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Dr. Tamege on the Aim 2na Ob cet ofE0-7 ne A MOST LE- F2P SERMON. The End cL Se B Act on.: The Ncs yc ~ saC tha' - ninto the TIber, a0"e' on that river tiatw to''n o)ut and thro ..: ito t a d ilar disi : and its bans. hen:n slywastakenl out and. moved t iu :! m.. d put in a deeper p C. ch iane-iiately became the eenr0 o ''imir atinospherie and a1uu di 0USturbanZ11 11C es . ThuhIhs a-e fanei"fu and 'ae traditions, they show the e ri ''" i:hwhici the worlid looked "a 1 t was b fore this man. 1bne wa in U'll lIe and power, t Chri.,t ,as arraiuned as n a courtL o: r :m1 tor"in"'r. Pilate said to his 'ri- --' : thou a kin', then?" anud a: r o this end was 1 r *''e '"o1h al though all eart" and he a--e to keep him'dn, he is t iay empalaced. en throned ami cronted king of earth and kinz of T!.n. This is what he came for a"!.. tht iwhat he accom plished. Iy the time a child reaches 10 years of age the parents be'gin to discover that child's destiny. but by the time he or she reaces ".1 years of age, the question is on the child's lips: "What shall I do? What am I going to be? What was I made for?" It is a sensi ble and righteous question. and the youth ought to keep asking it until it is so fully answered that the young man or young woman can say with as much truth as its author. though on a lesi spansive scale. "To this end was i born." There is too much divine skill shown in the physical. mental and moral con 2titutoioa of the ordinary human heing to suppose that he was contructL1 houtany divne p'urpse. if ycu take m out on sne vast plain and show me t pillared temple surmounted by a dome like St. Peter's and having a floor of pree'ous stones and arches that must have teed the brain of the great est drafts-aan to design, and walls scrolled and niched and paneled. and wainscotted and painted, and I should ask. you what this building was put up for and you answered, "for nothing at all," how could I believe you? And it is impossible for me to believe that any ordinary human being who has in his muscular, nervous and cerebral or ganization more wonders than Christo pher Wren lifted in St. Paul's. or Phi dias ever chiseled on the Acropolis, and built in such a way that it shall last long after St. Paul's cathedral is as much a ruin as the Parthenon-that such a being was constructed for, no purpose, and to execute no mission. and ivithout any divine intention to ward some end- The object of this sermon is to help you to find out what you are made for andi help you find your sphere and assist you into that condition where you can say with cer tainty and emphasis and enthusiasm and triumph. "To this end was I born." First. I discharge you from all re sponsibility for inost of your environ ments: You arc not responsible for your parentage or grandiparentage. You are not responsible for any of the cranks that may have lived in your ancestral line and who a hundred years before you were born may have lived a style of life that more or less affects you today. You are not responsible for the fact that your temperament is sanguine, or melancholic, or bilious, or lymphat ic, 'or nervous. Neither are you re sponsible for the place of your nativity. whether amnong the granite hills of New England. or the cotton plantations of Louisiana, or on the banks of the Clyde, cr the D)neiper, or the Shannon, or the Seine. Neither are you respon sible for the religion taught in your father's house, or the irreligion. Do not bother yourself about what you can not help or about circumstances that you did not decree. Take things as they are and decide the question so that you shall be able safely to say. "To this end was I born." How will you decide it? By direct ap plication to the only Being in the uni verse who is competent to tell you the Lord Almighty. Do you know the reason why he is the only one who can tell? Beecause he can see everything between y' ur cradle and your grave. though the grave be 50 years off. And besides that he is the only Being who can see what has been happening in the last 500 years in your ancestral line, and for thousands of years clear back to Adam, and there is not one person in all that ancestral line of (.000 year's but has somehow affected your charac ter, and even old Adam himself will sometimes turn up in your disposition. The only beinr who can take all things that pert ain to you into consideration is God, and he is the one yoit can ask. Life is so short we have no time to ex periment with occupat ions and profes sions. Th :e reason we have so many dead failue ic's that arents decide for children w"-'t they: hall do or children themselwve- w"n t 'n by~ some whim or fancy ecieo themnselves. with out any implora'nen: 'f c:'vme gidt.ance. So we have now " in plipits men making sern~(ns wo ou ht w he in blac'ksmiith shons ma.king plows-.ar'es. and we have in the law. thase wls a'nsteadl of ruin im: the c' 'es of their clents ought to be pound ing sho *ists, and doctors who are the wos Li'ndrnes to their patients' convalecence. andt artists try i ne t. pa;in't andscapesc wh o ought to be wfitnhingii''' b.oaru fen'e, while there arc otliers' .'uaking riks who ought to be remI.odi: ematsu or shoving n'laues who 'i . he transforming lte-rattur's i a dabout what unil yu -'' omiive you can in low hanl or ', c:r inter bench. or ytour ickm: Tommentaries, --Forthise::dras or .-' T cre are ti~iies .,r certin tyi~ of wor. Wle ti fhe of th atron~omer F.>rh, , sc a onon h asked hi chrn . sent he should r nu ach f thn. T e~ ov wo was u as ito the vooAr l -Here is sonietbi'g good be og done, yet cn a small scale," but if ino a fa-tory covering many and you find thousands of bands u~lng on thousands of wheels and huttles tying and the whole scene be wi~qcld 1fwith activities. driven by water or steaui or electric power, you conclude that the factory was put up to a zreat work and on a vast scale. Now. I look at you, and if I should find that you had only one faculty of body, 0nly one muscle, only one nerve, if you could see but not hear, or could hear and not see. if you had the use of only one foot or one hand, and. as to our higher nature, if you had only one mental faculty and you had nemory but no judgment, or .iudgiient but no will. and if you had a soul with only one capacity, I would .ay not inuch is expected of' you. But stand up, oh, inan, and let ine look you squarely in the face. EVos capable seeing every thing. Ears capable of hearing every thing. llands capable of grasping everything. Minds with more wheels than any factory ever turned, more ?sower than any Corliss engine ever noved. A soul that will outlive all the universe except heaven, and would outlive all heaven if the life of the other imunortals were a moment short of the eternal. Now, what has the world a right to expect of you? What has God a right to demand of you? God is the greatest of economists in the universe, and he makes nothing use lessly. and for what purpose did he build your body, mind and soul as they are built? There are only two beings in the universe who can answer that question. The angels do not know. The schools do not know. Your kin dred cannot certainly know. God knows, and you ought to know. A factory running at an expense of $500, 000 a year and turning out goods worth 70 cents a year would not be such an incongruity as you, 0 man, with such semi-infinite equipment doing nothing, or next to nothing, in the way of use fulness. "What shall I do?" you ask. My brethren. my sisters, do not ask me. Ask God. There's some path of Chris tian usefulness open. It may be a rough path or it may be a smooth path, a long path or a short path. It may be on a mount of conspicuity or in a valley unobserved, but it is a path on which you can start with such faith and such satisfaction and such certainty that you can cry out in the face of earth and hell and heaven, "To this end was I born." Do not wait for extraordinary quali fications. Philip the conqueror gained his greatest victories seated on a mule and if you wait .for some caparisoned Buccphalus to ride into the conflict you will never get into the worldwide fight at all. Samson slew -the Lord's ene mies with the jawbone of the stupidest beast created. Shamgar slew 600 of the Lord's enemies with an ox goad. Under God spittle cured the blind mans eyes in the New Testament story. Take all the faculty you have and say: "Oh Lord. here is what I have! Show me the field and back me up by omnipo tent power. Anywhere, anyhow, any time for God." Two men riding on horseback came to a trough to water the horses. While the horses were drinking one of the men said to the other a few words about the value of the soul, then they rode away and in oppo site directions. But the words uttered were the salvation of the one to whom they were uttered, and he became the Rev- Mr. Champion, one of the most distinguished missionaries in heathen lands, for years wondering who did for him the Christian kindness, and not finding out until in a bundle of books sent him to Africa he found the biogra phy of Brainerd Taylor and a picture of him and the missionary recognized the face in the book as the man who at the watering trough for horses had said the thing that saved his soul.- What opportunities you have had in the past!, What opportunities you have now! What opportunities you will have in the days to come! Put on your hat, 0 woman, this afternoon and go and com fort that young mother who lost her babe last summer. Put on your hat, 0 man, and go over and see that merchant who was compelled yesterday to make an assignment and tell him of the ever lasting riches remaining for all those who serve the Lord. Can you sing? Go and sing for that man who cannot get well, and you will help him into heaven. Let it be your brain, your tongue, your eyes, your ears, your heart your lungs, your hand, your feet, your body, your mind, your soul, your life, your time, your eternity for God, feel ing in your soul.' "To this end was I born." And now I come to the - climacteric consideration. As near as I can tell. you were built f'or a happy eternity, all the disaster which have happened to your nature to be overcome by the blood of the Lamb, if you will heartily accept that Christly arrangements. We are all rejoiced at the increase in hu man longevity. People live, as near as I can observe, about ten years longer than they used to. The modern doctors do not bleed their patients on all occa sions as did the former doctors In those times if a man had fever they bled him; if he had consumption they bled him; if he had rheumatism they bled him! and if they could not make out exactly what was the matter they bled him. Olden time phlebotomy was death's coadjutor. All this has chang ed. From the way I see people skip ping about at 80 years of age I conclude that the life insurance companies will have to change their table of risks and charge a man no more premium at 70 than they used to do when he was 60, and no more premium at 50 than wi cn he was 40, By the advancement of medical science and the wider acquain tance with the laws of health and the fact that the people know better how to take care of themselves human life is prolonged. But do you realize what, after all, is the brevity of our earthly state? In the t'mes when people lived 700 and 800 years the patriarch Jacob said his years were few. Looking at the life of the youngest person in this assembly and supposing that he will live to be a nonagenarian, how short the time and soon gone, while banked up in front of us is an eternity so vast that arithmetic has not figures enough to express its length, or breadth, or depth, or height. For a happy eternity you were born unless you run yourself against the divine intentions. If stand ing in your presence my eye should fall upon the feeblest soul here as that soul will appear when the world lets it upi and heaven entrances it. I suppose I would be so overpowered that I should drop down as one dead. You have examined the family Bible and explored the family records, and you may have seen daguerreotypes of snme of the kindred of previous gener ations, you have had ph,>tographs taken of what you were in boyhood or girl hood, and what you were ten years later. and it is very interesting to any one to be able to look back upon pic tures of what he was 10. or 20, or :30 years ago, but have you ever had a picture taken of what you may be and what you will be if you seek after God and feel the spirit's regenerating power the pieturee I plaut it on this piatform T direct it toward you. Sit still Or stand still while I take the pictures. It shall be an instantaneous picture. There! I have it. It is done. You can see the nicture in its imperfect state and get sonie idea of what it will be when thornughly developed. There is your resurrected body, so brilliant that the noonday sun is a patch of midnight compared with it. There ip your soul, so pure that all the forces of diabolism could not spot it with an im per'e-ion. There is your being, so mie-h:v and so swift that flight from heaven to Mercury on Mars or Jupiter and back a-ain to heaven would not weary you, and a world on each shoul der would not (enlsh you. An eye that shall never shel a tear. AD enegy that shall never feel a fatigue. A brow that shall never throb with pain. You are young again, though you died of de crepitude. You are well again. though you coughed or shivered yourself into the tomb. Your everyday associates are the apostles and prophets and mar tyrs and most exalted souls. masculine and feminine, of all the centuries. The archangel to you no embarrassment. God himself your present and everlast ing joy. That is an inst-.ntaneous pic ture of what you may be and what I am sure some of you will he. If you realize that it is an imperfect picture, my apology is what the apostle John said, "It doth not yet appear what we shall be." "To this end was I born." If I did not think so, Iwould be overwhelmed with melancholy. The world does very well for a little while, 80 or 100 or 150 years, and I think that human longevity may yet be improved up to that prolongation, for now there is so little room between our cradle and our grave we cannot accomplish much, but who would want to dwell in this world for all eternity. Some think this earth will finally, be turned into a hea ven. Perhaps it may. but it would have to undergo radical repairs and thorough eliminations and evolutions and revolutions and transformations in finite to make it desirable for eternal residence. All the east winds would have to become west winds and all the winters changed to springtides and all the volcanoes extinguished and the oceans chained to their beds and the epidemies forbidden entrance and the world so fixed up that it would take more to repair this old world than to make an entirely new one. But I must say I do not care where heaven is, if we can only get there, whether a gar denized America or an emparadised Europe or a world central to the whole universe, "To this end was I born." If each one of us could say that, we would go with faces shining and hopes exhilarant amid earth's worst misfor tunes and trials. Only a little while, and then the rapture. Only a little while, and then the reunion. Only a little while, and then the transfigura tion. In the seventeenth century all Eu rope was threatened with a wave of Asiatic barbarism, and Vienna was es pecially besieged.: The king and his court had fled, and nothing could save the city from being overwhelmed unless the king of Poland, John Sobieski, to whom they had sent for help. should with his army come down for the relief and from every roof and tower the in habitants of Vienna watehed and wait ed and hoped,,until on the morning of Sept. 11 the rising sun throw an unusu al and unparalleled brilliancy. It was the reflection of the sun on the swords and shields and helmets of John Sobi eski and his army coming down over the hills to the rescue, and that day not only Vienna, but Europe was saved. And see you not, 0 ye souls, besieged with sin and sorrow, that light breaks in; the swords and the shields and the helmetsof divine rescue bathed in the rising sun of heavenly deliverance? Let everything else go rather than let hea ven go. What a strange thing it must be to feel oneself born to an earthly crown, but you have been born for a throne on which you may reign after the last monarch of all the earth shall have gone to dust. I invite yon to start now for your own coronation to come in and take the title deed to your everlasting inheritance. Through an impassioned. prayer take heaven and all of its rap tures. What a poor farthing is all that this world can offer you compared with par' don here and life immortal beyond the stars, unless this side of them there be a place large enough and beautiful enough and grand enough for all the ransomed. Wherever it be, in what world, whether near by or far away, in this or some other constellation, hail, home of light and love and blessedness! Through the atoning mercy of Christ, may we all get there. SPANISH SOLDIEES IUTINY. Threaten Life of Governor of Puerto Principe Province., 'Private reports from Puerto Principe and Nuevitas, Cuba, says that 7,000 regular soldiers mutinied, demanding their pay before embarking for Spain. About 4,000 armed soldiers, the re ports add, presented themselves in front of the palace, calling on the mili tar governor. Emilio March, for their overdue pay. Thereupon General March drew his sword and ordered them to disband. The soldiers, however re fused to obey, and some of them, armed with loaded rifles, threatened the life of General March, who returned his sword to its scabbard, crying out: "Do you wish to kill me? Well, kil me!" The soldiers in reply shouted: "No, no! We only want our pay be fore embarking for Spain!" Genaeral March promised them that they would be paid, and they returned to their quarters peaceably. The steamer Alava left Havana four days ago with $150,000 with which to pay those soldiers, who were to em bark immediately for Spain. The Spanish cruiser Alfonso XII. and the gunboats Conde de Venadito and Infanta Isabel, have proceeded for Nuevitas to compel the soldiers to em bark, after which they will proceel to jibara for a like purpose, and will then go to Spain. unless new orders arc re eived. Blames Senator Tillman. Concerning the race riots in North and South Carolina T. Thomas Fortune, editor of the New York Age, said: "It was hoped that the pleasant relations of the races, which was a matter of pride with North Carolinians. would be maintained and probably would have been but for the violent and revolution ary speeches delivered by United States Senator Tillman at Richmond, and points in North and South Carolina, and at Virden and Edna. Ill." The farmers are now "rounding up" their work of picking cotton. The weather of late has been very auspici W~HAT BRYAN SiYS-: Why Recent Election Resuits are Not Significant. REAL ISSUES ARE RESTINC. How a Republican Defeat Would Have Appeared in Foreign Eyes. Chicago Platform Yet Solid. Col. Win. J. Bryan recentlygave the Associated Press the following inter view relative to the late election: "While I do not understand that ser vice in the volunteer army prevenits a soldier from expressing opinion upon political questions, I declined to take part in the late campaign lest I should be accused by partisan opponents ef at tempting to embarrass the administra tion. Now that the election is over I shall exercise a citizen's privilege of discussing the returns. "Compared with the election of 1896, the Republicans have gained in some places and lost in others. It was not a sweeping Republican victory. On the whole, the result is not surprising when it is remembered that the admin istration is just concluding a successful war. "While a majority of the soldiers are probably anti-Republican, the manage ment of the war has been entirely in Republican hands and the strongest argument used during the campaign was that a Republican defeat would discredit the president in the eyes of foreign nations, while his commission ers were engaged in making a treaty. "It was not a trial upon the issues now before the people, but a successful plea for a continuance of the case. The people have not accepted the gold standard; they have not fallen in love with the plan to give the banks a mono poly of the issue of paper money; they have not decided to retire the green backs; they have not surrendered to the trusts. "These questions were forced into the background by the declaration of war, but they must be faced again as soon as peace is restored. The Chica go plaiform presents for public consid eration certain vital, economic ques tions. That platform has not been abandoned by those who endorsed it in 1896. It will be reaffirmed in .1900 be cause it gives expression to the hopes and aspirations of a large majority of the party. "When the Democrats, Populists and Silver Republicans favored Cuban in dependence, they understood that war would give a temporary advantage to the party in power, but they were will ing to risk defeat in order to aid the people fighting to be free. "Neither can the election be regard ed as an endorsement of any definite foreign policy. Until a treaty of peace has been entered into and the terms made known the people cannot pass judgement, upon it. Whether the war will raise any question of sufficient im portance to turn public attention away from domestic problems, remains to be seen-" In regard to the Nebraska election, he said: "A light vote was cast in N'e braska, but the Fusionists have elected the entire State ticket and carried the same congressional districts they car ried in 1896. If Senator Allen is de feated for re-election it will be because senators are elected by legislators in stead of by the people. If a Republi can senator is chosen by the new legis lature he will go to Washington to rep resent a minority of the people of the State and to thwart the will of the ma jority." TmRE WILXINIGTON REFUGEES. The Sad Lamentations of Ennning, Nelton and Gilbert. Three of the Wilmington, N. C., re fugees have- arrived in Washington and Wednesday called at the department of justice and an appointment for a con ference with the offcials was made. They are R. H. Bunning, United States commissioner and justice of the peace; John R. Melton, chief of police, and C. H. Gilbert, superintendent of city carts. According to their statements all were seized without warrant and escorted to the railroad station by an armed and jeering mob, who shouted all sorts of insults after them as they marched along. "White negroes" appeared to be the least insultingnames with which the crowd greeted them at every step. Once on the train they were told in forcible language that if again they set foot in Wilmington they would be shot on sight. When their train arrived at Newberne it was boarded, they say, by former Mayor Ellis and a lawyer named Guyon and they were informed that it would not be safe for them to remain there any length of time, and so they took the first boat for Norfolk. Brown, a Negro from Wilmington, who did not leave at the same time with them they had since heard, was set upon by a crowd and terribly beaten in the city postoffce. At other points they were warned not to stop. The three men are at present staving at a small hotel on Pennsylvania avenue, but what they will do or where they will go from here is a serious question with them. They say they dare not return to their homes in Wilmington, as they feel certain the threats of the mob would be carried out and they would be shot. They plead not guilty to every charge against them and insist that they were run out of the State for the simple reason that they were Republicans and refused at the bidding of an irresponsible mob to surrender their right to the franchise. Eighteen Men Rescued. The British steamer Peaconic which arrived at New York from the Mediter ranean Friday morning brought a crew of eighteen ship wrecked men saved from the Dutch bark Johanna, which they found sinking. She was bound to New York from Honolulu. The raen left the bark and weathered a severe storm which disabled, in boats. After the storm they returned to the bark and set the distress signals, so were seen and picked up by the British steamer. __________ The throwing of air-slacked lime about the poultry yards will often pre vent disease; the vermin will be de stroyed by dusting roosts, walls and floors with this penetrating, purifying powder. It is also a benefit in the outer runs. Use it liberally. Mothers, train your boys to be neat in the house. They should be taught to look after themselves, and to keep their hats and coats in their proper places. A boy can help clear away af ter a meal, sweep the floor, polish the stove, or wash dishes, just as effective ly as a girl. He, as a rule, is stronger. Life is no idle dream, but a solemn reality based on and encompassed by eternity. Find out your work, and stand to it; the night cometh when no YMPERMEN1T WT 7H:EAT. Son Valuable Suggtstions tQ Oar Farmers. The monthiv bulletins sent out from Cleinson College are not only extreme ly interesting and entextaining, but ex tremely valuable and instructive. The October bulletin is (devoted to "Experi menits with Wheat.- b.; Professors Newnian and Cncr. Agriculturist and Assistant Agricuiturist of Clemson. This paper-in view of present reewed interest in wheat planting-is so valu able that we reublish it in our this week's issue. The:-le bulletins irom the South Carolina Agricultural Experi ument Station at Cletuson. are sent free to all citizens of the State requesting them. flere is the October bulletin: Tlic slovenly way in which small rain lands inave been prepared inthe past is giving place to a mole thorough and fari-like practice. Wheat delights in coriparatively stiff soil, clay loam ranking first in a aptation. sandy loam second and sandy soils last. The lat ter, however, may be profitably culti vated in wheat if liberally supplied with humus and properly supplied with plant food. Wheat succeeds best upon soils which have previously been culti vated in some hoed crop. Previous treatment which renders the soil ver3 porus is not favorable to wheat. Upon light soils the roller should be used after seeding and again early in the spring, just before the plants put forth the seed stalks. In southern climates wheat should not be sowed until cool weather, since it will not germinate successfully at a high temperature. Early sown wheat is also liable to be attacked by the Hes sian fly. It is well. therefore,,to defer sowing until a killing frost occurs. Another danger to which very early sown wheat is liable is the bursting of the stems by a spring frost occurring after the stems have jointed. On the other hand very late sowing increases the risk of winter killing if severe freezing occurs before the plants are securely rooted. Late sown wheat and late varieties incur the risk of injury from very warm weather aceompanied with moisture, causing conditions fav orable to the production of rust, while if the weather is very hot and dry, bleaching or premature ripening occurs. The depth to which the seed may be covered depends somewhat on the character of the soil and especially upon the porosity and consequent facilities for aeration. Experiments, however, conducted to determine the best depth, showed that the percentage of grains that vegetated in a fertile sandy loam varied but little in seed covered from a half ineh to three inches in depth. The number which veget*ed at a depth greater than three inches di-. minisied suddenly and rapidly to six inches, at which the few which vege tated at all were enfeebled by the qb stacles which they had overcome. The quantity of seed to be sown per acre depends upon the size of the grains, and consequently the number per bush el, and upon the fertility of the soil. The plants will tiller more upon fertile soil than upon that less fertile. The quantity of seed varies from three to five pecks per acre. Seed may be economized by the use of wheat drill, which deposits them at a uniform rate and depth, and consequently a larger percentage of those sown vegetate than if sown broadcast. NEGRO LAEOR IN THE SOUTH. It Is Not Worth .What It Once Was. Gettigg Very Worthless. The question of the growing worth lessness and utter unreliability of the Negro farm labor of the South is one that is obtruding itself upon the atten tion of the planting interests in no very pleasant way. The question has already practically settled itself in many of the poorer hill seetions, where white labor has in a great measure sup planted it. The Negroes have drifted away from the hills, some to the allu vial lands, but most of them to the cities; they have taken other employ ments, such as railroad work, jobbing about, or doing anything but farm la bor. It was thought that the Negro would remain on the rich bottom lands along the rivers,'where. says the Shreve port, La., Times. under a system of espiona;e, he could be profitably- han dled on the large plantations of cotton. sugar, rice, etc. 'But it is beginning to dawn on the big planters that the Negro is.gradually but surely slipping froan under their control, and that he is becoming a very different kind of an indivridual from the Negro of former days. A glimpse of the world and a little education has destroyed the Negro's peace of mind, he is no longer contented and happy at his old plantation home. He is rest less and moves around from place to place-dissatisfied here, there and everywhere. Along the railroads and rivers he is continually traveling, goi-g hither and yon as long as he can beg, borrow or steal money to travel; first in the city and again in the country he scarcely knows which way to turn or what to do. Few of the present generation are at best worth their salt as farmers. They have obstinately re'fused to take a far mer's education or training. The old, antebellum farm Negro. who had been trained under his master's eye, and of ten was a better farmer than his owner, is out of the calculatioD---he is dead or too old and feeble to handle the plow and hoe. To Cure Hog Cholera. An exchange says that every paper in the United States ought occasionally to keep the fact before its readers that burnt corn is a sure and speedy cure for hog cholera. The best way is to make a pile of corn on the cob, effect ually scorch it. and then give the hogs free access to it. This remedy was dis overed by E. E. Locke. Esq., at the time his distillery was burned in Co lumbus county. Ohio, together with a large quantity of store corn, which was o mnuch injured as to be unfit for use, and was hauled out and greedily eaten by the hogs, several of which were dy ing daily. After the second day not a single hog was lost, and the disease en tirely disappeared. The remedy has been tried in a number of cases since and never failed. Hilton s.1 Idoform Liniment is the "nee plus ultra" of all such preparations in re moving soreness, and quickly healing1 fresh cuts and wounds, no matter how] bad. It will promptly heal old sores of long standing. Will kill the pois-. on from 'Poison Ivy" or "Poison Oak" and cure "'Dew Poison." Will counteract the poison from bites of snakes an stings of insects. It is a sure cure for sore throat. Will cure any case of sore mouth, and is a s'npe ror remedy for all pains and aches. Sold by rugist and dealers 25 cents a A FEARFUL ACCIDMT. A Misplaced Switch Causes phe Zo; if Twelve Lives. A grand trunk express train, bound for Toronto, crashed into a moving freight train near Murray Hill crossing, two miles. west of Trenton, Out.. at 3:30 Wednesday morning, and several ears were smashed almost to splinters. So far as known, 12 persons were killed and a dozen or more seriously injured. A misplaced switch was the cause of the accident, the westbound train tak in- the wrong track. on which was the eastbound freight. The train which left Montreal at 8 o'clock Wednesday nigrht consisted of an express. mail and baggage cars a second class car. one irst class coach and two Pullman sleep ers.. The second class car was next to the baggage car and ahead of the first class coach and sleepers. It was pretty well filled with people, there being 20 or more passengers in it, and hardly any of them escaped without injury. Between Belleville and Murray Hill crossing the road is single tracked, the only piece of single track between To ronto and Montreal. Murray Hill crossing the westbound express, usually leaves the single traci and takes the double track, and it was about a mile and a half west of this point where the accident occurred. Whether the sig nals were right or not Wednesday morning will never be known from the engineer or fireman of the wrecked train, for they are bqth dead. Both engines were totally destroyed, and the freight engine was thrown completely over the passenger engine into the ditch beyond. The engineer and fireman of the freight train, .Thomas Ivens and Alexander Toppin, both of Toronto, jumped and escaped with slight inju ries. W. H. Brady, engineer, of Belle ville and John McDonald, fireman, of Belleville, who were in charge of the passenger engine, were killed. The greatest destruction was wrought in the second class car. The baggage car was driven into and almost completely through it, the passengers being crushed and mangled underneath the timbers of the car. The mail car was forced right on top of the baggage car, and the express car was partially wrecked. The first class car was uninjured, as were also the two sleepers, although the passengers were awakened by the shock. The work of getting out the dead and injured was commenced immediately, but it was late in the morning 'before all the bodies were gotten out. Some were so horribly mangled that recogni nition was almost impossible. The in jured were taken to the hospital at Belleville. THEY WANT PIE. South Carolina Republicans After Pap and Not Vengeance. The Washington correspondent of the News and Courier says: "Federal patronage is more to. the Liking of the South Carolina Republi can refugees now here than Federal military assistance. From the vicinity of Phoenix the South Carolina colony of Republicans received several addi tions here today, but the postoffice pat ronage seems to be their mission. There are nine important postoffice appointments in South Carolina about to be made, and hence there is a struggle on the part of the faithful .to get up to the pie counter.- I met Deputy Collector Deas, of Darlington, Thurs day, and he was very indignant because some of the newspapers have stated that he ran away from Darlington, fearing bodily harm. He repudiates the charge, and says the people of Darlington are peaceful, law-abiding citizens, and he has nothing to fear at their hands. He says the trouble at Phoenix has blown over, and there is no occasion for Fed eral intervention. He says the Tolbert family alone are still urging the admin istration to take some action to avenge the attack upon the members of that numerous office-holding family. The recruits to the South Carolina contin gent are. E. J. Crews and Capt. Blue backer, candidates.for the Spartanburg postoffice, the Rev. Wilson, former Congressman Tom Miller an'd S. E. Smith. There are nine postoffice cases tnder consideratiod, and the South Carolina Republicans swarms to the cor ridors of the postoffice department like fiies around a fish wharf on a hot after noon. The political fruit about to ripen consists of the following offices: Greenwood, with James Tolbert slated for appointment; Abbeville; Ja~mes Col lins; Florence, the Rev. J. Wilson; Marion, L.. R. Owens; Bennettsville, E. J. Sawyer; Yorkville, A. Withers; Rock Hill, (Jol. Pride; Spartanburg, four candidates, Bluebacker, Asker, Yates and Chatfield. Darlington is contested by Dr. Lunney and G. H. McKee, with Webster for Joseph Hart. Several of these appointments have been kept waiting for some time, and "Boss" Webster is doing his best to shake the administration tree, hoping to bring down some of the fruit." The Price of Cotton. Some of the newspapers in the great otton centers are inclined to believe that there will soon be a rise in the price of cotton. They believe that the general estimates of the crops are too arge. The New Orleans Picayune, ne of the best posted and most relia ble of newspapers, has this to say on the subject: "There have been many ndications from the country that the farmers considered the price so low tha it no longer paid to pick the crop, md the tenant farmers, feeling that :hey could not hope to pay out at cur rent figures, wer~e disposed to simply mbandon their fields. This threat of ot marketing a portion of the crop, and the increasing tendency of farm rs to resist further declines by hold g back their cotton, have frightened h shorts and bears, and have caused any prudent operators to anticipate reaction. Spinners have been hold g off so far in the hope of replenish .ng their supplies at bottom prices. When the demand for them commences .n earnest, it is sure to be lively, and .n the present position of the market it vould not take very much encourage-' net to start this purchasing move net. At present prices cotton can e used for many purposes to which it .s not put at higher prices. The pres mt price for cotton is based upon the elief that the crop will be from 11, 00.000 to 12,000,000 bales. Belief in uch large figures is based merely upon le dictum of a few crop guessers, who owever successful they may have been in the past, are certainly not infallible. While the movement indicates a large rop. it is scarcely an entirely reliable uide. Bad weather and extreme cold would nske a difference in the yield and it certainly is not likely that we will experience again this year the mild weather that was enjoyed up to Christ mas during the two preceeding sea 3ons." There may be something in the view thus presented. ELEVEN MEN KILLED They Were Mowed Down L!ke so Much Green Grass. AT WORK ON A RAILROAD. Terrible Accident'in a Fog on the Pennsyivania Line Near Jer sey City. Harrowing Scenes. In the gloom of smoke, storm and fog that darkened the rails of the Penn sylvania railroad early Friday morning between Jersey City and Harrison, a belated suburban train dashed into a gang of workmen, killing 11 instantly and injuring 4. Others had remarka ble escapes. All the victims lived in Jersey City. The dead are: Bodoski, Frank, aged 48. Colasurdo, Giuseppi, 41, single. Doherty, Thomas, 4'7, single. Flannigan, Thomas, single. Faggea, Joseph, 48, single. Lawless, Michael, 34, single. Luciy, Nicola, 34, single. Ludowski, Frank, 21, single. Puggo, Angelo, 25, single. Sluminsky, Frank, 30. Stinziano, Guiseppi, aged 23, single. INJUEED. Hoffman, Lawrence, went home. Miller, Michael, went home. Swaskowski, Frank, St. Francis hos pital, will die, Wangdon, John, St. Francis hospi tal. The accident happened about two and a half miles west of- Jersey City, just beyond the Hackensack river bridge. At that point there are four tracks, two devoted to passenger and two to freight traffic. At the northare the shops and tracks of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Wes tern railroad. Foreman Quirk saw that the fog might mean danger, so he sent two men. Lawless and Doherty, to give warning of approaching trains. Law less was to go west and Doherty east and cover all -the tracks. They were to shout warnings at the approach of trains. The passenger tracks were kept busy with incoming suburban trains, and the dense smoke from these trains helped to make the atmosphere more dense. Suddenly about 8:30 there was a shout from Lawless, who was the ad vance guard of the gang. "Train, on No. 3," he cried. It was an eastbound frieight train that came along slowly, leaving behind it a heavy pall of smoke. The men who were scattered along the track jumped out of the way. Almost all of them jumped over to track No. 1, the eastbound passenger track. The heavy smoke enveloped them. Lawless, too, had jumped across to track No. 1, keeping all the time a sharp lookout. Suddenly there was a rumble of wheels and the shriek of a whistle. The Millstone local, delayed by fog, was coming along at the rate of 40 miles an hour. Lawless was struck and thrown 30 feet away, mangled and bleeding. On went the trein. Engi neer Vannostrand had scarcely noticed the man's body flying throggh the air when the engine struck Doherty; then it ploughed into the mass of cowering men, who stood huddled together on the track. "It was an awful sight," said the en gineer later. "There was a mass of legs and arms and heads flying through the air. I -was drenched with blood. I knew that something terrible had hap pened and put on the air-brakes as fast as possible" When the train came to a standstill the passengers rushed out. The track was drenched in blood. The meadows and the track looked like a battlefield covered with bodies. The shrieks of the dying men drowned the cries of the horrified passengers. Women fainted and men turned away in horror. Of the 19 men, nine were dead and six' wounded. Some one telephoned quick ly to Jersey City. Many of the bodies still writhing in mortal agony were placed on the train and borne to the city. Two of the wounded men died on the way. A relief train brought back the others. Some Plain Truths. The mass meeting of Negroes which1 was held in New York last week to con sider the recent race troubles in the Carolinas heard some lurid speeches and adopted some foolish resolutions. The Atlanta Journal in commenting on the meeting states some plain truths the Negroes will do well to remember. The Journal says the result was natu ral since T. Thomas Fortune was the, the ruling spirit of the meeting. For tune is a type of that class of Negroes who live on the less shrewd and easily deluded members of their race. They pose as leaders and saviors of their peo ple, while their only service to the Ne gro is to give him dangerous counsel and live on his contributions. The resolutions which Fortune's meeting adopted denounce those southern states whioh have restricted the ballot to in telligent voters, but say nothing about the New England States, which have done the same thing. They also de mand Federal interference in the South for the protection of the Negro. Every intelligent Negro ought to know that such a policy would only intensify race antipathy, and that his own race wouldi suffer more than the whites. While1 the meeting was denouncing Negro out-i rages in the South, it was silent about the killing of Negro miners in Illinois and Governor Tanner's declaration that he would instruct 11e miitia to shoot down every Negro who came into that State to work in the mines. Fortune and his dupes seem to thinoc that thet killing of Negroes in Illinois is all right. The condition of the Negro will 1 never be improved by such leaders as Fortune and such mass meetings as that held in New York last week. INCENDIARISM IN CLARENDON.-The residence of Mr. W. McD. Green, of Silver, Clarendon County, was burned1 on last Friday night with all household 1 furniture and other contents. Mr. Green and family were absent from home at the time and did not know of, the fire until the next day. It is sur mised that the house was burned by Negroes who had entertained ill-will 1 toward Mr. Green for several months. It will be remembered that about a year ago a Negro attempted to assassi nate him and succeeded in wooinding him seriously, from which he lost thet UROVAL Baking Powder Madefompr cream of tartar. SafegUa7S the food agamst aku. ROYAL MOUS MWM SO.W MW VW61 General Young's Story. One of the most interesting witnesses ho has been before the war investigat ng commission was General Young. As the Atlanta Journal says he distin gished himself by his courageous and ffetive services at Santiago at l prui bly knows as much as anybody about hat occurred there. He said in his testimony that Roosevelt's Rough Rid ers, who seem disposed to appropriate ie lion's share of the glory of the cam paign, did no better service and suffered no more than some other- commads. rhe report that the Rough Riders were ed into an ambuscade by reason-of the inefficiedey of superior officers, General Young said, was utterly untrue. Noth ing happened to them that was not iable to occur in the ordinary course of war. General Young's report of the onduct of the Cuban insnrgents is that Df almost every other officer of our army who was in the fighting around Santi go. The Cubans were either aowardly e indifferent. They were worth noth ing to us-in fact less than nothing, for we had to feed them whez'tlere was not enough food for ourownsoldi ers. One Cuban general assured Gen eral Young on the night before the nrt battle that he would be on hand with 500 Cubans totake partin the ttack. He and his troops did not'i pear at the appointed time and Genenkl Young sent amessenger to hii who >ound a card on the Cuban ,generl oor forbidding anyone to distarhPm., A more disgracefulinstance of cowai ie would be hard to find in the anisz war. The Cuban guides desetd General Young at the first fire. F ing the Cuban soldiers u'terly worth less, General Young in disgust ea them to the rear, where they pickeu and appropriated the cast off ba Df our troops. The Cuban insgen may have done some good tingi ginst the Spanlards before we ered, but they made averisahbya4Q isgraceful. showing when they were ; asked to co-operate with ouroreesin> he assault~upon Santiago., T'lirre- ' ord does not encourage the hopsetbat' they will ,contribute to the establish~ ment of good and stable government in - Free Siver in New York One of the Democratic Conesin relected in NewlYorkthis year is Wum Sulzer, who was nominated ad eiecadh on an out and out free silver plafon e made such a bold and courageoung ght on the money question that. evene his political opponents- admiie and praise him for it. The Newdorgk ribune, one of the leading Republican oId standard organs says "Mr. Sulzer's electionin the Eleventh by a majority of more than 8,OOO0gives gratifying assurance that courage sand plain-speakng are still valuable quali-. ies in New York polities. Nmnatef ' by a convention which franklyreasfrm id the Chicago platform, Mr. Sulier made his canvass on national issues. Not for a moment did he evade any? politial question which sprung lrom the declaration of principles of 1896' e will go .to a house- of represents-'R ives in which the majority willbe menr who stand as he stands, for a fixed codR f principles, and he'will go to Wash' [ngton with the prestige of having been - ive a bigger majority by New York ity voters than was any 'inan whod hought it "gcod politics" to dodge every issue upon which a representa ive in congress is likely to'hav to rote. That is worth taking risks f Et would have been ,worth the risk even had the prize not been won, for a goo& ght well fought is honor in itself-" Of the nineteen Democratic Con ~ressmen elected from the State of New York not one of them outn.ganized the Chicago platform, but were voted, For as Democrats standing on the plat orm of their party. -We are sorry that all of them did not-do like Mr. Sulser', ome out openly and above board for - Fre silver, and been ele-cted or defeated in that issue. We confidently expeetn state of New York to give her electoral rote to a free silver Democrat in 1900. We Shall See Col. Charles F. Dick, secretary of the National Republican committee, in n interview declares that the chief is me of the campaign ofl1900 will be erritorial expansion. He claims that n analysis of the vote of the country roves beyond a doubt that the West as deserted silver and that the new ssue of expansion is far greater in ima ortance in the public mind than that ~fthe money question. It is under tod that Chairman Hanna shares the iws held by Seeretary Dick, and that he battle of 1900 will be fouzht'on ' ew lines. We have no doubt but - hat the Republicans will try to side rack the silver issue and fight the bat le of 1900 on some other, but we do >t believe that they will succeed in >ing do so free silver is the only issue in which the Democratic party has the lightest chance of wining, and no one lows this fact better than the Re )ulican leaders. That is the reason hat they are so anxious to side track ~.On any other issue the Democrats rould suffer a most disastrous defeat. rw more years of hard times, which is rrain under the gold standard, will urn the present smiles of the Republi ans into bitter tears. In the language Tf ogan Martin, wait and see. Weather prophets continue to say. hat the coming winter will be the oldest experienced for years.