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Cr. Tarn tg on th TE rnp'ati 'n3 oi Co~lege Ufe. PRACTICAL SUGGEST ION For Those Who Are R quired to Leave Their Hcmes-Heip faness of Early Chris tian Teachir'g Dr. Talmage staid in London to oc eupy the famous Wesley pulpit in the City Road chapel, where he has reach ed several times before, always rrcei - in'g a hearty welcome. Thence he went to Ireland, preaching in Belfast and Dublin. The discourse he has sent this week describes the bchavio of a young man away from home and s-iggests practical lessons for people of every age and class. The texts Dsn iel i, 5: And the king appointed them a daily provision of the king's neat and of the wane which be drank; so nourish ing them three yea-s, that at the cud thereof they might sand bef;re the king." My text opens the door of a college in Babylon and introduces yon to a young student 17 years of age, Daniei by name. B not surprised if in the college you find many hilisrities. Pit a hundrcd young men together and they sure to have a good time. There is no are harm in that. God does not write out the trees and the grass and the blos some in dull prose. The old robin does not sit moping in the nest because of the chirpings and the lively adventures of the fledgelings that have just begun to fly. D., not come into an orchard looking for winter a;'ps on a May morning. But Daniel of the text it far from be ing gay. What oppress've thoughts must have come over him as he remem bered that he was a captive in a s-r _o land! The music that came into his study window was rot the song of Z on but the s-und of flate, sackbut and dulcimer in the worship of the boa''rer god. Moreover, he had no hope cf ever getting back home again and n,,et ing those who had missed him long and missed him bitterly, wondering if he were still alive and finlhng m.ny a iuY ury tasteless because they di-? not know but Daniel might be lacking bread. When you and I were in school or college and the vacation approached, we were full of bright anticipation, and we could not study the last day, and we e~uld not study the last night. The lexison and the philosophical apparatus were transparent, so we could see right through them into the meadows and the orchards. Not so with poor Dan iel. He did not know that he sh~outld ever escape from captivity, or escaping, he did not know but when he got home the loved ones would be dead, and he would go wandering and weeping among the sepulchers of his fathers. Besides that the king tried to make him forget his home and forg'3t his country; for that purpose actually changed his name. The king wanted him to be a prodigy in per::ona! appearance, and so be ordered meat and wine sent from his own table to Daniel, but Daniel re fuses all this and puts himself upon the humblest diet, the poorest of a'. herbs, called pulse, and plain wate:. His attendants cry out against this and tell him he will perish under such a diet. "No," he says, "you try us for ten da3 a, and if at the end of that time we are not full cheeked and robust as any, it will be surprising." Ten days pass along and the students come up for emmintion, and all declare that none are so ruddy and robust as Dan iel and his fellow captives. The days of industrious pupitage and the years pass by, and the day of graduation has come, and Daniel gets his diploma, signed by the king and reading as fol lowa: "In all matters of wisdom and underatanding that the king inquired of them he found them ten times better than all the magicians and astrologers that weri in all his realm." And so Daniel took the first honor, and here the story ends, for Daniel the stude.nt hereafter will be Danial the prime min ister. The first thought suggested to me by this subject is that young men may be tarried into captivity by their enemies The're is a captivity mn re galling than the one in whieh Danmel was transport ed; it is the captivity of evil habit. Men do not go into that wittingly. Blyly and imperceptib'y are the chains forged upon them, and one day they wake up to find themnselves away dowvn in Babylon. Cyrus afte:ward consent ed that some of his captivles should return, and 50,000 of them accepted the opportunity, but tell me what evil babit ever con'ented to let a man go Ten plagues made Paaraoh consent to the departure of God's peopie, bat tell me what Pharaoh of evil habit ever cheeerfully consented to let any of its iictima go. Men talk of evil habits as though they were light and trivial but they are scorpion whips that tear the fesb; they are spikes more bloody than the path of a Brahimam; they make the poisonous robe of Nessus; they are the sepulchers in which millions are buried live. The young are in more peril be cause they are unsus ecting. The liona are asleep in their soul, an i their power is not suspected. The time when a ship's company makes mu:iny is when the watchman is coff his guard. When a spider meets a fly, it doesa not say, "Go down with nme to the place where I murder insectse." No; it says, "Come and take a bright morning walk with me on this suspension bridge of glittering gossamer." Oh, there is a difference between the sparkle of a serpent's eye and the crush of its slimy folds. There is a difference between the bear's paw toying with a kid and the crackling of the bones in the ter rifie hug. Pike's peak looks beautiful in the distance, but ask the starved travelers by the roadside what they think of Pike's peak. Are there those around whom suspicions companions are gath ered? Do their jests and their enter tainments make the hours go blithely by when you are with them? Have you taken a sip from their cup of sin or gone with themin one path of unrighte onsness? Turn back. From Dabylon they came and to Babylon they would carry you. If so many plague stricken men would like to enter y our compan ionship, before any one is ailwed to pass into the intimacy of yur heart put on them severest quarantine. My subject also impresses me with the fact that early impressions are al most ineffaceable. 1)aniel had a relii. ous bringing up. From the good mean ing of his name I know he had pizus purentage. But as soon as t'e comes iito the possession of the kilog hi name is changed, all his suriounuings are changed, and now, you say, will he .in the demoraliation of hts caracte,. i e eitenhazzar, which means ,etreasurer ci the god k:1.' Now ou F.p et to see him overthrown ic these changed cirzurstances S1, r.' Daniel started right, and he keep3 on right. When I find what Daniel is in Jeru ;alem, I am not sur prized to find what he is in Babylon. I wish I could write upon all parents' hearts the fact that early impressions are well nigh ioeffhcable. We n I see Joseph, a pious lad in the beuse of his father Jacob I am not surprised to ee hm acting so nob y down in Egypt. Whet. I rd -s ul, a pious lad, in the house of his mother IIhana. I am not surpri-e i that he gives tcrrible smiting to i.olatry as soon as he comes to man hod. David plhnn;d the temple at ujaicin and gathered the materials i' buoriig, bus Solomon, the son, e1we ard put up the structure, and rhat goes in all ages. The father plans the oharacter of the child and its de stiny for time and eternity, then the son completes the structure. You might as well put down a foundation ten feet by five and expect to rear on it a great cathedral as to put down a con tracted character in a child's soul and yet rear upon it something extensively grand and extensively usefal. LI t me say to those Christian parsnts who are doing their best in the educa tion of their children: Take good heart: your sons this morni-g may be tar 1R ay from you and in a distant city, but God, to whom you dedicated them, will 1 y..k after them. The God of Dan icl will take care of them far away in Babylon "Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it." He may wander away for awhile and fall into sin and break your heart, but before he is done with th's life, you having com mended him to God, he will come back agair., for I put the em hasis in the right place and on the w, rl "old' when I repeat that passage and say. "Train ur' a child in the way he -huld go. and when he is Old Le wil," not depart from it May you all have the gi 'rious satisf nc:ion of seeing your children wtk in pi hs of rigteou;nes and peae2 o 'e wi the) on earth, may you be one with them in heaven! Bamt I learn also from this suhi -e the beauty of Cristian s briety. The meat and the wine that were to come 1o D~iia "able ar-:--, toco m foo the ki'gs t.able. W d!, D ~iel had no :ight to take that food. The king w is a heathen and, like all the heathen. was accu-tni d to a'k a bassing be fere he partook of food. and in :hat blssing they al-vays dedicated the f..od to the gods So that if Daniel had taken thi* food he would have brsen the law which finnbade the taking of food dedicated to idols. He chose pulse. It was a miracle that he did nft dwindle away. Tbere is nothing in pulse, such a poor herb, to make a man ruddy and health'ul Some peo ple talk as thouch that were a kind of diet which would mike a man swarthy and competent to do the duties of this iifc. That is not the leEson at all. B i for a positive miracle Diniel w u!d have dwir d ed away, and when God for his self denial putsupon him this bene diction he puts a benediction noon all Christian sobriety. I would not have r-u class your preacher among those who would put unnecessary restraints upon lawful appetiti's. There are those in t bis da7 who dispu'o the grant which God give to man for animil food, and they make a religi'*n of trieir hunter as the Pharis'es expccted heav en for their L sting Dniel did no; always lire on puila. He was not a Grahamite; he was Lot a vegetarian. Ho went thirough tha szlf denial be ause the foed offerea him was idola trous food. When 1 see God filling the earth with all varieuies of food, I have not much confidence in the teach ing of those who would put us on severe regimen. There are parents who, with a wrorg theory in this respect, deny their children all harmless luvur'es and without suffcient ingairy send them ot to boarding sce owi where their in tel.ects are cultured to the d'eadvantage of d-eir s:ar~ed bodies, so that from' mny a boardir g school a class of 20J will graduate, 19 of them gho: ts. Now whe-n I see the three ar-gels eating the cif whioh Abr~ham sle w and when I fid Christ eating br~iled fish evena ter his resurrection I come to the con luon that the theories of the vege tarian are not from a religious starnd point well founded But, oh, how marny temptations to dissipation! With so many things to tempt the appetite, how many tempa tions to gluttony! With so many sparling bevarages, howi much tenmpa tions to drunkennesy Could I bring before this morning tLhe mothers and wives at'd sisters who have wept at the raes of the inebriate.-your soul would be overpawered with the spectacle. Could 1 show ,ou the maly forms robbed of their becauty,. the eya fish ings quenched i-n the wine cap, the rnddy cheek from which rum has wormed the rose, your souls would re coil with hoinrr.r and you would rise p and cry, "Begone, th-na dreamn of Are you fond of pictu-es? Here is one drawn by Solomon: "Who bath woe? Who hath sorrow? Who hath conentions? Who hath babbling? Who bath wounds without cause? They that tarry long at the wine; the~y that go to seek mixz-d wine. Look thum not upon the wine when it is red. when it maveth itself aright in the cup At the last it biteth like a ser pent and stinget b like an add:-r." - Do you know what you are doing?" said a mo:.her who had broken into a resau:ant, the door locked against her, er son inside. She came up to the counter and saw the man of the restau rant mingling the intoxicating cup for her own son. She said to the man be bind tbe counter, "D. you know what yo ares doing?" "No," sid he, "I don't." Says she, "You are fattening graeyards" I think the most thrilling passage of a young man's life is when he leaves home to make his fortune. The novelty and the romance of the thing may kee p him from any keen sorrow, but the o'ld people who have seen the destruction of so many who started with high hope cannot help but be anxious. As long as he was in his father's house his way wardnss was kindly chided, and al though sometimes he thought ahe re straint ratihor bitter and rather severe in his calmer moments he acknowledged invwas silutary and righteous. Through the irnfluenee of metropolitan friends the father has obtained a positionl for his son in the city. The comrades of the young man come the night before his departure to bid farewell to the ad venturer. The morning of his going away he walks around the place to take a last look at things-perhaps comes upon some object that starts at:, some old familiar place, but no o n sees the tear. The trunk is put upon the wagon, the young man is off for the city. He- is set down amid eXeiLC ments and 'smid associates that are rnot overcareful about their words their thoughts and actions. Morning co:ne:s r'pblt t T:' e .t ""t ? ~ =!a s ove cares whether h^ ^.m. S C..1 u 1 or dos not COnl. O I ' A I fro:n the store he d a nouncinegt a we a::; c: -> v.' ment. lie ha: vu greetin at the doer of the boar iing . . ib. has no ap p 'tite for the f I No one c ;res whether he eats >r d )e; nut eat-rather be would ot- -:t is cheaper' A fter the tea he goes into the parlor, tages up a book, finds it dull, no sister to io.k over it with him. Goes up stains to his room in the third story, finds it cold and uninviting, and in despair he rushes out, caring for nothing but to get something to make hi.n stop think ing. He is caught in the first whirl of sin. He ha= started out on the dark sea where the gleam of the j y is the fishing of the pit a-d the Laughter is the creaking of the gate of the lost. On, how many graves in the country churchyard which, if they could speak, would tell of young man who went off with high hopes and came back blastei and crushed to disgrace the sepulcher of their fathers! And yet this exodus must go on. As from distant hills the rivers are poured down through tunnels to slake the thirst of our great cities, so from distant country places the streams of incorrapt population must pour down to purify our great cities. To morrow morning on all the therougt fare, in every steamboat and in evary rilway car will be young men going f>rth to seek their fortunes in our great towns. 0 L rd God of D niel, help them to be as faithful in Babylon as they were in J.erusailem! Forget not, 0 my young friend, in the great seaports the moral and religious principles inculcated by parental solicitade, and if todiy seated in the house of Gad you feei the ad vantage of early Christian culture for get not those to whom you are most iudebted aid pray God that as old age comiis upon them and the sbad;w of death, the hipe of heaven may beam through th' darkness. Gy)d forbid that any of us throagh our misc >nduOL should tring disrra:e upon a father's name or prove recreant to) the love of a 1:thcr. Tue dreamtist mike n ex ameration when he exclaimed, "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankiess child!' 0, that God would help you as parents and as young people to take to hears the les seas of th" imoort.ant subjee, any if we shall seara that th?ere is daeger of being o.rrit.d in o ca-iti.y, and that early im:,7ereionsa:C Albt inff -ce able, a::d that titer- is som-thing beau tiful in Christian sobriety, and that there is great attrtetiveness in piety away from hom;-then it will be to you and to me a matter of everlasting congratulation that we considered how Daniel behaved when he became a col lege student at Babylon. A GREAT LOS. Texas Crops Damaged Five Million Dallar by Storm. The s.atistician of the department of aerieu1:ure has comleted his inv:s ti ation of the aaricaltural situation in those counties in Texas which were visited b-y the We-it India hurricane of Septemer 8 R.eports have been re ceived from the department's corres pondents and from many other promin ent citizens identjiid vwith the agricul tural ani e~rmmrci interests of su:herni Te-xi. The special agents have personaliy visited the storm swept region and carefully investigated the exstinlg situa ion. Mluch valuabl~e as sistance has been rendered the depart ment by the census off1 ie in dett r uia lg the acreage of crops prior to the storm. Tne area under cotton in the coun ties which seriou, damage resulted fro~m the st-rm was ap, r.>xi nately 1 300.000 acres with a protoise on Septemu-r 1 of a cre p of ahkut 640,000 bales The re duet on of tle er-sp is estinnted at e:out 63,000 ba:es or 10) 6 pcr cent. oi a ba--is of $50 per bale tbe amount destroyed wouid represent a value <,f $3,400000 Tearea under carn is estimated at about 925 000 acres with an estimated production of 17,500.000 3usnlels This los, to the crop is estimated at about a million bushels or 5 7 per cent., rep reenting a valae of about $500,000 The loss of rise is esoim sted at 73, 000 barrels of four bushels each. rep resenting a value of about $219,000 Of pecans, there is an estimated loss of 2,500, 000 pounds vralued at $100.000. Three thousand trees valued at $75,000 are reported destroyed. The loss of farm animals is estim-ated at 300 horses, 150 mules, 20,000 cattle, 2.8u0 sheep a?d 900 swine. lepresenting a total value of about $190,000 The loss of sugaroane. sorgbun and other minor crops has not been aseer taned with suffi ient dj'fi:aitene.n to warrant the publication of an es.uwove Ex-.lusiv;e of the dama se to~ fa n pre) ducts, machier., ete , the tojtal ins is~ etnated at $5 000) 00P. It should be :tated that all the ecu i* ties visited by the stor-n wre ine~uaed in the crop report issued October 10. THE INDIAN FAMINE. The Viceroy's Report Shows the Ter rible Extent of Piague. The Vieeroy of India, L vi Curson in a speech Frida7, saidI the famine had affced a quirter of the population of nda and that even now t so millicos of people were receiriog relie f. Hc c x presd the hope, ho.vvr, that in a month these would return to their homes. His lordship further saidi that hilf a million deaths were traceable to the famine and that the loss of the erop.; involved the loss of fifty miilions sterng, pius some millions for tite los o: eatue. It wil never be kno~vn how rany were affected by the calamity aL'ong the hill people and waode~ing tribes, while the aims distributed were unprecedented. At the end of Augast 854 lakhs of rupees ($42 500 000) bad been experded and the govern ment further expected to spend 150 lakhs ($7,500 000) up to March next Besides this, 258 lakhs ($11,900,000) of land toxs had been ad vaned to cultivators, many ]akhs of land taxes had been remitted, 34 crores (35,000,000 rupces) ba-d been ient to the native States, and nearly a million s.erling had been centributed by p:-iv ate charity. The viceroy complimsnted the relief committees, alluding to mauy instances of native chivalry and devotion and to Baglish military and civil servants dy ing at their posts. He said the cotton rop was worth 13 000,000 pounds sterl in on the ground... Alluding to the shocking mortahity in the native States, Lord Curson said that, broadlyv spaaking, no relief sys temn in the world culd counteract the efects of re-duedi fod the cessation of wages, high pri es and the breaking up of the hiomes of millions, or prevent EXPECTS TO WI Br yar 8-Iieves That He Wi i C rry This Electior'. NEVER TOO TIRED TO SPEAK. DescripAon of His Special Car, Hi; Daily Life, Wardrobe, D'et, Cmpaions and Habits Mr. Bryan thinks he will be the next president. lie has perfect faith in him self and his theories. H1 knows he is fighting his last battle. If he does not win this time he never will attain his ambition. H-e realizas that his person ality has more to do with the result than any other factor in the campaign, and his plan is to get in personal touch with as many people as possible and make them friends. le is never too tired t, make a speech. He never keeps the people waiting. When his train gets into a town Bryan is on the back platform, and he insis:s thvit the local chairman shall waste no time in intred icting him. A few words is all he will permit Then he does the rest of the talking himself. His hand never aches too much to keep him from shaking hands with every one who can get near him He submits to the rudest prattling with a s nile aod laughs when the people shonts, "H di1o, B ily! 'an i "H )w le do Bl:!' H, is campaighing for thi pe ple and the people can have their way. MR BRYAN S SPECIAL CAR Nr. Bryan's friends prevalied on him to take a patvate car f-r the last great s ing 'r...uad the eircle he is now mak in.. I protested, but they prevailtd Tie7 told him he was killing himself with work, and he owed it to his p &rty and bime!f to make himself as com fortable as possible. So three weeks ago the co-nbination dini g .and sleep ing car "Rambler" was sent to Siour City, [a , aani B:yan and his party went into it to stay untii election day. The ' Raubtler' is the ordinary type of the Paulan combiaa:ios car. It has a kitchen at cne end, and then a living room into which at night eight berths can be let down, From the dining ro.;m a narrow hallway leads to the observa tion room at the rear and the wide rear platform. Mr. Bryan's stateroom is the fi-st off the hall from the dinning room. it has a wide bed, that is always down, and a little table. There is one camp stool in the room. If there are tvo visitors one of them has to sit on the bed. B-yan always sits there. There is a little toilet roo-u and a closet, where Bryan keeps a small steamer trunk, and next is an other compartment, where his tere tary, Rebr: E. Rose, a Western news paper man and brother of Mayer D)avid ti .s, of 3ilwaukee, has his ts pewr~t r S 3rct.ary I ise and Mr. Bryais per sonal re presenta ivp, National 'omnmit teeman James C. Dabhluan of Nebraka sleep a their ro 1m Taen there are a csupie of Iockers. andi that, besides teie observ'ion-room at the rear of the ear, where there arc several ea-y chairs and a Icuorge, is all. Dahlman is an old friend of B-yan's. He is a smal wiry. smooth-shaven. keen-lookieg man, who sa-2ds between B 'yaa and the ou s'de The newspaper correspondents u te the ining room fir a working reoom and sleep there at night. HSIS DEMOCRAtTIC MANNER A side from B 'Sen, D.Lhltnan and R wse and the newspaper m mn, the only other persons on the C .r are the negro cook. porter and waiter. Bryan is very fond of these three men, who are the pick of the Pullmau employees. The other day the special train was stopped out ii thle country in Odio to let a p.hotographer get a group picture of the pirty f >r the party's own use. The people were posed atogs'de ot the car. J:ust as the pio toraoher was about to make his ex posure Bryan sh'.uted: "Here! wait a minute. Where is the cook?'' A id he insisted that the cook, the ps~rter aud the waites should be in the picture. Bryas is a good travelling c~rnpa nion. E-s me-s -notic !ablW habit is his u'.iver sal good humor. He never seems to b ut of sorts. Som :times he is tired and looks it, but he is always pleasant. T'be :.ate and local committees, thinking nly of their own advantage, work him unesingly. They stop the train at places not on the schedule and ray. "Just a f-sw words here, Mr. B 2. a r ' Came out on theC platfor here, Mr Bran;" and he never ri fe?es Oae day's life on the Ramebler is much ike another. Trae speakotg always be in; early, generally at 7 o'clook, and bfore that ume ever, body'mst be up B yan goes to be~d as sion ai possib e a.er his evening speeccai and never has to be called. He has a suit o-f gray :aa'-:d cloth he uses for day meetin~gs, ad he jump's into that in aT: instant his samer~ are all of medl:a; cloth, mnst f them blu2 striped aod all with soft osoms. He wears turn down c..iars ad sm-all s:ring ties. Bryan has a small, well-shaped foot for so large a man, and has several pairs of fie calf shoes wit3 him Shoes seem to b y his uly exti .vagance, so far as apparel g ~s H ts stateroom looks like the sho~w window of a haberdashery st-ore. for he wears many shirts in a day and has then 1.ung around the rooa' on lines strch-:d along the walls. Usuall tho first speech come3 before breakfast. Mr. Bryan always goes out to tha kitchen and drinks a cup of cof fee Then he steps o'at on the platform and talk fi ,e, ten, fifteen or twenty minutes as the case may be After that ome.s brakfast. B:yan has a s~at at the hea-i of the table. I there are any gueuLs they sit t-r. to him If nlot the party consists of the candidate, Dth! man and Rose and the correspondents Te man at the foot of the tables serves Bryan talks with everybody about everything, somestimes about politice. but generally not. EATS MCH-iJRINES NONE. The people who wonder how he can stand the great strain he is under should see him eat. That is the secret of it. He has the appetite of a growing boy. The man who serves sometimes asks the others what they will have, for there is always a choice of meats. but he never asks Bryan. He takes a liberal po-;tion of everything there is ad generally comes back for more. Bryan likes coffee and drinks it at every meal. He also likes milk and drinks that sometimes. He never drinks any liquor or beer and does not smoke. He does not try to force his ideas on others, however, and sits for a fe,, minutes after the cigars are lighted. More likely than not the train stops in the middle of crowd of yelling en tuiasts while breakfast is on. Bryan does not stop to finish his ceffee or his eyg. "Here we are," he says, and sprnt for th re ar platform and makesa MN sapoi. - Thin he cui' E anish'ze hi: mneal. I i the a-nc A! luxnch~eci, b~ut dinn er is always so pian ted as to give 1--. - P aa time to est in cmufort. rTC.NIIxG 7 Is 'AIL. Grea burches c#f letters are .anded on the train at each stop almost. Bryan li s on is hack on his bed, reads them ani dietaes the ajs vers to tLe secre tary, who ' ches on the edge of the bed and uses his knee for a desk. When B:yan gets a telegram be reads it and puts it in his trousers pocket. Some times the pocket bulges with thirty or forty m'esages. Bryin spends most of his time in his slateroom. Two or three times a day he comes Olt into the newspaper men's room and talks with them or comments on some featurcs of the day. He sees the local dignitaries in his stateroom, but he is alone for a god many half hours. Those on the train know he needs all the rest he can get and keep away, and the others have to. He reads every newspaper that comes on the car, and is as thronghly in terested in the news of the day as in the political nevs. A favorite habit of his is to bring a nosnpaper o the table and comment on the news as he reads it aloud. Yesterday he had a copy of Friday's World at the dinner table. He laughed at an item and then said: 'Here's a story about a hen laying a glass egg I suppose the Republicans will claim that is a Democrtie scheme to break the Glass Trust." After Bryan makes a long speech he takes off all his clothes and is rubbed down. Then he grabs ano:hcr suit of und rwear and another blue strive i shirt and is ready for the fray again His speeches ar, nece sarily ou the same topics every day, but with an e-e keen tai the advantag-s of pub'icity, he seizes on anything new that there may le and uses it in such a way as to in .erest the newspap.rs. Bryan never ha= any d:ffi :ulty in making himself heird. no mat'er how hig the crowd is. He can talk to 40, 001) "r to 500. and there does not seem to be an eff.rt about it. He is a mar velo:is judge of distauce. an-l uses only enotzh voice for his crowd. His constant outdoor work has made hin brown a. a ber. His h %nds are tann.>d like a sail' r's'. They are gen erally scratcbed on the back also, for the thouar ds that grab at him some times have long finger-nails. The gray sack suit does business through the day. At night, however, Mr. Bryan sometimes puts on a black cutaway coat and gray trousers. and wears a white shirt. He has a silk hat with him, but generally wears his bla;k Fedora He does not take any chances with coli, but wears his overcoat when ever he is driven fr -m the car to a stand. GETS A HAIR CUT. Mr. B-5 an's beard is b'ack and heavy. Generally he shaves himself with a safety raz)r. but some days the shave is neglected, eppe cially if there are mary ,pec.e; to be made His hair has been pr,:tty long for a couple of Svee , 6 d at various places along the iine irrev.;at 3oungsters have advised him to get it cu*. He took their advice yestcrday. Byan's only disiti:,n is peanuts. H-1 eats themr whenever he can get hem. At night befo>re he goes to sleep he has t wo suices of unb-attered bread and a glw of uiik. Th map~e'ie personality of the man isnweemore apoarent than in the ihmbler. Even the autocratie omok ad m'ts "He's a mighty fine gemman, Mr, Br:yan is; 'deed he is." He is whole souled, j .lly, cons-derate and demo cratic. .every man who has been in his campany for any length of time comes away saying "Bryan's a good fellow'." Politier aside, that's it.-New York World Kerely an Incident. What a revelation to the readers of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" it would have been to have wi nos:-d a httie occur ren.~e at a mon~eutou-, gathering in an old Southern home on Blanding street last Wednesday morning. The occasion wast a weddt;g~-a bappy, jiyful home wedding-the incident was wbon jist before leavine the l'o-ise for the train, the handsome, yonthful 'bride slipped away from all the ga:hr og of merry j oy'us sa m .athetic friends antd so'ught uoi of the btack parlors where were otehered the old family s.:rva~nts Some of themn had held her in their faithful old ar os, and guided her baby steps, sotothed ther little troubles, as only a sout bern chi'd's black matxjma could ?ende'd her so faithfutly, loved ter so fondly and now as she stands on the .hreshold of her new life th~rr faithful o&d hearts are glad for her happiness, and no more fervent good wishes are spoken than is expre-s c in their '-God bless you honey." ' tiod watch over my baby always " "May de gui Lawd keep ho'd o1u nvur hand honey, for d:2 sud ola mis y mni miss; sake, an-i hole it ti.~ht nos dr- old mammna can't reach it no) mi." Who wodu' cr.&ve a richer. sweettr ble~sing. what mrnie .was needed to crovva the happiness of this wedding day' So with words of warm appre cisti in and a band sha~ko f',r each one tiis S 'utherrn bride wi:1 always have en: < f th.: wartzzest places in the re uembranccs <f her girl life.-Colum bia State. Hester's Weekiy Statement. Secretary Hester's Weekly New Or lhans Cotton Extchange s atement is: T'oday shows an inereaso in the move ment into sig:u. comnpared with the s,ven days euding this date last year i'i round figures of 94 0110. For the 19 -days of October the totals show an increase over last year of 210 The 49 days of the season that have ela:sed, the aggregate is a'head of the 49 days of last year1.000. TIhe amount broegh: into sight du-Ing the past wet k has been 495,53, against 401 737 for tae last seven days ending October 19, last year. The mement since September 1 shows receipts at ali United States ports 1,600,393, against 1,492 363 last year; to Northern mills and Canada, 106.241, against 191 761 !aet year. Southern mills takings2i9S05, against 223.653 last year. Foreign exports for the week have been 263.188, against 199,229 last year. Northern mill takings and Canada during the past seven days show a de crease of 42,401, as ecompared with last year. Tot'ai taking of American mills, north and south and Canada thus far for the season have been 384,647, against 524,958 last year. A Tramp Lynched Frank Hardeman, a tramp negro, was lynched at Wellston Ga., early Wed nesdsy morning for assaulting Mrs. B. H. Peirson, the wife of a Baptist preacher. The woman and three small children were in the room at the time and raised an alarm. The negro burikd himself in a cotton patch but was found and lynched. His body was hung by the side of the railroad in view of BISHOP IRELAND Gives Out IntuEvji w Calculated to Make Votes for McKinley. THE VIEWS OF THE POPE Will Have Weight in American Elec tion. Anxious for Us to Pro tect Church Property in Philippines Archbishop Ireland, in conversation in New York Friday touching the senti ment at Rome towards the Catholic church in the Philippines and in Cuba, remarked that he felt quite willing to repeat what was recently said to him in Rome on this subject. He said he did so the .more readily because the eminent personages with whom he had the honor of conversing on the matter showed themselves to be in no way unwilling to have the statements made by them become pub lic. The archbishop said: "In one of the audiences which he graciously granted me, the pope said: 'We are well pleased with the rela tions of the American government to the church in Cuba and in the Philip pines. The American governmE nt gives proof of good will anu Exhibits in its acts a spirit of j istice and of respect for the liberty and rights of the ohurih. The re'presentitions to b-sips and others indiwate un-s. Dfiou sties of detail occur as a conseuence of war and of newness of compiexions. But we understani such tL:ags. We have confidence in the irtelligerce and the spirit of justi.e of the American gov ernment and people ard believe that the future will not lead us to change the sentimeAts towards it. Uder the American government there will be due respects for rights of property and of conscience. You will thank in my name the peesident of the republic for what is being done.' The cardinal secretary of State, Rampolla, on my telling him of my conversation with the pope, said that the statements made to me by the pope were such as he, from his own personal knowledge and belief, was ready to repeat, and that I was at lib erty to make them known to the Ameri can people at large. The cardinal said furthermore that on no less than three different occasions petitions were sent to the vatican, in the name of Philip pine leaders, to have opened between them and the vatican direct official re lations. but that the vatican always re fused to listen to such petitions out of consideration for the American govern mCAt. "The church, said the cardinal needs in Cuba and the Philippines the co operation of the American government for its rights and liberties, as indeed the American government needs the cooperation of the church for the pai fiction of these countries." "Cardinal Gotti, before his elevation to the cardinalate, had been suj.erior general of the Carmelite monks and had established in Cuba antecedently to the American oecupation. three houses of the order. He said to me: 'I received a few days ago letteri from the several Carmelite houses in Cuba. The fa-.bers tell me that they enjoy, un der the present administration of the island, full liberty ; that they have un distur bed posseesion of all their proper ties, and that they were nev,.r in bet ter position to labor for the progress of religion and the salvation of souls.' [bhe authorities of R-ome," added archbishrop Ireland, "are informed to a degree that both astonished and pleas ed me about matters rel'gious and po litical in the Pilippines and in Cuba; and as they have the interest ofthe church in those countries most deeply at hsart, and know far better than we in An.erica could know what the rights of the church are and how best such rights may be defended, Americans, Catholics and others, may safely accept their judgment of things and riot give themselves further and needless trou ble about the religious conditions of he Pnilippines or of Cuba. Ai a plain matter of fact, the only safety which. the Catholic church at the pres ent time has in the Philippines for the possession of het properties and for the lives of her priests, is the pro teouion afforded by the American flag. and all this is fully understood and i eccgnized in Rome." 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 cur, all terribie Blood Diseases. Persisten, Sores, Blood and Skin Blemishes, Srofuila, that resist other treatments, are quickly cured by B. B. B. (Botanit Blood Balm). Skihi Eruptions, Pim ples, Red, Itching Eczema, Scales, Blisters, Boils, Carb uncles, Blotches, Catarrn, Rheumatism, ete., are all due to bad blood, and hence easily cured by B. B. B. Blood Poison producing Eating Sores, Eruptions, Swollen glands, Sore Throat etc., cured by B. B B. (Botanic Blood Balm), in one to five months. B. B. B. does not con tain vegetable or mineral poison. One bottle will test it in an ease. For sale by druggists everywhere. Large bottles S1, six for five $5. Write for free samiplebottle, which will be sent, prepaid to Times readers, describe simptomns and personal free medicaf advice will be given. Address Blood Balm Co., Atlanta, Ga. A Cuban Tragedy. A dispatch from Havana says Maj. Petr-on, the chief conmmissary of Cuba, die.i Tnursday of yellow fever. Mrs. Pterson, his wife, wh->arrived at Hav ana iss: Mboinday from Cit cinnati to nurse him, shot hersa1t in the head wi.h a revolver one hour alter majr-s death and died instantly. The remains of Maj. Peterson and his wife were interred this afternoon with military honors. The flags at El More and on the public buildings were at haf past. The tragic ocurrence has greatly deprs s-'ed the whole military community in Havana. Were Rescued. A cable dispatch was received from Gen MacArthur today giving the casualties of Capt. Shield's command in the is land of Marinduque. Capt. Shields and his men were captured by the in surgents and afterwards rescued by Gen. Hare's troops. The total casual ties of the party appears to have been four killed and six wended. Among the latter is Capt. Shielde himself, who was seriouisly wounded in the nek, m~tuth and shoulder. Why She Kicked. A Georgia woman sued for divorec from her husband because he insisted on her reading some verses in the Bi ABSOLUTELY I Makes the food more de ROYAL BAKING POW REPUBLICAN BLUFFERS. Bryan Supporters Fail to Get Them to Put Up New York Democrats willing to back their political opinions with their money are beginning to tire of the chase after Republicans whose confi dence, according to National Commit- ! tee press agents, is such that they will lay enormous odds on the success of I McKinley. They have searched for these liberal layers at home and abroad, and the result has been uniformly the' same. Everywhere there appears to be 1 a vocal willingness, but the money is not forthcoming. Comes a rumor from' Wall Street that Blank, of Blank and Dash, is of fering 4 to 1 and 5 to 1 that McKinley will carry the country. "Just left" "or all" taken is the word when D.mocratie money appears, bat next day in the Republican pap, rs appears a record of a bet, coupled with a statement the a-nount of the bet could not be asocrtaineo, but it is sup posed-to run into theuwands." According to men who bet from judgement on the elections, 2 1 2 to 1 on McKinley i-4 the top betting, and very little big money is being offered at tho=e odds. Not more than $1,000 was actually wagered on Saturday, and that was at the office of Bell & Co. "There are other bets," said a book maker yesterday, "and the odds an, nounced may reach as high as 3 to 1, but those bets are not looked on ser iously. They are regarded as in the nature of complimentary bets for the purpose of influencing opinion. That is as much a part of the work of the Republican Committee as anything else now. They have an enormous fund, as every one knows, and by an nouncing these bets they hope to do good. As a matter of fact, I have not heard of any sum of money, large or small, offered by a bona fled bettor at odds of 2 } to 1 or bettor which has not been taken. The Republicans have announced that the shortest prices they give is 2 1 to 1, but at that we see no money jn bight." As an example of the hesitancy of Republican bettors on last night at the -Hoffman House a Republican announc ed that he had $10,000 to bet on Mc Kinley at 21 to 1, Finley Peter Dunne, author of the "Dooley stories." heard him. "I will take a thousand of that," re ma-ked Mr. Dunne quickly. -Very well," answered the first speaker; "I will see my principal." "Suppose we put up a hundred as a forfeit?" suggested Mr. Dunne. "Um-a no," was the hesitating an swer. "I don't see why I should put up a hundred." Then with a burst of frankness, "How do I know I can get the $10,000?" LEFT BY FRANKLIN. Bequest Whi1-h Boston Will Spend in Building a Public Hall. The Franklin fund. which now amounts to about g400.00, and which represents, with interest, the result of a bequest of ?1.000 which was left to the city of Boston by Benjamin Frank lin in 1791, is to be expended. The full, vote of the Aldermen is needed as vet, but a plan has been broached and ac cepted by the subcommittee to use one half of the sum for the erection of a public building which shall have a hall to be used as a public forum. The other half of the fund Is to be spend for the extension of Mayor Quincy's bath and gymnasium schemes. The public building is to be kno as the Franklin Building, and it wilt be built in the south end. It is planne~ to hat-e various meeting rooms in it and to carry on courses of lectures 0 trade subjects. The original idea of the fund as left by Dr. Franklin was for the erection of a trade school. When this proposition was advanced by the committee two years ago all the labor bodies protested, and the Ala dermen were forced to retreat, havin# gone so far as to secure a plot of land for the building. The trades union men objected to boys receiving instruci tion at trades -unless under their direct tuition. as apprentices.-Exchange. Used His Brains. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroil Company a few days ago sent a brake man, as a gift, a check for $50. "for. using his brains." as one of the officials expressed it. A freight train while coming down the grade between Cran berry Summit and Rowlesburg stopped very suddenly, making a horrible rack et. The brakeman, who was on the front of the train, knew something was wrong, and, realizing that the we.'t bound Chicago express No. 7 was about to pass. withot~t investigating the trouble he rushed ahead and flagged No. 7. Had he gone back to investigate it would have been too late and No. 7 would have dashej into tour or five derailed cars and turmbled over into t'ae river. For his good judgment the cori pany made him a present of $50. ar'd has posted a bullet~n so that those. "who run may read.'' Morsel of Land for $5,000. A triangular slip rf land, containh..g about 10 sqluare feet, in the Wall street district in New York, was sold the oth er day for $5,000. or more than $.300 a square foot. The morsel of real estate about as large as an ordinary kitchen table, if it were square, has been in dis pute between the Stock Exchange~ Building Committee and the Commer cial Cable Company for years. The dificulty was settled by the cable com pany buying It of the Stock Exchange people. Still a Democrat. Regarding the statement made in a recent speech by Gov. Rooseyelt that he was glad to see such men as Gen. Wheeler supporting President Mc Kinley in the present campaign, Gen. Wheeler said Friday:. Gov. Roosevelt is honestly mis taken. He made the stanemnent on the strength of a publication malie by a man in a New Yore district unfriendj to me, that I had deliver a Republican specch at Florence. In cangress there is only one member who has so lcng and so consistentlyas I have su'pp:orted the Democratic masures. There is no need for me to deny these statemen ts. The people of Alabama do rot doubtI my fealty to the Democratic party." | Can't Become a Citizen. A New Jersey .iudge has drawn the color line again and has refused natur alization papers to a foreign-born negro because. under the Fedrrai statutes, only "white males" can become cit IDAKINO POWDER "RE licious and wholesome DER CO., NEW YORK. ART OF SNAKE CHARINING. Feats Which Are Nothing But Tricks of the Trade. A few days ago there appeared in one of the daily papers a wonderful story bf a snake which was dharmed by the strains of a jews-harp. The story was to the effect that a countryman meet ing a dangerous reptile in the road, was horrified at seeing the creature prepare to attack him. Being an en thusiastic performer on the jew's harp he immediately struck up the tune. "St. Patrick's Day in the Morn ing," which either paralyzed the ser pent or sent series of sentimental chills down its undulating vertebrae. At any rate it discarded all hostile inten tions and became motionless, when the countryman mercilessly ground its head in the dust. This is an example of the many "snake stories" which appear constant ly before the eyes of credulous human ity. It originates, like all of its kind. from superstitious sources. Snakes are utterly devoid of any sense of ap preciation' of music. They have no ears, and although they may distin guish vibration of heavy sounds upon their heavy scales, a voracious, hungry serpent is entirely ignorant of the presence of the chirping bird, provid ing it does not see or scent its prey. The familiar exhibitions of the East Indian fakirs, during which the deadly cobra is made to "dance" to the music of a flute, have led many to be lieve that these creatures are extreme ly sensitive to the sound of music. But exhibitions of this character are only tricks practiced by the clever Hindoo, and the cobra, instead of being in a quiescent, charmed condition as It waves its body to and fro, is really, in a fit of intense anger. Not long ago a large cobra was in the possession of Dr. Joseph C. Thomp son, of the United States navy. This reptile was purchased by Dr. Thomp son in South Africa. It was then In possession of some professional snake charmers. After it had left their hands it was made to go through a lively performance without the accompani ment of the wierd music of the fakir. The operation of making the cobra dance is very simple. The reptile has the characteristic habit of elevating the forward part of the body from the ground when annoyed, spreading Its neck or hood and glaring fiercely at the object of its anger. When in this po sition it keen eyes watch eagerly for a chance to deliver a deadly blow, ob serving every movement of the object or person in front of it. If one mov es, no matter how slightly, there is a corresponding nervous movement on the part of the snake. Here the entire secret of the snake dance is explained. When the Hindoo opens the snake bas ket the cobra rises ominously to their peculiar position of defense. He now commanos the snakes to dance, at the same time beginning a lively tune up on his flute, and swaying his body from side to side in time to the music. The nervous cobras follow the- motion of the supposed charmer. They are not dancing to the music, but, intensely an gered. are seeking to revenge them selves upon their human captor. The snake charming act of the be spangled female with the giant boas and pythons at the circus, Is even more simple, says the New York Times. The large snakes used in these exhibitions are in the first place of a harmless nature. Secondly, they are most in offensive in their habits. The lazy boa will lie for hours or days motion less in its cage, when suddenly awak ened from a long nap is utterly indif ferent to what is going on around it. After a few weeks in captivity these huge reptiles become very tame,. and seem to enjoy being handled with one familiar with their movements. The chief requisites of a "snake chamber" are great deliberation and sufficient nerve to handle a 10-foot boa, or ana conda without the slightest hesita tion. A nervous movement is apt to annoy the snake and cause it to bite, while if treated gently and handled with movements corresponding to its sluggist habits, It evinces the utmost good nature. Accounts have been published of large snakes coiling thiemselves around the object of their annoyance and dem~ onstrating in .an exceedingly uncom fortable, if not dangerous manner the power of their scaly bodies. This characteristic is popularly supposed to be commonly resorted to by the "boa constrictor." but the idea is purely er roneous and originates from an aver sion to the serpent race from which have sprung innumerable fallacIes and superstitions. Dog-Tight Gates. According to a recent decision of a Prussian court. the railroads in that country must have dog-tight crossing gates, or stand liable for any canine. injuries resulting from a failure to do so. Some time ago, while the gates were closed at a railroad crossing in Munster, an aristocratic hunting-dog, In the active pursuit of his vocation, eluded the obstacle and struck the track at that point simultaneously with an express train. The train passed on unscathed says Law Notes, but the dog had to be picked up with a sponge. In a suit by the owner to recover $50 damages for the taking off of his blue blooded pet, the railroad company claimed that it had performed its whole duty in shutting the gates, and that If the dog was so ill-mannered as to climb over or crawl under in the face of such a manifest desire to exclude him, then the blame was with his master. The Court. howee r. held that it was the duty of the railroad to keep the dog of" its tracks, and appointed experts to f.'termine whether the barriers provid ed 'were reasonably calculated to pre vent the passage of unwary dogs. They reported adversely to the defendant, and, after a further reference to ex perts in canine pedigree to determine the value of the deceased, the plain tiff was awarded $60. with Interest from the date of the catastrophe. "Why, darling." exclaimed the pret ty bride of three weeks as she rushed to embrace her husband. "how good it was of you to skip baseball once and come home early! You're just too sweet." And he accepted it all without say ing a word about there being no game. Detroit Free Press. Miss Chaa-That sporting widow who got the brush to-day has been in at the death a good many times. Miss Hunt-Yes, and each of them left her a fortune.-Brooklyn Life. Bryan Gains. The Newport News Herald says the situation has changed somewhat. Po litical si'.ustions, like that of the weath er, often change in a very short while. We know not whether it was the wis dom of Mr. Bryan or that of his advis ers, but that matters not, the fact is that it was wise for Mr. Bryan to in vade Illinois, Indiana and Ohio. His invasion of those States has increased his ohances of election wonderfully and it need not surprise any one if he carries the two former and gives Mr. McKinley a gre-.t scare fox his own tate ('nio.