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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.
There are probably few even among
those who use the typewriter who have
any proper conception of the variety
and universality of the ingenious sub
stitute for the pen.
Although only In its very early
youth, it has already penetrated into
every corner of the earth. It has gone
with invading armies and explorers In
to the very heart of Africa. Lieutenant
Peary has introduced it to polar Ice
and It has travelled thousands of miles
over Siberian snows. It travels with
every army and fleet, and It was one
of the first things rescued from the
sunken Maine.
Two of the most costly typewriters
belong to the Queen and the Czar of
Russia. They are exquisite machines
of white enamel and gold, with keys
of ivory. The Queen Regent of Spain
uses one for her correspondence, the
Khedive possesses one, and, in fact,
there is scarcely a court in Europe
where the typewriter has not a place.
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New Orleans, backed by eastern capi- MS ackerS on.
talists, to control the rice industry. A IVESO
circular letter has been issued to mill .
owners, asking for 90-day options on
their plants. There re 13 mills in
New Orleans. Those who are interest
ed in the undertaking decline to give ME
out details.
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