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GLORY OF THE NAY L Dr Talmage'sSermon on Dewey ij Han'm e Coming. RECEPTION TO DEWEY. f a Naval Heroes Deserve Fuli Meas ure of Praise. Useful Lessons I Drawn From Their Bravery C and' Devotion. Heroic Deeds Lauded. At a time when the whole nation is stired with vatriotie emotion at the re turn of Admiral George Dewey and his gallant men on the cruiser Olympia and the magnificent reception accord2d to them, the Rev. Dr. T. DeWitt Talmage in his sermon. preaching to a vast audi ence, appropriately recalls for devout and patriotic purposes some of the great naval deeds of olden and more recent times. Text, James iii, 4, "Behold also the ships." If this exclamation was appropriate about 1872 years ago, -.hen it was writ ten concerning the crude fishing smacks that sailed Lake Galilee. how much more appropriate in an age which has launched from the drydocks for pur- t poses of pence the Oceanic of the White Star line, the Luc:nia of the Cunard line, the Sr. Louis of the Amer ican line. the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse of the North German Lloyd line, Augusta Victoria of the Hamburg American line; and in an age which for purposes of war has launched the screw sloops like the Idaho, the Shenandoah, v the Ossipee, and our ironclads like the Kalamazoo, the Roanoke and the Dun derberg, and those which have already been buried in the deep, like the Moni tor, the Housatonic and the Weehaw ken. the tempests ever since sounding a volley over their watery sepulchers, and the Oregon, and the Brooklyn. and the Texas, and the Olympia, the Iowa, the Massacnusetts, the Indiana, the New York, the Marietta of the last war, and the scarred veterans of war ship ping, like.the Constitution or the Alli ance or the Constellation. that have - swung into the naval yards to spend their last days, their decks now all si lent of the feet that trod them, their rigging all silent of the hands that clung to them, their portholes silent of the brazen throats that once thundered out of them. If in the first century, when war ves sels were dependent on the oars that paddled at the side of them for propul sion, my text was suggestive, with how t much more emphasia and meaning and overwhelming reminiscence we can cry out as we see the Keaesarge lay across the bows of the Alabama and sink it, teaching foreign nations they had better keeptheir hands off our American fight, t or as we see the ram Albemarle of the Confederates running out and in the Roanoke and up and down the coast, throwing everything into confusion as no other craft ever did, pursued by the Miami, the Ceres, the Southfield, the Sassocus, the Mattabesett, the White head, the Commodore Hull. the Louisi ana, the M'nnesota and other armed vessels, all trying in van to catch her, until Captain Cushing, 21 years of age, and hismen blew her up, himself and enly one other escaping, and as I see the flagship Hartford, and the Rich mond, and the Moncngahela. with e other gunboats, sweep past the batteries t of Port Hudson, and the Mississippi a flows forever free to all northern and southernecraft, and under the fire of Dewey and his men the Spanish ships at Manila burn or sink, and the fleet rushing out of Santiago harbor are de- r molished by our guns, and the brave e Cervera surrenders, I cry out with a pa- ~ triotic emotion that I cannot suppress ~ if I would, and would not if I could, t "Behold also the ships." Full justice has been done to the men e who at different times fought on the land, but not enough has been said of those who on ship's deck dared and suf fered all things. Lord God of the rivers and the-sea. help me in this ser-. mon! So, ye admirals, commanders, y captains, pilots, gunners, boatswains. sailmakcrs, surgeons, stokers, mess mates and-seamen of all names, to use r your own parlance, we might as well get under way and stand ->ut to sea. La e alllandlubbers go ashore. Full e reed a now? Four bells!1 Never since the sea fight at Ler -nto, where 300 royal-galleys manned by 50, r 000 warriors, at sunrise, Sept. 63, 1571,2 met 250 royal galleys, manned by 120, 000 men,-.and in the four hours of battle 8,000 fell on one side and 25,000 on thet other; yea, never since the day when at 1 Actium, 31 years before Christ, Augus- ? tus with 260 ships scattered the 220 k ships of Mark Antony and rained uni- a versal dominion as the prize: yea, since the day when at Salamis the 1,200 gal- d leys of the Persians, manned by 500, 000 men, were crushed by Greeks with less than a third of that force: yea. never since the time of Noah, the first ~ ship captain, has the world seen such a L miraculous creation as that of the ~ American navy in 18631. In the cemeteries for Federal and ~ Confederate dead are the bodies of j, most of those who fell on the land. j But where those are who went down in n the war vessels will not be known untii the sea gives up its dead. The Jack b Tars knew that while loving arms might t carry the men who fell on the land and bury them with solemn liturgy and the honors of war, for the bodies of those who dropped from the ratlines into the l sea er went down with all on board un- a der the stroke of a gunboat there re- d mained the shark and the whale and the 1. endless tossing of the sea which cannot n rest. Once a year, in the decoration of () the graves, those who fell in the land f, were remembered. But how about the h rves of those who went down at sea? , i othing but the archangel's trumpett shall reach their lowly bed. A few of i them were gathered into naval cemeter- g ies of the land, and we every year gar- n land the sod that cover them. But , who will put flowers on the fallen crew a of the exploded Westfield and Shaw- a sheen and the sunken Southfield and Iti the Winfield Scott? Bullets threaten ing in front, bombs threatening from above, torpedoes threatening from be- sa neath, and the ocean, with its reputa- l, tion of 6,000 years for shipwreek, lying f, all around, am I not right in saving it equired a special courage for the navy a in 1863 as it required special courage in 1898?t It looks picturesque and beautiful to e see a war vessel going out through the t Narrows, sailors in new rig singing, a A lifes on the ocean ware. a A home en the roflin.: deep, C the colors gracefully dipping to passing d ships, the decks immaculately clean and the guns at quarantine firing a parting salute. But the poetry is all gone out I of that ship as it comes out of tht -m- 'I gagement, its decks red with huuan : p is r~r ;mod desti v*C. : nitur rin- whee bro hn. smoke ck erushdt hundred pound Whit orth rifle ,1ot having left its mark om por: to st: -uoard. the shrouds rent sav. ladders splintered and d:eks lowed up and smoke blackened and ralded corpses lying among those who re gasping their last gasp far away -on home and kindred, whom they love s much as we love wife and parents nd children. Oh. men of the American navy re arned from Manila and Santiago and lavana, as well as those who are sur ivors of the naval conflicts of 1863 and S;4, men of the western gulf squadron, f the eastern gulf squadron, of the outh Atlantie squadron, of the north ktlantic squadron. of the Mississippi quadron, of the Pacific squadron, of he West India squadron and of the >otomae flotilla, hear our thanks! Take he benediction of our churches. Ac ept the hospitaliti s of the nation. f we bad our way, we would get you lot only a pension. but a home and a rincely wardrobe and an equipage and banquet while you live and after your leparture a catafaijue and a mausolum f sculptured marble, with a model of he ship in which you won the day. It s consid rd a valiant thing when in a ival fight the flagship with its blue n goes abead up a river or into a >ay, its admiral standing in the shrouds catching and giving orders. But I Lave to tell you, 0 veterans of the Am rican navy, if you are as loyal to 'hrist as you were to the government here is a fiagship sailing ahead of you f which Christ is the admiral, and he catches from the shrouds, and the hea ens are the blue ensign, and he leads ou toward the harbor, and all the roadsides of earth and hell cannot amage you. and ye whose garments rere once red with your own blood hail have a robe washed and made ,hite in the blood of the Lamb. Then trike eight bells! High noon in hea -en! Sometimes oft the coast of England he royal family have inspected the 3ritish navy, maneuvered before them or that purpose. In the Baltic sea the zar and czarina have reviewed the tusiau navy. To bring before the merican people the debt they owe to avy I go out with you on the Atlan ic ocean, where there is plenty of oom, and in imagination review the rar shipping of our four great conflicts -1776, 1S12, 1835 and 1898. Swing nto line all ye frigates, ironclads, fire afts, gunboats and men-of-war! There hey come, all sail set and furnaces in ull blast, sheaves of crystal tossing rom their cutting prows. That is the )elaware, an old Revolutionary craft, ommanded by Cow modore Decatur. onder goes the Constitution, Com aodore Hull commanding. There is he Chesapeake, commanded by Cap ain Lawrence, whose dying words rere, 'Don't give up the ship," and the iagara of 1S12, commanded by Com odore Perry, who wrote on the back f an old letter, resting on his navy ap, "We have met the enemy, and hey are ours." Yonder is the flagship Vabash, Admiral Dupont commanding; onder, the flagship Minnesota, Admir Goldsborough commanding; yonder, he flagship Philadelphit, Admiral )ahlren commanding; yonder, the agship San Jacinto, Admiral Bailey ommanding; yonder, the flagship lack Hawk, Admiral Porter command ag;yonder, the flag steamer Benton, tdmiral Foote commanding: yonder, he flagship Hartford, David G. Farra ut commanding; y onder, the Brooklyn, tear Admiral Schley commanding; onder, the Olympia, Admiral Dewey ommanding; yonder, the Oregon, Cap uin Clark commanding; yonder, the 'exas, Captain Philip commanding: onder, the New York, Rear Admiral ampson commanding; yonder the Iowa, aptain Robley D. Evans commanding. According to his own statement, Far gut was very loose in his morals in ay manhood and practiced all kinds f sin. One day he was called into the abin of his father, who was a shipmas ar. His father said, "David, what are ou going to be anyhowT' He answer i, "I am going to follow the sea." Fllow the sea,"said the father, "and e kicked about the world and die in a reign hospitalY" "No," said David: I am going to command like you." No," said the father: 'a boy of your abits will never commania anything." and his father burst into tears and left e cabin..- From that day David Far gut started on a new life. Captain Pennington, an honored der of my Brooklyn church, was with im in most of his battles and had his timate friendship, and he confirmed, hat I had heard elsewhere, that Far ugut was good and Christian. In every reat crisis of life he asked and obtained ae Divine direction. When in Moble ay the monitor 'leeumseh sank from a >rpedo and the great warship Brook. in, that was to lead the squadron, irned back, he said he was at a loss to now whether to advance or retreat, nd he says: "I prayed. 'O God, 'ho created man and gave him reason, irect me what to do. Shall I ge on?' Ld a voice commanded me, 'to on,' nd I went on." Was there ever a .ore tou.ching Christian letter than 1at which he wrote to his wife from is flagship Hartford?' "My dearest ife, 1 write and leave this letter for ou. I am going intc Mobile bay in 1e morning if God is my leader, and I ope he is, and in him I place my trust. Ehe thinks it is the proper place for e to die, I am ready to sul mit to his ill in that as all other things. God less and preserve you, my darling, and y dear 'boy, if anything should hap. en to mc. May his blessings rest upon a and your dear mother." Cheerful to the end, he said on ard the Tailapoosa in the last voy ;e he ever took, "I would be well if I ied now in harness." .Jsh T. blime piscopal service for the dead was ever more appropriately rendered than ger his casket, and well did all the ,rts of New York harbor thunder as is bod'y was brought to the wharf, and ll did the minute guns sound and e bells toll as in a procession having lits ranks the president of the United tates and his cabinet and the mighty Len of land and sea the old admiral as carried, amid hundreds of thous as of uncovered heads on Broadway, d laid on his pillow of dust in beau ful Woodlawn, Sept. 8'), amid the >mp of our autumnal forests. But just as much am I stirred at the :ene on warship's deck before Santiago .st summer, when the yictory gained r our American flag over Spanish op ression the captain took off his hat ad all the sailors and soldiers did the ime and silently they offered thanks Almighty God for what had been ae mplished, and when on another ship 1e soldiers and sailors were cheering :a Spanish vessel sank and its officers ad crews were struggling in the wat rs and the captain of our warship cried at, -Don't cheer; the poor fellows are rowning.' Prayers on deck! Pray es in the forecastle! Prayers in the ibin! Prayers in the hammocks! ryers on the lookout at midnight! he battles of that war opened with reyer, were pushed on with prayer American nation recalls them with prayer. We hail with thanks the new genera tion of naval heroes, those of the year 189S. We are too near their marvel ous deeds to fully appreciate them. A century from now poetry and sculpture and painting and history will do them better justice than we can do them now. A defeat at Manila would have been an infinite disaster. Foreign nations not overfond of our American institutions would have joined the ot'ier side, and the war so many months :ast would have been raging still, and per haps a hundred thousand graves would have opened to take down our slain sol diers and sailors. It took this coun try three years to get over the disaster at Bull Run at the opening of the civil war. How many years it would have required to recover from a defeat at Manila in the opening of the Spanish war I cannot say. God averted the calamity by giving triumph to our navy under Admiral Dawey, whose coming up through the Narrows of New York harbor day before yesterday was greeted by the nation whose welcoming cheers will not cease to resound until tomor row, and next day in the capital of the nation the jeweled sword voted by con gress shall be presented amid boom ing cannonade and embannered hosts, and our autumnal nights shall become a conflagration of splendor, but the tramp of these processions and the flash of that sword and the huzza of that greeting and the roar of those guns and the illumination of those nights will be seen and heard as long as a page of American history remains inviolate. Especially let the country boys of America join in these greetings to the returned heroes of Manila. It is their work. The chief character in all the scene is the once country lad, George Dewey. Let the Vermonters come down and find him order, but the same mod est, unassumine, almost bashful per son that they went to school with and with whom they sported on the play ground. the honors of all the world cannot spoil him. A few weeks ago at a banquet in England some of the titled noblemen were affronted because our American minister plenipotentiary as sociated the name of Dewey with that of Lord Nelson. As well might we be affronted because the name of Nelson is associated with that of our most re nowed admiral. The one man in all the coming ages will stand as high as the other. So this day, sympathiz'i g with all the festivities and celebrations of the past week and with all the fes tivities and celebrations to come this week, let us anew thank God and tho e heroes of the American navy who have done such great things for our beloved land. Come aboard the old ship, Zion, ye sailors and soldiers, whether still in the active service or honorably dis charged and at home having resumed citizenship. And ye men of the past, your last battle on the seas fought, take from me, in God's name, salutation and good ctieer. For the few remaining fights with sin and death and hell make ready. Strip your vessel for the fray. Hang the sheet chains ever the side. Send down the topgallant masts. Bar riscade the wheel. Rig in the flying jib boom. Steer straight for the shin ing shore, and hear the shout of the great Commander of earth and heaven as he cries from the shrouds, "To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life which is in the midst of the paradise of God." Hosanna! Hosanna! MURDERED AT SUPPER. A Bride and Groom Shot by a Reject ed Suitor. A special to the St. Louis Post-Dis patch from Montgomery, Mo., says: Frank Walker and his bride were mur dered today by Charles Rankin, a dis appointed lover, who then killed him self. A child was seriously wounded by the shots that killed the couple. All concerned in the tragedy were prominent residents of Montgomery county. The murder occurred at the home of James Cook, nine miles east of here, where the couple and their friends had gone to eat the wedding supper. Walker, who had no relatives, work ed around the farm. Tuesday after icon he and Miss Maud Goshorn drove to Montgomery and were married. They then drove out to the Cook home, where a supper was prepared. A com pany of well-wishers gathered. The bride and groom sat side by side at the head of the table in front of an uncur taned window, when Rankin shot the couple. firing with a shotgun through the window. Both were instantly kill ed, their heads being riddled with shot. A child, a member of the Cook family, was badly wounded. No one saw the murderer and his identity was unknown until his dead body was stumbled over outside the house. A letter left by Rankin reveal ed the fact that he was a rejected suitor 6f Miss Goshorn's and that he comrmitt ed the murder because she married an other. Praiies a Southern Boy. The incident of Dewey's praise for the Charleston boy is reported in the New York World of Friday by Lavinia Hart, a young woman reporter who in terviewed the admiral. Miss Hart had just referred to Dewey as a hero: "'You really must not call me a hero," he said modestly, "after all -I'" "Was scared to death all through the battle,' I said timidly. 'Exactiy,' said the admiral, re lieved. 'Now,' he continued, 'here comes one of the real heroes of Manila.' "A lanky youth in uniform hove in sight. 'That boy,' said the admiral, 'has worke.d himself up out of the ranks. Now he's chief quartermaster. He'll be heard from some day. His name's Mehrtens and he steered the Olympia through the battle of Manila. Of " Mehrtens,' as the lad saluted, and was passing, "where do you come from?' "'Charleston, South Carolina, sir.' "'What, another,' cried the admiral. Charleston may be proud of lier con tributions to this war.' " Parachute Didn't Open. Marza Townsend of Decorah, Ia , about 20 years old, was killed on the C'arnjival circus grounds at Des Moines Wednes 'lay evening while attemptine a par hute leap. While up 1 000il feet in the air the parachute faiied to open and e fell to the earth like a st'ne and was picked up dead and terribly mangled. A large crowd saw the accident. Don't Want Them. There has been some talk of estab fishing a colony for Negro farmers in ew Jersey. The scheme does not re eive much encouragement from the 2ewspa;'crs of the section in which the olony is proposed to be plarnted. The ew Jersey newspapers are always ready to give a word of advice respect ing the Negro in the South; but they do ot desire to have the Negro in New Tersey THE OLD FIRST BRIGADE. An Effort to Publish Dickert's History of Kershaw's Brigade. Mr. E H. Aull sends the State the following: "I will greatly thank The State if it will take enough interest to publish the circular below and make 'he statement contained therein. If there should be anyone whose picture comes in the list enumerated who is not willing to help the work by paying $3 I would be glad to have him send the photograph do sired and maybe some one else will help bear the expense so that the list will be complete. "The publisher would be glad to have the papers in Darlington, Marion, Marlboro, Fairfield, Kershaw, Chester field, Spartanburg, Union, Greenville, Anderson, Abbeville, Edgefield, Saluda, Lexington. Orangeburg, Newberry, Charleston and Richland copy the cir cular as it was largely from these coun ties that the men who made the brigade came. I do not know to whom to write, but I hope those officers who are liv ing will heed the request-and those who are dead I know have left some descendants who have enough inter est in their own to help in this mat ter." To the Friends, Relatives, and Surviv ors of the Old First Brigade: The publisher of "Dickert's History of Kershaw's Brigade" takes pleasure in announcing that this work has pass ed beyond its doubtfnl stage, and is now a reality. The work of printing is now well under way, and will soon be ready for the binder. It is the wish of those who have undertaken the publi. cation of the history to make it as home-like, realistic, and attractive as possible, and nothing will add more to this purpose than having it embellished with cuts and engravings of those who led and commanded, for so long a time and under such trying ordeals, this no ble band of immortals. They would even like to have the cuts of all were it possible or practical, but this not be ing the case, they will have to content themselves with only the illustrations of the captains (or company command ers), colonels, and brigadiers, and their field and staff officers. As we have said at the outset of this undertaking, the history is not written nor published for gain or profit, but more as a memorial volume, and the publisher does not feel warranted from inancial point of view, in making this outlay of ready cash to meet these re quirements. As the author has spent so much of his time, to say nothing of the expense, in getting up this memo rial to the worth and valor of his old comrades, without compensation; it is the hope of the publisher that the friends and survivors will come to his aid; and he makes this proposition: Any of the friends of the above named officers, who will send the publisher a photo or picture of the officers named, enclosing five dollars-three dollars for the cut and two dollars for one volume of the history-he will have a nice pic ture or cut of such officer inserted in the book, and one volume delivered without additional expense to the per son furnishing the photograph and pay ing five dollars. This will about cover the actual expense of the engraving and publication. Capt. iDickert has written a valua ble history, and as a record of the events, a description of battles and camp life, sketches of officers, and the life of a soldier as seen from the ranks and the battle line, it stands unrivaled as a history from the Confederate standpoint, and it is now a duty the friends and survivors of the Old First Brigade owe to their children and to posterity to furnish these illustrations as a fitting tribute to the brave officers, dead and alive, who so often led their troops to victory. Pictures of photos taken during the war, or just after and in uniform, are prefeired. They will be carefully handled and as carefully returned. No uneasiness need be felt as to theirbeing damaged or lost, as the pub lisher is well aware how these priceless relics of the past are treasured an no pains will be spared in having them safely returned. We wish photos of all captains (and lieutenacits commanding companies), adjutants, (quartermasters, commissa ries, and chaplains, majors, lieutenant colonels, and colonels, brigadier gener als and their staffs. Write (if living) the name and rank of officer, in his own handwriting, under the picture, or paste on back the na-ne on slip of pa per; and, to avoid delays and miscar riages in return, write the name of post office to which it is to be returned. Please gi'e this request prompt at tention. as photograph, must be receiv ed within the next thirty days to insure having them inserted in the book. Send the three dollars along with pho tograph and the books can be paid for on delivery. Address Elbert H. Aull, Newberry, S. C. Killed by Boiler Explosion. By the explosion of a boiler at Bruce's saw mill near Trevilions, in Louisa county, A. Campbell, a well known far mer. airl a Negro were instantly killed. Another Nesra was fatally injured, andl the owner of the mill, Mr. Robert Bruce, so badly scilded that he may die. She Deserves It. The sailors of Dewey' Bagl~ship are going to make Miss Hleleu Gould a present that she will appeciate highly. It is in the form of two 4 7-inch shells from the wreck of the Reina Christina, Admiral Montojo's flagship, mounted in Leghorn marble. Upon each shell is a statuette of Liberty in ivory. The mounting and carving were done at Naples.__________ Fifteen Hundred KilleQ.. It is estimated that fifteen hundred persons perished in the earthquakes in Asia Minor around Aidin. The first shock occurred at 4 o'clock on the morning of September 20th and lasted forty seconds. The effects were ap palling. Whole villages were com p'etely destroyed. The earthquake was felt as far as Scio, Mityleme and Symrna. He Was Disgustc1 "No," s.i l the~ convicted saloon teper, "I wou't ii~ve you to defend mothL!er ease for me." "But," his law rer protested, "you knowv you were ruilty and you know, too, that the evi lence against you was overwhelming." Oh, I don't deny that, but after hay ng the case postponed four times you ~un out of excuses. A lawyer what int got no more resources than that ~an't git fees from me." Xilledthe Ring in As a result of a prize fight held at ~alley Grass, Cal., Thursday night be ween Jim Pendergast of Sacramento md Chas. Hloskins of that place, the atter is d.ead. Hoskins was knocked >ut in the 10th round and although hysicians worked upon the prostrate man all night they could not save his ife. The referee, Pendergast and all 0'A Lit Makes the food more del ROYAL woNes ma THE CAUSE OF PROSPER ITY. What a Prominent Republican Say About It. In The Review of Reviews for Octo ber the Hon. Thomas L. James, form erly postmaster-general and now presi dent of a New York national bank, es says an explanation of the causes which have led to the present prosperous con dition of business. A Republican and a gold man, Mr. James does not, like many of his fellows, undertake to claim for Republicanism and the gold stand ard the sole credit for existing condi tions, but, with an obvious purpose to tell the story fairly and explain it ra tionally, he shows the real influences which have been making for better times. We quote freely. "In order clearly to understand the rise and development of influences that produced the depressing conditions cub minating between 1S93 and 1896, it is necessary to go back to the time of the resumption of specie payments in 1879. This 'ountry immediately after the government resumed payment of its ob ligations in coin entered an era of pros perity which has been compared with the one Chat now prevails, and yet the conditions characterizing it were en tirely different. We had then, in com parison with our possessions today, little capital, and vet we undertook to open up the wheat belts of the west, to com plete the Northern Pacific railway, to construct thousands of miles of new railroad in unsettled regions, so that in the course of three or four years we ex pended at least $500,000,000 in build ing new railroads. Much of this money was borrowed in Europe, and the rail roads when built did not at first begin to earn their interest charges, and some of them with difficulty paid their run ning expenses. They were kept in op- 1 eration in many cases by borrowing i more money to pay the interest upon 1 bonds and at last became heavily bur- 1 dened with mortgages and underlying 1 mortgages, ultimately involving reor- i ganization and heavy loss. All of this money we had to pay back, and the effect of those enormous payments was < severely felt between 1885 and 1894. t These new railroads, however, did a i great service for the country, since they i opened up the agricultural lands to the farmer and made possible the amazing crops which were grown in 1801 andi 1892. For about ten years, or say from the spring of 1884 until near the close of Mr. Cleveland's administration, the i people of this country, both in their ( corporate and their indiviCual relations, were engaged in paying debts. The t farmers did that and were thereby< compelled to practice the utmost economy, many of them finding1 even the most stringent self-denial1 inadequate, so that they were forced1 to submit to foreclosure. But stock i holders in the railroad corpora tions were also Dsuffering,. and there< came f.r many of them the same exper-1 ience that the farmers met .with. The owners of the bonds exacted their inter est or took possession of the property just as the owners cf the farm mortga ges exacted theirs or foreclosed. We lived in a time of forced and great econ-t omy. Many men esteemed very rich were compelled to draw upon their prin cipal in order to maintain in some meas ure their customary manner of life, and the wage-earners were either drawing upon their savings or else were compell ed to live upon half pay so to speak some of them upon cred it. Daring Mr. Cleveland's second administration we1 were really getting into a heathful con dition. We were paying our debts, re-t organizing our bankrupt railroads ent sound and economical bases, livingr with rigid economy, liquidating obliga-] tions long past due, and were at last ini a condition that required only some tonic or stimulus in order to regaini prosperity and industrial activity." He goes on to show how a check to this wholesome progress was caused byt the financial collapse of the Argentine1 republic and the resulting failure of Baring Brothers. The Bank of Eng land interposed its resources. "One of the ablest of the financiers of New York, when he read that report, said: 'The Bank of England. has prevented a panic; but a failure like this will shrivel credits, benumb business everywhere, and its disastrous influence will be felt in every nation of the world for the next two or three years.' The predic tion was justified in every respect." Mr. James recognizes the bad effect of the suspension of the free coinage of silver in India which followed. "Itt was everywhere recognized as a remedy for certain evils from which Great Britain and her colonies were suffering,e but it was a remedy so heroic that itsa immediate effect was harmful, at least to some lines of trade." Other reasonsp for the depressioc and the panic of 189:3 are given, but it is the revival which r, is our theme. As to the causes of the a revival Mr. James barely mentions the e efeat of free silver and the passage of n the Dingley tariff law. lie then pro :eeds: i 'iBat there is another influence which S ay be esteemed among the greatest q f any that have caused these last li ears of the century to give industrial n >rosperity, content, happiness, and a a wide distribution of wealth to our peo- e >!e. That influence was created by the s ecent~ amazing development of the gold al ines of the world. Undoubtedly the w~ ction of congress in repealing the 1] Sherman law induced capital to turn its al ttention to the American gold mines. et But the same impulse existed all over pa he world. The discovery of cheap pl hmial methods of abstracting gold S fromn low-grade ore was as momentous h< amost as that of Bessemer, to which pl nueh of the industrial activity of the ast half of the nineteenth century can b; e traced. That process made it pos- S1 ible to utilize with commercial profit c< he low-grade ores in South Africa, and gi oly a year after the Sherman law was it epealed the highest expert authority d redicted that the South African mines n would be adding yearly to the gold of he world from $75,0i0.000 to $100,000, - v< 00, a prediction that has been almost it ustified already. Then Australia cc mazed the world with discoveries of b1 nsuspected gold deposits and Colorado ta nd Idaho and southern California si bgan to report profitable mining opera ions, until at last it was reported by ar he director of the mint that the United al States was producing nearly $60,000,000 fil ol' gold a year, the estimate for 1899 tl eing about $5, 000, 000 a month. Then. bi oo, just as these inspiring influences S ere beginning to have their legitimate or efec upon bunes, there came from li URE icious and wholesome moo.. vows. the wilds of Alaska romantic tales of rich discoveries of gold, and since that news was first brought to this country the estimated output of that once deso late territory has been about $40,000, 000 gold, almost all of which has come to the United States and re mained here. The director of the mint estimates that today there is in the United States almost a billion of gold, in coin and bullion, and whereas in Mr. Cleveland's administration the gold in the treasury had been drained so low that it seemed at one time as though the government would be compelled to suspend gold payments, now the treasury possesses nearly $250,000,000 of gold and the banks of New York nearly $175,000, 300. In addition to the gold that came from the mines, there came many mil lions of it in the year 1S98 to the United States from Europe in liquidation of trade balances, and with the exception of $20,000,000 sent to Europe to pay the Spanish indemnity, almost every dollar of the gold brought here from mines and the payment of debts has re mained here." This is an admission of the accuracy of the quantitative theory of money, held by the Democratic party and so rigorously pressed in the campaign of 1896. If the world's supply of gold had not increased so marvellously and if our exports had not, through a re markable concurrence of circumstances, run beyond all expectation and hope, in what condition would we now have been? "If, now, we turn to another report we shall be able to discover in it per saps the most impressive of all the sto ies that tell of our revival and increase >f prosperity. In 1892 we exported of agricultural products in the fiscal year .nding June 30 $799,000,000 in round numbers. We did not export as much :n value as that again, although in 1899 we exported $785,000,000 in round num )ers. In the intervening years the ex Dort ranged from $650,000,000 is -ound numbers in 1898 down to $553, )00,000 in 1895. But if we turn to the igures that tell the story of the export )f the products of our manufactories in he same years, we discover, set forth n the most emphatic manner the amaz ng story of our industrial expansion. [n 1892, fiscal year, we exported of nanufactured products $158,000,000; n 1893, approximately the same amount; in 1894, $183,000,000; in 1895. approximately the same amount; n 1896, $228,000,000; in 1897, $277, )00.000; in 1898, $290,000,000; and in 899, $338,000,000, with every indica ion that the export for this fiscal year >f manufactured products will be as ~reat as $375,000,000. Therefore vhile we have gained in export of ag -icultural products not at all siece 1892, we have gained more than 100 per cent. n our export of manufactured products, howing how vastly our industries hare xpanded, and that while we are com nanding our own domestic markets. we re surely reachia~g out in successful ompetition with other nations for the ontrol of the markets of the world." We agree with the Columbia .State, rom which paper the above article is aken, that "these are explanations that ~xplain. There is nothing in them vhich disproves, and everything which ~on firms, the Democratic convention of 8S96 that the great need of the couni-ry vas an increase in the supply of stand rd money. At that time it seemed im >ossible to secure this without the free oinage of silver; but Providence has >en kind to the American people and aved them from the worst effect of one of heir vreatest blunders."' The State adds o Mr. James's catalogue this further eason for the suddenness of the change; Sigteen months ago, while the signs of mprovement were of the faintest, the var with Spain began. Instead of prov ng financially destruztive as was pre icted by most of the spoktsmen for old and "business," it had precisely he opposite effect. As a smart blow ipon a watch that is clogged and topped may set it going again, so the ar to the country from the shock of rar set the wheels of business in fuli notion once more, and the revival was stant and complete. FREE MAIL DELIVERY. lids for Star Route Contracts Must Include Free Delivery of Mail. The Postoffice Department has issued he revised instructions governing bids or Star Route mail contracts. It is ot perhaps generally known that these ontracts are given out for four years at time and that this year is the time or new contracts. This service touches erhaps two-thi'ds of the people of this tate: and it behooves them to see that esponsible bids are put in from the eighborhood of each route at the low. st practicable figures before Nov. 30th ext. These instruction contain a new and nportant paragraph in so far as bids in outh Carolina are concerned. It re uires all bids to include the free de .very of mail to persons living on or ear the route. This is a practical loption, so far as South Carolina is meerned, of Congressman Stokes heme which attracted such favorable :tention last winter, and which was armily advocated by The Times and e moerat. It was not generally known the time that the one vote lacking in nference committee to fix the Stokes cposition as a "nrder" on the appro riation bill, was lacking by reason of anator Qtuay's absence on trial for alping to wreck a bank in Philadel iia. Having failed to get what he sought i special bill and by a "rider" on the apply Bill, through an unfortunate >mbination of circumstances, Con essman Stokes went to work to scure through the department. under the sretionary power given for experi ental purposes. General Shallenberger was very fa rably disposed and was anxious to torporate the requirements in the >ntracts as suggested by Mr. Stokes, it at first hesitated, as congress had ken the matter in hand but had fallen iort of authorizing it. Finally his scruples were overcome, 2d the recent order secures substanti ly all that Mr. Stokes strove to obtain at through a special act and then troug.h a "rider" on the appropriation .1. At least it is secured so far as >th Carolina is concerned; for the -der applies specifically to South Caro Naturally Mr. Stokes feels muc gratified at the result, and has no doul as to the piarmanency of the feature n< only in the postal system of this Stat but of the whole United States. H also credits the press of the State an of the country at large. with a larg share of the influence 'which brough about the result. Below is the reguls tion referred to which will be seen t follow closely the terms of the bill it troduced by Mr. Stokes: "In addition to proposals for carry ing the mails on the routes and subjec to the conditions hereinbeforesetlort: proposals will also be received for cai rying the mails on the same routes i the State of South Carolina, subject t< the same conditions, and also subjec to the further requirements, as follows Any person living on or near an Star Route herein described who de sires his mail deposited in a box o the line of the route by the carrier o: said route may provide and erect a suit able box on the roadside, located i: such manner as to be reached as con veniently as practicable by the carrier and such person shall file with th postmaster at the postoffice to which hi mail is addressed (which shall be on of the two postoffices on the route of either side of and next to the box) request in writirg fnr the delivPry n! his noi to th.: arrier us the rsu'e f, deposit in sai ust.ii hex at ti.e rid : the add: ss e It s'ho .1i ke he wty o' the p<.st ma-ter at '"-r -y u -h I t i'c. w; e . urtten order fr',u, any pcr'on living 01 or near the Star Route, to 'li:rt ti the proper Ina.il ca.rrier f..r that rin: any mail rn.ttr.:r, e-acept r-gissert( mail. withm -i*"Tre ions a;to toh pro per mail box at whieh said mW! :hit shall be deposisrd; bu' o tn-ul mat tee s) de'ivfred to a carrier for dep)-it shall be cr:ied past noth- r p tfi: on the route bfore bbii, deposited i a muil bx. The cap ri. r on the Star R:u' i! be rcqirn d to icee ive from any poc mast- r on the route any mail watte: th:t m ;y be intrusted to lim, outsid< the usual mail ba2. and shall carry suel n:nil maltir to Knad deposit it in th< proper boxes placed on the line of th< route for this purpose: such service b the ;.irri r t> b-: wi:.hou: charge to the addrese " G o.SaHacker &So 00' o l .., Doors, Sash, Blinds, Moulding and Building CH ARLESTON, S. C. Sash Weights anid Cords and Builders' Hardware. l Ii lil t | n f UIll Ui M uagN sanuil AVegetablel'reparatioaforAs similating tioodandRegula ing theSiomandBwlsf Promiotes'Diestion,Cheerful ness andlest.Contains neither Opmuni,Morphine jorlllneral. NOT NAR C OTIC. 'eii!U-AmZfflTr Aperfect Remedy for Constipa tion, Sour Stomach.Diarrhdea, Worms,Convulsions,Teverish ness and Loss or SLEEP. YacSimile Signature of nxw Yomc. t~xAcT copy OF WEAPP.B. THECAROLINA GI THOM~AS WI COMM ISSION 159 East Bay - 209 ]Ea -- DE.RI~ Paints, Qils, Glass, Varnis Ta~r Paper and Headquarters for the Celebratedi ftill and Engine Oils and Grases. (THE Baok of Manoing, MANNING, S. C. t Transacts a general banking busi ness. t Prompt and special attei:i i<.n given to depositors residing out -f town. Deposits solicited. All collections have proipt atten t tion. Business hours from 9' a. n,. to 2 - p. m. 1 JOSEPH SPROTT, A. LEVI, Cashier. President. BOARD OF DIRECTOBS. 17 LEVI, J. W. MCLEOD v E. BROWN, S. M. NEasEN, JOSEPH SPROTT, A. LEVI. To Consumers 01 Lager Beer The Germania Brewing Company, of Charleston, S. C., have made arrangements with the South Carolina State authorities by which they are enabled to fill orders from consumers for shipments of beer in any quantity at the following prices : Pints, patent stopper, 60c. per dozen. Four dozen pints in crate, $2.80 per crate. Eighth-keg, $1.25. Quarter-keg, $2.25. Half-barrel, $4.50. Exports, pints, ten dozen in barrel, $9. It will be necessary for consumers or parties ordering,to state that the beer is for private consumption. We offer special rates for these shipments. This beer is guaranteed pure, made of the choicesthops and malt, and is recommended by the medical fraternity. Send to us for a trial order. GERMANIA Brewing Company, Charleston. S. C. WHEN YOU COME TO TOWN CALL AT WELLS' SHAVING SALOON Which is fitted up with an eye to the comfort of his customers. . . . . HAIR-CUTTIl IN ALL STYLES, SH AVING AND SH AMPOOING Done with neatness and , dispatch.-.-.-.-.-. A cordial invitation is extended. . J. L. WELL6. OA$TORIA The-Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of The - lKind You Have Always Bought. CASTORIA LOCEIY COMPANY -SON, President. .S GRQCE20 MERCHANTS. -,Charleston, S. C lines & Co.,. at Bay. TorN, s. C., h and Bruashes, Lanterns, Building Paper.