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A 1A0 IUME Domestic Life the Subject of Dr. Talmage's Sermon. KEEP GOD AT THE FIRESIDE. Every Member (f the Household Should Strive to Make It Happy. Start in the Right Way. Dr. Talmage in this discourse sets forth radical theories, which, if adopt ed, would brighten many douestic cir cles: text, John xx, 10. -'le disciples went away again unto their own homes. A church within a church. a repub lie within a republic, a world within a world, is spelled by four letters-home' If things go right there. they go right everywhere: if things go wrong there. they go wro g everywhere. The door sill of the dwelling house is the foun dation of church and state. A man never gets higher than his own garret or lower than his own cellar. Domestic life overarches and undergirdles all other life. The highest house of con gress in the domestic eircle: the rock ing chair in the nursery is higher thai a throne. George Washington com manded the forces of the United States but Mary Washington commanded George. Chrysostom-s mother, made his pen for him. If a man should start out and run 70 years in a straight line. he could not get out from under the shadow of his own mantelpiece. I therefore talk to you about a matter of infinite and eterna! moment when I speak of your home. As individuals we arc fragments. God makes the race in parts, and then he gradually puts us together. What I lack you make up; what you lack I make up; our deficits and surpluses of character being the cogwheels in the great social mechanism. One person has the patience, another has the cour age, another has the placidity, another has the enthusiasm. That which is lacking in one is made up by another or made up by all. Buffaloes in herds. grouse in broods. quails in flocks. the human race in circles. God has most beautifully arranged this. It is in this way that he balances society: this con servative and that radical keeping things even. Every ship must have its mast, cutwater, taifrail, tilast. Thank God, then, for Princeton and Andover. for the opy.sites. I have no more right to blame a man for being different from me than a driv ing wheel has a right to blame the iron snaft that holds it to the center. John Wesley balances Calvin's "Institutes. A cold thinker gives to Scotland the strong bones of theology. Dr. Guthrie clothes them with a throbbing heart and warm flesh. The difficulty is that we are not satisfied with just the work that God has given us to do. The water wheel wants to come inside the mill and grind the grist, and the hopper wants to go out ;nd dabble in the wa ter. Our usefulness and the welfare of society depend upon our staying in just the place that God has put us, or in tended we should occupy. For more compactness and that we may be more useful we are gathered in still smaller circles in the home group. And there you have the same variety again-brothers, sisters, husband and wife, all different in temperaments and tastes. It is fortunate that it should be so. If the husband be all impulse. the wife must be all prudence. If one sister be sanguine in her temperament, the other must be lymphatic. Mary and Martha are necessities. There will be no dinner for Christ if there be nc Martha. there will be no audience for Jesus if there be no Mary. The home organization is most beautifully con structed. Eden has gone. the bowers are all broken down, the animals that Adam stroked with his hand that mor ning when they came up to get their names have since shot forth tusk and sting and growled panther at panther. and midair iron beaks plunge till with clotted wing and eyeless sockets the twain come whirling down from under the sun in blood and fire. Eden has gone, but there is just one little frag ment left. It floated doni on the riper Hiddekel out of paradise. It is the marriage institution- It does not, as at the beginning, take away from man a rib. Now it is an addition of ribs. This institution of marriage has been defamed in our day. Socialism and dolgyamy and the most damnable of all things, free lovism, have been trying to turn this earth into a Turkish harem. While the pulpits have been compara tively silent novels, their cheapness only equalled by their nastiness, are trying to educate, have taken .upon themselves to educate, this nation in regard to holy marriage, which makes or breaks for time and eternity. Oh. this is not a mere question of residence or wardrobe! It is a question charged with gigantic joy or sorrow, with heav en or hell. Alas for this new dispen sation of George Sands! Alas for this mingling of the nightshade with the marriage garlands. Alas for the venom of adders spit into the tankards. Alas for the white frosts of eternal death that kill the orange blossoms! The gospel of Jesus Christ is to assert what is right and to assail what is wrong. Attempt has been made to take the marriage institution, which was intend ed for the happiness and elevation of the race and make it a mere commer cial enterprise, an exchange of houses and lands and equipage, a business partnership of two stuffed up with the stories of romance and knight errantry and unfaithfulness and femine angel hood. The two after awhile have roused up to find that instead of the paradise they dreamed of they have got nothing but a Van Amburgh's menag erie, filled with tigers and wild eats. Eighty thousand divorces in Paris in one year preceded the worst revolution that France ever saw. And I tell you what you know as well as I do, that wrong notions on the subject of Chris tian marriage are the cause at this day of more moral outrage before God and man than any other cause. My first counsel to you is, have God in your new home. if it be a new home. and let him who was a guest at Bethany be in your household, let the divine blessing drop upon your every hope and plan and expectation. Those young people who begin with God end with heaven. IHave on your right hand the engagement ring of the divine affection. If one of you be a Christian, let that one take the Bible and read a few verses in the ev-en ing time, and then kneel down and commend yourselves to him who setteth the solitary in families. I want to tell you that the destroying angel passes by without touching or entering the door post sprinkled with blood of the ever lasting covenant. Why is it that ir some families they never get along and in others they alway get along well? I have watched such eases and have come to a conclusion. In the first instance nothing seemed to go pleasantly. and other ease, u ammu' - thr -ee : lip, and Trials and some things that had to be explained. still things went 011 pleasantly until1 the very last. Wh1y? Thev :tarted right. 31' second advice 1o von in your home is to exercise to the very last pos sibility of your nature the law of for bearance. Prayers in the household will not make up for everything. Some of the best people in the world are the hardest to get along with. There are people who stand up ia prayer meetings and pray like angels who at home are ' ncomn promising and cranky. You may not have everything just as you want it. Sometimes it will be the duty of the husband and sometimes of the Wile to yield, but both stand punctii ously on your rights, and you will have a Waterloo with no Ifllueher coning up at nightfall to decide the conflie't. Never be ashamed to apologize when von have done wrong in domestic affairs. Let that be a law of your house hold. Ihe best thing t ever heard of my arandfather. whom I never saw. was tIis. 'I hat once. having unrighte ou-ly rebtuked one of his ehildren. ie himself having lost his patience and perhaps having been misinformed of the child's doings. found out his mis take. and in the evening of the same day gathered all h:s family together an'd said: "Now, I have one explana tion to make and one thing to say. Thomas. this morning I rebuked you very unfairly. I am very sorry for it. I rebuked you in the presence of the whole family. and now I asked your forgiveness in their presence." It must have taken some courage to do that. It was right, was it not? Never be ashamed to apolhgize for domestic in accuracy. Find out the points, what are the weak po nts, if I may call them so, of your con.panion and then stand aloot from then. Do not carry the fire of your temper too near the gunpowder. If the wife be easily fretted by disorder in the household, let the husband be careful where he throws his slippers. If the husband come home from the store with patience exhusted, do not let the wife unnecessarily cross his tem per. but both stand up for your rights. and I will promise the everlastug sound of the warwhoop. Your life will be spent in making up. and marriage will I be to you an unmitigated curse. Cow per said: The kindes' and the hap; iest pair Will find occision to forbear And somethiDg every day they live, To pity and perhaps forgive. I advise also that you make your I chief pleasure circle around about that home. It is unfortunate when it is otherwise. If the husband spend the most of his nights away from home. of choice and not of necessity, he is not the head of the household; he is only the cashier. If the wife throw the cares of the household into the servant's lap and then spend five nights of the week at the opera or theater, she may clothe her children with satins and laces and ribbons that would confoand a French milliner, but they are orphans. It is sad when a child has no one to say its prayers to because mother has gone off to the evening entertainment! In India they bring children and throw them to the crocodiles, and it seems very cruel, but the jaws of social dis sipation are swallowing down more little children today than all the monsters that ever crawled upon the banks of the Ganges! I have seen the sorrow of a godless mother on the death of a child she had neglected. It was not so much grief that she felt from the fact that the child was dead as the fact that she had ne glected it. She said, "If I had only watched over and cared for the child. I know God would not have taken it." The tears came not. It was a dry, blistering tempest-a scorching simoon of the desert. When she wrung her hands, it seemed as if she would twist her-fingers from their sockets; when she seized her hair, it seemed as if she had in wild terror grasped a coiling serpent with her right hand. No tears! Com rades of the little one came in and wept over the coffin, neighb~ors come in, and the moment they saw the still face of the child the shower broke. No tears for her. God gives tears as the sum Imer rain to the parched soul, but in all the universe the driest and hottest, the most scorching and consuming thing is a mother's heart if she has neglected her child. when once it is dead. God may forgive her, but she will never for give herself. The memory will sink the eyes deeper into the scr-kets and pinch the fa e and whiten the hair and eat up the heart with vultures that will not be satisfied forever plunging deeper their iron beaks. Oh, you wanderers from your home, go back to your duty! The brightest flowers in all the earth are those which grow in the garden of a Christian household. clambering over the porch of a Christian home. I advise you also to cultivate sym pathy of occupation. Sir James MIcin tosh, one of the most eminent and ele gant men that ever lived, while stand ing at the very height of his eminence, said to a great company of scholars, "3My wife made me." The wife ought to be the advising partner in every firm. She ought to be interested in all the losses and gains ''f shop and store. She ought to have a right--she has a right-to know everything, If a man goes into a business transaction that he dare not tell his wife of, you may depend that lie is on the way either to bankruptcy or moral ruin. There may be some things which he does not wish to trouble his wife wvith, but if he dare not tell her he is on the road to discomfiture. On the other hand, the husband ought to be sympathetic with the wife's occupation. it is no easy thing to keep house. 3Iany a woman who could have endured martyrdom as well as M1argaret, the Scotch girl, has atually been worn out by house man agement. There are 1,000 martyrs of the kitch en. it is very annoying after the vexa tions of the day around the stove or the register or the table, or in the nursery or parlor to have the husband say: "You know nothing about trouble. You ought to be in the store half an hour." Sympathy of occupation! If the husband's work cover him with the soot of the furnace, or the odors of leather, or soap factories, let not the wife be easily disgusted at the begrimed hands or unsavory aroma. Y our gains arc one, your interests are one, your losses are one. Lay hold of the work of life with both hands. Four hands -4o fight the battles; four eyes to watch for the danger; four shoulders on which to carry [the trials, It is a very sad thing when the painter has a wife who does not like pictures. It is a very sad thing for a pianist when she has a hus band who does not like music. It is a very sad thing when a wife is not suited unless her husband has what is called a "genteel business." So far as I un derstand a '"genteel business," it is something to which a man goes at 10 o'clock in the morning and from which he comes home at 2 or 3~ o'clock in the aternoon and gets a large amount of the mistake o! no >imi satisued until the husband has given -1p the tanning of the hide-. or the turning of the banisters or the building of tl walls and put hjimself in cir-les whero he lias nothind to do but smoke cigars and drink wine and get himself into habits that upset him. 2oin down in the maelstrom. taking his wife and children with hinm. There are a good many trains running froi earth to destruction Thev start all hours of the day and all hours of the -night. There are the freight trains they go very slowly and very heavily, and there are the accom modation trains groing on toward desiru ctioin. they stop very often and let a man get out. and on when lie wants to. Blut genteel idleness is an express train. Satan is the stoker and death is the engineer. and, though one may come out in front of it and swing the red flag of -danger" or the lantern of God's word, it miakes just one shot into perdition. coming down the em bankment with a shout and a wail and a shrick-crash! erash! There are two classes of people sure of destruction Lirst. those who have nothing to do: secondIv. those who have something to do. but who are too lazy or too proud to do it. I have one more word of advice to guie to those who would have a happy home. and that is, let love preside in it. When your behavior in the domestic Scircle becomes a mere matter of ealeui lation, when the caress you give is merely the result of deliberate study of the position you occupy. happiness lies stark dead on the hearthstone. When the husband's position as head of the household is maintained by loudness of neice, by strength of arm, by fire of temper. the republic of domestic bliss has become a despotism that neither God nor man will abide. Oh. ye who promised to love each other at the altar how dare you commit perjury' Let no shadow of suspicion come on your af fection. It is easier to kill that flower than it is to make it live again. The blast from hell that puts out that light leaves you in the blackness or darkness forever. Here are a man and wife. They agree in nothing else, but they agree they will have a home. They will have a splendid house, and they think that if they have a house they will have a home. Architects make the plan, and the mechanics execute it, the house to cost $100,000. It is done. The car pets are spread, lights are hoisted, curtains are hung, cards of inv;itation sent out. The horses in gold plated harness prance at the gate, guestscome in and take their places, the flute sound the dancers go up and down. and with one grand whirl the wealth and the fashion and the mirth of the great town wheel amid the pictured walls. Ha, this is happiness. Float it on the smoking viands. sound it in the music. whirl it in the dance, cast it in the snow of sculpture, sound it up the bril' liant stairway, flash it in chandeliers. Happiness indeed! Let us build on the center of the par lor floor a throne to happiness, let all the guests, when come in. bring their flowers and pearls and diamonds, and throw them on this pyramid, and let it be a throne and let happiness, the queen, mount the throne, and we will stand around, and all chalices lifted, we will say, "Drink, 0 queen, live for ever!" But the guests depart. the flutes ar brahes h last clash of the im paten hofsisheard in the distance. and the twain of the household come back to see the queen of happiness on the throne amid the parlor floor. But, alas, as they come back. the flowers have faded, the sweet odors have be come the sinell of a charnel house, red instead of the queen of happiness there sits there the gaunt form of anguish, with bitten lip and sunken eye and ashes in her hair. The romp of the dancers who have left seems rumbling yet, like jarring thunders that quake the floor and rattle the glasses of the feast rim to rim. The spilled wine on the floor turns into blood. The wreaths of plush have become wriggling reptiles. Terrors catch tangled in the canopy that overhangs the couch. A strong gust of wind comes through tbe hall and the drawing room and the bedchamber, in which all the lights go out. And from the lips of the wine beakers comec the words, "Happiness is not in us!" And the arches respond, "It is not in us!" And the silenced instruments of music. thrummed on by invisible lingers answer, "Happiness is not in us!" An-i the frozen lips of anguish break open; and seated on the throne of wilted flow ers, she strikes her bony hands together and groans, "It is not in me. That very night a clerk with a salary of $1,000 a y-ear-only S1l,000-goes to his horme, set up three months ago just after the marriag"e day. Love meets him at the door. love sits with him at the table, love talks over thme work of the day, love takes down the Bible and reads of him who came our souls to save, and they kneel, and while they are kneeling, right' in that plain room. on the plain carpet, the angels of God buid a throne not out of flowers that perish and fade away, but out of gar lands of heaven, wreath on top of wreath, amaranth on amaranth, until the throne is done. Then the harps of God sounded, and suddenly there ap peared one who mounted the throne with eye so bright and trow so fair that the twain knew it was Christian love. And they knelt at the foot of the throne and. putting one hand on each head. she blessed them and said, "Happi ness it with me!" And that throne of celestial bloom withered not with thme passing years, and the queen left not the throne till one day the married pair felt stricken in years-felt themselves called away and knew not which way go and the'queen bounded from the throne and said, "Follow mc. and I will show you the way up to the realm of ever lasting love." And so they went up to sing songs of love and walk on pa :e mntf of love, and to live together in mansions of love, and to rejoice forever i the truth that God is love. I~ow~ vo V'OTE.-In addition to the registration certificates, voters at the polls are required by law to produce evidence of the payment of their poll axes. and the Attorney General of the Stat'ihas held that the evidence of this fact is the production of thme poll tax receipt. Voters should therefore hunt Iout their last year's tax receipt and have it in readiness for thme general elec tion. Too great care cannot be exer cised in this respect as the absence of the tax recipt, or legal proof oft the payment of the tax will be the cause of' the loss of his vote to a man who is otherwise q1ualifled. No SvAMP IREQUIRD.-On petition by 3Ir. Waddy C. Thompson. cashier of the Lancaster bank, the internal revenue commissioner, at Washington, has ruled that a receipt signed by a de positor and delivered in person to the officials of the bank, where the money is on deposit is exenmpt from stamp duty under the War Rievenue Act. This ruling is based upon thle opinion of the Attorney Generalh of the United States and modifies a previous ruling requiring S~~ :9.4.AkV. ieountrv dtIg the iva t two-s.:o*re: yeas1; has beenl the raiih, .d. 4ew t co-pie re a1lize niumber of mlen :ndd!asin thi, great :idlsry The railny stem in the iited St, s et:( i ii.3(H) loco inotives. 2(;. iassen cr ear- and 1131H imlii I an d' b'i:.n'g enars. Thnese fIg ures seem Large 6i1l the number of freigiht ears is stated. which is 1.250. (100. A passenger traim (onsiting of ]ocoinotive. tender. bagege anld six passenger cars. with their con tents. is estimated to weigh a bout 184 tols. Freiglt trains sonetimes rch a weight of 55-0 tons. .\n Ordinary passenger car costs froi -41.000 to ;5.00(). and a sleeping car any wherc from 310. 000 to $20. i011 . Poor's lailroad Manual for 18!)S contains som1e interesting- statis tics concerning the railroads of the counitty during 18'97. The railroad mileago of the country was 179.6102 miles with 57.218 second tracks, sidings, etc., making a total of 236.!)11 miles of track. Of this. 211.928 miles were laid with steel rails. The number of miles op crated was 181.132. The total cost of the roads and equipment was .10.02!, 1.51.6(07. to which is added 81.509,841. 162 other investiments. making the total assests $11.931.(;13,6(2. Against this enormo uns aggregate of assets there is charged up liabilities in the way of capital stock. bonded and unbonded debts to the extent of $11,631.711.740. This leaves an excess of assets over liabilities of 298,.901.013. Dealing in round numbers, there were carried during the year 504,000,000 of passen. gers and 7SS.1100,000 tons of freight The passenger earnings were $253,557, !936 and the freight S780.351,939-the revenue from freight being more than three times that from passengers. Our of gross earnings. aggregating 1,121 millions of dollars, the net earnings or available revenue was 433 millions of dollars. For rent, interest, dividends and miscellaneous 406 millions of dol lars was required, leaving a net surplus of 27 millions of dollars. The average interest on the total bonded railroad debt of the railroads of the country was 4.27 per cent, against 4,47 per cent the previous year. The dividends paid on the total share capital were 1.52 per cent. agai':st 1.54 per cent, 1.58 pet cent, 1.64 per cent and 1.83 per cent in the years immediately preceeding. Over a million men are employed by the rail roads. and every community is interest ed. directly or indirectly, in the actual transaction of its business, or in the financial returns from it. The advance in railroad building and equipment dur ing the past score of years has been tremendous, and what the next genera tion will achieve no one can foretell. Railroads are the great material devel opers of the country, and whatever may be said about them as soulless corpora tions and grasping monopolies, we can't do without-them, and every enterpris ing and wide-awake state, county or municipality offers all reasonable en couragement to their entrance and ex tension. Election Day. The congressional elections this year will be held in nearly all the States on November 8. and on that day the great State election in New York will occur. It is often asked why the date for the congressional and presidential elections was fixed for the first Tuesday after the first monday in November instead of simply for the first Tuesday. The ob ject was to prevent the elections from falling on the first day of .the month, There is a good commercial reason for this. The first is the busiest day of the month. and therefore it is desirable that it should not be disturbed by elee~ tions. While all presidential elections must be held on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November, it must not be understood that the States are obliged to elget congressmen on that day. The national legislature has the power to fix the date of congressional elections, but it has never exercised that power. Oregon, Maine and Ver miont, as a matter of fact. have elected their members of the next congress already. All the States except the three named elect congressmen on the Tuesday after the first Monday in No vember. and it is probable that these three States will soon fall into line with the others. The day for the presiden tial elections was fixed so far in advance of the beginning of the presidential term to insure the delivery of the re turn? in Washington in time for tihe official count before the senate. In the earlier days of the republic, when tra vel was much slower, it was necessary to hold the election earlier than might be necessary at present. -Efforts have been made several times to change the date of the presidential elections and also the date of presidential inaugura tions, but as no strong reason has been advanced for such an amendment of the constitution we shall probably never see the present plan changed. Race Trouble in Mississippi. The Picayune's Forest. Miss., special says; Eleven dead negr es, one dead white man and one negro and three white men seriously wounded is the re sult of the bloody war being waged be - tween the white and black races in the Harperville neighborhood of Scott county. Several of the rioters have been captured and lodged in jail at Forest, but the others escaped into the swamps. Large crowds of white men are in close pursuit. however. and more names are hourly expected to be added to the dead list. AccIDENTALLY KILLED.--Adam Bradley, a colored man residing on the place of Mrs. A. H. Smoak, near Or angeburg, left his home Saturday after noon for a hunt nearby, and not return ing at a late hour that night his friends instituted a searcea and found his dead body Sunday morning, lie carried a muzzle-loading gun, one barrel of' which had been dischiarg~ed and the tube blown out, and as the dead man's head had been pierced by apparently such an instrument the conclusion was reached that the bursting of the guni caused his death. Lat BRtOKEN. -Sunday afternoon while little Wilbur Reeves, sin of Dr. L. L. Reeves, and other boys were waiting at the First Baptist church, in Orangeburg, for the hour for Sunday school, they when into the cemetery adjoining, and while attempting to straighten a large tombstone which had been displaced, the stone fell on the tigh of young Rleeves crushing the flesh and badly breaking the bone. The leg was caught between another stone which caused the breaking of the bone. The little fellow received prompt attention and is doing very well. _________ __ Rloses were laid on the tomb of Ma jor Andre in Westminster Abbey Sep tember 15, with a card, on which was inscribed: "From Mrs. Curran, nec Ucatrice Benedict Arnold, of Chicago, a descendant of General Benedict Arn old. who detests the memory of 1her an estor, but revers that of the man whose death he encompassed. Major Andre. HILL ON THE WAlt He Expose. Repub!ican Duplicity and Hypocricy. iT WAS A DEMOCRATIC WAR. He Shows Very Plainly that Had It Not Been For the Dem ocrats Spain Would Still Own Cuba. In his speech at the Brooklyn Acad ciny of Music on Friday night David B. Iill made so clear and able a pre sentment of the hypocrisy, the duplie ity of the liepublicans in their effort to coin the war into partisan political capital that we are moved to quote him fully on this point. Ile said: The achiev-nents and glories of the recent war with Spain belong not to any political party, but the whole coun try. This fact should be everywhere conceded; but if there is a disposition to inject partianship in the considera tion of the inception or results of that war, we need not shrink from a com parison with our opponents. We may recall the plain facts of history. The people have not forgotten the great struggle in the halls of congress less than a year ago, which preceded the declaration of war-the fact that, with a few and honorable exceptions, all the earnest pleas for intervention in behalf of Cuban liberty were uttered by Democratic leaders. the arbitrary re fusal for months of a Republican speak er. backed by the dominant majority, to even consider the Cuban question at all; the steady. persistent and deter mined efforts of the Democratic minori ty to force the Cuban question to the front, aided by the powerful Democrat ic press of the country and backed by the patriotic sentiment of the people, until at last their efforts were crowned with success and a halting andreluctant administration was forced to inaugurate a war in behalf of humanity and civ ilization to which it was at heart op posed. You have not forgotten the cold and unsympathetic .nessage of President McKinley in December last opposing Cuban intervention of any kind, exag gerating the difficulties in the way, and unnecessarily reminding congress and the people of our neutral obligations. You have not forgotten the attitude of Senator Hanna, the Warwick of the present administration as well as the head of its financial syndicate-fresh from his senatorial triumph at Colum bus, purchased by bribery and corrup tion, who sent to the president in an swer to his congratulatory telegram the famous, or rather, infamous, message. "God reigns and the Republican party still lives," and who with tears in his eyes, was pleading at Washington for peace at any price, and lamenting the threatened disturbance of the business interests of the country by "so unne cessary a war. " Neither need I remind you of the dire predictions and lamentations of other Republicans high in the councils of the party. who in those momentous days were seeking to stem the tide of popular enthusiasm which was sweep ing over the land, and protesting that their party was being "'dragged" into an unholy foreign war by their unscrupul ous opponents. But now that "this cruel war is over"~ and American valor has easily triumph ed on both sea and land, and the Amer can flag proudly floats over our newly acqIuired territory-never, as it is fond ly hoped, to be lowered again-these po'st-war patriots who never lifted their voices in behalf of Cuban liberty when the cause was in dire distress and need ed friends, come forward with unbe coming haste, not simply to share, but to monopolize all the glories of the war. Their perennial and moss-covered orators, from Mr. Depew down to the village oracle, are perambulating the State fighting over again with their tongues the few battles of the war, giving vivid descriptions of war scenes which they did not witness and detail ing warlike events which never occur red. seeking vague and imaginary issues rather than confronting those actually existing. Even the distinguished Republican candidate for governor in one of his re ent speeches went so far as to say that the war would be regarded as having been fought in vain if a Democratie victory should now occur. This is the first suggestion which I have heard from so high a source that the late war was a Republican war, or that it was waged in the interest or for the benefit of any political party, official or indi vidual. Democratic soldiers as well as civilians will resent the offensive and untimely suggestion. It was the nation's war, undertaken not for political effect but for lil'rty's sake-for the sake of humanity-for the defense of the national honor; a just and righteous war which over shadowed all piolitical considerations, and it will not have been fought ini vain, nor will its glorious results be obscured, dimmed or affected by the success or defeat in this State cam paign of any political party-much less of that party which is held in public estimation largely responsible for com pelling the inauguration of that very war. It is said that the president must be sustained. This is a silly plea at this stage of events. The conflict has ceased; no armed forces confront us anywhere, and we are virtually dicta ting our own terms of peace. No dan gers confront the country except those which may be occasioned by our own selfishness or incapacity, and under such appeals to our patriotism to sus tain an adverse administration with which we do not agree must be regard ed as unwarrantable and childish. During the continuance of the struggle the appeal was pertinent and was most patriotically answered. Never in the history of the nation was a president niore loyally sup~ported by an opposition party and by the peo plc generally than during the recent conflict. Men. supplies and money were voted ad libitum. Democrats vied with -Republicans in the endeavor to give the administration everything it desired; and while differences of opin ion necessarily arose as to methods and details, there was but one common pur pose manifested, wvhich was to assist the president in every legitimate way in a vigorous proseutian of the war. That duty having been abundantly dis charged, there is now no obligation resting upon anybody so sustain the national administration, .nless we really approve its policy. While a blind approval of an admin istration, whether it is right or wrong, may be exacted in times of war, no such rule prevails in timas of peace It is no impeachment of the loyalty or patriotism of the people that they de cline to condone the incompetency, the negligence, the favoritism and the cor ruption which characterized the con duct of some of the departments of the government especially since the cloe o th a r, resuling in much pri ilet. and dena li!ng aen oIliial in. si gation. TFhey naturall'. di as :a a i nI tration which desires to i!vestigate it self. and they insii.1 witlh much propri ety that the people's representatives n congress assembled constitute the prop er tribunal for the conduct of such an investigation. A wise statesmanship will satisfactorily solve the new and in teresting problems arising out of the terms of settlement with Spain. will de termine what governments shall bc formed: what territory, if any, shall be actually annexed; what relations shall exist between our own and the newly acquired countries: what shall be done in reference to the solemn promise contained in our declaration of war; these question cannot be said to be political "issucs" in the ordinary sensc of that term. because they have not become a certainty: parties have not divided on them: they have not been appropriately or legitimately presented, and their discussion seems premature. Neither does the proposed increase of our army; the further strengthen ing of the navy; the duty which we owe to our volumteers: the greatness of our common country. or the necessity for the preservation of its honor, furnish issues of any importance, because they are subjects on which the people are substantially united. It may gratify the vanity of idle men and flippant orators to seriously discuss such topics in a brief political campaign, but basy and thoughtful men, intent on practi cal results, prefer the consideration of contested questions and actual issues. Riohts of the Newspaper. The following from the Newspaper Maker, so nearly voices our views on the subject treated, that in reproduc ing it, we do not care to change a word or a phrase: The newspaper has been established long and many of its limit ations and presc iptions are so set that the wayfaring man, though a fool. sees and understands them. Yet in many essentials there is gross and utter dark ness in the general public mind as to the relation between the public and the newspaper. It is hard for people to understand that the newspaper is a business enterprise like shopkeeping. or the manufacture of tobacco. A man engages in it for the money making. or for reputation. The right of the sub scriber begins and ends with his sub scription. le need no more subscribe for'a paper if he has no use for it, than he has to buy a cigar if he be no smo ker. The paper has no claim upon his support. and if he believes he is not getting the worth of his money he owes it to himself to stop it. So of the ad vertiser. He is a fool if he pays out good money for what will bring him no returns. He is free to insert an adver tisement, or decline to do so, according as he think it is profitable to him or otherwise. Because he advertises that is no reason why he should feel the pa per owes him something else than the space for which he pays. Yet subscri bers and advertisers are too prone to think that they have peculiar claims upon the editor. They are bold to ask for the gratuitous insertion of notices concerning themselves or their friends, and for the suppression of news which may militate against them or their business. In this instance they are bold, aggressive, exorbitant and often times impertinent. These men would scarcely attempt to interfere in such manner with their butcher. grocer or tailor. In their dealings with all busi ness houses except the newspaper, they recognize the right of the dealer to con duct his affairs in his own way. Why not the editor? lie is a purveyor of news. Such is his business. It lies with hini to select. cull and arrange what comes his way. If he does this to the distaste of individuals they are free to reject it. No law can compel them to buy or advertise in a paper not of their taste. Equally it is none of their business as to the direction of it. The responsibility begins and ends with the editor. Terrific Storm in Chicago. Chicago's lake front is bespattered in spots from Indiana state line to East Evanston and beyond, as the result of the storm which found a center there during the last two days. While no Jives have been reported lost, the seve rity of the hlow-48 miles an hour at its worst-was the greatest since the gale of 1894, when the shore was strewn with wrecks -and when many sailors perished. The tolal damage is estimat ed at S81,500. The objects that suffer ed most was the lake shore promenades and walls, whose huge rocks and flags were battered- down and tossed about like chips by the waves. The Lincoln park board has suffered most in this respect. It will require S35,000 to re place its wrecked ways. An indication of the fury of the storm is shown by the fact that the official clock in the hydro graphic office in the Masonic Temple was stopped by the vibration of the big building. The hands pointed to 6.51 when the pendulum ceased to swing. Lieutenant Wilson says~all clocks in the upper floors of high office buildings were similarly affected. Sank With Help At Hand. The Three-masted schooner St. Vin cent, sank Wednesday about five miles northwest of Sodus, on Lake Ontario, with all on board save Capt. John Griffin, who was rescued in an uncon scious condition. The tug Cornelia started for the rescue, but the great seas nearly swamped thie boat and the Cornelia was compelled to return to the harbor. Word was sent to Char lotte that the distressed vessel had ben sighted near Pultneyville, and the tag 'Proctor started with the life saving crew. When within a mile of the St. Peter the crew of the Proc tor were horrified to see the distressed ship sink. In ten minutes the tug was cruising about the spot where she went down. Capt. Griffin was picked up in an unconscious condition. After spending half an hour looking for the other members of the ill-fated crew, the tug started for Sodus where medi cal assistance was secured for the cap tain. IIe is still unconscioui, but will recover. The wife of the captain was lost. A Narrow Escape. Wednesday Constable Tom Bishop and Mr. Pleas Jacobs of Columbia had a very narrow escape fronm serious in juries. Mr. Bishop was called into the country in his official capacity to serve some papers for the Coliumbia Phos phate company and rented a horse and buggy for the trip. When about three miles from the city, going down a hill, the horse began to kick without provo ation of any sort. The first kick land ed in ai glancing way on Mr. Bishop's side and scraped all the buttons off his vest. The second kick turned the bug gy over. throwing the occupants heavi ly to the ground. Mr. Bishop was bad ly bruised ab)out the body and had large patches c f skin scraped off his ana tomy. Mr. .Jacobs had his left eye neatly blacked and closed besides other slight injuries. Mr. Bishop was knock ed unconscious for awhile. The horse, after upsetting the buggy, proceeded to thorngghlyrdemolish it. THI{ANKSGIVING PROUL4MATION 'artiu aar Reason Why Amorican Peo pie Should be Thankful This Year. The President after the cabinet meet ing Friday issued the following thanks n proclamation: By the President or the United States: A proclamation. The approaching November brings to mind the custom of our ancestors, hal l)wed by time and rooted in our most sacred traditions. of giving thanks to Almighty God for all the blessings he has vouchsafed to us during the past year. Few years in our history have af forded such cause for thanksgiving as this. We have been blessed by abun dant harvests. our trade and commerce have been wonderfully idcreased, our public credit has been improved and strengthened. all sections of our com mon country have been brought together and knitted into closer bonds of na tional purpose and unity. The skies have been for a time dark ened by the cloud of war, but as we were compelled to take up the sword in the cause of humanity. we are permitted to rejoice that the conflict has been of brief duration and the losses we have had to mourn, though grevious and important, have been so few, consider ing the great results accomplished, as to inspire us with gratitude and praise to the Lord of Hosts. We may laud and magnify His holy name that the cessa tion of hostilities came so soon as to spare both sides the countless sorrows and disasters that attend protracted war. I do. therefore, invite all my fellow citizens, as well as those at home, as those who may be at sea or sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and ob serve Thursday, the 24th day of Novem ber. as a day of national thanksgiving, to come together in their several places of worship, for a service of praise and thanks to Almighty God for all the blessings of -the year; for the mildness. of the seasons and the fruitfulness of the soil, for the continued prosperity of the people, for the devotion and valor of our countrymen, for the glory of our victory and the hope of a righteous peace, and to pray that the divine gui dance which has brought us heretofore to safety and honor may be graciously continued in the years to come. In witnesses whereof, etc. (Signed) William McKinley. By the pesident, John Hay, Secre tary of State. OBSERVANCE OF ARBOR DAY. Superintendent Mayfield calls Teach ers' Attention to the Law. The general assembly, at its last ses sion, passed an act authorizing the pro per observance of the third Friday in November as Arbor day by the free pub lic schools of the State. . Superintendent Mayfield has sent a letter to the county superintendents of education and the teachers of the State calling their attention to the law and its provisions. The following is the letter sent out from the superintenden's office: Columbia, S. C., Oct. 28, 1898. To the School Officers and Teachers; I call to your attention. that you may observe its provisions, the followiug act "Section I. Be it enacted by the gen e ral assembly of the State of South Carolina, That the free public schools of this State shall observe the third Friday in November of each year as Arbor day, and on that day the school officers and teachers shall conduct such exercises and engage in the planting of such shrubs, plants and trees as will impress on the minds of the pupils the proper value and appreciation to be placed on flowers, ornamental shrubbery and shade trees. ."Approved the 16th day of Februa ry, A. D., 1898." If for any good reason the day named in the act cannot be observed by a school, the observance of some other day will be a compliance with the spirit of the law. Thirty-nine States and territories now observe Arbor day. I leave it to you to decide what you will plant, and what exercises you will have. I call attention to the fact that this State has no State flower. Most of the States have one. On Arbor day a State flower may be adopted by permitting the pupils to vote for the flower of theli choice. Teachers should report the result of the vote in their respective. schools to the county superintendent of education, who will tabulate the vote of his county and report to the State superintendent of education, who will tabulate the vote of the State and an nounce the result. W. D). Mayfield, State Superintendent of Education. HESTER'S COTTON FIGURES. Marked Increase in the Movement Into Sight for the Week. Secretary Hester's weekly New Orleans cotton exchange statement is sued Friday shows an increase in the movement into sight compared with the seven days ending this date last year of 2,800 bales, an increase over the same days year before last of 132.,000. For the 28 days of October the totals show an increase over last year of 338,000, and for the 58 days of the season the aggregate is ahead of the 58 days of last year 224,000. The amoun t brought into sight during the past week has been 518,375 bales against 515.660) for the seven days ending this date last year, and for the 28 days (.f Oct oher it has been 2,077,619 against 1.79J 390 last year. T1hese make the tot.d -movemnt of the 58 days from Sept. 1 to date 3,032,969 against 2,808,829 last year and 2,963,971 the year before. The movement since Sept. 1 shows receipts at all United States ports 2.242,814 against 2 f171.453 last year; interior stocks in e~~ of those held at the close of the commuercial year 415, 056 against 317,346 last yeamr; southern mill takings 222.617 agains.t 215,831 last year. Foreign exports for wveek have been 317,555 againstC249,245 last year, umak ing the total thus far for the season 1. 298.415. Stocks 'at the seaboard and the 29 leading southern interior centres have increased during the week 128,924 against an increase during the corres ponding period last season of 177,496, and are now 871.719 larger than at this date in 1897. Gunter Succeeds Townsend. Mr. U. X. Gunter, of Spartanburg, secretary of the Democratic State Ex cutive Committee, will succeed Judge C. P. Townsend as assistant Attorney General. This matter was finally agreed on Thursday and Mr. Gun ter will assume his new duties when Judge Townsend leaves for Washing ton, where he will practice law with Satorn MLaurin_ ROVAL Baking Powder Made from pure cream of tartar. Safeguards the food aganst aum. Am 9 powds are the ratet - to h t of the pesment day. ROYAL SAU POW mO. MW yOW. THE BANKRUPT LAW. Valuable Information as to the Work ings of the New Law. Maj. James F. Hart, a careful and r accurate lawyer, has furni-ahed th#' Yorkville Enquirer with tiwe! v and inr portant information as to the signifi cance and operation of the new bank rupt law. This article u ill p-rovc in teresting to the public generally, and especially to individuals and firms who are in debt. Here is what Maj. Hart says: The bankrupt law, recently enacted by Congress, is new in fall effect, and available to all who may seek its bene fits. Its provisions seem to be but lit tle understood, as the press generally has not given much attention to its le gal features. The main purpose of the law is to provide the way to close up the busi ness of such persons as are hopelessly insolvent; give their creditors a ratable distribution of the assets in hand, (re serving the State homestead exemptions to the bankrkipt,) and then grant abso lution for the balance of the indebted ness. When there has been no dis honesty or fraud, the mode of obtaining the benefit of the act is speedy and in expensive. A secondary purpose of the act is to force into bankruptcy, and thereby compel a distribution of the assets of any persons, who, being insolvent, is misusing or fraudulently applying his means. Insolvency, in the present act,. has a new and more liberal definition than has usually been given it, and no. person is to be adjudged insolvent who, has sufficient property. at a fair val uation, to pay his debts, exclusive of* such property as he may have convey ed away. The effect of the law is the feature that will attract the widest attention. How far it supereedes State insolvent laws, such as assignments for benefit of creditors and releases by such m s, dues not seem to be fully agreed upo 1. Bat as to partnerships, an assignment would be ascribed as an act of bank ruptcy, and the assignors forced to settle their indebtedness under the terms of the bankrupt act, for a most obvious reason. Under the decisions of our supreme court, all partnership assets are given exclusively to the partnership creditors; and these creditors, if not fully paid then come in ratably with the individu al creditors to share the individual as sets. The bankrupt law provides, how ever. a different rule for distribution, and gives partnership assets to partner ship creditors, and individual assets to individual creditors, with the right to each class to participate in any surplus. Individual creditors of a partnership, of course, would not stand by and per mit a distribution under the State as signment law when they can get a. better provision under the bankrupt law. But aside from this, it seems to be the better legal opinion that, as under the Federal constitution (Art. 1., Sec. 10) "No State shall pass any law im pairing the obligation of contracts," but the right to establish "an uniform sys tem of bankruptcy." (Art. 1., Sec. 8)'~ reserved for the United States Conrf this remedy, when enacted, must su percede and displace all State insolvent laws. So long as Congress failed to exer eise the power to adopt the "uniform"? system for the whole Union, each State exercised the right of providing its owin sys tern of relief for insolvents. But the constitutional system having been provided, the State systems are super ceded, This view seems to be the log ical one, and, if correct, the enactmenb of the bankrupt law has produced am unexpected and startling influence on State laws. How to obtain the benefits of tlie bankrupt law can better be ascertained by interested persons consulting their lawyers. Bat, briefly stated, proceed ings, are commenced by petition to the United States district court; and after this most of the proceedings are before local "referees" appointed by the dis. trict judge, one or more for each coun ty. Trustees are appointed to take charge of the assets and convert into' money. The fees allowed are so ex ceedingly small that there will be found difficulty in securing suitable persons to fill appointments of referees and trustees. The law is full in its directions as to' the minor details of the process of bank ruptcy, and these will not interest the public. But altogether, it presents a. wise, liberal and humane method by which the stifled business encrgy of' many who went to the wall under the grinding depression of the last ten years. may be released and given oppor tunity for new expression in the busi ness world. And in this view, it is not only a blessing to the unfortunate, but a boom to the whole country. Despsrate Fight With Indians A special from Canyon Ciay Oregon,. states that a young man who was a. member of the sheriff's posse, has just returned to Canyon City, with the rc port of a desperate fight whichi occurred between the whites and a renegade : band of Indians. The 19 whbite men and five buck warriors were about 40' feet apart when the battle began.. George Cuttings. son of David Cuttings,. received a ball in the left arm, the-mis scl passing through his lungs. One of' the Indiuns who was shot and killed. fought with desperate courage. After being repeatedly shot, he continuedl fighting with his rifle until it was empty, then fired his revolver until the muzzeli dropped so low that the bullets struck the ground near the dying redskin's side. George Cuttings, af ter receiving a wound, started in company with M. Moiser, for Izee, near the scene of the trouble. The wounded man became so weak that he was left near the trail propped up against a tree. When a searching party went to look for Cut tings they found his dead body near a spring where he had eriwled. The posse continued pursuit and after a running battle killed all five Indians. Settlers have been sent to Canyon City for more ammunition, statings that the Indians are gathering around Izee in large numbers. The trouble arose over the Indians accusing the whites of steal