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LALMAGE4S SEli2'I. How the World Wi L A r it is 'hange'd RIGHT VIEW OF THE FUTURE We Will Have a New Earth Wherein Wil Dwel 7Righteousness. By a novel nmode ir. T:Jge i n thi discourse shows low the wetd will look after it has been re':autionizd fr good: text, 11 Peter iii. 13. A new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. Down in the struggle to make the world better and happir we su-eunmes get depressed with the obstacles to be oveicome and the work to be accom plished. Will it not be a tonic and an inspiration to look at the world as it will be when it has been brought ba,-k to paradisaical condition? So let us for a few moments tranisport ourselves into the future and put ourselves for ward in the centuries and see the world in its rescued and perfected state, as we will see it if in those times we are permitted to revisit this planet. as 1 am sure we will. We all want to see the world after it has been thoroughly gospelized and all wrongs have been righted' We will want to come back. and we will come back to look upon the refulgent consummation towara which we have been on larger or smaller scale toiling. Having heard the open ing of the orchestra on whose strings some discords traveled. we will want to hear the last triumphant bar of the per fected oratoria. Iaving seen the victure as the painter drew its first out lines upon canvas, we will want to sce it when it 3 as complete as R1eaben's "Descent From the Cross" or Michael Angelo's "Last Judgment." Having seen the world under the gleam of the star of Bethlehem, we will want to see it when, under, the full shining of the sun of righteousness, the towers shall strike 12 at noon. There will be nothing in that coming century of the world's perfection to hin der our terrestrial visit. Our power and velocity of locomotion will have been improved infinitely. It will not take us long to come here, however far off in God's universe heaven may be. The 1 1 deilares that such visitation is going on now. "Are they not all ministering spirits sent forth to minis ter to those who shall be heirs of salva tion? Surely the gates of hea en will not be bolted after the world is Edenized so as to hinder the redeemed from descending for a tour of inspec tion and congratulation and triumph. You know what interest we look upon ruins-ruins of Kenilworth castle, ruins of 31elrose abbey, ruins c 1Rome, ruins of Pompeii, So this world in ruins. is an enchantment to look at, but we want to see it when rebuilt, repil lared, retowered, realtered, rededicate. The exact date of the world's moral resto:-ation I cannot foretell. It may be thit through mighty awakenings it will take place in the middle of' the nearby twentith century. It may be at opening of :le twenty-first century, but it would not be surprising if it took more than 100 years to correct the ravages of sin which have raged for 6,000 years. The chief missionary and evangelistic enterprises were started in this century, and be not dismayed if it takes a couple of centures to overcome evils that have had full swing for 60U centuries. I take no responsibility in saying on what page of the earthly cal endar it will roll in but God's eternal veracity is sworn to it that it will roll in, and as the redeemed in heaven do as they please and have all tce facili ties of transit from world to world you and I, my hearer or reader, will came and look at what my text calls "A new earth wherein dwelleth~ righteousness." I imagine that we are descending r t that period of the world's comiice gos pelization. There will be no peril in such a descent. Great heights and depths have no alarm for glorified spirits. We can come down through chasms between worlds without gro wing dizzy and accross the spaces of half the universe without losing our 'way. Down and father down we come. As we approach this world we breathe the perfume of illimitable gardens. Floralization that in "enturies past was here and there walled in lest, reckless and dishonest hand< p'ua~ or despoil it surges, its billows of color aeros= t:, field and up the hillsides, and :i1.2 which was desert blossoms as the ror- e. All the foreheads of crag crowned with flowers, the feet of the mountains slippered with flowers! Oh, this per fume of the continents, this aroma of hemispheres! As we approach nearer and nearer we hea'songs and laughter and hosannas, but not one groan of dis tress, not one sob of bereavement, not one clank of chain.. Alighted on the redeemed earth, we are first accosted by the spirit of the twenty-first century, who proposes to guide and show us all that we desire to see. Without his guidance we would lose our way, for the world is so much changed from the time when we limi in it. First of all, he points out to us a group of abandoned buildings. We as this spirit of the twenty-first century, "What are those structures whose wails are falling down and whose gates are rusted on the hinges?" Our escort tell us: "Those were once peniten tiaries filled with offernders. but the ciime of the world has died out. Theft and arson and fraud and violence have quitted the earth. People have all they want, and why should they appropriate the property of others even if they had the desire? The marauders, the assassins, the buccaneers, of Hecrods, the Nana Sahibs, the ruffians, the bandits, are dead or, transformed by the power of the Christian recligion, are now upright and beneficent and useful. "Hospitals and almshouses must have been a necessity once, but they would be useless now. And you see nll the swamps have been draincd, sewerage of the great towns has been perfected, and the world's climate is so improved that there are no pneumonias to come out of the cold, or rheumatisms out of the dampness, or fevers out of the heat. Consumptions banished, pneumionias banished, diphtheria banished, oph thalmia banished, neuralgias b'anished. As near as I can tell from what 1 have read, our atmosphere of this century is a mingling of the two months~ of May and October of the nineteenthenu. And we believe what our ecr as for as we pass on we find hea lho" ing in every cheek and beaming in1rI't.". eye and springing in cvery 'te as articulating in every ut terancano o and I waper to cael cber asor s cort has his attentio drawa to' om new senrise upon the us .. sk, nd we say, each to the oe would believe that tht i i t'e war w lived in over lii years ka those men and wo''n weasa oe 'rrow'. Vheeks that to havC bcu wet by one r. A race sublime A new t I ay to our e:,rt -)id all this n:-eiy Lapplen SO? Are all the .sd er :.(on:taneously agood? IHOW did . u get the ol .sipwrecked world ak t !'-fin, )Ut (itf te reakers in: the smoot sa ''No, no! reSpOnCs our twety fir-t century ezcort. lO t" 'ee those tower.,* Those are tow ersochuc towers o1 reformatorY -t ntut t owe .s o1 (hr tian oees Walk With mle, and, l-t u. en ter 0 e of thee temiles. *t'er, j Url yad none Of iti the ngneor. In E e r g aUOVe "Glir., In EI'cl-- Tretul., stop in the oran to: so much used as the 'ruz, st o p r. of Ariel than of N aouti ore chants than dirgis. Not a thin song, the words of which no one ur tnd on the lip of a soloist, but ht harzaon-cs that roll from out side door to .hant-el and from floor to gruined rut rer as though landel had conic out of the Cighteenth century into to the twenty-first and had his foot on the organ pedal, and Thoimas Ilast ings had come out of the early part of the nineteenth eeutury into the twenty first and were leading the voices. Music that moves the earth and makes heav en listen: But I say to our twenty-first century escort: "I cannot understand this. Have tuese worshipers no sorrows, or have they forgotten their sorrows? Our esCrt responds: "dorrows: Why, they Lad sorrows mrre than you could count, but by a divine illumination that the eighteenth and tineteenth centuries rever enjoyed they under stand the uses of sorrow and are com forted with a supernatural condolence such as previous centuries never ex perienced. "Well,- I say to our escort, "where are Tom Paine's 'Age of Reason' and Ingersoll's 'Mistakes of Moes' and David Ilame'sand Voltaire's celebrated tirades against the Bible'!* "I never heard of them, says our escort. "What are you talking about? A bigger bon fire of books than that which in apos tolic time was kindlcd in the streets of Ephesus was lighted in all our cities and the corrupt literature of the world turned into ashes many years ago. I saw the last leaf curl up in the flame and scatter." In response to my quesuion as to what had wrought all this change-ob literated all the evil and fully inaugur ated all the good-our escort, the spirit of the twenty-first century, tells me that gospelization had directly or in directly done it. It was a practical ospel that not only changed the heart, but made the mni honest. A practi cal religion which did not expend all its energy in singing. "Fly abroad, thou mighty gospel," but gave some thing to make it fly. The good work was helped on by the fact that it became a general habit among millionaires and multimillion aires to provide churches and schools and institutions of mercy, not to be built after the testators were dead, but built so that they might be present at the laying of the cornerstone and at the dedication and leave less inducement for the heirse-at-law to prove in or phans' court that when the testa-:ors made their last williand testament they were crazy. They telegraphic wires in the air and the cables under the sea thrill witk Christian invitation. Pho nographs charged with gospel sermons stand in every neighborhood. The 5 ,000,000,000O of the world's inhabi tants in that century are 5,00,000.000 disciples. "But" I say to our cseort. the spirit of the twenty-first century, "you have shown us much, but what about inter national conditions? When we liied on earth, it was a century that bled with Marengo and Chalons and Lodi Bridge and Lucknow and Solferino and Leipsic an~d Waterloo and San Juan." Our escort replies. "Come witti me to this building of white marble and glit tering dome." As we pass up and on we are taken into a room where the mightiest anwl best representatives of all nations are asembled to settle interna tional con roversies. As we enter I hear the presiding officeer opening the council of arbitration, reading the sec ond c-banter of Isaiah: "They shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation shall not lif t up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more." -: stions which in our long past nine tenth century caused quarrel and bloodshed, as when Germany and France were deciding about Alsace and Lorraine, as when the United States and Spain were deciding about Cuba such questions in this twenty-first cen tury settled in five minutes, one drop of ink doibg more than once could have been accomplished by a river of blood. ofBut we cannot stay long in this hall ofarbitration, for it is almost time for us to retrace our way heavenward. This voluntary exile must soon end. A nd, passing out of this hall of arbitra tion, we go through a national museum, where we arc shown among tbe curiosi ties an Enfield rifie, a Howitzer, a Hothkiss staU: an ambulance-curi osities to that age, but, alas: no euri eity to us of the nine-teenth century, for some of our own kindred went down under their stroke or- were carried off the field by those wheels. "Biut." I. say to our escort, the spirit of the twenty-first century, and you and 1 say to each other, --we must go home now, back again to heaven. We have staid long enough on this terres trial visitation to see that all the best thias foretold in the Scriptures and which we read during our earthly resi dence have come to pass, and all the Davidie, Solomonic and Paulinian and Johannean prophecies have been ful tilled, and that the earth, instead of being a ghastly failure, is the nmightest success in the universe. A star re deemed. A plianet rescued! A world saved! it started with a garden, and it is going to elese with a harden. What a happiness that we could have seen this old world after it was righted and before it burned, for its internal fires have nearly buraed out to the crust, according to the geologist, mrak in it easy for the theologian to believe n the confiagration that the Bible preicts. One element taken from the water and that will burn, and another eemnt taken from the air and that will ban, and surrounding planets will w.th this~ old ship of a world on lire n. wond.. if all its passengers rot afy otf. Before that ptanetary eatas tro he, Lie us back to heaven. Fare well spirit 01 the twenty-first century: Thaks fr your guidane: We can sa. no le- aa fromn doxologies thte ereii epes never closed. ia day tha ha no sundown. We mut ert toteimmortals around the throne the transformiations we have1 seen thevi os of truth on land an sea, th 1emiLpheres irradiated, and Chrs on the throne of earth, as ne is on then thLrone of heaven. - And now you and I have left our ;ation has no power to detain ascend ing spirits. Up through immensities and by stellar and lunar and solar splendors, which cennot be described by mortal tongue. we rise higher and higher, till we reach the shining gate as it opens for our return, and the quetiouns greet us from all sides: -What is the news? What did you find in that earthly tower? What have you to report in this city of the sun?" llrophetic, apostolic, saintly inquiry. And, standing on the steps of the house of many mansions, we cry aloud the news: "Hear it, all ye gloriIled Clhsistian workers of all the past cen turies' We found your work was suc eessful, whether on earth you toiled with knitting needle, or rung a towel on a rising wall, or smote a shoe last. or endowcd a university, or swayed a scepter; whether on earth you gave a eup Cf cold water in the name of a dis cip:le, or at some Pentecost preached 3.000 souls into the kingdom. In that world we have just visited the deserts are all abloom, and the wildernesses are bright with fountains. Sin is extirpated. Crime is reformed. Isease is cured. The race is emanci pated. 'The earth is full of the knowl edge of God, as the waters cover the sea.' 'The redeemed of the Lord have come to Zion with songs and everlast ing joy upon their heads.' 'The Lord God Omnipotent reigneth, and the kingdoms of the world have become the kingdoms of our Lord Jesus Christ.' Let the harpers of heaven strike the glad tidings from the strings of their harps. and the trumpeters put them in the mouth of their trumpets, and the orchestras roll them into the grand march of the eternities, and all the cathedral towers of the great capital of the universe chime them all over heaven." And now I look up and see the cast ing down at the bejewe.ed and radiant crowns at the sacred feet of the en throned Jesus. Missionary Carey is castinz down before those feet the crown of India saved. Missionary Judson is cisting down the crown of Burma saved. Missionary Abeel cast ing down the crown of China saved. David Livingston casting down at those feet the crown of Africa saved. Missionary Brainerd casting down the crown of this country's aborigines savcd. Souls went up from all the de nominations in America in holy rivalry, seeking which could soonest cast down the crown of this continent at the Saviour's feet, and America saved. But often you and I. who were com panions in that expedition from heaven to earth, seated on the green bank o the river that rolls through the para. dise of God, will talk over the scene. we witnessed in that parenthesis of heavenly bliss, in that vacation from the skies, in our terrestial visitation we who were early residents in the nineteenth century, escorted by the spirit of the twenty-first centuay, when we saw that my text describes as "a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteous ness." "Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost, as it was in the beginning, it now and ever shall be., world without end. Amen." CHANCE EOR THE CHILDREN. To Aid in Raising the Jefferson Davis Monument. The following letter froma a teacher occosions the appeal herewith made to those in whose power it lies to make contribution clubs for small amounts for the children and others to aid the Confederate women in erecting the Davis monument: L-, Nov. 25, 1899 Dear Mrs. Taylor, President S. C. Di vision, D. C. If you think it advisable will you bring to the notice of the Daughters of the Confederacy a matter which in terosts me? A pupil in our school who had two years before studied United States history under me suggested that she would like to contribute a little to the monument to be erected by the southern people to Mr. Davis, even if she only gave a nickel. A boy in the class ridiculed the idea of a nickel be ing worth giving. I said to them, that if every boy and girl throughout the State gave even 1 cent it would make a magnificent contribution, That start ed a movement in our school to get every student who was studying or had. studied about the Confederacy to give something for the Davis modument. I decorated the mite box with the Con federate bolors-red and white-and a miniature battle flag, and also a like ness of Jefferson Davis. Almost every child gave something. Some of the lit tle ones at home heard their older brothers and sisters speak of it, and sent their mites. indeed the first coin dropped in the box was given by a boy 4 years old whose grandfather had been killed at Charleston. The children want me to suggest to you that our example of a small eon tributisn be followed by s chools throughout the State. Truly yours etc. Columbia, S. C., Nov. 29, 1899. To the teachers and scholars of the public and private schools of Smath Carolina, the girls of the Metho~dist. Presbyterian, Converse, Greenville and other colleges, the convents, kindergar ten and all other schools, to tne moth ers and sisters of the wee people who re to grow up into our great ones, to the little people themsehxes this Jetter is addressed. The writer is induced to make this communication because the wise suggestion comes to her from the lips of "-babes and sucklings." Surely older people must respond to the appeal from these children for cooperation in assertidg their confidence in the right ness of the sacrifices made bp their fathers, which were bevond measure too great for men to have dared to make, but for what was beyond all othei value. Will Run Into Savannah It is announced that, commencing December 10, 1899, the Southerrn Rail way Company will opperate through train service over its own line via Co lumbia, Perry, Blackville and Allen dale. S. C.,- into and out of Savannah, Commencing that date its through car service will be opperated in connec tion with the Plant System south of Sa~nnah, Ga., and the Florida East Coast Railway to and from points on the east eenl of Florida, with direct connections to and from Key West, Fla., Havana, Cuba, and.Nassau, N. P.. via Mliami. Fla., in connection withi the Florida East Coast Steamship Line; and in connection with the P~iL Syi tem south of Savannah to and from other points ,in Florida, including pCits on tile west coast, with direct connections to and fiom Key West and Havana. via Tampa, Fla., in connection with the Plant Steamship Line. Washington Post. Nov. 10, 199. I have used your '.ife for the Liver and Kidneys' with great benefit, and for Dyspepsia or any derangement of the Liver or Kidneys I regard it as be in w:hout an equal." James J. Os bone, Attorney at Law, Boliston, DOUTIIIT ON TOP. The State Board Exonerates Him From Blame. HIS POSITION WAS RESTORED Mr. Robinson, of the Committee Which Brought Charges Against Him, Offered the Resolution. The State board of control has re versed its formecr action in discharging Nr. J. B. Douthit, commissioner, and that offcial was reinstate I Friday when it imet at 11 a. in., and took up the consideration of the case of Commis sioner Douthit, all nembers of the board being present. The pending qu'-tion before the board -,as the consideration of the resolution offered by Mr. Haselden Thursday evening, to the effect that, iaasiuah as Judge Aldrich had decided that the removal of Commissioner Douthit was illej al, the charges against that official be withdrawn and that the entire matter be referred to the general assembly at its appraching session. Mr. Robinson stated that he was un willing to support the resolution, inas much as he thought the board was coin petent to handle the matter, and that he felt indisposed to shirk any respob sibility, and that he thereafter offered the following as a substitute for Mr. Liaselden's resolution: "Whereas, certain charges have here tofore been made against J. B. Douthit, commissioner; and whereas the board of control has since become thoroughly convinced that the charges cannot be sustained; be it, therefore, "Resolved, That the said charges be. and they are hereby, withdrawn." In support of his resolution, Mr. Roinsonr stated that, acting with Mr. Haselden as a committee of investiga tion, lie had j,>ined in a report to the board of control making a number of charges against Mr. Douthit. This re port was based upon ex parte testi mony, submitted along with the report to the board. and that he had voted to remove Mr. Douthit from office, believ ing the charges preferred to be true. Siree that time, however, he had in o-gated for himself. ar.d found that .a ciarges could not be sustained, and that he then considered it his duty to himself, to Mr. Douthit and to the pub lic to say so by proposing this -resolu tion Mr. Williams said .that Mr. Douthit was either guilty or innocent of the charge:, preferred against him, and in sisted that the charges be either proven to lie true or that the board should con fess that he is innocent. He co-ld not support Mr. Haselden's resolution, be cause, if Mr. Douthit was guilty and not removed from office by the board, he (Mr. Williams) could not continue to serve as his superior officer, and he stated that if the charges were not abandoned by the committe- who pre ferred them, he (Mr. Williams) would himself press an investigation of them. He said, however, that Mr. Haselden, being the chairman of the investigating committee, and having withdrawn the charges, and Mr. Robinson proposing by resolution to do so, he (Mr. Wil liams) could have no objection to its being done, and that he was willing to vote for Mr. Robinson's resolution or t-a proceed with the trial. Ile said: "Now, let us take up the charges seriatim and examine them. The first charge is that Mr. Douthit placed XXX labels on X corn liquor, thereby perpetriting a fraud upon the consumer." The facts in the case, he declare d, were as follows: One Mr. Groves of North Carolina of fered to the State board eight barrels of old corn liquor at a certain price. This was not offered as X, or XX, or XXX corn liquor, but simply as corn liquor. It was at once recognized lby the board as a bargin, and it was pur chased. Mr. Douthit stated, in the presence of (lie board, that he would label and sell it as XXX. Mr. Williams stated further that Mr. Haselden asked that he be permitted to take the sample home to his father, who was fond of good corn liquor, which request the board granted. He said that under this condition of affairs, there could have been no deception practiced by Mr. Douthit. Therefore, this charge must fall to the ground. He said that the other charge was that Mi-. Douthit had retailed liquor at the State dispensary, contrary to law and in violation of the rules of the board of control. It was unnecessary, he said, to recite in detail the various resolu tions of the board upon this subject. Mr. Williams stated that he himself introduced the resolutions under the terms of which it was proposed to con vit Mr. Douthit on this charge, said resolution designing to expressly order him to sell goods at the State dispen sary, and to invoice such sales to some local county dispenser monthly, turning over the cash collected along with the invoice, intending by this means to comply with the requirement of law that jies of li1'r should only be made to the consumer. "I am convinced now." he said, "that this proceeding was contrary to law, but that if any party was guilty, the State board was more so thtan Mr. Douthit.' Mr. Williaus said, further, that itf Mr. Douthit's case was up for trial by a jury, Mr. Douthit would not need any other eviden~eethan that of the members of the board of c-ontrol to secure his acquittal: and that having this personal knowledge of the facts, he was willing to support Mr. Robinson's resolution. Mr. Boykin stated that Mr. Williams had fairly, clearly and fully related the facts in the case, and that he was willing to support the Robinson reso lution, or that the board should pro ceed to the trial of Mr. Douthit; that he had uo inclination to shirk any duty or responsibility in the matter, and he therefore seconded Mr. Robinson's resolution. Mr. Miles said that lie could not sup port Mr. Robinson's resolutions be cause he had previously voted to re move Mr. D)outhit upon tic e eirae; preferred by the comminee oft inv*.si gation, and that no sitionee lad siued been pr' :, e, o uisprove these chars'~ : a ia i hawas done he cool. Lot reverse his position. Hie had never accused Mr. Douthit of dishon ety, and he did not now believe that he was dishonest, but that he could not vote to vindicate him from the charge of violation of the rules of the board of control until evidence to that effect had been presented. He was perfectly willing that all charges of wrong-doing against Mr. Douthit be withdrawn, and that he would not, himself, prefer any charges. Mr. Miles stated further that if Mr. Douthit were exonerated he would do his best, as chairman of' the board to hold up Mr. Douthit's hands and make his admiin istration a success. r. mlaemdn sad that he had but little to say in regard to the matter. He saidl that the resolution proposed by him fully explained his position. He deprecated any further discussion of the subject as being entirely un necessary, and insisted upon an im mediate vote upon the Robinson reso lution. The resolution was then adopted by the following vote: Ayes-31essrs. Robinson, Willainms and Boykin. Nay-Mr. HIaselden. Chairman Miles did not vote. A petition for the establishment of a I dispensary in Bayboro township Ilorry county, was refused; after which the board took a recess untill 4 p. m. Col. George Johnstone and ln. George E. Prince, counsel for 1r. Douthit, were present when the board met, but. as subsequent events proved, their services were not called into requisition. At the evening session of the bo-ird, on motion of Mr. tujbircson. in view of the action of the board yesterday in the case of Commissioner Dou-.hit, all resolutions adcptcd and action talen in the ea~e at the November meeting of the board were reseiided, ,o iha MIr. Douthit is no x fully restored to his duties as commissioner, in fac as well as in law. IS R THE ROBBER? A Young White Man Arrested on Sus picion. The News and Courier of last Wed nesday says: As the eveniug train from-Columbia and Augusta rolled into the Southern Railway depot last night, a few minutes after 9 o'clock, a well-dressed man, car rying a cloth covered valise and accom panied by a lady, descended and walked briskly towards the line street entrance. The man was about medium height, wore a checked suit of light materials, soft, white hat and tan shoes, and his companion was quietly dressed in a dark-colored gown and a travelling hat. Except to a few the movements of this pair were n t noted, but as they neared the street Detcetives James Miller and James Hogan stepped quiet ly from the shadow and, approaching the pair from either side, stopped them and placed the man under arrest. The stranget faced his captors with a look of astonishment, feigned er genuine, and asked what was the eiuse of his detention, but he was told that al this would be explained later. He was then taken to Central Police Station. His companion followed him to the Station, although told that she was un der no obligation to go there. At the police station the man gave the name of Bartow Warren. He ex pressed the most profound ignorance of anything which could have caused his arrest. He was searched and upon his person was found a .38 calibre revolver and $81.15 in money, a portion of which was in gold. Later in the night a war rant was sworn out against him, charg ing him with "robbery, grand larceny and railroad car breaking." It was made before Magistrate Rouse, and upon this Warren was placed in a cel' and told to make himself comfortable pending an early morning trip to Or angeburg. The companion of Warren, after waiting for a short time in hopes of his release, went out and last night couid not be located. As is, of course, understood, Warren was arrested on suspicion of being the highwayman who recently boarded the express car on the Southern Railway, at Fifty eight, and held up the two messengers, taking from them an amount of money between $1,200 and $1,300. Warren is said to have belonged in Barnwell or Bamberg counties, and some little time ago was in business in that section. He had, however, sold out quite recently. He could not be interviewed last night, and the officers who made the arrest also were not pre pared to give out any information as to the reasons for suspecting Warren of the deed. He boarded the night train at Branchville and the officers here were advised of the fact. This morning Messrs. Miller and James Hogan will take him up to Orangeburg and deliver him to the sheriff of that county. The steps to follow could not be learned last night. Both of the agents who were held up are Out of the city, and it seems more than probable that they will go to Orangeburg today also. The evidence against Warren was worked up at Branchville, and while it is all circumstantial, it is believed by the express officers that they have enough proof to convict him. The sledge hammer, which was found on the platform of the express car after the robbery, served as a most valuable clue in the arrest of Warren. On the hammer was noticed a private mark and upon inquiry at all of the hardware stores in the city it turned out that it was one which a few -days before the robbery had been purchased from Laza rug on King street. Mr. Simons, a clerk in the store, remembered having sold the hammer, and Tuesday night he identified Warren as the man who made the purchase. What connection the woman who was with Warren last Tuesday night when he was arrested has with the robbery, if any, is not known. She, it is said, was traveling with him as his wife, but it is not believed that they are lawfully married. She left the station house Tuesday night in company with two men, un known to the police, and where she went to was not given out by the police. The Orangeburg correspondent of The State says the robbery occurred in Orangeburg and not Dorchester couiiy, as has been generally believed. The place where the highwayman left the ear is a mile from the dividing line between the two counties, consi quently the man suspected of having committed the crimie was imprisoned here. The correspondent of Thie State succecded in seeing the prisoner but he politely declined to nmake a statement of any kind bearing on the case. He s:ated that he is 24 years old and was engaged in the mercantile busines? in Branchvisle till a few weeks ago. HeI is in good spirits and feels coniident that he will soon be out of this difficulty. In appearance lie is anything but a des perate indiniual and one cannot help b log.avorably impressed after con versing with him. He is very intelli gent, well1 educated and his bearing is that of a well-bred person. It has been learned from other sources that Warren sold out his b siness at Branchiville some time ago for about $00, and the money four t on him when arrested was a part o. the pro eeds of this safe. W. M. Warren, brother of the accused, has endeavored to obtain this money ($81 and some cents), claiming that, as it cannot be identified, the authorities have no right to keep it, but the authorities think otherwise and and are holding the money. As it is already generally known here it will do no harm to say some thing of "the woman in tile case.' She is Mrs. Felicia Edwards, a pretty and wealthy young widow, residing in the lowe part of tise onny ne rnnch ville. It is reported that Warren and Mrs. Edwards were contemplating a matrimonial alliance, but owing to ob jections by his people, they thought best to go elsewhere and arrange the matter. hence the trip to Charleston, at which place Warren was arrested im mediately upon his arrival. Mrs. Ed wards is quite wealthy and it is hardly probable that she wouldbe implicated in such an undertaking as the robbery of an express car. Public sentiment is considerably in the prisoner's favor. Warren is only allowed to see his coun sel in. private, all other interviews must take place in the presence of tLe sheriff or one (f his deputies. MAKING PEARLS TO ORDER. Mussel and Oyster Being Domesticated and Taught the Jewelry Business. Diamonds, rubles, emeralds and sap phires have all been produced in the laboratory and it is now the turn of the pearl. The chemist, however, is not himself the maker of the new arti ficial pearls; he Is only the collaborator. It is true that false pearl are made from mother-of-pearl, but their lustre is not up to the mark. The Chinese have long introduced grains of sand and little knots of wird into the shell of the pearl oyster in order that the animal, to relieve itself from the irri tation so caused, may coat the foreign substance with pearl. If this matter be inserted between the shell and the mantle the oyster can eject it by con tractions of his body. To prevent this M. Boutan, a French experimenter, has trepanned the shell and introduced a small bead of nacre, which might, how ever, be a true pearl of a small size, through the hole, and fixed it by means of cement to the shell. This bean was In course of time covered with nacre by the oyster, and a fine large pearl was the result. Dealers cannot distin guish it from an Oriental pearl. The question of making pearls in this way was recently discussed at a meeting of the Acedainies des Sciences. Paris, and M. Berthelot, the famous chemist, ob served that such a pearl could only be considered a true pearl if it had at least a hundred layers of the pearl nacre; otherwise it would only be a foreign substance covered with nacre. Of course, if the foreign matter is a pearl Itself this objection disappears, and we have the means of producing pearls at will. According to M. La caze Duthier, some two years would be required for a hallotide to produce a big pearl. The artificial pearl of the trade, fabricated from nacre, could also be coated in the same way. Evi dently the pearl nussel and oyster are about to be domesticated for the prod uction of pearls, as the spider for silk. Pearl divers may become a legend of the past. The First Post Office. The fact that there is a regular mail route through Alaska, and that even remote towns in Africa are not with out postal facilities, is in these progres sive times accepted quite as a matter of course. Yet this wonderful system, which has reached out until It includes every country on the face of the earth, had its beginning in the mind of an In genious Frenchman who lived less than two hundred and fifty years ago. In 1658, early in the reign of Louis XIV.' M. de Velayer established a pri vate penny post, says the writer In Harper's Round Table. Boxes were set up at the street corners for the recep tion of letters. Offices were opened in various quarters of Paris; collections were made once a day from the street boxes, followed many hours later by a single delivery, and thus the first Post Office in tne world was established. M. dle Valayer was so greatly encour aged by the success of his enterprise that, In order to develop It still further, lie printed certain forms of billets or notes which were intended to covar all the ordinary requirements of business in great towns. These forms contained blanks which were intended to be filled up by the pen with such special matter as might be necessary to com plete the writer's object The idea at once became popular, and the printed forms accompanied the expansion of the postal service throughout the larger cities of France, and it was many years before they fell into dis use. Snakes Do Swallow Their Young. I met with a curlous Incident some years ago while hunting snakes in the swamps at Melrose. I came across a male and female striped, with numer ous young ones. The parents were near each other, the family crawling over and around them. I was going for them, when, on second thought, I con cluded to watch them. They did not appear to be frightened, but went on gamboling about for some time. I weist a little nearer when both snakes turned toward me, making a faint noise, and placed their heads fiat on the ground. It was a curious sight to see these snakes, not long born, some of them a foot or two away, turn at the noise, and instantly seek refuge in their parents' wide-open mouths. I am certain It was a note of warning of danger. I caught both snakes and put them in separa te bags. The female had ten young and the male had swal lowed five. This is the first Instance of any notice of a male snake perform ing this affectionate duty for its young. I placed the whole family in a box, where they lived peaceably a long time. -From Forest and Stream. The Typewriter's spread. 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