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IIOAE LIFE LESSONS.1 Dr. Talmage on the Duties oi Parents to Children. DUTIES OF ALL MOTHERS. The Dargers and Temptations Which Surround the Young. Necessity of Wise Training and Proper Discpline. This discourse of Dr. Talmage will interest yeuug men, while it is full o advice and encuuagenient to parentu who are try ing to br ing up their chil dren aright; text, Pr->verbs 10. i, "A Wise son maketh a z!ad father; but a foolish son is the heavinces of hi mother." In this graplhic war Solomon fet. f -rth the idea that the good or evil be 4vior of (IilUren ble.--es or blights the parent"l h<ar,. 1 know there art poaons uho seem to hive no especiai inter- st in the weliare ,ft ieir children The father says: -My boy mu., tak. the risk I took in life If he turns out *ell, all right; if he turns out ill, h. will have to bear the constquience He has the same ebance that I had He nmut tske care of himself." A shepherd 1:iight just as well thrust a lamb iuto a deu of lio's and !av, 'Lit tle Iamb. take care of our,eif Nearly all the brute creation are kind enough to look after their young. I was going through a woods and I heard a srall cry in a nest I clined up to the bird's nest, and I foutd that the old bird haa left the brood to starve. But that is a very rare occurrence. Generally a bird ii! .ick your cees ouw rather thao burren.ierrer young to your keepit-g or your touch. A lion will rend )ou if you c;ue too near the whelos; even the barsyard fowl, with its Clumsy foot and hWavy W1ng, W1il come at you if you approaci it- 3 oungi too nearl), aud God C. rtaluly intended to have fattiers and awth'. rz as kind as the brutes. Chrit comes through all our houce holds today, and be sa% s: -You take care of the boueis o ) our chi!: ren ansi the minds of 3our childreo. Wtnat art YOU doing for their im.nortal souls?" I read of a :!ip that foundered A life boat was launched. Maby of the pas sengers were in the wat.r. A mother with one haud bcating the waves ant the other harnd holdius her little child out toward the lifeboat cried out. "Save my child!" And that iMpa-ioned cry is the onue that tinds an echo in every parental heart of this land today. -Save my chil!" T[,at man out there say6: "I have fought my own wa> through life I have geet alobng toler bly well. Toe worla has buffeted me, and 1 have had uany a hard truzle. It doesn't make much difference what happens to me, but save iny child." You see, I have asubject of stupendous import, and I am going, as God may help me, to sow the cause of parental solicitude and then the alleviations of that solicitude. IThe nret Cause of parental solicitude, I think, arises from the imperfection of parents on the ir own part. We all somehow want our children to avoid our faults. We hope that if we have any excellences they will copy them, but the probability is they will copy our faults and omit our excellences. Children are very apt to be echoes of the parental life. Some one mtets a 11d in the back street, finds him smok ing and says: '"Why. I am astounded at you. What would your father say if he knew thi,? Where did you get that cigar?" "Oh, I picked it up on theeatreet." "Wh at would 3our father sty and y our mother say if they knew I is?" "Oh," he replies, "that's noth ldg. M~y lather smokes." There is not one of us today who would like to have our children copy all our example. And that is the cause of solicitude on the part of all of us. We have so many faults we do not want them copied and stereotyped in the lives and characters of those who come after us. Thlen solicitude arises from our eon seious insuafficiency and unwisdom of discipline. Out of 20 parents there may be one parent who understands how thoroughly and skillfully to dis *ipline; terhaps not more than one out of 20. We, nearly all of us. err on one side or on the other. Here is a father who says: "I am coi to, Lrineup my *hildren right. 31y sons shll know nothing but religion, shall see n.;hing~ but religion and? hear nothing but re ligion." They are routed out at 6 o'clock in the morning to recite the Ten Commandments. They are wakened uo from the sofa on Saiuday night to re .ite the Westninster catechism. Their bedroom walls are covered with religi ous pictures and qiotations of Scrip tare, and when the bay looks for the day of the month he looks for it in a religious almanac. If a minist er comes to the house, he is r' questd to take the boy a~ide and tell htw what a great sinner he is. It is religion morning. Uoon and night. Timie passes on, and the parents are waiting for the return of the son at. aight. It is 9 o'clock; it is 10 o'clock, it is 11 o'etock, it is 12 o'oioek, it is half past 12 o'clock. Tuen they hear a rattling of the night key, and George somles in and heastens up siairs lest he beacoosted Hlisfathersays. -George, where have you b-en?' He says, "I have been out.' Yes, he has been out, and he has been down, and he has started on the broad road to ruin for this life and xau for the life to come, and the father says to his wife: "Mlother, the Ten Commandinents are a failure. No use of West tuinster eatecihiai. I have d ene my very best for that boy. J ust see how he has turned out.'' Alad n.y tend, y ou stuffed that boy with religion. You had no sy m pathy with innocent hilarities, You had no commomi sense. A wan at aid life said to me: 1I haven't 'much de sire for relbgion. M1y l ather was as good a man as everlived, but he jammed religion down my throat when I was a boy until 1 got dtsgusttd with it, and I kaven't wanted any of it sinee." That father erred on one side. Then the discipline is an entire fail ure in many households because the father pulls one way and the mother alls the other way. The father say s, 1lysn Inl you if I ever found you guilty of falsehood again I would chas tiseyou, and I am goimg to keep my romise." The mother says: "Don't. thim off this time." A father says: 1I have seen so many tnat make mistake by too great severity is the rearing their children. NoW, I wall let my boy do as he pleases. I~e ?sall have full swing. I1l:e, my son, are tickets to the theater ast opera. If you want to play cards. do so. If you~ d-on't want to play ea:d. t.u needc not taplay them. Go wi n y ou want andi et-me back when ~ou watt to. Have a good time. Go it!" Give a boy plenty to perdition. But after awhile the lad thinks he ought to have a still larger upply. lie has been treated, and he uust treat. lie must have wine sup ers. Ttere are larger and larger ex penses. After awhile one day a messenger rom the bank over the way calls in and -ay s to the father of the household of s hich I am speaking: "The officers of .he bank would like to have you step >ver a minute." The father steps ovur tnd a bank officer says, "Is that your -heck?" "No," he says, "that is not -ny check. I never make an '11' in that cay. I never put a curl to the 'Y in hat way. Thiat is not my writing; that is not my signature; that is a counter eit. Serd for the police." "Stop," ays the bank officer, "your son wrote bat." Now the father and mother arn wait og for the son to come home at night [t is 12 o'clock, it is half past 12 ,'clock, it is 1 o'clock. The son comes hrougli the hallway. The father says: -M1y son, what does all this mean? I are y ou every opportunity. I gave you li the money you wanted, and here in Iy old days 1 find that you have be come a speudthrift, a libertine and a Not." Tne son says: "Now, father, what is the use of your talking that ;ay? You to'd me to go it, and I just :ook your sugge-tion." And s. to ,trike the medium between severity and too great leaievcy, to s:ike the hal py medium between the two and to train our children for God and for heaven is the anxiety of every intelligent parent. But for the most part the children that, live sometimes get cross and pick ,p b.ad words in the street or are dis postd to quarrel with brother or sister abd show that they are wicked. You ,ee them in the Sabbath school class rhey are so sunshiny and bright you weuld think they were always so, but Lhe m->ther looking ovar at them remem "ers what an saful time she had to get them ready. Time passes on. They et considerably older, and the s-n comes in from the street from a pugi listic encounter, bearing on his appear ance the marks of defeat, or the daugh ter praci.-e-i some little deception in the hou~ehold. The mither says, -I cao't always be scolding and fretting and finding fault, but this muJA be ,topped " So in many a household there is the sign of sin, the siien of the truthfulness of whAt the lBible says whvn it3declares, "They go atray a, soon as they be born, speaking lies." Sote go to work and try to correct all this, and the boy is picked at. That always is ruinous. There is more help in one good thunderstorm than in five days of cftli drizzle. Better the old fashioned style of chastisement if that be neces.'ary than the fretting and the zcolding which have destroyed so many. The statistic has never been made up in these great cities of how many have been destroyed and how many beautiful homes have been overthrown. If the statistic Could be presented, it would freeze your blood in a solid cake at your heart. Our great cities are full ot temptations, and to vast multitudes of parents these temptations become a matter of great solicitude. But now for the alleviations. First of all, you save yourself a great deal of trouble. O. parent, if you can early watch the children and educate them for God and heaven. "The first five years of my life made me an infidel," said Tom Paine. A vessel puts out to sea, and after it has been five days out there comes .a cyclone. The vessel springs a leak. The helm will not work. What is the matter? It is not seaworthy. It never was seaworthy. Can you mend it now? It is too late. Down she goes with 250 passengers in to a watery grave. Vb hat was the time to fix that vessel? What was the time to prepare it for the storm? In the drydock. Ah, My friends, do not wait until your children get out into the world, beyond the Narrows and out on the great voyage of life. It is too late then to mend the'r morals and their manners. The drydoek of the Chris tian home is the place. Correct the sin no v, correct the evil now. Just look at the character of your children now and get an intimation of what the; are going to be. You can tell by the way that boy divides the ap pe what his proclivity is and what his sin will be and what style of disoipline you ought to bring upon him. You see how he divides that apple? He takes nine tenths of it for himself, and he gives one-tenth to his sister. Well, let that go, and all his life he will want the best part of everything, and he will be grinding and grasping to the day of his death. People hurl their scorn at the life of Lord By ron. Lord Byron was not half o much to blame as his mother. The historian tells us that when her child was limping across the finor with his unsound foot, instead of acting like any other toother, she said, "Gvt out of my way, you lame brat!"' Do not denounee his mother. All the seenes in Venice, all the scenes in Greece, all the scenes of outrage wherever he went an echo of that bad mothe's heart and that had mother's life. Begin early with your children. You stand on the banks of i river and you try to chan'g. its coursea. It ha.' been roling now for l1t0 miles. You cannot hange it But jest go to the source of that river, go to where the water just drips down on the rocks. Tlhen with our nife make a channel this way and channel that way, and it will tske it. oec out and stand on the ban~ks of ehilds life when it was 30 or 401 years f age, or even 20) and try to ehainge the course of that life. It is too late! t is too late! Go father up at the source of life and nearest to the mother's heart, where the character starts, and try to take it in the rigtht direction. But, oh my friend. be care ful to make a line, a distinct line, be tween innocent hilarity On the one hand and vicicus proclivity on the other Do not think y our children are going to ruin because they make a racket. All healthy children wake a racket But o not laugh at your child's sin decaurse it is smart. If you do, you will cry after awhile because it is malicious. Remenber it is what you do more than what you say that is going to affect your children. Do you suppose Noah would have got his family to go into the ark if he staid out? No. His sons would have said: "lam not going into the boat. There's something wrong. Father won't go in. If father stays out, ll stay out." An officer may stand in a castle and look off upon an army fighting. but he cannot be much of an officer, he cannot excite much enthus iasm on the part of his troops standing in a castle or on a hilltop looking off upon the fight. It is a Garibaldi or a Napoleon I who leaps into the stirrups and dashes ahead. And you stand out side the Christian life and tell your children to go in. They will not go. But you dash on ahead, you enter the kingdom of God, and they themselves will become good soldiers of Jesus (hrist. L -ad if you would have them follow. liave a family altar. Do not with long prayer.' wear out your chil dren's knees. D~o not have the prayer a re pulsion. If you have a piano or an it open while you are having pn-ayrs. If you say, "I cannot construct a pra3 er; I am slow of speech and never could construct a prayer," then take Matthew Henry's prayers or take the Episcopal church prayer book. There is nothing better than that. Put it down on the chair, gather your children about you and com need them to God. You ay it will wili not amount to any thing. It will, long after you are under the soil. That son 'will remember father and mother at morning and eve nit g prayerb, a'd it will be a mighty help to him. And above all, in private commend your children to God. Say: "Here, Lord, I am-all my imperfec tions of di-cipline and government hereare those immortals-eake them thine forever. The angel that redeem eth us from all evil, blo-ss the lois." Are your children tafe? I Know it is a stupendous qiesti .n to ask, but I must ask it. Arc all your children safe? A mother when the house was on fire got the household goods, many articles of beautiful furniture, but for got to a.k until too late, "Are the children safc?" When the e!ements are meltirg with fervent heat and God shall burn the world up and the cry of "Fite, fire!" shall resound amid the mountains and the valleys, will your children be safe? I wonder if the sulje at strikes a chord in the heart of any man who had Christian parentage, but has not lived as he ought? Gid brought )ou here this morning to have your memory revived. )id you have a Christian ancestry? "Oh, yes," says one man '-If there ever was a good woman, my moter was goad." How she watched you when you were sick! O.hers wearied. If she got weary, she never thelcss was wakelul, and the medicine wasgiven at the right tIme, and when the pillow was hot she tuned it. And, oh. then when you bi-gan to eo astray what a grief it was to her heart! All the scene comes back. You re member the chairs. yolur remember the table. you remember the doorsill where you played, you remember the tones of hear voice. She seeus calling 3on now, not by the formal title with which we adaress )ou saxlnir, "Mr." this or "Mr." that or '1I.morable" this or 'lI,,norable- that. It i, jut the first name your first, nane. she calls you by thi mn'ruing. Sne bids you to a bet ter life She says: "*forget not all the consel I gave 3 ou. my wa'derutzg boy. Turn into paths of righteousnoss. I am waitingfor you 4t the gate." Ott, yes. I G-,d brought you here this m. rnine to have that memory revived, and I shout upward the t'dings. Anee's of God. send forward the news! tinv! ling! The dead is alive again, and the lost w5 found! HIRED TO KILL GJBEL The Testimony of a P.epublican Who Was in the Secret. "John Powers told wue they had two Niggers here to kill Goebel. They I were Herr Smith and Dick Coombs " This statement was made Saturday by C F. Wharton Golden, a frail, c'n sumptive looking Kentucky moun'ain eer, while on the witness stand in the preliminary examination of Secretary of State Powers, at Frankfort. Ky., charged with conspiracy to kill Goebel. Golden told a story of the events lead ing up to murder, that if substantiated will in the minds of those connected with the prosecution at least, probably go far toward proving the contentions of the commonwealth that the murder was the result of a plan in which several prominent men were involved. Wheth er the defense will seek to impeach Golden's testimony in this preliminary examination is not known, as the at torneys for the defense will not ta'k on the subject, but unless such attemept is made the common wealth will rest its case, both County Attorney Pol-grove and Attorney Campbell being satusfied that enough evidence has been pre seted to hold the defendant on the charges. Golden, who claims to have been a friend to Secretary Powers and his brot her, John Powers, for years, gave testimony that was particularly dam aging to John Powers, but he also brought in the names of many others, including Charles Finley, W. H Culton and *ov. Taylor in his story of the bringing of the mountainoers to Frank fort previous to the assassination. Gov. Taylor, howvever, wa-t not directly im plicated, and the attorneys for the com monwealth intimated today that they do not expect to have his name brought forth prominently in the story of the alleged conspiracy. Golden was not cross-examined today, and adjourn ment was taken at an 9arly hour on ac count of his physical condlition, the witness having a slight hemorrhage dui ing the morning, becioming so weak un der the strain of the examination in the afternoon that he begeed to be allowed a resp-ite. Hie was quite nervous at tmes. Golden's testimony tended to sho~v that a plan was made to bring sevt ral hudred "regular mountain fe-udists" to Frtnkfort, who would if necesa:ry, as Golden expressed it, "go itit-' kilative hall and kill enough of t he Demorats to make it our way " The testimony did naot show that the alleged plot to kill Goebel was a part of the original nor did it contain the names o those who cmnceived the idea But the commaonwealth sought to show by Golden's *conversationis with various people that not only John and Caleb Powers t~ut others as well had full knowledge of the alleged plan of as sassination Diedi of Smallpox. Bargagema-ter 31er-e of the Sou'hern railway, who was found in abar..ing hou-e out on Laurel stree't early last week with a genuine case of smallpox, is dead. Hie pa-sed away at the pent house at 7 o'clock Thursday morning, and that night the remator-, all sanitary precautions being taken, were interred not far from the spot where the mau died. Later on the-y may be remoived, after all danger isi gone. The man evi dently contracted somewhere on his travels a more maligrant form of the disease thau has been prevalent in this State. He had been vaccinated, but the vaccination did not "take," and he did not try second time. When the case was first discovered the house was quarantined and all who had been about the place were vaccinated. S.x days before his death the patient was removed to the pest house, out of tls city, and the boarding house was thor oughly disinfected. So compllete was the work of thre board of heailrh that n> other ease developed. At the piest house the patient was placed in charge of an immune nurse and attendant, and every attention was given the unfor. tunate man, but without avail. The ca~e seemed to be of the variety described as prevalent in New Orleans, and was probably contracted from contact on the train with somte one from that section.-Columlbia State. A kingdom for a cure . You need not pay so much. A twenty-five cenL bottle of L. L. & K. Will drive all ills away. THE CLARK CASE. The Array of Evidence Against the Montana Senate. BUYING A LEGISLATURE. It Came High, But Clark Had to Have It, and He Bought It for Cash. Counsel for the memorialists in the case of Senator Clark of Montana have submitted their brief to the senate committee on privileges and elections. They rresent the following as estab lished facts in the race from the evi dence adduced: First. That at least 15 members of the legislature were paid by Mr. Clark and his agents for their votes. Second. 'rhat at !east nine others were <.ffered money for their votes and that the to al amount of offers proved aggrgate $175 1100 Third. That $1,000 was offered by Dr. Tracy, a friend and agent of Mr Clark, to bribe the attorney general to dismiss the proceedings in the Well cone. Fourth. That the same agent of Mr Clark offered .lustice Hunt of the su pren.e court $100,000 to dismiss the Wellcome ease. Fifth. Tbat Mr. Clark and his friends engased in wholesale bribery of members of the legislature to secure the election of Mr Clark. Of the 95 members of the legislature (including Mr. Whiteside) 26 were sworn before this committee. Of these the memorialists say, nine have taken oaths that they were offered money to vote for Senator Clark. TAo, they claim, have admitted the receipt of money. $5 000 each, after voting for \lr. Clark, but tried to excuse it Either by direct testimony or otherwi-e they claimu that the acceptance of bribes is fiued upon 15 ohers. The testirno., of hoth Mr. Clark and .\lr E C. Day established concluiveIy the payment by .Mr. Clark to %Ir Day a few da) s after the election of $5,000. which sum M1r. Day says he accepted in eompeunsation for Lis services as a friued of M1r. Clark while he was in the city of Helena as a member of the leg. islature and le ider of the Clark forces .n the floor of the house. Mi '.rk testifi.-s as to this transaction as follows: "It was in considerstion of my) friendship for Mr Day and for the work pvrforwed by him in trying to or gauise the legislature to be elected spi aker, and in order to control our forces, in which however, we failed I rccogniz,-d that he was worthy of this consideration " "Mlr. Diy admits that no part of this $5 000 went to the other members of :he law firm of which he is a partner. l'he contention on the part of Mr. Day and Mr. Clark that this was a gift will deceive no one. It was received in di rect violation of his cazth of office." On tbe general question of fact the following deductions are made: First. That general corruption was practi-ed by Mr. Clark's agents. Second. That such corrupt practices were known to and authorized by him. Third. That he personally made ef forts to secute votes by biibery. Fourth. That through corruption by means of bribery of members of the legislature his election was st Oursed. Fifth. That while the laws of his State prohibit the use of more than $1,000 by a candidate for the senate to secure his election, Mr. Clark employed for this purpose. by his own cosfession, at least $139,000; and that the commit tee appoinud by him to expend this money violated the laws of the State by failing to make a report theredf as rqzired by the statutes. The following five propositions of law are submitted as properly controll ing in this cause: First. That proof of these general and extensive coriupt practices is sufficient to require a judgment of the senate that the election was void. Second. That Mr. Clark is just as much affected by practises of his agents as if he had himself done the same thing. Third. That he was bound to know what means of accomplishing his elec tion were being resorted to. Fourth. That if the committee is satisfied thatavottrs wtre corruptly in. fluenced and procured to vote for Mr. Clark, without whose votes he could not havc received a majority, then the election was void without regard to the question of whether such votes were obtained by himself, his agents or by strangers. Filth. If Mr. Clark employed the means and used the money which the Montana statutes prohibit the election is absolutely void, as much as if direct bribery had been practiced. In summarizing, the memorialists ea>: " 'hat after the general election his ag-. nts traveled about the State to se eur.; vares fur him; that during the 28 tios el the seession ot the legislature b lore h's el e-tion he muaintaiued in Lich n. !rs.m D i' 400. mn called in from all parts of the Siate, to influience meuiberr' and that he paid at least their -xpe-en ih.-e amoun'inag to not lss thn $43 000, as admitted; and that it was co uian knoaledee in Helena that voes were bought in hi, interest ' --It is proved beyond question that he p-aid: To the committee of three... ..$136,0 To sun1ir3 person.. .. ..... ...2 890t To Re-pesentative Day.......5,00 To R( ;resentative Fine .. ,0 To William McDermott.......5 S To .John B. Wellome........S00 o senator D. GI. Warner. 7 500d 'e Rept ye McLaughlin..16,000 To Senator Whtiteside .........0) lo Senator Meyers.......... 10 000 o Senator Ciark of Madison. 10.10001 Total.. .. ........ .$27390 "Direct and eircums'tantial testimony stali~hes the further payment of $ 15 500) as follows: o Representative H. H. Carr.$ 5,000 o Rt presentative TIierey.... 11 0011 o Riepresentative Bywater.. ..- 11 m09 o Representative Jaectueth... 10 100 o Riepresentat ive Woods.. 8 009 o liepre'. niauxv Novi~tin ..9,0 To it.-pr.--iata ive Parker ... 2 000 'l'o liepresentative Beasley. 6,004) o lepresen:ative ersolo.. 5.1000) 10 Senator Hlobson..........26,0 o Senator Geiger...........5,0001. The brief of the defense is a dimens sion of the facts and law in the ease rrom Senator Clark's standpoint. It seerts that those who originated this prosecution were controlled only by entimen of the bitterest personal and political hostility. It is then declared that the senti nent in Mlontana is so universal for dr. Clark that the leading spirit of the rotes .ants whose wealth has supported d whose prejudice has animated .his prosecution, has found it necessary 0 invest large sums of money in the -uha:e of the press af the State and in other csses by the es tablishment of newspapers with the hope of checking and dividing the sen timent of the people of Montana. It st. 9 the ostensible objects of the con tei are used to cover the cloven foot of personal malice. The brief names Marcus Daly as the chief instigator of the contest. "Every member of this prosecuting committee," it says, "was either one of the consp:rators in the attempt to de feat Mr Clark's election or an employe of Mr. Daly or an adherent of his fac tion in the State." The defense says out of the37 names of members who were bribed there is an absolute failure to introduce any proof of any character, by Whiteside, or any one else that they know of one act by which any 20 of these men was bribed or have heard of any friends of Senator Clark in any conversation claimed that they were bribed " The contention is then made that the prosecution of the case is the result of a conspiracy, former State Senator Whiteside being represented as the chief conspirator. Mr. Whitesidc' statements, it is declar, d. eannot be accepted as true "because of their im probab;lity and inconsistency when taken in connection with uncontradict ed facts." After especially densing charges in a number of transaetinns, the defense sass the checks to Day. Wellcome and McDermott were in re cognition of their friendly support and that this should not create even a bad impression on the committee. It is claimed the evidence shows that Senator Clark personally did not know ol tne corrupt use of any money to in fiuenee legislators. A serics of legal propositions are then laid down, mainly as to the insuf ficiency of the testimony. Gainesville. Ga.. Dec. 8, 1899 Pitts' Antiseptic Invigorator has been used in my family and I am per fectlv sati.'fied that it is all, and will do all, you claim for it. Yours truly, A. B C Dorsey. P. S.-I am using it now myself It's doing t-e good -Sold by rhe Mnr ray Drug Co., Columbia. S. C., and all druggists. af A Paving Business. It is astonishing the number of people there are in the world who apparently bite at every fraud that come along. A re cent Boston dispatch says that Francis Truth, head of the Di vine Healing Association bear ing his name, and whose adver tisements have been spread over the whole country, was arrested in that city charged with using the mails for fraudulent pur poses. The dispatch goes on to say that after Truth had been taken away a thorough search of his premises was instituted. The place was elaborately fitted up. On the first floor in one room there were at work about a dozen girls, typewriters and copyists, whose wages are said to have ranged from $3,00 to $8,00 per week. In the next room there was a printing press, which turned out circulars and the magazine known as "The Di vine Healer." Across the hall, which was richly'furnished, are the parlors used by Truth and his wife. They are all elaborate ly furnished. On this floor there is the crutch room, where are displayed the crutcheswhich the "Divine Healer" claimed were cast aside by those who had been cured by his treatment. There was nearly a wagon load of let ters, which had evidently been accumulating for some time. These were either orders for a course of treatment, absent or otherwise, as the case might be, or else inquiries as to the wonderful promises that had been so liberally advertised. In all there were twenty-three girls employed to look after the ex tensive correspondence. The warrant for Truth's arrest was issued at the solicitation of the district attorney's office. It charges that by means of his representations he secured many paying members of the associa tion, to whom he gave what he called his "absent trea 5ment." The blanks for these "absent treatments" called for a first payment of $5,00 for one month's treatment. Truth has been con ducting the establishment for about six months and has had all the business he could attend to. The dispatch says the busi ness brought in thirty thousand dollars a week regularly. Truth certainly had a paying business, but the whole story goes to prove the correctness of what we said in the beginning that there are numbers of persons all over the country who are just itching to be swindled and who bite at all frauds, big or little. FREE BLOOD CURE. An Offer Providing Faith to Sufferers Eating Sores, Tumors, Ulcers, are all curable by B. B. B. (Botanic Blood Balm,) which is made especially to cure all terrible Blood Diseases. Persistent Sores, Blood and Skin Blemishes, Srofula, that resist other treatments, are quickly cured by B. B. B. (Botanic Blood Balm). Skihi Eruptions, Pim ples, Red, Itching Eczema, Scales, Blisters, Boils, Carbuncles, Blotches, Catarrn, Rheumatism, ete., are all due to bad blood, and hence easily cured by B. B. B. Blood Pois'n producing Eating Sores, Eruptions, Swollen glands, Sore Throat etc., cured by B. B B. (Botanic Blood Balm), in one to five mouths. B. B. B. does not con tain veintable or mineral poison. Oe bottle will test it in an case. For sale by draggists everywhere. Large bottles $1, six for five $3. Write for free sawplebottle, which will be sent, prepaid to Times readers, describe simptoms and personal free medicaf advice will be given. Address Blood Balm Co., Atlanta, Ga. THE. JIM CROW CAR ACT.-In a very shor. time the new Jim Crow car act becomes effective and the railroads are preparing to make the necessary hanges The Columbia State says several railroad officials were before the State commission Friday seeking an exact construction by that body of the terms of the act. The abhange from the present law means the carrying of more oaches on the trains and some of the roads will find it difficult to comply at An Honest Admission. The Charleston Post says "a New Yorker who has just re turned from a visit to Mexico says that many Americans are making fortunes out of the mines throughout the republic. Already there are 5,000 silver mines and over 1,000 gold mines being operated, and last year the value of these metals exported was nearly 40,000,000. In no other country in the world are cotton mills paying such dividends on the capital in vested as those in Mexico, and new manufacturing plants of every description are going up all over the republic. It has a good future, and in developing itself it is benefiting the business men of the United States. The importation of machinery from this country in the last year amounted to over $6,000.000" This is a most remarkable state ment to be published by a gold bug paper about a silver "de based" country as the Post, no doubt, has declared Mexico to be more than once in discussing the fine silver issue. As the Post publishes the paragraph with out comment we presume it ac cepts the statements it contains as true. "If in no other country in the world are cotton mills paying such dividends on the capital invested as those in Mexico, and new maufacturing plants of every description are going up all over the republic," what becomes of the Post's argument against free silver? Mexico is a free silver country and if she prospers so under it, why should free silver ruin the United States, as the Post has proclaimed time an again it would? Is a small republic like Mexico more capable of manag ing its own finances than agreat republic like the United States? Why do the cotton mills of free silver Mexico pay larger divi dends than the cotton mills of the gold standard United States? Will the learned editor of the Post, who refrained from demolishing Bryan's arguments only because they contained nothing to demolish, enlighten a poor benighted silverite on the above questions? The fact that Mexico is so prosperous with a "debased" money standard is one of the causes of our being one of the "deluded" believers in the free and unlimited coin age of silver in the United States. Will the Post give us light? The Law Sustained. The Atlanta Journal says the contention that the several states cannot devise any way of dealing effectively with the trusts is com pletely smashed by the recent decision of the Uuited States su preme court which sustains the Texas anti-trust law, one of the most extreme statutes of the kind that has been enacted. The point decided is that a state has the right to prescribe conditions on which a foreign corporation may do business within its lim its, and that it may withdraw the permit to do business when such corporation violates the conditions on which the permit was granted. The offender in this case was a concern which had by grant from the Standard Oil company a mnonoply of the oil business in Texas. Justice McKenna, who delivered the opinion of the court, said: "The transactions of local com merce which were held by the state courts to be violations of statutes consisted in contracts with certain merchants by which the plaintiff in error required them to buy of it, exclusively ;rom it and from no other source or to buy exclusively from plaintiff in error and not to sell to any person handling compet ing oils, or to buy exclusively from plaintiff in error and to sell at a price fixed by it." These acts were clearly in vio lation of the statutes, and the question, therefore was whether the statutes were constitutional. The court decided that they were. It said: "The statute of 1889 was a condition on the plaintiff in er ror within the power of the state to impose, and, whatever its limitations were upon the power of contracting, whatever its dis criminations were, they became conditions of the permit, and were accepted with it." The court went still further and decided that the permit to do business was not protected by the 14th amendment, inasmuch as it was issued by the state subject to the right to withdraw it if the company violated the laws, and was accepted by the company with that understand ing. This is as clear as can be. If Texas can regulate and re strict the operation of trusts within its limits any other state can do so. Why do they not all do so? Such enactments in all the states would go very far toward curtailing the power of the trusts and protecting the public from their greed and extortion. Accused of Wire-Beating. An edict has been issued by the Right Rev. Bishop Huntingdon suspending the Rev. R. Eugene Grlggs. an Epis copal minister of Binghamton. N. Y., pending the investigation by an ecclesi astical court into charges of wife-beat ing and desertion made by Mrs. Griggs. Mr. Griggs has already been fined $25 in the police court for wife-beating, and was compelled to give security to support his wife for a year. Other charges effecting his moral standing will come up before the ecclesiastical court. While Chaplain J. W. Comfort, of the Indiana Reformatory at Terre Haute. nd., was appealing for sympathy and better reform measures for criminals at the First Methodist Church. some thief stole his overcoat, hat and gloves. Robert M. Rouss, a man without legs was found guilty of murder in the criminal court at Birmingham, Ala., and sentenced to 25 years in the pen! ABsR Makes the food more del ROYAL BAKING POWD Enormous Investments in Uti lizing Electricity. THE GIGANTIC FIGURES Capitalization of $3,000,000,000 Based on the Use of Their Power-Some Will Get Rich and Others Be Ruin ed-The Railways Are in the Lead. In the twenty-four years which have elapsed since the modern development' of electricity investment in it has been swollen to the almost fabulous sum of $3,000,000,000 in this country, by the capitalization of four or five branches of electrical industries alone. There are various other branches, whost stocks, bonds, and obligations reach 3 total of at least $250,000,000 more. I this list is not included the manufac ture and operation of the automobie, the youngest application of electricity. These figures, telling the story of a growth unparalleled in history, from a financial standpoint, are given in a pamphlet written by T. Ccmerford Martin for private circulation. What is even more astonishing is that the aggregate earnings 6f the various de partments of the industry are sufficient to pay dividends or interest of from 4 to 5 per cent, and even more, on the whole mass of securities. Mr. Martin is editor of a semi-tech nical electrical paper. He draws most of his material from official repzr:s. and in the instances where these are not available makes estimates. In point of capitalization electric railways are by far the most import ant branch of the industry. Electric railways are the growth of ten years. That it to say, in 1888 the electric mile age in the United States was insignifi cant. In 1899 the proportion of street railway service which is not based on electricity is so small that Mr. Martin dismisses it as unworthy of notice. At the close of 1898 the capital lia bilities of the street railways of the country were $1,621,820,000, a gain of nearly $150,000,000 in a single year. There were about 900 roads or systems. Of these 220 earnel $130,000,000 in 1898. Estimates made by several authorities working from different bases placed the gross earnings of the roads outside ot the 220 at $45,000,009, or $175,000,000 for the whole number. If the net were es timated at around 40 per cent. there was thus yielded a sum between $60, 000,000 and $70,000,0)0, or sufficient to pay from 4 to 5 per cent. on the whole capitalization. Electric lighting -is next in import ance. There are upwards of 2,400 cen tral station lighting companies operat ed by corporations. They have a gross capitalization in stock of over $275,000, 000. With bonds, floating debt, and other obligations, the investments, Mr. Martin asserts, stand not less than $600,000,000. These plants include a capacity of 1,000.000 horse-power in engines and water wheels, to which are connected 275,000 arc lights and over 10,000,000 in candescent lamps. Here is a capital ization of $600 to the horse-power of engines and generators in the station and all other appurtenances. To the capitalization of the quasi-public com panies Mr. Martin adds $400,000,000 for Isolated and municipal plants. Taking arc lamps at $90 a year, he estimated an increase of $22,750,000 is yielded, be sides $36,000,000, as the proceeds from Incandescent lamps, and $7,500,000 as being derived from the sale of power for driving machinery, or a total of $66,250,000. The costs charged against this he places at 60 per cent., leaving $26,500.000 as the net profits of the cen tral station industry, or the equivalent of 4% per cent. on the face value of its capitalization of $600,000,000. No at tempt is made to give the earnings of municipal plants and those owned by private concerns. In the matter of earnings the tele phone makes a dazzling exhibit There are over 2,300 "inde endent" companies in the country, hut the Bell and its con stituent companies are taken into prin cipal account by Mr. Martin. The last Bell annual report gave 1,231,000,000 as the number of conversations exchanged In 1898, and the cost at between 1 and 9% cents. At 4 cents a message this would yield $49,240,000. The Bell long distance service last year amounted to $2,205,000. If the earnings of the inde pendent companies, which operate at a lower rate of charges, are placed at only $5,000,000, or $20 a telephone, and the entire total of earnings be figured at $50,000,000, or considerably less than the totals given, there is realized $20, 000,000 as applicable to dividends, af ter deducting the high rate of 30 per cent for the cost of operation. The profits are sufficient to pay 5 per cent. on a capitalization of $400,000,000, or~ double and more than that rate on the sum actually invested. Mr. Martin places the investment in telegraphy in this country at not less than $250,000,000, in,':uding that of the Western Union an I the Postal com mercial companies, and those of tl-e hundreds of railroads operating their own systems. Nearly every large city has its own elaborate police telegraph system, andi upwards nf 750 cities and towns are equipped with fire alarm telegraphs. In the manufactu ring branch of the electrical ),ndustry, Mr. Martin statee fully $100,000,000 is actually invested. Three concerns alone represent a cap italization of $50,000,000. In seven years it Is estimated that concerns engaged in long distance Iower transmission and in the manufacture and operation of electric mining nppliances have is sued securities aggregating $100,000,000. There are over 400 electro-plating es tablishnsents in the country, with arn invested capital of $ 30,000,000. Mr. Mar tIn says; a number of electrolytic plants, represcentingr several millions, more are invested in electrical bel's, hotel annunciators, electro-therapeutic equipment, "lntericr"' telephones, and an endless variety cf miscellaneous ap pliances. Allowing $10,000,000 for these minor appliances 2.nd the electrolytic plants, Mr. Martin makes the total capitalization of the electrical indus try $3,260,000,000. In this figure no account is taken of the rapid development of automobiles. According to figure3 given in the trade journals, there have been built and are under construction not less than 40,000 vehicles. The cost ranges up to several thousand dollars ror each. The capitali ation of tnre automobile industry is astly in excess of $20,000,000, and, al though in the cases of numerous com panies only part of it has been paid in, it is a fact that several large divi ends on the MA hole have been distri buted. The capitalization of the electrical in ustry has not escaped "watering."' It presents numerous glaring instances, but, on the whole, probably shows a larger number of independent plants nd undertakings than many other ranches of American industry. Ameri an electrical machinery, almnost un nown in foreign lands ten years ago, s now shipped to every country under he sun. Enormous sources of con smption have opened up, and innum-. URE cious and wholesome R C0., 14EW YORK eneapenea proauezicn. su xr.*. a a safe for no man to predict what em ployment will not yet be rade of a force which was an almost unmanage able mystery three-score years ago. TELEPHONE COMPANY. It Is Furnishing Nevs to People Upon Prominent Current Events.' The project of President Morris F. Tyler, of the Southern New England TIephone Company, to station an ex tra operator at all the large exchanges to give subscribers the latest news on stocks, athletic topics, the theatre, the prize-ring, the doings of society and the South African war does not disturb the people who already control instruments for the distribution of news on any of these subjects. "Yet it isn't going to hurt our busi ness," said a representative of the New York Quotation Company, which oper ates the "tickers" of New York City and furnishes news to the outside tick er companies throughout the country. "in the first place it could never take the place of a ticker in the saloons and hotels, where most of our instruments are located. Anybody can watch a tape, but news sent in by telephone would have to be copied down for the crowd to read, and very few proprietors would care to take the trouble, even if they saved money by it. In the second place, they wouldn't save money. A ticker costs just $20 a month. You can get a telephone for less, if you don't use it much, but if yo~u spend your time call ing up central to ask for news, your bill wonld run up into the thirties mighty quick. "A similar plan was once tried by an Australian telephone exchange, with 4 view to taking the place of the local newspapers. It worked fairly well, but of course, it could not at all affect the Australian press."-N. Y. Post. A CURIOUS STORY. The Beautiful Girl Who Celebrated Mass. Extraordinary excitement prevails in Leghorn and the adjacent provinces over the reported marvelous appear ance of the Blessed Virgin. In a imall village a few miles from Lethorn, a young woman, marvelously beautiful, called on the cure and requested him to allow her to celebrate mass. Naturally, so the report continues, the cure be lieved that he had to deal with a de ranged woman, but, in order not to ex cite her, he gently exp:nined that the sacred books prohibited the celebration of mass by a woman. The beautiful stranger insisted, and finally the cure called in gendarmes and requested them to convey h r to an asylum, but the young woman spoke to the gendarmes in such eloquent terms that they joined her in begging the cure to give the requisite permis sion. Then the cure fell beneath the spell, had the altar prepared, and ha himself acted as assistant to the il'o gal celebrant. As soon as the mass was completed the stranger raised her arms toward heaven and cried: "Now 0 God, thou wilt not destroy the world." Then the little church was flooded with daz zling light, In which the young woman disappeared. Nobody In the district doubts the story, and all are convinced that the apparition was none other than the Blessed Virgin herself. The cure himself Is absolutely convinced, and has informed the Bishop, who is making investigations. The visitat'on is associated in the popular mind with the recent earthquakes and meteors. Fearing reactionary intrigues the Gov ernment thought it advisable to re-en force the gendarmerie and prohibit public meeetings.-Rzme Cor. N. Y. Sun. Miss Anthony's Opposition. Miss Susan B. Anthony, the distin guished champion of women and their rights, has very much dampened the ardor of the Anti-Roberts Crusaders by holdIng that his title to a seat in Congress had best be left to that body $1 1 (Mrs. Susan B. Anthony.) Itself. But she has gone further, and this has stIrred up trouble. She says so far as a plurality of wives goes, Roberts is no worse than his Congres sional colleagues. The end is not yet. Belgian Queen's Home. The Queen of the Belgians was brought up In her father's castle at Pesth amid surroundings and customs which remind one of the feudal ages. At night her father himself descend ed the great staircase to lock the outer gate and the door of the principal hall. Thi hall was di'vided into two parts, one end being raised a little above the other. At the elevated end the daughters of the house eat at their needlework or painting or music, while their attendants sat at the lower end of the hall. eeone in Verdi: Inn." " went to a big revival meeting down in Little Rock one night last .eek." said a traveling inspector of ndian agencies who flitted into town a couple of days ago. "The revival 4 ad been going on in one of the big halls down there for some time and the best sheep were being gathered in by the slews. The miniater cond:cting the meetings was of the perfervidest kind, and at the end of each of his surrounding sentences picturing the ways of evil he would command all of those in the crowd who wanted to be saved to stand up. There'd be a size able bunch come to a perpendicular posture every time, and he'd count them out 1c-ud and bestow words of praise upon them for their nerve in standing up. A cupie of young fel lows who sat next to me go: up to go out ust as the minister came to r-,ne of the countirng periods, and as they got out into the aisle he shouted: "'Two more-"' "When, however, he saw the young chaps proceeding down the aisle to ward the door. he added the words: "'Gone to perdition!' "One of the young feilows, who looked like a mountaineer in Little Rck for a warm time. turned around in his tracks, gazed at the minister sleepily, and said: "'All right, pard; see you later.' - Washinton PM.a The New York World says the Re pblican Ieaders had only $i3,000,000 t elect McKinley in 1896. but have started this year to raise a camrp'ian 'ud of $30,000,000 Yet the World i at it could for MIcKinley in 19.