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REMcO ASOLA Dr. Taimage Speaks Comfortin; Words for the Righteous. Diacourse for Those Whose Live! Have Many Anxieties-Al I Well Lor the Believer - 'irut wyoeoughly in God. (Cepyriht. iSt9. by Louis K:opsch. N. Y.. W sh.r:ton, Feb. 3. There is a great so:ace in this dis ccu:rse . ifr. T.::i.age for those h'vosc lives L.e maay anieties; text Isaiah 3:10: "Say ye to the right ecous that it sh.zl, be well with hin." Here is a promisi for people Whc are all right, but who will conc r get it? How many, or, rat!:er. ho" few, people do you know ,v are right? If it were asked of y a 1et bly that those who wer_ - 4 rise up, none ...: rse ex : eiles and reil: ' that rce n I wrong way, and ^e have not dot ore' It. We r:now a great many sp:erdic men and ' women- bt they wi:l to'. ya t':at they^ hare not Elf w..s do.e the right thing or thought the right 'hought. If it were any of your business, they cou'd gire you ar inventory of frai:ties and mistakes and infelicities that would be astenishing Eere, then, yc'i sal, is a Bjibe prom iLe that goes a-hegging: "Say ye te the righteous that it shall be wel' with him." It is my delightful work to-dcy tc show you that all the sons and daugh ters of Adam and Ere may appropri ate the benediction of my text iI they will fret do the right thing. Over here in the next street was a man who in great misfortune lost all he had and was positively beggared, but a letter comes from some European city where the lard rcordi ar, kept announcing to him that a g:at. for tune is his. Now he is a op:'.ent as he was pauperize,. H? dofes his rags and puts on respec:abe attire and moves into a horn" appropriate for a man of vast es:ate. His worldly cir cuinstances were all wrong last year: they are all right this year. On the zext street is a man who was from perfec: health prestrated. and he seemed to be sick unto death. bnt a skillful physician took correct diag nosis of his disease and by prompt and vigorous treatment restored him to his former vigor. As to his health he was all wrong before; now he is all right, In these two w-ars I illus trate my theme. By sin we hare all been morally bankrupted. Christ the Lord from 2is inflnite riches pays onr debts and emparadises us in Eis mercy. From His richest wardrobe Ite pnts on us the clean robe of Fie righteousres and giree us a palace in the it-avens when we are reaty to go up std take it. Now, as to our s- r~tial esta., we are P:. righ... We were morsaly dis eased, but Christ the physiaraa. by a bath In the fountain of grace, cures us. Now, as to our spiritual health. we are all right. That is the way we eome to the righteousness spoken of In the text. It is a contributed right eousness, a made-over righteousness. an imputed righteousrness. The mo ment you get into right relations with Christ the Lord that moment you can appreciate the magnif cent comfort of the text, and I defy you, in all this great book, from tbe Arst Tarse of the first chapter of Genesis to the kast verse of the last chapter of Rev elation, to find me a passage with higher and deeper and broader- and longer comfort than that of the text. which is as deep as the Atlantio ocean halt way between the continent, and high as the sun when the clock is striking 12 at noon. But I shall be swamped with the oceanie t~des of this subject unless the Lord help me to keep a foothold. "Say to the right eous that it shall be well with him." Bear in mind that but few people aan stand worldly success. Water is a good thing, but too much of it will drown. Filre Is r. good thing, but too much of It will destroy. tightning is a good thing, but too much of it daz 21et and blinds. Suecess is a good thing, but too much of it has over whelmea many for this world and the next If it were best for us, we would all be millionaires. live in palaces like the Alhambra and be as personally at tractive as Cleopatra appeared to An tony. Blut most of folks could not endure such superabundance, and It Is absolutely ltecessary in order to keep them right that nine hundred and ninety'-ninoe men out of one thou sand should End life a struggle. It keeps them out ot mischIef. After' Adam -was ejected frore t-he premises where by ten m!hutes of employment a day he could keep the garden and (ress it the best thing that could hap pen to him was compulsion to work and fgbt. The ground that bloomed with spontaneous flowers and rustled writh harvests that owed nothing to p low or hoe became hostile, and bramn ble was substituted for rose, and the panther growled where before he fawned, and horn and fang and hoof becams belligerent. That Edenio efeet ment shows us as nothing else ever could that idleness or only a few min utes of employment a day are doom and everthr ow. Put it down among your blessings Instead of your mis fortunes that you have to work hard with brain ora hand or foot or all three of them. How many men do you know worth $250,Coo who are devout and conse erated rand humbea and generous and employing their rmeans for the world's redemption? You could count them up on the fingers of your two hands, even if by accident or war you had test one or two of your fingers. As to the realm of personal attractive aesa, how many women radiant of countenance and graceful of torm do you know who are unaffected and mat MARK TWAIN'S LATEST. One of the Keenest Satires He Ever! Wote. In The North Amierican Review for* February Mark Twain publishes one oft the keenest satires that ever came even from his pen. The article is one of thel most cauistic reviews of the imperialist policy and tenics of the adminis trationi tba' -* have seen. Mr. Clemens tate= e - c "Ihe Person Sitting~ in auka. " Hoersges presdenL McPKiley withn playing "the Euroscan gama, the Chamberliin gae ar.'l .og-- n~ 0s O the president yeen he -. Thr -n-ur ithalt line sayin wil oe cumve by kic rtnembrarce of to cte of h* h- one-ht he forgot it Wr' t tntwelvCen:, and its hoa . able go - org wn it." la the oono of thC strbt the I enighted 'eathenfr whe e "g:.od and go>s we aire making such exertions mu-t be Sma et manae and deeply pious Ue fare 90A, aaing their beauty for the bettermens of the vworld and not for selfsh purposes? I only take the risk of asking the question and leave to you the risk of answering it. These things I say to show you that in order to have the promise of the text ful iled in your case it is not necessary Sou have phenomenal worldly succesas. Notice also that God given the righteous the power to extract good out of evil and by a divine chemistry to change the bitter into the sweet and the harmful into the brneicai. The promise that it shall e wel W you does not i:pu .y . you are to be free from tro:re. yhere is no escape from that. We t:: he' fayniiv reia t nd some of en wa ; be mrnk ing exit fromt tis wor:d. so that be r.-emertt : the universal inherit nce. So also is nuanc.a! loss. The difference between the prospered and c:ose not prospered is the difference in the arou:nt they can afford to lose. The more wealth a man has the more he can lose, but one man can afford to Lose a million dollars where anoth er :an cannot afford to lose one dol lar. On larger ar smaller scale al suffer financial loss. Amid the rapid ity of the revolutions of the wheel of national and international finance monetary perplexity is as common as day er night. So also misinterpretation and slan der came to a:: who live active lives. Our actior.s. thoroughly honest and above board, may come under sus picicn. Every courtroom at every term of court hears illustrations of the de lusion of what is called circumstan tial evidence. Innocent men are fined or imprisoned or electrocuted because of an unfortunate conjunction of events. What is +rue in courtrooms is true in all circi,-s of domestic or social or political or offcial life. You have been misunderstood and miarep resented or will be misunderstood and misrepresented. Then how can my text be true? My explanation is this: The man w!tho':t any divine gruce in his heart inds in these troub:es irri tation and unbelief and melancholia and desnair. A Christian man finds in them st:bmission and enlarged views and divine support and reconsecra tion. Bereavement to the wordiir.g brings bard thoughts of God and a re sistance so violent it dares rot fully express itself. Bereavement brings to the Christian the thought of heavenly reunion and a more complete laying hold of God, and a more tender appre ciation of the divine presence. and deeper gratitude that we were per mitted to have the departed one so long, and a more lively sympathy for the sorrows of others and another evi dence of God's love, for "whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth." Financial lose, which I just now said is sure to come, never breaks up a man who has strong faith in God. In most cases it is a loss of surplus or It Is the banishment of luxuries. Most of the wants of the prosperons classes are artincial wants. The late Mr. Ar Icur of the $S.9O.C3o estate pcinted to one of hia clerks on ordinary salary and sald: "That man has a better ap petite than I, sleeps better night, and enjoys life more than I do." Oh, the gigantic miseries of those who have too much! A man in Solomon's time expressed as philosophic and reason able a wish as any man of those times or of our times. Hi name was Agur, and he offered a prayer that he might never have a superabundance or a deficit, crying out: "Give me neither poverty nor riches." On the one side he had seen the awful struggle of the poor to get food and clothes and shel ter and to educate their children, and on the other side he had seen the gouty foot and the indigestion, and the Insomnia, and the anxiety about large investments, and the threatened paresis often characteristic of those who are loaded up and loaded down with too many successes. Those peo plc who are generally called the mass es--that is, the most of folks-have the thinge absolutely necessary for their well being. They have no Mu rilloson their wail, nor a "Belehazzar's Fenst" in the dining room, nor a p air of $3,000 sorrels at their doorway. But they have something which those superabund antly supplied seld om have. They have better health because, be ing compelled to walk, they get the necessary exercise, and, their diet be ing limited to plan food, they do not suffer from midnight salads and are not victimized by rare eaterers. They retire for wholesome sleep at the 'ery hour in which others are leaving their homes for the dance or the card party. They will sleep the last sleep just as well in the plain gravnyard as those who have over them an arch of sculp tured granIte in costliest necropolis or most historical abbey. The reason so many people are mie erable is because they do not let well ehough alone. They are in one occu pation and see its annoyances and so change to another occupation and find as many annoyances, if not mere. They live in one place and know its uncomfortable environments and move Into another place which haa just as many limitations. Their Investments yield them four per cent. and they sell out to make Investments that .dll yield ten per cent. and lose all. Ret tersettle down and step fretting about yourself and the world. D~o any of us fully realise the fact that God gives us three things in un limited supply, although no formula of prayer that I ever heard recognizes them-water, air and sunlight? Water by the riverfuil. Water by the lakeful. Water by the oceanful. Some for ablu tion, some for slaking of thirst, some for baptistery, some for fountains and aquariums. I never appreciated what a woniderful thing water is until last summer I stood by the fountains before and around the emperor's palace at Pe terhof, Russia. I had been familiar with this wonderful element of nature from childhood, having been born on the banks of the beautiful Raritan and as a barefooted boy dabbled In the brook near my father's house. But I greed and Godliness." He cancludes by expouding the facts of the case in the following words: rai~ "They look doubtful, but inrelt they are not. There have been lies; yes, but they were told in good cause. We have been treacherous; but that was only in order that real good might come1 out of apparent evil. True, we have rushed a deceived and confiding pee pl; we have turued against the weak and the friendless who trasted u't; we have stampe-d cut a just and intel gentr ad well ordered republic; we have stabbed an ally in the back and slapped. the face of a guest; we have bought aI ,adow from an enemy that hadn't it to sell; we have robbed a trusting friend of his land and his liberty; wo have in vi ted our clean young men to shoulder a diectedited musket and do bandit's work under a flag which bandits have been accustomed to fear, not to follow; wo have debauched America's honort and blhekened her face before the world; but each detail was for the best We know this. The head of every .state i ad soverignity in Chlristendomn and 90 sever realised tnai lastsummer w,. water eould do in play, or in strange eaprice, or beautification, or when climbing the ladder of the light. of when skillful worhlnen took hold of it to toss it. or whirl tt. or shape it into crowns. or hoist it into coluens, o spring it into arches. or lift it inte stars, or :urn it itL0 crescents, or build it into temples. You forget you eves saw the :ess glorious waters at Chat worth, England, or Versailles. France as you stand in the balcony of the pal ace overlooking the Finland gulf. be wildered and transported as you look~ at the one display called the Golden Stairway fountain. The water rols down over 24 steps one foot high a:, 20 feet long. .\11 of these ': steps art covered with sheets of bi::::i hed go d Silver sten of the water on stairs ci gold! What a glee of in:isi Rolling dashing, foa:ni;:. :: :irg splen. dors! Chorus of ric:: Poetry of wa, tens: Doxclogy of torrents: taut that which most impressed rue there and elsewhere is the aibundance of water the fact that there are so many waters that the continents can afford to throw them away into the sea. Hudsons and Ohios, Oregons and Amazons, Rhines and Danubes and Volgas, and so abun dant that the earth can afford to have its oceans evaporate into the heavens Mediterraueans and Atlar.tis and Pa cifies. How rich the earth is wth wa ters1 Best beverage of al the :ations for after the richest banquet with the richest beverages everyonc wants at least a sip of it--water, cool water God descended water! With still more abundance is the als distributed. An earth full of it. A sky full of it. Swiftest and strongest eagle cannot fly so high as not to have it in the nostril or under the wing. And what afluence of aunlight! No one but the infinite God could dispense so much of it. The golden cndiestick set on the blue mantel of the heavens! So great that the Almighty is compared to it, the psalmist crying out: "The Lord God i a sun." It is high time that w recognize in our liturgies and in our formulas of prayer the three most abundant blessirgs of the universe which coe to al'. Some scientists are now discussing the opening of commnnitca:ion he tween our earth and the nianet Mars. Experircents are being made, but th'y will not succeed. We cannot build a fire ~arge enough to attract the at tention of that world or lift a lens powerful enough to see any response interstellar. We do niot positively know that that world is occupied by living beings, or that if it is occupied ommunication with them would be desirable. it might not be so good a world as this, and thus communica tton with it would be debasing. But I rejoice to know that Heaven is in touch with other worlds, for their improvement and a depot for glorious arrivals. It is a thoroughfare between this world and that world and a com ing and going perpetual. Going out o this world is as natural as coming in to It, but the one is with pang and the other is with rapture if we are fitted for the uplifting process. It shall be well with you. Now, do not get so frightened about that asthma or that cough or that influenza or that threatened pneumonia. The worst thing that fatal disease oan do is to usher you into coronation and enthronement. It shall be well with you. Take as good care of your health s you can, have all the sanitary laws, keep in this world as long as you are permitted to stay and then when the heavenly call comes be glad to go. [ do not care much about what your "lst words" are going to oe. People put too much emphasis on "last words." I woud rather know what your words are now, In days of health aud with mental faculties In full plai -your words of kindness, your words of sympathy, your words of helpful ness, your words of pnayer. So live that if you do not say a word during the last day of your lite there will be no doubt here about the place of your estination. Yea will go right into saintly, prophetic. evangelistic, apos tolc, cherubic. seraphic. archangelie, eific presence. It shall be well with you. Mfother, you will go right up Into the posses sion of the babe that the scarlet fever or croup took out of your arms, a sorrow that still stings you, and you often say she would now be so many years old if she had lived. You will go into the presence of the old folks, for I hope you are of Christian an estry, and you will Snd that they have no dimness of sight or halting gait that requires a staff, for they: have taken a draught from the foun tan of perpetual youth that springs from under the throne of God. Oh, the blissful companionship of Heaven n which you shall enter! It shall be well with you. I ring this bell of manipation and triumph. I like the way the sexton rings the bell of the old country meeting house. I used to tand and admiro him pulling the rope of that bell. He rings it a good while, so that every farmhouse within le miles hears It. He may halt a moment to take 'areath and give the sweet sounds time to stir up all the choes of the hills. And when he Is old and not strong enough to pull the rope any more, then he sits and lis tens while his son rings the church bell. So my text seems a bell of in itaton and victory. I began to ring it in the opening of this discourse. I isoe to ring It as long as I live, and may those who come after us keep n ringing it till those farthest off from God shall come Into the great temple of Gospel comfort and all the weary pul down their burdens at its altar and find that peace which the. world can neither give nor take away. Three times more I ring it. It shall be well! It shall be well! It shall be welli Net Depenable. Teacher-And why should wa e~ eavor to rise by our own efforts? Johnnie Ws--'Cause there's no tell in' when the alarm clock will go wrong.-Baltimore American. Thristendom, including our congress d our 50 state legislatures, are m~em ter Dot oiny of the church, but also of e Blessings-of-Civilization truzst. rhis world-girdling accumulatio-n of rained morals, high principles and ustice cannot do an unright thing, an infir thing, an ungcnerous thing, an nlen thing it knows wheat it is out. Give yourself no uneasiness; it sall right." Mark Twain could not have found a ,nttr subject foir satire and nobodly ould have bandied it with the scathing everity exhibited in the article from rhih we have qnoted.-Atlanta Jour A Mean Monster, The Atlanta Journal says: Bsceause e could not tie her husba'nd's shoe tol nit him, Mrs. Beauilah Powell, a-tcord-~ to all- gations make in her petition r dvorce fied Wednesday morning in e superior court, was beaten by her ubnd, Thomas C. Powell. At other m~es her husband was cxtromely e-uel nher, cihe oharges, and she cites this instanc3 as showing his trestmeni A FAMOUS STORY. The Horse Swappers as Depicted in Georgia Scenes. HOW BLOSSOM WAS FOOLED When He Swapped Bullet and Gave Three Dollars to Boot for Another, Ki*, the "C'itter In the "Georgia Scenes" is the typi cal picture of horse swapping in the olden days, which may prove interest i g to the present generation. It is the story of how Yellow Blos som bantered Peter Ketch and was properly caught. Yellow Blossom be lieved that he was just a "leetle bit" of the be st man at a horse swap that "ever trod in shoe leather." After describ irg Bullet, Blossom's horse, and Kit, the "critter" owned by Peter Ketch, at some length, the story proceeds as fol lows: "I tell you, man," proceeded Ycllow Bcssom, "he is the best live hors that ever trod the grit of Georgia Bob Smart knows the horse. Come here, Bab, and mount this horse and show Bullets notions." Here Bullet bristled up and looked as if he had been hunting Bob all day long and had just found Lim. Bob sprang on his back. "Boo oc-oc 1" said Bob with a fattering noise of the lips, and away went Bullet as if in a quarter race with all his beau ti(s spread in handsome style. "Now fet ch him bask," said Blossom Bullet turned and came in pretty much as he went out. "Now, trot him by," Bu'let reduc c d his tail to customary, sidled to the rght and left fairly, and exhibited a' least three varieties of trot in the short spsce of fifty yards. "Make him pace." Bob commenced twitching the bridle, and kicking at the .me time. These inconsistent mrve meets obviously and n ost natura'ly di'concerted Bullet, for it was imposEi ble for him to learn from the method whether he was to proceed or stand 'till. He started to trot and was to'd bst wouldn't do. He attempted a can tcr, and was checked again. He stop pe i and was urged to go on. Ballet cow rushed into the wide field of ex ocriment, and struck out on a gait of hi, own that completely turned the .ab'es on his rider an- certainly de ,erved a patent. It seemed to have de rived its elements from the jig, the minuet and the cotillion. If it was not a pace in it, no man would ven to call it anything ele; so it passed off io the satisfaction of the owner. 'Walk h~mt' Bullet was now at bome again, and he walked as if money was staked on him. The stranger whose rame I after wards learned was Peter Ketch, having examined Bullet to his heart's content, ,)rdered his son Neddy to go and bring up Kit. Neddy soon appeared upon K:t a well formed sorrel of the middle -iz.,, and in good order. His tout east mbles threw Bullet entirely in the -,hade, though a glance was suffieient to satisfy any one that Bullet had the e~ ided advantage of him in point of After a few banters, Peter Ketch is "Neddy take a couple of sticks and bent on that hogshead at Kit's tail." Ned made a tremendous rattling at which Bullet took fright, broke his bridle and dashed off in grand style, and would have stopped all further negotia tions by going home in disgust had not a traveler arrested him and brought him back; but Kit did not move. "1 tell you gentlemen," continued Peter, "he's the seariest horne you ever -aw. He ain't as gentle as Bullet, but he won't do any harm if you watch him. Shall I put him in a cart, gig or wagon 'or you, strangerf He will cut the same caper there he does here. He's a mon strous menu horse." During all this time Blossom was ex amining him with the nicest scruting. Having enamining hi3 frame and limbs he now looked at his eyes. "He's got a curious look out of his eyes," said Blossom. 'Oh yes sir," said Peter, "just as b'ind a bat. Blind horses always have clear eyes. Make a motion at his eyes ii you please, sir." Biossom did so, and Kit threw up his bead, rather as if something pricked him under the chin than as if fearing a blow. Blossom repeated the experi ment, and Kit jerked back is cnsider able astonishment. "Stone blind, you see, gentlemcn," proceeded Peter, "but she's just as good to travel of a dark night as if she bad eyes." "Blame your buttons," said Blos som, "if I like them eyes. "No," said Peter, "nor I either. I'd rather have them made of diamonds, but they'll do-if they don't show as mnuch white as Bullet's." "~Well, said Blossom, "make a pass at me." '"No said Peter, "sou made the ban. ter; now make your pass." Well, i'm never afraid to price my horse. You must give me $25 to boot " "Oh certainly, say $50 and my sad die and bridle in. Bere Neddy, my son, take daddy's horse." "Well," said Blossom, "i've made my pass, now make yours." "I am for short talk in horse swap atd therefore always tell a gentleman at orco what I mean to do. You must give me $10 " Blossom swore absolutely, roundly and profanely that he never would vive boot. 'Well," said Peter, "I didn't care about treding; but you cut such high shines, that I thought I'd like to back you out, and I've done it. Gentlemen, you see I've brought him to a hack " "Come old man." said Blossom, 1've been joking with you. I begin to think you do want to trade. Therefore, give me $5 and take Bullet. 'd rather lose $10 any time than not make a trade, though I hate to Sing away a good herse..' " Well," said Petsr, "I'll be as clever as you are. Just put the $5 on Bullet's >aek, and hand him over; it's a trade." Blossom swore again, as roundly as yefore, that he would not give boot, and aid he: "Bullet wouldn't hold $5 on 1i3 back, nohow. But as I bantered ou, if you say an even swap, here's at ou." "I told you," said Perer, "I'd be as lever as you; therefore, here goes $2 ore, j'rst for trade's sake. Give me 3 and it's a bargain." Blossom repeated his former asser ton, and here parties stoodjfor a long ime, and the bystanders; many were ow e~yllected, began to taunt both par ies. After some time, however, it was retty unanimously decided that the ld man had backed Blossom out. At length Blossom swore ho "never would be backed out for $3, after ban ering a man," and accordingly they closed the trade. "Now" said Blossom, as he handed Peter the $3, "I am a man that, when he makes a bad trade, makes the most of it until he can make a better. I'm for no rues and after claps." "That's just my way," said Peter: "I never goes to law to mend my bar gains." "Ah, you're the kind of a boy I love to trade with. Here's your hoss. old man. Take the and saddle bridle cf him, and I'll strip ycurs; but lift the blanket easy from Bullet's back, for he's a mighty tender backed hoss." The old man removed the saddle, but the blank. t stuck fast. He attempted to raise it, and Bullet bowed himself, switched his tail and gave signs of bit ing. "Don't hurt him, old man," said Blossom archly, "take it off easy. I am, perhaps, a leetle of the best man at a horse swap that ever catched a coon.' Peter continued to pull at the blank et more and more roughly, and Bullet became more and more cavortish, inso much that when the blanket came eff he had-rea3hed the kickirg point in good earnest. The removal of the blanket diselosed a sore of Bullet's backbone that seem ed to have dtfi:d all medical skill. It m asured six full it ches in length, and four in breadth, and bad as many feat ures as Bullet had motions. My heart sickened at the right, and I felt that the brute who had been riding h'm in that situation deserved the h Liter. The prevailing feeling, howevcr, was that of mirth The laugh becam> loud and general at the old man's ex pense, and rutic witticisms were liberally bestowed upon him and his late purchase. These Blossom continu ed to provoke by various remarks. He asked the old man if he thought Billet would let $5 lie on his back. He declar ed most s. riously that he had owned that horse three m )nths, and h'd never d:scovered before that he had a acre back, "or he never would have thought of trading him, e'c., etc' The old man bire it all with the most philosophic composure. He evinced no astonishient at his late disaovery, and made no replies, but his own son Ned dy had not discipiised his feelines gaite so well. H:s tyes opened wider and wider. From the fi:st to the last gull of the blanket, and when the whole sore burst upon his view, a-toaiahment and fright seemed to ec n.end for the mastery of his countenance. As the blanket disappeared he stuck his hand into his breeches pockets, heaved a deep sigh and lapsed into a profound reverie, from which he was only arous ed by tbe outs at his father. He bore them as long as he could; and when he could control himself no longer, he be gan, v.i.h a certain wildness of expres aion, which gave a peculiar interest to what he uttered: "His back's mighty bad off, but dod trot my soul if he's put it to daddy as bad as he thinks he has, for old Kit's blind and deef, I'll be dod trot if he ain't." "The devil he is," a'.d Blossom. "Yes, dod trot my soul if he ein't. You walk him and see if he ain't. His eyes don't look like it, but he'd just as leave go again the house with 3 ou, or in a ditch as anyhow. Now, you go try him." The laugh was now turned on Blossom, aLd many rushed to test the fidelity of the little b.>ys report. A few experiaments established its truth beyond controver y. "Nieddy," said ti~e old man, "you oughtn't to try and make people dis contented with their things, Stranger, don't mind what the little boy says. If you can only get Kt rid of them little failings, you'll fin~d him all sorts of a horse. You are a little the best man at a horse swap that ever I got hold of; but don,t fool away Kit. Come, Neddy, my son let's be moving; the stranger seems to be getting snappish." A Pathetic Story. At the close of his masterly speech in favor of the passage of the child la bor bill by the State Senate on Thuts day Senator Marshall of Richland Coun ty related the foliowing pathetic story: A policeman who knew that I was deep ly interested in this child labor ques tion, came to me and said: "I want to tell you what I saw the other evening. I am instructed not to allow children to play ball under the electric lights for fear that they may break the shades. One night, as I was on my beat near the mill district, a lot of little boys were playing ball. I to'd them that they must stop. 02e of the little fel lows made bold to speak to me. He said,'We fellows work in the mill all day and if we do not play in the night we never will have a chance to play all. We are not like the other boys who can play in the day. Won't you please let us play on? " 'Iho kind hearted policeman said,"Well, if that is so, you can play on, but be careful not to break athe lamp shades." He then Eaid: Every child muet have its platime. In all well regulated schools of this day children are allowed to go out and play constantly. Their minds are diverted from their school books and, by this play, they are enabled to progress and improve in their studies. What a sad fact is is that little chil dren are shut up in our mills from six in the morning to six in the evening, with no opportunity of going out to play nor even getting a breath of fresh air. I appeal to you as father3 who love your children to do unto these mill children as you would have your own chilcren done by. You may kill this bill and the fresh winds will blow 'rom heaven the bright sunlight for you and I, and for your Thildren and mine, but not for the chi!d who works in the factories of South Carolina. After More Islands. The M -Kinley aiministration seems to have an insatiate appetite for terri torial expansion, though the man at its iead in his inaugural address solemnly warned his country to beware of the temptation of "Territorial aggression." Not satisfied with the acqu:sition of Porto Rico and Hawaii, the purchase of more than 1,000 islands on the other side of the world and schemes for virtual if not actual domination of Cuba, tne imperialists are planning to get hold of the Dani:h West Indies. Negotiations for the purchase of these islands, begun some months ago but broken off by a change of ministry in Denmark, are said to have been roopened with the prospect of consummation. G ermany is said to desire the Daniish West Indies, but there is little evidence that she has made any great effort to secure them They are of little use to Denmark and if we are willing to pay her price for them we can have them. What next? -Atlanta Journal. The Next Step. The Senth Carolina house of repre sentatives by a vote of 66 to 32 killed the child labor bill to prohibit children nder 12 years of age from working in otton factories. This was about the ote in the general assembly of Geor i. It will now be in order, for the South Carolina house of representa tives to pass a bill for the protection of wild English and Mongolian phea No Free Passes. Mr. Stanland's bill to repeal the law against public ciefcers riding on free passes ou railroads was taken up in the Senate on Tuesdiay week. Mr. Brice wanted to strik cut the en acting words. He though the law should remain on the statute books. There may be occasional violations of the spirit of the law, but he did not believe the people wanted the law repealed. He thought the bill was generally regarded as a joke. Mr Stan'a-d. the author of the bill, said t-e statute had been on the books for ten years and if any attempt had ever been made to enferce it he had never heard of it. He thcught it a reflection upon every member of the legislature for the law to remain-it simply meant the peeple thought we could rot be trusted. He did not be lie e any member could be irfluenced as to his vote by a little thing like a railroad pass. He reviewed the circum stances leading up to the eDactment of the law and tad it stood as a monu ment to the times when factional dif ferences divided the people, and he wanted it wiped out, as a e have buried all our differencrs. The ayes and roes were called on the motion to strike out the enacting words and the bill was killed by a vote of 13 to 12, as follows: Ayt s-Barnwell, Blakerey, Br'ce, Caughman. Douglas, Gairs. G1-nn, Graydon, Gruber. Heredon, M >o:e, Sar ratt, Sullivpn-13 Ne-Adrich. Aprelt, Goodwin, Hay. H- nderson, Ilderton. McDeim-)tt, Sharpe, Stackhouse, Staniand, Wa ker -12 Tie anti free rats law remains on the statute books. Fearful Famine in China. Reports received from Singan-fu all agree that the famine in the provinces of Shansi and Shensi is one of the worst in the history if Chit a All informa tion on the subject is necessarily from Chinese sources and is fragmentary. but the stories are all to the same effect, picturing a condition of affairs that is calculated to arouse the sympathy of the world for the stricken people. It is estimated that two-thirds of the peo ple are without sufficient food or the means of obtainingit. Theweatheris bit terly cold and this adds to the misery of starvation. There is little fuel in either prvoinoes, and the people are tearing out the woodwork of their houses to obtain fuel to keep themsel ves warm. Oxen, horses, dogs and other animals used by the farmers to aid them in their woik in ordinary times have pratcically all been sacrificed to satisfy hunger. For three years the crops have been failures in both prov inces. There was more or less fam ine in previous seasons, and the people were in poverty when the winter began. Their condition has since been growing steadily worse Letters assert that can nibalism is now practiced to a consid erable extent. Li Hung Zhang in con versation with Mr. Conger, the Ameri can Minister, said that the people were reduced to eating human flesh. Many of them were selling their women and children to obtain money with which to buy food for the remaining members of their families. Infanticide is alarming ly common. Parents driven insane by want and the crites of their children for food, which they are unabie to provide, kill the little ones rather than be forced to listen to their cries of distress and to see their sufferir-ge, To Purify Politics. Senator E William E Chandler, who has just been dd eated for re-eleo tion to the senate, as he charges by a rairoad corporation in this state, has introduced a bill in the senate prohibit ing corporations chartered by the Unit ed States from making contributions to campaign funds. Asked what he had particularly in mind in the matter Sen ator Chandler said: "The great evil of the expenditure of a vast sum of money in controlling politics is not individual contributions, although it is true that men of many millions like Senator Clark of Montana could afford to make larger o~ntributions to control an elec tion than many corporations, But such individuals are few. To control cor porations in this respect it is only necessary to provide that no corpora tion shall contribute from its corporate funds in connection with any political elec'ion. The practica of corporation contributions to polhtical committees has grown up since 1896 These con tributions have been made in nearly all cases directly from the treasuriesof the corporations by votes of their directors and have been made to both political parties." Commits Suicide. A cablegram received from United States minister Hunter, at Guatamala City, states than Sydney B. Everett. Secretary and Charge of the United State Legation there, committed snic'de by shooting himself in the mouth. He suffered a Ion' illness, and it is under stood that the act was committed in a temporary abstration of mind. Mr. Everett was appointed from Massachu setts, being a son of a former chief of the diplomatio bureau of the State De partment. He was appointed to the consular service as consul to Batavia in May, 1897, and was appointed to Gaatamala City on June 19, last. His parents are resident of Washington. Will be Built. A dispatch from Charleston says: "President and General Manager James U. Jackson, of the Chattanooga, Au gusta and Charleston Air Line is here for the third time in two weeks, on matters of importance connected with that read. He admits that his frequent viris to Charleston are due to the in creased activity in the proposdd Sea board Air Line connection between Chiarleston and Augusta. He said that he was hard at work in the interest c-f the new road between this prt and the city of Augusta and that the original plan of president Williams, of the Sea bcard would be oarried out.The Seaboard Air Line last year bought and paid $75, 000 for real estate for terminal facili ties in this city. A Life Sentence. Henry E. Youtzcy, stenographer to Governor Taylor during his incumbency and who was tried as a princ'pal in the shooting of Governor William Goebel and found guilty, was araigned before Judge C'antrill at Georgetown, Ky., Tuesday afternoon and sentenced to life imprisoment. When sentence was pro nounced Youtzey exclaimed: "I am innocent. I have been con victed by base and infamous subornati ns of per jury." No appeal will be taken and the prisouer will be taken to state's pri son shortly. Many Killed. Advices from Batavia, Island of Java, capital of the Netherland Islands, say the expedition sent against Samlanga, Island of Sumatra, has captured the Achinese fortress of Batorilik. The Dutch loss was six killed and forty ONE CAR VANISHES LEAVES THE MIDDLE OF A TRAIN, AND THE CONDUCTOR IS BAFFLED. Train Couples Again, and Completes Its Journey With-Out Leaving It's Loss Discovered-Charles Bragnell the Conductor Tells the Story. The most remarkable of all railroad accidents occurred on the Chicago & Alwca railroad near Atlanta. Ill., when a loaded car jumped out of a freight train and lodged in a ditch and the train coupled up and reached its des tination without the crew either know ing that an accident had occurred or missing the car from the train. Charles Bragnell, of Roodhouse. Ill., the conductor the train, tells the story. lie says: *When I delivered my train I was told I was a car short. I thought a mistake must have been made in checking me up. I was called up for an explanation. The clerical records showed plainly enough that I had tak en out of East St. Louis a car of hard coal that I had never delivered. I had lost it some place between East St. Lonis and Bloomington. I couldn't ex plain it. We had made up a heavy train, put two engines in front of it and a caboose behind it. and when I delivered it would have sworn that it stood just as we had made it up, and that every car left or added along the line was accounted for. "The next morning one of the passen ger crews reported a coal car wrecked In the ditch near Atlanta. When it was looked up It proved to be the car I had lost. The superintendent nasked me why I had not reported the wreck. It was news to me and it was news to the whole crew. We knew nothing about it. It seemed impossible that It could have occurred and not have been seen. but it did. If I had read of such a thing happened upon another road I would not have believed it. "The car that jumped out of my train was the eleventh behind the engine. It was loaded with hard coal and I sup pose we were running something over twenty miles an hour when the car jumped out. The train ws coupled up with automatic couplers. and when the car loft its place the twelfth car, just behind it. came up and coupled on at the rear of the tenth car." The Chicago & Alton experts have agreed that this remarkable loss of a car out of the middle of a rapidly-run ning train of twenty-one loaded cars can be explained in but one way. The flange of a front truck wheel upon the car wrecked is broken, and just below where the car lodged the ties are marked as though by a car off the track. The couplers catch with what Is commonly known as "the Indian grip," catching automatically. When the flange of the coal car broke, it is reasoned, the car left the track at that end and uncoupled itself from the car ahead by pulling one of the couplers, or hands, below the plane of the other. At the same time the coupler at the other end sank below the plane of its mate and uncoupled the car there, and, by some peculiar wrench, the uncou pled car was shot out of the train and fell fifty feet from the track, while the trainmen were all unconscious how near they had been to a bad wreck and death. It Is related among railroad men that an occurrence very like that at ~Atlanta happened years ago on the Lehigh Val ley. where a car left Its train and rolled down a long embankment and into a thick underbrush just leafing In early summer. The trainmen did not see the car go and it was not known that they had lost it until the train was checked up and a car proven missing. In a lit tle while the greening vegetation en~ tirely hid It and the dIsappearance of the car of valuable merchandise be came the chief mystery of the road. When the leaves fell In the autumn the car was found and the freight which filled It was recovered with very little loss. The lost car of the Lehigh was not, though, as remarkably lost as the Chicago & Alton car, for the Lehigh car was the last upon the train and could easily escape, while the Chicago & Alton car left the middle of the train. Aristocrats in Trade. The Duke of Northumberland, the heIr of all the Percys, with a dIrect de secnt from one of William I's favor ites, has a reputation for excellent but ter. says Tit-Bits, and the ducal brand is in great demand within a radius of many miles from Lyon House, Brent ford. The most noble the Marquis of Ripon has an ideal dairy at his seat, Studley Royal: and its products, yellow butter and delicious cream, are sold in two dairy shops, one in Leeds and the other in Ripon. Another marquis still better known in the world of trade is Lord London derry, whose coal is as unimpeachable as his family escutcheon. Time was when the Earl of Hardwicke, as Vis count Royston,. was a cigar merchant. He has now transferred his energies to Capel Court, and is half stock brok er and half newspaper owner. The Earl of Harrington supplements his income from 13.000 acres by the profits of a green grocery shop at Char ing Cross, to which the fruits and veg etables grown at his Derby seat, El vaston Castle, find their way. The Earl of Ran furly has for many years been an active and successful fruit grower at Moldura, Victoria. His farm there Is the envy and pride of the fruit colony, and Its condition is due very largely to the Earl's own per sonal work on it. The seventeenth Earl of Caithness has been literally nursed as a farmer, and is prouder of his American ranch, covering over twenty square miles, the fruit of his years of hard work, than of his Earl's coronet. The last Earl of Seafield was a bailif and small farmer in New Zealand, and his successor, the young Earl of to-day, is also engaged in industrial pursuits at Oamaru. The late Viscount Hampden, when he was released from the exacting post of Speaker of the House of Common% turned his attention to milk and butter, and his Glynde dairy was noted for its excellence. "Geor:ge," she hissed, "do you know anm thirng that reflects en the lifelong Integrity of my father?" "Do you think," he grimly answered, "that I would tackle him for your' band If I didnt?" Burned to Death. A dispatch from MaCornr~ek to the Augusta Chroniele s'ays: The little ixyear-old daughter of our fellow ownsman, Mr. Tom Kergamcr had the isfortune to meet with quite a sad eath Wednesday moing. She was tanding too near a fire built out in the ard when her clothing caught nre and she was so severely burned before the ifre could be extinguished thar, death re sulted at 4 o'clock this moraing. Fvtry effort was made by her physicians to ave her but the most that could be one was to relieve. in a mnasure her muffrings. Mrs. J B Harmion, a eiglhor who was the first mo reach her, I as scverely burnedi in making ahero'c effort to extiuguish the f~rs Libeaal Pensions. By a decisive umaj r~ty tne lhouse cf epresentatives Tuesday passed a bill I ppropriating $200,000 ior Confederate ~ensicrs This is dcubie the amount eretof cre apuprcpriated for this purpose I nd the increase is regarded as very1 dgnificant. The author of the bill is aptain J. Hamp Brooks, of Greenwood I rounger brother of Preston 8 Brooks,i who caned Charles Summer in the Uni-i A SOMNAMBULIST'S PEAT Walked Twenty Five tiles Without Awakening. Sound asleep, without conEcious voli ion and utterly unaware of his perfor nance, until after it was over, Kenneth Eughes, a student of the Like Forest Academy, made his way at night from his room in the academy to his country home near Lon Lake, 25 miles dis tant. Whether he rode or walked, or by what road he went, cr what were his adventures along the way, he has not the faintest glimmer cf knowledge a: cardis g to his story. The trip is all the more wonderful because the young man -4 had been suffering for weeks with in flammatory rheumatism. He had ex pressed to his parents a desire to visit his home, but deferred the trip because he thought it would be too painful. The most the sleep-walker knows is that he went to bed as usual in Lake Forest and was awakened next morning in his father's barn, twenty-five miles distant. The duration of his somnol ent state was from shortly after 8 o'clock in the evaning until 6 o'clock in the morning. It was at the latter hour that the boy's father, who is a farmer, went to the barn to feed his str cr and found the young man propped up in the family buggy, still sound asleep. Young Hughes had taken the pains to wrap a number of robes about h m. This instizet of self-protection, which manifested itself while he was dreami ly urcinseicus, probably saved him from serious results from exposure. The elder Hughes, supposing his son was in Like Forest, was surprised to find him where he was, and his surprise grew into amazement when the youth protested that he knew nothig whatever of the hours that intervened between his retirement and his awaken ing in the barn. Be opened his eyes in astonishment and tried to recall some incident of the night, but it was all a perfect blank to him. He counted the money in his pocket, found that he had 15 cents less than he had the night before. He de cided thereupon that he must have rid den upon an electric car from Lake Forest to Waukegan. He has no recol lection, however, of boarding the car, paying his fare, or of alighting at the end of the line. The soreness of his muscles seemed to confirm the supposi tion that he had walked the twenty miles from Waukegan to tie farm. The details can only be guessed at, but it is certain that the nocturnal traveler arose from his bed, clothed himself for a cold trip-and reached the destination for which he set cut. There was not a scratch on him, showing that the sense of self-preservation did not lapse at any stage of his experi ence. Prof. Conrad Hibbler of Lake'Forest Academy is much puzzled by the case and does not attempt to account for the strange trip. He thinks Eughes left his room about 1 o'clock in the morning the fact that the Northwestern railway night agent stated the boy ca.ne into the depot and asked when he could get a train or an eelectrie car to Evanston. He was told that no more cars were running south and that he could not re main in the station. The agent did not notice anything peculiar in Hughes' ac tions, and can not say whether he was asleep. Hughes says he remembers absoluitely nothing about this conversation with the agent. Nobody else so far as known, saw Hughes until his father found him in the buggy. EDr. Haven; the boy's physician, states that his patient had no fever and that his condition was normal, except for the rheumatism.-Chicago Times-Her How Birds Help Farmers. The bulletins on birds and mammals published by the Biological Survey of Washington correct widely prevalent errors as to the economic status of species that affect agricultural interests, and demonstrate the inefficiency and wastefulness of bounty laws, under which millions of dollars have been ex pended by the various states and ter ritories without accomplishing the ob ject for which they were intended. Birds are the farmer's most valuable aids in his life-long battle with the in sects that prey on his crops. How im portant, therefore, that he should not destroy them that do him greatest ser vice. In the case of hawks and owls the division has shown, by the examin tion of the stomach contents of about three thousand of these universally hated and persecuted birds, that only six out of the seventy-three kinds in habiting the United Statea are injuri ous and three of these are so rare they need hardly be considered, leaving only three to be taken into account as ene mies of agriculture. The others prey upon mice, insects and other vermin, and rank among the farmers' best friends. Since its establishment, in 1885, the divison has examined the stomach contents of nearly fifteen thousand birds belonging to two hun dred species and sub-species, and has published information on the food hab its of one hundred and forty kinds, mainly hawks, owls, crows jays, blaik birds, sparrows, thrushes, fly-cathers, swallows, wrens, shikes, wood peekers,, horned larks and cedarbirds. A Disastrous Fire. A fire broke out Wednesday in the magazines of the Caspian and Black Sea company, at Baku Russia, which contained 6,000,000 poods of petroleum. The conflagration resulted in great loss of life and widespread damage. The llames spread to other depots, having a opacity of 12,000,000 poods of naph tha, which poured out like a stream of Lava, inundating and setting fire to the dwellings of the workmen, which were totally destroyed. Many persons per- - ished in the flames. Twenty charred odies have been found, and up wards >f 50 people are terribly burned. Four andred families lost everything they osseesed. The magazines are still ~urninge and neighboring reservoirs are n great danger. A general panic pre rails. Eight naphtha springs belong ng to the Melikoff, Rxlski and Caspian ompanies, caught lire February 3d. Feli Thirty Feet. Lau-s Ronner, aged forty years, fell rom a porch of the Drumnmond hotel at 3:rmingham, Ala., Wednesday and4 was instantly killed. The man was eling very unwell and s- artd to the ack po;co ix order to get fresh air. he railiig of !h-> parch is vry low and Le ieated -aver .t and in.st his baiaoe. Ie fell to thet g:.nod thuty- f-et belo q. lewas found a half ho~ur anterwards. by tis wifo deac. Ronner w a- a native of rmanu. a.t he.d re'-ided ia Unarles on, S. U., f r averal )Lars Re went hence to Koonvtle and Ch.ttanooga,. rhere he conducted hote, and drink og places. Het !Nent!.y opeend a sa oo at Ealey City and intended re oving t1o that piase, rsiding in Bir ngham until he could get a residence