humanity, be nevolence, merey. justice. righteous ness. wisdom, power, have cone from through and by the white man. The Negro has not been remotely in it. lHe is a barbarian in his native woods and wilds. Ile is not very much improved in the --land of the free and home of the brave" after 300 years of tutelage and association and example and gov ernment of the whites. le is barbaric deep down in his nature. Arouse his evil passion and he is hardly better thai his kind beyond seas in the deep jungles of the Black continent. the white man is weary of bad rule by negro votes. He is becoming dread fully restive under the outrage and ani mosity. Of 46 States, our own is the only one cruelly. destructively domi nated by wicked. vicious, degraded black bossing. This will be stopped or it will be known why. It is the simple truth that Wilming ton means to be free. The millions of property here cannot be wantonly, wickedly sacrificed to give place for grub to incompetent and offensive Nig aers. This is more than will be longer submitted to. Think of 5 per cent. of taxpayers governing and taxing 95 per cent. of taxpayers. It is an outrage and disgrace beyond all tolerance or comparison. The white men will prove cravens and time-servers who will quietly submit and let tile five use the Negroes for the spoilation and ruin of a city. That is indeed breaking the submissive camel's back. Do not put that last feather on or something heavy may be heard to "drop." This goodly city settled by white men is to be henceforth governed by white men. Let that be understood and much trouble will be avoided. If by any combination of circumstances Ne gro rule shall continue here. there are some people who will be sternly held responsible for the disgrace and afflic tion. A word to the wise ought to be sufficient, But there is none so blind but the one who will not see. If Ne gro rule were fixed for two years ofter the first of January next, many a good citizen and family would leave'for other towns and some for other States, where the whites are respected and can live in peace and safety among white people. But the rule of Sambo is doomed. It is useless for him to kick against the pricks. 'If we cannot dlefend our do r from the LMt n, be worried" Even the Charlotte Observer, one of the most moderate and calm and sweet tepered of our contemporaries, makes this prediction; We believe the Democrats are. to carry the State next month. The ma jority against them is formidable, but there are cases in which obstacles count for nothing. Talking recently with a Democratic citizen of a county which in the last election gave an enor mous fusion majority, he declared to the writer, with the utmost confidence. that it would go Demiocratic this year. "But how are you going to carry it?" he was asked. "I don't know," was the reply. "but we are going to carry it." That is the spirit which wins vic tories, removes mountains or does al i st anything. When the Anglo-Saxon wills to do a thing lie finds a way. hat is the history of the race, and the Anglo-Saxon people of North Carolina ire aroused now as we never have known them to be before. Their dear st interests are at stake and they pro pose to safeguard them. The Observer is right. The unity of ie whites in this State won against 0000 Negro majority in 1876: any ap 'roach to unity among the white ma jority in North Csrolina will win anoth r suceh victory. We hope that this csult will be reached without blood ied: but th~t it will bc reached some iow, now that the race issue is made. ems inevitable.-Columbia State. Paying the'Penalty. Seven 31ussulnmans, who were tried md convicted of the murder of British aldiers during the recent outbreak at adia. Crete. were hanged Wednes Offers a Reward. Gov. Ellerbie has offered a W>0i re yard for the arrest of the party or par i-s who so foully assassinated MIrs. .J. ). Atkinson in Edgefi eld Tuesday jight. the harrowing details of which iend~ish1 piece of vandalism were givecn n The State of Thursdaiy. Wherever he news of that terrible- tragedy has -ached. it has stirred the feelings of he law-abiding citizens. and no reward s necessary as an ineentive to make nen try to find the fiend incarnate who. 'rom ambush. killed a woman. The ~eope in Edgietield arec said to be ter ibl, aroused and determined to avenge he mnurder.--Co(lumbia State. Lo )Orl Fot I r.-The grealt peri lcal shower of stars which is seen at ntevals of thirty-three and one guar er years is due November 12 or 13 299 Th is year. however conteam lates a co nsiderable display of star hower- is expected. Astr-onomer p're liet that theC meteoric dislay will be nost brilliant and that cvery sta uin the eavens will seem to have untie and hoot about in the firmament like a rud What Is the Xatter t: (-VerAwT% ou n it w> was -iN, to wo rk. was that wIe should a protective tarifl, the gold stand ar :n1 a re-toration of contidence. .U if to -how the people (of the I~nitcd Statvt the faillacv and falsity of t laims. ProI Iienee blessed this country with bountiful crops last year. while short crops and famines abroad furni.led us a profitable market. This year our (rop's are unprecedentedly The national treasur\y is overflowing with mnoney. We have the gold standard. We have the protective tariff. Confidence is restored. We have the balance of trade in our favor. bringing in hundreds of nil lions of dollars annually. We have the largest crops in our his tory as a peopie. Cotton is 5 cents a pound. Wheat is sagging around 65 cents, with a tendency toward the 50-cent mark. Real estate is dead on the market. Farm products are on the decline, and will go lower. Manufactured products are on the dccline. except where production is limited and prices are upheld by trusts. '"Over-production" afflicts us. and hundreds of thousands are idle and hungry "because we produce so much and produce so cheaply." On the other hand, millionaires are multiplying. Trusts are distributing large divi dends and accumulating large surpluses iIn their treasuries. The banks are prospering. Some of the railroads are paying handsome dividends, -ind all are in creasing their earnings. Street railroads, water and gas com panies are flourishing. The people of the United States are mnaking wonderfully great earnings and a comparative few are gettina all of the surplus. What is the matter? General Prosperity has not returned. but Special Prosperity is here. What is the matter? Let the Republicans answer. Let the gold bugs answer. Let the protectionists answer. The monopolies. the trusts, and the combines are all supreme. The American laborers and produc ers are their slaves. And slaves are not expected to think. They are expected to obey. And still they have the ballot and elect their own lawmakers. "Arbor Day." The following from the Columbia Register is of especial local as well as general interest. The provisions of the act on the subject of Arbor Day should be carried out to the fullest extent in the public schools, and it will be worth the while of the older people also to give the matter their attention: At the last meeting of the general assemb ly an act authorizing the proper observ ance of Arbor Day by the public schools throughout the state was passed. In accordance with thc provision, Superin tendent MIayfield will issue a circular letter to the county superintendents of education citing the act and request them to notify every teacher in their county of such law and also ask that it be complied with. This is the first time the la e has been put into operation in this state, and Superintendent MIayfield thinks that much good is to be derived from the observance of the day. It will teach pupils to appreciate the value of orna mental shrubbery and shade trees. Very few, it is claimed, know how to prepare ground for planting, e~nd this act is thioughit to be a good plan for teaching pupils such essential lessons. The beneficial results derived at school are expected to manifest themselves in the home, and consequently more attention will be devoted to the cultivation of flowers and trees. The following is thie text of the act under which the day will be observred: "That the free public schools of this state observe the third Friday in No vember of each year as Arbor Day, and on that day the school officers and teach ers shall conduct such exercises and engage in planting such shrubs, plants and trees as will impress on the minds of the pupils the proper value and ap preciation to be placed on flowers, orna mental shrubbery and shade trees." The act provides that the third Fri day in November shall be observed. MIany of the public schools do not open until later, and of course that day can not be observed. Superintendent MIay field announces that those schools which are not in session on that day have the privilege of namiing sonme other day. IHowever, each scool is re guired to observe Arbor D)ay and this option is nierely for its convenience. South Carolina is not the originatot of this movement, nor is she among the first to adopt such law. There are, in addition to this state, :35 states and ter ritories in the Union that observe the day by requirement of law. Bryan a Model Soldier. C'oh. William Jennings Bryan is a model soldier. The statement is made on the authiory of Adjutant General Corbn. who set at rest all1 the efforts to misrpresenit aryan, accordi'.g to the Washington corresp:>ndent of the News and Courier. General Corbin declared that Col. Bryan has asked no favors at all from the war department. that there has never been a suggestion of a desire on his part to resign or have his regi ment mustered out: that in short all the stories which the Repub'iran press have been printing in their desire to reflect upon Bryan are each and all of themn untre. The adjutant general wound up his statenient by declaring that Bryan has been in every respect a mdel soldier. ____ Hobson and tihe Vizcaya. It is reported from ontanamio that Naval Constructor Ilobson. who left there early last week for .h8 naica with the intention of taking~ the Atlas line steamer for New York. will co o~ Wash ingtonI to obtain an approptriationl. if possible. of :$1.l)00.000. for the purpose of raisin;: the sunken Sp:ni.,h cruiser Vize-ava. Iol E.-Blessed is the man whose homne is a refu~e' who, being tossed to and fro on the waves of a tumultuous and comiibat ice sea thirouchout the day. leaves his offiee, hi> business perplecxi ties. beind Ihim. and when lie opens the door andi enters the house, enters his landlocked hiarb r. But the home ouht not to be a refuge for the hus band ain.i father only, but we who are husbands and fathers ought to make it a refuge for the wives and mothers a well. They have their cares also. and wen we come to our homes we oughl t to come bringing with us such a spirit s shall exercise these cares and make R(OYAL Baking Powder Made from pure cream of tartar. Safeguards the food against alum. Alum bg powders are the greatest menaces to health of the present day. ROYAL BAKING POWDER CC., NEW YORK. Cotton Movement. Secretary Ilester's weekly New Or ieans Cotton Exchange statement, is sued last Friday. shows an increase in the movement brought into sight com pared with the seven da en- ding the same date last year of 126. 00. an in crease over the same date year before last of 96.000. For the 1-.. daYs of' (te tober the totals show an increase over last year of 209,000. For the 44 days of the season that have elapsed the ag gregate is ahead of the 44 days last year. 95,000, and behind the same days year before last. 197.000. The total movement for the 44 days from Septem ber 1 to date is 1,947.324, against 1.S52,283 last year. The movement since September 1 shows receipts at all United States ports 1.413,725, against 1.344,337 last year. Interior stock in excess of those held at the close of the commercial year 276.636. against 235, 188 last year; Southern mills takings 164.881, against 159,095 last year. Foreign exports for the weeks have been 224,b5, against 199.647 last year. The total takings of American mills: north and south and Canada thus for the sea son have been 326.080, against 444.491 last year. Stocks at the seabo.ird and 29 leading interior centres have have increased during the week 239.603 bales, against an inc ease during the corresponding period last season of 121.975. Tillman Advocates Shotguns. Senator Ben R. Tillman, of South Carolina, made one of his characteristic speeches here Tuesday night at an im mense Democratic meeting, says a Rich mond dispatch of Wednesday to The News and Courier. Before going to the Academy of -Music, where the meet ing was held, Senator Tillman was called upon at his hotel by a number of Democrats. I. discussing with these the polit situation in North Caro lina, Mr. Tillman said that the only way for Democrats to carry that state is with shotguns. Referring to the situa tion in New York. Mr. Tillman said he did not care a frip whether Roosevelt or Van Wyck was elected. The Re publicans, he said, had the honesty-to come out and declare their position. The Democrats, he declared had dodged the Chicago platform. It would be bet ter if Roosevelt should win. "There is no room for two gold bug' parties in this country. We must purge our par ty," continued the speaker, o~f all such cattle. Get rid of the hypocrites. That's my opinion. I am only ono man. You can agree with me or not: I don't care whether you do or not." This evoked great applause. An Old Man's Darling. Q31ary Butterfield Sadenrson, the 28 year old wife of the late octogenarian, Rodolphus Sanderson, bank director and wealthy citizen of Battle Creek. Mlich., was taken to the county jail in Marshall at 3~ o'clock this morning. where she will be held pending a pre liminary hearing on the charge of mur dering her husband. She is accused of feeding him with ground glass in his breakfast oatmeal. Wanted a Divorce. A man in Wheeling. W. Va., has asked for a divorce from his wife be cause "she persists in eating onions," and yet we have the assurance of the Richmond Times that otherwise there is not a breath of suspicion against her THE EMfPIRE OF' THE SOLUTH~.-One of the handsomest. publications we have seen is entitled " The Empire of the South. Its Resources and Resorts." This beautiful book has just been pub lished by the Southern railway. Its author, 31r. Frank Presby. was for many months engaged in the collection and preparation of the material for this work, and he has succeeded in doing valuable service for the south as well as the Southern railway. A more comn pete exposition of the resources of the great region east of the MIississippi and south of the Ohio and Potomac rivers has not been published. The book is printed, illustrated and hound in vecry handsome style, and would niake an >rnamecnt for any library or center table. t is a store house of information for ll who desire to know what the south is. what the south has and what its prospects are. RIusE RICE.-Mr. J. W. Gary. who ives at Holly Springs. Spartanburg ounty last Tuesday showed us a sam le of highland rice, says the Head ight, that he had raised on his farm. t is of the new crop and as good as he ver saw. 3Mr. Gary says lie can raise aout 36 bushels of clear rice to the are. This rice is cleaned at a rice mil! n operation at Taylor's Station. over ini reenville County'. This is a new e - erprise for Spartanburg County. tis eats five cents cotton. Rice sells in arket for about four dollars per bihe i ad there is a ready sale for all we raise t is a sure crop and grows on thin landl GoOi AIVICE.-The haurens A'iver tiser says that cotton at four and a half ents is an awkward nuisance to the roducer. One way to raise the pric~e s to raise less of the stuff. One way o raise less of the stuff is to plant less. ne way to Plant less to ocenpy your and with other crops. Now is a good ime to sow wheat. 'a ts. barley. rye ad the clovers. 'That is sound advice. nd we are glad to know that many far nrs in this section are acting upon it. Father. mother, wife and saa are unninr asaiinst each other for il'ee n Pawnee county,. Oklahoma. 'The Jemocrati-Populist candidate 'or pub lie weigher is W. M. Obanann. he ublican candidate for the same o'tice s W. T1. Obanan, son oh' the1 l moraitie opulist candidate, and now the mid~' .he-of-the-roaders have nomninavted Mrs )banan. wife of the l),mocratie-Popui ist candidate for public we'Iicr. Roses were laid on the totmb of Ma or Andre in W\estminster A bbey >ep ember 15. with a card. on whichi was nscribed: "'From Mrs. (Curran, nee eatrice Benedict Arnold. of ('hicago, descendant oftGeneral Beneduict Arn id. who detests the memory of her an ~estor. but revers that of the man whose ciath he encompassed. Major And.re.