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A Brief Stor sitio , It' and Bi The South Carolzi... inter Sta' e an( City of Chai-ieston, S. C., Decexnbcr 1 tion Company has been chartered by ti stock of $250,000. Active work upon t gress since about the fir,t of Augutt la: period that has elapsed since then is wi building. The site of the Exposition River within a mile and a half cf the b The grounds are byautifully situated, ai treatment. One half of the grouncs Buildings, the Midway Concessirons an, show. The remaining part of the ereat beauty, and will be devoted to tbe buil< and the several States of the Ucion, wb description of the arohiteotual fea'ures The Exposition Prouods are divide the old Washington Race Course propel formerly the Lowndes place. The Arcb r.. THE COP of developing the Race Course proper o as far as possible the natural beauty o property has been employed for years f< any importance having been given ther part of the grounds is entirely level. I and builders, could be found. About the grounds for the 'Midway Concession a grand court at the western extremity shape something like an elongated'ors Exposition building, occupying the toe the Agricultural Palace occnpying resp buildings, with their connecting colonn mile. Within the horse shoe there wil with a lake in the center. A wide esp will surround this garden. THE PALACE At the Dorthern end of the garden splendid view will be obtained of the opening out from this point through gr outer edges of the walks around the Ga Just north of the grand Plaza will stan the Cotton Palace, from which a view m with the Sunken Garlen, and its trees urround it. Each of the Exposition b average width of 100 feet, and, as alrea the construction being such that the cc THE PAL AC THEY REBE PLIASED With Our Charitable and Corre ctic Institution. Rev, and Mrs. A. S. Orne, who traveling through the country, insp ing charitable and correctional inst tions, in the interests of indigent ill-treated children, have prostet their "mission of mercy" fathfally< ing their stay in Columbia. Upon b< asked by a Reporter of The State the institutions in Corumbia com for with others visited, he expressed Il self emphatically: "They all rank'a * high, and I have fewer suggestions make than in most cities and cont Of course," continued Mr. Orne, v ing warm over the subject so des his heart, "your most promising irst tions are the Epwcrth orphanage Industrial Home school. -'"Yes, I do believe prevention is r Christian and much cheaper thin:a houses or prisons. I have been a dent of sociology for 25 years, at find that heredity and environin breed-criminals-poor h.ouses and ons confirm them. The offspring of abandoned girl, traced through generations, numbered 600, and were either crooks or criminals, in or idiotic. "A young man married a pauper in 1840. In 1880 thirty of their offsp had been continual county char and when out of poor house or pr - lived by begging and stealing. "A father, mother and five chii spent the winter of 1886 in the house. All are now serving senter in penal institutions. ''From 95to 99 per cent. of tu- er! nals (and they have increased 75 THE PAL gES1 y of the Expo s Grounds tildings. West Irdian Expositio' will open in the 1901, and clae June 1, 1902 The Esposi ;e Sate of South Carolina with a capital he Exp ositen projtot has only been in pro t, and what has ben accomplihed in the thout parrellel in the history of exposition ill be on the eastern bank of the Ashley uiness centre of the City of Charleston d will lend themseives to the moet artistie will be devoted to the Main Etposition I the Administrtion offices of the great ids will pre serve their present great natural lings and exhibits made by the Government ih will take part in the Exposition Some f the Fair will be of general public interest into tw) main sections. one e nsittirg of ty and the other of t}e Wagener farm, iteot-in-Chief has ado; ted the general flan Ali~~ ~ ~ ~ .%r '% ii FON PALACE. n purely constrictive lines and of pers-rviog f the Wagner place. The Race Course )r purely agrieultural purpses, no racs of since the War between the States. This In better ti-e, in the opinion of expert artists 2 sres have been reserved on this part of . The main Exposition buildings surround f. the old Race Course. This will be in eshoe, with the Cotton Palace, or main of the shoe, with the Commerce Palace and :e.ively the two sides cf the shoe These ades, will extend for a distane 3 of about one I be a Sanken G irden covering several acres, anade of Alameda abrut 60 feet in width )F AGRICULTURE. there will be a grand P-an from which a main Exposition buildings. The vist as ves of palmetto trees which will line the rden will extend for a dis3tance of 2,000 feet. the Auditorium building, directly opposite sy be obtained of the entire Court of Palaces, and flowers and the sloping banks whi.ch iLlfings will be 400 feet in length, with an idy stated, will be concted by colonnades, lonnades can be be used for exhibits. OF COMMERCE pplato incressing only 21 per cent.) come from this class of children. I ' One hundred thousand children 2 have fathers in prisor,; 2,000 p~rsons i killed by mobs; 20 having been burned a during the last ten years Fourteen r are thousand murdered in 1899, agaicst tet- 1,000 in 1837, and 6 000 suicides. A r [tu maj rity of both classes came from ne- t agleoted children Lincoln and Garfield's t andasassins, and nine tenths of 1,000,000 f ted tramps are of this class also lur ' Not 5 per cent. of the 1,600 poor ' ig houses and 1,800 jails have regular re ow ligious services, more than half none d at all. In places cursed with drink and ' contagious diseases we have found a m 500,000 homeless children (30,000 ab ery and-mned last year ) Born by no volitiin , to of their own will, no cmntrol whatever e.over the first ten years of their exist- 1 ie. ence in this wicked world, no choice atwhether they shall be trained as Chris r to tians or taught as criminals, beaten itu- and banged about in an atmospheret and of drunkenness and dishonesty, crca- ( tures of circumstances -how can their lore course be other than criminal?i oor I"It is because of these things that stu- God has sent us out to speak in thus - d I der tones to the pecple that the per ents petutity of our civil and Christian in ris- stitutions plead for prevention. one "Children who are born and brought six up in the slums are self-raised, and all being self-raised, tney tend to evil. We< lane want settlements in the by ways, and ( by that 1 mean we want to go down1 wife into the slums and teach those of the I ing tenement house cleanliness and godli- 2 ges, ness. We want to teach the childrena son to use their hands as wells as their t heads. We want to place them in ae ren position to be able to help themselves.. I oor We want to give them an opportunity| I ces to bend their inelinations to their:i wishes, and make of them useful citi- ' mi- zens and industrious artizss Therein, i per iies all hope for the reformation of the Ia Among the Ep(01al autractious of the Court of Prlaceu will be fnntairs and ji of rta'uary $r 'xandsou ely desisned columns of the Spainh tyre, all con ributine to the leauty <f the -o no At one end of the Sunken Garden. a music tand will be crceted, se at tc other enn a pergola or latice work screen. .zaiust %dich will crw drig te Eppo-ition period, the most beautiful of ropicil vines In the contra of the Pazn there will be a sui-di.l ten feet in teight an'd thirty feet in diamater. Which ever way the eye looks, there will b: isions of b auty Toward the south, the grert Court of Paiaies, towari the east, he tow r; at the entrance !othe Mid say, and looking across the en.r-inco way the roves and minarets of the Wagen er place. f ./ ~" :Id. r- wiy ._i T HE A D 1INIISTR a TION BUILDING. The main Exposition building will be the Cotton Palace, the Comm~erce Palace, he Agrieu tu ral Palace, the Mining and Forestry Building, the Auditorium, the administration Building, the Machinery and Transportation Building, ani other tructures devoted to railroad exhibi-s, to restaurant purposes and to public com ort. Besides all these there will stand on the Warenaer plane the Woman's Build og. the st v.ral State and City Buildings and the Negro Department. The Cotton Palces will be the mist inpos-ng of the Expo ition buildings. It will cover upwards of 50,000 feet of fbowr space, will be. 550 feet in length ud at least 100 feet " . vidth. One of the feat-ires of this building will I e a nagnifi eat pordac. In the cetre of the builting will rise an imposiag dome if a heigiit of more than 150 f<<;. In t'as build ng will be displayed the pro plt a atateththsvrbe m a.l ! / uThelcs of Agihlueen CommeMll fth on r e ill eacouh Caolnais aot 40,0i00 cquar eet of fibo)r area, in addition :o their connectir g arcades which will contain in all shout 20,000 square feet. Each of these buildings will have a Gentaal deme an~d maller turrents at the corners, emphasing the entrances to these as well as th3 e in er edient Thbnero f hs bidn has b e pateal, dngedfo THE AMAINRY~TO BUILDIN. The Aministrastion Building il be most Cttoaatiedsg tnd woilrbe Palupied bhe Afilutersand tace, the Eoitioand Forey Archdinte hAdiparium, thde fromiteusua stylin henn tahiser atrntre Tnsprtacia pstion e ntre trndtess devoed toe railrnd wibth ito Tetauantroes an to bulig coll ot Bsidestyallveheetnheilltand oahng e fboklaed botherma' Bouilof esse theigtvbuqall andtitidigsnd herm owt teSpamnis eni.a Tpe hCotohP will preai thehotinpg~ the Expoition acietr h buildings wib til over warwd over-hangin roetof of crrspaed wpi bes. feet the lentrh pord the veangingfet gallery. Oeo h etae fti uligwl Thniiet MperJa an Fore~tr oueld iing will rbewen awnt .oangdomert tha fet of or thpe10ce . i uildi ing will b etl diplosye the ado iitainBidng twl ecrulri om ihf ankn oes h Spansh Reassefn the Spanish Missinyp of thechiteryare, as SuhCrlnisteeminiedt :on Souatrnaifnia Sae of TexSuand hein cbnd cotto manefacteie wao All Unonfi seedta the diplyin thisitonbuilding will be cnetdi the me tc sir Mr.eOe and ac fe ta a vel, ben de he pvlale ofverintuheauny omr ewilaccotiabu4000qr ee5 fi yers e, in ad ten hern etr rae hc ilcnani l thisty hile sq e e s Eaho tese dnswilhv enaldm eforms, hrent and he odneife evotegth nrnest hsea elast3c ers pfedirt te teiort tof hs bnuil ghsbeuprialydige o aote oeetse rtinge toeatmet ndtitu- utlt Tewndw n l f h air e arriati leastveihlet abioet frteroftussbin os~e rom the cantieve mtrifner. Theodn h sa asn fusgtywoe iaee otsn epareicurthe gwherllnso rhsadcrls trigfo opinbchildren are tarid ad in-uhtesns n prahs tead f beig cofline In rison wit heodroedrsaecnie in sep Thes enAdinitraio posbiling of motatreiedsg-adilbeocpe byin them iesand taeing the Ebroughtin TeArhec dpredwel about seth i e feth egtaiec igwl b lne yohrtw o ssrhihutd eqinl ;aistc g.I amn it h pne easac typelwih Ll rvi Mo thouhouaatiteEpng o rcietr h uidn ilb a ide bafonyooc ilpo e odyit the grounds.Insideoteenentra )aome whic llmbea three stomiedhiharcl ecrtdclnaewl p poricide oernageing inhiser el aThe ouneral. and modrer Budng-ilcnanbtee wnyadti tstend fee iof a floro sceThis buidingd ilsaddrclyopst h d ntration BuildeingI ill the ciclarlom.wt lnig oes othis thce bsenecread byspeanlonmnaino ts icpladsd >hld, ffec his iht washade N wrfllk, aindb.,ragn wd ocsh Spane is wenissn andd hdeSnesd Miso yeo rhte.ra xmlfe in outhere Cfornnd in Tpes.bencoindnamotfetvewy Alone strap main eb 3 E heito Buidigwlbecnctdnthlaecrles rouning "Died of PtanlationW. .Mr." n a hette witrel, nd ThFeb.nCrp 7ve treled avrt his reiuns fbe ulti udby ecnu ont tof woRnal .C Haner ofire isd how a bls ,ae smaktd hefbody h oud hibeo wf dred. whHeeuvln t ,4,9 ae nesttte the tmurero eortsteag veraeih f 0on ate aveent toi he claied bytiu the greaeo mecalblsi rfemee moemtr fedr 3,of an Coeraebieigwoman,9 honmhe cut namei i cortsti whraof- ,wt n aecstprbl otirsn butt codrnatied, an tei-frgnigadblncf$ 3 on ppead ofo tein confined in piso ittle chile-0,6 onaeaewih rat esablshent, tie searae A prBlletfrininged b aling ofsu ud unihe se~artey evr cmin m$.r5ca an d , b(ales, asmarketed) n cntat iththeoler ffedes, ndaverage weight of 388 pounds, it hunnhacin th posibiityof po-nds aver veage cost per balefoging ormngthm ad avin thmfrogh innaing and $ain 90. 0,ron p in the riht path.2Th rpotdssifithe2 2 avrgino ning bandesforbints repobaing as Willam L 1'itt, ai$1.,46; thse opraed aoes the79 ofan ria fo th mudert~womn astvericand weightaon, 20ou,9 wth )etberat olubia Pa, cmmite fvrg coto incmerc ialo balesn ujede ednsda evnin inhisce d aingdof $ 0 the ouny jal. he urdeerener crasipe the 189,62 y in-es n sfollows: oeoeae o h ulc asteed n ion ar rom is ot n6,Ala8ma 1,103690;te forkthenas9 eseteditin n oenng n te all 45;tioridal, 6,821; thoeorae 1,296, oths e fstne arop ad trng pu84;Iican plantto, 0,289.anshe tld, nd hi homewas i N~ri s as follo ,48ws:oui,19 vhee iswie ad ou ci~denese.377; North Carolina, 473,155; Okla ievralleter, ritenon try btshoma, 84,033; South Carolina, 876;545 )n nescrpdaed eb 2, h hd ennessee, 21,5 Teas 2,678. 555; rriten "iedofstrnguatonWm Virginia, 9,289 I. ott" n aleterwrienon eb A special from Welsh, Ga., says: 7 'o rquste tat is eminsbeThree persons were killed here Monday entto aleghN.C. e dreced ownight by a lightning flash, which set on he bdy houd bedresed Hefire the house where the victims were ommtte te mrdr, e wot, wenleeping. The family of Postmaster is eaon asdesroed y rin, ndMorgan htad retired when Mr. Morgan .e as rien o i, e caimdby hewas aroused by the flames. He hastened uterereue o a Clumia wmanto awaken his wife and obidren and dis ~ho henamd, n hs dmesic f-covered that his wife, his twelve-year air. ne eter onaind paheicold son and six year old daughter were ppel orth wefae f is itlechl-dead. Three other children were un ren. hurt. The bodies were taken out just SOME aUs ACTS. Three Important Measures That Were PassEd at the R* c zt S asion. The followi)g acts ia-sed at the late ses-ion is of fenerl interest: See 1. B= it enacted by the general sst m -1v of the S'ate of South Caro ina: That on and after the approval of this act, it s'al: be unlawful for any persoa to assume the du ics of any put lie .,ffiee until he has taken the eath provided by the constitution, and has been regularly commissioned by the governor. Tae term "public (ffi e' in tbis sot aa be construed to mean all cficers of the State that have hereto fore betn commissioned, and trustees of the Carious ec-leg s cf the State, m:mthers of the various Stat-3 boards, dispcn-ary corstablis, and other per sons ahose du:iei tr. dtfi .cd by law. S.e. 2 That o fcees sball le chargcd or colicctel by the secretary of state for qaaiifsing and cemari'ioting sucb off cers, exc pt for the (ffi 3 a cf notar; public ard commissio:er of deeds, who shall pty a fee of thre.e dollars and twenly five cents, which sha'l be trana mitted by the serr tar; of State to the tate treasury, as ctier fees collteicd by him. Ste 3 The reorttry of S ate ishe-e by d reoted end r, q tired to rero-t to the general asieib y at. each r.gu ar session the names of all officers com missioned by him during the fi cal y "a-, with the dates of their appointment or eketion and the dates of their com missione, and of such other cffi ers as he shall deem proper. The act r.:lati g to bonds of public (ffijtrs wag approved by the gcv,mnr February 8th It reads: Sec. 1. Be it enacted -y the general assembly of South Carolina: That bonds of crunty efficers, shall be re corded in the effic3 of the clerk of court of rcgister of meste conves ance -f the cour.t/ of which the aforesaid tffi rers are r sid:n:e, an i bhall imme diately thereupon be t-aOsa)t . d to be secretary of Sate, who tha'. fi e them in than ffiae of tl S :Sate tr as arer. S c 2. The b: n's of S ase, dis ric: cr circuit officers sha.l be fik d ui~h th. secretary of State, and shill be reo.rd< d by him, without charge, in snitab'e oooks kept by him for the purpose ; a d when sorecordel sha'l be fii d as afore said with the Stati tr.:asurer: Pro vide d,.TI at the b.nds of the Sia e treas urer shall be filed with the govr raor. See. 3 The bonds of county di-pen sets shall be recorded as other country rffirers bonds, and when to rctrd-d shall be filed with the State board of directors of the dispensary hy the see retary of State. Sec 4. A copy of a bond, duly certi fled by any officer with whom bonds are rtquired to be flied o- racorded herein, s'hall be good and suffibient evi dence in all suits institu.ed on su:h bends in any of the ecou-ts of this Sta:e Eec. 5. That it shall be un'awful for any person to assume or attempt to as sums the duties of any cffi:e of whch a bond is rtqu'red without having given the hn i req tired, a id a ty per:o 2 as eauming or attempting to assume the duties of any * fli.ee as aforesaid, si-all be guilty of misdemear or, and shall be subjaet to a fiae of five-hundrs d dollars or iLnpr'sonment 'or - ot less than thrs e monthrs, in the~ discretrwn of the c* u t The ola law requir ed that a b ond of an amcunt egra' to tlat of the s1b r I be given by the deputy shet if , cr con stables, appointed as police <ffi:ers in unincorporated mul vilages. Trssbund mdj it a'n oat prohibitory f.ar consta bles or deputies t-a get bond. Sena:or Mars' all s bill allows them to ha botd ed as thre constables appoin:ed b> mai trates. The new act, we eci was app-oved Feb 8.h, reads: See. 1 Be it enacted by the general asemibly of South Ca olina: That on and after the approval of this act, an art entitled "Aa set to au hor:z: the appointmernt of officers of the praea having jurisdie..ion within indus rial communities containing one hundred inhabtants or more," approved 2[tt February, 1893, be amernded by adding thereto two additional sections, as fol lows: Sec. 4 That the person so appointed policr officer, under the provision; of this act, shall exeute the bond rcqu~r ed by constables by section 901 of the R evised Statutes of 1893, volume 1. and shall be subject to the ;rovisions of section 912 of the said ihvistd S.at utes. See. 5 That the sheriff of the county shall not be responsible for ithe malfea sace or misfcarance of the police of ir or, deputy sa appointed by him under the requirements of this set. ID AHO WIL.L BEND Her Fine Exhibit After it Has Been Used at Buff dlo The Co'umbia State says it is goiung to require much hard work from this time on so make the Charlesto 0exsp 'si tion the suecess that it should be, but those at the head of the enterprise are in no wise discou-agei by the action of cngress in refusing at the very la~t moment to give tha much desired ap propriation. Indeed, the loss of the appropriation has made the manage ment all the more datermined to make the exposition the best thing of the kind ever held in the south. For some time the directors has had speial commissioners visiting the va rious Statea endeavotiag to got each to make a suitable exhibit at and take an interest in the exposition. They' havs met with much encouragement and re port the outlook good. Oce of the States that will take a lively interest in the exposition is Alabama. Encourag ing news was received from afar Wed nesday when the governor received the following dispatch: BosIa. Gv. M. B. McSweeney, Columbia, S. Appropriation made by Idaho for PanAmerican exposition authorized transfer of exhibits to Charleston. F. W. Hunt, Governor. The following acknowledgement was at once wired: Gov. F. W. Hunt, Boise, Idaho. On behalf of the people of South Carolina I sincerely thank you and the general assembly of your State for your decision in agreeirg to trans'er the Pan-American exposition exhibit to South Carolina during the exposition at Charleston. M. B. MoSweeney, Governor. Gov. McSweeney says he proposes to do all in his power to enlist the inter est of the other States of the unirn in this undertaking. He has already written to every governor and urged each to have the matter presented to the legislature of his State. That this is bearing fruit is seen from the above. All along the line the management will get to work from this time on, and it is safe to say that the exposition will open next December, and be one that the South will not be ashamed for vlsi NHURCH AND PRESS: A Warm Friendship Should Exist Between Them. Dr. Talmage Says That the Spokem Word and the PrintedWord Should Go Side by Side-God and the Printing Press. [Copyright, 1901, by Louis Klopsch.] Washington. March 3. In this discourse Dr. Talmage calls for a warm friendship between those who preach the Gospel and those who make newspapers, the spoken word and the printed word to go side by side; text, Luke 16-8: "The children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light." Sacred stupidity and solemn incom petency and sanctified laziness are here rebuked by Christ. He says worldlings are wider awake for op portunities than are Christians. Men of the world grab occasions, while Christian people let the most valu able occasions drift by unimproved. That is the meaning of our Lord when He says: "The children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light." A marked illustration of the truth of that maxim is in the slowness of the Christian religion to take pos session of the secular printing press. The opportunity is open and has been for some time open, but the bcclesiastical courts, and the churches, and the ministers of re ligion are for the most part allow ing the golden opportunity to pass unimproved. That the opportunity is open I declare from the fact that all the secular newspapers are glad of any religious facts or statistics that you present them. Any animat ed and stirring article relating to re ligious themes they would gladly print. They thank you for any in formation in regard to churches. If a wrong has been done to any Chris tian church or Christian institution you could go into any newspaper of. fice of the land and have the real truth stated. Dedication services, ministerial ordinations and pastoral installations, cornerstone laying of a church, anniversary of a charitable society, will have reasonable space in any secular journal if it have previ. ous notice. given. If I had some great injustice done me, there is not an editorial or a reportorial room in the United States into which ] could not go and get myself set right, and that is true of any well known Christian man. - Why, then, does not our glorious Christianity embrace these magnificent opporfunil ties? I have before me a subject of first and last importance: How shall we secure the secular press as a mighty reenforcement to religion and the pulpit? The first thing toward this result Is cessation of indiscriminate hos tility against newspaperdom. You might as well denounce the legal pro fession because of the shysters, or the medical profession because of the quacks, or merchandise because o1 the swindling bargain makers, as tc slambang newspapers because there are recreant editors and unfair re porters and unclean columns. Guten berg, the inventor of the art of print. ing, was about to destroy his types and extinguish the art because it was suggested to him that pi'inting might be suborned into the service of the devil, but afterward he bethought himself that the right use of the arn might more than overcome the evil use of it, and so he spared the type and the Intelligence of all following ages. But there are many to-day in the depressed mood of Gutenberg with uplifted hammer, wanting tc pound to pieces the type, who have not reached his better mood, in which, he saw the art of printing tc be the rising sun of the world'i Illumination. If, instead of fighting newspapers we spend the same length of time and the same vehemence in marshaling their help In religious directions w' would be as much wiser a~s the mar who gets consent of the railroati super. Intendent to fasten a car to the end of a rail train shows better sense thatz he who runs his wheelbarrow up the track to meet and drive back the Chi ago limited express. The silliest thing that a man ever does is to fight a news paper, for you may have the floor for utterance perhaps for one day in the week, while the newspaper has th4 foor (very day in the week. Napoleon, though a mighty man, had many weak nesses, and one of the weakest things he ever did was to threaten that if the English newspapers did -not stop thei: adverse criticism of himself he would with 400,000 bayonets, cross the chan el for their chastisement. Don't fght newspapers. Attack provokes at tack. Better wait until the excite ment blows over and then go in and get justice, for get it you will if you have patience and common sense and equli poise of disposition. It ought to be a mighty sedative that there is an enor mous amount of common sense in the world, and you will eventually be taken for what you are really worth, and you cannot be puffed up, and you cannot be written down, and if you are the enemy of good society, that fact will come out, and if you are the friend of good society that fact will be estab lished. I know what I am talking about, for can draw on my own experience. All the respectable newspapers, as far as I know, are my friends now. But many of you remember the time when I was the most continuously and meanly at. tacked man in this country. God gave me grace not to answer back, and] kept silence for ten years, and much grace was required. What I said was perverted and twisted into just the opposite of what I did say. There were millions of people who believed that there was a large sofa in myv pulpit Two Views of McKinley. William McKinley's second inaugu ration into the highest office of the land was the occasion for certain moral ists to point a lesson to .young mnen. They recalled that after his tariff fight, McKinley was defeated for reeleomo to congress in 1890, and that the name of his successor is unknown, while he s now president. They declare that :lefeat only spurred him on to greater imbitions and stronger efyrte: that he ran for governor of Ohio in 1891, was 3eoted, served one term, and then aspired to and obtained the preidential somination and election. All of which is very pretty. The iconoclast, hoe ever, tells another story. It runs after this fashion: When McKinley was beat n for congress. he was a bankrupt with debts which he could not hope to pay unaided. Certain rich men chipped in and put him on his feet financially. rhey determined to make him presi lent and laid their plans well to that ad. From governor to presidential no ninee was easy when there were pur ihasabe delegates in the cynventionl. Fhe hiatory of the 1896 oampaign is too amiliar to need repetition, for we all rithough we never bad anything but a chair, and that during the singing by the congregation I was accustomed to lie down on that sofa and dangle my feet over the end. Lying New York correspondents for ten years misrep resented our church services; but we waited, and people from every neigh borhood of Christendom came there to find the magnitude of the falsehoods concerning the church and concerning myself. A reaction set in, and soon we had justice, full justice, more than jus tice, and as much overpraise as once we had underappreciation, and no man that ever lived was so much indebted to the newspaper press for opportun ity to preach the Gospel as I am. Young men in the ministry, young men in all professions and occupations, wait. You can afford to wait. Take rough misrepresentation as a Turkish towel to start up your languid circula tion, or a system of massage or Swed ish movement, whose pokes and pulls and twists and thrusts are salutary treatment. There is only one person you need to manage, and that is your self. Keep your .dispositions sweet by communion with Christ, who answered not again, get society of genial people and walk out in the sunshine with your hat off, and you will come out all right, And don't join the crowd of people in our day who spend much of their time damning newspapers. Again, in this effort to secure the secular press as a mightier reen forcement of* religion, let us make it the avenue of religious information. My advice, often given to friends who propose to start a new paper, is: "Don't! Don't! Employ the papers already started." The biggest finan cial hole ever dug in this American continent is the hole in which good people throw their money when they start a newspaper. It is almost as good and as quick a way of getting rid of mo-^y as buying stock in a gold mine Not more printing presses, b it the right use of those already es tablished. All their cylin ders, all taeir steam power, all their pens, all their types, all their ed itorial ch: '-.'s and reportorial rooms are avail.Dle if you would engage them in behalf of civilization and Christianity. Again, if you would secure the sec ular press as a mightier reenforce ment of religion and the pulpit, ex tend widest and highest Christian courtesies to the representatives of journalism. Give them easy-chairs and plenty of room when, they come to report occasions. For the most part they are gentlemen of educa tion and refinement, graduates of colleges, with families to support by their literary craft, many of them weary with the pushk.. o..a-business hat is precarious and fluctuating, each one of them the avenue of in formation to thousands of readers, their impression of the services to be -the impression adopted by multi tudes. They are connecting links be, tween a sermon, or a song, or a prayer, and this great population that tramp up and down the streets .day by day and year by year with their sorrows uncomforted and their sins unpardoned. Oh, the hundreds of thousands of people in our cities who never attend churches! -Our cities are not so much preached to by ministers of religion as by re porters. Put all journalists into our prayers and sermons. Of all the hun dred thousand sermons preached to day there will not be three preached to journalists and probably not one. Of all the prayers offered for classes of men innumerable the prayers of fered for the most potential class will be so few and rare that they will be thought a preacher's idiosyn crasy. There are .many journalists in our church memberships, but this world will never be brought to 'God until some revival of religion sweeps over the land and takes into the Kingdom of God all editors, report ers, compositors, pressmen and news boys. "But," some one might ask, "would you make Sunday newspapers also a reenforcement?" I have learned to take things as they are. I would like to see the much scoffed at old Puritan Sabbaths come back again. I do not think the modern Sunday will turn out any better men and women than were your grandfathers and grandmothers under the old fashioned Sunday. To say nothing of other results, Sunday newspapers are killing editors, reporters, com positors and pressmen. Every man, woman and child is entitled to 24 hours of nothing to do. If the news papers put on another set of hands, that does not relieve the editorial and reportorial room of its cares and responsibilities. Our literary men die fast enough without killing them with Sunday work. All things are possible with God, and my faith is up until nothing in the way of religious victory would surprise me. All the newspaper printing press es of the earth are going to be the Lord's, and telegraph and telephone and type will yet announce nations born In a day. The first book ever printed was the Bible, by Faust and his son-in-law, Schoeffer, in 1460, and that consecration of type to the Ifoly Scriptures was a prophecy of* the great mission of printing for the evangelization of all nations. The. father of the American printing press was a clergyman, Rev.. Jesse Glover, and that was a prophecy of the religious use that the Gospel min istry in this country were to make of the types. Again, we shall see the ,secular press as a mightier reenforcement of religion and the pulpit by making our religious utterances more inter esting and spirited, and then the press will reproduce them. On the way to church some 30 years ago a journalist said a thing that has kept me ever since thinking. "Are you going to give us any points to-day?" "What do .you mean?" I asked. He tributed to Republican success that year. In the presieent's chair, McIKn. ly proceed to serve the men who had placed him there, chief of whom is, Mark Hanna. The reader can take his choice of the two stories, or he cein reconcile them, if it is possible -and we think it is.-The State Pays to Be a Judge. Judge Gates of Kansas City tells this story: "My family being absent from the city, I was taking my meals at a restaurant where Negro boys are cm plyed as waiters. In one corner of the room is a dumb waiter, where orders are called out to the cook in the kitch en above. The first morning my order included, among other things two egg~s, fried medium. The waiter, following his custom, went to the open shaft and then called out my order, ending 'for iMr. Gatts.' He then turned to attend 'to some other duty, but had not taken more than thr se steps when a peculiar look spread over his face. The next moment he had fairly jumped to the opening and cried out: "Say, thar, William! Look heah! That order ain't' said: "I mesa f thM innbin taa will be striking enough to be reamm bered." 'Then I said to myself: "What right have we in the pulpits and Sunday schools to take the time of the people if we have nothing to say that is memorable!" David did not have any difficulty in remember ing Nathan's thrust, "Thou art the man," nor Felix in remembering Paul's point-blank utterance on right eousness, temperande and judgment to come, nor the English king any difficulty in remembering what the court preacher said when, during the sermon against sin, the preacher threw his handkerchief into the king's pew to indicate whom he meant. That Providence intends the profes sion of reporters to have a mighty share in the world's redemption is sug gested by the fact. that Paul and Christ took a reporter along with them, and he reported their addresses and their acts. Luke was a reporter, and he wrote not only the book of Luke, but the Acts of the Apostles, and without that reporter's work we would have known nothing of the Pentecost and nothing of Stephen's martyrdom, and nothing of Tabitha's resurrection, and nothing of the jailing and unjail ing of Paul and Silas. and nothing of - the shipwreck at Melita. Strike out the reporter's work from the Bible and you kill a large part of the New Tests. meat. It makes me think that in the future of the kingdom of God the re porters are to bear a mighty part. About 2* 'rs ago a representative of an impo New York newspaper took his seat i.. -w Brooklyn church one Sunday night s -: fve pewsfront the front of the putp.. He took out pencil and reporter's pad, resolved to caricature the whole scene. When the music began, he began, and with his pencil he derided that and then derided -1 the prayer and then derided the read Ing of the Scriptures and then- bega7 to deride the sermon. But, he spas.for some reason his hand began to r.mble, and be, rallying himself. sharpened his: pencil and started again, but broks. down again and then put pencil ad paper in his pocket and his head down on the front of the pew and beganto pray. At the close of the servic be-. came up and asked for the prayersf others and gave his heart to God,gna though still engaged in newspaper work, he is an evangelist and hires a hall at his own expense and. every Sun day afternoon preaches Jesus Christ to the people. And the men of that professionare going to come in a body throughout the country. I know hundreds oa them, and a more genial or highly educated class of men it would be hard to find, -and, though the tendency of their pro fession may, be-toward skepticlsim.aa organized, common sense tation would fetch them to the front of all Christian endeavor. Men of the pencil and pen in dlde -) partments, you need the help of the Christian religion. In the day when people want to get their newspapers at two cents and are hoping for-the time when they can get any of them at one cent and as a consequence the-at taches of -the printing press are by the thousand ground under the cylinders.a you want God to take care of you and your families. Some of your beat work. is as much unappreciated as was MU ton's "Paradise Lost," for w~eh the author received $25, and 'the immsortal poem -"Hohenlinden" of Thomas Campbell when he first offered It for publication and in the column called "Notices to Correspondents" appeared the words: "To T. C.-The ines com mencing: 'On Linden whien the sun - was low,' .are not up to our standard. Poetry is not T. C.'s forte." - O men of the. .pencil and pen, amid your unappreciated work you needen touragement,, and you can have it. Printers of all Christendom, editors, reporters, .compositor., pressmen,. publishers and readers of .that which is printed, resolve that you will not write, set up, edit, issue or read any thing that debases body, mind or souId In the lame of God,.by the laying on of tlie hands of faith and prayer, or dain the printing press for-righteous ness and liberty and salvation'. 'All of us with some influence that will help in the right direction, let us put cur hands to the work, imploring God-to hasten the- consummation. In a ship with hundreds of passengers approach ing the South American coast the man..3 on the lookout neglected his work, and In a few minutes the ship .would have been dashed to ruin on the rocks. But a cricket on board the vessel, that had made no sound all the voyage, set up a shrill call at the smell of land, and, the~ captain knowing that habit of the ing sect, the vessel was stopped in time to avoid an awful wreck. And so insg nificant means now may do wonders, and the scratch of a pen may savethe shipwreck of a soul. Are you all ready for the signing of the contract, the league, the solemn treaty proposed between journalism and evangelism? Let It be a Christian marriage of the pulpit and the print ing press. The ordination of the for mer on my head, the pen of the latter in my hand, it Is appropriate that I publish the banns of such a marriage. Let them from this day be one inte magnificent work of the world's re demption. Let thrones and Powers and kingdoms)be Oedient, mighty God, to Thee, And over land and stream and main Now wave the scepter of Thy reign. 0, let that glorious anthem swell Let host to host the triumph telI, Til not one rebel heart reman" But over all the saviour reIgns. -First Sprina- Campaign. Mrs. Modus-Well, George, you prom. ied me a new bonnet. George-I? Promised you a new bonnet? Great Scott When? Mrs. Modus-Before you married me you swore that never should disgrace rest upon my head through you; and wha4 do you call this shabby thing that's on my head now?-Tit-Bits. Gates! An', say, tharn Make them aigs fresh aigr' After which he drew a breath of satisfaction second only to y own. So, you see, it really pays sometimes to be a juidge." They Ride Astride. The Savannah News says the society women of New York and elsewhere who are vaintering at Aiken, 8. C.-Mrs,. Thomas Hitehcock, Mrs John Jacob Astor, Miss. Enstis and .others-have adopted an innovation in horseback riding, it is reported. They have dis carded the side saddle, and not take the saddle in man fashion. They wear long coas and long boots, and iucsh cer tain other parts of costnme as permit them perfect freedom and self control while on their horses. The astrids style of riding is alleged to have become almost a fad among the fashiona'les. They find it easier, safer and mire en )yable. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ The Atlanta Journal says: It is to be supposed that the presi dent winked when he made those ~opious references to liberty and ~reedom in the Philippines and