The Manning times. (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, March 08, 1899, Image 4

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LlFES SPRiNGTIEIll Dr. Talmage's Sermon Recalls Scenes of Youth. PARENTS WRITING HISTORY. He Draws a Vivid Picture of Two Contrasting Homes. A Man's True Character Comes Out at the Fireside. Many tender recollections were stirred by Dr. Talaage's discourse at Wash ington last Sunday. and scenes of boy hood and girlhood days will be lived over again: text, I Tituothy v, 4. "Let them learn first to show piety at home." During the sunmer inonths the ten dincy is to the fields: to visitation, to foreign travel and the watering places. and the ocean steamers are thronged. but in the winter it is rather to gather in domestic circles, and during these months we spend many of the hours within doors, and the apostle comes to us and says that we ought to exercise Christian behavior amid all such cir cumstances. "Let them learn frst to show piety." There are a great many people long ing for some grand sphere in which to serve God. They admire Luther at the diet of Worms and only wish that they had some such great opportunity in which to display their Christian pro wess. They admire Paul making Felix tremble, and they only wish that they had some such grand occasion in which to preach righteousness temperance and judgment to come. All they want is an opp.irtunity to exhibit their Chris tian heroism. Now, the apostle practi cally says: "I will show you a place where you can exhibit all that is grand and beautiful and glorious in Christian character, and that is the domestic cir cle. Let themlearn first to show piety at home." If one is not faithful in an insignificant sphere, he will not be faith ful in a resounding sphere. If Peter will not help the cripple at the gate of the temple, he will never be able to preach 3,000 into the kingdom at the Pentecost. If Paul will not take pains to instruct in the way of salvation the jailer of the Philippian dungeon. he will never make Felix tremble. IlIe who is not faithful in a skirmish would not be faithful in an Armageddon. The fact is, we are placed in just the posi tion in which we can most grandly serve God, and we ought not to be chiefly thoughtful about some sphere of useful - ness which we may after awhile gain, but the all absorbing question with you and with me ought to be, "Lord, what wilt thou have me now and here to do?" There is one word in St. Paul's ad juration around which the most of our thoughts will revolve. That word is "home." Ask ten differeit men the meaning of that word, and they will give you ten different definitions. To one it means love at the hearth, plenty at the table, industry at the workstand, intelligence at the books, devotion at the altar. In that household discord neve.r sounds its warwhoop and decep tion never tricks with its false face. To him it means a greeting at the door and a smile at the chair, peace hover ing like wings, joy clapping its hands with laughter. Life is a tranquil lake. Billowed on the ripples sleep the sha dows. Ask another man what home is, and he will tell you it is want looking out of a cheerless fire grate, kneading hunger in an empty bread tray. The danmp air shivering with curses. No Bible on the shelf. Children robbers and murderers in - ibryo. Obscene songs their lulla' Every face a pie ta~re of -ruin. W , in the background and sin staring irom the front. No Sabbath wave rolling over that doorsill. Vestibule of the pit. Shadow of in fernal walls. Furnace for forging ever lasting chains. Fagots for an uneed ing funeral pile. Awful word. It is spelled with curses, it weeps with ruin, it chokes with woe, it swears with the death agony of despair. The word "home" in the one ease means every thing bright. The word "home" in the other case means everything terrific. I shall speak now of home as a test of character, home as a refuge, home as a political safeguard, home as a school and home as a type of heaven. And in the first place home is a powerful test of character. The disposition in pub lic may be in gay costume, while in private it is dishabille. As' play actors may eppear in one way on the stage and may appear in another way bnd the scenes, so private character may be very different from public character. Pri vate character is often public character turned wrongside out. A man may re ceive you into his parlor as though he were a distillation of smiles, and yet his heart may be a swamp of mettles. There are business men who all day long ave mild and courteous and genial and good natured in commercial life. dam-'ing back their irritability and their netulance and their discontent. but at nightfall the dam breaks and scolding pours forth in floods and fresh ts. Reputation is on]; the shadow of character, and a veir .>"mall house some times will cast a very i ng shadow. Ti he lips may seem to drop with myrrh and cassia and the disposition to be as bright -and wa'a as a sheath of sun beams, and - they may only be a magnificent sheov window for a wretch ed stock of goods. I here is many a man who is affanie in public lif'e and amid commercial spheres who in a cowardly way takes his anger and his petulance h'vme and drops them in Lhe domestic circle. The reason. men do not display their bad temper .in public is because they do not war~t to be knocked down. There are men who hide their netulance and their irrita bility just for the 54sel reasor that they do not let tnle: ...otes go to protec t -it does not pay-or for the same rea son that they do not want a man in their stock company to sell his stock below par lest it depreciate the value. As at sunset sometimes the wind rises, so after a sunshiny day there may boatempestuous night. There are people who in public act the philan thropist who at home act the Nere with respect to their slippers and their gown. Audubon, the great ornitholo gist, with gun and peneil went through the forests of America to bring down and to sketch the beautiful birds, and . after years of toil and exposure com-. pleted his manuscript and put it in a trunk in Philadelphia and went off for a few days of recreation and rest and came back and found that.the rats had utterly destroyed the manuscript, but without any discomposure and without -any fret or bad temper he again picked ip his gun and his pencil and visited again all the great forest of America and reproduced his immortal work. And yet thcre are people with the ten thousandth part of that loss who are utterly irreconcilable, who at the loss of a pencil or an article of raiment will IortheaSL ourI Now: hi mnan, h i affable pub and whc is irr!'blk ^i mating a fraudulent and ovcrisuc of .teek, and he is as bad as a bank th - mright have $400,000 or goi.Q'0 of bills in circulation with no specie in the .ault. Let us learn to show piety at home. If we have it not there, we have it not anywhere. If we have not genuine grace in the failyti'I circle. all our outward and publie plausibility mie-rely sprirgs from the fear of the world or from the slimy, putrid pool of our own seltishness. tell you the home is a mighty t-st of caracter. What you are at home y are everywhere, whether you demon strate it or not. Again, hon- is a refuge. Life is the United States army on the national road to Mexico- : loin marci with ever ana aron a skirmish and a battle. At eveatide we pitch our tent and stack the ar~m; we hang up the war cap. ani our head on the knapsack, we sleep until the morning buale :alls us to march to the action. low pleasant it i- to rehearse the victories and lhe sur pri-es and the attacks of the day, seat ed h the still campfire of the home circle. Yea. life is a stormy sea. With shivered masts and torn sails and hulk aleak. we put in at the harbor of home. PIezsed harbor: There we go for re pairs in the dr3 dock. Thi candle in the window is to the toiling man the lighthouse guiding him into port. Children go forth to meet their fathers as pilots at the Narrows take the hand of ships. The doorsill of the home is the wharf where heavy life in unladen. There is the place where we may talk of what we have done without being q arged with self adulation. There is t, e place where we may lounge without being thought ungraceful. There is the piece where we may express afee tion without being thought silly. There is the place where we may forget our annoyances and exasperations and trou bles. Forlorn earth pilgrim, no home? Then die. That is better, The grave is brighter and grander and more glori ous than this world with no tent from marching. with no harbor from the storm, with no place of rest from this scene of greed and gouge and loss and gain. God pity the man or the woman who has no home! Furthir, home is a political safe guard. The safety of the state must be built on the safety of the home. Why cannot France come to a placid repub lic? MIacIahon appoints his ministry, and all France is aquake lest the re public be smothered. Gambetta dies. and there are hundreds of thousands of Frenchmen who are fearing the return of a monarchy. The Dreyfus case is at this moment a slumbering earthquake under Paris. France as a nation. has not the right kind of a Christian home. The Christian hearthstone is the only hearthstone for a republic. The virtues cultured in the family circle are an ab solute necessity for the state. If there be not enough moral principle to make the family adhere, there will not be enough political principle to make the state adhere. No home means the Goths and.Vandals, means the Nomads of Asia, means the Numidians of Africa, changing from place to place according as the pasture hap pens to change. Confounded be all those babels of iniquity which would overpower and destroy the home! The same storm that upsets the ship in which the family sail will sink the fri rate of the constitution. Jails and penitentiaries armies and navies are not our best defense. The door of the home is the best fortress. Household utensils are our best artilery, and the chimneys of our dwelling houses are the grandest monuments to safety and triumnph. No home. no republic! Further, home is a school. Old ground must be turned up with subsoil plow, and it must be harrowed and re narrossed, and then tl crop will not be as large as that of the aew ground with less culture. Now, youth and child hood are new ground, and all the influ ences thrown over their heart and life will come up in after life luxuriantly. Every time you have given a smile of approbation all the good cheer of your life will come up again in the geniality of your chilstren. And every ebullition of anger and every uncontrollable dis play of indignation will be fuel to their disposition 20 or 30 or 40 years from now-fuel for a bad fire a quarter of a century from this. You praise the in telligence of your child too much some times when you think he is not aware of it, and you will see the result of it before ten years of age in his annoying affectations. You praise his beau-y, supposing he is not large enough to un derstand what you say, and you will find him standing on a high chair be fore a flattering mirror. W~ords and deeds and examples are the seed of charac'er, and children are very apt to be the second edition of their parents. Abraham begat isaac, so virtue is apt to go down in the ancestrai line, but Hlerod begat Archelaus, so iniquity is transmitted. What vast responsibility comes upon parents in view of this subject! Oh, make your nome '- brightest place on earth if you woua charm your children to the high path of virtdie and rectitude and religion! Do not al'ays turn the blinds the wrong way. Let the light, which puts gold on the gentian and spots the pansy, pour into your dwellings. Do not expect the little feet to keep step to a dead march. Do not cover un your walls with such pie tures as West's "Death on a Pale Horse" or Tintoretto's "31assacre of the Innoc-ents." Rather cover themi if you have pictures with "The Hawking Party," and "The 3Mill by the Moun tain Stream," and "The Fox Hunt," and the "Children Amid Flowers." and the "Harvest Scene," and "The Satur cay Night M1arketing." Get you no hint of cheerfulness from grasshopper's leap and lamb's frisk and quail's whistle and garrulous streamlet, which from the rock at the mountain top clear down to the meadow ferns under the shadow of the steep comes looking to see whor' it can find the steepest place to leap off at and talking just to hear itself talk? If all the skies hurtled with tempest and everlasting storm, wandered over the sea, and every moun tain stream were raving mad, frothing at the mouth with mud foam, and there were nothing but simoons blowing among the hills and there were neither Iark's carol nor humming bird's trill, nor waterfall's 'dash, but only bear's bark and panther's scream and wolf's howl, thcn you might well gather into your homes only the shadows. But when God has strewn the earth and the heavens with beauty and with gladness., let us take into our home circles all innocent hilatity, all brightness and all good cheer. A dark home makes batd bad boys and bad girls in prepara .ion for bad men and bad womern. Above all, my friends, take into your homes Christian principle. Can it be that in any of the comfortable homes whose inmates I confront the voice of prayer is never lifted? What! No supplication at night for protection? What! No thanksgiving in the morn ing for care! How, my brother, my sister, will you answer God in the day of judgment with reference to your -hil&Pn? It is a plain 'iuation, nd thercfore I ask it. In the tenth chap ter of Jeremiah God says he will pour ouit his fury upon the families that call not upon his names. Oi, parents when you are dead and gone, azl the moss is covering the inscription of the tombstone, will your children look ba'ck and think of fathr and mother it fai lv I rayer? Will they take the old family Bible and open It and see the mark of tears of contrition and tears of eonsOimig pmrominse wept by eyes lot before gone out into darkness? Oh. if vou do not inculcate Christian prirciple in the hearts of your childr i. and you do not warn them against evil, and you do not iuvite then to holiness and to God. and they wander off into dissipa tion and infidelity and at last make shipwreck of their immortal soul, on their deathbed and in the day of judg mu-nt they will curse you! Seated by the register or the stove. what if. on the wall, should come out the history of your childreu? What a history-the mortal and iun ortal life of your loved one ,! Every parent is writing the historv of his child. le is writing it, composing it into a song, or pointing it with a groan. My mind runs back to one of the best of early homes. Prayer like a roof over it. Peace like an atmosphere in it. Parents personifications of faith in trial and comfort in darkness. The two pillars of that eartnly .hame long crumbled to dust. But shall I ever forget that early home? Yes, when the flower forgets the sun that warmed it. Yes, when the mariner forgets the star that guidcd him. Yes. when love has gone out on the heart's altar, and memory has emptied itsturn into for getfulness. Then, the home of my childhood. I will forget thee! The fam ily altar of a father's importunity and a mother's tenderness, the voices of af fection, the funeral of our dead, the father and mother with interlocked arms like intertwining branches of trees making a perpetual arbor of love and kindness-then I will forget thee then, and only then! You know, my brother, that a hundred times you have been kept out of sin by the memory of such a scene as I have been describing. You have often had raging temptations, but you know what his held you with supernatural grasp. I tell you a man who has had such a good home as that never gets over it, and a man who has had a bad early home never gets over it. Again, home is a type of heave! .\ our best estate we are only pilgrin; :ai strangers here. "Heaven is ourb e. Death will never knock at the d.- r of that mansion, and in all that coi itry there is not a single grave. Hov. glad parents are in the holidays -to gather their children home again! But I have noticed that there is almost always a son or a daughter absent-absent from home perhaps absent from the country. per haps absent from the world. Oh, how glad our heavenly Father will be when he gets all his children home with him in heaven! And how delightful it will be for brothers and sisters to meet after long separation! Once they parted at the door of the tomb. Now they meet at the door of immortality. Once they saw only "through a glass darkly." Now it is face to face, corruption, in corruption, mortality, immortality. Where are nor: all their sins and sor rows and troubles? Overwhelmed in the Red sea of death, w'hile they pass through dry shod. Gates of pearl. cap stones of amethyst, thrones of domin ion do not stir my soul so much as the thought of home. Once there, let earthly sorrows howl like storms and roll like seas. Home'. Let thrones rot and empires wither. Home! Let the world die in earthquake struggle and be buried amid procession of plan ets and dirge of spheres. Home! Let everlasting ages roll in irresistible sweep. Home! No sorrow. No cry ing. No tears. No death. But home, sweet home, beautiful home, everlast ing home, home with aeb other, home with angels, home with God. One night, lying on my lounge when very tired, my children all around about me in full romp and hilarity and laugh ter-on the lounge half awake and half asleep-I dreamed this dream: I was in a far country. It was not Persia, al though more than oriental luxuriane crowned the cities. It was not th' tropics, although more than tropical fruitfulness filled the gardens. It was not Italy, although more than Italian softness filled the air. And I wander ed around looking for thorns and net tles, but I found that none of them grew there, and I saw the sun rise, and I watched to see it set, but it sank not. And I saw the people in holiday attire, and I said, "When will they put ofi this and put on workmen's garb and again delve in the mine and swelter at the forge?" But they never put off the holiday attire. And I wandered in the suburbs of the city to find the place where the dead sleep, and I looked all along the line of the beautiful hills, the place where the dead might most peacefully sleep, and I saw towers and castles, but not a mau soleum or a monument or a white blab could I see. And I went into the chapel of the great town, and I said. "Where do the poor worship and where are the hard benches on which they sit?" And the answer was made me, "We have no poor in this country." And then I wandered out to find the hovels of the destitute, and I found mansions of amber and ivory and gold. but not a tear could I see, not a sigh could I hear. And I was bewildered, and I sat down underthme branches of a great tree, and I said. "Where am I and whence comes all this scene?" And then out from among the leaves and up the flowery paths and across the broad streams there came a beautiful group thronging all about me, and as I saw them come I thought I knew their step, and as they shouted I thought I knew their voices, but then they were so glo riously arrayed in apparel such as I had never before witeessed that I bowed as stranger to stranger. But when again they clapped their hands and shouted, "Welcome, welcome!" the mystery all vanished, and I found that time had gone and eternity had come and we were all together again in ournew home in heaven, and I looked around, and I said, - Are we all here?" and the voices of many generatioas responded. "All here!' And while tears of gladness were running down our chechs. and the branches of the Lebanon eedars were clapping their hands, and the towers of the great city were chiming their wel come we all together began to leap and shout and sing: "Home! Home! Home." Wants Damages. Wellington, Kan., built a new .iail last year, and the authorities deter mined to name it after the first prison er who might be confined in it. This prisoner proved to be a woman, iMrs. Horton, and the institution was promptly named "Horton Jail." Now it has been proven that the woman was innocent. and she proposes to sue theI Wellington authorities for damages.I If those of our readers whose hens do not lay every time they want eggs, will feed them on nearly done cow peas they will have eg to bun.n GEl. (4OMEZ WELCOMED iiis Entrance nto Havana Causes ie Wildest Enthusiasm. Gen. Maxino Gomez. the Cuban 4'mmannadert- in-chief. (ent eredu liabr na Friday afternoon escorted by Gen. Lud low and hi.; .;taff and Troop L. of the Seventh lnited States cavalry. lie marched at the head of 2,00o armed Cul-an horsetien and footmen. The population of the city was wild with en. thusiasm. throwi tinselves in frout I of the general's horse. impeding its progress and pelting him with flowers. The general reviewed the troops at the Palace. The festivities in honor of the fourth anniversary of the beginning of the Cu ban strug le for independence was most spontaneous and wildly enthusiastic. Habana had never seen anything like it before. The entrance of Gen. Gouez into the city was. of course, the princi pal feature. The whole town was dec orated, and the streets were packed with a crowd twice as large as that which turned out at the Garcia funeral. As Gen. Goimez passed the crowd went wild with vivas, hats were flung in the air, and women showered fiowers on all sides. He bowed and raised his hat incessantly as the crowds struggled to get near h-is horse and clung to the animal's sides as long as possible. The procession stopped frequently, eventu ally filing into the main streets of the city. passing central park and arriving at the palace at half past 2. Once at the palace the Cuban corn mander in-chief was welcomed by Senor Federico Mora. the civil governor, Mayor Perfeeto Lacoste. the members of the city council. the junta patriotica the members of the assembly, the offi cials of all classes and numerous patri otic clubs. The place was beautifully decorated. Following the procession were many private carriages filled with women of the best society. some allegorically iressed and others waving flags. The Cuban bands played the Cuban national hymn, varying this with "Dixie," "The Star Spangled Banner," "The Stars and Stripes forever." and popular Ameri can marches. There were many allego rical floats expressing the friendship between Cuba and the United States. A handsome carriage. containing ]a dies, and decorated with large Spanish, American and Cuban flags draped to 4ether with white ribbons and bearing the legend "Unity, peace and con cord," was vociferously cheered. Still another float reresented a Cuban wo man holding the American flag, with the scattered crown of Spain at her feet. No fewer than 25,000 people were in line, requiring three hours to pass a giv en point. After the review at the pal ace, Gen. Gomez, accompanied by his staff, proceeded to Elvedado, visiting Gen. Brooke. This evening he attend ed the charity ball at the Tacon the atre, where the best Habana society was represented. Foreign consuls rais ed their respective flags in honor of the day. The crowds throughout were or derly. bpanish liertvations. Many English words are taken di rectly from the Spanish. When you speak of a Piccadilly collar you are not using slang. The "piccadallo" is a collar which at one time was worn by all men of position in Spain. A few years since many Angericans cities boasted of companies of volun teer soldiers called grenatdiers. The first grengdiers were In Grenada. Our marines, of whom we are special ly proud just now, got their name by lipping the last syllable of "mariner os," which Is the equIvalent Spanish word. Rye bread without caraway seeds would not be rye bread at all. Cara way is a purely Spanish word, derived from "Alcara Hueya." The hammock on your veanda got Its name from the Spanish "hamaca," although that is not purely a Spanish word. Columbus got It from the In dians 400 years ago. There are many other examples: 'Banana." "apricot," "Canada," "duel" and "palavar" are all directly from the Spanish. Venice Drying Up. Venice without its waters would be a far less pictusesque place than it actually is. And such a state of af fairs, we are led to believe, may event ually come about. The regular in rease in the delta of tihe Po has been studied by Prof. Marinelli. Compari son of the Austrian map of about 1823 with the records of surveys made in 1893 shows that the mean annual in rease during those seventy years has been about three-tenths of a square mile; and from all known data it ap pears that the total increase during six centuries has been about 198 square -niles. The inicrease is con) tnuing, and thle Gulf of Venice is dootmed in time to disappear. No immediate alarm need, however, be excited. for Prof. Ma rinelli calculates that between 100 and 120 'entturies will elapse before the ant ire northern Adriatio will have be -ome dry land. Distance Traveled When Readn: . U1ns it ever' occured to you to rc'koni how~ fa:r your eyes travel in reading'. Th-' !ditance will not startle you. per has ftr 1.000.000 letters in ordinary type would mea~-sure hardly more than a mile placed side by side. In a life time. hiowvver. the average' reader wends his way throtugh 2.000 miles of print. The average no'vel of 300 pages contains one mile of re-ading: that is, the eye travels 1.NGt yards in read ing the book through. Charlotte Man Suicid :s 5 . H. S. Chadwick of' Charlotte. N. C.. apparently a pecrson of wealth, cone mitted suicid1e by shooting at the Par ker IHouse in Boston Thursday. lHe engaged a suite at the hotel and Wed nesday night he was found in his room in a delirious condition and a niale nurse was summoned. 'Thursday morn ing 31r. Chadwick went into the bath roomn adjoining his chamtber while the nurse was ordering his breakfast and put a bullet through his brain. Will Be Saved. After considerable delay the former Spanish cruiser Reina M1ercedes, which was sunk in the channel of San-iair harbor during the bombardment hy Ad miral Sampson's fleet on 'June 1;th. has been raised and pumped out, the gtv ernent tupi a.istlig the wreeking eon pan'.. MIr. James 31. Smith of Columbia. S C. writes: Dear Sir-lt gives me reat pleasure to say tnat tnecl North State Ointment bought of you has entirely cured me of eczema wheni everything I had used previously failed to giye any relief. It is a great medi ine, and I would not be without it i'a my house. I use it for .lmost every thing, where any medicine is needed, and have gotten the best of results every time. Respectfully, James 31. Smith. If there is anything in the old saying hat a severe winter makes a good crop ear, and we think there is a grreat dealj f truth in it, the farmer will be blessed with very fine crops this season. for we ave certainly had one of the coldest spells that has ever been known in this POMP NWW STATE LAWS Pased at the Recent Seeaion of 'the Legislature. An act to rev1t estruet:!u ol graves and grave ardk. Section . Be it enacted by the gen eral assembly of the State of South Carolina. That from and after the ap proval of this act any person or persons who shall wilfully obliterate or dese crate any grave, or shall wilfully de stoy any plants. trees, decorations, shrubberry, or deface or remove any grave stone, or :,hall wilfully destroy, tear dowti or injire any fence or other enclosure of any graveyard, shall be guilty of a misleicanor. and upon con viction) Shall pay a fine of not less thin $25 or he confined in the county chain ean-, not more thau 30 nor less than 10 aas. Approved February 15, A. D. 1899. An act to require cotton buyers to ac cept bales of cotton weighing not less than three hundred pounds, Section 1. Be it enacted by the gen eral assembly of the State of South Carolina, That it shall be unlawful for any cotton buyer to refuse to accept any bale of cotton, after he has bought the same by sample thereof, weighing over 30) pounds. provided same corresponds in quality with sample bought by; and any such buyer who docks or deducts any amount from the purchase price of any such bale of cotton, or attempts to dock or deduct any amount from the purchase price of such bale of cotton, shall be deenid guilty of a misdemean or and-upon conviction before any court of competent jurisdiction shall be fined in the sum of not more than $100 nor less than $20. Approved February 15, A. D. 1899. An act to declare the law in relation to termination of rental contracts. Section 1. Be it enacted by the gen eral assemply of the State of South Carolina, That from and after the pas sage of this act, should any tenant for years or lesser period remove from any demised premises before the expiration of the term for which said premises were demised, leased or rented, then. and in such case, the rent (which would be earned up to the end of the month in which the tenant leaves) shall be im mediately due and payable and it shall be lawful for the landlord, at any time within five days after the removal of such tenant. to issue his distress war rant for such an amount as may be due up to the expiration of the month in which said tenant leaves the premises. Approved Fobruary 15, A. D. 1899. An act to require county boaras of com missioners to deduct from salary of regular constables compensation paid persons acting as constables on a par ticular occasion, unless such service was rendered in an emergency where in the regular constable could not perform the service. Section 1. Be it enacted by the gen eral assembly of the State of South Car olina, That in all counties of the State wherein magistrates are allowed by law to appoint a cbnstable, such con stable so appointed receiving a salary from the county in lieu of all costs and fees in criminal cases, it shall be the duty of the board of county com missioners to dedu.-t from the salary of such constable all sums paid to any other person or persons for services rendered the county in eriniinal cases while acting under appointment by such magistrate. on a particular occa sion, unless it is proven to the satisfac tion of the board .of *county commis sioners that such services were render ed in an emergency wherein it was im possible for the constable entitled to the salary to perform -the said services. Approved Febr-uary, 15, A. ID. 1899. An act to provide for the renewing char ters of ferries which have expired or are about to expire. and for granting charters for ferries not heretofore granted. Section 1. Be it enacted by the gen eral assembly of the state of South Carolina, That after the approval of this act, when the charter of any ferry rtas expired or is about to expire, the ,ame may be renewed or rechartered. and when a ferrry needed where no fer ry has been heretofore chartered the same may be chartered in the follow ing manner: By application to the county board of commissioners instead of to the general assembly, and where the ferry is across a river at a point where such river is the boundary be tween two or more counties, theni to the respective boards of commissioners of the counties concerned. Tb ..t the application shall be by petition after the notice now required by law, and after strictly observing and complying with all prerequisites required by law before the granting of such charters. Sec. 2. Such charter shall be to the applicant, (petitioner,) his or her heirs and assigns, for a term not to exceed twenty-one years, and shall be subject to revocation at any time by the county board of commissioners which granted or renewed the same for such cause or causes as to them may seem just and proper Sec. 3. That the following shall be the maximum rates of toll that shall be charged at each public ferry in this state chartered under the provisions of this act: For every passenger, 5 cents; for every head of sheep, goats. hogs and other small animals; 5 cents: for every horse, mule and head of cattle. 10 cents: for every passenger with sin gle horse, mule, ox or other riding ani mal, 20 cents; for every single horse buggy, cart or other vehicle. 25 cents: for every 2-horse wagon or other vehi ele. 50 cents; for every 3-horse wagon >r other vehicle, 65 cents; for every 4-horse wagon or other vehicle. 75 cents: Provided, that it shall be with in the province and power of the county board of commissioners of the several c~unties of the state to fix lower rates of toll for any one or more specific ferries in any county as the special conditions and circumstances may demand, and in case of ferries crossing rivers or streams forming boundary limes between any two coun ties the power and province aforesaid shall vest in the county boards of com missioners of said coun ties. Sec. 4. That the county boards of commissioers of the various countics of the state arc hereby authorized and emplowered to grant the charters for ferries, and to establish feeries under the provions of thi.s act, and shall re port all such charters to the secretary of state immediately after they are granted. Sec. 3. That the following shall be a sufficient form for such charter: The state of South Carolina. county of --. on the petition of ---,. and it appearing that the public good will be mubserved thereby the (or a) ferry across -river at , known as (or to be known as) ferry, is hereby hartered (or rechartered) and vested in ,the said petitionar, his (or her eirs, cxecu< rs, administrators or as igns, for the term of years, sub ect, however, to be revoked in the discre ion of the county board of commission) and seal of this office thi i he - - I a of - - . 1). 1 . Approvd FelbruAiry 15, 1 . Ge'. 'That aill acts and parts of acts Incoletent with thisact 'irehere Iy repe'caled. POLICEMAN'S UNHAPPY LOT Some Sage Remarks by an Offcer Who Knew Whereof le Spoke. The downtown policeman was in a reminiscent mood. "Yes," he said, "never go before a man when you are arresting him, and whatever you do, never precede him when you are going down a flight of stairs. I was walking my beat one dark night when I heard cries of murder coming from a tene ment house. Running to the place, I saw a great hulk of a fellow beating his wife, who was screaming and shouting in mortal terror. At the sight of me the fellow ran upstairs, and I went af ter him. The stairway leading from the upper floor to the kitchen below was a very narrow affair, and it was impossible for two to walk abreast. So, with my prisoner at arm's length to the rear, I went down the flight. There was an old-fashioned door at the bot tom of the staircase, and I had hardly opened it when scmethirg hit me a whack on the head like a load of bricks falling from a seven-story roof. At the same time a shrill female voice shriek ed out: 'There, you brute, you will strike a defenseless woman, will you?' an again she raised a long, heavy iron poker, which she held in her hand, to strike me. As she looked up she saw her mistake, but too late to check her sinewy right, which was twirling through the air. Down came the poker again. Bang! it didn't do a thing to my helmet, and I saw more stars at that time than ever I did on a bright night In August. 'Holy mother!' shriek ed out the woman, when she saw what she had done, 'I've struck the cop and I thought it was Jimmy I was bateing.' To make my cup of sorrow more bitter the next morning the woman swore that her husband always treated her kindly, and that I had no right to in terfere while Jimmy was giving her only what she deserved. Yes, whatever people may say, a policeman's lot is no bed of roses." At Mme. Patti's Castle. Visiting Mme. Pasti's superb castle in Wales, a guest not long since had a very curious experience. He chanced to open his window in the middle of the night, and, to his surprise, bells began to ring in every quarter of the grounds. Very much seared, but realizing that he had, after all, only set a burglar alarm going, the guest descended to reassure the household, when he instantly found himself in danger from a dozen roving dogs, who had obtained their freedom and were growling and snapping in the ugliest manner. At breakfast next morning he learned all about the cu rious fad of Mme. Patti, and wondered at it. The singer has a great dread of bur gla.z. Some time ago a gang of these gentlemen from London attempted to obtain admittance, but were defeated in their object, and since that date Mme. Patti has set up every kind of burglar alarm that exists. The queer part about one of these is, however, wvell worth noticing. Her largest dog, an enormous brute, who might be relied on to cope with a little army of thieves, is kept rigorously chained in a patent kennel. But the chain is so arranged that should any one attempt to open a window or a door in the castle the dog is released and free to _rove at his pleasure, it being presumed that he would at once make for the burglars and do his duty. The idea is ingenious, and, as the traveler discovered, not a little dangerous. "Navy Sherry." According to the navy regulations, whiskey is not allowed on war ships except in the medical supplies, but it gets aboard somehow, as visitors to the hospitable officers can testify. It Is alled "navy sherry" on shipboard. Sometimes, when the fleet was on blockade duty, newspaper despatch boats carried supplies to the oficers. A man ignorant of the rule about "navy ahrry" bailed the flagship New York one Sunday morning off Santiago and asked the officer of the deck if he would send a hoat for some supplies. "For whom are they?" the offieer asked, through a megaphone. "The ward room mess." was the re ply. It was an idle hour on the New York, and a crowd of officers and men had lined up anad wvere listening. "What supplies have you ?" the of fleer asked aigain, and through his meg aphone the correspjondent bawled: "Onions, potatoes and whiskey!" Then he wondered why all tihe of icers in sight fled to the other side of the ship, holding their sides with laghter. The onions and potatoes were sent on board-at least they alone were received officially. An officer, who asked a friend to get . case of "navy sherry" for him later n was astounded when the man. brought r'eal sherry. lHe had supposed that every one knew the difference. --Come in, Old PardS." The laud crab, big, noisy, of weird locomotion and most objectionable ap ~earance, was among the horrors which ur soldiers encountered as they moved from Siboney to Santiago. Most of the men had never seen such creatures, and regarded them with extreme aversion. Often these noisy creatures invaded the tents of the men, and violence and profanity followed. But some of the Rough Riders had seen such tliings be fore. One night an Eastern man was visiting a Rough Rider from Arizona, whien in walked the biggest land crab ofthe season. "Egh:" cried the visitor. "Look at that" "Why," said the Rough Rtider, delightedly. "how home like!" And ex onding his hand toward the ugly in truder, he cr'd:--"ome in, old pard. knew your broither in :nd Arizona." 1 he Eastern mn..n fled. leaiping over the "old nard" as he departed. Ti H : Sumter Freeman says: 'The spensary stands for another year. do ite the fact that a majority of' the leg iaors were opposedl to it-thus do monstratinuc its power as a political ui-hine. Light, however. has been Hrned on and such pressutre will soon hebrought to boat' ou the legisiature as will compel that body to submit the .eston to tie ieople anda then woe to he big machi no' If a majoirity of the I,e1isature is opposeod to the dispiensary :hyhave a veryv poor way' otf showing .N enternising' American irm in anila h~as struck oii a numher of badges commemorative of D exe 's vic tory on May' 1, 19%. and thousands of: hem have been sofd to our soldiers. 'h ribbon of the badge is a piece of red. white and blue silk. The pendant is a bronze medal on one side of which is stamped the inscription: "'Dewey's Victory. Manila Bay." and on the other P Makes the food more d ROYAL eAIN PO% TERln i v [{)\ . Seven Pe rsor s Kli 1 r.d T i or Tw vI Wou d4d. PROFERTY DEST' CYED Most Daimage in Tennessee, But the Strm Alo Passed Thrc ugh Georg;i and Alab-ma. tio-: id .\hili'Iarle and !m di:tstr..ne nhs. oarhr in tIc he eve: hours h tr cyclone abot 7->5 d wide miuck Madisonviih-. killinr three personF. %niinding Itt or 12 tr . anl o n~e~t-lyv deri roviner 12 (r 15 bo THE KILLE). .lr. nr~d Mrs. Jack Mower. Ed. L. Iler~oni. .\i-s .ilie Ervin. Miss Delia 31aUn Mrs. E. L. Iforton. Mrs. L A. Robinso-a. 31r. L. A. Robinson. Robert Robinson. Miss Roders. 3r. Moser. Prof. Charles Kellv. The Horton and Robinson residences are both complete wrecks. not one tim ber beingleftabove another on the foun dations. The escape of the inmate's of these two hIuIses, eight in the Horton aod three in the Robinson, seems mir aculous. some of them being blown a distance of a hundred yards, yct escap ing in some cases without a scratch. W. E. E: vin's residence had one end torn an y: Dillon Rogeis' house is also a wreck; Erskine Lowry's residence moved the distance of 10 feet and was almost wrenched out of shape. Telephone and- telegraph wires are blown down and all communication shut off. The storm came up with alrming sud denntss and swept everyth'ng in it; path. It was acto npanied, by the cer rfic ro: r us: i'ly atteadirg tornado3s. Frightened innabitants rushed for their cellars and places of saiety. In the country great damage was done to orch ards and crops by the wind and haii. It is repcrzed that further cisualties resulted in the rural districts, but no par ticulais can be obtained. The ms, frightful featare of the tor nado was the maoner in which Jack Mosr met his death. He was hurled oy the wind's force from his house. a listan ce of 700 yards until his pro~eress wvas imnpeded by a wire fence, which comnpletely severed his head from the body. The remains were found in that condition by the rescuing jparty, which did faithful work -after the storm had subsided. The 12 year old son of MIr. and M1rs. Mloser was in their home with them, but lie was unburt. Ilugh IIi~ks and Charles Pier e2 were seriously injured. In addition to the loss of life and de t -uctih n of residence procperty, barns nare swept away and stock was killed. i'he wood working and milling plant of I. HI. Butrleson was damaged, together -with its costly machinery. The proper ty damaged is not secured by storm in surance, and is believed to be a total loss. It is believed that 3Miss Rodgers, who is reported as seriously injured, may die, her body having been lacerato' by broken panes of glass. She was ailso badl3 bruised and injurcd inter nally. U9pper East Tennessee reiports heavy wind storms accompanied by terrific rains. The rains did unt .Id damage to the crops in that section, and it is con servat~v ly estimnati d that this torren'. coupled with the recent freeze and bad weather, will mean a loss of a million dollars to farmers in that sectio:. FOUR KILLED IN ALABA MA. A terrible stornm of iwind. hail and lightning .struck D.icatur, Ala., Situr day tight, doing great damage and cau-iug the loss oh foutr lives. TLe huge tower of the Long Distance Telephonie ec>npany, 140 feet high. n hieh carnies the wires spanning the Tennessee river was snapped like a reed. Several manu factu ing pAants are sulpended on ac count of tI e damage to buildines a-:d machinery. Capt. Sim McKee of the steamer L-uke Pryor, plying between here anid Chattanooga. camne in anc reported that he had found a larec raft below Whitenburg which had bece broken up The raft was being brought here by four white men, who were ex i dently. lost in the stormi, as their ba: was destroyed. Searching parties started Out to tind the bodies. TlE sTORM IN GEORG. A terrifie ind and hail storm-sw :1 over Atlanta. Ga.. Saturday night. Hlaiistones as large as seven inches in eircumferereca were found. Over two inches of rain fell during the evening. Some damage was done telegraph and electrie light wires, and a Negro was killed near the union depot by a live wire falling on him. Five hunidred square foct of glass in a hot house on Marietta street was demolished. The oppressive heat of Saturday gave way immeliately after the storm to a tem perature 40 degrees lower. Windsor. Ga.. was visited Saturday night by a terrific hail, wind and light ning storm. Lots of live stock was killed by lightning and some damage done farm property. Lightning entered the hiouse ot \. D). Sims, ex-marshal here. demiolishing a bedstead and tearing the pictures from the wall. The two roeeupants of the room were unhurt. Late Saturday night a severe storm struck Elberton. The court house was badly damaged, and the new Ep'scopalr 2lhurch, which was neariag completion, wvas t.)tally demolished. Great dan ige to country property is reported. 0 A hea &y storm at Tocoa Saturday , night blew down the ware-houses ort Edwards Bros. and T. A. Capps and lemolished several smaller buildings. fhle Edwards warehouse in talline :rushed in the home of Mrs. Mary Mil or, and aged wildow. killing her instant ''SENATORt Tillmn's masterly aru-en nent against imperialism, says the P~ametto Post. -in point of sense and t sloquence, is the equal of any effort a aver made by any senator that has ever s POWDER PURE licious and wholesome IDER CO., NEW YOR GOUNTERFEITING IN INDIA. MIillions of Illicitly Coined Rnpees Now in Circlation. When the Government of British India closed the mints to the coinage of silver in 1S93. it was predicted that private enterprises would find a way )f frustrating Its intentions. Sir David Barbour combatted the idea and gave his reasons for believing that the measure would give to little or no illicit coining. The experience of the three following years,, sieied to jus tify his forecast. as nothing was de tected in that direction. although the circulation of rupees was carefully ob served. MaIters. however, have as sumed recently a different aspect. According to one of the Indian papers, the net import of silver for those three years was 26.000.01 ounces. With this enormous augmentaion of the silver imports in one year, there has been an increase of rupees in circulation, principally of the years 1840 and 1862. Itnow transpires that illicit coining is going on in India on an enormous se:ile. especially in the native States. Various explanations are given of the way these illicitly coined rupees get into circulation. One is that the ba ziar money lenders are the channel by which they pass from the hands of the private coiners into public currency. It has been remarked that of late loans could be obtained in the bazaars for short periods at several points below I.ant rates, and it is conjectured that this was done in consequence of the large supply of illicit rupees at the dis posal of the, Loney lenders that could be profitably employed at compara tively low rates. It Is stated, on what seems good authority, .aat millions of illicitly coined rupees are now In ci. culation in India, turned out by stamp ing machines Imported from Austria, nd so excellent is the workmanship on them that they defy detection even by the masters of the mints. SOME NEW INVENTIONS. A Fer; Handy ArLicles Which Have Re cently neen Patented. To retain shirt bosoms in place, a southerner has patented a device com posed of two strips of flexible webbing crossed at the back. with fasteners at the ends which clasp the edges of the bosom and draw it against the body to prevent it from bulging out. In a recently-patented bicycle saddle the frame is pivoted at the end of the post to tilt forward and backward, an 1djustable coiled spring being attached to the point of the saddle to allow it to swing back until the tension of the pring balances the weight of the rider.. Cotton can be easily gathered by a New Jerseyman's invention, an engine being mounted on a wagon and used to drive an intermittent-blast suction pump, with funnel-mouthed tubes held in the hands of the pickers to suck the: cotton into a wire basket on the. vehicle. To prevent animals from swallow ing their food in a hurry, an improved manger has a spring partition suspend-f d from the top, which only premits a small portion of the food to fall at a time. pressure on the partition to get Larger mouthfuls shutting off the sup ply entirely. An Austrian has patented an appli ance to be attached to the mouths of cannon. to be struck by the shell as it leaves the muzzle. the device being hinged at the top of the gun to swing out of the waty after It has exploded the shell and ca:used its contents to spread over a large area. .Where UmlbreIta4 Are Valuable, An Afr ican chief's umbrella Is'.o reater importance than many people uppose. Apart from Its enormous size, its loss in battle more than equals. the loss of a standard of a European commander. Some of .the umbrellas - are of prodigoious dimensions. being no less than 25 feet in diameter, with ribs '12 feet six inches long. Burglar and Uirang-OUtang Some two years ago a retii-ed officer ofT the merchant service, living in the Rue D'Alesia, Paris, M. Duchesne, brought home an orang-outang fron Borneo. Since growing to Its full size the brtute is a terror to the neighbors. Its master won't hear of its being. chained up, contenting himself with shutting the animal in his bedroom be fore going out. Nicholas Bargeve, alias the Devourer.' had determined to make a professional call at M. Duch esne's apartment with intent to burgle. Now this illustrious character was uni aware that such a pet as, the orang outang was tolerated in these particu~ lar rooms. Consequently when the burglar was suddenly pounced upon by two hairy paws he was somewhat sur prised, and his screams soon brought help, with the result that M. Bargeve was drawn out of the room by his feet, in a very Ignominious fashion. He was taken to the infirmary, and It is re ported that he has gone mad and now imagines himsclt to have been changed into an ape. River of Death. The Yellow river, which has been named the "Sorrow of China," lsprob bly the most destructive stream on he- face of the earth. In less than 100 ears it has. changed its channel four :mes, and the point where it empties ito the sea has from time..to time been. moved up and down the coast a dis :ance of 300 miles. -It runs through a vast alluvial plain, and is fed by streams from a great system of moun :ains in the north. When the snow melting on this range comes at a time f heavy rains, the result Is sure to be terrific flood. It has been estimated :hat in the past three centuries over 0,000,000 human beings have perished n the nloods of the Yellow river. For lestructiveness, both of life and prop ty, this stream is unparalleled, and he sobriquet bestowed upon it is am y justified by its history. The Greatest scorcher. You may talk about the scorcher And the century he has made, But the sun's the greatest scorcher When a centuryv in the shade. Joux Bull does not hesitate to nt i e material wherever found. II, a! aady has native regiments in ['di3, gypt and other colonies, *and is n,1 ngaged in raising a regiment oif Chi ese to be commanded by Eruglish ic. The economy of the movemenClt, >o. will be in the fact. that, while the oops fight for Eagland, the Chinese rovernent will probably pay them. Periodically some genius presents a ulet proof cloth and wants it adopted. 'he latest is that of a Frenchman, the ssential portion being' a sheet of metal laced between an outer and inner lin ig. - A suit weighs seven pounds, four e ounces and a Mauser bullet fired ta d tstance of 70 yards made a very ight indentation in the metal, not