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Dr Talmage Speaks Encouraging Words to Them. SIMPLE FAITH AND TRUST in God Aford Comfoit for Those Who Are Oppressed and Struggling for a Live lihood. This di.:',urse of Dr. Talmage is an a ppeal for met -y in behalf of opprcssed womenhood, and Cfters encouragement to those struggling for a livelihood; text, Ecclesiastes, iv, 1, "Behold the tears ot such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter." Very long ago the neeale was busy. It was considered honorable for women to toil in olden times. Alexander the Great stood in his.place showing gar ments made by his own nioiher. The finest tapestries at Bayeux were made by the queen of William the Corqneror. Augustus the emperor would not wear any garments except those that were fashioned by some member of his royal family. So let the toiler everywhere be respected! The needle has slain more than the sword. When the sewing machine was invented, some thought that invention would alleviate woman's toil and put an end to the despotism of the -needle. -But no; while the sewing machine has been a great blessing to well to do families in many cases, it has added to the stsb of the needle the crush of the wheel, and multitudes of women, Not withstanding the re-enforcement of the sewing machine, can only make, work hard as they will, between $2 and $3 a week. The greatest blessing that could have happened to our first parents was being turned out of Eden after they had done wrong. Adam and Eve in their perfect state might have got along without work or only such slight employment as a perfect garden with no weeds in it demanded, but as soon as they had sinned the best thing for them was to be turned out where they would have to work. We know what a withering thing it is for a man to have nothing to do. Of the 1,000 prosperous and hon orable men that you know 999 had to work vigorously at the beginning. But I am now to tell you that industry is just as important for a woman's safety and happiness. The most unhappy women in our communities today are those who have no engagement to call them up in the morning. who once hav ing risen and breakfa!cd lounge through the dull forenoon in slipper, down at the heel and with disheveled hair, reading the last novel, and who, having dragged through a wretched fore noon and taken their afternoon sleep and having passed an hour and a half at their toilet, pick u;> their cardease and go out to make calls, and who pass their evenings waiting for somebody to come in and break up the monotony. Arabelle Stuart never was imprisoned in so darka dungeon as that. f Therecis nohay piness in an idle woman. It may be with hand or brain bat work she must or be wretched forever. The lit tle girls of our families must be started 'with that idea. The curse of Ameri can society is that our young women are taught that the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, tenth, fitieth, thousandth thing in their life is to get somebody to take care of them. Instead of that the first lesson should be how under God they may take care of themselves. The simple fact is that a majority of theua do have to take care of themselves and that, too af ter hav ing through the false notions, of their parents wasted the years in which they ought to have learned how suc cessfully to maintain themselves. We now and here declare the inhumanity, cruelty and outrage of that father and mother who pass their daughters into womanhood having giveD them no facility for earning their livelihood. Mmne. de Stael said, "It is not these writings that jI am proud of, but the fact-that I have facility in ten ceupa tions in any one of which I could make a livelihood." You say you have a fortune to leave them. O) man and woman! Have you not learned that, like vultures, like !.awk k. eo aee riches have wings and tiy away?~ Though you should be sucesal i leaving a competeneyibehiind you, tl6 trickery of executors may swamp it in a night, or some cfileials in our churches may get up a mining company and induce your orphans to put their money into a hole in Colorado and if by the most skillful machinery the sunken money cannot-.be brought up again prove to them that it was eter nally decreed that that was the way they were to lose it and that it went in the most orthodox and heavenly style. Oh, the da unable schemes that professed Christians will engage in until God puts his fingers into the col lar of the hypocrite's rope and strsips it clear down to the bottom! You have no right because you are well off to con clude that your children are going to be well off. A man died leaving a large fortune. His son fell dead in a Philadelphia grogshop. His old com rades same in and said as they bent over his corpse, "What is the matter with you, Boggsey?" The surgeon standing over him said: "Hush, ye! He is dead!" "Oh, he is dead!" they said. "Come, boys, let us go and take a drink in memory of poor Boggsey !" Have you nothing better than money to leave your children? If you have not, but send your daughters into the world with empty brain and unskilled hand, you are guilty of assassination, homicide, infanticide. There are women toiling in our cities for $2 or $3 a week who were the daughters of merchant princes. These suffering nnes now would be glad to have the crumbs that once fell from their father table. That wornout broken shoe that she wears is the lineal de scendant of the $12 gaiter in which her mother walked, and that toina and faded calico had ancestry of magnificent brocade that swept Pennsylvania ave nue and Broadway cleal without any ex pense to the street commissioners. Though you live in an elegant resi dence and fare sumptuously every day, let your daughters feel it is a disgrace for them not to know how to work. I denounce the idea prevalent in society that, though our young women may embroider slippers and crochet and make mats for lamps to stand on with out disgrace, the ideaof doing anything for a livelhhood is dishonorable. It is a shame for a young woman belonging to a large family to be inefficient when her father toils his life away for her support. It is a shame for a daughter to be idle while her mother toils in the washtub, it is as honorable to sweep house, make beds or trim hats as it is to twist a watch chain. So far as I can understand. the line 1 of respectability lIcs bet ween that which is use;'ul and th at which i5 useless. If women do that which is of no value, I their work is honorable. If they do practical work, it is dishonorable. That our young women may escape the cen sure of doing dishonorable work, I shall narticularize. You may knit a tidy for the back of an armchair. but by no means make the money wherewith to buy the chair. You may with a deli eate brush beautify a mantel urniment, but die rather than earn enough to buy a warble mantel. You way learn arti - tic nmusic until you can squall Italian, but never sing ' Ortouvile" or. Hundred." Do nothing praetical if you w suli, in the eyes of reti;.ed socie ty, preserve your respectabilitv. I scout these finical notions. I tell you a woman, to more ti an a man, has a right to occury a place in this world ujless lhe pas s a rent for it. A vast majority of those who would have wou in industrious shut her up to a few kinds of work. My judgment in this watter is that a woman has a right to do anything she can do well. There should be no department of merchan dise, mechanism, -&rt or seience barred against her. If Miss H>stner has gen ius for sculpture, give her a chisel. if Rosa Bonheur has a fonduess for de lineatine animals, let her make "The Horse Fair." If MIiss Mitchell will study astronomy, let her mount the starry ladder. If Lydia will be a n:er chant, let her sell purple. If Lucretia Mott will preach the gospel, let her thrill with her womanly eloquence the Quaker meeting house. It is said if woman is given such op portunities she will occupy places that might be taken by men I say if she have more skill and adaptedness fur any position than a man has, let her have it! She has as much right to her bread, to her apparel and to her home as men have. But it is said that her nature is so delicate that she is unfitted for evhausting toil. I ask in the name of al' past history what toil en earth is more severe, exhausting and tremen dous than that toil of the needle to which for ages she has been subjected? The battering ram, the sword, the oar bine, the battleax, have made no such havoc as the needle. I would that these living sepulchers in which wo men have for ages been buried might be opened and that some resurrection trumpet might bring up these living corpser to the trish air and sunlight We talk about women as though we had resigned to her all the light work and ourselves had shouldered the heavier But the day of judgment, which will reveal the sufferings of the stake and inquisition, will marshal before the throne isf God and the hierarchs of heaven the martyrs of washtub and needle. No i, I say if there be any preference in occupation, let woman have it. God knows her trials are the severest. By her aauter sensitiveness to misfortu-e, by her hour of anguish. I demand that no one hedge up her pathway to a livelihood. Oh, the meanness, the despicability of men who begrudge a woman the right to work anywhere in any honorabie calling! I hear from all this land the wail of womanhood. Man has nothing to an swer to that wail but latteries. He says she is an angel. She is not. She knows she is not. She is a human being who gets hungry when she has no food and cold when she has no fire. Give her no more flatteries. Give her justice. Oh, the thousands of sewing girls! Across the sunlight comes their death groan. It is not such a cry as come from those who are suddenly hurried out of life, but a slow, grinding, horrible wasting away. Gather them before you and iook into their faces, pinched, ghastly, hunger struck. Look at their fingers, needle pricked arnd blood tipped. See that premature stoop in the shoulders. Hear that dry, hacking, merciless cough. Stand at the corner of a street in some great city 6 or 7 o'clock in the morning as the women go to work. Many of them had no breakfast cxcept the crumbs that were left over from the night before or the crumbs they chew on their way throug~h the street. Here they come! TJht working girls of the cities. There engaged in bead work, these in flower making, in millinery, in paper box making; but, miost over worked of all and least compensated, the sewing women. Why do they not take the city ears on their way up? They cannot afford the 5 cents. If, concluding to deny herself something else, she gets into the car, give her a sea You want to see how Latimer and Ridley appeared in the fire. Look at that woman and behold a more horri ble martyrdom, a hotter fire, a more agonising death. Ask that woman how much she gets for her work, and she will tell you 6 cents for making coarse shirts and finds her own thread. Years ago, one Sabbath night in the vestibule of our church, after service, a woman fell in convulsions. The doe tor said she needed medicine not so much as somethine to eat. As she be gan to revive in her delirium she said grasp~gly: "Eight cents! Eight cents! I wish I could. get it done. I am so tired: I wish I could get some sleep, but [ must get it done. Eight cents! Eid t cents!" We found after ward that she was making garz'ents for cents apiece and that she could make but three of them in a day. Hear it! Three times eight are 24. Hear it,. men and women who have comfortable homes! Some of the worst villains of our cities are the employers of these women. They beat them down to the last penny and try to cheat them out of that. The woman must deposit a dol lar or two before she gets the garments to w'ork on. When the work is done, it is sharply inspected, the most insig nificant flaws picked out and the wages refused and sometimes the dollar de posited not given back. Hlow are t bese evils to be eradicated? Some say, "Give woman the ballot." What effect such ballot might have on other ques tions I am not here to discuss, but what would be the effect of female suf frage on women's wages? I do not be lieve that woman will ever get justice by woman's ballot. Indeed women op press women as much as men do. Do not women, as much as me~n, beat down to the lowest figure the woman who sews for them? Are not women as sharp as men on washerwomen and mil liners an-i mantus makers. If a wo man asks $1 for her work, does not her female employer ask her if she will not take 90 cents? You say, "Only 10 cents difference." But that is some times the difference between heaven and hell. Women often have less com miseration for wcmen thani men. If a woman steps aside from the path of~ rectitude, man may forgive; woman never! Woman will never get justice done her from woman's ballot. Neither will she get it from man's ballot. Hlow then? God will rise up for her. God has more resources than we know ol. The flhming sword that hung at Eden's gate when woman was driven out will cleave with its terrible edge of her op prssors. But there is something for women to do. Let young people prepare to excel in spheres of wrl, -a the --ill, be . bis after awmilc. to get largr '-vze3 3n-,killed and incompetent labor mus~t ake what is gicn; ikilled and com )Ctent labor will eventually mas.e its )wn standard. Admitting that the aw of supply and demand regulates hese things, L contend that the de Land for ;kiiled labor is very great and he supply very small. Start with the dea that work is honorable and that you can do so:ne one thing better than any body else. llbsolve that, God help ivz, you will take care of yourscl;. If ou are after ashile called into another relation, you will be all the better qual ified for it by your spirit of self reliance :r if you are cilled to stay as you are you can be happy and self supporting. Poets are fond of talking about man as an oak and woman the vine that climbs it, but I have seen wminy a tree fall that not only went down itsclf, but took all the viLces with it. I can tell you of something stronger than an oak for an ivy to eliwb on. and that is the throne of the great Jehovah. Single or affiineed, that woman is strong who leans on God aud does ner best. Many of you will go siogle handed through life, and you will have to choose be tween two chaacters. Younv. woman I am sure you will turn your back upon the useless, giggling. irresponsible non entity which society ignouiiniously ac kaowledges to be be a woman and ask God to make you a hu:nble, active, earnest Christiau. What will become of that womanly disciple of the world? She is more thoughtful of the attitude she strikes upon the carpet than how she will look in the jaidgient; more worried about her freckles than her sins; more interested in h, r apparel than in her redemption. The dying actress whose life had been viciou-, said: "The ecene closes. Draw the cur-sin." Generally the tragedy comes first and the farce afterward, but in her life it was first the farce of a use less life and then the tragedy of a wretched eternity. Cowpare the life and death of such a one with that of some Christian aunt that was once a blessing to your house hold. I do not know that she was ever asked to hive her hand in marriage. She lived single, that, untrammeled, she might be everybody's blessing. Whenever the sick were to be visited or the poor to be provided with bread she went with a bles-ing. She could pray or sing "Rock of Ages" for any sick pauper who asked her. As she got older there were days when she was a little sharp, but for the most part auntie was a sunbeam, just the one for Christmas eve. She knew bet ter than any one else how to fix things. Ht r every prayer, as God heard it, was ful of everybody who had trouble. The brightest things in all the house dropped from her fingers. She had pe culiar notions, but the grandest notion she ever had was to make you happy. She dressed well-auntie always dress ed well-but her highest adornment was that of a met k and quiet spirit, which, in-the sight of God, is of great price. When she died, you all gither ed lovingly about her, and as you ear ried her out ;o rest the Sunday school class almost covered her coffia with aionicas, and the poor people stood at the end ofthe alley, with t0eir aprons to their eyes, sobbing bitterly, and the man of the world sa:d, with Solomon, "Her price was above rubies," and Jesus. as unto the maiden in Jude~a, commanded, "I say unto thee, arise!' LOST TEN THOUSAND AT CARDS. The Son of Montana's Millionaire Senator a Gay Sport. The Washington correspondent of the Augusta Chroniele says: Nothing could more clearly illustrate certain phases of Washington life as it goes on in the in side circles than a little inci dent which occurred the other night and is now the subject of discussion in quiet qiarters. I:. will be readily re mebered, of course, that the one sub ject which has engaged the greatest amount of ateta ion here during the past. few weeks-with the exception of the Puerto Rican tariff bill-is the con test of Senatois Clark, of Montana to retain his seat in the upper house in defiance of all the machinations which his old rival Marcus Daley, can bring to bear. Clark's income is fabulous, and he has a son who is doing every thing in his power to reduce it witnin reasonable limits. The othcr night yout.g Clark steered up against Repre sentative DeGraffenreid, of the lone star State, and the Texan suggested that a quiet little game of poker would be the proper caper. Clark was game and in for t he game. It was a matter of only a feA' moments to stir up a few friendly and co-:genial spirits. About the handiest was harry Vansendecn, who used to be the pirivate secretar'iof lion John G. Carlisle, of Kentucky. Van senden is now one of the "men about town" and a very dashing fellow whose means of support are more or less in in and before long the littlequiet noeu was progressing with a spe.d nic made the hair of even the atfih--a '-Ir Clark curl with more than oteiua ry crimpiness. It secexd to be somaewh at inexplicable that every time the deal went round the sci'n of' the Montana senator caught, not a bad hand by any means, but one which his associates could just cover after having made the betting exceedingly lively. Charley, of the house of Clark, wanted to ne a sport, and he was game to the last, but when th.. game burke up alter sit ing of over five hours the said Charley found out that he was just S10.000O to the bad,-the Associated Press didn'tsend out the story. The local papers didn't print the story, but it is a fact, just the same, that the son of the muebly sil vered senator from Montana was not only fleeced of a fortune, but was re strained from squealing because he re alized that it would jeopardize the chances of his distinguiahed father in his bttle for a scat in the most august deberative body on earth. Such are the inside chapters of Washington life, af which the outside world rarely ever Rhode Island Democrats The Rhode Island Democratic State ioaventoa met at Providece Thurs :lay for the nomnination of State officers ad the selection of delegntes to the Democratic nationmal conveantiou. Na than W. Littlefield was nomiisated for overnor. 'rho platf'orm. ade1pted say in part: "No people should be annexed by the United States against their will nd however willing to come no people should bo admitted except to equal 'ights. A republic cannot afford to bave a tubject populatio)n. The con stitution must always follow the flbg -a government of law and not of men. "When a corporation possesses the power to arbitrarily raise prices or do press wages it is in effect a trust Every such trust existing in the United States should be controlled by national legis ation and wvhen based upon a monopo ly its special privilege should be abul The Chicago platform is endorsed PASSES THE SENATE 'the Porto Ricans Will Get Their Money Back. SENATOR TILLMAN SPEAKS. He Advocates the Quick Passage of the Relief Measure and Jabs Republicans. Compli ments McKiniey. The Porto Rican appropriation bill was passed by the United States Sen ate F iday. The bill provides that the sum of $2,095,455, being the amount of customs revenue received on impor tations by the United States from Puerto Rico since the evacuation of Puerto Rico by the Spanish forces on the 18h of Oe:ober, 1S98, to the 1st of Januarv. 1900, shall be placed at the disposal of the president, to be used for the government now existing and which may hereafter be establiehed in Puorto Rico, and for public education, public works, and other governmental and publi- purposes therein. In discussing the bill Senator Tillman made a giol speech. Mr. Tillman said there was evidently so much divisieu among the Republi cans that it appeared doubtful to him whether they would be able to enact any Puerto Rican legislation at all. Ile said it looked as if the Republican par ty had reached the end of the rope and that its last hope now was to cont-nd that congiess was without limitations in the government of, or in legislating for acquired territory. Referring to the difference between the govern ment's treatment of Hawaii and Puerto Rica as to the admission of their re Epective products Mr. Tillman said: "Senators owed it to themselves not to show such discrimination on the one hand and such outrage on the other." He was going to vote for the pending bill, he said, because the enactment of the measure into law was the only way to restore to the people of Puerto Rico taxes taken from them wrongfully and unconstitutionally. "The United States has not given the people of Puer to Rico a cent and it is high time," .Z1d he, "that we give back to them the ; ney we have stolen from them." Ir. Tiulna-i declartd that the govern iient establihed now in Puerto Rico was worse than that forced upon the people by Spain. particularly as to the sland's fiscal affairs. as, under Spanish rule the Puerto Ricans had at least a free market in Spain for their goods. This assertion Mr. Gallinger dis pited, calling Mr. Tillman's attention to the fact that Spain levied a duty upon Puerto Rican products, especially 'Iffee, which constituted four fifths of he export product of the island. Mr. l'illman read extracts from Gen. Davis' teport stopping in themidstof theread ing to exelaim, "let's cast this legisla tion like honest white men; let's not have any namby pambyism and hypo critical p' lanthropy about it. That is all I am trying to get senators to agree to now. There will be no trouble about the main question. That will either be adjusted by congress before aojourn ment or it will be adjusted by the peo pe next November and don't you forget it." [Ie thought the way to help the peo ple of Puerto Rico to get on their feet was to give them a market through the means of free trade with the United States. If a public soup house was started men who might earn their living with a hoe, or an axe, would sit down and wait for the soup to be handed around. 'rhe result would be to cut off the very labor necessary to rehabilitate the island as it should be rehabditated. Mir Ttllman favored a civil government for the island, and criticited the expenditures under the present military sy stem as expensive. "The re is no sense, no justice and no honesty," he said, "in having those poor devils robbed simply because they have come under our dominion." He thought the Republican party was in a dilemma, but thought it would come out all right. "You are the best or ganized party I ever saw," he said, "and no matter how you talk, I've no doubt you'il all round up on the vote." M1r. Tillman referred to what he said would be the monumental salaries of the officials of the insular possessions, particularly noting the members of the Philippine commission. Mr. Foraker itformed Mlr. Tilbonan that he had been told that the highest salary of any mem ber of the commission would be $10,000) a year. "That may be disapp'ointirne to the senator," suggested Mr. FEr.,k- r "No," replied Mr. Tillman. --'m gratified. l'mn always willing to trust Williamr McKinley, but it's his bad a',d wicked partners that I'm afraid of. le is a patriotic ar~d aoble man, although jait now he may be carried off his feet a the dream of appearing in history a!'ne sde of Jefferson and others who 4. weely to our territory." In con elusioi bie besought congress to take its hards ! r= throat of the Puerto Ricanis aud give th;ro a chance to gov' ern themselves even if we had to guide them a little at first. Mr. Allison then asked for a vote upon the bill and amendments anid the request was acceded to. Mr. T:llman urged Mr. Jones and Mr. Peuus to withdraw amendments which they had offered in order that the measure might be pas-ed witlhout delay and just as i came from the senate committee. Mr. Jones 1%i-ud'rew his amendment, but Mr. Pet tus insisted upon a vote on his anendments, which, in effect, were the making of a direct appropriation for the relief of the Puerto Ricans without anty reference to the tarliff or customs dues collected. The amend ments were def.-ated. The bill as re ported by the senate committee was then passed witbout division, only a few scattering "noes" being heard auanst it A Tolbert in a New Role A d icpatch from Seneca to the Green ville News says the negroes there are angry after hearing the tecimony in the trial of George W. T'olbert, post master, for tres---z to ,'ay Jimes Wat son, o'eredl. f .r accosting him about te re. tiaum of mail 1t is claimed by some eye witnesses that Tolbert ame out of the postoffice with a large lub, followed Watson into the street, hased him and beat him with the club ntil he had fallen exhausted, and with an oath said: "Get up, d-n you." 'olbert claims that he has more money o spend on beating "Niggers.', The egroes are plainning an early date to bold an indignation meeting, claiming :hat many Democratic postmasters would have treated them with -nore :nsideration. The Republican county yonvention at Walhalla also denounced sim in bitter terms as being incompe :nt and unfit for the position, and will isk the government to give them a man a ho will treat all citizens alike. Mr. 11bme is from Abhbeville county. CURE FOR INSOMNIA. New York Physician Finds a Way to Induce Sleep. A well known New York physician who suffered from insomnia for many years. has found out a brand new nethod whereby sleep can be instantly -obtained The doctor has tried It on himself and on his patients, and has never known it to fail. It is essential ly self-asphyxiation, and yet there is no possibility of danger. A long breath is first taken and the air is kept in until positive discomfort is felt, which is slowly exhaled. This is repeated a second and a third time, and in a minute or so the patient will be asleep. The theory of sleep that finds the widest acceptance is that sleep Is oc casioned by exhaustion of the nutrition of the brain, due to its functional ac tivity when awake. During sleep ther is a flow of nuitrition to the brain, con seruently an increase of blood to sup ply its deficiencies. By holding the breath the head and brain become in tensely congested with venous blood loaded with carbonic acid. The car bonic acid and the other chemical prod nezts which venous blood conta:ns act on the nerve tissues, producing sleep, and the same as ether and chloroform pro duce artiticial sleep. If you are truly brain weary do not try to repl.ace the thoughts with others, but make the mind a blank as far as possible. If the brain is excited turn it to monotonous thoughts, recite poems or verses, or go over a journey which you very much enjoyed, recall ing even the most trifling incidents. Physicians are more and more arriving at the conclusion that the way of treat ing insomnia is not by means of drugs. There is always the danger of forming the drug habit, and in most cases drugs are not necessary. If noises inside the house or outside distrrb one, putting cotton in the cars will oe found to give relief. Those who are troubled with sleeplessness should retire at a regular hour each night. If there Is a fear of not being able to sleep that keeps one awake one should feign not to want it, and one will be surprised to find how (luickly sleep comes. Always take a sli giht meal before retiring to rest. A vast number of cases of in somnia are caused by empty stomachs. WHY SHE WAS CAREFUL. Wasn't Certain That the Prisoner Was Her Daughter and the Reason. Two days go there was at the police matinee an old negro woman who was a leading witness against a younger woman, who was said to be her daugh ter. The old woman had sworn that "Ter de best ob her b'lief the girl was not her daughter." This puzzled the Recorder no little, and It being neces sary to get more witnesses, the case was postponed until yesterday. Yesterday aftwrnoon Miranda John son was again arraigned for acting in a disorderly manner and the old woman Was present. Several witnesses swore positively that the prisoner was the -old woman's child, and the Recorder turned to the old woman and said: "Old woman, why did you appear to be in doubt about Miranda being your daughter the other day?" "Lawd bless yer, honey, Ise still in doubt 'bout dat matter," was the re ply. "Why?" asked the Recorder who (It that he had a great mystery be fore him. "Bekase," replied the old woman, "dar wus er misshur ob two babies er long time ago and de matter hain't cl'ar till this day. You see my little baby was born on de same day dat annrdder nigger 'oman's baby was er born ad jest to play a joke on Ike dat's my ole man-dey put do two babies wid me and tole him dat he war de fadder oh twins. Dey got de babies kinder mixed, and dey jest gib me one oh dem and gibbed de udder 'oman de udder baby. And I doan know till dis day whedder dey gibbed me de right baby er not. Dat am de r'ason dat I hain't gwine ter sw'ar reckless like 'bout dis gal in de cote." "I am going to fine Miranda $10.75." announced the recorder "and, old woman, if you think she Is your daugh ter you can pay the fine, and if you think she Is not, you can let her work in the stockade for three weeks." The old woman gave herself the benefit of the doubt and Miranda Is working three weeks In the stockade. -Atlanta Constitution. Pockets in Stockings. Stocking pockets are the latest fad, a New York dry goods man said the other day They are made to hold a roll of bills, jewelry and valuables that can be stored away In a small space. The pockets are worked Into the top of the hose, above the knee. and are made with a fastening, so that there is no danger of their con tents falling out. There are so many sneak thieves who steal from bed rooms while the family Is at dinner, from carriages and from other places where women are obliged to leave their money and jewelry when they are not In use, that the safe receptacle about the clothing of the owner Is an absoute necessity. Pockets are not generally found in women's dresses, and the stocking pocket has suggested Itself to some Inventive genius. It looks as If these new pockets would be as safe as any that could be de vised. His Heart Displaced. .Dr. J. Sheldon Wright, who attend ed Martin Welge, 19 years old, after he was knocked down by a Brooklyn trolley car, was a witness for the boy the other day in his suit against the company to recover $25,000 in the Su preme Court, Brooklyn. The physician testified that when he was called to attend Welge he found his heart dis placed. It was suspended by a fibre and vibrated like a pendulum, swing ing fully two Inches to and fro. When Dr. Sheldon was called in he had little hope of his patient's recovery. Since then he has somewhat Improved. Mushroom Vaccination. A French scientist has found that some kinds of mushroom afford a vac cine against the venom of snakes. The juice of the mushroom renders a per son Immune against the poison for a month or two. Proportion of Students. In Germany one man In 213 goes to college; In Scotland, one In 520; In the United States, one In 2,000, and in England, one In 5.000. FREE BLOOD CURE. 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Democrats and Republicans Says McKinley Has Lost Ground HE VACCILATES TO MUCH. Senators Beveridge, Hanna and Davis of the Republican Party Sounds Warning to Their Party. The New York Herald pub!ishes in terviews with senators and representa tives on the Porto Rican bill as fol low s: Senator Spooner, Lepublican of Wis consin, said: ""Whatever is done with tle 'jeIstion will not serve to alter the result next November. Mr. McKinley will be re nominated and re-ele:td " Representative Richardson, ).:mo crat of Tennessee, said: "The great change of rolitical senti ment that has swept over the country within the last few nonths is largely due to the vacillating p~licy of the president; and to the action of t he Re publicans in congress. It is, in my opinion, a practically sure indicati.n of Democratic victory nrxt fail. That a change has taken p'ace there is no doubt. The attitude of that party toward Porto Rico has been severely rebuked by men of every political be lief. Ln a word, the Republicans hiave lost ground and the Democrats have gained ground." Representative Clayton, Deu.oerat of Alabama, said: "I think the American people have treated the Porto Ricans shamefully in dealing with them. I think that the sugar trusts have influenced the Repub lican party. I believe now that no matter what the Republican party may do its past action will go strdngl against it in the coming elections." Senator Clay, Democratof Georgia, said: -I think that the majority of the people of 1he United States are in favor f treating Porto Rico as a part of the United States; that thcy are in favor of free trade between the Unitcd States and that island. I think that whatever action may be taken it will now count against the Republicans and aid the Democrats. It will certainly help the Democratic party at the poLs." Representative Brundidge, DLumocrat of Arkansas: "In my judgement the Demecrats will win a most signal victory in the next presidental election and the recent backdown of President McKinley on the Porto Rican question will ver) greatly aid in bringing about thii result. It seems that the time has arrived when the administration can not trust the people and the people wili not trust the administration." Senator Shoupe, Republican of Idaho: "Thc president's attitude on the Porto Rican question will not lessen his chances of eleetion. Hie will be re elceted." Representative Pierce, Republican, of Missouri: "The Porto Rican question will not act as the bomb that many Democrats think it will. The constitution did not follow the flag when slavery was the issue and'it does not now." Representative Bull, Republican of Rhode Island: "The Porto Rican question, nor any phtase of it, will have any effect to reduce the majority the Republican ticket will have in the coming election." Representativye Capron, l hpublican of Rhode Island: "I believo that a complete under st anding by the people will justify the president and the house and will serve to add and not detract from the popular vote next election." Representative McCulloch, Democrat of Aikansas: "The Porto Rican legislation thus far carried out is a blot on the administra tion that cannot be wiped away. M~r McKinley's policy ought to and will de feat tiue party that supports it." Representative Robb, Republican of Missouri: "I don't think the Porto Rican legis lation will lessen Mr. McKinley's vote." Senator Beveridge, Repbulican of Indiana: "If we do not give free trade to Porto Rico, Indiana and other states of the west will be lost to the Republican par ty in the coming presidential cam paign." Senator Hanna, Republican of Ohio: "If we establish absolute free trade between the United States and Porto Riec', we will lose every vote of organ ized labor." Senator Davis, Republican of Min nesota: "Unless we treat the Port o Ricans as citizens and give them free trade, [ must say here and now that Me Kinley will lose Minnesota and the northwest. The Republican sentiment is running that way." The Keeley Cure Inventor. Dr. Leslie E. Kecley, the inventor of the Keeley cure for drunkenness, who died in Calif rnia the other day, was a native of New York State. His youth was spent in Michigan, whence he came to Chicago to attend Rush Medical College. He graduated in 1861 and then enlisted in the United States army as surgeon during the civil war. Late in 1866 he moved to Dwight, Il., where for thirteen years he pur sued a lucrative medical practice. Early in his career as physician he con ceived the idea that inebriety was a disease of nervous origin and was cura ble. For several years he worked on this theory, and eventually began a system of treatment on patients at Dwight with the "double chloride of gold and sodium." At his institute he treated people suffering from the drink, cocaine, cigarette and other habits. Of his patients some 17,000 were phy sicians. It is estim-ted that about 4 per cent. return to drink. The system consists of four week's treatment of hypodermic injections of the gold cure given four times daily, together with a tonic which is taken from time to time. A Keeley League was formed of the "graduates" of the cure, of which there were more than 30,000 members. The Keeley treatment is administered at the Keeley Institute, Columbia, S. C. The Cuban Way, Evidently Cuba has not been en tire [y Americanized. Here is the way secretary of War Root spent Sunday in lavana: The merning was devoted to -eceiving the heads of various depart nents of the government and confer. ing with them, and at General Lud ow's residence at night there was a eception with dancing. Evidently the M MOLUTELY Makes the food more d( ROYAL SAKING PO DAZZLING LIGHT. Illurnination of a Car That Has Been Short-Circuited. paity iayed a queer prank on a N 4 Xrntral car tbe other night. T. X: -oti at a saft distance It was a rmarkable display ,the like h!-i :!s never tEfore seen in St. Li. ~'T" those on the car it had many a-men' of tragedy. ()nq: ii;ln narrowly (scaped death by fire ail (others of th passengers may have b,.ri injured in the panic that fol lowed. Even the officials of the United :ailways Coinpany have not yet ar ri-:ed at he exact extent of the damage 'ion'*. Thl cars on the Northern Central line arr the oldest in the fervice. Their fus es burn out freuently. but that night's o(!currene: was the raost serious acci (lent of the kind that has yet occurred. At 5:'9 o'clock a car was rounding the sharp down-grade curve at Thomas stre-t and Loffingwell avernle. It was half fiflte(l with passengers. Suddenly there was a grinding noise, vhich dreafen,-d those in the car and awakenr-d residlents in the neighbor hood. The car came to a sudden stop. Wh:at fol!owr-d Is told by an eye-n it n'-ss. who was attracted to his winelow by tho unuFual sound. "When I looked out," he said, "the street was lit up for several blocks as If a powerful searchlight had boen turned into it. The brilliancy all radla ted from the car, which I at first thought was on fire. I coud see tht car distinctly. It seemed a shadowy ferm, seen through a halo of light. The outer edge of this light was a brilliant, dazzling white, but the Inner portion, the nucleus, as it were, nearest the car, was the deep red of a consuming blaze. "With the first play of the flames I heard passengers in the car cry out in alarm. Two young men jumr.ed through a window and the other pas sengers rushed for the back door. I saw a man leap from the rear platform with his coat smoking. He pulled the garment off as he left the car. "The illimination could be seen at a great distance, apparently for people come flocking from blocks around to see the illuminated car. Most of them walked home. Another car pushed the disabled one to the sheds." Investigation Saturday morning showed that the accident was one of a number of electrical freaks caused by the recent damp weather. At .the power house of the Northern Central line it was said that the current had become short-circuited. This meant that the current on coming from the wires, in stead of going through the controller on the front platform operated by the motorman, went through the one on the rear platform. Unable to get into the motors by that route It passed out again and sought the nearest route to the rails. This was by way of the met al work about the sides and roof of the car. On its Journey around the car a por tion of the current escaped Into the moist atmosphere, causing the appear ance of a halo. Enough of the current went through the controller and the motors to burn them out, which caused the red light of consuming flames. It was the burning out of the controller that ignited the coat of the man who stood near It on the rear platform. Street railway men agreed that the ac cident was a most unusual one-St. Lonis Post Dispatch. THREE JOINTS. Removed From a Man's Backbone and He Still Lives. Minus three joints of his backbone, John Kaller, of No. 50 Willoughby street, Brooklyn, N. Y., lies on a cot In St. John's Hospital, Long Island City, making a brave fight against death. The missing pieces of his spinal column were removed on Thursday last by five surgeons. It was an opera tion almost unparalleied in surgery, but it was his only chance for life. Kaller has been a telephone lineman. Recently he was sent to repair wires along the Shore Road, in Astoria. About noon he was working i.t the top of a pole near the Woolsey estate. Just how it happened neither Kaller nor any one else knows, but suddenly the line man found himself In the clutches of an electric current. He had grasped a live wire, his body was twisted in tor ture and puffs of smoke arose from his burning hands. The man kept his senses. Hanging there, burning and in terrible pain, hie realized that to remain in contact with the wire for but a few seconds more meant death to him. With strength born of that knowl edge Kaller tore himself free from the live wire on which he had fallen and deliberately threw himself to the road way. He fell 25 feet and struck upon his head and back. He was taken to St. John's Hospital. and doctors worked over him for eight hours before the dangers from the electric shock were removed. Then they performed the operation. In falling Kaller had broken his back. The seventh, eighth and ninth verte brae were badly fractured, and splin ters of the broken bone pressed on the spinal cord. The pressure had produced paralysis, and would have caused death if not removed. Dr. John Francis Burns was in charge of the operation. Assisting him were Dr. H. A. McGronen. Dr. J. 3. Mulcahey, Dr. Thomas Cassidy and Dr. John F. Farwell. Technically, the doc tors took out the spinous prosesses and transverse sections of the seventh, eighth and ninth vertebrae. The oper ation was successful. "I do not know of an exactly similar case," said Dr. Burns, last night. -'Three vertebrae were badly fractured, and had to be removed, leaving archets to protect the spinal cord. But Kal ler's other Injuries make his recovery doubtful, and at my suggestion his rel atives have telegraphed to his mother, asking her to come to his bedside. She lives in Illinois." Kaller's condition is very grave. He has remained conscious from the first, and has taken a keen interest In the~ remarkable operation performed upoa him. Following closely upon the rumor of the retirement of John Burns, of Eng land, from all active participation in the great movement of organized labor, in Great Britain is the loss of another famous leader In the person of Joseph Arch, the well-known agricultural la borer and member of Parliament. Mr. Arch confirms the rumor that he will retire from all active work In the la bor field at the next general election. An Evangelist Killed. Rev. F. M. Anderson, State evange ist for Virginia of the Church of the isciples, was knocked from a trestle n the Norfork and Western road by a rain near Chilowie Wednesday morn ing and instantly killed. His head uarters were in Richmond Gainesville, Ga., D)ec. 8, 1899. Pitts' Antiseptic Invigorator in my family and am perfectly that it is all, nd will do all, you claim for it. Yours truly, A. B. C. Dorsey. P. S.-I am using it now myself. t's doing roe good. Sold by The Mur ay Drug Co., Columbia, S. C., and all 5AKINo POWDER URE Aicious and wholesome rDER CO., NEW YORM. GRANULATED SUGAR CHEAPER. Why the Old-Fashioned Brown Va riety Is Seldom Seen. *When I was running a boarding house for gangs at work on new rail roads in the West a few years ago." said the tall man. "brown sugar cost 5 cents a pound when I bought it by the hogshead, and granulated sugar cost 12 cents a pound when purchased in . equally large amcunts. Now, if you had 200 men to board, all of whom used sugar in their coffee, what kind of su gar would you buy?" "I suppose I'd make a mistake, but - as far as I know now, I would buy brown sugar, for that would be the cheapest," was the reply. "And that's where you've made a mistake," said the tall man. "I'l prove it to you in a minute. When you go home to-night, you take a teaspoon and experiment with both kinds of su gar. You'll see that with granulated su gar you can pick up only as much as the bowl of the spoon will hold. But It's different with brown sugar. If you dig your spoon deep into it, when you lift the spoon, you bring nearly three spoonfuls of sugar along with it, as it packs closely. That is what house wives call a 'heaping teaspoonful.' Now the average railroader is used to put ting three to four spoonfuls of sugar in his coffee and he never looks to see whether they are heaping ones or not. Therefore, the brown sugar is the more expensive. I tried both ways, and I found that using granulated sugar saved me over :15 a month over what it cost to serve brown sugar. There's ev;en more difference now than then, too. The big sugar concerns have beat en dIown the price of granulated sugar - until It costs but a penny a pound more than brown sugar. "That's why you see granulated sugar in all the .cheap boarding-houses to-day."-New \York Sun. STORM-TOSSED CREW. They Went Ashore and Found Canni bals Devouring a Human Body. The crew of the British steamer Kur distan, Captain Littlehales, now taking - on a cargo of coal at Lambert's Point, tell of an experience at once strange and horrifying. The vessel is from Iquique, Chile, and when off the Pata gonian Coast. near Tera del Fuego, was caught in a storm and fog and came to anchor. A boat's crew went ashore, and hearing a strange noise proceeding from a cavern near their hiding place Inspected it. A party of savages were In the cave, engaged in eating what seemed to be the dismembered body of a human being. The savages attacked them, the seamen say, whereupon they fired upon them, killing one savage. His companions carried the dead body away, and, the sailors believe, devoured It. In the cavern was a Danish flag and much wreckage. On the shore near the cavern lay the wreck of a wooden brig. -Norfolk, Va., Cor. Baltimore Sun. New President of the Senate. By the death of Vice President Ho bart, the presidency of the senate will (Senator Win. P. Frye.) fall upon Senator Wmn. P. Frye, of Maine. Senator Frye is '70 years old, but looks younger. His term as senator will expire in 1901. Threw Away Fifty Thousand Dollars There died in the City Hospital at Philadelphia last week a woman, prac tically a pauper, who by inscribing a few lines upon a paper would have been put In possession of $50,000. For many years Dr. Isabel Mitchell was a physician of some prominence in the Quaker City. While practicing her profession she, became interested in the, pure food movement, and spent much of her time in perfecting a process for the preservation of meats and vegeta bles where Ice was not obtainable. Her' experiments resulted in a formula which was declared practically perfect . by chemists and physicians of Philad41 phia and vicinity. It was a preparation which answgd the purposes desired and was at tne same time harmless to health, being the forcing of medicated ozone into the articles to be perserved. Dr. Mitchell received many offers for her process, but none of the terms was satisfactory to her, though one of them was for $50,000. While working on her food preservative, she neglected her practice, and gradually lost it all. From a comfortable home she went by gradual changes to a garret, where she was taken Ill with a lingering di sease, and finally removed to the hos pital. She persistently refused to re eal her secret to the few friends who had stood by her, and with her death the formula is lost to science. Enoch Arden in Real Life. After an absence of thirty years .ames Edwards, whose home is now In Denver, Col., returned to Philadelphia, and found that his wife had been di vorced irom him and married to an other man. Thirty-five years ago Ed wards married Miss Belle Hickman whose parents were wealthy. Edwards was in poor circumstances and his wife's mother opposed the marriage. The couple lived together for five years, but at the end of that time Mrs. Hickman is alleged to have brought about a separation. Edwards went West and became wealthy. Edwar-ds says he repeatedly wrote to his wife, but she failed to get the let ters. Not hearing from her husband for fifteen years Mrs. Edwards adver tised and received a letter from Den ver informing her that a man answer ing her husband's description had been killed. Mrs. Edwards, not certain that her husband was dead, obtained a di vorce and remarried. Edwards succeeded in meeting his former wife upon his return. There were explanatis all around and he bade her farewell and went back to Denver. A Sad Suicide. A letter from Etta Jane to the partanburg Herald says: "Willie T. 'ostr committed suicide near this lace last Saturday about 3:30 o'clock y shooting himself thrcu~zh the head 'ith a breech loading shot gun. For one time he had been in ill health, oth in body and mind, but it was not *houht that he was con temnplating self lestruction until the fatal deed was ccomplished. lHe was about twent'y ive or twenty-six years of are and of quiet disppsition and well thought of