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Joshil S PLAN. Of Ambuscade Cited as a Sue eessful Method of FIOHTING SINFULNESS Dr. Talmage *Says in Christian Warfr Trere is Much Ac complished by Waiting for Opportunities. From an old time battle scene Dr. Talmage in this discourse makes some startling suggestions as to the best styles of Christian work and points out the reason of so many pious failures: text, Joshua viii, 7, "Then shall ye rise up from ;he an.biuh and seize upon - the eity." One Sabbath evening. T::h my fami ly around me. we were tsiking over she seeno of the text. I- t wie open eyes and the quick frerrcga ttons and the blanch2 ceen I reai;zed what a thrilling drama it was. There is the old city, shortcer by name than any other city in the ages, speiled with two letters A, I, Ai. Joshua aad his men want to take It. HOw In do it is the question. Ou a former ccasion, in a strai htforward, face to face fight, they had Vesen defeated, but now Utey are going to take it by ambuseade. Gen eral Joshua has two divisions in his army. The one division the battle worn commander will lead himself, the other division he sends of to ensamp in an ambush on the west side of the city of Ai. No torches, no lanterns, no sound of heavy battalions, but 30, @00 swarthy warriors moving in silence speaking only in a whisper; no clicking of swords against shields lest the watch men of Ai discover it and the strata gem be a failure. If the roistering soldier in the Israelite army forgets himself, all along the line the word is "Hush!" Joshua takes the other division, the one with which he is to march, and puts it on the north side of the city of Ai and then spends the night in recon noitering in the valley. There he is, thinking over the fortunes of ths com ing day with something of the feelings of Wellington the night before Water lee or of Meade and Lee 'the night be fore Gettysburg. There he stands in the night and says to himself: "Yen der is the division in ambush on the west side of Ai. Here is the division I - have under my especial command on the north side of Ai. There is the old uity slumbering in its sin. To-morrow will be the battle." Look! The morn ing already begins to tip the hills. The military officers of Ai look out in the morning very early, and, while they do not see the division in ambush, they behold the other divisions of Joshua, and tho ery "To arms! To arms!" ring through all the streets of the old town and every sword, whether hacked and bent or newly welded, is brought out, and all the inhabitants of the city of Ai pour through the gates, an infuri ated torrest, and their cry is, "Come, we'll make quick work with Joshua and his troops!" No soarnor had these people of i come out against the troops of Joshua than Joshua gave such a command as he seldom gave such a command as he seldom gavre-"Fall back!" Why, they could not believe their own ears! is Joshua's courage failing him? The re treat is beaten, and the israelites are lying, throwing blankets and eanteens en every aide ander this worse than Bull Run dedeat. And you ought to hoar the soldiers of .Ai cheer and cheer and cheer. B~ns they hura too moon. The men lying in ambush are straining their visien to get some signal from Joshua that they may eaiow what time to drop upon the city. Joshuna takes his burnished spear glittering in the sun like a shaft of doom and points it toward the city, and when the men up yonder in the ambush see it with haw like swoop they drop upon Ai and with out stroke of sword or stab or spear take the city and put it to the torch. So much for the division that was in ambush. How about the division un der Joshua's command? No sooner does Joshua stop in the flight than all his men stop with him, and as he wheels they whseck f..r in a voice of thunder ho cried "flalt!' oce strong arm dri, ing back a torrent of lying troops. A&nd then, as he poiuts his spear through the golder: lae tw'ard that fated city, his troops know that they are to start for it. What a r-e me n. was when the division in ambush whie had taken the city marehed down against ate men of Ai on the en. side, and the troops under Joshua doubled up their enemies from the other side, and the men of Ai were caught between these two hurricanes of israelitish erage, thrust before and behind, stab bed in breast and back, grond between the upper and the nether millsteneq of God's indignation! Woe to the city of Aiu Cheey for Israel! Lesson the first: There is such a thing as vietorious retreat. Joshua's falling; back was the first chapter in his sucessful beseigement. And there are times in ycur life when the best thing yeu can de is to run. You were once the victim of strong drink. The demi john and the decanter were your fierce foes. They cam'e down upon you with greater fury than the men of A&i upon the men of Joshua. Your only safety is to get away fram them. Your dissi pating companions will come around for your everthrow. Run for your life! Fall back! fall back from the drink ing saloon! Fall back from the wine party! Your light is your advance; your retreat is your victory. There is a saloon down on the next street that has almost been the ruin of your soul. Then why do you go along that street? Why do you not pass through some ether street rather than by the place of your calamity? A spoonfual of brandy taken for medicinal purposes by a man who 20 y ears before had been reformed from drunkenness hurled into inebriety and the grave one of the best friends I ever' had. Retreat is victory! So, also, there is victorious retreat in the religious world. Thousands of times the kingdom of Christ has seemed to fall bask. When the blood of the Scotch Covenian:ers gave a deeper dye to the heather of the highlands, when the Vandois of France chose extermina tion rather than make an unchristian surrender, when on St. Bartholomew's day mounted assassins rode through the streets of Paris, crying "Kill! Blood letting is good in August! Kill! Death so the Hluguerets! Kiil'" when Lady Jane Grey a lead rojied from the ex. eationer's bck, when Calvin was im prisoned in the eastle, whon John Knox died for the truth, when John Bunyan lay reiting in Bedford jail. saying. "if God mil hielp me and my physical life eontirtmes. I will stay here until the mess grows on my eyebrows rather thtan give stp my faith," the days of retreat for the ehurch were days ot yictory. The chnroh of Christ f alling ba from Piedmnt. falling baclk frm Rue St. Jacquee, falling back from it. Denis, falling back from Wurttemberg castles, falling back from the Brussels akiet place, yet all the time triumph ing. Notwithstanding all the shocking reverses which the ahurch of Christ suffcrs, what dowe see today? Twelve thousand missionaries of the eross on heathen grounds; eighty thousand min isters of Jesus Christ in this land: at least four hundred million of Christiins en the earth. Falling back, yet advanc ing until the old Wesleyan hymn will prove true: The Lion of Judah shall break the chain And give us the victory again and agail But there is a more marked illustra tion of victorious retreat in the life of our Joshua, the Jesus of the ages. First failing back from an appalling height to an aplli- depth, falling from celestial hills to terrestrial valleys, from throne to manger; yet that did not seem to sufiee him as a retreat. Failiug back still farther from Bethle hem to Nazareth, from Nazareth to Jerusalem, back from Jerusalem to Golgotha, back from Golgotha to the mausoleum in the rock, back down over the precipices of perdition until he walked amid the caverns of the eternal captives and drank of the wine of the wrath of Almighty God, amid the Ahabs, and the Jesebcls, and the Bel shazzars. Oh, men of the pulpit -nd men of she pew, Christs deaseenD from heaven to earth does not measure half the distance! It was from glory to perdition. He descended inte hell. All the records of earthly retreat are as nothing compared with this falling back. Santa Anna, with the fragments of his army lying over the plateaus of Mexices and Napoleon and his army retreating from Moscow, into the awful snows of Russia are not worthy to be mentioned with this retreat, when all the powers of darkness seem to be pursuing Christ ar he fell back, until the body of him vho came to do such wonderful things lay pulseless and stripped. Methinks that the city of Ai was not so emptied of its inhabitants when they went to pursue Joshua as perdition was emptied of devils when they started f->r the pur suit of Christ, and he fell back and back, down lower, down lower, chasm below chasm, pit below pit, until he seemed to strike the bottom of objurga tion and scorn and torture. Oh, the long, loud, jubilant shout of hell at the defeat of the Lord God Almighty! But let not the powers of darkness rejoice quite so soon. Do you hear that disturbance in the tomb of Ari mathea? I hear the sheet rending! What means that stone hurled down the side of the hill? Who is this coming out? Push him back! The dead must not stalk in this open sunlight. Oh, it is our Joshua. Let him come out. He comes forth and starts for the city. He takes the spear of the Reman guard and points that way. Church militant marches up on one side, and the church triumphant marches down on the other side. And the powers of darkness be ing caught between these ranks of celes tial and terrestrial valor nothing is left of them save just enough to illustrate the direful overthrow of hell and our Joshua's eternal victory. On his head be all the orowns. In his hands be all the scepters. At his feet be all the hu man heart.; and here, Lord, is one of thou. Lesson the second: The triumph of the nicked is shert. Did you ever see an army in a panio? There is nothing so uncontrollable. If you had stood at Long bridge. Washington, during the opening of our sad civil war, you would know what it is to see an army run. And when those men of Ai looked out and saw those men of Joshua in a stam pede they expected easy work. They would scatter thorn as the equinox the leaves. Oh, the gleeful and jubilant descent of the men of Ai upon the mnen of Joshua! But their exhilaratien was brief, for the tide of battle turned, andI these quondam eonquerors left their miserable careasses in the wilderness ofI Bethaven. So it always is. The triumph of the wicked is short. You make $20,000 at the gaming table. Do you expect te keep- is? You will die in the poorkouse. You made a fortune by iniquitous traffe. Do you expect to keep it? Yoar money will scatter, or it will stay long enough to curse your children after you arc dead. Call ever the roll of bad men who prospered and see how short was their prosperity. For awhile, like the men of.Ai, they went from conquest to enquest, but after awhile disaster relkd back upon them, and they were divided into three parts. Misfortune ook their property, the grave took their body and the lost world took their soul. I am always interested in the building of palaces of dissipation. I like to have them built of the best granite and have the rooms made large and to have the pillars made very firm. God is going to conquer them, and they will be turned into asylumas and art galleries and churches. The stores in which fraudulent men de business, the splendid banking institutions where the president and cashier put all their property in their wives' hands and then fail for $500,000, all these institutions are to become the places where honest Christian me a do business. Lesson the third: Hew much may be aecomplished by lying in ambush for apportunities, Are yu hypereriti al of Joshua's maneuver? Do yeu say that it was cheating for him to take that city by ambuscade? Was it wrong for Washington to kindle camp fires on Jersey heights, giving the im pression to the opposing force that a great army was encamped there when there was none at all? I answei, if the war was right, then Joshua was right in his stratagem, Ho violated no lag of trce. He broke no treaty, but by a lawful ambuscade captured the city of Ai. Oh :Lat we all knew how to lie in ambush for opportunities to serve God. The best of our opportunities do not lie en the surface, but are secreted. By tack, by stratagem, by Christian ambuscade, yen may take almost any astle of sin for Christ. Come up to ward men. with a regular besiegement of argument and you will be defeated, but just wait until the door of their hearts is set ajar, or they are of their guard, or their severe caution is away from home, and then drop in on them from a Christian ambuscade. There has been many a man up to his chin in sientific portfolios which proved there was no Christ and no divine revelation, his pen a seimeter lung into the heart of theological opponents, who neverthe less has been diseomited and captured for God by some little 3-year-old child who has got up and put her snowy arms around his sinewy neck and asked ame simple question about G~od. Oh, make a lank movement! Steal aI march on the devil! Cheat that man into Iheaven! A $5 treatise that will stand all the laws of homiloties may fail to do that which a penny track of Christian entreaty may accomplish. Oh, for more Cr~istians in ambuscade-net lying in 1idleness, but waiting for aquick spring, waiting until just the right time comes! Do not talk to a man about the vanity of this world on the day when he has sell it at "15." But talk to him abnt the vanity of the world on the day when he has bought something at "'15" and is compelled to sell itac 21" Do not rub a man's disposition the wrong way; do not take the imperative wood when the subjunotive mood do just as well; do not talk in perervid style to a phleg matic nor try to tiuile a torrid tempera ment with an icicle. You can take any man for Christ if you know how to get at him. Do not send word to him that tomorrow at 10 o'elook you propose to opcn year batteries upon him, but come on him by a skillful, persevering, God directed ambuscade. I believe that the next year will be the most stupendous year that heaven ever saw. The nations are quaking now with the coming of God. It will be a year of success for the men of Joshua, but of doom for the men of Ai. You put your ear to the rail track, and you can hoar the train coming mile3 away. So I put my ear to the ground, and I hear the thundering on of the lightning train of God's mercies and judgments. The mercy of God is first to be tried upon this nation. It will be preached in tho pulpits, in theaters, on the streets-everywhere. People will be invited to accept the mercy of the gespel, and the story and the song and the prayer will be "mercy." But sup pose they do net accept the offer of mray-what then? Then God will come with his jadgrtents, and the hoppers will cat the crops, and the freshets will devastate the valleys, and the defalcation will swallow the money markets, and the fires will burn the cities, and the earth will quake from pole to pole. Year of mercies and of judgments; year of invitation and of warning; year of jubilee and of woe. Which side are you going to be en with the men of Ai or the men of Josh ua? Pass over this Sabbath'into the ranks of Israel. I would clap my hands at the joy of your coming. You will have a poor chanee for this world and the world to come without Jesus. You cannot stand what is to come upon you and upon the world unless you have the parden and the comfort and the help oi Christ. Come over. Oa this side are your happiness and safety; on the other side are disquietude and despair. Eter nal defeat to the men of Ai. Eternal victory to the men of Joshua. TEE ITALIAN 21INER KILLED. ly His Fellow Countryman in Self Defence. Mr. G. Sottile, consul of his Italian Majesty at Charleston, who has been using his utmost endeavor to alleviate the sufferings of certain of his fellow countrymen who are reported to have been badly used in the phosphate mines of South Carolina, has received the following letter and report from Governor McSweeney: The Hon. 6. Sottile, Consular Agent of Italy, Charleston, S. C.-Dear Sir: Tours of the 4th received. The matter about which you complain I will take up with the Attorney General of thc State and see if any can be done to re lieve the suffering of these men em ployed in the phosphate works, provid ed after investigation it is found that they are not properly treated. I en lose herewith copy of the report of the sheriff of Colleton as required by you. I am yours truly, M. B. McSweeney, Governor of South Carolina. The report referred to is as follows: Hon. M. B. McSweeney, Governor of South Carolina, Columbia, S. C.-Dear Sir: Pursuant to your request of the 13th instant, concerning the homicide committed at the Pon-Pon Phosphate Works some time ago, I went to the Italipa camp near said works on the 1Gnh instant, and made a full investiga tion. I fonnd nhat on the 2Gth day o February last one Filippo B~onavitaeoi a and one Frank Vecostria, both Ital ians, became involved in a quarrel at the store kept by one Frank Pizzo, an Italian; that a :yesonal difficulty fol lowed, in which the deceased, Filippo Bonavitasolla, was shot and killed by Domenieo. I examined all the per sons who saw the shooting, and frorm their testimony I infer that it was a clear case of self-defense. immediate ly after the shooting Domenice Viseas tria escaped and has non been heard from since, though it seems every effort was made to eapturo him. I am in formed that Mr. Matthew Hertz, who has oharge of the mining operations at the said works, immediately after the killing, employed two detectives to apture and bring back the said Dome nico Vicastria. I would a~so report that on 27th day of February last, Magistrate C. W. Butler, acting coroner, held an inquest over the dead body of Filippo IBona viacolla, (a eopy of the proceeding! at said inquest, together with the finding of the jury, is hereto annexed and made a pars of this report.) It appears that the magistrate was notified im mediately after the killing and held the inquest the next morniing. He also issued at once his warrant of ar rest the said Demenico Vicastria ni placed it in the hands of his constab'l& for service. Very respectfully, L. G. Owens, Sheriff of Colleton County. The Democrats Win. The Kentucky Court of Ap peals has decided the governor ship of that State infavor of the Democrats. The opiiion is by six of the judges, four Demo-. erats and two Republicans. One Republican, Durelle, dissented. Judge Durelle was the only~ judge dissenting. The other two Republican judges, Burnam and Guffey, gave a seperate opinion from the Democratic judges, but which agrees with the Democratic members in its conclusion. Judge Hobson wrote the opinion-of the court. The concurrence of Judges Bur nam and Guffey with the four Democratic judges was a sur prise generally, but to the Re publicans especially, and there is much speculation now as to whether the talked-of appeal to the supreme court will be prose uted. The opinion holds that the action of the legislature in. seating Governor Beckham: was final and that the courts have no power to review it; that Gover nor Taylor exceeded his author ity in adjourning the legislature toLondon and that the journals of the two houses of the legisla ture, being regular, cannot be impached. The Republicans may now try to get a hearing before the United States supreme court. A kingdom for a cure. You need not pay so much. A twenty five cent bottle of L. L. & K. Will drive all ills away. ECLIPSE OF THE SUN. Interesting and Instruetive Notes on the Coming Event. Dr. Jas. H. Carlisle, of Woford col lege, has sent the following notes on eclipses of the sun, especially the one about to take place, to the News and Courier: Louis IV of France (171Q-1774) asked or commanded one of the French astronomers to ind out when he could hope to see a total eclipse of the sun. A list of eclipses was laboriously pre pared. If the King had lived to this day in Paris be would never have bad the coveted privilege. The cominag eclipse will not be total in Paris. In 1847 a central eclipse passed over Paris, but the disk of the moon was too smali to hide all the face of the sun, it being only an annular eclipse. Will some of the oldest residents in Charleston tell of the total eclipse in 1834, November 30? A refercnce to the files of the Charleston Courier might be of interest. The present gen eration will soon have the rare privilege of being pleased and startled, evea awed, by this great object lesson. The moon's dark shadow will cross our state May 28, in a path about fifty miles wide, nearly parallel to our seacoast and a little above the middle of the State. Take a map of South Carolina, lay a ruler touching Newberry and Winnsboro. Draw a straight line be tween these two towns, prolonging the line each way to the edge of Georgia and North Carolina. The centre of the moon's shadow will move very nearly along that line, passing over Lancaster. Draw a line on each side of that line parallel to it about twenty ire miles distant. That belt will very nearly cover tke section on which the eclipse will be total. It is striking to see how many towns will be covered. The upper line runs very near Abbe Vile, Laurens, Union, Yorkville; the lower to Edgefield, Lexington, Colum bia. Camden, Bennettaville. This total belt will be prolonged to the old 'werld, ending in northern Egypt near the Red Sea. It is safe to predict that this eclipse will be honored by a more numerous company of expert gazers than ever studied any similar phenomenon. In the two minutes of the total eclipse many questions will be asked ef the sun and moon. Some will probably he answered and yet tho answers will suggest new questions, illus illustrating the saying that as we ga-e the eircle of light we only en rge the surrounning circle of darkness. r'ho newspapers, our great public educa trs, will prepare old and young to iouk intelligently on the wounderful avectacle. Our oicials in the national observatory have issued an instructive pamphlet with maps. The following description of a total eclipse of the sun, by Prof. J. Russell ind, of the Royal Astronomical So ciety of London, is worth quoting just ,ow: Daring the eclipse of 1842 nearly the whole population of some of the princi pal cities of Southern France and Italy, which were upon the central line, turn ed out to view the rare phenomenon of a total deprivation of the sun's light in the day time. At Paris Mr. Bailey says, "there was an unusual shout, which made the welkin ring," at the onelusion of the eclipse; and M. Arago, who observed at Perpignan, says: Near ly twenty thousand persons covered the terraces, ramparts and other eminences about the place and that an astounding shout from the multitued announced the extinction and reappearance of the sun's rays At Milan, Padua, etc., the excitement was eqally great. "Long live the astronomers!" was the cry when the rose colored iames burst forth on the bright ground of the corona, dur ing the total obscuration. Two hun dred years previously many of the in habitnts of Paris hid themselves in caves on the mere announcement of an eclipse of the sun, which was total in that city. In July, 1842, in the south of France, horse attached to vehicles came to a decided stand, and no exer tiens of the drivers, though backed by the whip, could induce them to pro eed until the sun had again appeared. Cattle in the flids songregated together immediately after darkness came on, as if in apprehension of an attack. Dogs in particular appeared to have been sensible of some unnatural event, howl ing piteonsiy during the deprivation of the sun's rays, or hastily seeking some place of safety. * * * The birds in the trees, near Lodi, suddenly eeased singing at the moment when the total obscuration came on. * * * At Milan the bees quitted their hives in great numbers soon after suorise, but returned to them in haste immediately the last rays of the Eun had vanished. The astronomers who can prediet an eclipse a hundred years in advame., cannot tell whether a little cloud many not suddenly form a half hour before the thrilling moment hiding all the wonderful spectacle from their eyes. Man is a strange compound of wisdom and ignorance, of strength and weak "A; the human mind's at fault, For still by turns it claims, A Tour-'n . :hait may exait, A littleises u.t shames. Of strength and weaknew~ till combined, Compounded of the mean and grand, And trifles thus may shape the mind, That could a tempest standi" Wofford College. J. H. C. A Murder in Colleton. The Columbia Record says Raiiroad Commissioner Garris, while in Colum bi Saturday, reported a murder in Col leton county near the Bamboerg line, which has not heretofore been pub lished. Last Tuesday week John Gas kins, a white man, left Branchville with a load of fertilizers. lHe was joined by a negro named Hampton Simmons, whom~ he allowed to ride with him as far as the negro's cabin. Last Wednesday evning the body of Gaskins was found in Simmons' yard, he having received a a load ofbuckshot in the face. Sim mon's has left for parts unknown. but before going he took his children to his sister's house. He told her that Gs kins was drunk and on arrivine at Sa' mon' cabin shot one of his elockens with a pistol. Simm zas r-~xar.tced with him an-d he allvges that G-askins threat.';. d i s.hoot himr, whereupon Simous went to his house and got out his gun and let Gaskins have a lead of buckshot in the face. That is his story, but he has skipped away and no arrests has been made. It is a coincid nce that Gaskins' brother was also killed by being shot with a load of buckshot and a negro is now serving a term in the penit entiary for the crime. Gainesville, Ga., Dec. 8, 1899 Pitt' Antiseptic Invigorator has been used in my family and I am per fctly satisfied that it is all, andwl do all, you claim fer it. Yours truly, A. B. C. Dorsey. P. .-I am using it new myself. It's doing me good.-Sold by The Mur ray Drug Co., Columbia, S. C., and all WILL TRY HIS OLD PUILL. Negr Retblican Will Endeavor to Save Collector Tolbert. Seymour Smith, the negro deputy collector and cashier of the department of customs at Charleston, has gone to Washington in the interest of Collector of the Port Tolbert and Deputy Collec tor Ostendorff. Smith is the negro who was import'ed from Aiken as the successor of Mr. George Milligan short ly after Cpl. Tolbert succeeded Capt. George D. Bryan as collector of the port. Smith has been prominent in the councils of the Republican party in the upper part. of the State, and he was one of the delegates to the conven tion which nominated President Mc Kinley. He is thought by some of the Republican party workers to have a pull with the powers. It is because of this alleged pull that he has gone to Washington, according to the rumor in circulation, to save the official heads of Col. Tolbert and Capt. Ostendorif and otber subordinate officials, if the heads are really in jeopardy because of the recent violation of the customs regula tons and the dispensary law, in the storing of the centraband liquors in the custom house. The Washington cor respordent of the Charleston Evening Post telegraphed the following report Wednesday afternoon: "Gin. Spalding, assistant secretary of the treasury, in response to my in quiry, etates he has just read report on custom house matter, but he has noth ing to give out at present." It will be seen from this telegram that the de partment now has the report of Mr. Maeatee and it remains to be seen what action the department will take. A dispatch from Washington says the secretary of the treasury has re received a report from the special agent who has conducted the investiga tion of the reported use of the custom house at Charleston for the storage of contraband liquors for illicit sales. A number of officers and employees of the eustom house were asked for an expla nation of the finding of the liquor, but all diclaimed having any knowledge concerning it except one of the night men who admitted having allowed some of his friends to keep the liquor there. Otber testimony disclosed information which led the ocers making the in vestigation to believe that the liquor belonged to a certain individual in Charlesto who has a wholesale liquor dealer's license. The conclusion of the officials is that a eertain deputy collector is responsible for the storing of liquors in the custom house and that severai employees had full knowledge of it. The report is accompanied by copies of the testimony taken. The treasury officials have taken no action in regard to the matter but there seems to be no doubt that the guilty parties will be immediately biought to justice. A Boomerang. Dewey's announcement that he is a candidate for the presi dency is likely to prove a boome rang to those gold-bugs who in duced him to make it. Accord ing to the Washington corres pondent of the Atlanta Journal the scheme was engineered by Colonel Hugh C. Wallace, of the state of Washington, ex-Secre tary William C. Whitney and Hon. Daniel Lamont. It first took shape at the Whitney din ner in New York some weeks ago. Its purpose was to disor ganize the Bryan Democracy. At the time Dewey had not been consulted and Wallace was dele gated to approach the admirai. Just before the Deweys went south Wallace called on the ad miral, and stated the proposi ti a and assured him that it would be possible to capture the Kansas City convention by keeping the scheme quiet until the proper time to spring it. Dewey discouraged the idea but frankly admitted that he would aid any movement to defeat McKinley. When the admiral and Mrs. Dewey returned from the south, Wallace approached1 him again and this time he took the matter under advisement. Lamont called at the Dewey home and was in conference with the admiral for an hour. Mrs. Dewey was in this confer ence, and advised her husband to become a candidate. It was agreed at the time that the an-1 nouncement should be made only indirectly until the effect of the suggestion could be tested. After Lamont had re turned to his hotel the adfrhiral sent for Charles 8. Albert, the chief of The World's Washing ton staff, and gave to him the dictated interview. The idea of the engineers of the movement was to ascertain if the Dewey announcement would meet with such popular favor as to carry the~ country by storm, and at least deadlock the Kansas City convention with the possibility of either nominating him or nominating some one other than Bryan. Dewey on the other hand is bitter toward McKinley, as is also Mrs. Dewey, largely for personal reasons, and he is willing now to head an indepen dent movement if he can draw enough Republican votes to as sure even Bryan's election. His candidacyhas fallen fiat. His pro moters are unwilling for him to head any movement that might assist instead of detract frorpi Bryan, and theie is already a threatened split between the new candidate and those re sponsible for his candidacy. All factions are now waiting for de veiopment~s before making an other mocve. If after the first wav of disapproval and resent mentI the reaction is in favor of Dewey he will be urged by the Lamont faction to continue his race, and go to Kansas City a candidate. If on the other hand it has been seen that there is absolutely no possibility to cap ture the regular Democratic nomination, the question of his heading an independent ticket will be discussed, and decided upon its possible results. In the meantime Dewey says he is a Democrat. There is not the slightest probability that he can capture the Kansas City conven tion, and if Dewey runs as an independent it is frankly ad mitted that on his platform he will poll the anti-administration Just the Man They Want. The New York World pretends to blieve that the nomination of William McKinley for a sec ond presidental term can be pre vented. We doubt if The World believes any such thing. If it does, it is entitled to the medal for simplicity. William McKin ley is the inevitable nominee of his party for the next presidency. He will be nominated by accla mation. No other name will be mentioned fabove a whisper in the national Republican conven tion. The World admits that for two years past the renomination of McKinley has seemed certain, but asks if the events of the last two months have not given a new aspect to the matter. The World adds: "Republicans by the tens of thousands, loyal to the party and of the intelligence and character that have given it its strength, are moved to contempt and scorn by the base dickering and dealing of Hanna the 'fat-fryer,' are humiliated by the wabbling and somersaulting of Mr. Mc Kinley. Must these honest, thinking Republicans confess that they are powerless? Can they not compel the selection of another candidate than this weak and vacillating and com plaisant and therefore the more dangerous agent of the forces of militarism and monoply? Can they not compel the selection of a true represen tative of historic Republicanism a free, courageous candidate: a Man?" The Atlanta Journal says that all The World sayslabout the great and growing disaffection toward McKinley in the Repub lican party is true, but The World seems to forget that the Republican party is ridden, con trolled and guided by bosses, and that the bosses are for Mc Kinley. They are for him be eause they can control him He is just the man they want and they will put him in the lead. Those Republicans who are sore and kicking over McKinleyism will either have to take the medicine which the bosses pre scribe or leave the party. Near ly all of them will do the former. They are used to it. WHY SHE W AMEK u: Wasn't Certain That the Prs6lr 2as Her Daughter and the Reason. Two days go there was at the police matinee an old negro Womaa *ho was a leading witness against a ?ounger woman, who was said to be r daugh ter. The old woman had sWorn that "Ter do best ob her be the g14 was not her daughter." mnpuled the Recorder no little, ahd A being neces sary to get more witnesse, the case was postponed until yestrday. Yesterday aftrnoon 34randa ohn son was again arraied for acting in a disorderly manner and tjhe 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 "4Why?" asked the Recorder who ~It that he had a grint mystery be fre him. "Bekase," replied the old womAn, "dar was er misahur o'i two babies or long time ago and de ugtter bhain't cl'ar tilithis day. Toilsep my little baby was born on de .dW dat annudder n.igger'gmfas e born and jest ti il aJ Ike dat's my ole ~ 7Itde two b'abies wid the and qj 4 he war; de fadder ob twinAL dP'g~e babies kinder mixed, and dey jest gib me on. ob dem and gibbed Ge udder 'en de udder baby. An.! I o know till dis day whedder de? gibbed me de fight baby er not. Dat am de tfo dat!I hain't gwind ter~ sw'ar ftkess like 'bent dis gal In de epte... "I am going to fine lrba $0.75," anouncoed the reco r ad, old woman, If youthn sip s your daugh te yu anpa If you1 think she not, li .work in the e The e weu&Mh h elf the working 90 th o . Poockets In Eteskings. Stocking pthe latest fad, a New Tor aa ieid the other day Th are ma to hold a roU of bills, gewelryM valuables that can be stp~e away in a small space. The ocetp s. worked in to the top of the host, abbtq the knee, ,nd are made wf* a ft soi~ 4 that there is be daWs ~ l con tents falling out. Th* *so many sneak thieves who teal frbm bed rooms while the aXyis at dinner, from carriages and fr~gm other places where wozgen are oblied to 14afe their money asd jewuf 11%bn they are net in use, that te tcetle about the clothing .fl iVer Is an absoute necessity'. Pir are not generally found In wome S dresses, and the stocking peet has seggested itself to some infentive genius. 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