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MBNDINU1 TR NT.TSA Dr. Talmage Preacbes a Sermton cn the Story of the Fisherme. Crbist's Dtsetptea as y shers of MC .-The Gospel Net and !uw 1 Shoald Ia htept La F epair. LCesvr5~t. iC y Loas KIopsch.1 wVasI.gon. Jan. :7. In this discourse Dr. Ta.mage de scribes the Gospel net and how it is to be repaired alter being damaged: text, Matthew 4:21, "Janes, the son of Eebedee. and Jchn. his brother. in a .hip with Zebedee. their father. nerd ig their nets." "I go a-fishing:" c:_ .' a e to his comrades. a lpostlea had ha: . tackle. The:filer . always a.:ractt2 . third cen.tury the e. c: o7 for pin money $-4.X2- reenveu :rom the fisheries of La:e 0esAnd. if the time shou:d ever ceoce the Immensity of the world's pop u ation cou:d not be fed by the vegetab:es and meats of the land. the yea has an amount of arnimal lie t::a wculd feed all tha population of t:e earth and fat ten them with a fd that by its Los phorus would make a generatiun brainy and intellectta' be' u::d any thing that the wor:d has ever - ined. My text tales us among the - lean fishermen. One day Wa::er Sr::. while hunting in an old dr. e'"tr. found tmong some old fishing tackle the manuscript of his immortal book, "Waverley," which he had put away there as of no worth, and who knows but that to--da we may find some un known wealth of thought while look lag at the Ashing tackle in the text. It is not a good day for fishing. and three men are in the boat repairing the broken fishir; nets. If ycu arc fishing :n a hook e. and the fish %!:! a: bit:e. it is a guoc time to put t.e ang:er's appr'.'t:' .nto better condition. Perha-- -h , h .ou hauled in was so lrtg"e 11: son-e :rag snapped, or, if you were fshing - net, there was a uigh ty froundern g of the scales or an ex'osed na' C:-.tLe side of the boat which broke some ef the threads and let part or a' of the captives of the deep escare into their natural element. And hard:y any thing is more pru'ttl:in than to near' land a score or a hundred trohi2es from the deep, and when you are in the tall glee of hauling in the spotted treasures. through some imperfection of the net they splash back into the wave. That is too much of a tria. of patience for most fishermen to endure, and many a man ordinarily correct of speech In such circumstances comes to an atensity of utterance unjus:tiiab e. Therefore no goed fSher..an cons c era the time wa.sted that is spent in mending his net. Now, the Eihle again and again represents Christian work era as fishers of men. and we are a:: sweeping through the sea of humanity some kind of a net. Indeed there have been enough nets out and enough fish ermen busy to have landed the whole human race in the kingdom of God long before this. What is the ..tter? The Go:spei is a.! rig'ht. and it has been a good time for catchin~gsons for thou sands of years. Why, then, the fai: ures? The trouble is w::h the nets. and most of themn need to be mended. I propose to show you what is the mat ter with most of the nets and hew to mend them. In the text old Zesedee and his two boys, James and John. were doing a good thing when they sat Ia the boat mending their nets. The trouble with many or our net~s Is that the meshes are too larze. If a nah can get his gills and half his body through the network, he tears and rends and works his way out, and leaves the place through which he equirmed a tangle of broken threads. En our desire to make everytliing so easy we relax, we loosen, we widen. We let men after they are once int the Gosnel net escapre into the worMd, and go into indulgenees an~d swim~ all anround Galilee, fromn north side to south tide, and from east ei> to wvest side, expecting that they wi:l come back again. We ought to make it easy for them to get into the I'irnzdem of God, and, as far as we can, make it impossible for them to get out. The poradvice nowadays to many is: ~Go and do just as you did before you were captured for God and Hleaven. The net was not intended to be any reetraint or any hindrance. What you did before you were a Chiristian do now. Go to all styles of amusement, read all the styles cf hooks, engage In all styles of behavior as before you were converted." And so, throug~h thee meshes of permission andi ':xlty, they wrigg'e out threegh this open lag and that opening,..a...r.the net as they go, and soon all the souls that we expected to larnd in Hleaven, be fore we know It, are back in the deep esa of the world. Oh, when we go a-Gospel ilshing. let us make it as ensy as possible for souls to get in and as bard as possible to get out. Is the Bible language an unmeaning verbiage when it talks about self-de ulal, and keeping the body under and about walking the narrow way and entering the strait gate and about arrying the cross? Is zhrre to be no way - t.Jng whether a man is n Chriaan except by his taki::g the eommernion cha:.- on sacramental day? May a man be as remess about his thoughts, about his words, '. his temper, a'hout his Cnsosmetts after conver'on as bei'ore? A'a. a words of Christ ore co ittle heeded when Ee said: "Wosoer doth not bear his cross and come after nme can not be my disciple." 'The church is fast becoming aa bad as the word and when it gets as bad as the world It will be worse than the world by ao much, se it will and hypocrisy of a taoet appaniing kind to it other de Ieeta. - ___ - Tesla~ Agatin. Teasa has jeit suinounced the eree which rivali sttnii;;t1 itsea th properties and can b~ trduad wih or without wirts If. it &oul ro.'te lno a ccomercial m:ico as~ Te 1 alaims it to be, it wil b of more prfi than the exchange of Esr ss sinals with Mars. Not New. The word Conmoner, adopted by Bryan as the name of his paper, is no1 a new title. In 1S64 William 3M Coty, an extreme state rizats Dem ~orat, ster; ed aweekly iap ri i iniati whidi heocalled TheCommwsa. lineswere those tten denominated cop':erhead, ii deemed the war for " the pirvation of the union to be unaontuaivi. The prersident T7"": se a e sag to congres r' a 'at the appropriation of $1.- t 10 i y. ment of the claim u: a & I p - end Cogoyan islan& in .Le Elf arohipelago in secor'a-:e wmh the tarms of the treaty recently ratified by the S6AtL+ gaynresert l. etss T et do te ae to t, pioea by being entangled with o?:er rotat. It is a Sad eight to see ht ern en P;hting about sea room and p :1:rg in opposite directions, each to get his net, both nets damaged by the s:r.:ggie and losing anl the fish. In tis land, where there are m<re than ?O,00O,C0 people, there are at least , not in the Snday schools and churches. n tuch an At lantic ocean of opp"rarity there i: loom for a:: the ne's a:-d : the boats and all the isernen and for vn:..is more. There 2:ouh be no rivalry be tween e arches. Each one does a work peculiar to ite:. itut there are .:. .its country where there is now "c on an aw;:1 ri;_pitg and re Ctee: c~ f~ ui fi,^ nets. a-nd:m at this time e-e is a gerat war going on beteen tihemen, ministers against Now, I have noticed a mon cannot ;, and fight at the same time. Ie e::er negleits his net or his musket. it is amazirg how much time some of the fishermen have to look after other fishermen. It. is more than I can do tc, take care of my own net. You see the wind is just. right, ard it is such a good time for fishir,. and the fish are coming in se rapidly that I have to keep my eves and hand busy. There are about200.0,0 souls wanting to get into the kingdon of God, anc it w requ.re a:: the nets and all the fsher ren cf Chrise:.d,:m to safely land them. C brethren of the nttiistry, A- tus S Srd our tine in sea d of' E-.ting. B3ut . I angri.y jerk my net across your net., ard you jerx your net angri'.y across mire, we w:il soon have two broken nets and no fish. The French revolution nearly destroyed the French fisheries, and ecc'esiastical war is the worst thing possible while hauling souls into the kingdom. My friends. I notice in the text that James. the son of Zebedee, and John, his brother. were busy at mending some bodx ese's nets, ar d I rather tiink that we 'who are engaged it Christian work in this opening cent'try will reouire a:l cur spare time to mend our own nets. God help us in the important duty: Is this work of repdar we need to put into the nets more threads of com mon sense. When we can present re.; g'lon as a great practicality we Wi catch a hundred souls where now we catch one. Present religion as an n te::ectuality and we will fai:. Out in the fisheries there are set across the wa ters what are called gill nets, and the fish put their heads through the meshes and then cannot withdraw them be cause they are caught by the gills. But gill nets cannot be of any serv:ce in religious work. -Men are never caught for the truth br their heads; it is by the heart or not at all. No argument ever saved a man and no keen analysis ever brought a man into the kingdom of God. Ieart work, not head work. Away with your gill nets! Sympathy. helpfu:ness, consolation, love, are the names of some of the threads that we need to weave in our gospel nets when we are mending them. When you are mending your set for this wide, deep sea of humanity, take out that wire thread of criticism and that horsehair thread of harshness and put in a soft silken thread of Ch;as tin svmpathy. Yea. when you are edi'ng your nets tear out these cid threadls of gruftness and weave in a few threads of politeness aod geniality. In the house of God let all Christian faces beam with a look that means welcome. Say "good morrnirg" to the stranger as he enters your pew and at the close shake hands with him and ay: "Hfow did you like the music?" Why. you would be to that man a panel of the door of Heaven; you would be to him a note of the doxology that ser aphs sing when a new soul ent ers Hleav en. I have in other days enterec a pew in church, arnd the woman at the other end of the pew booked at me as mnuch as to say: "How dare you?~ Tis is my pew, and I pay the rent for it We:. I crouched in the other cor ner and' mia myself as small as pes sile and felt as though I had bee'a seair scnething. So there are peo e wh~o have a sharp edge to theirr liin rdthey act as though they thought most peop'e had been e'.ected to be damned and they were glad of it. Oh. let. us brighten up our manner arnd appear in genlemaniliness or lady Ihood. Again, in mernding our nets we need also to put in the threads of faith and tear out all the tangled meshes of un belief. Our work is successful accord in to our faith. The man who be lieves in only half a Bible or the Bible In snots, the man who thinks he can not ~oersuade others, the man vtho hls, dou.bting about this and doubt ing about that, wiu be a failure in Christian work. Show me the man who rather thinks that the garden of Eden inrhave had an allezrory and is not quite certain but that there noay be another chance after death and does not know whether or not the ilble is inspired, and I tell you that nman for soul saving is a poor stick. Faith in God and in Jesus Christ and the Hoiy Ghost and the absolute necessity of a regenerated heart in order to see God in peace is one thread you must have in your mcnded net, or you will never be a successful fisher for men. Why, how can you doubt? The rottenest thread to tear out of your net is unbe lief, and the most important thread tat you are to put in it is faith--faith Iin God, triumphant faith, everlasting faith. Oh, this important work of mending our neta: If we could get our nets right, we would accomnpiish more in s~u saving in the ne:Ct year than we Ihave in the last e3. Bu where shal! we get them mended ? Just where old Zeb edee and his two boys mended their nets-where you are: James and John had no time to go ashore. They w'ere not fishing for fua, as you and I do in summer time. It was their liveli hood and that of their families. They Imeded their nets where they were Menagerie Burne. Wiin:~ piti ui screatims of fright and gosns of i tease pain, the 75 or more animals or all descripti ons cnfined in ages st Frank C. B.stock's "Zeo." whc a n winiet quarters in the old eyerama building, in Baltimore, were oatd or burned to death Wednesday nihn The fire p;robabiy originated from . aadly insulated wire on the cutside of he bui'.aing. The fiames spread so r Vil 'hat it was imnpossie for the attendnt to rescue the helpless animah, an?, with the exception of one el"p;3ant, cre ct-ze, two donkeys, and a pack o. houcds, r6* cmire her i was 1ot The fire wa l- j'ver. d at 10).40) p. m n.. a few mitau-s aster the evnn pecrforance here ceased. Twenty' ain~ ee af ter the fire was discovered, the entire buiicig. whien we cans:cted aaost entirely of wood, 'was a mass cf fifismes. Mr. Bostcck es:isrtt es his iese on animals at about $10.QfM Loee en t~e uing probably is $15 000). Pari o th Bostocek aggregation of anims1. was at the recent State fair along with tce th~r 30:oak cido shows. It will is ie amp, "OUh.- nays soes on, mnean to get my net mer't. a go down to the Pub cyf wil see what the ; s 1, evolution a:. a'.: ..e : v'v o the fittest. and I wi.: rat up what the theo:ogh ns say ab:t advanced tho::t.-I wi: :eave he ship awhi:e. a-.d I w:' go ahore and stay there ti:::ry net is mer.ded." Do thit, my brctherar.d youwil have nonetleft.In stead of their helping you mend your set, they wil1 steal the pieces that re main. Better stay in the Gospel b:at. where you have all the means for mend ing your net. What are they? do you ask. I answer, all you need you have where you are-ramely, a Ulb e ano place to pray. T' n ore you study evolution and adcpt wht i, ranced theu 't, t:: nre u e voe will be. S: y in : t p ' a( your net. That is v'ere - son of Zcbede' , J ' :.:: .1 staid. That is where a:_ who ;et their nets menced stay. I notice that all who leave the Gos 1el boat and go ashore to mend their nets stay there. Or if they trr again to fish they do not catch anrthir.. Get out of the Gcspel boat ar.d go up into the world to get your net mend ed. and you will live to see the day when von will feel like the mar. who. Ing forsakcn Christi::lty, se:ed: "I would give a thnr.-::d p"....s to feel as I d Cd in 2." Tho C .e w:. come when you wot: he -c ag to give a thousarnd pou ds to feel as y. in 1C:^. These mn who 1,e ,ien uo their religion ca.m..t help c u a l'. These dear br-e:hren of all deno"^' nations. atoieted with theo loical fc g ets, had better go to merd;rg nets in stead of breaking them. Pefore they break up the old re:;-icn and try to foist on us a new religion let them ;o through some -ent sacrifice for God that will prove them worthy for such a work. taking the advice of Talyrand to a man who wanted to upset the re ligion of Jesus Christ an : st r.e v ore when he said: -Co dI c r: fled and then raise yours^-' fr., the grve the third d.y!" o propose to - th.ir ?t r s"'* lar and s: >ti ni : ar :e the man who hs t o w ish inr. and :'x cf 1: 'n e '-a-s in rel~diiz Ir::a': ?";'on's "Cotnr.eto Anze'er" and WheatIey's "I ed and Line" 2nd Scott's "Fishing in Northern Waters." and Pulman's "Vade Mecum cf F:y Fishing for Trout." and then on Saturday morning. h!s last day out, goes to the river to p'y his art. But that day the fish will not bite. and late on Saturday night he goes to his home with empty basket. Alas, aas' if when the Saturday Tie 't of our life drcus on us it shall he for.d that we have spent our time in the libraries of worldly phiosephy, trying to mend our nets. and we have only a few souls to report as brorrht to God through our instrumentality, while some hum b:e fisherman, his library made up of a Ibre and an almanac. shall come home laden with the results, his trophies all the souls within 15 miles of his log cabin meeting house. In the tame of great disturbance in Naples in 1649 Ma:'aniello. a barefoot ed fshing boy, dropped his fishing rod and by strange nraenetism took com mand of that city c :t'Ml souls. He took cfi his fishing jacket and put on a robe of go d in t' presen.ce of how:lang mobs. H~e put his hand on his lip as a siznr. and they were silent. 11 waved his hand nwny from him. arnd they retired ro their homaes. Ar.'ies passed in review before him. lHe ba came the nation's idol. The rapid rise and complet e supremacy of that youn~g fshernrtan, Masarnieiio, has no paraidel in al-l history. Bunt somethin~g cauali to that and better than that is an every day occurrence in Heaver.. God takes some of e.hose who in this world were fihers of men and who toiied very hubl., but because of the way they mnded their mics and employed their nets after thor were mernded He sud der hoirts themr an~d robes them and scepters them artI crowrns them arnd mkes them rulers over narny e:t.eS, ard. lHe rrarches armies of saved ones before them in review Ilut do not spend your time fEshing with Lookc and line. Why did not Jaes, the son of Zebedee. sit on th~e wharf at Cana, his feet hangin:g over the lake. and with a long pale and a worm on the hock dipped into the ware wait for somne mullet to swimnup arnd be caught? Why did not Zebedee spend his afternoon trying tocatch one ee? No, that work was too slow. These men were not mending a hook and lirne; they were mendirng their Inets. So let the church of God not be content with having here one soul and net month another soul brought into the kingdom. Sweep all the seas with nets-scoop nets, seine nets. dragnets, a:l encompassing nets, and take the treasures in by hundreds and thou sands and millions, and rnations wi:l be born in a cay and ti~ hemispheres quake with the tread of a rarnsoming God. Do yotu know what will be the two most tremendous hours in our Heavely existence? Among the quad rillions of ages whi:h shall roll on what two occasions will be to us the greatest? The day of cur a:-rival there will be to us one of the two greatest. The second greatest, I think, w'iil be the day whea we shall have put in parallel lines before us what Christ did for us and what we d:d for Christ. the one so great, the other so Mte. That will be the o::ly embarrassment in Hleaven. My Lord an::amy Gcd. What will we do and what wi:: wve say when on one side are placed the Saliour's great sacrifices for us and; our sma.. sacrifices for Ilimn; liis ex:e, Iis hu miliation, ils agonies on one ha::d and our poor, weak. insun:ler.t sacrifices on the other. To s-asks11:e c'ontras: less overwhelmirg It us quichiy mend our nets, and, like the Ga::an fisher Imen, mar we be d:virnely heped to cast them on the right side of the ship. Germarny secured in the Atnericao market in 19i,0 over $0,000,000 worth of mineral o'l triurg earnivd ore ofI t-'e en ut iro and the tme wtr' ea.'r sihed by the your.g woman tramer et The Statei Monument. Tuesay Governor M'Sweeney sent the following spacial message to the two houses of the general asembly Gntlmen of the genra ammtbly: our c.tmnisson. aipiand to creet the muo~rcnt and mrrkes to ct Carolia troops who fut." o. th- his ti bttk~C ld of~ Ch'a. u re ilbec r et d i~ a c :ug and cet~atc Wt~ ',M r in the ecremifs, wvch the commi;sin lave ar a gri h ror t sth.e iinty duo the gre:. S~ae ry insure such a dea-ired rcSult. i'h ab ove date, May :i. 1901l, ha neen scicted for the unveiling and the dtled arranee5t will be ac rou ced throcgli the press of thle State ide time. Respectfully, i M 1iuS eeney, Gnvenor. GiLD LABOR BILL Kited in the 11uae ce Last T hut sday. ?iG MAJORITY AGAINST IT. Str:-r g Argum=n's Made for tird Agiinet thl' B-1, Ex ,ihc~s tr-m Which We P;int. The' child labor bill was defeated in the Housce of R-premtatives on Thurs da; by a vote of C6 to 32. The bill trsidled tht children under twelve years of age should not work in "facto lies. mines and textile manufacturing establishments." 'ihe fight on the bill began when Mr. Wcston called it up as a special order Thur:day morning. Mr. Rucker mov ed to strike out the enacting wordls A motion to coni-ue the bill was vo ted down by a i.rge majority, and the ceb :.te wv rAt or. Mr. Gunter of Aiken said that some thirn we arc trying to introdoc new mehod and that we should stick to :he e'd. But this is a prrgresaive age and S u . Car.lina t-hould keep her face o the front. Forty years ago South aroiina suffbred ur:der negro slavery. Today she is sufferme as merciless a slavery' b7 allowing 6 000 childen un der 12 years of age to be slaves in cot tor factories. The cotton mill presi der.t" who are hexe fighting the bill ad mit that the ignorance of the eatton mi liplcple <x3Ced their expecations. lie r ad from Col Orr's circular letter to :u-r.=.n his prosini( n. I: the d'seussicn before the com mittee on commerce and masufaotu-crs. who h ;rtented the cotton mills of tro ricdmcn;? It was the cotton mill president or superintend-ent .and one i tle preacher. The operative was not there represented. South Carolina is behind other Stato4. Sae is lagging be Sintd liussia, England, France and States in tLia government. One has only to go to the Richland or the Granby mill in Columbia to see c ildren working as veri'able slaves 11 hours aday to put money i'-.o the c ff -rs of the cerporation. He appeal ed f. r the chilkreo to be kept out of :h.. nise and the grease and stifing at m-o-phere of the mills. In reply to Mr. Galluehat he raid tltt 3t S.ates in the Union had laws rohibiting children from working in hiet mils unless they attenied schools ix months in the ye ar. In Massachu stts a rc ular s) stem of registration is tmnplm, ed. Mi- R B. A. Robinson of Anderson oip.:-ed the bill. He said his people want to be let alone. It is op:ioaal with the parents whether or not they would work children in the mills. ihere are a number of widows in cot cu nail disriots in this vicinity who I de;end npon the lab:r of their chil dren. He would be glad if the little ts did not hsve :o go out in tha fros y tuming to tick to ton. B a sie : Cy Las t- laber. Nobody has the i ht o0 tell him what hie must do wih hi- own children unless hie ah nuld abose themu. Who is makirg the greateet -uidue ol regrcen, the old cour.:ries mentioned by' M.r. Gunter or the Uni tedt Stat~s of Ameriaa. Mr. John MoMaster next secured the fir. This geestion came up in Eag std 10 y cars uefore the A merican revo !uion. Whon Watts and others men tind machinery to spin cotton, in the A rth of England arose wonderful neua:torics. In the course of time wonn and children wtre leased to the actries, and thc onurageous way in whycii thy w'ere treated led to labo.r nitationl rCd laber ernaetion in 1800 L is a mcerus arrument to as "A.n i y brothter's neper." Mr. McMaster *a::red that Mr. E l'son Sm~the had al-s tfore the comrcit tce that when he went to Anderson 20 years ago he found h people thec mest illiterate he had esr teen. Dr. Curry in visiting the hip yards at Norfolk had irquired who wre the skilled laborers who received the big pay and had found out that tey were northern men. All the big ay m- n in the n~iils come from the north a here they have laws of this k:d. _He doesn't want a class legisla ucn. ~He doesn't want a ih cotton mil owner class and a poor people ias. He wants a people of one kind, a ; copie who can read and write and make good citizens. Mr. M L. Smith of ramden favored the bilL. Erery South Carolinian is proud of the State's advancemient. But we now have a great problem to face, a problem which every manufacturing -tate has had to face and to solve. He -pke particularly upon the political as I pct of the q-iestion. The report of te State superintendent shows that al th u-h last sr $700,000 was spent fo: - u-atioa Lf white children and - )uuttu fur the Negroes there wer, I.->t300 Ne-grees in' the schools and but 1 >,) 00 whtnes. Under the leader shin a t-Uegh ul Negroce, that race is bo coinig educated. The white chili n.ut be taught to think of itself or ve nualy lose its citizmrshp. Tne cro id 'cy of the miil5 is toward commerial t~etion anid R publicanism. These popc should be naught upon the inn pis of Democracy. These children r not at work by their own will. They tare put there by inlolent parents who laf around ttrough the week and on Saturdy draw their chiidron's pay and pend it riotously. These people are to be the future citizens 'ihe girls to mike the ho~ncs, the boys to cast the - its, and it is the duty of this as se?.by to legislate for future genera LIoLs As to the petitions which had b circu'ated ber2, they amount to ttirm. It would not r<.qu:re much r tor e. thec c.perativestOsign them. M ~r. F.~ H. M. Mi rster said that he had Iv itd. the mails of the Piedmont. Dg 1itC the happy conditions eistlng i.n the Piedtmont new this legislauion is Inecessary. It is not to consider wheth er one parent is kind and one is cruel, but it is to be determined whether children barely out of the cradle must be employed in the mills. Conditions in a mill cannot be healthful and can n: e condue.'o to good citizenship. *.e older employes are shown by sta -httcs to bo more illiterate than the vo hall the disapproval of the il jttet eiacrs toward this bill be taken -a healthy sentiement. Mr .R B A R.>binson wanted to ko if Mr. McMater thought the Iemont representatives wer' lj ing b aut the attitude of the mi 1 opera Mr. MaMaster replied certainly not. ie areed with the Piedmont repre ientatives that the conditions there are deal. And it is to diffuse these ideal c onditions among all the mills of the S~ate that he was speaking. Orr, S13 the and Pickens have written their .-ames g on the scol ofame They are doing A grand wort or huanity.i He could not find it in his heart to legiskte againct aeairnt su "h mnrr, be would not do Tt. It was in behalf of hum'nity rather ttaa sgaiast car v. rations. Go to Pelzr, he said. There you will find school houses and churchrs ai fica as any in Columbia cr Charle ton, furnished by t'e ownters of -the mills for the u:e of the op-ritives. There Capt. Smythe, gtorious be his nane, has worked among the opera- I tiv8s. There many facilities and c.on vroieaccs and luxuries are furnished f:ree to the operatives be tne ti 'iho people d:-ire no h giiation. for they nced rtine. Bu: the questin it shall we put oticr mili communities on the same plane? shall we remain in the plane of the dark ag s or shall we aduance as Er-g land has done? We are nod just c tiring into a manufacturing era and from the experience of Eo.aind and New England this legislation is neec sary. He closed with an earnest disclaimer that be would not legislate against cor perations. Mr. Prince of Anderson said that he could not be frightencd by the inti mation that within two years the labor unions would tak charge of the Pied ni nsrd leave him sod others at homn'. Re ri sentib g as good people. as there are on thie face of the tarth, be is not afraid to do is duty and gzo ha -k to th^.m. Mr. Prince .sted t'at hit hon~e is in a ward in which fc'o-y p:opie live. There is nit a nre orderly cotl niuotty anywhere In reply to the statement of Mr. Jhn McMascr t_1t the operatives of the scu h would always be servants to n.rthern superin tetdents and bosses. Mr. Prince stated that the superintendent and bonses of the mill at Anderson are coun'y born. These operatives, he continued, c;We fro nthe mountains of Georgia, Tennes sye and the Caro'inas. Tey get morm in a couple of months out of the mills than they d d in a year in the m;un tains. They are sturdy paojle wi i good, hard tense and make good citi z-ns. laikingabout raisingupe:iminals why Pjlzer, a town of 6,000 people, is kept clear of crime by owe magist-ate and his constable. C uld the same thing be said of Columbia or any other place? The mill children are not harder worked than they were on the farms and they are better fed and better clothed. Whence came the ignorance in the mills. It come from the country; God bless the euntry. He was a coun try raisci boy hinaelf and said this in noill feeling to the country. Ho then defended the R.v. T. C. Ligon who had opposed the bill befcre the com mi:too a-id who had been referred to by Mr. Guater. narlie Ligan is roae of your steeplcchase p reaohers. He is a man. God made him a man. Mr. Prince meant no rcfi !e ion upon the gntlemen who had difered with Mr. Ligon in the public print, but Mr. Li gon had lived with the fictory pepe and knows them and the other preacners had not. The operatives are not allow ed to drink :n Pejzer and other towns He cited the drunkard who takes the wages of his childryn who work in stores atd is i imself a town loafer as a charac ter unknown to well regu'a-ed mill com munities. We are just on the thr shold of a great mill building era r n I he wnt~d no le:,islarion -:hich wonud b-c coutry to the spirt of the tiu:es Toe people who are labosers now , oakl be bo:SeS in the millN to be built. i.L con teded that girls between 14 and 18 arc injured worse than children. Mr. Francis H. Weston, author of the bill under fire, was.next reco.;nized He said that insir.,ations had been made by one side or the other about what would happen to the political future of the m--n who voted for or against the bil. He oared not how it would affect his political fu.ure, but he would ad vocate the bill because he believed it to be right. It is true that Soutti Car li.a mtiis emplo caldren under 12 years of age. The 'iu sion is, she~! tis be stopiped? The couao:r2 is ruled by meu ilaced in power by the balots ol the people. The gaestimn is. aall the countiy be ruied Dy an intelligent constituenc 0? South Csrolina ranks among the lowest States in the Union in the matt~r of illiteracy. If the child dos not get education in its tender -ears, the opportunity is lost forever. The constitution of South Carolina bases cit izen~hi p upon inte-lligence. In teligence among th3 ptopie is nccs sasy to the prestervation of liber y. Are we to labor fo'rever under the blight of illiteracy? Ule--s we take some steps we will do so. What m ekes Massachu setts so prosperous? Because her chit dren are being educated and the eda caed mind produces the greater re suts than matter. South Carolina has never waited for any other State to mark ou: the path of duty and the time is at hand for her to ant in this matter. It will not hurt the mills. Mr. Croft of Aiken, said that the question is comparatively a new one Within the past few years many thous ands of people have been engaging in the mill business and many new prob lems are being presented for solution. We can profit by the experience of other States. He has a kindly feeling for the nmillh. Indeed, but a few days ago he had on this flbor showed his :r:nship for thenm Bat this is a qusimn of higher s'guincane. II was absolutely e-rtain that the proposi ton is right. ITae bili seeks to give health and intehi;;enee to these littie ones. R.2b these cuildren of the few years when the free sniools are open t them and their opijortunity is g~ne forever. The hone of white dominion is in the intelligence of the white pee ple. He passed an encomium upon the county of Anderson. And this proud county does not need the very law which we arc tr3 ing to enact. He eon gratulated Ande-rson on the voluntary action of its m 11 presidents in estab lihing a system such as this bill pro pss for the entire State. Turning to Mr. Prince, he said: Are you sincere when you say that this bill would insult these people? It woult elevate them. L aws 1.ave been already passed limniting the hours of labor. Since that law baa passed has not South Carolina sprung forward and distanced the Uaion? They had been told that the creation of a railroad commission would ruin the railroads of the State. Sine that time many miles of track had been laid. The law protects a man's ox, his horse or his mute. Saall the beasts of the fields be protected and not ch~ldren? Insectivorous birds cannot be kiiledi. Tie maj -stic bumzrd is protected, but not the ch.ildren of the S a:c. Chld laber has not breu;ht prosrer ity. Prosp.ririy has come in spite o.f child labor. To the honor of old Pela: it may be aid that her stock is greater above all others in the State. And this is a mill which does not employ child labr. Calling to 1.im one of the little pages of the house, Mr. Croft gave a strikiog objet lesson. The child was just 10 years old Mr. Croft said that thous ands of children of this size arc going to work by starlight in the morning and comit'g home by starlight at night. He would not all..ne the honesty of +'eriC; , but tl Ci j ;;m' nt cannot l . erine :' they thik that to labour in n.i NEer=fi ehil rer. Hie e '... t, is e:n ,: i .tni t: of the i. feeie Jfcu- hlri and toldi fce'.l y i the, ef*'et u ) th p'i C'1 i l.Il I .n2 f chil lrc w-o hai CoC 7:und.r ".i oo erv:-.ion3. Tac faetory oporatives are a9 po'r as poverty itself. For generti.i they have bern shut cf! froth eucstien and colight ment and t ley are no: am-. to; ;rcped iy d'se-i:in'te a to the u;;'s simi's fer te' r dcrio:: ii rC:dt he 071; of onttn mill le i:tio: i. E hi. In 1302 R brt Peci, the cdelar. suceecdui in hvrin c Ai.r n undel- v ysr+ o" zg,,kept out o: e .ottn maus. Ib rt Peel. the own: r. aed the late queen in ier cairiy reign, er'lei these laws. Ger many, witch leads adl the empires of the world, g es ev'n further and has compulsory education. Mssachusetts prohibits children un der 13 from working in mills. a-d at 13 they must ehow that they have been at school five months the year before. And furthermore no womiari or m'Dor can be cmp; bd to work rnro than 10 hours a d.y. Tacse decr= fay it is heahhful for chil'iron to work i: mils. Where is the it c imn:uo-i :to' E , In i, a. 'h . i rr :abor ln-v+, has m.1, Lore tr;, e'5 is t'C at few mdolt:h tht.n the g~r"at cr'um rnweal th of Auier2es. it' hund a! editarial fromi Tie S. t' to :n:s effect. fHe descrbed the grandenar o? Amer i.:a atd cls::ie. tThat th. white wan mtus; br supr.m^. Tne census of 1890 shwed th.t in this S.ate there were 6-9.141 negroes and but 462,003 stites. 'is was one of the States for.-ed to adopt suffa.;e qialific~aions in order to preserre to the wh it ma his su p nremsy. In 1190 there were 33 761 white peo ple i i A;kn aid 13.1000 negroes. Since' trat three cuttoC tls have been ba:lt in Aiken county and the population of the races is about even, yet the ne groei have 1,3)0 more childrer at school than have the white people. Lancaster safely has a white ma jarity as to pojulation, but as to school population taue Negroes ex eel. There is no grander county in the state than Laurens, and in :umbers the races there are about even, but there are 4,779 Negro children at sohoo~l there and but 2.378 whites. What E igland and the enligatened world have en dorsed, Sauth Carolina mist endorse to save the supre.naey of the white man. At this juncture there was sparring for more une. The motion to adj orn was voted down and Mr. -BAnks called the prevtoui question. Tuis, if adopted by the house, would shut out all am.nd ments except as such as had aiready been sent up and would shut off debate. Tne houze oy a vote of 63 to 33 caged for the porvious glestlun which was the motion to sarau out the enacting words of the ti 1. This motion previl ed and by a vote of 66 to 32 the bill of Weston, along with the subititate, was kiiied. Fohowing is the vote on the motion to strtk zout the enticung words: Ye.s-A:hiey. Auli Ausain, Binks, B-aurud, Bice:s, Botte, Brooks, Brown, Butitr, a.pbe(L Cogeshali, u.ck, Darron, Dunoar, Daraut, E.decr, Estriegc, Fox, Fraser, Frcman.n, Gal H-umphrev, Jsues, .Johnson, Kibier, Knard, Kjinsey, Lide, Little, Lomaax, Lyies, blauldin, Mtayson, McCali, 2d10 Loa, )1Lxsowan, 31ahoe, M1organ, Nichols, Prince, Pyatt. Rankin, Red karp, Rlobinson, C E B.'bioson, R. 1B. A Rua~ier, S .shou'e, :sander', S zitn d'eow ,nuhnpi-on, V'incent, Witiams, WAi son, W iigo, Woodwar-62 Nays-S avaison, speaker; Bates, Bis, B ;aan, Carter, Croft. Etirl, Gieton, G -uti, Gunter, Jarnimpa. M1--, 'lurenioa, Rounards, Rienard son, Se:g~er. Samat, 31. L Smroman, Ecm lh us, lhouas, Webb, West, Wetn Woods-32. Mr. DeBruhl who would 1'ave vot ed noy was pa:red with air W. K. Par ker, and 31r. J. Ualdwell, Rouertson, who would hsve voted nay was also paired wnth an absent member. VIOTOitIra' INFhUENCE Was Exerted in Favor of the North During the Wa~r The most eritel thuc in cur reia tions with the Bmiih gevernment dar ing the civil war was in the affair of the Treat, late in 1861, when, as the many obituaries of the queen lately published have pointed out, her ma jesty's personal intervention in the pasages of diplomacy probably averted a war between Great Britian and the people of the North, whose conse quences would surely have included the permanent establishment of the SLu.hrn Confederacy as an independ nct nation. The main credit for the tuaiog uowvn of L'ord John Russeli's hrh dispatch to Lord Lyons concern ing thme Trunt ad ur mu->t be given. to the quaeo, sinco hers was the position of! rojal responsibiliiy; yet the future historians will nor forget to award sonc measure of applause to the queen's hu~iand, the prince consort, with whom her mij sty was in thorough a opthy, and upon whom she dt pend ed Iargem;y fhr guidance in affairs of state. It is wed known that her ma jsty and the prince. scrutinized in com pany Lord Ra-sell's obeihiose dispatch, anie tnat the prince drew up the mtno ranum wh *h emboied the crown's views as to the ctaes that ought to be mimde ii is language. TIhe qucee., howver, n .ade swme am'encm~nis to er hus~oand's dr Ift, which was then forvarie.d to the mriisry. It we speak with entire ainuracy, the memorandum ws the work of both minds. The prince consort died within a month after the Trent episode, and Victoria was leit alone to carey the bur dens of state, which, as the esso of the Treat had demonstrated, were of ten of immnense weight, even to a soerign of modern Britain. It was highly ~fortunate for America that no crisis tA equal acuteness occurred there. af:er in our relattons with the British govrnent, for the gmien's ministers, Riael andt lemnaSton, ren.anedI on theo watch ier anu opportuiy to inter fro in the str~us betrween thme North and :hle So uth. Not tflat the queen woud havj been ea-ly iuflu'n eedl by those plotters against the Union in Aerics; yet under the mournful cir umstances of her stuaning domesoi bereavenct, the loss of the consort's sagacous counsel and so on, it is highly probabic that the ministers would have hd their way had they comec to the oint of intervening in favor of the South. Luckily conditions never favor ed them after the Trent affair. It wais not ddinitely known in this cunry until recent years that the ities ministers in our civil war period sought an op.porriuity to smash the Americanl Umnt. ''r- *ecret correspon cence between Rus.ellsar.d Palmerston, whih is n ,w avaijlblo, prova that they were at heart hostile to the re. tub!ic and its pas-ion for national unity Even before the Trent affair Lord Ras ecil wrote, on Oc:over 17, 1861, -o L-rd PIaimerston, c neerning the olin ;o: of Lte Frerch minister at Washing. torn, that the blockade abouid be rained by outside force: There is much c.o i sense in Mercier's oKervtio&s. Bu: we -uit wait. I am r:ade i thattf ue do anything i: must h on a grand seTl. It it not di for Enzin anad Frane to break the b.oco ad,- for tu-na e t f etting cation. But, ia Earcpn, pzowers haec'ten said to b-iiger:..t , M.ae up 3or quarrels. We propose to g:ve terms of pacific i tion whichl we tlik fair and equi a'le. if you acep: them, well and good. But if your adversary accepts them, sad if }oa r-fuse them, out mediati->a is at an end, and you must expect to see us your enemies. Frenee wouid be quite ready to hold this language with us. If eush a polior were to be adopted the tams for it would be the end of tea year or immntdiately before the meeting of pa:liment." W:th that letter b fore us today, we can more fualy understand the curt, p remtory, b:liicose is-guage in which Lird Russell abut -tx weeks cat, r couch.a his draft of the no e to tae B~niish casiistcr at WVahirgion de a a :dteg tl e release of Mlason atid Siiell. and a ap..lgy for zhe.r Er z ue. Lo d R-ieli taw in toe Treat .ffir ti e app'rtuaity to intcrveae in the war wit c i ne had been alreadiy an ticipaiag in his secret aarre-pond ac wi:th Lard Pal.Lerscon. A.d ktoenng tha- the British cabinet was on the lookout at that timt fr a cha.c t to help the south, we can bet er appiaise the vdu-e of the qaeen's pacific service in rewritng Lard Ru s1h's dispatch. L-ss than ayear had Iassed afttr tae n'Leut zf sir a A the iam~nted deata of Alber: the: Good when her majesty's ministers were again plotting for the undoing of America. On September 14, 1862, the premier wrote this note: "My Dear Russeil: Tne detailed so counts given in the Observer of today of the batties of August 29 and 30 be tween 'onfederates and Federals shov that the lat.er got a very comp'ece smashing; and it seems not altogether unlikely that stiil grtater disasters await them, and ti a. even Washing ton or Baltimore may fall into the l ands of the Confederates. If this should happsa, wouid it not be time for us to eonsider whether in such a state of things England and France might act adaress the contending parties and re commend an arrangement on the Davis of separation?' L~rd Riose'l hal noted the "very smashitg' defeat, and was prt.mpt to answer 'M3 D: a- Pa.merston: Whether the Federal army is destroyed or no., it is clear that it.. . .. bas made no pro gress in subdaing the insurgent States Such being the oa-e, I agree with 3 on that the time is come for .ff.ring me diatian to the Uit.d States govern ment, with a v:e v to the recognition of the independence of the Confeder ates. I agree further that, in case of failure, we cught ourselves to recog biz, the Soutbh rn States as an indepen dent Sta:e. For the purpose of takiog so important a ste p, I think we D~ust haea meetine of the cabinet. The 231 or 30th would suit me for the mecet itg We ougte., thecn, if we agree on such as-.ep, to pro'o se it first to Fran 2e, and then, on the pan& of England and France, to Russia and other powers as a nieasure dec.ded upon by us. We -ought to make ourselves safe in Canada, not by sending more troops there, but by concentrating those we have in a few defensible posts before winter sets in. ' The whole ischeme of finally destroy ing the American Union by Enropean intervention was thus mapped cout by the Bish foreign ministers as erri aSe ptember 17, 1862. P~simeraten an sweredi the 23d tia-, he th.2ught Rus seli's plan ''Lo be excellent.'' le rather ohj seted, however, to asking Russia to join in "the offer of mediation," "be cause ,he would be too favorable to the North." The plotting of ber majesty's mit-is ters was at that point, however, check ed by the failure of the army of Nor thern Virginia to defeat the forces un der Gen. McClellan at the battle of An ti-,tam and the cu~ome ?f the next meeting of the British cabinet was that the ministry decided nt to move in the mit:er. Nor did they find an other oppartunity. The later attempt at intervention, which was engineered by L )uis Napoleon, met a resolute op pornent in Russia, whose fiaet was sent to New York in 1863 on a most signifi cant mission. Viersburg and Gettys burg, also, brourht the plotters to a re alzation of the utter futility of the who'e programme. The queen was ntt without attach ment for Louis Napoleon, and especi ally for his v-ife, Euigenie, but there is no evidece , that she ever displayed interest in, or even had krnowledge of, the intervention co ipirsey, which her own inibters and Napoleon nursed so Ilong and tenderly. Her record in that Ientire crisis was made up in the Treat sffar, which was the turning point in our country's foreign relations during the civil war.-Springseld Reiublican Stunting the Pig. This may be done in a great many ways. First an unfortunate beginning by being born of stunted parents. Sec ond by a poor system ot feeding the dam-a limited ration or one not suit to the nourishment of the system and that of the pigs. Third, by too scanty feeding after weaning, with the ex pectation of better fe~eding after the crops are grown. Fourth. by roo lib) eral feedIng after sucking and after weaninz on foods too rich in fair. This last is probably the most expensive of all. For bestiles the loss of growth. the farmer loses the excessive amount of crain fed. The stunted pig, from whatever cause. is an unprofitable in vestmnent on any farm. The thrifty pig Is always a pleasure to his owner. Uniform Color in Cattle. Farmers are so impressed with the Importance of good breeding that those who buy stock cattle are very particu lair as to color. Reds, roans and blacks command a big preminm over the or dinary mixed type, and even dealers in stock calves sort them up accordinge to color. Such animals would not make nt better gain than other kinds. but bn., ers realize that they would sell bet ter than fat. everythin'g else being equal. Th color fad is not entirely a fntd, and, of course, cuts absolutely no f:rure in the final test on the butcher's bincek. but there are very few people wvho are not pleased with th2e appear asnee of,a lot of an~mals of uniform color.-Drover's JTournal. Cutworms are fond of fresh, tender young plants, but are yet more fond of sweet substances and. also wheat bran, Bly mixing molasses and bran. 2 ats. to 50 lbs., and adding 1 Th. of Paris green and water enough to make a thick mash, scattering along by the plants. their destruction is assured. Stir the molasses In 1 gal. warm water ANOTHER SOUTHERN JOKE How the Irrepressible Actor Once Confused the Ironmonger's Clerk. The elder Sothern was a great prac tical joker, and I have frequently re printed stories of his mad career in that capacity. Here Is another one that has drifted to the surface. Mrs. John Wood apeared with the elder Sothern in the same company for several seasons. On one ocasion, while the company was playing in Birmingham, 'Mrs. Wood met Sothern in the street. They were near an iron monger's shop, when he shook hands with her and bade her good morning. "Would you mind going in here with me? I want to make some smafl pur chases," he sail. She acompanied him. le went up to the counter and said: "I want Macaulay's History of Eng land." The assistant said: "We do pot sell books, sir; this is an ironmonger's shop." "Well, I'm not particular," said Soth ern. pretending to be deaf. "I don't care whether it is bound in calf or Russia." "But this is not a bookseller's," shouted the assistant, getting red in the face, while Mrs. Wood stepped aside and took a chair in another part of the shop. almost overcome with sup pressed laughter al the cheerful, frank expression of Sothern's face and the mad, puzzled look of the shopkeeper's assistant. "Do it up as if it were for your own mother. I don't want anything better than that.' said Sothern. 'I would like to write my name on the fly leaf." "Sir?" bawled the assistant at the top of his voice, "we do not keep books!" "Very well." said the actor, quite un disturbed at the emotion he was creat ing. "I will wait for it." Under the Impression that his cus tomer was either stone deaf or a luna tic, the assistant bounced off ~to the lower end of the shop and asked his master to come. saying. "I can do noth ing with that man: I think he must be off his head." Whereupon the prin cipal marched off to where Sothern was standing and asked very loudly: "What is it sir? What do you desire?' "I want to buy a file," returned Sothern quietly, "a plain file, about four or five inches in length." "Certainly," said the principal, with a withering look at his assistant, and produced at once the article which had been asked for. That's Why. Q. Why did the fly fly? A. The spider spied her.--Ally Sloper. Three From the Goober State. I. He wuz the undecidest Uv enny mortal critter; He lowed ez how he loved a gal But never did he get 'er; He 'lowed he could support a wife En then he 'lowed he couldn't; He 'lowed ez how he oughter wed An' then he 'lowed he wouldn't In politics hit wuz the same; One day he wuz fur tariff, The nex' he 'lowed he'd change his He said he didn't care if The Guv'ment taxed the whole blamed wol' No reason why it shouldn't He 'lowed he'd vote Republickin, En then he 'lowed he wouldn't ReligIon, too, he'h talk erbout; Baptizin' en backsldin'; To day his doctrine's praises shout To-morrow jes' deridin'. One time he was a Methodis', En nex' time shout he couldst One minnit 'lowed that "he'd be darned" En' then he 'lowed he wouldn't II. If our present verb is "teach," And in past ye; call it "taught,' Why not when the present's "preach," WrIte the past as rightly "praught?' While the yesterday of "reach," Correspondingly Is "naught?" If to-day the waters "freeze," And last winter time it "froze,' Then the present action "squeeze," In the past would turn to "squoze," And if there's a past to "these," Isn't it just as aptly "those?' i' the present. too, is "speak," And the past of "speak'' is "spoke," When you use the ancient "eke," In the past you call it "oke." And if anything you "seek,' When you've found it then it's "soak." IIL. There was a noted LL.D., Eelonging to the F. F. V., A raember of the G. o. P., Whose son was in the U. S. V. I'd sold the son things f. o. b. I wouldn't ship them c. o. d., Bt sent a letter viz.: A bill, a note, "R. S. V. P.." He hadn't paid a single sou I then decided what I'd do; I wrote: "I hold your L. 0 .U.; 9ill s.ee your father p. d. q." Full anietly, then this U. S. V. For fear the irate LL.D. Night dock his monthly M. 0.. B., Ecised his check for twenty-three -Atlanta JournaL A Hot Definition. "'n hat did that fellow mean who wrote something about 'What is so rare as a day in Jlune?' , "Guess he meant cooked 'rare.' - Cleveland Plain Dealer. Glad of It. The Columbia Reecrd says the col lapse of the Vesta mills' experiment with~ negro labor in Charlestoo is greet ed with j iy by factory operatives and newspapers throughout the state. Had it succeeded, the employmtnt o' every white operative in the state would have been endangered, for the cheaper pries of r egro labor would have appealed powem fully to factory managers. A Bishop's View. The late basbop of Lindon was the author of a eaying which at onetim drew the wrath o? ali the women down upon his head. i-e was a great club m~n lunching evey a a:, the Athe neum. One diy, oa bemag asked to de fine a club, he answerc: 'A place where women ceate hoom troubling and the wicked are at rest. The farmers should make no ealcula tion other than to grow their supplies at home this year. There is no doubt but that is the key to prosperity with farmers. We have neger known a far mer who produced dig own supplies every year who was not a satisfied, mro~prmU itizen.