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LIFE BiRImIIT SIDE Dr. Talmage :Sees-:Sunshine Oni Every Side. SEEMING AFFLiCTIONS. On Us Are Influences for Good. Grandeur of Character Is Achieved by Conquering of Evil. In, this disc')ukrse Dr. Talimage takes an optimistic view of many things that are usually accounted as inexplicable in human experience and shows us that even trouble and amietion may not be wholly without their brighter side; text, Psalm xlix. 4. -1 will open ny dark saying upon the harp. Thc world is full oF the inexplicable, the unfathomable. the insurmountable. We cannot go three teps in any direc tion without coming up against a hard wall of mystery. riddles, parodoxes, profundities. lybyrinths. problems that we cannat solve, hieroglyphics that we cannot decipher, anagrams we cannot spell out. sphinxes that will not speak. For that reason David in my text pro posed to take up some of these somber and dark thing- and try to set them to weet music. ''I will open my dark sayings -n the harp." So I look off upon society and find people in unhap py conjunction of circumstances, and they do not know what it means, and they have a right to ask: Why is this? Why is that? And I think I will be doing a work by trying to explain some of these strange things and make you more content with your lot, and T shall only be answering questions that have often been asked me or that we have all asked ourselves while I try to set these mysteries to music and open my dark sayings on a harp. Interrogation the first: Why does God take out of this world those who are useful and whom we cannot spare and leave alive and in good health so rnany who are only a nuisance to the world? I thought I would begin with the very toughest of all the seeming in scrutables. Many of the most useful men and women die at 30 or 40 years of age. while you often find useless peo ple alive at 60 and 70 and SO. John Dareless wrote to Bradford, who was about to be put to death, saying, "Why doth God suffer me and such other cat erpillars to live that can do nothing but consume the alms of the church and take away so many worthy workmen in the Lord's vineyard." Similar ques tions are often asked. Here are two men. The one is a noble character and a Christian man. He chooses for a lifetime companion one who has been tenderly reared. and she is worthy of him and he is worthy of her. As mer chant or farmer or professional man or mechanic or artist he toils to educate and rear his children. He is succeed ing, but he has not yet established for his family a full competency. He seems indispensable to that household, but one day, Lefore he has paid off the mortgage on his house, he is coming home through a strong northeast wind, and chill strikes through him, and four days of pneumonia end his earthly ca~ reer, and the wife and children go into a struggle for shelter and food. His next door neighbor is a man who, though strong and well, lets his wife support him. He is around at the gro eery store or some general loafing place in the evenings, while his wife sews. His boys are imitating his example and lounge and swagger and swear. All the use that man is in that house is to rave because the coffee is cold when he comes to a late breakfast or to say cut ting things about his wife's looks, when he furnishes nothing for her wardrobe. The best thing that could happen to that family would be that man's funer al, btut he declines to die. He lives on and on and on. So we have all noticed that many of the useful are early cut off, while the parasites have great vital tenacity. I take up this dark saying on my harp and give three or four thrums on the string in the way of surmising and hopeful guess. Perhaaps the useful man was taken out of she world because he and his family were so constructed that they could not have endured some great prosperity that might have been just ahead, and they all together might have gone down in the vortex of world liness which every year swallows up 10.000 households. And so he went while he was humble and consecrated, and they were by the severities of life kept close to Christ and fitted for use fulness here and high seats in heaven, and when they meet at last bef ore the throne they will acknowledge that, though the furnace was hot, it purified them and prepared them for an eternal career of glory and reward for which no other kind of life could have fitted them. On the other hand, the useless man lived on to 50 or 60 or 70 years because all the ease he ever can have he must have in this world, and you ought not therefore begrudge him his earthly longevity. In all the ages there has not a single loafer ever entered heaven. There is no place there for him to hang around. Not even in the temples, for they are full of vigorous, alert and rapturous worship. If the good and useful go early, rejoice for them that they have so soon got through with human life, which at best is a struggle. And if the useless and the bad stay rejoice that they may be out in the world's fresh air a good many years before their final incarceration. Interrogation the second: Why do good people have so much trouble, sick~ ness, bankruptcy, persecution, the three black vultures sometimes putting their fierce beaks into one set of jan gled nerves? I think now of a good friend I once had. Hie was a conse crated Christian man, an elder in the church, and as polished a Christian gentle'nan as ever walked Broadway. First his general health gave out. and he hobbled around on a cane, an old man at 40. ~After awhile paralysis struck him. Having by poor health been compelled suddenly to quit busi ness. he lost what property he had. Then his beautiful daughter died; ther a son became hopelessly demented. Another son, splendid of mind anc commanding of presence, resolved that he would take care of his father's house nold, but, under the swoop of yellow fever at Fernandina, Fla., he suddenly expired. So you know good men and women who have had enough troubles, you think, to crush 50 people. N( worldly philosophy could take such trouble and set it to music or play it or violin or flute, but I dare to open thal darie saying on a gospel harD. You wonder tnat very consecrat.i people have trouble? Did you evel know any very consecrated man or wo man who had not had great trouble! Never! It was through their trouble: sanctified that they were made yen: good. If you find anywhere in thi: hada rertect neaai aund ev a hiti,'and has always been popular, and never had husiness struggle or misfor tune. who is distinguished for goodness, pull our wire for a telegraph messen ger Dy and sen-1 me word. and I will drop) eve) ythina and go right away to lok at hiuu. : Timre never has been a inan ik- that and never will be. Who are those arrogant, self- comeeited crea tures who move about without sympa thy for others and who thiuk more of a St. Bernard dog, or an Alderney cow, or a Southdown sheep, or a Berkshire pig than of man? They never had ar-y trouble, or the trouble wa., never sanc tified. Who are thore men who listen with moist eye as 3 ou tell them of stf fering, and who have a pathos in their voice, and a kiudues in their manner. and an excuse or an alleviation for those gone astray? They are the men who have graduated at the Royal Aca~d emy of Trouble. and they nave the di ploma written in wrinkles on their coun tenances. NIy! mY ! Wbat heartacbes they had! What tears they have wept! What injustices they have suffered. The mightiest influence for purification and salvation is trouble. No diamond fitfor a crown until it is cut. No wheat fit for bread till it is ground. There are only three things that can break off a chain-a hammer, a file or a fire-and trouble is all three of them. The greatest writers, orators and re formers get much of their force from trouble. What gave Washington Ir vi 'g that exquisite tenderness and pa thos which will make his books favor ites while the English language contin ues to be written and spoken? An ear ly heartbreak that he never once men tioned, and when, 30 years after the death of Matilda Hoffman, who was to have been his bride, her father picked tup a piece of embroidery and snid, That is a piece of poor Matilda's work manship," Washington Irving sank from hilarity into silence and walked away. Out cf that lifetime grief the great author dipped his pen's mightiest re-enforcement. Calvin's "Institutes of Religion." than which a more won derful book was never written by hu man hand, was begun by the author at 25 years of age because of the 1 ersecu tion by Francis, king of France. Fara day toiled for all time on a salary of X80 a year and candles. As every brick of the wall of Babylon was stamp ed with the letter N. standing for Neb achadneazar, so every part of the temple of Christian achievement is stamped witl the letter T, standing for. trouble. When in England a man is honored with knighthood, he is struck with the flat of the sword. But those who have come to knighthood in the kingdom of God were first struck, not with the flat of the sword. but with the keen edge of the scimeter. To build his magnific ence of character, Paul could not have spared one lash, one prison, one ston ing, one anathema, one poisonous viper from the hand, one shipwreck. What is true of individuals is true of nations. The horrors of the American Revolu tion gave this country this side of the Mississippi river to independence, and the confiet between England and France gave the most of this country west of the Mississippi to the United States. France owned it, but Napolecu, fearing that England would take it, practically made a present to the United States, for he received only $15,000,000 for Louisiana, Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, Colorado, Dakota, Montana, Wyoming and the Indian Territory. Out of the fire of the American Revolution came this country east of the Mississippi, out of the European war came that west of the Mississippi river. The British empire rose to its present overtowering gran deur through gunpowder plot, and Guy Fawkes' conspiracy, and Niorthampton insurrection, and Walter Raleigh's be heading, and Bacon's bribery, and Cromwell's dissolution of parliament, and the battles of Edge Hill, and the vicissitudes of centuries. So the earth itself, before it could become an appro priate and beautiful residence for the human family, had, according to geo logy, to be washed by universal deluge and scorched and made incandescent by universal fires, and pounded b3 sledge hammer of icebergs, and wrenehed by earthquakes that split continents, and shaken by volcanoes that tossed moun tains and passed through the catastro phes of thousands of years before Para dise became possible, and the groves could shake out their green banners, and the first garden pour its cariage of color between the Gibson and the Hid dekel. Trouble a good thing for the rocks, a good thing for nations as well as a good thing for individuals. So when you push against me with a sharp interrogation point, Why do the good suffer? I open the dark saying on a harp and, though I can neither play an organ or cornet or hautboy or bugle or clarinet, I have taken some lessoas in the gospel harp, and if you would like to hear me I will play you these: "All things work together fcr good to those who love God." "Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righte ousness unto them which are exercised thereby" "Weeping may endure for a aight, but joy cometh in the morn ing." What a sweet thing is a harp, and I wonder not that in Wales, the country of my ancestors, the harp has become the national, instrument, and that they have festivals where great prizes are offered in the competition harp and harp, or that weird Sebastian Erard was much of his time bent over this chorded and vibrating triangle and was not satisfied until he had given it a compass of six octaves, from E to E with all the semitones, or that when King Saul was demented the son of Jesse came before him and, pnuing his fingers among the charmed strings of the hard, played the devil out of the crazed monarch, or that in heaven there shall be harpers harping with their harps. So you will not blame me foi opening the dark saying on the gospel harp: IYour harps, y e tremb~ling Saiots, Donfrom the willows take; Lutotepraise of love dtvine Bid every siring awake! Interrogation third: Why did the good God let sin or trouble come int< the world when he might have kept them out? My reply is, He had a good reason. He had reason that he h never given us. He had reasons whici he could no more make us understand in our finite state than the father. start. ing out on some great and elaborate en terprise, could make the 2-year-old child in its armed chair comprehend it. One was to demonstrate what grandem: of character may be achieved on earti by conquering evil. Had there been n< evil to conqjuer and no trouble to con. sole, then this universe would neve: have known an Abraham or a Moses or a Joshua, or an Ezekiel, or a Paul or a Christ, or a W~'ashington, or a Johr Milton, or a John Howard, and 1,000, 000 victories which have been gaine( by the consecrated spirits of all age: would never have been gained. Had there been no battle there would hav< been no victory. Nine-tenths of th< been sun. i ;e' :. ':er :e at i ii '' h''erael thai Wii* i ll x i t U their truiiipet... t 714 It-et I I -W '1 hen. whetn that(C Whi aMVe .r11: i'd cir bst dow kiiol cnt r. -.I, it 1wi' I ii a sntal sitif that inf ha ' iiaih er ,d and ( Joi t-e inik an."' Wa *''e' anid Bletthoveni averbee cian r.- h11 onre h*m il t Tit:.-,sure b i v r tared and that throne % iba iav as they wil-e 'o I ibrettos., "Ohi. if we emild onl - i '. i * like thad' But l will tha to those who have nevcfallen n o r rowent sv have not been redeastod b on amast be silent now. You ha int thb i an Lication ftr this anthem." So they sit wieh alosed Wis and folded hanvs, s einers saved by race take up thel niony, for the Bible says, -*i.- man could learn that song but the hiuooired ad forty and four thousand watii1. were re theed fron the earth." A li reat priua dodla, %h o Can tow do ay thing, with er vo e told ien that when she first started in music her teacher in Berlin to l her sh oted he a good singer. butt a mi.ran lte :div could never reach. "Andu then.**:I( said, co went to nork and stanied tnd practiced for years Until I did reacul it. But the honu of tmie redeeitead tde Bible says. the exa!td harnionists who have never sinncd could not reach and never will reach. Would you like to hear me in a very poor way play a snatch of th t bute I can nive voe onld one bar of the Ausic on this o. psidharp. "Unto ik that sath loved rus and washed us fro our sins in hi own blood and ath made us kings and priests unto God and te Lamb. to hi be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen." But before leaviva this in Iterregatory. Why (God let'sin comei into the world? let me say that great battles seem to be nothing but suffer inoand outrage at the time of their oc currence, yet after they have been a long washile past we can see that it was better for them to have been fouht namely, Sanmis. Inkernean. Toulouse. Arbela, Agineourt. Trafalgar Blen heim. Lexinond Sedon. S o now that the great battles against sin and suffer ing are going on we can see ostly that which is deplorable. But 20.000i( years from now, standitg in glory, we sall appreciate that heaven isbetterof! tha if the battle of this worldI's sin and suf' efering had never been projected. Amid the tussle and romp of reuioue I tell you whos t hand f welcome you had better first clasp and whose cheek is entitled to the first kiss. It is the hand and the cheek of him without whom you would never have got there at all, the Lord Jesus, the darling of the skies, as he cries out, '1 have loved thee with an everlasting love, and the fires could not ur it, and the floods could not drown it." Then you, my dear people, having no more use for my poor harp on which I used to open your dark sayings, and whose chords some times snapped. despoiling the sympho ny, you will take down your own harps from the wlould nerhave otb thter al ate corsesus and plaln togehe thoe skiesti as smes oftIhae naves ofe wich ae eneatie lohe. King the fis Beuty,"o "The itand Tt fWoos Farl o rni." s Then t yorurtain thohalleope ratignoristaee eer heard hap ben rhihlled ito onen your dakgsayings and wehoen'ors "Ome tInes Mnppe, adesoln the atin,"an theyo swp ofake bown or adn arps from the wibratin hord gof bynte etr. toale ysteriures Iandpa togtester thatse heletalrsasom ondtee nates namelych preachiters "Thoul keepon Far al." the hares re atid. 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Cmlint gas maduto the et armofed withor iniesterndn PstousI troue isefored.in abeet snoth git ne.a whe thue hoe was c tanrore Uie tte.om IN BLACK AND W : 2. The U S Governien l. r t R imbiurse the State. Governer i: - 4 ha t.e r.-.n <pishe hi eforsto h:aVe e g ver: - Inli t Ila% E.r Ut.e 4-tl:I c :f the. Frrst regie t uheitws t a Il tila or'-alli/atitlln. lie has oil fi' I teole/':i':: aro:1 the aidjutanit aeneral of Ie 1* nited States dated April 27th. which proposes to re fund such expei-nditirts. There are ullaite a nuIber of people inter-eted in this itter and the ano involved is mover -7 8.000. Governor- Ellerhe yesterlay forward ed to \Washiti.ton a copy of the. tole 1r1m which reads as follows: The1 Governor of South Carolina: The following decision of the scere tarv of war this (late is couimunicated for your information: "All absolutely necessaryexpen eses for the subsistence, transporzation, sheltering and generally the imainten ance of volunteers during the interval hetween their enrolment, enlistmnt and their muster or being sworn into the service of the United States. also incidental expenses connected there with. such as the higher officers, clerks. n:esselers. ete.. for mustering officers. etc.. will be met by the government of the United States. from the pro.pcr ap propriation at the disposal of the several staff departments of the army. Certified vouchers for all expenditures herein authorized will be forwarded to the war department for credit and paylent. The vouchers should he certified by officers of proper staff departments and approved by the mustering officers. I. C. Corbin, Adjutant General. A Serious Charge. The Columbia State says J. G. 3a-k ley of Lexington county stands aceused of having forged a bank note, and fur ther of having intercepted the mail in order to cover his crime. It is alleged that he forged the name of Mr. .. I. Wt ssinger to a note which was cashcd by the Carolina National bank, and that he afterwards went daily to the postof fice and called for Mr. Wessinger's mail. which was always given him for de livery, as is the custom in county post offices. It is charged that Buckley did this in the hope that any notice from the bank to M-. Wessinger that the note was due could be interrupted and not delivered, though it is evident th at such a scheme would not work long for the fact that a note had been made which must inevitably appear sooner or later. However, one of the alleged in dorsers received due notice that the n )te had been protested for non pa - ment. le was stupified and mystified when he got the note and called on Mr. Wessinger to ask him about it. That gentleman, it is said, was equally sur prised that such a note had been made, not to say anythirg about it being pro tested. They began an investigation and discovered that Buckley had forged the note and had been receiving Mr. Wessinger's mail. A Sensible Colored Man. A correspondent, signing himself R. W. Hancock, pastor of the Colored Baptist church at Phcenix, says he is compelied to speak whereof he knows. He noticed in the Augusta Herald that noted divines North were talking of raising nmoney to purchase guns to send South for the Negroes. He has wept over this thing, and says give the Negrees a spot of land and money to purchase stock, but not guns to kill themselves with. He tells his people' there is nothing in polities for them. He says he is well known throughout the State by his colored Baptist breth ren and is well treated by the white peo ple around and about Pho~nix. He says further, that if only the colored people who were entitled to vote at Phocnix had done so, there would have been no trouble. They could have voted for Tolbert and nothing would have been thought of it. But it was the passing by of two other boxes and crowding to Phocnix which brought on the trouble. Explosion of Gas. An explosion of gas occurred in the Zenedia mines, in Shelby county, Ala.. Wednesday, killing three men and per haps fatally wounding three others. The dead: John Kinseler, mine fore man, Wade Griffin, miner, Peter Wal ker, miner. The names of the injured have not yet been ascertained. The presence of gas had been detected and Kinsler. Walker and Griffin went into one of the rooms to investigate. A terrible explosion occurred, the three men being hurled against the wall arid fatally burned. A moment later a see end explosion took place in the adja ent room just as its three occupants were fleeing. They were badly burned, but escaped with their lives. As quick ly as possible rescue parties were organ ized and the victims of the explosion gotten out after much difficulty. The exact cause of the explosion is not known. Fighting Joe Wheeler. Major-Gen. dioe Wheeler was the centre of attraction when he made his appearance in the House of Representa tives last week ti resume his congres sional duties. He had just arrived from his camp in Alabama, where his troops are stationed. Gen Wheeler said lhe probably would resign from the army, but his plans were not yet defin itely fixed. lie expects to confer with the president and secretary of war and then will determine on his course. "If there is to be any more fighting 1 want to stay in the army." said the general. "but if the fighting is over. I pref er to return to civil life." Buried Under Burning Coal. While fighting a fire in the dock of the Leigh Coke and Coal company at West Superior. Wis., Wednesday. a crew of men were caught by a bad cave in. caused by the weakening of the rile foundation. T wo mniraculously escaped and four were buried under thousands of tons of coal. One, John Milinowis ky, has been rescued alive, but is in a precarious condition. The other three have probably perished. Hilton s. Iodoform Liniment is the "nee plus ultra"' of all such preparations in re moving soreness, and quickly healing fresh cuts and wounds, no matter how b ad. 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 ease of sore mouth. and is a supe rior remedy for all pains and aches. Sold by druggists and dealers 23 cents a bottle. ______ ___ TH. Augusta Cottonl mill strikers seem to be in a fair way to win. The Warwick mill has yielded and taken back its hands at old rates and the Sib e and King mills are closed forlack of helpn Baking Powder Made from pure cream of tartar. Safeguards the food against alum. Alum baking powdes are the greatest menacers to health , the present day. ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO.. NEW YORK. A MARINE DISASTER A Thrilling Story of Attempts at Rescue at Sea. GALLANT SEAMEN'S WORK. In a Gale Men Risked Their Lives Again and Again to Save the Unfortunate Crew. A dispatch from Baltimore says the -Johnstone line steamship Vedamere. of Liverpool. Capt. llobert Bartlett. for whose safety fears were begining to be felt, arrived Thursday morning at as she was several days overdue. Pier 31. Locu:,t point. with forty-five shipwrecked mariners. which she had picked up at sea. Twenty-five others went down. Their shipmates rescued are: Second ofricer; T. Gittings; see ond engineer, J. W. Graham; fourth engineer, F. G. Ayers; chief cook, C. Johnston; able seaman, Tagan: firemen, A. E. Tongo, F. Lominske. J. McGow an, J. Wilde. J. Brizht. H. Bartlett, J. Clark. W. Terry. Thomas Cupid, J. Liss, G. Elliott, E. Watts. R. Cross, C. Feske. J. Mason and twenty-five cattle men. whose names were not obtained. Tie supposed lost are: Capt. Wm. Lee. Chief Officer Murray, Chief En gineer Stafford, Third Engineer Slater, and twenty-one other seamen, firemen and cattlemen. The men lauded are the survivors of the British steamship Londonian of London. bound from Boston to London with a large general cargo and 650 cat tle on deck. She left Boston Nov. 15 and on Nov. 24, in a violent gale, her cargo shifted and she almost capsized, she finally rested on her beam ends with big seas breaking over her. Her luckless crew were helpless to right her. and for two days she drifted about at the mercy of the wind and waves. Assistance came at 5 o'clock on the morning of November 25. The Vedamere hove in sight five miles dis tant, and as it was still quite dark the Londonian burned signal fires and fired distress rockets. It did not take the Vedamere long to cov'er the five miles that lay between her and the Londonian, and as soon as she arrived alongside she was signalled to stand by. At noon, in the teeth of a stiff gale, Second Officer Hobbs and a volunteer crew gallantly launched one of the Ve damere's boats and attempted to reach the Londonian. For three hours the sturdy Britons battled with wind and wave in a vain attempt to reach her, but wvere forced to return to their ship. Capt. Bartlett then steamed to windward of the doomed steamer and tried to fire rock ets with lines attached, to the wreck, hoping by this means to establish a con nection with her, by which the seamen in peril could be saved. After a num ber of vain attempts this idea was abandoned and as night came on sever eral other attempts to rescue the Lon donian's crew were made fruitlessly. As it grew too dark to do anythinz more Capt. Bartlett signalled "Will stand by you until morning." The piteous sigznal, "for God's sake don't leave us," camne back in reply. During the night the wind increased and by morning it was blowing very hard. Then it was that another means of rescue was decided upon. Four hours life buoys with lines attached were floated to the Londonian and at last her crew succeeded in getting one aboard. One of the Vedamere's life boats was improvised as a life car, to be hauled betwen the ships. It made a trip successfully and 22 half frozen, exhausted meni were hauled up over the high side of tile Vedamere. As the boat was going back to the Londonian wreck a big sea broke over it and de molished it. Thbe lines were also car ried away and the comniciation broken. Chiet Officer Doran, of the Veda mere then stepped up to Capt. Bartlett and volunteered to launch another life boat to attempt the rescue. For two hours the boat's crew struggled at the oars but could not get closer than sixty ards of the wreck. They were at last Iorced to give up and return to their ship, and in doing so the boat was smashed against the rhip's side and lost. They all came near drowning. but were hauled aboard with lines. Another fearful night of peril and fear passed. The next morning 23 men of the Londonian succeeded in launching one of their own boats and reached the Vediamere in safety. Their boat was also lost and all that day was spent in trying to again establish comlmunica tion with the wreck. The gale was const'antly increasing and all efforts to save others were in vain. Even after nicht had fallen the Vedamuere was kept cruising about in the vicinity, but when day broke the next morning the Lodonian had vanished. The Veda mere then proceeded to Baltimore. The wrecked steamer was first sighted in latitude 48 3S. longritude 15.10. On Novem'ber 20 the day after the Veda mere lost sighit of her tihe steamship King Arthur passed her ill latitude 45. lonitude 14. She was then abandoned andall her boats were gone. It is sup po(sed the remainder of her crew at temtetd to leave her in their own boats and all hantds perished. TPhe Lon<'onian was a fine steel yes se mi tGlasgow in 1S96..and regis terd 5~>2 tnsgross. She belonged to the Wilson-Furness-Loyland line. 11cr original name was Idaho, which was changed to the present name about a year ago. Tm:E people generally had the idea that Hlobson was possessed of an un uual amount of good horse sense. but his refusal of an offer of $50,000 for a lecture season upon the ground that what h~e did was his duty, is strong e~viece that lie lacks the material eqipluent to get on in the world. H A','1ET]D F OR X LTSDER. Eiorts to Sv -t Convicted Han's Life Proved of No Avail. 31\lth~e-.yeky. colored; was hung in tle corrhior of the county jail last Fridd: for the : crimew if murder. There was no iueident of special interest worth reconiing in coniectionl with the exceuti'on. Which was carried out by the Sheiiff and his assistants without the slightest mishap. Moseley was convicted at the recent September term of court, for murder of Andrew McMilltan. colored, on June 27th lat. in tie Fork of Edisto. At the trial he admitted fthe killing and pleaded self-defence. He was. how ever. found guilty of murder and was sentenced to be banged on the 18th of last month. Upon a very strong peti tion and representation, the governor respited the doomed man for two weeks. and notwithstanding every legal means was exhausted by his friends for a fur thet respite if not for a pardon. the executive refused to interfere and the last debt was paid Friday. The deceased boy bore a good repu tation among the good people of his community, while the victim of his crime did not, and Mr. J. 1). Thomas, a white farmor of prominence, worked hard to save him, Moseley having been practically raised on Mr. Thomas' plan tation. The usual legal formality of an inquest was gone through with, after which Mr. Thomas and the relatives of the decesased took charge of the re maius. Moseley was but 24 years old. -The Times and Democrat. Timrod and His Poetry. The Secretary of State has issued a charter to "The Timrod Memorial As sociation" for the "purpose of publish ing and selling the poems and writings of Henry Timrod, and applying the profits thereof to a permanent public memorial of the poet." The capital stock of the Association is $1,000. The corporators represent the educational, social and business life of the State, and the object of the Association is so worthy that failure in its plans and pur poses should be impossible. In speak ing of the above laudable enterprise The News and Courier says "Timrod was. as some of us know, one of the sweetest singers of the South, and for nearly a generation it has not been prac ticable to purchase a copy of his poems. except at very high prices. The edition which will be printed by the Memorial Association will be a popular edition; will contain a fine, lifelike portrait of the poet, and will be sold at the low price of $1.50. It is hoped that the newspapers of South Carolina, and the country generally, will aid the Associa tion in its work and encourage the un dertaking." Before applying for the charter a letter was written by the Charleston committee to the presidents of the colleges in the State, requesting the use of their names as charter mem bers of the Association. There was an immediate and generous compliance with this request, as the following brief notes from the letters received will show: President Woodward, of the South Carolina College: "I will do so with great pleasure, and shall be glad to serve the cause of the Association in any way that I can-" President Johnson, of the Winthrop Normal and Industrial College: "iIt will give me pleasure to be enrolled as a chari~er member of the Timrod Memo rial Association. Whenever I can be of service in the enterprise please do not hesitate to call upon me." President Hartzog, of the Clemson Agricultural College: "I permit, with pleasure, the use of my name as one of the charter members the Memorial Association to publish Timrod's poems." President Ranidolph, of the College of Charleston: "The object deserves the hearty and sympathetic support of the whole State." President Carlisle, of Wofford Col lege: "I feel it a privilege to be asso ciated with so patriotie a purpose as that sugguested by the Hon. W. A. Courtenay." Presidedt Grier. of Erskine College: "The request is most cheerful~ly granted, and I trust that the effort may be suc cessful in placing a suitable monument over the grave of one of the South's sweetest poets." President Montague, of Fur-man Uni versity: "I shall be greatly pleased to have you use my name in connection with the movement in honor of Tim rod's memory." President Cromer. of Newlierry Col lege: "I am heartily in sympafhy with the movement, and I shall gladly do what I can to promote its success." President Wilson. of 'onverse Col lege: "I shall be'glad to lend my name and to assist in any way I can to bring such a good purpose to comple tionU . An Interesting Revelation. The New York Journal has added a new and important chapter to the sea and land campaigns which converged at Santiago. It is a long list of cipher dispatches from Madrid to Havana, and from both places to Cervera and Lin ares at Santiago. The brief dispatches show in chronological order the steps taken and views held by the Spanish authorities, who kept up more closely with our movements than it was possi ble for our officers to do with theirs. Blanco is seen in a clear light as the brightest in the lot. He saw with much foresight the danger of the fleet's be ing caught in the harbor and that a de feat of the navy would be in Europe's estimation an end of the war. Cervera tarried and was not prompt in getting out: his foreboding of defeat was shown in his declaration to Blance that his leet was lost when it w, s ordered to leave European waters. The real cause of Cervera's delay was Spain's poverty. He sailed with few provisions. scanty coal. with vessels badly in need of dock inz. and with some of the large guns unit for use. This short war is one of the best related in the annals of time. Sampson and Miles and Shafter have publihied their telegrams and dispatch es, and these cipher dispatches from the Spanish authorities give the ofiicial ata on the other side. Besides these authen tic documents. newspaper corres pondents and combatants have describ ed it vividly from their standpoint. It may be that some Spanish historian will fill up the only gap left, the story as seen from the Spanish private camp. Five Men Killed. The nitro-glycerine house of the Iudson Powder Company at Pinole, Cal., blew up Wednesday killing Sup erintendent Charles Kennedy and four Chinese, the only workmen in the building at the time. Four tons of nitro-glyceine were blown up, com pletely demolishing the building. The same house was badly damaged by an explosion six weeks ago, and two Chinese were killed- Superintendent Kennedy was superintend ing the mix ing when the explosion this afternoon occurred. The cause of the explosion will1 proaly never be known. 13y G.- 14. Powel1. S TOFFLES was her name, a familiar abbreviation, and Mephistophelean was her nature. She had all the usual vices of the feline tribe, including a double portion of those which men are so fond of describing as feminine. Vain, indolent, selfish, with a highly-culti vated taste for luxury and neatness in her personal appearance, she was dis tinguished by all those little irritat ing habits and traits for which nothing but an effeminate heart-a thing in her ease conspicuous by its absence -enn atone. We live in a comfortable, old-fash ioned house facing the highroad. Isay we, but in fact for some months I had been alone, and my husband had just returned from one of his sporting and scientific expeditions in South Amer ica. He had already won fame as a naturalist, and had succeeded in bring ing home alive quite a variety of beasts, usually of, the reptile order, whose ex treme rarity seemed to me a merciful provision of nature. But all his pre vious triumphs were completely ecliused, I soon learned, by the capture alive, on this last expedition, of an abominably poisonous snake, known to Those who knew it as the blue dryad, tr more familiarly, in backwoods slang, as the "half-hour striker," in vague ref erence to its malignant and fatal qual ities. Being in extremely delicate health at the time, I need hardly say that I knew iothing of these grewsome details un ii1 afterward. Henry (that is my hus band) after entering my room with a robust and sunburned appearance that did my heart good, merely observed as soon as we had exchanged greeting -that he had brought home a pretty snake which "'wouldn't do the slightest harm"-an evasive assurance whichIac cepi ed as became a nervous wife of an enthusiastic naturalist. I believe I insisted on its not coming into the house. Fortunately the weather was vcry hot, so it was decided that the blue dryad, wrapped in flannel and securely confined in a basket, should be left in the sun and the furthest cor ner of the veranda, during the hour or so in the afternoon when my husband had to visit the town on business. He had gone off with a cousin of mine. an officer of engineers in India, stationed, I think, at Lahore. and home on leave. I remember that they were a long time, or what seemed to me a long time, over their luncheon; and the last remark of our guest as he came out of the dining-room remained in my head as even meaningless words will run in the head of an idle invalid 'hut up for the most part of the day in a silent room. What he said was, in the positive tone of one emphasizing -a curious and surprising statement: "D'you know, by the way. it's the one animal that doesn't care a rap for the cobra?" And then, my husband seem ing to express disbelief and a desire to zhar.ge the subject as they entered my boudoir; "It's a holy fact! Goes for it, so smart! Has the beggaron toast be fore you can say 'Jack Robinson!'" The observation did not interest me, but simply ran in my head. Then they c!ame into my room, and only for a few moments, as I was not to be tired. The engineer tried to amuse Stoffles, who '-vas seizedl with such a fit of merita bor -om that he 'transferred his attentions to Ruby, the Gordon setter, a devoted and inseparable friend of mine, under 'rhose charge I was shortly left as shey went out. I suppose I may have been asleep for ten minutes or so when I was awak oned by the noise of lRby's heavy body umping out through the open win :low. Feeling restless and seeing me :sleep, he had imagined himself en iltled to a short spell off guard. Had the door mot been ostensibly latched he would have made his way out by it. being thoroughly used to open doors end such 'tricks-a capacity which, in act, proved fatal to him. That it was :nlatched, I saw in a few moments, for the dog on his return forced it open with a push and trotted up in a disturbed manner to my bedside.. I :cticed a tiny spot of blood on the black '::ie of his nose, and naturally supposed e had scratched himself against a bush or a piece of wire. "Rluby." Isaid, 'it hat have you been doing?" Then he whined as if in pain, crouching close to ray side, and shaking in every limb. I should say that I was myself lying with a shawl over my feet on a deep safa with a hjgh back. I turned to l'.ok at Stoffies, who was slowly peram hulating the room, looking for nies and other insets-her favorite amusement -on the wainscot. When I glanced again at the dog, his appearance filled in-e with horror; he was standing, ob -ously from pain, swaying from side tfo si de and breathing hard. As I watebed, 's body grew more and more rigid. :th his eyes fixed on the half-open oor, he drew back as if from the ap r oach of some dreaded object, raised !:is head with a pitifulattempt at abark, which broke off into a stifled howl, rolled over sideways suddenly, and lay dead. The horrid stiffness of t he body, a most resembling a stuffed creature overset, made mc believe that he had ded as he stood, close to my side, per hops meaning to defend me. Unable 'a resist the unintelligible idea that :P ( dog haid been frightened to death, .olioned the direction of his last gaze, aed at first saw noil-ing'. The next mo met I observed round the corner of t~e veranda door a small, dark, and s' der object. swaying gently up and t(Wnl like a dry bough in the wind. had passed right into the room with :'same slow regular motion hefore r'ealized what it was and whtat had aperned. My poor, stupiti Ruby miust imve nosed at the basket ont the ver :c"T till he succeeded someh!'ow in open ng it, and been bitten in return for hs pairs by the abominable beast, t'he difference in the height of those tw--the Presbyterian spire ar.dl the Mthodist steeple. held t'wo hearts apart for four good yea:s or more? It was as onishing howv unb. :geab:e. by dint of brooding over and e'herishing, this triling matter had heeome. But. lo! the slements had arbitra: ii. Mr. Cook announced his finale at :1: breakfast table: "Thank the gods aul gra'es, odds are even at last: faithful IBools and wartr-hearted Cathy van conscien tiosly wed." .fter this outmbr'ak the weath'er re suned the even tenor of its way; charm ing days rolled by. one so much like the other that. few entled them singly to account. Locust. Nest stood in the midst of a dreamy old garden and the hum of bee and the drone of insect sonded by the hour. The doctor's chld, when she was not haunting the stairway and window ledges of the de -ivtsome old nest it-self, haunted this garden. She started out of nook or bv path, taking Mrs. Winters often un awares,, and always with a book in hand. Mrs. Winters. likingr to pull beans herself and to "fuss" among her vege tables, stood -one day under an apple -I pr - r r '-i' frr; w the 'r'arced branees O. fere. child, where X>re t,, ? Wh do y t ou always 'have thimT book-" -It is not :hat book. it is another. Father and 1-thi k I-hools are disagree aeh-, so) It s yy mysf. I learn all er ju tx wh::: I u. .a t. and every Fr. day vein- fat!er :Ii vi together ia- Iel 1:im w n ' do nct know. You sCe hen pp: h::ve not got much lit e-.ch othe r thy h ik a good deal of each other. Fo:ks Sav I have lost my mmther. bu!t father iad t!at I am not real well :Iu( rp:eted with anybcdy but old' ruro, who looks like youz Cathy. and fa-her: we Panrnc-t stay here rn-h long-r nmw: I tho ught. I wond tell you. We likte corners: ycu always find som.>thing rice arountd a corner; the city is full of corners, so I think we will go away scou." and blue eyes met b:ue eyes. At that instant the tbod of hoofs was heard, and away down the drive and out into the read, ran the ebild. Mrs. Winters hastened intoher kitchen. That evening closed in early full of darkness and s:orm. Heaven and earth seemed to shake beneath the mighty tread of its a;rcach. Light-'4 ning cut the air, thun-.er r-Iled; the creek a quarter nil above the Nest rose defiantly so "htat formn:.in r:.s r:'e impossible, and the brnige 2v.;-:1easiy be missed in suich a night. Girlie, who had been studying up thunderstorms of late, desired her father to neither stand nor to run if ever caught byone, "ta.!L point ed objects being tine marks." Several persons watched frcm windows the increasing gloom and fury without when dinner was called, but scarcely were they seated at -table. when the waitress appeared at her mistress' el bow. Thre school-tedeber at the pro fessor-s was very ill; no doctor to be found'. Would Dr. Flint accompany the messenger? Girlie uttered an involuntary "Oh!". Mrs. Winters not a word nor even raised her eyes. Cyrus Flint rose and strode from the room. He reappeared be. capped and becloaked and opened the_ outer door. Bools was there with two hcrses and a lantern, under whose red glower glistened the coats of rider and horse. A fierce gust of wind met him, but he made his way out. "Father!" the doctor bent froa his saddle; "hold this high and sit low," and the little figure stood on its tip-. toes and reached up a smaIlsunshade that precious blue silk parasdl-sacri ficed bv a warm little heart to elee tric greed. contident that surrounding that beloved. head it would' be quite "tall" enough and "pointed" enough to avert attack. "Bless you, sweetheart. Take her in," he cried; but Cathy's arms were already about her and she was carried in while her tather rode away -into- the wild n*ht. The chime-:ike stroke of the great clock was telling 11 when a violent knock came on the kitchen door and LUcols' voice was heard. Cathy set the door ajar when Dools pushed-it open and entered, followed by.neighborug farmhand's bearing a rude litter upon which was stretched. a form whose gar ments, as did those of the other men, dripped water which trickled right and left, over the polished floor. The cook wrung her hands. "Oh, my! Oh, my! Is he killed or drowned that you fetch him on-araift and his fatherless babe above etairs. Oh, my! Oh, my!" "Hlist! Where's the lady?" But Ms Winters, her eves wide and full of alarm. .already stood on a .threshold beckoning. "Brng him this way into - the bedroom, -and do you, B~ools, watch all the trains and catch the first doc tor who comes." Thei she and Cathy worked over the injured-man until day break, with which came Bools and Dr. Kale. Late in the afternoon Dr. Flint wak ened, conscious and observant. An anx ious face was bending over him, and before its owner could withdraw the dotor grasped two small hands. "eta! My Rieta! I see all now. Some thing has shadowed me persistentlyj since the night I arrived. For two years I have dreamed of you bynight and searched for you by day. Beta! my wife!" Mrs. Winters F'int sobbed as she hid her face on his arm. - "I went directly to Paris where I - came to myself and solemnly abjaredX' my base vanity. I did indeed! -Uncle Cook returned with me in the fall and ~ we have been here ever since. I, wait ing and watching for my husband, for I knew he would also return sooner or later t o fin d me. Oh. Cyrus, it was my pride, not my heart, which went astr'ay -my false pride, -but I renounced it * long ago!" "So round this corner in their streets of life They, on a sudden, clasped them withi a smile." - RTanner of Gold. Exezrat from Taxation. Senator Joues, of Arkansas,-who has been interesting himself in securing the exemption of cotton tickets from the requirements of the stamp tax, has re eived a letter from the commissioner of internal revenue announcing his deci sion, making the exemption. In his letter the commissioner says: "After a careful 1eview of this subject, this of fice is of the opinion. and so holds, that where a buyer of cotton deposits with a third person a sum of money out f which this third ,person is directed to pay all cotton tickets, 0. K.'d, by the buyer, that the tickets cashed under these circumstances are exempt from taxation as orders for the payment of money. In order to come within this ruling, the buyer must actually -place the money with the third person, who cashes the ticket, and the ticket must be then actually cashed out of the buy er's own money and no ether. This would not include the payment of taxes t by a bank cut of the funds of its de positors, nor payment of tickets in the hands of persons to whom they have been transferred by the cotton seller." Senator Jones took the position that as otton tickets arc mere directions, on the part of purchasers. to their cashiers, to pay out their own money. they were not subject to the requirements of the stamp tax. He also held them to be exempt because of the levying of a tax. on the cotton itself. whidh is exempt as a farm product. The senator regards the ruling as of very general importane throughout the cotton-growi~g sectaio. Wholesale Poisoning. One hundred girls, .inmates of the Cleveland orphans' home, of Varsailles, Ky., together with the matron, Mrs. M~ary Badford, and 3Mrs. Kate Vander er music teacher, are in a precarious ondition tonight, having been poison ed. Physicians have not yet decided how they were poisoned, but think it was from drinking water that had been statnding in lead pipes. Some of the children~ my die. Bsop Turner of Georgtia, continues to take a hopeless view of the future of . his race in this country. "The best thing the Negro can do," lie says, "is to call a great national convention and ask the U. S. eongress for $100,000,000 to meet the expense of starting a line of steamers between this country and Africa, thus pioneering a domain for om- sttlement.