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FRUIfS OF VICTORYI Dr. Talmage on the Rewards ef Faithful Endeavor. THE LESSON OF CHRIST In Overcomirg the Obstacles Which Beset His Followers. Satisfaction in the Comple tion of Good Work. In this disoourse Dr. Talmage shows in an unusual way the antagonisms that Christ overcame and finds a balsam for a!. wounded hearts; text. John Xvii, 4, "1 have finished the work which thou gavest me to do." There is a profound saisfation it the completion of anything we have undertaken. We lift the c3pstone with exultation, while, on Lhe othr hand, there is nothing more disappointing than af ter having toiled in a certain di. rection to find that our time is wasted and our investment profitless. Christ came to throw up a highway on which the whole world might, if it chose, mount into heaven. He did it. The foul mouthed crew who attempted to tread on him could not extinguish the sublime satisfaetion which he expressed when he said, "I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. Alexander the Great was wounded, and the doctors could not medicate his wounds, and he seemed to be dying, and in his dream the sick man saw a plant with a peculiar fl.wer, and he dreamed that that plant was put upon his wound and that immediately it was cured. And Alexander, waking from his dream, told this to the physician wandered out until he found just the kind of plant which the sick man had described, brought it to him, and the wound was healed. Well, the human race had been hurt with the ghastliest of all wouni-that of sin. It was the business of !uhrist to bring a balm for that wound-the balm of divine resto ration. In carrying this business to a successful issue the difficulties were stupendous. In many of our plans we have our friends to help us; some to draw a sketch of the pian, others to help us in the execution. But Christ fought every inch of his way against bitter hostility and amid circumstances all calculated to depress and defeat. In the first place,-,his worldly occu pation was against him. I find that he earned his livelihood by the carpenter's trade-an occupation always to be high ly regarded and respected. But you know as well as I do that in order to succeed in any employment one must give his entire time to it, and I have to declare that the fatigues of carpentry were unfavorable to the execution of a mission which required all mental and physical faculties. Through high, hard, dry, husky, insensate, Judaism to hew a way for a new and glorious dispensation was a stupendous under taking that was enough to demand all the concentrated energies eveL of Christ. We have a great many ro mantic stories about what men with physical toil have accomplished in in tellectual departments, but you know that after a man has been foiling all day with adz and saw and hammer, plane and ax, all he can do is to rest. A weary body is an unfavorable ad junct to a toiling mind. You, whose life is purely mechanical, if you were called to the upbuilding of a kingdom, or the proclamation of a new code of morals, or the starting of a revolution which should upturn all nations, could get some idea of the incoherence of Christ's occupation with his heavy misslon. In his father's shop no more inter course was necessary than is ordinarily necessary in bargaining with men who have work to do; yet Christ, with hands hard from use of tools of trade, was called forth to become a public speaker, to preaeh in the face of mobs, while some wept and some shook their fists and some gnashed upoa him with their teeth and many wanted him out of the way. To address orderly and respect ful assemblages is not so easy as it may seem. but it req;uires more energy and more ferce and more concentration to address an exasperatt d mob. The vil lagers of Nazareth heardi 'he pounding of his hammer, but ah tue w tie reacehes of eternity were to hear the otoke ' his spiritual upbuilding. So also his habits of dress and det were against him. The mighty men o Christ's time did not appear in apparel without trinkets and adornments. None of the Cresars would have appeared in citizen's apparel. Yet here was a man, here was a professed king, who always wore the same coat. Indeed, it was far'from shabby, for after he had worn it a long while the gamblers thought it worth raffling about, but still it was far from being an imperial robe. it was a coat that any ordinary man might have worn on an ordinary occasion. Neither was there any pretension in his diet. No cupbearer with golden chalice brought him wine to drink. On the seashore he ate fish, first having broiled it himself. No one fetched him water to drink; but, bending over the well in Samaria, he begged a drink. lHe sat at only one banquet and that not at all sumptuous, for to relieve the awkwardness of the host one of the guests had to prepare wine for the company. Other kings ride in a chariot; he walked. Other kings as they advance have heralds ahead and applauding sub jects behind; Christ's retinue was made up of sunburned fishermen. Other kings sleep under embroidered canopy; this one on a shelterless hill. Riding but once, as far as I now remember, on a colt-and that borrowed. His poverty was against him. It re quires money to build great enterprises. Men of means are afraid of a penniless projector, lest a loan be demanded. It requires money to print books, to build institutions, to pay instructors. No wonder the wise men of Christ's time laughed at this penniless Christ. "Why," they said, "who is to pay for this new religion? Who is to charter the ships to carry the missionaries? Who is to pay the salaries of the teach ers? Shall wealthy, established religion be discomfited by a penniless Christ?" The consequence was that most of the people that followed Christ had noth ing to lose. Atiiuent Joseph of Arima thea buried Christ, but he risked n. social position in doing that. It is always safe to bury a dead man. Zac cheus risked no wealth or social posi-I tion in following Christ, but took a posi tion in a tree to look down as he passed. Nicodemus, wealthy Nicodemus, risked nothing of social position in following Christ, for he skulled by night to find him. All this was against Christ. So the fact that he was not regularly graduated was against him. if a man come with thediloma of olleges and schools and heological seminaries, andhe has ben hrough foreign travel, the w )rld is diE posed to listen. But nere was a maa iho had graduated at no college, had not in any academy by ordinary means earned the alphabet of the language he spoke, and yet he proposed to talk, to instruct in subjects which had con founded the mightiest intellects. John says: "The Jews marveled, saying. How hath this man letters, having never learned?" We, in our day, have found out that a man without a diploma may know as much as a man with one and that a college cannot transform a sluggard into a philosopher or a theo logical seminary teach a fool to preach. An empty head after the laying on of hands of the presbytery is empty still. But it shocked all existing prejudices in those olden times for a man with no scholastic pretensions' and no gradua tion from a lcarncd institution to set himself up for a tcachtr. It wasagainst him. l'(pular opinion declared in those days, Blessed is the merchant who has a cistle down on the banks of Lake Tiberias." This young man said, --Bessed are the poor." Popularopin ion said in those days, 'Blessed are those who live amid statuary and foun tains and gardens and congratulations and all kinds of festivity." This young man responded, "Blessed are they that mourn." Public opinion in those days said "Blessed is the Roman eagle, the flap of whose wing startles nations and the plunge of whose iron beak inflicts cruelty upon itscnemiies." This young man reponded, "Blessed are the merci ful." Popular opinion said, "An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth." In other words, if a man knocks your eye out knock his out. If a man breaks your tooth break his, Retort for re tort, sarcasm for sarcasm, irony for irony, persecution for persecution, wound for wound. Christ said, "Pray for them that despitefully use you " They looked at his eye. It was like any other man's eye, except perhaps more speaking. They felt his hand, made of bone and muscle and nerves and flesh, just like any other hand. Yet what bold treatment of subjects, what supernatural demands, what strange doctrine! They felt the solid earth under them, and yet Christ said, "I bear up the pillars of this world." They looked at the moon. He said, "[ will turn it into blood." They looked at the sea. He said, "I will hush it." They looked at the stars. He said, "I will shake them down like untimely figs." Did ever one so young say things so bold? It was all %gr.inst him. 1 imagine Christ one day standing in the streets of Jerusalem. A man de scended from high lineage is standin& beside him and says: "My father was a merchant prince. He had a castle on the beach in Galilee. Who waq your father?" Christ answers, "J oseph, the carpenter." A man from Athens is standing there unrolling his parchment of graduation and says to Christ, "Where did you go to school?" Christ answers, I never graduated." Aba, the idea of such an unheralded young man attempting to command the atten tion of the world! As well some little fishing village on Long Island shore attempt ta arraign New York. Yet no sooner does he set his foot in the towns or cities of Judma than everything is in commotioD. The people go out on a pinic, taking only food enough for a day, yet are eo fascinated with Christ that at the risk of starving they follow him out into the wilderness. A noble man falls down flat before him and says, "My daughter is dead." A beggar ties to rub the dimness from his eyes and says, ":Lord, t.hat my eyes miy be opened." A poor, sick, panting wo woman presses through the crowd and says, "I must touch the hem of his garment." Children who love their inother better than any one else struggle to get into his arms, and to kiss his check, and to run their fingers through his hair, and for all time putting J~ sus so in love with the little ones that there is hardly a Dursery in Christendom from which he does not take one, saying: "I must have them. I will fill heaven with these, for every cedar that I plant in heaven I will h--ve 50 white lillies. in the hour whe'n i was a poor man in Ju da they w, re not ashamed of me, and now that 1 have come to a throne I do not despise them. Hold it not back, 0 weeping mother! Lay it on my warm heart. Of such is the kingdom of heaven.' No man could go through all the ob stales I have described, you say, with nit having a nature supernatural. In ht arm, amid its muscles and nerves and bones, were intertwisted the ener gies of omnipotence. In the syllables of that voice there was the emphasis of the eternal God. That foot that walked the deck of the ship in Gennesaret shall stamv p kingdoms of darkness into demoli tion. This poverty struck Christ owned Augustus, owned the sanhedrin, owned Tiberias, owned all the castles on its beach and all the skies that looked down into its water, owned all the earth and all the heavens. To him of the plain coat belonged the r hes of celestial royalty. H~e who wa.ked the road to Emmans the lightuizigs were the fire shod steeds of' his chariot. Yet there are those who ilook on and see Christ turn water iutm w'ine, and they say, "It wa sleight of hand!" And they see Christ raise the dead to life, and they say: "Easily explained; not really dead; playing dead." And they see Christ giving sight to the blind man, and they say, "Clairvoyant doctor." Oh, what shall they do on the day when Christ ris up in judgment and the hills shall rok and the trumpets shall call, peal on peal? In the time of Theodosius the Great there was a great assault made upon the divinity of Jesus Christ, and durig that time Theodosius the Great called his own son to sit on the throne with him and be a copartner in the gov ernment of the empire, and one day the old bishop came and bowed down before Theodosius, the emperor, and passed out of the room, and the emperor was offended, saying to the old bishop, "Why didn't you pay the same honor to my son, who shares with me in the government?" Then the old bishop turned to the young man and said, "The Lord bless thee, my young man, but still paid him no such honor as he had paid to the emperor. And the em peror was still offended and displeased, when the old bishop turned to The odisus the Great and said to him, "You are offended with me because I don't pay the same honor to your son whom o have made copartner in the govern ment of this empire the same honor I pay to you, and vet you encourage multitudes of people in your realm to deny the Son of God equal authority, equal power, with God the Father." My subject also reassures us of the fact that in all our struggles we have a sympathizer. You cannot tell Christ anything new about hardship. I do not think that wide ages of eternity will take the scars from his punctured side and his lacerated temples and his sore hands. You will never have a burden weighing so many pounds as that burden Christ carried up the bloody hill. You will never have any suffering worse than he endured, when with tongue hot ie moane, "I thirst." You wil never be surrounded by worse hostility than that which stood around Christ's feet, foaming, reviling, livid with rage, howling down his prayers, and snuff ing up the smell of blood. 0 ye faint hearted, 0 ye'troubled, 0 ye persecuted one, here is a heart that can sympathize with you! Again and lastly, I learn from all that has been said today that Christ was aw fully in earnest. If it had not been a momentous mission he would have turned back from it disgusted and dis couraged. le saw you in a captivity from which he was resolved to extricate you, though it cost him all sweat, all tears, all blood. He came a great way to save you. He came from Bethle hem here, through the place of skulls, through the charnel house. through banishment. There was not among all the ranks of celestials one being who would do as much for you. I lay his crushed heart at your feet today. Let it not be told in heaven that you delib erately put your foot on it. Whilo it will take all the ages of eternity to cele brate Christ's triumph, I am here to make the s-arting announcement that because of the rejection of this mission on the part of some of you all that magnificent work of garden and cross and grave is. so far as you are concerned a fai!ure. 1lelena, the empres3, went to the Holy Land to find the cross of Christ. Getting to the Holy Land there were three crosses excavated, and the question was, which of the crosser was Christ's cross. They took a dead body, tradiction says, and put it upon one of the crosses, and there was no life, and they took the dead body and put it upon another cross, and there was no li'e. !3B2t, Iradition says, when the dead body was pUa ap against the third cross, it sprang into life. The dead man lived again. Oh, that the life giving power of the Son of God might dart your dead soul into an eter nal life, beginning this day ! "Awake, thou that sleepest, and rise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee lif!' Live now! And !ive forever CHARGED WITH MURDER Implicated in the Killing of a Man Namel Leard Daring fair week iast fall, the dead Uody of a mill operative named Leard was found lying near the tracks of the Southern railway at Columbia. It was evident that he had not been hurt by a train, for there were no marks on hi. body, except an apparently slight wound. Even this was not at first seen. but an investigation showed that the wound on the head, while it had affected the brain, was n3t necessarily fatal. l4.aard was orginally from Orangeburg County. The Columbia Record says: "Magistrate Smith held an inquest during the absence of the coroner, who was absent from his office by per mission of the governor. The jury brought in a verdict that death had re sulted from causes unknown to the ju ry, and there the matter was apparently dropped. Magistrate Smith, after hear ing the testimony, did not believe a rime had been committed, but the peo ple in the vicinity in their talk persis tently connected the name of another operative named Bennett with the homicide. le had gotten "his time" cashed in and left the night of Leard's death. "A warrant was sworn out for him and the sheriff at one time sent a deputy to Aiken to find Bennett, who had been reported as being th re er at some of the mill towns in the county, but he was not found. Reently Ben nett was again located irn Aiken coun ty and Sheriff Cathcart wired Sheriff Alderman to arrest him. This he did Thursday and a deputy was sent down Thursday morning, who brought Ben nett to Columbhia and ledged him in jail. Bennett had notning to say about the case, but simply denied his guilt. He would not say whether he was with Loard the night of his death or not. Cotton Acreage Increased. The New Orleans Times and Demo crat printed Friday cotton crop reports from about 150 special correspondents throughout the cotton belt. In some places there is no increase, but these are exceptional. Correspondents gen erally report from 5 to 10 or 15 per cent. inraase in the acreage and in some cases as high as 20 per cent. Ashton Phelps, taking the reports, figures out 18 per cent, increase in areage for the whole belt. The South eastern States appear to have the best season, though the nights are cool, re tarding de-velpopment. Trho use of cent mercial fertiizcrs has been very large in this belt, compared with last year. but increase in the acreage has not been so large as the increased sale of ferti lizers would seem to indicate a month ago. There has been a very general complaint of scarcity of labor. This condition, which is especially marked in the Southeastern States, explains in part the heavy increase of fertilization. To a lesser extent Alabama and Mississippi have also suffered fromL a lack of hands the negroes being at tracted to lumber camps and 'nills by high wages the mills have offered. The War About Over The Boer war is about over. As Gen. Roberts has heretefore always ful filled his prediction it is taken for granted that-the British will march into Pretoria this week. Indeed, telegrams are already being received announcing the fact, and the serious part of the campaign from a military point of view is regarded as over. Any prolonged defense of Pretoria is considered very improbable, and military men antici pate that French will capture the Tranvall capital within a day or two by a sudden and unexpected movement. Public interest centers in Kruger, his capture or escape. Tlhe occupation of Pretoria will be largely robbed of its value in the estimation of the Brit ish if Gom Paul is still at large and able to keep alive the dying embers of Disgraced His Uniform. By direction of the president. First Liut. Samuel C. Hazzard, First 1U. S5 artillery, has been dropped from the rolls of the army for desertion, to take effect May 31. Lieut. Hazzard was stationed at Tampa, Fla., and disari peared from that post Feb. :28 last. It is reported that before his dep~art'ie he cashed a number of worth!le, t.,ecks and borrowed a large sum of monoy also that he was short in his accouants. Another allegation was that he had run off with a woman with whom he had become infatuated and from whom it is Eaid he borrowed $Z,000, leaving a wife and family in New York. Gainesville, Ga., Dee. 8, 1899 Pitts' Antiseptic Invigorator has been used in my family and I am per fectly satisfied 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 me good.-Sold by The Mur ray Drug Co., Columbia, S. C., and all RAILROAD ASSESSMENTS. The Figures for Each of the Lines in the State. The State board of equalization of railroad property held its annual meet ing in Columbia on Tuesday of last week and fixed the assessments for tax ation on all railroad property in the State for the year 1900. -No reductions of last year's assessments were made save in the instance of the Camden branch, but there were several increases in the valuation per mile, as follows: Ashley River from $9 000 to $13 000; Carolina Midland from $5.000 to $; 000 Georeetown and Western from $2,000 to $3,000; Hampton and Branchville fron $1,000 to $2 000; Lancaster and Chester from $1 751) to $2.000; Preg nall brarch of the Manchester and Au gusta from$5,000 to $6 000; Ohio River and Charleston from $5,000 to $6.000. In addition to the list heretofore assess ments were also made on the newly constructed lines. The valuations per mile for each road, for the purposes of taxation, were fixed as follows: Ashley River............ 13,000 Atlanta and Charlotte Air Line 16,000 Ashville and Spartanburg...... 7,000 Berkeley.................... 3.000 Blue Ridge .................. 2500 hranchville and Bowman... .. 1.500 Charleston and Western Caro lina ...................... 7,500 C. & D- I. R. (Salisbury branch)................ 4,000 Gibson division ........... ,000 Carolina and Northwestern .. 2,750 Columbia and Greenville...... 10,000 Columbia, Newberry and Laur ens.................... 5 000 Carolina Midland............. 6 000 Central of South Carolina.. .. . S,000 Charlotte, Columbia and Au gusta ..................... 13,000 Carolina and Cumberland Gap. 2 500 Charleston and Savannah..... 13,000 Florida Central and Peninsular 8.500 Florence ...... ...... ..... 15,000 Florence (Latta braneb).......4 000 Georgia, Carolina and Northern 10 000 Green Pond, W. & Branchville. 4 000 Georgetown and Western.. . . . . 3,000 Gleen Springs ............... 2,000 Hampton and Branchville.... 2.000 Hartsville................ 2 500 Lancaster and Chester. . .....2,750 Manchester and Augusta...... 10,000 Pregnall branch.. .. .. .. .. .. 6,000 Darlington branch .......... 6,000 auuth and North Carolina div 1,000 N irtheastern ............... 16.000 Ohio River and Charleston .... 6,000 Palmetto.................... 3000 South Carolina and Georgia... 15,000 Camden branch ............12.000 Pickens.2,000 Seaboard Air Line (Cayce to Cheraw)..................2.000 Wilson and Summerton (Sam ter extension) ...... ....... 5,000 Southern (Sumter extension).. 5,000 A Word for CUndidates. "Ladies, gentlemen and little chil dren," says the Greenwood Journal, "this is election year and the candi dates for office are among you seeking the suffrage of their fellow-citizens. They are respectable men and surely not one of them would refuse to re spond to any worthy cause; but their purses are not bursting with gold and they have many necescary demands to meet. No there is a sponging cus tom in many communities that should be broken up, the custom of torturing candidates who have little money, by begging them to give something for this or that thing just because it is deemed an opportune time to pull money out of men for the reason that they are candi dates and could hardly refuse for fear of incurring the displeasure of the so licitors and their friends. The man hood nnd womanhood of every county should repudiate this abomin able custom and refuse to countenance any effort to prey upon candidates for contributions to buy organs. paint churches, or for any other purpose where the gene rjsity of the public is appealed to for assistance. Let the -andidates come among you feeling that they are free from any such an noyance and it will give you and them more pleasure. When a worthy candi date goes campaigning among the peo ple and a good cause presents itself he will gladly contribute to it without so licitation because the act and the oppor tunity will.-.d~ve him well. Yes, let the pride and independence of a refined community set this nuisance aside and let the candidates be received into your circles with that hospitality which is characteristic of South Carolinians without anything to embarrass the anxious candidate, for his mental bur dens are not a few while the canvass is progressing and many things work to gether for his final discomfiture. FREE BLOOD CURE' An Offr Providing Faith to Sufferers Eating Sores, Tumors, Ulcers, are all curable by B. B. B. (Botanic Blood B.lm,) which is made especially to cure al terrible Blood Diseases. Persistent Sores, Blood and Skin Blemishes, Scrof'ila, thatt resist other treatments, are qjuickly cuired by B. B, B. (Botanic Blood Balm). Skihi Eruptions, Pim ples, Red, Itching Eczema, Scales Blisters, Boils, Carbuncles, Blotches Catarrh, Rheumatism, etc., are all due to bad blood, and hence easily cured by B. B. B. Blood Poison producing Eating Sores, Eruptions, 6'vollen glands, Sore Throat etc., cured by B. B. B. (Botanie Blood Balm), in one to ive months. B. B B. does not con tain vegetable or mineral poison. One bottle will test it in an case. For sale by druggists everywhere. Large bottles $1, eix for five $5. Write for free samplebottle, which will be sent, prepaid to Times readers, describe siptoms and personal free medicaf advice will be given. Address Blood Balm Co., Atlanta, Ga. Banna Still in the Ring. Senator Hanna denies the report that, he has determined not to be the chair man of the new national Republican committee. A story to this effect was sent out from Washington Thursday night, in which it was stated that i health and business duties were re sponsible for thle 8,nator's determina tion to re'tire notabsi~htanding the fact t hat & Kciinie3 topecially desireshim to cunue at the head of the committee. The story was called to Hanna's atten tion, and he authorized this statement: "The statement was entirely unauthor ized. There has been no change in the situation and nothing is decided as to the future." Scalded to Death. As the steamer Bolivar was preparing to sail from Key West, Fla., Friday an explosion occurred in the boiler room, that almost lifted the vessel out of the water. On investigation it was found that Chief Engineer John Thompson, Pablo Feal, a fireman, and a boy named Willie Hancock were horribly scalded by escaping steam. All three died A PLAIN STATEMENT From Governor McSweeney in Reference to Small-Pcx THE TROUBLE AT UNION. He Left the Matter in the Hands of the President of the State Board of' Healh. Gov. McSweeney the first of lait week gave out the following statement in reference to snail-pox trouble at Union: In regard to the action of the Union board of health I deem it proper to make a statement in order to keep the record straight. Since I have been Governor I have made it a rule to refer to each department of the State Govern ment all matters pertaining to that de partment. All cases of smallpox re ported to me have been promptly re ferred to Dr. James Evans, assecretary of the State board of health, for his consideration and action. When I re ceived the report of the Union board of health calling my attention to the cir cular of President Duncan and the re solutions passed by the Union board of health, stating that continued enforce ment of vaccination by the local board of health is impossible because of lack of power and funds. and dangerous c cause of the inflamed opposition, I seat the following telegram to Dr. Evans: "There is considerable dissatiifEc tion in Union as to the manner of en forcing vaccination. In order to ad just matters I deem it advisable for you to go there at once and take the matter up with President Dancan and the locil board of health. This is very import ant." I also wired President Duncan and Dr. Linder that I had atked Dr. Evans to go to Union to investigate the situa tion. This was on the 9:h of May. Dr. Evans went to Union promptly and on the 11th of May made the following report: "In my investigation of the small pox situation at this place (Union) I have found three families with the dis ease in Milltown, wbich has a popula tion of about 3,000, and is the locality in which the operatives of the Union Cotton Mills reside. Vaccination is imperative to prevent the further spread of the disease. Two thousand of the population of the town have been re cently and in the last two or three years vaccinated. I have arranged for the prompt vaccination of the remainder who are not protected. I have the as surance in the prosecution of the work of the co operation and assistance of the city authorities, the local board of health and President Duncan, of the Union Cotton Mills." I concluded from this statement of the secretary of the board of health that ever, thing had been satisfactorily adjusted, as he states that he had the assurance of the co operation of the lo cal board of health, the city authori ties and President Duncan. Nothing more was heard from Union until the resolutions i ublished a few days ago in the Union papers from the local board of health tendering their rcsigua tion. A~3 the people seemed to be very much inflhmed over the matter of enforced vaccination, as stated by the local board themselves, I deemed the course I pursued wiser and better than to have ordered the arrest of those who resisted the board, for by such a course, instead of getting the matter settled satief-setorily, the trouble would h ave been increased and possibly someone killed, If the statement made by the secretary of the board of hcaith that he had the asssurarnce of the co operation of the Union board was not ccrret it seems to me they should have so stated at once, because Dr. Evans's report to that effect was published the next day after it was made to me. As to the statement contained in the resolutions of the Union board that I am more interceted in my election than the enforcement of law I have no further reply to make than that that contained in the facts of the case as herein stated. The Sons of Veterans. The United Sons of Confederate Veterans, who had been in session for several days at Louisville, Ky., Fri day elected Biscoe Hindman of Louis ville commander-in-chief and after completing their business adjourned sine die. The Sons of Veterans will meet next year in the same city that the United Veterans meet in and at the same time. The report of the commit tee to erect a monument to the women of the Confederacy recommends that a committee from each State in the Con federacy be appointed by the comman der in-chief to raise funds. The com mittee also recommended that the plan be communicated to the veterans. A resolution was passed pledging the sup port of the Sons of Veterans to the work of the United Veterans in netting southern histories into southern schools. A Queer Lawsuit. As a result of a quarrel over some chickens which refused to lay eggs two rsdents of loffeyville, Kan., have be come involved in a remarkable lawsuit Jason 8reiphy. the plaintiff, avers that his neigabor, Needham Weeks, present ed him with ten hens and two roosters in February last, and assured him that the hens would lay upward of sixty eggs a week. Brophy fed and cared for the chickens for ten weeks, "devoting most of his time to them, t.o the detriment of other interests," but the hens failed to lay any eggs. The plaintff alleges that he ws~s unlawfully deceived by the defendant, and sues to recover $100 damages for nis wasted labor and for expenditures for chicken feed. Run Over by Train. Friday afternoon at Winona, near Forence, a freight train struck lwo lit te negro boys, killing the younger and injuring the othei perhaps fatally. The boys were sons of Henry Grant, a respectable negro farmer. It is sup posed that the two boys were asleep on the track. As they were lying between the crossties, Enginee Temple dint not see them until too late. Although the entire train of 28 cars passed over the m, the bodies were not mangled at all. Death resuhted in the one case from fracture of the skull. The elder of the boys has a badly fractured skull and is not expected to live. Grabbed by England A dispatch from Cape Town says Lord Roberts Wednesday announced to his troops the annexntion of the Free State to England which hereafter will be alled the Orane RierateM. A REPUBLICAN FIASCO. A Campaign Bubble Punctured by. the Democrats. The House of Representatives Fri day, after a lively debate extending over two days, defeated the resolutien proposing a constitutional amendment empowering Congress to regulate trusts. It requires a two thirds vote, under the Constitution, to adopt an amendment to the Constitution. The vote stood, ayes 154, nays 131. The affirmative vote, therefore, was 38 short of the re quisite two-thirds-192. -Five Demo. crats, Messrs. Campbell, of Montana; Nappen, of Massachusetts; Scudder, of New York; Sibley, of Pennsylvania, and Thayer, of Massachusetts, and one silverite, Mr Newlands, of Nevada, votcd with the Republicans for the resolution, and two Republicans, Mr. Loud, of California, and Mr. McCall, of Massachusetts, with the Democrats, against it. These were the only break, from party lines. The Populists voted sol idly against the resolution. The de bate preceding the vote had a strong political flavor throughout and at times very personal. The features wcre the closing specehes of Mr. DeArmond, of Missouri, and Mr. Littleffeld, of Maine, for the respectivo sides, and the short speech of Mr. McCall against the reso lu:ion. M r. McCall has distinguished himsclf before during this session in opposing the action of his colleagues on the Porto Rican bill and in his speecch in the 1-berts case. His ac tion Tuesday was unheralded and, therefore, attracted the more attention. There was considerable discussion before a vote was taken. Mr. Lentz, of Ohio, said this constitutional a-nend ment was a fraud and Democrats would prove the hypocrisy of the Republicans before Saturday night. "Elct William Jennings Bryan (Democratic applause) and he will place at the head of the de partment of justice an Attorney Gener al, not from the trust-iidden State of New Jersey, who will keep the trusts so busy they will not have time to pur sue their rapacious vocation." Mr. DeArmond, of Missouri, close d the debate for his side with a specch an hour and a half in length. In his opinion the Republicans were thinking, not of destroying trusts, but of the coming election. Whea Congress aE Eembled the Republican leaders rushed through, under whip and spur, the financial law, which they really intend ed should go on the statute books. Now, at the end of the session, they proposed a trust remedy, not to remedy the evils of trusts, but to tide them over the campaign. The proposed amendment, he said, bore upon its face irrefutable evidencs that it was not in tended to be placed in the Constitution to control trusts, but to be placed in the campaign to delude voters. (Demo cratic applause.) Mr. McCall, of Massachusetts, said he would vote for the Littlefield bill, but would vote against the resolution. "The resolution," said he, "brings the promise to the ear, but breaks it to the hope. (Democratic applause.) The amendment would strike a deadly blow at individual liberty and might be used to destroy labor organizations. No amendnment was necessary until every weapon in the constitutional armory had been exhausted. (Prolonged Dem ocrati3 applause.) WHY SHE WAS CAREFU., Wasn't Cer-tain 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 aftg'noon Miranda ,Tohn 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 'bou: dat matter," was the re ply. "Why?" asked the Recorder who Ipt that he had a great mystery be bre him. "Bekase," replied the old woman, "dar wus er misshur- oh two babies or long time ago and do matter hain't cl'ar till this day. You see my little baby was born on do same day dat annudder nigger 'Qman's baby was or born and jest to play a joke on Ike dat's my ole man-dey put de two babies wid me and tole him dat he war de fadder ob twins. D~ey got de babies kinder mixed, and dey jest gib me one ob dem and gibbed do udder 'oman do 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 hais't gwine ter sw'ar reckless like 'bout dis gai in do 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 dlnneor, 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. Pohkets 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. 3. 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 ether 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 scientia has found that some kinds of mushftom afford a vac cine against the venori 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 sees to college; in Scotland, one In 520; in the United States, one In 2,000, and in ROmYA POWDER Makes the food more delicious and wholesome ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., NEW YORi. MADE A PORTUNE. In Speculation on a Small Sum Saved W From Business Failure. I.ess than a year ago John K. Bucker was conducting a hardware store. He A Chicago Girl Tells How was considered a fairly prosperous She Did Some Work For country storekeeper, and his holdings, S his acquaintances say, probably footed up $9.O00. Last winter, however, he. Him in London. became involved, and about the first of - .Tanuary the Bank of Ephrata. which HEON AT HIS HOME held judgment against him, closed hin out at Sheriff's sale. His downfall. neighbors said. wai due to his having tried his luck on thq grain market. Be Employed as a Stenographer She Is that as It may, his liabilities included ' bills In favor of firms in Phladelpha. Treated as a Guest and Tells Lebanon, Lancaster and Reading. All About It. Some of the concerns made efforts to realize when the Sheriffs sale took place. but the judgments of the bank 3is Alice R. Beardsley Describes were barely covered. and the firms Her Visit to the- Kipling Cottage believed that their loss was absolute. I When the crash c2me Mr. Bucker di- at Rottendean-What Lert a Bad appeared from his home. His creditors Taste In Her Mouth. knew nothing of his whereabouts. ani A if his wife and family did the'y said Miss Alice It. eardsley, of Kanka riothing. He had decided to art, it was kee. Ill., has established a typewriting afterward learned, and when he saw office in London-an establishment like the inevitable he collected about s700 the one Harold Frederic describes in and went to Philadelphia and was lost "Glora s sundi." The enterprise has sight off. been a success from the start, and M1iss That $50 was Bucker's salvation. Beardsley now employs ten girls. In a He started to deal in stocks. and when recent letter to some friends she tells American Tobacco made its first big how she did some work for Rudyard jamp he was fortunate in .aing :l- Kipling, as follows: most all his little fortune placed oiu "I executed a literary trick last week. that stock, and when the jump came he acquired through association with sold out at a nice, fat profit. He con- novelists, when I wrote that I was go tinued to place small amounts, and ing to Kipling and then left you in sus again fortune smiled upon him, for pense as to whether or no I had recov when the great Sugar rise came it ered from the honor. Suffice is to say, found Bucker's money backing it. He I have had a week so full of work and bought, placing his all on Sugar at 11-, pleasure that I have scarcely had time and held on until it reached 179%. to breath a natural breath. I got up at when he closed out. Shortly after he 6:30 o'clock one morning and took the made his lucky strike a member of a 7:30 o'clock train to Brighton. It was large Market street firm was surprised an hour and a half ride through a love to deceive a call from him. He stated ly country, and when I reached that he wished to pay his old bill and Brighton there was the sea. The city told of his fortunate deals on the niqr- itself is quite high above the sea, and ket. In similar manner he paid all his the drive from there out to Rottendean creditors in Philadelphia, Reading. Leb.- lies all along the cliffs. with the sea al anon and Lancaster. Just what his for-- ways at your right, and to the left roll tune may be cannot be learned, but his ing poppies. The driver of the carriage Market street friend avers that he has 1 had engaged began to talk the mm shown a certified check for $25.000 on ute we left the station-said he knew one occasion and $15,000 on another. I n as an American. and Inquired where and that the amount realized is over I came from. When I told him I had $100.000. lived in Chicago he said he used to 'Mr. Bucker is not the kind of a man drive horses in Chicago for a real who would be looked upon as a plung- estate man, and became quite chummy. er. but is said to be very careful and Presently he remarked with some pride reticent.-Rheinhold (Penn.) Spe. New that Rudyard Kipling lived at Rotten York Journal. dean. I replied that I knew it, and that was where I was going, and im WILL FIGHT ROBERTS. mediately he addressed me with more Ireverence. Women Will Continue Opposing His "It is more than four miles from Admission to Congress. Brighton to Rottendean, and when we reached the sleepy little village by the Members of the American Female sea it was about 11 o'clock. The Kip Guardian Society and Home for the ling place. 'The Elms,' is very modest Friendless, among whom are prominent an old place rejuvenated. I imagine,, women of New York, are disturbed although not rejuvenated enough to: over the prospects of Bringham H. hurt it, and a yard full of great elms Roberts being seated in Congress at the with a most beauteous rose garden in next session of that body, and they the back. The gate in the wall which have held a meeting to declare against surrounds the yard has a peep hole in his admission to the national Legisla- it and the man servant told me later ture. on that curious tourists often glued Several womnens societies throughout their eyes to that hole in the hopes of the country have taken a stand against seeing MIr. Kipling. The drawing-room Utah's Representative on account of Iwas shown into was a pleasant apart his polygamous ideas, arnd they are de-. ment. The floor was of boards painted nouncing polygamy and urging all vot- a light tan, with good rugs, several ers to bring influence to bear on their beautiful pieces of old furniture and a Representatives in Congress to prevent tiny writing desk. the seating of the mean from Utah. "M1rs. Kipling soon camne in. a pleas Helen Gould says: "I feel the prin- ant, smart-appearing woman, with a ciple of polygamy for which he stands delightfully low voice. She dictated strikes at the root of what is sacred letters for almost an hour. Then Mr. and beautiful in our home life, and I Kipling came down. He seemed a am glad to lend what little influence I trifle embarrassed, because, I suppose. may have to oppose t." in mortal terror of reporters. He die Mrs. George Watts, president of the tated like lightning for about fifteen Guardian Society, says: "We intend to minutes. then stretched his legs, leaned atttack the evil, not from the religious back with a sigh of comfort and said side, which seems unnecessary in the to his wife. 'I say. Carrie. isn't this present case, but from the legal. We line? Then resumed his dictation. believe this is the best way to reach "M3r. Kiipling does not as a rule die the voters and prevail on Congress not tate his work, and I imagine that M1rs. to seat M1r. Roberts. We hold that Mr. Kipling attends to most of his corre Roberts is a law-breaker, and he has spondeace. but as he had such a mass failed to keep his word, wvhich he gave of correspondence he had to have some when he went to Washington as a one to help him out. After he had fin member of the commission which ished he went out, and I thought that I sought the admission of Utah Into the had seen the last of him, but Mrs. Kip U'nion as a State. According to the ling said I had better stay to dinner, and then I should not have to hurry to c'atch the 1:30 o'clock train. This I didandghilewaiingerwanere abouttthetionden.ddsite forgetting tha man canibetaavooer trehroadpualithefold thinkhitchs easy enoughatoyproewthat he hasenJoneshtndoWillian Blacreare FurtriedoreIwhenulhehaeet oo eaove thereoinstead.mWsilenIrwas amonghts worosesIKamhinformeeoutttookwoutdhio hisifbstutooabothseepimyense rosesaan andandedlthemototm.ewits.e'Wouldiyo whl hise firsteswas living. tokethemnh it can eastlyned toved thathoesea broken hiswewhad lunthkon. Mr.tand wife. 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