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M3ISSION OF HORNETS Sermons by Rev. Dr..Talmage on Small Annoyances. MINOR .,TROUBLES OF LIFE. They Test Christian Fortitude and Patience. The Lesson of Trivial Irritations. This..sermon by Dr.- Talmage deals with t subject which appeals to all classes and conditions of men. His text is Deuteronomy vii, '20, "The Lord thy God will send the hornet." It seems as if the insectile nrld were determined to extirpate the 'au man race. It bombards the graintields and the orchards and the vineyards. The Colorado beetle, the Nebraska grasshopner, the New Jersey locust, the universal potato beetle, seem to carry on the work which was begun ages ago when the insects buzzed out of Noah's ark as the door was opened. In my text the hornet flies out on its mission. 't is a species of wasp, swift in its -vtuon and vi->lent in its sting. Its touch is torture to man or beast. We bave all seen the cittle run bellow ing under the cut of its lanet. In boy hood we used to stand cautiously look ing at the globular nest hung from the tree branch, and while we were looking at the wonderful covering we were struck with something that sent us shrieking away. The hornet goes in swarms. It has captains >ver hundreds, and 20 of them alighting on one man will produce certain death. - The Persians attempted to conquer a Christian city. but the elephants and -,the beasts on which the Persians rode were assaulted by the hornet, so that the whole army was broken up, and the besieged city was rescued. This burn ing and noxious insect stung out the Hittites and the Canaanites from their country. What gleaming sword and chariot of war could not accomplish was done by the puncture of an insect. "The Lord sent the hornet." My friends, when we are-assaulted by great behemoths of trouble we be come chivalric, and we assault them. We get on the high mettled steed of our courage, and we mnake a cavalry charge at them, and if God be with us we come out stronger and better than when we went in. But alas for these insectile annoyances of life, these foes too small to shoot, these things without any avoirdupois weight, the gnats and the midges and the flies and the wasps, abd the hornets! In other words, it is the small stinging annoyances-of our life which drive us out and use us up. In the best conditioned life for some grand and glorious purpose God has sent the hornet. L I remark, inthe first place, that these amall stinging annoyances may come in the shape of a nervous organization. People who are prostrated undertyphoid fevers-or with broken bones get plently of sysmpathy, but who pities anybody that is nervous? The doctors say and the family say and everybody says, "Oh, she's only a little nervous; that's all!" The sound of a heavy foot, the harsh clearing of a throat, a discord in music, a want of harmony between the shawl and the glove on the same person a curt answer, a passing slight, the wind the from the east, any one of ten thousand annoyences, opens the door for the hornet. The fact is that the vast majority of'the people in this coun try are overworked, and their nerves are the first to give out. A great mul titude are under the strain of Leyden, who, when he was t dd by his physician that if he did not stop working while he was in such poor physical health he would die, responded, "Doctor, whether I live or die, the wheel must k'eep going round." These sensitive persons of whom I speak have ableeding sensitive ness. The flies love to light on any thing raw, and these people are like the Canaanites spoken of in the text or in the context-they have a very thin covering and are vul'nerable at all points. ,,"And the Lord sent the hor net." Again, the small insect annoyances may come to us in the shape of friends and acquaintances who are always say ing disagreeable things. There are some people you cannot be with for half an hour but you feel cheered and comn -forted. Then tht re are other people you cannot be with for five minutes before you feel miserable. 'lbh y do not mean to disturb yourbut they sting you to the bone. They gather up all the yarn which the gossips spin and re tail it. They gather up all the adverse criticisms about your person, about your business, about your home, about your church, and they make your ear the funnel into which they pour it. They laugh heartily when they tell you, as though it were a good joke, and you laugh, too-outside. These people are brought to our at tention in the Bible, in the book of Ruth. Naomi went forth beautifui and with the finest worldly prospects into another land, but after awhile she came back widowed and sick and poor1. What did her friends do when she came to the city? They all went out, and in. stead of giving her con mon sense con solation what did they do? Read the book of tuth and find out. They threw up their hands and said, "Is this Naomi?" as much as to say. "How awful bad you do look!" When I en tered the ministry, I looked very pale for years, and every year, for four or five years, many times a year I was asked if I had not consumption, and, passing through the room, I would sometimes hear people sigh and say, "A-ah, not long for this world!" I re solved in those times that I never in any conversation would say anything depressing, and by the help of God I have kept the resolution. These peo ple of whom I speak reap and bind in the great harvest field of discourage -ment. Some day you greet them with a hilarious "Good morning," and they come buzzing at you with some depress ing information. "The Lord sent the hornet." It is astonishing how some people prefer to write and to say disagreeable hings. That was the case when Henry M. Stanley returned after his magnific ent exploit of finding David Livings tone. When Mr. Stanley st.ood before the savants of Europe and many of the small critics of the day, under pretense of getting geographical information, put to him most insolent questions, he folded his arms and refused to answer. At the very time when you would sup pose all decent men would hive ap. plauded the heroism of the man there were those to hiss. 'The Lord sent the hornet." And when afterward that man sat down on the western coast of Africa, sick and worn out, with perhaps the grandest achievement of the age in the way of geographical discovery, there were small critics all over the world to buzz and buzz and caricature and de ride him, and when after awhile he got the London papers, as he opened themn out flewthe hornet. When I see that there are so many pa)pic in world who like to say disagnecabit things and write disagreeable things, I coMe al most in my weaker moments to believe what a man said to me in Philadelphia one 3Monday morning. I went to get the horse at the livery stable, and the hostler, a plain man, said to me, "31r. Talmage, I saw that you preached to the young men yesterday.- I said. "Yes." He said: "No use, no use. Man's a failure." The small insect annoyances of life sometimes come in the shape of local physical trouble which does not amount to a positive prostration, but which botLers you when you, ant to fe il the best. Perhaps it is a sick headache which has been the plague of your life, and you appointsome occasion of mirth or sociality or usefullness, and when the clock s-rikes the hour you cannot make your appearance. Perhaps the trouble is between the ear and the forehead in the shape of a neuralgic twig. Nobody can see it or sympathize with it, but just at the time when you want your intellect clearest and your disposition brightest you feel a sharp, keen. dis concernina thrust. "The Lord sent the hornet." Perhaps these small-insect annoyan ces will come in the shape of a domes tie irritation. The parlor and the kit chen do not always harmonize. To get good service and to keep it is one of the great questions of the country. Some times it ma; be the arrogance and in considerateness of emplovers: but, whatever be the fact, we all ad= it there are these insect annoyances winging their way out from the culinary depart ment. If te grace of God be not in the heart of the housekeeper, she can not maintain her equilibrium. The men come home at night and hear the story of hese annoyances and say, "Oh, these home troubles are very little thins!" They are small, small as wasps. but they sting. Martha's ner ves were all unatruag when she rushed ia askirg Christ to scold Mary, and there are tens of thousands of women who are dying, stung to death by these pestiferous domestic annoyances. "The Lore sent the hornet." These small isect disturbances may also come in the shape of business irri tations. There are men here who went through the 24th of September, 1869, and the panics of 1873 and of 1893 with out-losing their balance who are every day unhorsed by little annoyances-a clerk's ill manners, or a blot of ink on a bill of lading, or the extravagance of a partner who overdraws his account, or the underselling by a business rival, or the whispgring of store coifidences in the street, or the making of some little bad debt which was against your judge ment; but you wanted to please some body else. It is not the panics that kill the mer chants. Panics come only once in 10 or 20 years. It is the constant din of these everyday annoyances which is sending so many of our best merchants into ner vous dyspepsia and paralysis and the grave. When our national commerce fell flat on its face, these men stood up and felt almost defiant, but their life is going away now under -the swarm of these pestiferous annoyances. "The Lord sent the hornet." I have noticed in the history of some of my congregation that their annoyan ces are multiplying and that they have a hundred where they used to have ten. The naturalist tells us that a wasp sometimes has a family of 20,000 wasps, and it does seem as if every annoyance of your life brooded a million. By the help of God, today I want to show you the other side. The hornet is of no use? Oh, yes! The naturalist tells us they are very important in the world's economy. They kill spiders, and they clear the atmosphere. And Ireally be lieve God sends the annoyances of our life upon us to kill the spiders of the soul and to clear the atmosphere of our skies. These annoyances are sent on us, I think, to wake us up from our lethagy. There is nothing that makes a man so lively as a nest of "yellow jackets," and I think that these annoyances are in tended to persuade us of the fact that this is not a world for us to stop in. If we had a bed of everything that was attractive and soft and easy, what would we want of heaven? We think that the hollow tree sends the hornet, or we may think that the devil sends the hornet. I want to correct your opinion. "The Lord sent the hor net." Then I think these annoyances come on us to cultivate our patience. In the gymnasium you find upright pr rallel bars with holes over each other for pegs to be put in. Then the gymnast takes a peg in each hand, and he begins to dlimb, one inch at a time or two inches, and getting his strength cultivated, reaihes after a while the ceiling. And it seems to me that these annoyances in life are a moral gymnasium, each worriment a peg with which we are to climb higher and higher in Christian attainment. We all love to see pati ence, but it cannot be cultivated in fair weather. Patience is a child of the storm. If you had everything de sirable and there was nothing more to get, what would you 'vant with pati ence? The only time to cultivate it is when you are lied about and sick and half dead. "Oh." you say, "if I only had the circumstances of some well to do man I would be patient too." You might as well say, "If it were not for this water, I would swim'." or. "I could shoot this gun if it were not for the cartridge." When you stand chin deep in annoyan ces is the time for you to swim out to ward the great headlands of Christian attainment, so as to "know Christ and the power of his resurrection and to have fellowship with his sufferings." Nothing but the furnace will ever burn out of us the clinker and the slag. I have formed this theory in re gard to small annoyances and vexations. It takes just so much trouble to fit us for usefulness and for heaven. The only question is whether we shall take it in the bulk or puiverized and garnu lated. Here is one man who takes it in the bulk. His back is broken or his eyesight put out, or some other awful calamity befalls him, while the vast majority of people take the thing piecemeal. Which way would you rath er have it? Of course, in piecemeal. Better have five aching teeth than one broken jaw: better 10 fly blisters than an amputation, better 20 squalls than one cyclone. Ther'e may be a difference of opinion as to allopathy and homueo pahy, but in this matter of trouble I like homeopathic doses, small pellets of annoyance rather than some knock down dose of calamity. Instead of the thunderbolt give us the hornet, If you have a bank, you would a great deal rather that 50 men would come in with checks less than $100 than to have two depositors come in the same day, each wanting his $10. 000. In this latter ase you cough and look down to the floor and you look up to the ceiling be 'ore you look into the safe. Now, my friends, would you not rather have these small drafts of annoyrnee on yo-Ir bak of faith than some all staggering demand upon your endurance? But re noyancec equally re(juire you to trtUst in Christ for succor and fcx deliverance from impatience and irritability. "Thou wilt keep lim in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on thee." In the village of Hainelin, tradition says, there was an invasion of rats, and these small creatures almost devoured the town and threatened the lives of the population; and the story is that a piper came out one day and played a very sweet tune, and all the vermia *o1 lowed Weser, and then he blew a blast, ani they dropped in attd disappeared for ever. Of course, this is a fable, but I wish I could on the sweet flute of the Gospel draw forth all the nibbling and burrowing annoyances of your life and play them down into the depths forev er. How many touches did Mr. Church give to his picture of "Cotopaxi" or his "Heart of the Andes?" I suppose about 50,000 touches. I hear the: can. vas saving: "Why do you keep me trembling with that pencil so long? Why don't you put it on in one dash?" "No," says Mr. Church; "I know how to make a painting. It will take 50, 000 of these toucihesi." And I want you my friends, to understand that it is these ten thousand annoyances which, under God, are making up the picture of your life, to be hung at last in the galleries of heaven, fit for angels to look at, God knows how to make a picture. I go into a sculptor's studio and see him shaping a statue. He has a chisel in one hand and a mallet in the other, and he gives a very gentle stroke click, click, click! I say, "Why don't you strike hardei?" Oh, he replies. "that would shatter the statue. I can't do it that way. I must do it this way." So hd works on, and after awhile the features come out, and everybody that enters the studio is charmed and fasci nated. Well, God has your soul under process of development, and it is the little annoyances and vexations of life that are chiseling out your immortal nature. It is click, click, click! I wonder why some great providence does not come and with one stroke prepare you for heaven. Ah, no! God says that is not the way, and so he keeps on by strokes of little vexations until at last you shall be a glad spectacle for angels and for men. You know that a large' fortune may be spent in small change, and a vast amount of mnral character may go av't' in small depletions. It is the li: troubles of life that are havihg more feet upon you than great ones. A swarm of locusts will kill a grainfl.idd sooner than the incursion of three or four cattle. You say, "Since I lost my child, since I lost my property, I have been a different man." But you do not recognize the architecture of little an noyances that are hewing, digging, cut ting, shaping, splitting and interjoin ing your moral qualities. Rats may sink a ship. One lucifer match may send destruction through a block of storehouses. Catherine de'Medici got her death from smelling a poisonous rose. Coluambus, by stopping and ask ing for a piece of bread and a drink of water at a Franciscan convent, was led to the discovery of a new world. And there is an intimate connection between trifles and immensities between noth ings and everythings. Now, be careful to let none of those annoyances go through your soul unar rainged. Compel them to administer to your spiritual wealth. The scratch of a sixpenny nail sometimes produces lock jaw, and the clip of a most infinitesi mal annoyance may damage you forever. Do not let any annoyance or perplexity come across your soul without its mak ing you better. Our national government wvhen it wanted money did not think it belittl ing to put a tax on pins and a tax on buckles and a tax on shoes. The indi vidual taxes do not amount to much, but in the aggregate to millions and millions of dollars. And I would have you, 0 Christian man, put a high tariff on every annoyance and vexation that comes through your soul. This might not amount to much in single cases, but in the aggregate it would be a great revenue of spiritual strength and satis faction. A be. can suck honey even out of a nettle, and if you have the grace of God in your yeart you can get sweetness out of that which would oth erwise irritate and annoy. A returned missionary told me that a compacy of adventurers rowing up the Ganges were stung to death by flies that infest that region at certi.in sea sons. The earth has been strewed with the carcasses of men slain by insect an noyances. The only way to get prepar ed for the great troubles of life is to conquer these small troubles. What would you say of a soldier who refused to load his gun or to go into the conflict because it was only a skirmish, saying: "I am not going to expend my ammuni tion on a skirmish. Wait until there comes a general engagement, and then you will see how courageous I am and what battling I will do?" The general would say to such a man, "If you are not faithful in a skirmish, you would be nothing in a general engagement." And I have to tell you, 0 Christian men, if you cannot apply the principles of Christ's religion on a small scale you will never be able to apply them on a larger scale. If I had my way with you, I would have you possess all pos sible worldly prosperity. 1 would have you each one a garden, a river flowing through it, geraniums and shrubs on the sides and the grass and flowers as beautiful as though the rainbow had fallen. I would have you a house, a splendid mansion, and the beds should be covered with upholstery dipped in the setting sun. I would have every hall in your house set with statues and statuettes, and then I would have the four quarters of the globe pour in all their luxuries on your table, and you should have forks of silver and knives of gold, inlaid with diamonds and ame thysts. Then you should each one of you have the finest horses and your pick of the quipages of the world. Then I would have you live 150 years, and you should not have a pain or an ache until the last breath. "Not each one of us?" you say. Yes. each one of you. "Not to your ene mies?" Yes. The only difference I would make with them would be that I would put a little extra gilt on their walls and a little extra embroidery on~ their slippers. But, you siay, "'Wny does not God give us all these things?" Ahi! I bethink myself IIe is wi'er. It would make fools and sluggards of us if we had our way. No man puts his best picture in the portico or vestibule of his house. God meant this world to be only the vestibule of heaven, that great gallery of the universe toward which we are aspiring. We must not have it too good in this world, or we would want no heaven. Polycarp was condemned to be burn ed to death. The stake was planted. He was fastened to it. The fagots vvere placed around him, the rires kindled, but history tells us that the flames bent outward like the canvas of a ship in a stout breeze, so that the flames, instead of destroying Polycarp, were only a wall between him and his enemies. They poniard. The flames would not touch him. Well, my hearer, I want ycu to understand that by God's grace the flames of trial, instead of consuming your soul, are only going to be a wall of defense and a canopy of blessing. God is going to fulfill to you the blessings and the promises, as he did to Polyearp. "When thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned." Now you do not understand, but you shall know hereafter. In heaven you will bless God even for the hornet. THE GOVERNOR AND NEWSBOYS. A Good S'ory of His: Recent New York Experience. A good story about Gov. MeSwee neey's visit to New York recently, which has so far escaped the newspa pers, has leaked out in the last few days, and it serves to show the manner of man South Carolina's Governor is. The incident occurred on the day be fore the naval parade. The Governor, accompanied by his little son and Cols. Wilson, Folk, Redding, Maulding and Watson of his staff had just left the cotton exchange and had reached "newspaper row," bound for the bridge to go over to the navy yard, when just at the Pulitzer building corner they came across a great crowd of newsboys of the "cent-a-world" variety, getting their supplies of the big afternoon edi tion just issued. The Governor saw the crowd of urch ins. He exclaimed, "Ah, that is what I was once. Just look at them; Miles, come here, son, I want to show you what your father was when he was your size." Reaching back and catch ing his boy's hand it was only a second or two before the Governor had forced his way into the heart of the crowd of yelling, scuffling newsboys. He talked with them and when they found out who he was and that he had once been one of the "clan," they rallied around him and the Governor's face was all smiles. He bought as many papers as he could carry and CA. Folk, who got down in the crowd, did likewise. The boys gave the Governor an ovation in their own demonstrative way and be fore he could be extricated from his admiring host of newsboys enthusiasts the police had to go to his aid and clear a way out of it for him. There was no incident Jf his trip to Iq metiopolis that Gov. McSweeney !joyed more thoroughly than this. It recalled to his mind many memories of the past and when in the crowd he really seemed to be a newsboy again himself. SENTENCED COMMUTED. Man Who Slet His Wife's Insulter to be Freed. Gov. McSweeney Wednesday com muted to two years the life sentence of William Franks, a young white man convicted of manslaughter in Laurens county nearly two years ago. This means that Franks will be discharged in February. From all the evidence, the state ments of the judge and the jury and all those familiar with the case, it seems strange that the man was ever convicted. The victim, Mason Clark, grossly in sulted the y oung wife of Franks,.making an improper proposal to her. When she went to Franks and told him of it he wished te kill Clark forthwith, but was dissuaded by the-appeals of his wife. Franks and his wife had been living at Clark's house; they were abont to leave and the matter was being discussed be tween the two men, when an alterca tion occurred and Mason was killed. Judge Buchanan recommended that a pardon be given at the expiration of two years of the term. Eleven of the jurors signed the petition for a pardon, certifying that there was grave doubt as to which of the men fired first, and adding that there would have been no conviction save for the lapse of time between the deed and the receipt of the information by Franks as to the insult. The jurors regarded the provocation very great. Ex- Senator Irby and ex-Congressman Shell wrote the governor strong per sonal letters in behalf of the man, and stated that his wife and enildren were sadly in need of his support and pro tection. The governor, before acting, had the prisoner brought up to his office and talked with him. He was fully satisfied that Franks simply acted in defense of his wife's honor, and the commutation was forthwith granted.--The State. After County Officials. The State sinking fund commission, in view of the numerous cises of ir regularities and shortages in county official's tax collection accounts, has determined to go after the treasurers, auditors and sheriffs interested in a thorough and systematic manner and endeavor to have all such cases straight ened out at the earliest possible mo ment. Already the papers in several cases have been placed in the attorney ceneral's hands for such action as he may deem proper. The following circu lar lpt.r prepared and sent out Friday to otiieiais eunerned indicates how the conmmission proposes to go about its work: By certain reports of N. W. Brooker, field agent of the sinking fund conmmis sion, there appear to be nmuy irreg ularities in the books and accounts of county officers relating to the collec tion of taxes which may result in great loss to the State and ecunty. The commission, by recent action, has determined to make vigorous ef forts to adjust these matters. The field agent states that he (has or will) serve you with notice of certain shortages and irregularities in which you are in terested. I respectfully ask your cooperation in the effort to adjust these matters without further delay. -Mr. Brooker has instructions to ar range for a meeting with you and all others concerned at your county court house at an early day for the adjust ment of thes;e matters. Your prompt attention and action is most earnestly requested. Very respectfully, SQeetary of State. The Same Old Story. A Negro named Lanham, living 6n the farm of S. T. Weyman, r:ear Pel ham's Mill, Greenville County, went to the field Wedneday morning with his wife to pick cotton, leaving his two lit tle children fastened up in his house. The house is near the river, and Lan ham was afraid the children would get out and wander into the stream. About acon the house was burning, and before any one could reach the building it was in full blaze. The two children could not get oumt and both were burned to a crisp. It is supposed that the children started the fire -News and Courier. A New Crank. Kansas has a new crank in the per son of W. K. Reeme, who advances the dynamiting of saloons, distilleries and breweries and the lynching of corrupt offials. Makes the food more del oYAL :=ONO AN AWFUL CRIME. Young Woman Ravished by Num ber of Black Savages. SOME OF THEM GAPTURED. The Law Will Take Them Speed ily to the Gallows. Shocking Story of Bruta!ity. Carried to Columbia. A horrible crime was committed in Darlington county, near Lamar, Mon day afternoon, for which at least three Negroes will pay the penalty *ith their lives. Two of them are now in jail, aud if there is no attempt to lynch them made before court convenes two weeks from now, they will be convicted with out a doubt and hanged, for they have corfessed the commission of the black est crime that has ever darkened the fair name of Darlington. If the other party is caught he will doubtless be spared the suspense of waiting two weeks to meet his doom. The details of the crime are too hor rible to be published, but they have been told over and over again all over Darlington county Monday. It is sufficient to say a highly respectable young lady of Lamar has suffered at the hands of several black brutes, and she now lies in a dangerous condition fearfully mangled and bruised. The two Negroes who are now in jail admit the commission of their fearful deed and say that it was accomplished only after a terrible struggle with their vic tim and only after they had choked her into insensibility, and that when they left her they thought her dead. Two of them only were present, the others having gone away and had not gotten back in time to take part in the deed as was their intention. One of the black brutes now in the cuatody of Sheriff Scarborough bears on his clothing stains of blood from his vic tim, and this Negro now owes his life to the tact and skill of the deputies who secreted him from an angry mob and earried him to Darlington through the swamps under cover of the darkness. The people are aroused for miles around and justly so. The third Negro, one of those who as4aulted the unfortunate girl, has not yet been captured, bat he will be if he is in Darlington county, and if he happens to fall into the hands of any of the present searching party his hours of life will be but few more. A dispatch from Columbia says one of the principals in the Lamar outrage affair--Edward Luckie, and four Ne groes charged with being accessories to the foul crime in that they stood by and saw the deed committed and did not offer to interfere, arc now within the walls of the South Carolina peniten tiary for safe keeping. The four ac cessories are Jim Washington, Daniel and Ed Mack and Lucius Stuart-an aggregation of ugly looking, sullen Ne groes, who look like Georgia turpentine toughs. The other principal, who is at large, is very black: is about 18 years old, has a broad forehead; has high wide cheek bones; has a scar over his left eye, and his clothing was spattered with mud when last seen. When last heard from he was fleeing toward Timmonsville. The sheriff never expects to ges hold of him if he is run down anywhere in this section of the countly. A G?REAT DAY FOR MASONS. Preparations Being Made for the Cen tennial of Washington's Death. It is not generally known among those beyond the pale that America's greatest President was a member of the Masonic order, but the fact is true nevertheless, and what is more, he was not 21 years of age when initiat ad into the -brotherhood, although he had reached his majority before he was pass ed to the fellow craft degree. Just in what manner the illustrious man succeeded in being admitted to the order before his 21st birthday is not revealed by this historian. At the age of 56 Washington was a charter mem br of the Alexandria-Washington lodge, and in the same year he consid eredl it an honor to accept and faithful ly fill the office of worshipful master of the lodge. During this time he heid his membership in his mother lodge at Fredericksburg. During his entire life Washington ever showed a devotion to the cause of Masonry and Masons. ft was the feel ing of vencration for the Mason and for the man that aed the Grand Lodge of Colorado to suggest a fitting observanc3 of the date of his passing into the eter nal lodge ibove. The Virginia lodge was requested to take charge of the ceremonies. A committee ot prominent Masons from Virginia and the District of Co lumbia have met in Washington to dis cuss the proposed exercises in comme moration for the certennary of the death of George Washington. A grand banquet and reception will be given on Deemrber 14th at Mount Vernon and in W\ashingtonl. Thne intention is to make this banquet one of the most successful affairs in the history of Masonry. At the banquet all Masons and their wives will be wel come, and the Grand Masons and dis tinguished Masons from all parts of the United States will be present. It is expected that President McKinley, who is a Mason of high rank, will deliver the address at Mount Vernon, and also receive with the distinguished Masons at the banquet. Race Troubles. The operatives of the Oxford Knitt ing Mills, at Barnesvilles, Ga., one of the largest manufacturing of that city, struck on Saturday morning last be cause of the placing of a Negro man at work among the white employees. The Negro was placed in the mill by W. M. Howard, the manager. For aboui eight months three other Fegroes have been working at the mill, but in depart ments shut out from the view of the Iwhite men and women. The mill has clse down u ntil the trouble is settled. UE icious and wholesome TO GIVE SCHLEY A HOME. Endless Chain Scheme Proposed By 3iss Edna McClellan. The New York Journal says: "Rear Admiral Schley may well count Miss Edna McClellan among his very warm friends and supporters, and if her plan succeeds he will have something sub. stantial to be grateful for. Miss McClellan, who is young and pretty, and the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Weller McClellan of No. 105 West Seventh street, was much im pressed by the tremendous applause for Admiral Schley in the Dewey day pa rade. She decided that Admiral Schley should have a house in Washington, -as well as Admiral Dewey. She saw no reason why Schley's admirers should not come forward with their dollars and dimes. She returned to her home and laid out a plan for the work which has just been begun. She has started end less chains to raise dimes. Subscrip tions in all amounts will be gratefully received. Miss McClellan will ask Gov. Roose velt and Miss Helen Gould to be mem bers of the committee to control the fund. She will ask the assistance of President McKinley and members of his cabinet, and will go to Washington. if necessary, to seek the aid of Repre sentatives of congress. She is very busy writing endless chain letters to be sent to all parts of the country. She is very confident of success. Schley's admirers are legion, she knows. She feels like all his friends, that he has never received due credit from his government for the splendid victory off Santiago, and she believes they will welcome an opportunity to show their appreciation by substantial contributions to this fund. .Miss McClellan has not considered the price of the residence to be pur chased nor the location, but she is con fident that this present from the peo ple of the nation will be worthy of his position as a great naval commander. Fair.Week Rates. The rates for the State fair of South Carolina, to be held in Columbia Nov. 6th-10th, have been announced as fol lows: The Southern Passenger association has.granted rates to Columbia, S. C., on account of the State fair, Nov. 6th to 10th, 1899, from all points in the State of South Carolina, also from Asheville, Charlotte, Wilmington, N. C., Augusta and Savannah, Ga., and intermediate stations at tne following rates: A rate of one first class fare for the round trip, plus 50 cents for admzission to the fair grounds. Tickets for the general public, limited to continuous passageein both directions to be sold daily Nov. 4th to 10th inclusive, with final limit Nov. 13th, 1S99, and for fair officials and stock men only at the same rate Nov. 2nd and 3d, on presenta tion of certificates signed b~y Thos. W. Holloway, secretary State Agricultural and Mechanical socinty. Also rates embraced in the followieg table, which include 50 cents eor admnis sion to the fair grounds; tickets at such rates to be sold Nov. 7th, 8th and 9th, with final limit Nov. 11, 1899: 10 miles and under...... ...$ 85 11 miles and under 13........ 90 15 miles and under 20........1.00 20 miles and under 30...... .1.20 :30 miles and under 40.. .... .1.40 40 miles and under 50.... ...1.60 50 miles and under 60.......1.80 60 miles and under 70 . .... .. 2.00 70 miles and under 80.... ....2 20 80 miles and under 90. ...... ..2.40 90 miles and under 100.. ...... 2.60 100 miles and under 110........2.80 110 miles and under 120.. ......3.00 120 miles and under 130... ..... 3.20 130 miles and under 140... ..... 3.40 140 miles and under 150... ..... 3.60 150 miles and under 160 ......... 3.80 160 miles and under 170 ... .. ... 4 00 170 miles and under 180S.. ..... 4.20 180 miles and under 190.. ....... 4.40 190 miles and under 200.. ....... 4.60 Counterfeit Money. The Atlanta Constitution gives an account of the capture of a couinterfit ing outfit within three miles of that city. The "den"' contained "a stock of spurious coins, plating apparatus with which to make counterfeit coin, as well as silver." The Constitution says: "This raid and capture, believed to b~e one of the best and most important that has recently occurred in the South, has solved the mystery of the counterfeit silver with which the city has been pe riodically flooded since last March. For seven or eight months a lot of counterfeit silver dollars and half dol lars have been floated over the city, and the spurious money was pron~ounced the best that had ever been put in circula tion. The money, while a trifle light er than the good coin, had a genuine rinlg when dropped upon the floor. In fact, there were few except the experts who could tell the money was counter teit without a very close inspection." Bold Bank Robbers. Three masked robbers entered the bank at Sevierville. Tenn., Friday morning and attempted to rob the vault, contain-ng considerable money. Presi dent William Macmahon threw his loose money into the safe and seized a gun. His first shot killed the leader of the robbers, Pearl Thurman. The assistant cashier, John Marshall, rushed out of a side door and shot two of the robbers' horses. Calderick, one of the robbers. was arrested after being wounded. Will Derrick, the third robber, got on a horse and rode a mile hotly pursued by a psse. On being surrounded by the men he fled into a barn, where he com mitted suicide by shooting himself in the head. The men are supposed to have come from Knoxville on an early train. In Memory of Winnie Davis. A dispatch from Athens Ga. says that the GJeorgia Division of the United Daughters of the Confedracy have de cided to erect a Winnie Davis memorial at the State Normal Schooolin Athers. It is hoped that before they build the memorial the United Daughters will make an effort to discharge all mechan ics and other liens, for fear that the memorial may share the same inglori ous fate that attended the great Confed erot Home in Atlanta. A Georgia Amazon. The section of Glynn county around Sapp's still, near Brunswick, Ga., is be ing terrorized by a crazy Negro woman, who. stark naked, roams the wools, shootiug at any one she sets. Already one man has fallen dead before a pistol shot. while two other Negroes, her hus band and brother. have been wounded ,:y her bullets. The woman's name is Mary Eacon. A few days ago she be came violently insane, stole the weapon with which she is now armed and a box of cartridges from her husband and was off to the swamp. She is reporled to have been captured by a crowd of her own race, but the twomen left in charge of her allowed her to escape. Persons go armed in the neighborhood and houses are guarded as protection for the women and children. Wehding of the Blind. Probably ons of the most remarkable weddings ever known will take place to day at the home of Mr. George W. De Weese, No. 6 Vine street, Cleveland. Ohio. De Weese, is the secretary of the blind people's asylum. He is blind. De Weese has thrown open his house for the wedding festivities. The groom is W. M. Moore, 33 years old. He is blind. The bride is Miss Lizzie Brown. She is blind. The knot will be tied by Justice of the Peace Dwight Palmer. He is blind. The best man will be Wm. Vanderwyst. He is blind. Fifty euests have been invited. All are blind. An orchestra composed of blind men will play the wedding march. After the ceremony a literary and mus ical programme will be carried out by blind people. Winthrop's Attendance. In a letter to Gov. McSweeney Presi dent Johnson of the Winthrop College at Rock Hill speaks thus of theinstitu tion: "We have had a very fine open ing of the college this season. The stu dents are better prepared for college work than ever before. Our sub-fresh man class numbers only 27. The total enrollment in every department of the college thus far is 481. If we had had dormitory accomodations we would have enrolled 681 easily. A number of applicants from other States than South Carolina were refused admission because of lack of room for the girls of the State. The students are deeply in earnest and seem to take up their work with fine spirit." Geo.S.Hacker& Son M.4NUrACTUES OF C== S W aC C== LU 64 Doors, Sash, Blinds, Moulding and Building Pr M atergsia,hef CHT ARESONIC.C SAhperfects md ordsad iSors'omahdiarea, Wndow and LosSy OFas SpEP. lt csimil'i g e nuregt NO~T NACOTIWAC. [59 ast Bay c11a~m~.. Pais,ColsGlas,evrnis Tesars Pape SandP. Headquarter fornathe oferae THE Bank of Manning, MANNINC, S. C. Transacts a general bani,ing busi ness. Prowpt aud spe. ial att w! I. u given to depositors residliing out '4 town. Deposits solicited. All collections have prtmpt atten tion. Business hours from 9: a. ni. to 2 p. m. JOSEPH SPROTT, A. LEVI, Cashier. President. BOARD OF DIRECTOBs. 7 LEVI, J. W. MCLEOD W E. BnowN, S. M. NEISEN, JOSEPH SPROTT, A. LEVI. To Consumers of 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. Qarter-keg. $2.25. Hfalf-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 ie guaranteed pure, made of the choicesthops and malt, and is recommended by the medical fraternity. Send to us for a trial order. G EEXANIA Brewing Comnany, 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-CUTTIN U IN ALL STYLES, SHAVING AND S H AMTPOOI NG Done with neatness and dispatch.... .. ... A cordial invitation is extended... J. L. WELL6. CASTSRIA The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears them Signature of 'The - Kind You Have Always Bought. CASTSORIA. LOCRY COMPANY SON, President. MERCHANTS. - Charleston, S. C lies & Co., t Bay. 1 and Brushes, Lanterns, luiding Paper.