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FO1B GOD'S CHILDREN. A Warm Welcome Awaits Those Who Faithfully Serve Him. Or. Taimage Tells SI'** the ''* Disciple of Christ MaY Expect fa the Next World-R0 ward of Self-Smriloe. (CepyrISt. 1X0. by Louis Klopsch. N. Y.) W'ssington. Jan. 13. In a very novel way Dr. Talmage in this discourre describes what may be expect#A is the next world by those who here bend all their energies nr tae right direction; text. 11 Peter 1, 11: "For so an entrance shall he ministered unto rou Different styles of we:core at the gate of Heaven are here ' We all hope to enter :at siperr.1 capital through the gri:e tea i ready to save even the chief of s ners. But not now-. No man hea thy. of body and mind wants to go now. The man who hurls himself out of this life is either an agncst:c or is demented or finds life insufferab.e and does not care where he lards. This is the best world we ever got got into, and we want to stay here a. long as God will let ut stay. But when the last page of the volume of our earthly liif is ended we want en rollment in Heavenly citizenship. We want to get in easily. We do not want to be challenged at the gate and asked to show cur passports. We do not want the gatekeeper in doubt as to whether we ought to go in at all. We do not want to be kept in the portico of the temple until consulta tion is made as to where we came from and who we are and whether -ts--& care to aema e. i we be a discord in the eternal harmonies c lower the spirit of Heavenly worship. When the apostle Peter in the text addresses the people: "For so an en trance shall be administered. unto you abundantly," he implies that some will find admission into Heaven easy, rapturous and acclamatory. while others will have to squeeze through the gato of Heaven, if they get in at all. They will arrive anx ious and excited and apprehensive and wondering whether It will be "Come!" or "Go!" The Bible speaks of such persons as "scarceiy saved." and in another place as "-saved as by fire." and in another place as escaped "by the skin of the teeth." Carrying out the suggestion of my text, I propose to show you what elasses of Christians will get into Heaven with a hard push and those who will bound in amid salutations aimnite. In the first class I put that man who gets into the kingdom of God at the close of a life all given to worldlless and sin. Years ago he made the resolution that he would serve himself and serve the world t til body, mind and soul were exhaust ed and then, just before going out of this life, would seek God and pre pare to enter Heaven. He carries out his resolution. He genuinely repents the last day or the last hour or the last minute of his life. He takes the last seat in the last car of the last train bound Heavenward. Ilis re leased and immnorta: spirit ascendcs. Not one wing bears down toward him with a welcome. No sign of g'adness at his arrival. None there obligated to him for kirdness cone or alms dis tributed or spirit ual help adminis tered. He will find some place to stay, but I do not envy that man his Heaven. IHo got in. but it was not an abundant entrance. Sometimes in our pupits we give a wrong turn to the story of the dying thief to whom Chtrist said: '"'his day shalt thou be with me in Paradise." We ought to admire the mercy of Christ that pardoned him in the last hour. but do not let us ad mire the dying thief. When he was arrested, I think his pockets were fu:l of stolen coin, and the coat he had on his back wasa not his own. He atol, right on until he was arrested for his crimes. He repented, and through great mercy arose to Para dise, but he was no example to fol low. What a gigantic meanness to devote the wondrous equipment of brain and nerve and muscle and bone with which we are endowed, these miracle, of sight and hearing and speech, to purposes unworthy or pro fane, and then, through hasty repent ance at the last, enter Heaven! Cheating God all one's lifetime and then taking advantage of a bankrupt law and made free of all -abilities. I should think that some men would be ashamed to enter Heaven or would prefer some medium place in the wide universe where the palaces are not so effulgent and the trees bear not more than six instead of twelve man ner of fruits and the social life Is not so exalted. Again, the bigot will not have what my text calls an abundant entrance. He has his bedwarfed opinion as to what all must believe and do In order: to gain celestial residence. He has his creed in one pocket and hIs catechism in another pocket, and it may be a good creed and a goo. catechism, but he uses them as sharp swvo'rds against those who will not accept his theories. You must be baptized in his way or some to him through apostolic succee sion or be foreordaine. of eternity, or you are in an awful way. He shrivels up and shrivels up and becomes more, splenetic until the time of his depar ture is at hand. Hie has enoug~h of the salt of grace to save him, but his, etrance into Heaven will be some thing worth watching. Wh'at do they - want with him in Heaven, where they: have all gone Into eternal eatholicity, one grand comminglirng of Methodists and Baptists and Episcopalians and' Lutherans and Congregationalists and: Presbyterians and a score of other de nominations just as good as any I have mentioned ? They al.1 join in the His Stomach Removed. A rematkable surgical operation was performed several days ago on A'bert flandsdorf, a german, livinr on Cherr; street. Handsorf had been hurt intern ally while at work in a machine shop. At Erlangcr hospital, after long stuiy of the case. Dr. Berlin, with Hlansdorf s cons ont, decided upon heroic m'asures. Tne whole stomach was rcmon d from the man's body, and his entrails wer: put upon a marble table, where they were wo-ked upon. The sargeons dis covered the wrong arnd cut several en trails from the stomach, and, wsshing what was left thorougble. placed it back in the maus bydy. Thepait was then reeto:el in co:sciousnlessHe remaine d ina critic al eon di:i >n for sev eral eats, but is now impr.ovir g and will in all .prbability rtcover -Chatta ntoga Tires Rural Deliverv. The h. u e committee on pastoffice and , ree post rosds practically ecm pleted tbe pstefie appropriation billa The ar-propriat ion f'-r rural tree deliver e is increased from $1.750.00Ot~ a 3 000, 000 The usual prvision for speiial facilities between New York and New Ostea ; is iade. s.1.1s1,I e2~orn., .eoemfpan!.d by harper. ox their harps and trumpet era on their tr;mpets: "Worthy 'a the Lamb that wag slaia to receive biersing and riche a.nd nonor a.nd glory and power!" The bigot ascends rith just enough grace to save him. As he comes up to the shining gate he sees standing inside of it some whom he used to meet every Sunday morning on the street going to some other church of some other denominat'on. and he cries ott: "Are you tnere? I never expected to see yn i i ,ch a glorious place. You were a': wror.g :n your religious :tdories on earth and in your form of chu.rch gt'vernment. how did yo: get i-?' 'saved by grace," is the llenvenly re;Ky. "ted by grace"' 'The bigot is embarrassed and feels for his creed and his cate chism. ard. :o, they were left on the barks of he River Jordan as he passAi ,hrourgc, and he cries cut: -I think I wi:l have to enter on the same tern:s Saved by grace: Saved by grace!" Again, the penurious Christian wil not have an abundant entrance. I'C: haps he was not ccnverted until a:: his habits of tight-fistedness "te-e fixed beyond recovery. The prop:e who arc generous were taught to be generous in childhood. You can tell frcm the way the boy divides the apple what his characteristics for generosity or mean ness wi: he for the next so years, if he lives as" :org. if he eat it a:: himself while others look wistfu::y on, he w:l be a Shylock: if he give half of it to some one who has no arpe, he will be an ordinari:y generous man; if he give three-fourths o. it to another he will be a Baron Eirsch or a George Pea body. For 30 years this man has been prac ticing an economy which prided itself on never passing a pin without picking it up. and if he responded at all in church would pui on the collection plate so ins;nificant a coin that he held his hand over it so that no one could discover the smallness of the denomination. Somewhere in the fif ties or sixties of his life, during a re vival of religion, he became a Chris tian. He is very much changed in most respects, but his al.-absorbing ac quisitiveness still influences him. To extract from him a gift for an orphan age or a church or a poor woman who has just been burned out is an achieve ment. You and I know very good men, their Christian character beyond dis pute, and yet they are pronounced by all as penurious, and they know it themselves and pray against it. We all have our bad habits, and yet expect to get to Heaven, and this skinflint has his mighty temptation. The passion of avarice well illustrated Its strength when in one of the houses of exhur-cd Pompeii was found the skeleton of a man who was trying to escape with 60 coins and a silver saucepan. For tho. valuables he dared the ashes and scoria of Vesuvius which overwhelmed him, and many a good man has been held mightily by avarice. But that brings me to the other thought of my text, that there are those who will, when they leave this life. bound into Heaven amid saluta tions infinite. "For so an entrance shall be administered unto eou abnn dantiv." Such ex:ant admission will await those who enter Heaven after on earth living a life for others and without reference to ecspleuity. On the banks of the Ohio or the Tusealoosa or the Androscoggin is a large famity, all of whom have been carefully cnd reiiiouslv reared. In the earlier stages of that fam!!y there were mrany privations. The mother of the house hold never had any amusements. Per haps once in a year a poor theatrical play was enacted in the neighboring schoolhouse or a sqtuawking concert in the town hall. and that was al: the di version afforded for the winter season. I asked the manager of an insane asy lum in Kentucky: "Fromn what class of persons do you get most of your pa tients?" and he said: "From farmers' wives." I asked the same question of the manager of an insane asylum in Pennsylvania. and the same question of the manager of an insane asylum in Massachusetts. and got the same reply: "We have on our rolls for treatment more farmers' wives than persons coming from any other class." That answer will be a surprise to some; It was nosurprIse tome. Theuimpierea son Is. farmers' wives as a general thing have no diversion. It Is break fast, dinner and supper. sewing. scour ing. scrubbing, krnitting, mending. year In and year out. That mother is the milliner, the mantua maker, the nurse, the doctor, the accountant of the whole family. She pans the ward robe of spring, of summer, of autumn, of winter, outting, fitting, completing garments. out of which the children soon grow and mist have something else. The newspaper does not come, or. I coming, there is no time to read it. No selection of good books. The neigh bors calling in are full of the same grinding routine. No wonder so many of them go into dementia! Now, the mother of whom I speak as living on the banks of that river in Ohio or Alabama or Maine has gone through all the drudgery mentioned, and her children have turned out well, good and useful men and women, orna ments of society, pillars in the house of God, and that whole family. after the years have passed by and their work is done. will meet in the Heaven ly country. From such a family some will certainly have preceded her, and the time of her expected arrival will be announced to all the members of that family already glorified and to the old earthly neighbors who put down their toils a little sooner than she did, and she will have the warmest kind of home coming. There is another kInd of spirit who will have radIant admirsion to the upper' demlnien. There Is a fact whih ought to have most emphatio pronouncement. All over the world to-day there are men and women of A Hot Fight. Cnitions are rips ia Karse for re of the botts: p-litical fights that as been pulled off there in many a lay A bill has been introduc'd in the gi-aure to rereal. the woman't snf rge law. The bsders of the bill say at the woman vote in Kan-as City, K(an., iP one of the most corrupt in hEnees in that city's polities as the omen insist on being hauled to the p.olls in carriages. This exoen'e, it is leared, is g tting to be burdernsome. Vht "new" women of the stite are at ne up in arms, ani pweio e grinz to [opeka and making things hot for those >;samtuousi nen. Cani't Fight Here. The governor Thursday afternoon re ived the following from Cinsinuaui, ) , in regard to a prize fight in which great many are interessed: "P.eaae, nrre us whether you will allow Jeff ries d BR ulin to Egha a limited number i rounds in your state in 05se the figte revented her." Goverr or MoSs'pooyl wn.p-ly answere.a as follow-: "Under a circum ancea would Jeffries and egams ateo wea-th. They ar malt! plying by the day and hour-people who feel themselves t. L.rd's ;o :t ards, and from their opu'enco they are making a distri .:on which pleasea the Heavens. Th: check book in the omeiie drawer ot that man has on i!s st:is a story of be nefcente c:ear up i: to the subhime. In nll the round of the world's suf fering ar.' igrnorance and woe you cannot mention one worthy object to which that prosperous and good man has not made contribution. lie is not irritated. as many are, by s licitations for alms. 'n some poor woman in thin shawl. ho:ding in her arms a child with rheum in its eves. this good man sees the Christ who said: "Inasnr.uch as vi hW.te done it unto one of the lcast of lese. ye have done it unto me." Well. this man of concerrated manu ence is about to go out of this world. He fees in br^!r. and :erve the strain of the early strugzges by which he won his fortune, and at 6: or -"1 years col'apses tiner the exhaustions of the twenties and thirties of his life time. WYhen. the mrorrir.g papers an nounce that he is gone. there is ex citement not only on the avenues where the mansions stand, but al through the hospitals and asylums and the homes of these who will herneeforth have no helper. TBut the excitement of sadness on earth is a very tame affair compared with the excitement of gnaness in Heaven. The guardian angel of that rood man's life swept by his dying pillow the night before, and on swift wing upward announced that in a few hours he would arrive, and there is a mighty stir in leaven "Hye comes:" cries seraph to seraph. The King's heralds are at the gate to eny: "Come, ye blessed," and souls who were saved through the churches that good man supported and hundreds who went up after being by titm helped in their earthly stru~le will come down off their thrones :nd out of their palaces and through the streets to hail him :nto the lar.d which they reached some time before through his Christian phianthropy. "Why. that is the man who. when I was -a-hungered. gave me bread!" "Why, that is the man," says another, "who encouraged me when I was in the hard struggle of business life:" "Why, that is the man." says another, "who paid my rent when 1 had noth ing with which to pay!" "Why, that is the man through whose mission ary spirit I heard the Gospel call in Bombay!" "Why. that is the man," says another, "who helped send the Gospel of Christ to toe aborigines of America and caused me to exchange the war whoop of the savage for the song of Christian deliverance'" "Stand back," commands the gate keeper of Neaven. "all ye throngs re deemed through this man's instru mentaities: Make way for him to the feet of the King. where he will cast his crown. and then make way for him to the throne. where he shall reign forever and ever!" Now, that is what I call an abundant entrance. You see, it is not necessary to be a failure on earth in order to be a suc cess in klearen. But I promise that al' those whu have i!ved for others and been truly Christian. whether on a large or a small sc'ae, will hve i::striouIs in troductiona r.:o the imtpo:-ted gatieWay. Here and there in soate iarge famnly you see an attractive daughter who dec:ines marriage that she may take care of father and mother in cid days. This is not an abstraction. I have known such. You have probably known such. There are in this world womrnniv souls as big as that. They ceerfu:.v endure the wvhimsicalities and querulousness which sometimes characterize the aged. arnd watch nights when pneumonia is threatened, and are eyes to the blind, and sit in close rooms lest the septugenarian be chiled and cour t out the right rnumber of drops at the right time. The mother of a ittle child has her barnds fu:l, but the daug'ter who stays home t-> take care of an aged father or mothter has er hands just as full. Wh~ile I thus discourse 1 am aware that some have not taken the first step toward Heaven, an d they feei like Jaco b Strawn, who took some ministers of the gospel on the top of his house to show his farms, reachirng in every di rection as far as eye could see. lie was asked how many acres he owned and he repied 40,000). "flow much is it worth per acre?" was asked, arnd he re plied: "Fi fty dollars at least." "Then." said the mi'nister, "you are worth $2. 000,Q09." "Yea," said Strawn, "and I made it all myself." Then the minister said: "You have shown me these vast earthly possessions, and now w'ill you look up yonder. (pointing. to the heav ens)-how much do you own up there ?" And Strawn answered with tears in his eves: "Oh, I am afraid I am poor up there." Alas, how many there are who have acquired all earthly prosperities and advantages, but have no treasures in Heaven! They are poor up there. But I am to-day chiefly addressing those who are started for Heaven and would have them know that while we are apt to speak of a Lanphier, the founder of Fulton street prayer meet ings, as having an abundant entrance; and Alfred Cookman, the flaming evan gelist, as having an abundant en trance; and Thomas Welch and Fletch e.r the glorious preachers of the Gos pl, as having an abundant entrance. and John Rogers and Latimer and Ridley ascending, like Elijah. in a charit of fire, as having an abundant entrance, you also, if you love arnd servetheILord and fulfill your mission, whether it be applauded or unknown, will have, when your work on earth Is ended and you are called to comte up Ihigher, an easy, a blissful, an enrap turing, an aburndant entrance. Though the Hawaiian delegate in congress has no vote in the house, he draws $2,000 miieage as a consolation. prize. A Bad Showing. M:ne i- a riguid Prohibition S-a'o. of my years st..aartar. The v~ew sheriff of Portst-d is a prescher the lHey ir. Pea~rson. who, is~ internt on enforcting the law, to which he niedged himnsel befor. his election. "He has di-covered that in order to make the city dry he must stop liquor selling at thirte'en hotela, eighty-eight saloone, sCeeteen' kit'hen bars, three wh'le ale drug ctot ca. fists drug storec, four bot tling estY isa ments and about fity otier rlaces which can not b-> res'iilv chsdified Killed Himself. Mr Pirekney .Vyatt. aged 47 year<. ommitted 'suicide Thursday at neon a his home at Greers. Mr. W~s att was a w~ll known citztn of that place. He has for several vests past been in ery bad health and this n sturally made' him gloomy and despondent and was perhas the incentive which led to this Burned in a Flat. T~o lives were ' t in a tire Thursday mcraing in the Aberden flys Chicag>, 11l nis. Hundreds fled lortlecir lives ... o tlA frcz' air half e'ai SUCCEEDS HIMSELF. M. es B. McSweeney Was Inau gurated Governor Thursday. AN IMPRESSIVE SCENE. Tr' Interesting Cerem'ny In the House of Representa tives Witnessed by a Large Crowd. Thursday at noon the inauguration of the recently elected State officials took place at the State espitol. The oath of effice was administered to the et..vernor and lieutenant governor-elect is :he hall of the house of representa tv S. Although the day was inclement, a la-ie crowd assembled to witness the c: r( monies, and the 200 South Carolina :oc'ete students who formed the gov cr. nrs escort were not ab'e to crowd :rr the ball. The Columbia orchestra in the gal 'e-y rendered several inspiring selec tii.'s while the crowd was gathering +: I during intermissions in the exer cs. At 12 o'clock Mr. Wilson, the ser ,a't at arms cf the house, announced ti-.t the honorable, the senate is in .ta:ting." The speaker commanded the he-:se to rise and receive the senate. When the senate had gotten seated the joint aseembly was ca led to order ' the president of the senate. Imme ihicly afterwards the sergeant at ,r:s snt.ounced the governor elect and ri. ecort in waiting The j int assem h areso to rcceive the distinguished .a-r-y. The order in which they came .c : Chief Justice Henry Mlcver and Rv Jno 0. Wilson, D. D ; Hon Y .1 Pope, associate justice, and Col. i .e Jones, chairman State Democrat a xe..utive committee; Hon. Ira B J.n.s, associate justice, and R p-esen tataie T. H Rsinefrd; M. B. McS wee ney, governor-elect, and Senator Louis A eit; James H. Tillman, lieutenant vernir-elect, and Representative W. H Parker. Then followed the other utw State fiials: G. Duncan Bellin cer. attorney gxneral: M. R Cooper, secretary of State; Jno. P. Darham, comptroller general; Jno. J. McMahan, Sa- e superintendent of education; R. 11 Jennine, State treasurer. Capt. .iainings was aceomraniedby the retir t g treasurer, Dr. W. H. Timmerman. .; an ec >rt for the State officials were r nators J. S. Brice and Representa ves J U. Campbell, W. H. Wells and .1 W. Crum. The faculty of the South Ct..rilina college were also in the party. Ttie gcvernor elect and his escort were seat(d on the rostrum behind the ,, akcr's desk. It was an impressive ac e. H.>n. R ibt. B Scarborough. c.earetiring lit utenant governor, gowned : the hardsome new heliotrope silk r' e of the president of the senate, c.- k charge of the c x"rcises. By his -:de sooc the speaker of the house, c..ned in royal purple. Grouped a nd them were the men who are to e uct the afhirs of S a'e, white con *eituous in all this array were the jurs es of the supreme c.'urt, Mclver, *Ja~CS and Pvpe. The exersss were o;ccd with prayer by Dr Wilson. he preacher rd erred feelingly to the I ess of George D l'iliman, father of e lieu; etant goveracr-elect. M!r. Scarbrough then announced: Pe Hon. Miles B. McSteeney, gov eror (lect, is present and ready to udit~y." The governor stopped for w.ird and give assent to the oath of elic:e administeeed by the venerable Gaif Just ce Melv~r. GOVERNORS ADDRESS. After he had taken the oath the gov ernor addres:ed tioe general assembly a j.oilows: In taking the oath of t-ffice for the econd time as chief exeeauva of this errat State I feel more keenly than v.r the responsibilities which rest u'on me. I real ze thbe poverty of my wec'abuary whben I endea.vor to expretss y appreciation to this people for the lrtialixy which they have shown in eivatng me to this cxdlcd position e.d when 1 think of the dutie's and re .gosibities which the position carries with it 1 am brought face to face with m; own weakness. I beg that you will enrvey to the people whom you repre s .-t uwy hi artfelt a~ p-eciation of the h nor which they base conferred upon i: and that you will also carry to them my pledge to give them the best scrvire of my head and heart in the adminis ration of the dfie to which they have elected me It wa5, I believe, the greatest genera of modern times who said, the grandest ~. d moet iapressive word in the Eng ih lanuage is duty. Dorirg the' t me that 1 Eave hdld the dffice of g'v erner my main purpose has been tc dis c a ge my duty hontstly and consei nti iusly and without fear or favor. Dung the term upon which I am now' eti ring all that I can say is that this ame purpose shall charaocnza my every action. But the same responsibility which rsts upcn the <xecutive is also laid, o. ly with a greater degree, upon the meubers of th~e legislature. My prov occis only to txecute the laws. You re cloth d with powver and authority o hneexisting las ard to make .ewlas a~dbyyour acinyou can ier clog the wheels of progress or aiv them new impe'us. Our forefathers builded wisely when .hey provided that the three depart ients of government should be forever . parate and distinct, it has been my hr est endeavor and purpose to recog nze this civision of our government ad to let each department discharge e duties belonging to that depart mnt. In comploing with the mandate )f the constitution to lay befere the geeral ase-embly a revie v of the differ ent departments of government and to make su~h suggestions as ma~y seem propr to the enief executive, I have nor. presumed to dioxate or undertaken to control lepislation but have simply made such suggestioins as seemed to mn- just and necessary. By wise and cariui and prudent action on your part y ou can do much to advaoes the ma terial grasperity of the State and can tribte to the happiness of the people l can only ple dge you and through you thc people whom you represeus my best ff3rs in the faithful execution of the ;aws as they may be interpreted. "We stand here at the end of mighty years, And a great wonder rushes on the heart. While cities rose and blossomed into dust, While shadowy line. of Kings were blown to air What was the purpose brooding on the world, Through the larger leisure of the cen turies? As you stand bore in the dawn of this century much depends upon your ac tions whether the end shall be failure or victory. We should lay the founda tions broad and deep, for there are great possibilities before us as a people It might be well, however, for every one of us to ask himself the question: "What hast thou wrought for right and truth, For God and man, From the golden hours of bright eyed youth To life's mid span?" The last year of the last century is a recard unsurpassed in the history of this State and pissibly of any other Southern State in industrial develop ment. I call your attention to the fact that during the past year some $15,000, 000 have been invested in this State the greater prdon of which has been put into inaustriestfor the manufacture of our great staple crop. Something over 200 miles of railroads have been built and received for tarflie during the past year. Any proposed legislation touching these great arteries of trade and com merce should be wisely and carefully considered. These industries derive their right to life and existence from the State and you as the representa tives of the State have a right and it is your duty to see that they do not op press the people. But in guarding the interests and rights of the people it is your duty to see that they do not op press the people. Bat guarding the interests and rights of the people it is well also to remember that these cor porations have rights and it shcu d be your duty to see that the strong do not oppress the weak and that justice and equity are meted out. Our ecucational interests have also ma:e remarkable sovances and there is a great awakening in alt sections on the subjects of education. It is a grati fying evidence of our progress, for witb the material development of the State and the building of factories and mills there is constant demand for men who know how. Whatever you may do to fit our young men and young women to fill the position which are constantly opening in view of the wonderful de velopmentof this section will be s' much wisely contributed to their hap piness and prosperity. But while we train them for these positions and sup ply the demand fr men who know how we want also to train them to think noble thoughts and they will then pt r form noble deeds. One of the crying needs of these times is an elevated manhood. "Sublimity of character must come from sublimity of motives and the humblest man walking in the most cir cumscribed place can and ought to live sublimely. Disraeli said truly, "eir. cumetances are beyond the e*ntrol of man but his conduct is in his own power." No man should be calld away from "plain work and common duties" but he should be made to understand that he can breathe "while in the midst of them inspirations from the heights of manhood." But in all these matters we should not forget those who have the burden to bear in furnishing the means neces sary to carry on these institutions; and their rights and interests should be carefully guarded. This century upon whirh we are now entering holds for us achievements and opportunities of which we can not even conceive. It should be our high privilege "to show how intelligence, enterprise and relig ious freedom, and respect for the ma jesty of the law, may constantly in create comfort, intelligence, prosperity and happiness." Mr. Tilman was then presanted and sworn in. The retiring lieutenant gov ernor doffed thxe beautiful silken robe of office and placed it upn the shoulders of his successor. The pretty tableau evoked applause. Mr. Tilhman then took the gavel and announced: " the pur pose for w hich thbe jinmt assembly met having been accm plshed, t he j int assembly is dissolved. rhe s enate will return to the chamber." This closed the exercises. The governor received a beautiful bouquet of pink carnations, and each mewoer of the escort wore one of these flowers as a bouttoniere. There were a number of distinguished people from all over the State in the e ty and several of them witnesased the ceremony. The right-hand corner of the hall was .reserved for the family of the goverrror. Mrs McSweeny, unusually lotely in a purple go wn, was the recipient of much attr n tion. A bevy of young ladies from the Presbyterian College for Women, the ent're stulent body of the Columbia college, and Miss MeMaster's grade from the city school witnesssed the in auguration. The innovation introduced on this occasion was the orchestral music. It was furni-hed by the Columbia orceri ra, which organination tendered its services for the occasion. The orrohes ra was stationed in the main gallery and played the inaugural maren and many other selections. Another feature was the a'tendane of bodies of school children from the city school -'he State bUFFERING VETERANS. An Appeal for Help for Confederate Soldiers in Texas. The following circular letter has been issued: New Orleans, Jan. 12, 1901. To all Commanders, Camps and U. .3 Veterans: The general commanding invites your r~npt and earnest attention to cirdu ar in..!oaed dated October 22, 1900. which~ is for the second time sent out to all the camps and re quests that it be placed at once upon the camps, asking help for our old comrades whose homes were swept away by the great storm at Galveton and vicinity. Another urgtent and pathetic appeal which will touch the hearsa of veterans everywhere, comes from the John A. Wharton Camp, No. 286, at Alvin, Texas, in the sake of the Galvestion storm, saying that the small amounts received so far are not sufliient, and ca'ing for immediate help. Folimg is an extract from Ad jt A iwards' letter: "We would not trouble you again, but the veterans in this vicinity are in pressing and immediate need of every litle mite they can get. They are gen erally truck farmera, owning from five to 15 acres and depending upon straw berr:es as their principal money crop. Te storm not only demoliahed their homes and barns, but in many instances completely ruined their berry plants, and all of their fall truck patches, which th y expected to tide them through until berry tims in the spring. 'They are now without money, pro visions, clothing sufficient for the win ter, or food for their work stock, many living in littie huts erected out of the detris of their once comfortable homes, and they and their fam:ltes shivering over fires made in such broken and de lapidated stoves as they could save from the wreck. do not see how they are to liv3 through the winter. Sh uld they live through the winter, spring will find them in debt for supplies, and more than like ly with larger medical and drag bills that will more than consume all that they will realiz ; from their spring crop, and leave them in as bad condition as they are now. "1 cannot see my old comrades who so bravely, for their country, bore the hirdships of 1861.1865, in this condi tion without making an tffbrt to relieve them. "I am proud to inform you that though they are now aged, with gray heads and bent forms, the spirit of ofi days is still in them and they are now fighting the battle of life with the same vim, energy and courage that carried them through our great war. "If these veterans can get suffiient of the actual necessaries of life to carry them through the winter, leaving them their springs crops intack with which to rebuild their homes, they will again become independent and self-support ing tax payers, as they are now an honor to their country." These ole comrades are from nearly every southern state and fought upon nearly every battlefield of the war and are now in such dire distress that the general commanding deems it his sa cred duty to lay the condition of these grand old veterans before the U. C. V. camps and our comrades everywhere, and ask fotr such help as they feel able to give. Only a very small amount from each would buffic), 50 cents and $1 amounts will be thankfully receiv ed. Contributions sent to these head quarters wdl be receipted for and promptly for aardtd, the names of donors published in lul in the proceedings of the next reunion or can Do sent d rect to John A. Wharton Camp No. 236, U. C. V., Alvin, Texas. By order of John B. Gordon General C mmanding, Geo. M~orman. Ac jlnt G n ral and Chif of Staff Our Sohool System State Superintendent of .lducation 3M1ahan is dissatisfied with the pres ent sy tem of allowing the voters to choose county superintendent of edu cation. lie evidently thinks that, as a rule, the kind of men the voters are likely to choose are not up to the re quirements of the position. According to his view, effizient men can be secur ed by indirection; and at his instance the following bill has been proposed to toe general assembly: Section 1. Tnat in July, 1902, the state board of eausa.ion, upon tne joint recommendation of the governor and the state superintendent of education, shall appoint for each county in the state, a county board of education, con sisting of five members, two to serve for two years, two to serve for four years, and one to serve for six years, and until their respective successors have been elected and qualified. The successord of she said member: of the saia county board snall be chosen by the electors of the county fUr a term of six years each, two at the general elec tion in 1904, and every six years there after; two at the general election in 1906; and every six years thereafter; and at the general slec.ion in 1908, and every bir years thereafter: Provided, however, T1hat canaidates for these posi-ions shall not be assessed in any primary elections. Vacancies shall be faied by the county boardi of edneation itself, until the next general election. dec 2 That each memoer of the county board of education snall receive for attendance on its meetings, $3 per diem. and 5 cents for each mite or nec esaary travel going to and from the meetings, for not mere than ten meet ungs in any one year, the per diem and mil-age to be paid by she county treas urer out of she ordinary funds of the county, upon the warrants of the chair man of the board, audited and approv eas ether county claims. sec 3 Taat the county beard of ed ucation of eaocn coucty, appointed as herein provided, shall meet and organ isi by ehteting one of its memoers cnairman and another member secre ary pro tem , and shall therea~ter ex ercise ail the rights, privileges, powers anti dutis new devoived by laW upon the present county board oi education and county suiperintendent of edueation of said county, severally or jointly, and may use the seal no a used by the county superentendent of edueation until a n.:w seal snail De providsd by the board of county commissioners. sec. 4. ?nat the county board of ed ucation of each cour~ty shail provide expert supervision for the schools of tine county, and for this purpose shalt employ a man skiliud in trne science anu art of teachiug and of sec~ool man agement, wno snail superviuc all the scujois of the county, instiuct the weacaers, cuunsel the trti:taes, assign teachers to tine schoOls for wnich tne barus of trus:.ees have not employed teacuers by duly 1st Of each year, and ausa.l turiner seive as secretary of the county board, make ior it its rerts rtqu red Dy the state superintendent of euuaauion, and perform sucn Other duties on nenalf of the said b-oard as it sn imipose. deo. 5. e hat the said superintendent of sonoois eimpioyed by the cauL.ty board ot ediucanion, shall devote his en Lire timne to the inspection, supervision care and management of the schools and tile school interests of the county. un-ier the direction of the counry boud of education, the state board of eau a-ion, aati the ,state superintend eat ol education, and in compensation for his services snail receive such sal ary as Lne county beard of educa'ion may hase fixed, net to exceed $1 500 a year, to be paid by the county treas urer upon warrants of t'ue chairman of the county toara or education, audited and approved as other coounty claims. 8ec. 6 T[hat that present county boares i f eaucation and county super iutendents of education shall be su t erceded and their offices ab. lirhed as soon as the beards herein provide for, shall meet and organize: Provided. however, That the county superinternd ent ef edunation of each county shall make to the state superintendent of education the annual report required by law for the school year 1901 and 1902 and upon a certificate from the state superintendent of education that such report has been made satisfacto rily, shall be paid by the board of coun ty commissioners the full salary for the remainder of the the term for which he was elected. St e 7- That all acts and parts of acts incornsistent with this act be and the same are hereby repeal d. A Fosi Camel. Among the fossil animals that have recently figured in geological litera ture is a fossil camel from Roumiania which enjoys the unique distinction of being the only one so far known in Europe._______ Lo.. of Work. *It has been calculated that the loss from illness averages 20,000,000 weeks of work in the year, or 2% per cent. of the work done by the whole popu lation between 15 and 65 yearsa of THE COTTON OUTLOOK What Mr. Shepparson Says About It In His Cotton Facts. The little annual publication by Mr Alfred S'iepperson, of N-w York. en titled "Cotton Faots," has come tobe re c )gn:zed as a leading authority among cotton men. H s figures are accurate and his deductions conservative. His review of the last season and prospects for 19001901 set forth that the last crop (1899 1900) was 9,422,022 bales, and his estimate of the current crop (1900 1901) is 9,900,000 bales. He comments upon this as follows: At the close of the European cotton season on September 30, the stocks of cotton of all growths in European mar kets were only 280,000 bales, being the smallest recorded in 58 years, with the exception of 1863, when, in consequence of our civil war, the European stocks ware redu .ed to 250,000 bales. Con sumption however, was on a much smaller scale then. and the stocks, on September 30, 1863, represented six weeks' consumption of the mills; whereas the stocks last S !ptember were not enough for two weeks' consurption of European spinners. The consump tion of American cotton last season by American and foreign mlls was about 11,000,000 bales. My friend, Mr. Thomas allisan of Liverpool, calls it 10.900,000, being 566,000 more than the estimate published by him at the beginning of the season. In his cireu lar of October 20 he estimated a reduc tion this season in American and Jap anese cnsumption of 378,000 bales (of 500 pounds net) and an increase in Ea rup:+an consumption of 90,000 bales (Of 500 pounds net), and, with the ex pectation of larger supplies than last season from countries other than Ameri ca. stated that an American crop of 10, 382,000 bales would be rt q'ired in or der to keep the stock at the end of the season from falling below the limited supply at its commencement. Oa Da cenab!r 18 Mr. Ellison cabled that he thought an American crop of 10,150, 000 bales would meet the requirements of the spinners. This was due to the expectati3n of larger receipts from In cia than his estimate in October of 800, 000 ,biles, or 500,000 more than last season. In this conection it is, well to remember that while 217,000 spindles were added to the mills of India last season, many of the mills were not con stantly at work. It is probable inview of the better crops and improved con dition of affairs that considerably more cotton will be spun in India than last season. The commercial crop of India last season was 2.613,OC bales against an average of 3,200,000 for the four previous seasons, but the actual yield was probably not over 1,300,000 bates, the balance being cotton held over from previous crcps.. It is thought that littie or no old cotton was left in the interior of India last season, so that the present commercial crop will not Exceed the growth of this sessan. The quantity available for ezport to Europe is therefore not likely to exoecd 800, 000 bales, and may not be as much. The largest shipment from Iud a to E.irope ot recent seasons were 899.000 bales in 1896-97, but there are now 900, 000 m ire spindles in India than stIen. Abiut twcthirds of the cot-o2 grown in iaissnow contunid thr-, an it is only the surpius which is exported. The Eg,ptian crop is expectea to be less taan last season b; thi cequival.ent of 250 000 bales of 500 p aunds and the quality is beloi the average. I have breea informed that about 600,000 new spiocles have been etarred in B rtish mills since Oatober 1st. Of the addi tional spindles started in the United States last season quite a large number were not in cp ration until -the latter part of the sea~on. All of the new mills everywhere were eree edi to be operated to their full capacity and the additions to the nAiils weis for the same purpose. With the settlement of the Chinese compnca-ions and a renewal of trade wit taat country, I eonfidently look for tush activaty in cotton manufactur ing taat tue consumption of the worla's miuls will aDsurb all of this season's e:ops. In that cvent the stocks will be reduoea to very small propoitias every where, and the coming summer may witrness e xceedingly acuve and specula tive markets at full prices. It is must likely that there will ne a considerable increase in the cotton acreage of this contry next spring. Wnile this fact wou.d doubtless depres3 to some degree, the prneo of "luture deliveries" for the next crop it would not relieve the na ket for spnteo'ron. Italy agree with alr. iElison shat there would not be any plethora of cotton even if the crop should exseed 10,750,000 bales, as the distribution uui be spread over such a wide area that there would be no groat secumulation of stocks any where. As to the probable price that the re mainder of tne current crop will com mand, M1r. Shepperson makes no pre diotuun and throws our no hint unless it is to be 1ound in she following sen teuce: "II is perfectly evident that the pre sent comzt.orelai cropecannot well e~Zaer d the yieli or this season and, unless very hih prices prevti in the sumi mer, may be considerab.y less than the yieilt trom the fact that some cotton will be heid back, in every sect~ion* for h.gatr prne.s. This hint may be in either dir.e!.ion, and we leave the reader to me his choice of the twso poesswle constructions. (1) A great deal of cotton is being held br~eit b r higher priees, and if they are not real.zed it will be carried over to n--xt year, and there may to "consid eraoly iess" cotton in the commercial crop than this year's yield. (2) Tais is probable "unless very high prices pre vail ini summr. Whethier Mr. Shepper. son thinks that the very high piices will reva.1 or that they will not and the cotton which is being saved fur high prices wilt wait in vain and be oarried into next year, thus making this commercial crop considerably less than the yield, each reader may deeide for himself.-Augusta Chronicle. THE Newport, Va., Herald give us this conumdrum: "Sup pose the grip should be fatal to the President and a mountain lion should eat up Teddy: Where would we be on the 4th of March? THERE comes a story from Cleveland that a rheumatic in that town who could - barely walk took to his heels and ran like a deer when he was held up by footpads, and since then that he is free of his malady. THERE is a tramp in a New Jersey jail who is a Philospher. Recently he fell heir to a legacy of $75,040, but he declines to take the money; says he has no use for it, as the.out of doors life of a tramp suits him and he IN WASHINGTON MONUMENT. Memorial Tablets and Inscriptions That Line the Interior of the Great Shaft. Few of the thousands of visitors to the Washington monument have the disposition to climb its 900 steps. It is much easier to ride on the eleva tor, which makes the ascent of the tall column in about eight minutes., But visitors who walk one way, either up or down, are well rewarded by a near view of the inscriptions on the memorial tablets, says Youth's Com panion. One hundred and seventy-six of these tablets were contributed by various societies, lodges, cities, states, foreign countris and private individ ua Is. The variety of their inscrip tions attest the wide reach of the in fluence of Washington. The Association of Journeymen Stonecutters of Philadelphia, under the emblems of their trade, inscribe on their tablet: "United We Stand." Westmoreland county, Va., describes itself simply as "The Birthplace of Washington." Greece; the "Mother of Ancient Liberty," sends from the Parthenon "This Ancient Stone as a Testimony of Honor and Admiration." The Turkish inscription, it is said, was written by the court poet,. and bears a date in a "year of the He gira." One of the longest inscrip tions appears on a stone presented by some Chinese Christians of Che Heang, China, in 1853. It declares George Washington to have been braver than Tsau-Tsau or Lin-Pi. A likeness of Shakespeare stands out on a stone at the twenty-sixth landing, as the short level spaces be tween the flights of stairs are called. bearing these words above: "All that live must die," and below: "A trib ute of respect from the Ladies and Gentlemen of the Dramtic Profes sion of America." SLEEP IN THE CIGARETTE. Lethean Compound Used by an Expert Spanish Thief on Pas sengers. Prof. de Gubernatis, the well-knows Italian orientalist, has been the victim of a crime often read of in lurid tales, but seldom experienced in real . life. The other day he was traveling in a first-class carriage in which there was one other individual. He went to sleep and on arriving at Parua found himself without his purse, containing 1,400 francs. He immediately complained to the station authorities and not long after a certain Spaniard, Alfreddo Gar cia, of Barcelona, who described him self as a silk merchant. was arrested, says a London paper. In spite of his protestations of inno cence his baggage was examined and was found to contain, besides a knife. money and scissors used by thieves for cutting out pockets, a case with some cigarettes. This last object in the pos session of a Spaniard is not a suspicious circumstance, but. one of the police thought he would try them, and to his astonishment the room full of people were soon all soundly and peacefully sleeping. An examination proved that the cigarettes contained a substance, the smoke of which acts as a narcotic, while the smoker experiences no in convenience after having become ac customed to it. The arrest of the pro fessor's traveling companion was soon effected, but Prof. de Gubernatis has not recovered a penny of his lost money. THEY WERIE ALWAYS HERE. According to This Account Cock roaches and Bedbugs Are of Very Ancient Lineage. In the very oldest fossil-bearing rocks no insects are found. The very oldest fossil is a kind of polyp. making reefs of limestone, when as yet the in sects had not appeared, and it "flour ished" in Canada, says the London Spec tator. The first insect known to have existed, a creature of such vast an tiquity that It deserves all the respect which the parvenu man can summon and offer to it, was-a cockroach. This, the father of all black beetles, prob ably walked the earth in solitary mag aiicence when not only kitchens, but even kitchen maidens were undreamed of, possibly millions of years before neolithic man had even a back cave to offer with the remains of last night's supper for the cockroach of the period to enjoy. His discovery est ablished the fact that in the silurian period there were insects, though, as the only piece of his remains found was a wing, there has been room for dispute as to the exact species. Mr. Gross in his preface to the second edition of his book notes says that what is probably a still older insect has been found in the lower ilurian in Sweden. This was not a cockroach, but apparently something worse. -If the Latin name, Protocimex Silurius, be literally translated. It means the original silurian bug. An Were Safe. An earthquake, lately, in Caracas, Venezuela, borught ruin and terror. The city was in a state of chaos fore days. The keeper of the jail, which always has inmates confined there for political offenses, issued the following notice, which ought to have aniused as well as reassured those wh,> read It: "To the public: I have the sat isfaction to Inform the families of those who are detained here that this snorning's earthquake has happily caused no accident within this ee tablishment." Swallows as Carriers. The question of employing swal lows instead of pigeons to carry diD patches has been seriously consid ered in France. The aptitude of the swallow for the work is by many held to be even greater than that of the pigeon. ________ THE Philadellphia North American declares that Kansas City is distinguished by the pre sence of the most enterprising thieves of the world outside the ranks of the allies in Pekin. They have stolen bodily a large number of houses from the city park, cut down trees for fire wood and carried away nearly all board walks. The police have nailed down the remamnmg planks and hope to save a few houses. THE Washington Post in timates that the Democratic Congressional membership is so badly disrupted it cannot agree as to whether Jefferson hitch ed his horse to a tree upon the occasion of his inauguration or paid a small boy to hold it. QUEEN Victoria was a grand woman, and the English People have a right to be proud of her as a queen.