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SP IF t1 C E Dr. Talmage Tells of its B g-ting Effect cn M..rk n . STRONG DENUNCIATION Of These Who W . ship the Golden Calf of Modern Idolatry ar.d Sac'if ca Themselves cn :s Altar. In this discourse Dr. Talmage shows how the spirit of greed destroys when it takes possession of a man and that money got in wrong ways is a curse Text: Exodus, xxxii, 2 And be took the calf which they had made and beint it in the fire, and ground it to powder. a d strewed it upon the water ana maue the children of Israel drink of it." People will have a god of s.,me kind, and they prefer one of their own mak ing. Here come the Israelites, break ing off their golden earrings, the men as well as the women, in those times there was masculine as well as feminine decoration. Where did they get these beautiful gold earrings, coming up as they did from the desert? 05, they borrowed them of the Egyptians when they left Egypt. These earrings a:e piled up into a pyarmid of glittering beauty. "Any more earrngs to bring?' says Aaron. None. Fire is kindled, the earrings are melted and poured into a mold, not of an eagle or a war charger, but of a silly calf. The gold cools down the mold is taken.away, and the idol is set up on its four legs. An altar is built in front of the shining calf. Then the people throw up their arms and gyrate and shriek and dance vigorously and worship. Moses has been six weeks on Mount Sinai, and he comes back and hears the howling and sees the dancing of these golden calf fanatics, and he loses his pa tience, and he takes the two plates of stone en which were written the Ten Commandments and flings them so hard against a rock that they split all to pieces. When a man gets angry, he is apt to break all the Ten Command pents! Moses rushes in, and he takes this calf god and throws it into a hot fire until it is melted all out of shape and then pulve:izes it, not by the modorn appliance of nitromuriatic acid, but by the ancient appliance of niter or by the old fashioned file. He stirs for the people a most nauseating draft. He takes this pulverized golden calf and throws it in the only brook which is accessible, and the people are compelled to dring of that brock or not brink at all. Bat they did not drink all the glitter ing stuff thrown on the surface. Some of it fijws on down the surface of the brook to the river and then flows on down the river to the sea, and the sea takes it up and bears it to the mouth of all the rivers, and when the tides set back the remains of this golden calf are carried up into the Potomac and the Hadeon and the Thames and the Tiber, and men go out, and they skim the glittering surface, and they bring i: ashore, and they mike another golden calf, and California and Australia break off their golden earrings to aug ment the pile, and in the fires of finan cial excitement and struggle all these things are melted together, and while we stand looking and wondering what will come of it, lo, we find that the golden calf of Israeiitish worship has become the golden calf of European and American worship. Pull aside this curtain and you see the golden calf of nAodrn idolatry. It is not, like other idols, made out of stocks or stone, but it has an ear so sen sitive that it can hear the whispers on Wall street, and Thiud street, and State street, and footfalls in the Bank of England, and the flittter of a French man's heart on the Bourse, lt has an eye so keen that it can see the rust on the farm of Michigan wheat and the in sect in the Maryland peach orchard and the trampled grain under the hoof of the Russian war charger. It is so mighty that it swings any way it will the world's shipping. It has its foot on all the merchantmen and the steamers. It started the Amnerican civil war and under God, stopped it, and it decid d the Turke-Russian contest. One brok er in September, 1869, in New York, shouted. "One hundred and sixty for a million!' and the whole continent shivered. The golden calf of the text has, as far as America is concerned, its right front foot in New York, its left front foot in Chicago, its right back foot in Charleston, its left back foot in New Orleans, and it shakes itself the world. 0 2, this is a mighty god-the golden calf of the world's worship. But every god must have its temple, and this golden calf of the text is no exception. Its temple is vaster than St. Paul's cathedral in England, and St. Peter's in Italy, and the Alhambra of the Spaniards, and the Parthenon of the Greeks, and the Taj 31ahal of the Hindoos and all the catnedrals put to gether. Its pillars are grooved and fluted with gold, and its ribbed arches are hovering gold, and its chandeliers are decending gold, and its floors are tessellaten gold, and its vaults are crowded heaps of gold, and its spires and domes are soaring gold, and its organ pipes are resounding gold, an i its pedalsare tramping gold, and its stops pulled out are are fh shing gold, while stand at the head of the temple, as the prasiding deity, are the hoofs and shoulders and eyes and ears and nos trils of the calf of gold. Further, every god must have not only its temple, but its altar of saori flce, and this golden calf of the text is no exception. Its altar is not made out of stone as other altars- but out of, counting room desks and fireproof safes, and it is a broad, a long, a high altar. The victims sacrificed on it are the Swartouts and the Ketchams and the Fisks and 10,000 other people who are slain before this golden calf. What does this god care about the groans and struggles of the victims before it? With cold, metallic eye it looks on and yet lets them suffer. What an altar: What a sacrifice of mind, body and sou!! The p rysical health of a great multitude is lung on to this sacrifical altar. They cannot sleep, and they take chloral and and morphine and intoxicants. Some of them struggle in nightmare of stocks and at 1 o'cleck in the morning sud d:nly rise up, sho'aing, "A thousand a tares of New York Central-0Si u.ke it!" until the whole family is afrighted, and the se ulators fals back< on their pillow and sleep until they are < awakened again by a "corner in he~itie~ Mail or a sudden - rise" ef Rock Llnd Their nerves gone, their eirgestion gone t leic brain gone, they die. The gwn- c Mi ecclesiastic e,>mes in and reads the faneral service, "Blhssed are the dead who die in the Lorc' 2 Mistake. They{ did not "die in the Lord."- The golden alf kicked them!I he v l 3c this altar suggested in :be to. they nont only sacrifice them 1v;, but they saerfice their families. if a naan by a wrong c .urse is deter niA'd to g,> te peruition, Isuppose you Ai:i have to let him g.). But he puts his wife and children in an equipage that is the amaz.ment of the avenues, and the driver lashes the horses into two whirlwinds, and thespokes fbash in the sun, and the golden headgear of the harness gleams until black calamity takes the bits of the horses and stops them and shouts to the luxuriarts of the eqiipage, "Get out!" They got out. They get down. That husband and father flung his family so hard they never got up. There way the mark on them for life-the mark of a split hoof -the death dealing ho. o: the golden calf. t; Solomon cti red in one sacrifice on one occasion 22,00 oxen and 120,000 sheep, but that was a tame sacrifice citulpared with the multitude of men who are sacrificirg themselves on this altar of the golden calf and sacrificing their families with them. The soldiers of General Havelock in India walked literally ankle deep in the blood of "the house of massacre" where 200 white women and children had been slain by the sepoys, but the blood about this ahar of the golden calf flows up to the knee, fi ws up to the girdle, fi> ws up to the shoulder. tl ws up to the lip Great God of heaven and earth, have mercy on those who immolate them selves on this altar! The golden calf has none. Sill the degrading worship goes on, and the devotees kneel and kiss the dust and count their golden beads and cross th.m-elves with the blood of their own sacrifice. The music rolls on under the arches. It is made of clinking sil ver and elinkirg gold and the rattling specie of the b ns and brokers' shops and the voices of all the exchanges The sotirano of the worship is carried by the tin id voices of men who have ju,t begun to speculate, while the deep bass rolls out from those who for ten years have been steeped in the seething caldron. Chorus of voices rejoicing over what they have made; chorus of voices wailing over what they have lost. This temple of which I speak stands open day and night, and there is the glittering god with his four feet on broken hearts. and there is the smoking altar of sacrifice, new victims every moment on it, aid thcie are the kneel ing devotce; and the dox)logy of the worship rols on, while death stands with moldy ard skeleton arm beating time for the chorus-"More, more, more' Some people are very much surprised at the actions of people in the Stock Exchange, New York. Indeed, it is a scene sometimes that paralyzes descrip tion and is beyond the imagination of any one who has never looked. What snapping of finger and thumb and wild gesticulation and raving like hyenas and stamping like buffaloes and swa)ingto and fro and jostling and running one upon another and deafening uiroar, until the president of the exchange strikes with his mallet four or five times, crying, "O.der, order!" and the astoa i,hed spectator g)es out into the fresh air feeling that he has escaped from pan demonium. What does it all mean? I will tell you what it means. The de votees of every heathen temple cut the mselves to pieces and yell and gy rate. This vociferation and gyration of the Stock Exchange is all appropriate. This is the worship of the golden calf. But my text sugests that this wor ship has to be broken up, as the be havior of Mloses on this occasion indi cated. There are vh- who say that this golden calf speken of in the te xt was hollow and merely plated with gold, otherwise Moses could n:,t have carried it. I do not koow that but somehow, perhaps by the assistance of his fr iends, he takes up this golden calf, which is an in'ernal insalt to (i;d and man, and throiws it into the fire and it is melted, arnd then it comes out and is cooled off, and by some c-'emical applicance or by an old fash ioned file it is pulverized, and it is thrown into the brook, and as punish ment the people are compelled to drink the nauseating stuff So you may de pend upon it that God will burn and he will grind to pieces the golden ea'f of modern idolatry, and he will compel the people in their agony to drink it. If not before, it will be so on the last day. 1 knew not where the fire will be gin, whether at the 'Battery" or Loin' bard Street, whether at Shoreditch or West End, but it will be a very hot blaze. All the government securities of the United States and Great Britain will curl up in the first blaze All the money safes and deposit vaults will melt under the first touch. The sea will burn like tinder, and the shipping will be abandoned forever. The melt ing gold in the broker's window will burst through the meltec window glass into the street, but the fiying popula tion will rot stop to scoop it up. The cry of "Fire!' from the mountain will be answered by the cry of "Fire!' in the plain. The confbagration will burn out from the continent toward the sea and then burn in from the sea toward the land. New York and London with one cut of the red scythe of destruction will go down. Twenty-five thousand miles of conflagration! The earth will wran itself round and round in shroud of flame and lie down to perish. What then will become of your golden calf'? Who then so poor as to worship it? Melted or between the upper and the nether nmillstone of falling muntains ground to powder. Dagon down, Moloch down. Juggernaut down, golden calf down! But every day is a day of jadgmnent, ard God is all the time grinding to pees the golden calf. Some years ago in a time of panic we learned as never before that forgeries will not pay, that the watering of stock will not pay, that the spending of $59,000) on country seats and a palatial city resi ence when there are only $30,000 in ome will not pay, that the appropria ion of trust funds to our own private speculation will not pay. We had a reat national tumor in the shape of itttious prosperity. We called it na ional enlargement. Instead of call ng it enlargement we might better ave called it a swelling. It was a umor, and God cut it out, and the na on was sent back to the principles of >ur fathers and grandfathers, when ice ticree made 6 instead of 60 and hen the apples at the bottom of the arrel were just as good as the apples n the top of the barrel and a silk hand' erchief was not half cotton and a man w'ho wore a $5 coat paid for was more onored than a man who woro a $59 coat ot paid for. The modern golden calf, like the ne of the text, is very apt to be made| ut of borrowed gold. These Iseralites i f the tex: borrowed the earrings of| he Eyptians and then melted them ato a god. This is the way the goid n calf is made nowadays. A great any L.ousekeepers not paying for the rtiles they get borrow of the grocer ud the baker and the butcher aud the ry geods seller. Then thc retailers ~orrows of the wholesale dealer.i the capitalist, and we bo-row and bo - row and borrow until the c.-m siunity is divided into two c'am,es, those who borrow and those wh1o art b rr w d of, and after awhile the capitalst wants his money, and he ruhei upon the wh ,esale deal. r, an~d the wholesale dealer wants his money, a:d he ru lvs upon the retailer, and the retailer wants his money, and he rushes on the customcr, and we all go do vn tog-:th-r. There is many a man this day who rides iu a carriage and owes the black smith for the t're and the wheelwright for the wheel and the trimmer f.,r the curtain and the driver for unpaid wwycs a d the harness maker for the bridle and the fu:rier for the r the, while from the tip of the. carriag tongue clear back to the tip of the camel's hair shawl flattering out of the back of the vehiele ev. rthing is paid for by notes that have been three times renewed. I tell you that in this country we shall never gat things right until we stop borrowing and pay as we go. It is this temptation to borrow and bor row and borrow that keeps the people everlastingly praying to the golden calf for help, and j ist at the minute they a x eet the help the gio!d n calf treads on them. The judgements of God, like Moses in the t, x-, will rush in and br, ak up this worship, and I say let the work go on until every man shall learn to speak the truth with his nei.hbor, and those who make en gagements shall feel them elv:s b )und to ke:ep ;them, a.d when a man who will not repent of his business iniq iity, but g.-es on wishing to satiate his can nibal appetite by devouring widow's housts, shall, by the law of the land, be com; e lei to ex:hange the brown stone front for the penitentiary Lit the golden calf perish! But, if we have made this world our god, when we come to die we shall see our idol demolished. How much of this word are you going to take with you into the next? Will you have two pockets-one in each side of your shroud? Will you cushion your ca ket with bonds and mortgages and certifi.ates of stock? Ah, no! The ferryboat that crosses this Jorban takes no baggage-nothing heavier than an immortal spirit. You may, perhaps, take $500 with you two or three miles in the shape of funeral trappings to the cometary, bat you will have to leave them there. it woul i not be safe for you to lie doan there with a gold watch or diamoi.d ring. It would be a tempation to the pillagers. If we have made this world our god, we shall see our idol when we die ground to pieces by our pillow, and we sh-dl have to drink it in batter regrets for the wasted opportunities of a lifetime. Soon we will be gone. Wqere are the men who tried Warren Hastings in Wetminster hal? Where are the pilgrim fathers who put out for A ner ica? Where are the veterans who on the F urth of Ju'y, 1794, n.arched from New Y rk pirk to the Battery and fired a salute anoi then march( d back again? and the Society of the Cincinnati who dine i that afternoon at Tontice coff -e house on Wall street? and G -art- [tobarn, who that afternoon wait(d 15 minutes at the foot of maid en lar.e f r the Brookly a ferryboat, then git in and was row-i across by two n.en wi h oars, the tid :so str:>ng that it was an hour ad te n mieu-es before they landed? Where are the veterans that fi-ed the salute and the men of the Cineisnati s-ociety who thtat afternoon draink to the patriotic toast?and the carsaien that r-rsed the boat? and the paoti~e who were 'rans ported? Gone! 0:5, this is a fleeting world! It is a dying world. A man who bad worshiped it all his days in his dying moment describ~d him.elf waen he said, ' Fool, fool, foo!" I want you to change temples and to give up the worsaip of this unsatis fing and cruel god for the service of the Lord Jesus -Christ. Here is the gold that will -never crumble. Here are the banks that will never break. Here is an altar on which there has been one sacrifice that does for all, for "by one sacrifice hath Christ per fected forever them that are sanotifiel" Here is a God who will comfort you when you are in trouble and soothe you when you are sick and save you when you die. For he has said: "When thou passeth through the wa ters I will be with thee, and through the rivers they shall not ovec fb-w thee; when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned, neither shall the flhme kindle upon thee." When your parents have breathed their last and the old, wrinkled and trembling hands con no mare he put upon your head for a blessing, he will be to you a father and mother both, giving you the defense of one and the comfort of the other. For have we not Paul's blessed hope that as Jeaus died and rose again, "even s them als> which sleep in Jesus shall G,>d bring with him." And when your children go away from you, the sweet darings, you will not kiss them and say goodbye forever. He only wanta to hold them a little while for you He will give them hack to you again, and he will have them all waiting for at the gates of eternal welcome. On, what a God he is! lie will allow you to come so close that you can put your arms around his neck, while he in re sponse will put his arms around your neck, and all the windows of heaven will be hoisted to let the redeemed l~ok out and see the spectacle of a re j icing father and a returned prodigal locked in that glorious embrace Qit worshiping the golden calf and bow this day before him in whose presenes we must all appear when the world has turned to ashes. When shriveling like a parched scroll, The fhaming heavens together roll, When louder yet and yet more dread Swells the high trump that wakes the dead. Shall Not Be Queen. A stormy debate was participated in in the lower house of the Hungarian parliament on the Archduke Ferdin and's renunciation of claimn to the Hung arian throne in behalf of the issue of his morganatic marriage. Francis Kossuth had insisted on the right of ountess Chotek to become queen of Hungry, and the premier, Kloman de Sslle, had declared this was impossible. [mmediately there arose a tremendous ~umlt, with deafening cries of 'She ,ba] be 91ed."L When quiet was re to h.- vn-a er e p -esed the great trespect fur the wife of Archduke Eerdinand, but explained that it was mossib~e to alter the law of succession. 'his explanation, he followed witha trong appeal to the chamber to pass1 he bill cenfirming the renunciation. Gainesville, Ga., Dcc. 8, 1899 Pitts' Antiseptic invigorator ha teen used in my family and I am pter cly satisfied that it is all, and will Lo all, you claim for it. Yours truly, A B. C. D.orsey. P. S.-I am using it now myself. t's doing me good.-Sold by The Mur sy Drug Co., Columbia, 8, C., and all KILLED THE PAY CLERK But ths Assistant Shot Tw> Robbers and Saved Mloney Four I alan miners attempted to rob Pay Chrk Wni. Hosler of the South west Connellsville CeLe company, while making his trip between Piuts bu-g a , a:nd A.verton with the pay ruli i4 te A n-iton and Tarr Work, atijiu iting to $4,000. Mr. Hosler is dead, his companion, Harry Burgess, mnusseng r of the company, is wounded; two of the talian, are dead; a third fa ally woundei and the iourth in jail. Honer and Burgess left this city at I oclok this aiteruoon with the safe contain og the money to pay off the n.en at the Aiverton at.d Tair Werks. As they reached the summit of the long hill above Mlore wo:, j ist below which lies Averton, a large coke town, with out a sceoid warning, the four I a'ians fird a volley from their hiding place and spring forwaid firing as they ad vancea. Mr. Hosier fell dead, at the tist volley. Y Outg Burgess, though wounded, was able to return their fire with effect and one of the numb.r at the horseheado fell dead A second late he fired his revolver in the very face of another, and as he fell his remaining companions became terr.fi.d and leav ing the dead, one se. out with the woanded one over the hill to the south in the direction of the Allice mints Burgess managed to drive on into Aiverton with the body of Mr. Hoeler and the safo, where he gave the alarm Mount Pleasant and vicinity with the clerical for;e of the coke company turn el out 50u stzong headed by Li.:ut, John G. 'hompson, of Compan; E, aid soon curraled the two, who had con cealed thenselves in a fi.ll on the Darstine farm, a mile or so from this town. A summons to surrender was ans wer ed by a volley in which one of the posse received a slight wound on the chest The outlaws, from their forti fid po:ition, made a fierce stand for a few minutes until one of the posse suc ceeded in getting in the rear. He shot one through the head, killing him in stantly. l'he other surrendered and was brought to the office of Sq'iire Rhodes and remanded to jail. In the meantime another divison of the posse overhauled the third would be robber, who had received a ghastly wouud The ball, entering his mouth and penetrating his head, came out at the bask of his neck. He is not ex pected to recover. COMMITS SUICIDE Tragic Death of an Augusta Police man. Sooner than becuie a Linden ti those he loved and should support Poi iceman David Redd sent a bullet crash i g through his brain last Wednesday The cir-umstancts surrounding the death c f this cfficer are not only tragic, but ex remely sad. The act was cow .wtted in the presence of his fond uli m-thcr, who vaely sought to snaeh the ;i,tol fr m his hand while the c:, d n' zLe was against the temple and the ing.:r tre u ed on th e trigger. H r <ff es wre uiiavailing. for before sueC could rcach her son's side and at least divert the aim of the deadly weapon. pressure was applied to the trigg, r, the report resounded through thc hcuae atnd th' son fell back upon his bed. coy eredi with blood, in the thores of death David Redd hal been a memnber of the police force for several years and was consid :red faithful and efficient in every r gard. He was popular with his comraues and er joyed the full confi den ce of his superi.>r (ffieers. Up to two years~ ago the dec.-ased was hale and hearty, but at that time a bad cold was c~nlraetea. and it rapidly developed in to) consumption Mlr. R add steadiiy retrogaded in h'el h and was comnpell ed by reason of h's illness to lose mu-h time. He had ben unable to respond to his duties for three days before his death, although he had gene to the up per barracks fr-im his home, 2,007 Greene street, three times to report for work ard eaich time was so weakened by the walk that bc was unabe to go out with his rquad. This state of affairs had a very depressing effect on the man and a sort of melancholy fixed itself upon him Mr. Redd left his house and wentto the barracks, in the hope that he would be able to go out but again the <xer tion proved too much for him and he had to sit at the barracks and rest. He walked slowly back to his home in West Eod, and on the way complained to several friends of his deplorable c~n dition. Arriving at home he had a long talk with his mother, his wife and little child being in another room. To his mother he complained most bitterly of his aondition and told her th'it he intended killing himself, as he saw no hope for an improvement in his condi tion. He further stated that he did not: wish to become a burden on his wife and. mxther, the ones that he should support and sooner than do so he would blow his brains out. The mother tried to d:ssuade him from such thoughts, but never entertained the idea that he contemplated immediate a0cion. There was a flutter of some sort among the poultry in the yard about this time and he called his mother's atten tion to it. The good old lady went to tha door and looked out. When she returned she was horrified to see her son sitting on the edge of the bed with the pistol muzzle agtinst his right tem ple. She screamed and dashed for ward, but too late. Joincident with her act the finger pressed the trigger and the ball sped on its mission of death, and the fond parent saw her chiid fall over on the bed, his brains oc zing from a cruel woind in the head. Mr. Redd lived about 30 minutes, but was unconscious all the while, The ball had entered the head. jast above the right ear and ploughed its way through the centre of the braio, mnaking its exit j ast over the left ear. Mr. Redd had realized his dangerous condition for scme time and on July 5th joined the church. The deceased was 40 years of age and leaves a wife and child, besides other relatives. Bug Stings Kills A dispatch from Birmingham, Ala, to The A lauta& Journal says: "Thouias S. Boyain, a prominent wholessie pro luce man, died Sunday fow ieptio pneumonia, produced by the bite of a :is~ing or electric light bug. Eight lays ago the bug stung him on the lip ahile he was staniding in the lobby of he Morris hotel. He felt the s:ing, aut raid li:.tle attention to it until a fe w lays ago, when his lip and the entire ide of his face aselled to unusual roportions and festered. He then call d in physicians, but it was too late. [he posion of the bug's bite had pen ~trated his entire system. and he died. 'he remains were taken to Selma, Ala., or interment. He was 35iyears of age, ~nd leaves a widow. He was marred LAST CROP UIMARY. Aa Official Balletin that Will Inter< s: Farmt ra. Tie fi gal balletin f r the seas in on be cord tion of the crop in the cotton belt S. atts ha- j st be n issue:d as f.l lows b; dir e:r Blythe of the New Orleans s tion of tbc erop and climate service of thl United Sit-'s weather bureau: The mean temperature for the week was decided above normal; the least departure was an excess of six degrees and 7 degrees at San Antonio and Cor pus Chribti, respectively, while as all other regilar weather bureau statiors in the c stton belt the exce.s rangtd from 9 to 15 degrees, except at Charles tan, where in was 8 degrees above nor nal. There were few, either regular or special, sia ions of the weather bureau in the cotton belt at which there was not more or less rainfall du ing the' week. At many place; the amount (f precipitation was greater thin the average or the req in ments and at a f-sw it was Exe.::ive. T:' g-eatest total amount reportei w is 7.0' incles at L tke Charles, L i. and 7 inches of it fell bet een 8 p i We inesdy and 7 a m. Thursday. Louisiana-Tae weather was two warm and wet during the past week f:>r the best interest of agricu'turists, except the truck farmers. Cotton picking was interrupted, and that yet in the field was injured to some ext.;nt by the rain'; where not open is roti-g in the. bl;; very little top crop has been made or is exected; correspondents repeut that with few ex ceptions cotton has been ginned and marketed as fast as picked. The threshing of rice was also inter rupted by the frequent and in some places heavy rains, but it is estimated that over half of the crop b:.s reached the mills. All mills in the rice grow ing districts are reported to be run ning to their full capacity. The continued warm weather has kept sugar cane green atd growing. and, alth'ugh grinding is in operation in all sections, the work is not being pushed, mainly for the reason that the yield of sugar per ton it yet below av erage. Tonnage of cane is also re ported to be disappointing on the many plantations. The most of the fall planting has been done, but as a rule planters are waiting for cooler weather to windrow seed for spring plantiDg. The conlition of fall gardens and truck has improved during the week. Texas- Weat her g :nerally favorable for faiming opt r .tions except scatter (d showers retarded cotton picking, but generally good progress has been made except h'rc and there pckers are scarce, crop moetly gathered in lower Brazos bottoms and some other scat tered localities, elsewhere picking one ha1f to three-fou-ths dene, the staple is g, neral y g o,; corn gathering pro 3ressing : l)wy on sc ;oust of all time bing iven to cotton piekin ; wheat do!-g we 1; rice ha;vestiog nearing coim-:ti'n; truck gardens doing well. U 2ah mua lerrit ry-Weatherduring the Peck was genera'y iar in an-i eiaar, f .vnhbi:1 for cotton picking h.i. i. .o. .e. advanced, the yield -.sil ne sotue.auir grater than had been expected, grad. not so good, top crop still openings but yiel-i promises to be light. Ark ansas -Hlea :y rains w. re general on the 22 1 and 26th, local rains on the 27..h and 28 h, retarded cott->n picking to some ex ent, but it has been pushed as rapidly as the weather would permit; piukers scarce in some localities; worms are destroying the top crop in some lo calitten: in othei s it is still making, but the yield will be light and the qua'i:y poor; corn about all gathered, although damaged to some ex e .t tle Sield is generally better th-an expected Mississppi-Cloudy and riiny weath er has limited farming opera:.ions and damasged open cotton, whichs is neaaly all picked, yield very small; rai.1 heavy in northern and western counties; con siderable corn gathered, some damage by m Asture; potato crop good. Alabama-General rains the first two days, heavy to excessive in some places, causing damage to late Cotton, thereafter very fasvorable, practically all cot -on ieke d, though some very late is still ma'.uring; yield light; corn honsed in fair condition, buit yield ligtht; m nor crops satisfactors; s iwirig of wheat and oats continues. Georgia-Weather favorable for sav ing cotton, sowing grain and germina tion of seed in ground; about a!i-the couxon crop has been saved and the staple is generally good, there will be no top crop; a large acerage wiil be sown in wheat, in some fi.:lds wheat is growing nicely. Florida-Warm, with rainfall irregu larly distributed; cotton picking was active; in some sections the crop is about gathered, in other locailties pick ing will con:.inue foi several weeks; cane, 6weet petitoes and vegetables are doing well; oranges are coloring rapidly; some heavy shipments made. South Carolina-Week partly cloudy; warm and heavy rains in plac s, inter farin z with finishing picking, altough scarxly anj e ,ttan is in the fisids, ex cept ic places an immature top crop unlikely to cpan; minor crops im roved and oat see-ding made good progress, but no whbeat was sown. North Carolin --Light rains early in the week, otherwise weather very fine and exceptionally warm for the season; winter wheat and oats growing rapidly; some bolis of cotton still green and im mature, but will not open. Tennessee-Heavy rains first of the week hindered cotton picking and dam. aged the staple, but warm, favorable weather p:omotes top growth and adds materially to yield, crop mostly gath ered and marketed and much below the average in yield; wheat set ding delayed in many se e:ions for fear of fly, early sown coming up and growing well; corn dried rapidly and is mostly housed with light crop. Xtlled by a Fall A dispatch from Spartanburg to The State says Fr day afternoon a colored boy named L islie, aged 14 years, while driving a wagon to which two mules were attached, met with a tragic death near Fair Forset, in this county.- The boy, with his parents, lives on the farm of Mr. John Frey. near Fair. He was hauling up a load of corn. The mules for sonme reason, became fright ened and ran at break neck speed. The boy was thrown from the vehicle and lit head forem.ost in a gully. His skull was crushed and be was instantly killed. Attempted Suicide. Rosslyn H. Fcrrell, who was con ricted of the murder of Express Mes enger Lane, attempted to commit sui ~ide at Mary'sville, Ohio., last week, >y smothering himsalf. He wrapped he bed clothing tightly about his head tnd turned over on his face. When ais p".rpose was discovere1I the guards ~ulled the clothes off, while Ferrell A New Cure For Insomnia. Many people claim that they cannot sleep well at night. Some of them drink too much erff -e. t'nioke too many cigars or t.rm. It t 'eir stomachs at supper, etc , etc. But there is hope for all the sleepletss by a very simple device. Victor Smith says, in the New York Press: I suppsse all of us are suffering from the invasion of electricity. Ny old frk-nd Bunce, who was a victim of insomnia for 40 years, thinks he sleeps now better than any man on earth. He lost his way in the Adriondacks and stayed over night in the cabin of a forester. His sleep wat the sleep of a man just made per fect, and in the morning he found that be had not moved half an inch. It's the insulation,' the forester insisted. 'You city folk are killin' yourselves with contact. If y&u'll break the con tact you'll be able to sleep and get your nerves .back. This matter of contact was finally exolained to mean that our bed posts arc in contact with the fl ors, the floors with the walls and the walls with Mother E irth, so that whatever l ersonal magnetism a man has in him .:ots away in the night time, leaving him like a log on the mattress. The forester had obtained four glass in sulators from telegraph poles some where and screwed them on the posts of his guest bed, so that the electricty could not run away. Bounce, the very day he got home, insulated his bed, and from that moment to the present his insomnnia has been banish ed." A New Surar Cane. Dr Stubbs, director of the United Sttes agaicultural experiment sta tion auhurn Park, L;., who recently announced the discovery of a new sugar caue wnich wound yield thirty 1tr cent more sugar than the product , ow grown in the state of Louisiana, ;s oconident that :t will revolutioaize the sugar in dus ry in that state. lie sass he secur ed a gceially grow in the South and in cresse the sugar output for the acreage already planted in the stato. H: has two planted in the kinds of cane which he considers very valuible. 0We kind jroauces 38 tons per acre, anti its juice yields 16 per cent. of sugar, the old ease produ.es30 to 35 tons ptr acre with a 12 per cent. yield in ;the juice. This was the only cane on -the cxperi ment sta ioa tot blown down in the gr at storm. Oar farmers thruld get sanic of this new cane and give it a trial. FREE BLOOD CURE. An Offer Providing Faith to Sufferers Eating Sores, Tumors, Ulcers, are all curable by B. B. B. 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A few days ago there arrived at San Francisco a ship with a cargo which illustrated some of the beauties of of our imperial istic experiment in the Philip pines. It was the transport Sherman from Manila, and it brought home troops whom we had sent to conquer the Filipi nos. On their arrival at San Francisco they were in tl-e fol lowing condition: Dead, 51; sick, 467; convalescent, 58; in sane, 12. The transport Meade is now on her way across the Pacific with 300 of our soldiers who have been shattered in mind and body by service in the fearful climate of the Philippines. The transport Logan is trailing be hind the Meade with 273 sick soldiers, many of whom will probably be dead before they reach San Francisco. As the Atlanta Journal says "there is nothing to expect but that this ghastly procession from Manila to San Francisco will continue indefinitely and ships bearing back to our shore dead, dying sick and insane men whom we sent forth strong and hearty will pass on the sea ships carrying other men to a like sacrifice. It is stated that 20,000 men should be sent to the Philippines at once. How many of them will come back unim paired? How many of them will never come back? How many of the 70,000 now in the Phillip pines will be sacrificed or r-uined for lif? "It is not strange that the people of the United States are getting very tired of the Phillip pine war with its drain upon the inanhood and the treasure of the country, a war which would have been averted if the administration had been true to the principles and traditions of our~ country and which is be ing waged upon a people whose only crime is that they are fight ing freedom." THERE is one Hall of Fame in which the name of Lee will be enshrined as long as time and memory shall last, and that is the hearts of a people who knew him in the day of prosperity. tried him in the hcur of dark ness andl found in him the gen tleman. the soldhier, the patriot, the Christian. the gr-eatness that makes men grieat, the traits that bring men love. dlevotion. and willingness to die in any cause they might espouse with him as leader-. _________ SENATOR William Lindsay of1 Kentucky, who will retire from 1 ouiblic life next March, has de :ided to join the colony of for ner statesmen who are practic ng law in New York city. Like J. G. Carlisle, he wvent back on ;he people who honored him, mdc hopes to be rewarded for I >eing a Southern renegade by I POWDER AB5LEEY IUE Makes the food more delicious and wholesome ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., NEW YORK. AT THE SHOW. NEWVALUE OF SAGEBRUSH. What Was Heard During a Most Ab The Long-Despised Plant Has Been sorbing Scene. Found to Be Excellent Food Macauley's Theatre was so crowded for Cattle. the last night of the Julia Arthur en gagement that there was no room for One on the developm eofts bl the Fool Killer who came late. Down t in the parquet was a couple in need of try has been the transformation of hi asrqicethyhdbeenad views that has taken place in the pop his services. They had been engagedrelative value. probably twenty hours, and within five Sections of the country, their capabili minutes everybody in their vicinity ties and products, that in the early days knew it. Two young men who think were regarded as wholly worthless, of Miss Arthur the greatest as well as late days have been discovered to be the most beautiful English-speaking among the richest wealth-producing actress were in front of the loving pair. territories to be found anywhere on the Trouble started with the second act, face of the earth. Take, for example, when Miss Arthur swept on the stage that section of country lying between gowned in her Cleopatra costume, a the Missouri river and Denver. Thirty vision of perfect loveliness. The au- five years ago the principal part of dience gasped Its admiration and the what Is now known as the great corn only male creature that had been en- belt ws supposed by the shrewdest gaged since Eden whispered to the cot- and best informed men of affairs to ton-locked damsel beside him: "That's be little better than a vast irreclaim just as you looked last night, Evange- able wilderness, incapable of affording line." sustenance for anything but jackrab Then followed the scene when Jose- bits and prairie dogs. Its chief product phine, with all the seductive power of in those days was sagebrush, which her voice, her beauty, her love and her was thought to be useful for nothing womanliness, coaxes the sulky Napo- but adding fuel to the flames o9 prairie )eon from his room. The house was ores in the fall season, says the Chicago scarcely breathing. The two young Post. worshippers were living on Miss Ar- But that suposed wilderness has thur's pleading. The voice of the girl, turned out to be the garden spot of the who had bitten off more love than she continent, which requires only to be could digest secretly, rasped them t tickled to produce in superabundance earth gain.of food for man and best. It has, In earth again,.atb "Henry," she grated, "that's just at f come the great granary of the I begged you after we quarreled t< world, on which the eyes of civilization ~ are constantly fixed to see what prom Again came comparative peace untilIt has to make. Not Napoleon began to urge theacevunti only so, but it has been discovered that yosephine sinks on a sofa overcome. the despised sagebrush is in itself an Her husband offers her water.come article of great value, through the cul Her usbnd ffes he waer.Shetivation of which the people of the see shrinks from him. "That water i tion which Is Its habitat may be poisoned, Junot. Drink!" thunders the greatly enriched. So clearly and ford emperor, and Junot drains the glass. bly has this been demonstrated that "Would you do that, Evangeline," the department of agriculture at Wash grunted Henry, turning calf's eyes on ington is actually sending out free to her. the agriculturists of the region In ques "I'd do it if I loved him. I'd drink tion packages of sage seed, the cultiva poison for you, Henry," she whimper- tion of which is strongly urged. ed, sentimentally. Recent Investigation has shown that That was past all patience. One of the plant contains highly nutritious the men whirled in his seat. qualities, and is the most desirable for "For heaven's sake, young woman, age that can be found for cattle in win drink it, and drink it quick," he said. ter. Furthermore, it has been found The voice from the stage was heard that cattle are exceedingly fond of It, alone after that.-Louisville Courier- and will eat It when available in pref ;ournal. erence to anything else. Stock fed on It make rapid growth and are said to He Guessed Wrong. be remarkably free from disease be Brown-You seem to be a hustler. cause of the tonic qualities it contains. I saw that life insurance agent go into It cannot be cut and cured as is hay, your house this morning, and in less but where cattle can be allowed to roam than half an hour after him came the at large during the winter months it doctor. affords them most desirable feed. It Smith-Well, what do you gather will grow anywhere. Alkali and non from that? alkali lands are the same to it, and it Brown-Merely that you were in a flourishes alike In dry and wet seasons. great hurry to undergo the physical Seeds and stems are both eaten with examination and have it over with,. eihb l gaigaias Smith-You're wrong. 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