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MINISTRY OF TEARS. Dr. Talmage Puts Misfortunes of Life in a Cheerful Light. Shows That If They Were Borne in the Right Spirit They Might Prove to Be Advantages , Sympathy of Jeans. (Copyright. 1901, by Lou!s Klopsch, N. Y.] New York. March 19. A vast audience crowded the Acad emy of Music in this city to-day to hear Dr. Talmage. Discoursing on "The Ministry of Tears," he put the misfortunes of life in a cheerful light, showing that if they were borne In the right spirit they might prove to be advantages. His text was Rev. vii., 17: "And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes." What a spectacle a few weeks ago when the nations were in tears! Queen Victoria ascended from the highest throne on earth to a throne in Heaven. The prayer more often offered than any prayer for the last 64 years had been answered, and God did save the queen. All round the world the bells were tolling, and the minute guns were booming at the obsequies of the most honored wom an of many centuries. As near four years ago the English and American nations shook hands in congratula tion at the queen's jubilee, so in these times two nations shook hands in mournful sympathy at the queen's departure. No people outside Great Britain so deeply felt that mighty' grief as our people. The cradles of many of our ancestors were rocked in Great Britain. Those ancestors played in childhood on the banks of the Tweed or the Thames or the Shannon. Take from our veins the English blood or -the Welsh blood or the Irish blood or the Scotch blood and the stream of our life would be a mere shallow. They are over there bone of our bone and fesh of our flesh. It is our Wilber force, our Coleridge, our De Quincey, our Robert Burns, our John Wesley, our John Knox, our Thomas Chal mers, our Walter Scott, our Bishop Charnock, our Latimer, our Ridley. our Robert Emmett, our Daniel O'Connell, our Havelock, our Ruskin, our Gladstone. our good and great and glorious Victoria. The language in which we offered the English nation our condolence is the same language in which John Runyan dreamed and Milton sang and Shakespeare dramatized and Richard Baxter prayed and George Whitefield thundered. The prince of Wales, now king, paid reverential vis it to Washington's tomb at Mount Vernon, and Longfellow's statue adorns Westminster abbey, and Abra ham Lincoln In bronze looks down upon Sootland's capital. It was nat ural that these two nations be in tears. But I am not going to speak of national tears, but of individual tears. and Bible tears. Riding across a western prairie, wild owers up to the hub of the carriage wheel, and while a long dis tance from any shelter, there came a sudden shower, and, while the rain was falling in torrents, the sun was shining as brightly as I ever saw it shine, and I thought; What a beautiful spectacle is this! So the tears of the Bible are not midnight storm, but rain' on pansied prairies In God's sweet and glden sunlight. You~ remember that bottle which David labeled as containing tears, and Mary's tears and Paul's tears and Christ's tears, and the harvest of joy that is to spring from the sowing of tears. God mixes them; God rounds them; Lrod shows them where to fa-11; God exales them. A census is taken of them, and there is a record as to the moment when they were born and as to the place of their grave. Tears- of bad men are not kept. Al exander in his sorrow had the hair clipped from his horses and mules and made a great ado about his grief, but in all the vases of BHeaven there is not one of Alexander's tears. I speak of the tears of God's children. Alas, me! they are falling all the time! In snumer you sometimes hear the growling thunder, and you see there Is a storm miles away, but you know from the drift of the clouds that it gwill not come any where near you. So, though it be all bright around about you, there is a shower of trouble somewhere all the time. Tears, tears! What Is the use of them, anyhow? Why not substitute laughter? Why not make this a world where all the people are well and eternal strangers to pains and aches? What is the use of an est era storm 'when we might have a per pe tual unor'wester? Why, when a famn 1y laput together, not have them all stay, or, If they must be t-ransplanted to make other homes, then have them all live, the family record telling a story of marriages end. births, but of no deaths? Why not have the harvests chase each other without fatiguing toil? Why the hard pillow, the hard crust, the hard struggle? It Is easy enough to explain a smile or a success ir a congratulation, but come now and bring all your dictionaries and all your philosophies and all your religions an d help me explain a tear. A chemist will tell you that it is made up of salt and limeand other component parts, but he misses the chief ingredients-the acid of a soured life, the viperine sting of a bitter memory, the fragments of a broken hearts I will tell you what a tear is. It is agony in solution. Hear, then, while I discourse of the ministry of tears or the practical use of sorrow: First, It is the design of trouble to keep this world from being too at tractive. Something must be done to make us 'willing to quit this exikten ce. If it were not for trouble, this would be a good enough Heaven for us. You and I would be willing to take a lease of this life for a hundred million years If there were no trouble. The earth, Mysterious Murder. The headless trunk of a man was found mn the Oemulgee River, on the lower point of Oaky Bluff, Ga., where it had drifted during the recent high water. There is little doubt that the man was murdered, as the head was ap parently severed from the body with an axe, and there are wounds in the chest -and abdomen, which were inflicted with an axe, The body has apparently been in the water for about two months and there is nothing about it which gives a clue to the identity. A dispatch from Macon Ga., says friends of Edward Al my, an electrical engineer, who disap peared from Macon about Janusry 1, are of the opinion that the headless trunk found at McRae is that man.The descrip klntfthe body answers to that of Almy Aninvestigati:>n will be mnade. At the time of his disappesrance he had a con siderable eum of money with him. His friends believe he was robbed and mur dered. _________ Not Teddy's Way. The Philadelphia Bulletin remarks that "Teddy betrays symptons of an unwillingness to lie qeietly in th'e vice presidential vault in which Mr. Hanna suahioied end upholmtered an pil lared and chandeliered at such expense, no story of other worlds could enchant us. We would say: "Let well enough alone. If you want to die and have your body disintegrated in the dustand your soul go out on a celestial adven ture, then you can go, but this world is good enough for me." You might as well go to a man who has just entered the Louvre at Paris and tell him to hasten off to the picture galleries of Venice or Florence. "Why," he would say, "what is the use of my going there? There are Rembrandts and Ru benses and Titians here that I have not looked at yet." No man wants to go aut of this world or out of any house nntil he has a better house. To cure this wish to stay here God must somehow create a disgust for our surroundings. How shall He do it? lie cannot afford to efface His horizon or to tear off a fiery panel from the sunset or to subtract an anther from the water lily or to banish the pungent aroma from the mignonette or to drag the robes of the morning in mire. You cannot expect a Christopher Wren to mar his own St. Paul's cathedral or a Michael Angelo to dash out his own "Last Judgment" or a Handel to dis cord his "Israel in Egypt," and you can not expect God to spoil the architecture and music of His own world. How, then, are we to be made willing to leave? Here is where trouble comes in. After a man has had a good deal of trouble be says: "Well, I am ready to ro. If there is a house somewhere whose roof does not leak. I would like to live there. If there isan atmosphere somewhere that does not distress the lungs, I would like to breathe it. If there is a society somewhere where there is no tittle tattle, I would like to live there. If there is ahome circle some where where I can find my lost friends, I would like to go there." He used to read the first part of the Bible chiefly; now he reads the last part of the Bible chiefly. Why has he changed Genesis for Revelation? Ah, he used to be anx ious chiefly to know how this world was made and all about its geological con struction. Now he is chiefly anxious to know how the next world was made and how it looks and who live there and how they dress. He reads Revelation ten times now where he reads Genesis once. The old story, "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth," does not thrill him half as much as the other story, "I saw a new Heaven and a new earth." The old man's hand trembles as he turns over this epoc ealyptical leaf, and he has to take out his handkerchief to wipe his spectacles. That book of Revelation is aprospectus now of the country into which he is soon to immigrate; the country in which he has lots already laid out and avenues opened and mansions built. It is trouble, my friends, that makes us feel our dependence upon God. We do not know our own weaknessor God's strength until the last plank breaks. It Is contemptible in us that only when there Is nothing else to take hold of we catch hold of God. Why, do you know who the Lord is? He is not an autodrat, seated far up in a palace, from which He emerges once a year, preceded by heralds swinging swords to clear the way. No. He is a father, willing at our call to stand by us in every crisis and predicamentof life. I tell you what some of you business men make mec think of. A man is unfortunate in his business. He has to raise a good deal of money, an d raise it quickly. He bor rows on word and note all he can bor row. A fter awhile he puts a mortgage n his house. After awhile he puts a second mortgage on his house. Then he makes over his life Insurance. Then he assigns all his property. Then he goes to his father-in-law and asks for help. Well, having failed everywhere, completely failed, he gets down on his knees and says: "Oh. Lord, I have tried everybody and everything; now help me out of this financial trouble." He makes God the last resort instead of the first resort. Agatn, it Is the -use of trouble to capacitate us for :he office of sym pathy. The priests, under the old dispensation, were set apart by hav tg water sprinkled upon their hands, feet and head, and by the sprinkling of tears people are now set apart to the office of sympathy. When we are in prosperity, we like to have a great many young people around us, andI we laugh when they laugh, .and we romp when they romp, and we sing when they sing, but when we have trouble we like plenty of old folks around. Why? They know how to talk. Take an aged mother, 75 years of age, and she is almost om nipotent in comfort. Why? She has been through it all. At seven o'clock n the morning she goes over to com fort a young mother who has just lost her babe. Grandmother knows all about that trouble. Fifty years ago she felt it. At 12 o'clock of that day she goes over to comfort a wid owed soul. She knows all about that. he has been walking in that dark alley 20 years. At four o'clock in the afternoon -so.me one knock. at the door, wanting bread. She knows all about that. Two or three time. in her life she came to her last loaf. At ten o'clock at night she goes over to sit up with some one severely sick. She knows all about it. She knows aHd about fevers and pleurisies and broken bone.. She has been doo toring all her life, spreading plasters and pouring out bitter drops and shaking up hot pillows and contriv ing things to tempt a poor appetite. Drs. Abernethy and Rush and Hosack and Hazvvey were great doctors, but the greatest doctor the world ever saw is an old Christian woman. Pear me! Do we not remember her about the room when we were sick in our boyhood? Was there anyone who could ever so touch a sore without hurting it? And when she lifted her spectacles against her wrinkled fore head so she could look closer at the wound it was three-fourths healed. And when the Lord took her home, although you may have been uen Burnt to Death. Penned in a blazing tenement house in Atlantio avenue,- Brooglyn, Thurs ay morning, a mother, Mrs. Mary Rontic, threw her twelve-year-old son from a fifth-story window and leaped to death herself. Her son was instantly k~illed. Mrs. Mary Madden, aged seventy, was burned to death. The injured are Mrs. May Beas, Farrell Murray and Mrs. Laura Marshall. There was a frightful panic among the twenty families living in the tenement. A Bad Outlook. A dispatch from Boston says the unsat isfactory market for print cloths and ther coarse goods made by many of the ~otton mills in the New England States whih hascomnpelled Fall River manu facturers to attempt to bring aboit a general eurtailment in thas city also .s causing some uneasiness among ,fials identified with interests in ther mill centers. The feling in mill ireles here seems to be that unless the ,itustion shows indications of an early .mrprovement, many thousands of spin els other than those in the great print bnd women E0, s0, so years ox age, you lay on the coffin lid and sobbed as though you were only five or ten years of age. Where did Paul get the ink with which to write his comforting epis ties? Where did David get the ink to write his comforting psalms? Where did John get the ink to write his comforting Revelation? They got. it out of their own tears. When a man has gone through the curricu lum and has taken a course of dun reons and imprisonments, he is qual ified for the work of sympathy. Jesus had enough trial to make Lm symyathetic with all trial. The shortest verse in the Bible tells the story, "Jesus wept." The scar on the back of his either hand, the scar on the arch of either foot, the row of scars along the line of the hair, will keep all Heaven thinking. Oh, that Great Weeper is just the one to si lence all earthly trouble, wipe out all stains of earthly grief! Gentle! Why, His step is softer than the step of the dew. It will not be a tyrant bidding you hush your crying. It will be a Father who will take you on His left arm, His face beaming Into yours, while with the soft tips of the fingers of the right hand He shall wipe away all tears from your eyes. You have noticed when the children get hurt and their mother is away from home they always come to you, the father, for comfort and sym pathy, but you have noticed when the childi get hurt and their mother is at home they go right past you and to her, and you are of no ac count. So, when the soul comes up Into Heaven out of the wounds of this life, it will not stop to look for Paul or Moses or David or John. These did very well once, but nov the soul shall rush past, crying: "Where is Jesus? Where is Jesus?" Have you any appreciation of the good and glorious times your friends are having in Heaven? Bow different It is when they get news there of a Christian's death from what it is here! It is the difference between embarkation and coming into port. Everything depends upon which side of the river you stand when you hear of a Christian's death. If you stand on this side of the river you mourn that they go. If you stand on the other side of the rIver, you rejoice that they come. Oh, the difference between a funeral on earth and a jubilee in Heaven-between requiem here and triumph there; parting here and union there! 'Together! Have you ever thought of it? They are together. Not one of your departed friends in one land and another in another, but together in different rooms of the same house-the house of many mansions! Together! Take this good cheer home with you. These tears of bereavement that course your cheek and of perse cution and of trial are not always to be there. The motherly hand of God will wipe them all away. What Is the use on the way to such a con summation-what is the use of fret ting about anything? Oh, what an exhilaration it ought to be in Chris tian work! See you the pinnacles against the sky? It is the city of our God, and we are approaching it. Oh, let us be busy in the days that re main for us! The Saxons and the Britons went ut to battle. The Saxons were 9.31 armed. The Britons had no weapons at all, and yet history tells us that the Britons got the victory. Why? They went into battle shouting three times, "Halleluiah!" and at the third shout of "Halleluiah!" theIr enemies aed panic struck, and so the Britons got the victory. And, my friends, if we could only appreciate the glo ries that are to come we would be so filled with enthusiasm that no power on earth or hell could stand before us, and at our first shout the opposing forces would begin to trem ble, and at our second shout they would begin to fall back, and at our third shout they would be routed for ever. There is no power on earth or an hell that could stand before three such volleys of. halleluiah. I put this balsam on the wounds f your heart: Rejoice at the thought f what your departed friends have ot rid of and that you have a pros peot of so soon making your own escape. Bear cheerfully the minis try of tears and exult at the thought . that soon it fa to b-e Ended. Do you not this moment catch * lmpse of the towers? Do you not hear a note of the eternal harmony? Some of you may remember the old Crystal palace In this city. of New ork. I came in from my country ome a verdant lad and heard in that Crystal palace the irst great iriusie [had ever heard. Julien gave a, con :ert there, a'nd there were 3,000 voices and 3,000 playersmupon instruments, and I was mightily impressed with the fact that Julien controlled the armony with the motion of his hand and foot, beating time with the one and emphasizing with the other. To me It was overwhelming. But all that was tame comipared with the scene and the sound when the rana somed shall come from the east and the west and the north and the south nd sit down in the kingdom of God, nyriads above mnyriads, galleries above galleries, and '.hrist will rise, - and all Heaven will rise with Hlm. and with His wounded hand and wounded foot He wfi conduot that harmony, "Like the voioe of many waters, like the voice of mighty hunderings, worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive riches and honor and glory and power, world without Not a Priceless Relic. "I married you for your mo:2ey!" she cried, bitterly. Then, by a visible effort controlling her sobs, she went on, hoarsely: "And that i why yrou look lIke 80 pents to me now."-Baltimore Ameri Sampson's History. "Who is this man Sampson?" Where didio come from?" asiks Senator Till an, with reference to Sampson's turn ing down Gunner iMorgan, because ho was not born an arisitocrat, so 3alled. The amswer is aiven in outline by the Philaddephia North American as fol lows: "William T. Sampson was born m a farm in Wayne County, N. Y., February 9, 1840. His father was a day laborer, who immiarated fromn the north of Ireland in 1826 and Ecutled at Palm3 ra, on the Erie Canal. As a boy Sampson attende d the district school lring part of each year, and was re iuired, when not in the school room, to assist his father at odd jobs, which were iven him to do by people in the village. h Sampson family consisted of eight ,hildren, all of whom, including Wil im T., the elder,spenst their early lives n performing menial labor, much of hich was offered them by charitable riends or neighbor." There is nothing igraeful in this, except in accordance vith the standard of sooial excellence et up by Samupson t imself. According o this false standar d Sampson is a pie ian of the plebians. -Richmond Dis ORANGEBURG LEADS More Cottrn Giown There Than In Any Other Crunty. SUM TER IS A GOOD SECOND. Georget' wn Tai-s the List. Ab atrr ct of a Gensus Buile tan Pre pared by a Sr u h Carolinian Census bulletin, no. 58, jest issued, deals with cotton ginning. It was pre pared by Daniel C. Roper, of South Carolina aid deals with the cotton crop <f 1899. It is the first report of its kird ever made by a United States cen sus. The statistics were c3llected by corre spordence and through the enume ratrrs from 29,620 establishments. The figures f( r South Carolina will be of get eral interest in this state. Orange burg county prodt ced the most cotton and Georgetown the least. Reduced to average bales of 500 pounds each, the r.um' er of tales of cotton pro duced in 1899 was as follows: Orangtburg......... .........62071 Sumter............... .......51.404 Marlboro................ 38 467 Anderson....................38,456 Barnwell..................38.048 Laurens................... ..35,888 Spartanburg................33 747 Darliogton... ... ...........29 462 Marion.. ...................27,685 GreeLwood...... .........26 987 Abbeville....................26,490 Aiken........ . .........25,044 Greenville ........... ..-.24 645 N'esberry...............24 240 York... ...... .........23,910 t:larendon......... ........22,512 Fairfield...................21 613 Williamburg..................20.318 ldgefinld.....................19,304 Chester ................. ..19,133 Fiorenc .....................18,991 Linca-ter........ ........ ..18576 BAmberg .... ...............17 817 Keroba ......... ...........17,458 Union ..... .. ...... ....-17,052 Hampton........... . ...15,038 Chesterfield..................13,919 Saluda.................. .. .13,497 L: xington...............13,024 Richland......... .........12.605 Berkeley.................... 11 888 Pickens......... ............10,320 Oconee ..... .. ... ........ 9 972 Cherokee..................... 9,700 ('olieton................ .... 8.099 Dorchebter...... ...... ..6,234 Horry .................. 5,194 Charleston.... t....... -. . 3,707 Beaufort..................... 3 304 Georgetown.................. 1,296 Charleston county produed only r:ea islatd cotton. 3ieldirg 5,389 bales of an average veigbt tf 344 rounds. Beaufort ard B.rkeley are the o,l3 otht r counnics which product d sea is land co ton, but they also j r yduced up lanes. Braufr produced 1 643 a.nd Brktl, y 1,197 ba of sea isltnds. R una bales w'-re p-odunced in nine counties in 1899. the numbe.r of r ound bd~ls prduce4 in those countit a ano the average cost pt r ba'e ft r gir~ning and baling bting as folloa', tLa buis avetaging 257 pounde: L.urens, 1 213 $1.54.. Barnwell 1.138 $1 06. Chester, 714 54 cents. Newherry, 400 $1 Bamb rg, 90 $1 25. Orangeburg, 15, 503 cenws Grienwood. 14. 50 cents. Yturk, 13, $1 62 Hamnpte n, 5, $1. The averste weght of the sqnare t aes was 491 routnds or rDearly twice that of the round b.Aes. The average cot for ginning and Laling squire bales in the varirus counties wasn as follows: Beaufort, $1 84; I' erens, $1 66; GeL rgetown and sprarta .Luvg. $1 62; Greenville, $1 59, Oconee arnd Wu-. liamsburg, $1.58; Horry, $1.55; An derson, $1 52; ichland, $l 43; CJhe rokee and Hampton $1 39; Darling ton, $1 37; Chester fiAld. $1.36; Berke ley arnd Florence, $1 35; Las~castpr, $1.32; Laurer s $1 26, Saluda. $1 25; Barnwell and Union, $1.23; Dorches ter, $1 21; Ban~berg and Edgefield, $1 18; Aiken. $1 16; D -rlingtou $1 13, Fairfield, $1 11; Kershaw, $1 10; Greenwood, Lexington atd York, $1 09; Marl~ore, $1 06; Marion and Sumter, .$1 05; A bbe ville and New berry, $1 04; Cheiter. $1 03; Claren dos at d Orangeburg, $1 02. But, these figures are light comI area wi.h the cost of ginning ar~d baling sea island cotton, which was as follov s on bales averagicg 347 peun ds: Charles tn, $8; Bcrkeley, $7.06; B aufort, $6 96. The aversge cnst of ginning and quare balina 864 714 bales of uplands, aver aging 491 sounds, was $1 29; while the average cost of ginning and round baling 3,602 bales 01 uplar~di averaging 257 pounds was $1. Tne entire crop of cotton raised in this cuntry in 1899 was 9.645,974 bales, of which 9,043,231 bales were quare uplands. averaging 498 pounds in weight and giened and valuea as an average cost of $2 03 per hale; 505 464 bales were round upiands, averaging 259 pounds and ginned and baled it an average -cost of $1 15; and 97,229 bales of Eea islands averaging 388 pounds in weight and ginned and baled at an average cost of 4 90 per bale. The average cost of ginning and square baling a bale of cotton is less in South Carolina than in any other state. -Clumbia R,. cord. To Reach the People. B-efore many years shall pass the newspaper will be the medium of pub licity for all who have any announce ment to make to the people, and the latter will look to the newspapers for information on virtually all subjects. Besides telephone, street railway,, in urance and financial companies, which in some cities advertise in the news paper as regularly as do the merchants, some of the churches, school boards, municipal corporations and business organizations have adopted the news paper as their means of communicating with the public. Recently a large so iety in Southern Michigan which is ngaged in the propagation of certain altruistic social doctrines decided to abandon its own paper and to buy one olmn a week in each of a number of leading newspapers for the publication of well written articles on its creed. Cleveland and Hill. The Augusta Chronicle says it looks as if Grover Cleveland and David B. Hill are in regular training for a demo cratic nomination for the presidency. leveland seems to be, in a certain sense, his own platform. Hill is more specifi. Well, it is a long way before 1904, and nobody can tell what may happen meanwhile. However, freedom of speech still remains and the demo cratic party can patiently listen to the Price of War and Conquest. The total appropriation for military I and naval purposes made by the Re- ' publican congress aggregate $424 265, 348. This means that the head of the average family of five persona must pay this year about $28 as his share of the taxation n: cessary to meet this military s outlay. The New Yoik World quotes $ R iliiam Pirras saying: "To levy a direct tax of 7 per cent is r a dangerous experiment in a free coun try, and may excite revolt; but there is s a method by which you can tax the last v rag from the back and the last bite from 8 the month without causing a murmur 1; against high taxes, and that is to tax a o great many artioe s of daily use and o necessity so indirectly that the people a will ray them and not know it." 'I he men who are responsible for t there enormous appropriations aat upon a the theory that because federal taxa tion is not direct taxation the American e people will be slow to resentment. f, rhe federal method of indirect taxation b is somewhat slow in reaching the indi. v:dnal, or-rather it should be said that the individual is somewhat slow in real izirg but the burden exists and the in divdual pays his proportion of taxation although he does not readily recognize . the burden. When we see the govern a man; expending billions of dollars in order to maintain un-American policies t we do not realiz that someone must a root the bill. We do not seem to ap 1 preciate the fact that money does not u grow on trees. The present administra- , tien appear to have no concern for the a value of money, and it is squanderirg ( dollars at a reckless pace.-The Com- d moner, t A Scathing Indictment b At a mass meeting in the se cond Presbyterian church,Ports- b mouth, 0., on a recent Sabbath a afternoon, in the presence of over two hundred men, a con- il verted gambler and ex-saloon- t keeper made the following state- v ment, which has created a pro- t found impression: "I have been in the saloon j business, with a gambling room b attached, for the last four years, i: and claim to know something ii about what I am now going to tell you. I do not believe that the 5 gamblingden is nearly so dan- t gerous, nor does it do anything i like the same amount of harm as the social card party in the home a a I give this as my reason: In the , gambling room the windows are u closed tight, the curtains are a pulled down; everything is se- I cretly for fear of detection, and h none but gamblers, as a rule, en ter there; while in the parlor all have access to the game, chil dren are permitted to watch it. It is made attractive and allur- i ing by giving prizes, serving re- v fresiments and adding high so- f cial enjoyments. For my part, I I never could see the difference i between playing for a piece of ! silver molded in the shape of ' money and silver molded in the shape of acup or a thimble. The principle is the same, and when ever property changes hands f over the luck of the cards, no matter how small is the value of the prize,I believe it is gambling. t Have you ever thoughi; of it? ~ Where do all the gamblers come from. They are not taught in, the gambling dens. A 'greener,' i unless he is a fool, never enters c a gambling hell, because he i knows that he will be fleeced e out of everything he posses in 3 less than fifteen minutes. He ' has learned somewhere else be- ~ fore he sets foot inside such a r place. - When he has played in the parlor, in the social game of the home, and has become proficient enough to win prizes among his friends, the next ste p with him is to seek out the gamb -d ling room, for he has learned, c and now counts upon his profi- f ciency to hold his own. The sa- a loon men and gamblers chuckle d and smile when they read in the b papers of the parlor games given ' by the ladies, for they know ~ that after a while these same men will become the patrons of their business. I say, then, the a parlor game is the college where a gamblers are made and educat- J] ed. In the nam e of. God, men, z stop this business in your I homes." t After he had taken his seat ~ another converted ex-gambler, ~ who led the men's meeting in the second Presbyterian church a the following Sabbath, arose , and said: "I indorse every 'I word which the brother before a me has just uttered. I was a c gambler. I learned to play cards, ~ not in the saloon, not in my ownt home, but in the homes of my " young friends, who invited me to play with them and taught i, mehow-" Congressman Hull on the Army. a In a recent number of the Saturday Evening Post Congressman Hull of Iowa undertakes to justify the new army measure. He negan by saying t) that the fight for the reorganiz-.tion of g, the regular army had liasted four 3 ears e and speaks of "putting the United a States in line with the rest of the world a in the matter ef organization of the il military and of the government." That is a statement which no Republican a leader would have made during the last campaign. The reader of the d article is disappointed to find no mention made of the number of sons s Congressman Hull has among the com- a. missicned offiors of the arm~y. It is also to be regretted that the gentleman ih rrom Iowa did not take time to enumer- b, ite among the reasons for the large j army the necessity of protecting the p 3yndicates yhich are being organized si :o exploit the Pnilippines Islands. B3e- oi ng the president of the Philippine si Lumber and Development Co., Mr. sc Rull is in position to give valuable in- f, *ormation on this point. A prospectus >f the er mpany, issued last suammer, let fort~h the fact that his comj a y had dlready secured valuable tinmb.r con ressiors and explained that the labor t< rotlecm was easily solved because of d: he abundance of Chinese labor.-The rc ommoner. g The London Globe continues to bewail d< he nervelessness of the British foreign p] fice in regard to the Russian activity hi r Mlanchura, and reiterates its appeal to ir he United States to rid herself of the ai afluence of Wu Ting FAng, the Chinese Md tlinister at Washington, and glamour e< he Russian diplomats and thereby save ei he northern Onina market to the cot- tc on mills of the TUnited States.n PUERTO RICA MILITIAMXa Their Conduct Contrasted With That of Pennsylvania Bullies. The best appearing troops of the visiting military organizations in Wash ington at the inaugural ceremonic s wtre the Puerto Ricans The ycung men conducted themselves with dignity. They gained the respect of the commu. nity for their good manners, con teous bearing and neat appearance. They ar rived in Washington early on the morn ing of Sunday, the day before the in auguration, and were conducted at once to the attic floor of the state, war and navy building, where the records are kept, and where cots had beeen placed for them in the corridors. The cfficers who were to remain with them occu pied the effiae rooms, from which the furniture had been removed. These Puerto Ricans were in striking contrast to the Pennsylvania militia men who occupied the lower corridore of the same building, and who made the structure ring with their hubbub, ahich increased in volume hourly as long as they remained in the city and culminated in a carnival of noise on the night of March 4 The PennsylvaniaLs were not as well disciplined as the Puerto Ricans. They were less in awe of their officers, and between the enlist ed man and his c.mmander there ap peared to exist the utmost comrade ship. The Pennsylvania troops were in some cases made up of mine em pioyes and rolling mill men. They were a rough element, and they made Wash ington uncomfortable for two days, when they were not within the wire roped reservation which marked the route of the parade. When they went away they left an immense amount of labor for the fifty charwomen employed in the state, war and navy building These cleaners were engaged all day in scrubbing the t tone floors and picking up tie refuse left by the troopers. Fortunatley, on this occasion they did Ltle damage. Four years' ago they broke into the office rooms and' de strayed some furniture. The Puerto Ricans on the other hand were well behaved. Few of them could speak English beyond a strongly so cented explanation of their deficiency and a few words of common use. The word "what" appeared to be a favorite production, which never failed to win applause from the associareo of the linguists. The cfficers spoke English. of course, and some of the non-com missioned officers and a few of the pri vates spoke enough of our language to act as interpreters and to supply their wants while they were in this country. The corridors used as quarters by these new colonial soldiers were kept in the best of order. Their blankts and equipment were neatly stacked. There was no litter, and when they went away there were no piles of re fuse. They were scrupulously neat, and their appearance in the street was favorably remarked.-New York Trib une. The Country Press. The Commoner repeats the statement made in the first number that it is not its purpt se or desire to supplant the local weekly r ewspaper. There should toe in every community, or at least in every ccu'ltl a faithful and fearless weekly paper to defend the r'ghts of the people and to chanpion their inter eats it is imnpossible to overestimate the value of such a paper, and it should receive~ the constant and cordial sup port of those whose interests it guards. The Democratic party must largely rely upon these papers for the spread of in tormation andi wholesome political de c rine. The Commoner would not, if it *culd, take away a single subscriber from such papers; on the contrary, it aims to encourage and strengthen them There is, however, a field for a paper devoted to the discus:-ion of problems, political, ecmnomie and secial, which d.fect the people of the entire country. The local weeklies, of course, treat of thEse to a certain extcnt; but so much space must be given to city, ecunty and state matters that they cannot pos sbly discuss them as thoroughly as a paper devoted exclusively to suah ques tions. The local papers and The Coin moner will be mutually helpful-a con vert made by either will redound to the advantage of the other, and they will work together fcr the restora' ion f the governn-ezt to' its old fvutda tions and for equal and exact justice for all.-The Commoner. Excuses and Pretexts. The imperialists, who are in favor of grabbing everythine in sight when it will not involve us in trouble with a powerful nation, are putting up all sorts of pleas for the appropriation of Cuba by the United States. One administra tin organ says that it is ne cessary to limit very closely the liberty of the uban republic, because, while we promised the Cubans freedom snd inde pendene, we also guaranteed them stable government. But how do 'we know that they are not capable of gov erning themselves steadily and well until we nave give them an opportunity to try? Would a child ever learn to walk if it were compelled to stand forever still between props? The c~nditions which the administration proposes to asten upon Cuba will remove its gov rnment very far from independence ad will cert ainly be accepted, if ac epted at all, in very bad temper by a isappointed people.--Atlanta Journal. Delegates Appointed, The Southern Industrial association will hold a convention in Philadelphia, June 4 to 7, 1901. This is the body which held such an important meetinrg in New Orleans several months ago. W. B. Smith Whaley, of Columbia, and D. A. Tompkins, of Charlotte, are vice presidents. Governor McSweeney Thurs - day apoointed the following delegates to the Philadelphia meeting. W. B. Wilson and G. B. Eiwards, Charleston; . K. Aiken, Hender,on; U~. H. Fisher, iEgeeld; J. M. Sullivan, Anderson; W.-L. Darst, Greenwood;8S. L. Miller, olumbia; A. B. Calver t, Spartanburg; W. J. Rloddey, Rock Hill; ,Leroy Springs, L incaster; C. S. McCall, Ben nettville; J. J. McSwain,Timmonsville; W. P. Roof, Lexington; and S. Kohn, hangeburg. Woman Turned to Stone. Mrs. Mary Black of Clinton county, Inda., whose affictionwith a complica ted attack of Addison's disease, known a ossification, has attracted the wide tention of medical men and scientists for eighteen moths, is dead. The pro gress of the disease continued up to the time of her death. She became perfectly helpless, the flesh hardening until her whole body was as rigid as stone, and took on a marble like appearance. The hardening process also affected the en tire organism. The bronze color of the hardened flesh, a prominent feature of I the disease, gave way to a dark grayi olor before death. For weeks the wo- I man's features have borne more of a re- 1 semblance to chiseled statuary than to t NEGRO VANITY EBPEOVED. 'he- Use of Anti-Kink, Hair Washes and Face Bleaches. The Linisiana Conference of the tfAican Methodist Church has taken teps to step the attempts of the ne roes of the S. uth to get rid of their lack faces ard kinky bair. Besides rprehending the condict of negrtes ,ho seek to bleach their faces and traighten their hair, the Conference oted that its members shcld not abscribo to any negro paper that pub shed advertisements of frce bleaches r hair straighteners. The Church rgans will be required to cancel such dvertising contracts. The action was taken because of he great increase in the sale of such rticles this year. Oa account of the igh price of cotton the negroes gen rally have more money than tver be lre, and they are spending it for ixuries, which include perfumes, hair 'ashes and face bleaches. Tae sale of erfumes in the Southwest has ir creased early four-fold over last year. The erfumes most in di mind are musk and atchoull, for the n.g:o likes a strong erfume and will not touch violet or milar mild articlas. Almost equ illy in demand with iese perfumes are the face bleaches od the various anti-kirk remedies here are screral score of these quack iedicines, the main constituent of hich is some strong acid. The re alt, 'so the leading ministers at the onferenc 3 declared, has been to ron er thousands of young negroes prema irely bald, their hair being burned off y the anti-kink acids. As for the ce blesche3 they occsionally reduce .e black color slightly, bat only by urning off the skin, giving the negro n unhealthy and diseased appeara ca. The Conference thought it time to iterfere and protect the negro against ie evil effects of this manifestation of unity, which is not oniy costing them housands of dollars absolutely thrown way en nostrums, but also seriously juring the race. The negro is less able to baldness than the white man, at the entire race would soon be bald the anti-kinks continued to increase i use as they have done this year. Bihop C. S. Smith, the Rev. Mr. Dillard, and the Rev. J. Wnite were re leaders in the movement against ais negro vanity. A special commit se was appointed to consider the ques on and it brought in the resolutions gainst anti kink and face bleach ad eitsements. The committee will keep p the war against the hair nostrums ad face bleaches, and each Louisiana frican Methodist preacher will warn is congregation agaicst them The R v. Mr. Willard taought that ese anti kink advertiserents were an ault to the ncgro race. Bishop Sm ith yok the religious a'de of the matter. God knew what He was abut when [e made you," he said, "and if He ranted you to have hair like white ilks He would have made it s-; atd if le wanted your skin to be like that cf he white fo'ks He w uld have bleached t Himself Yu need not attempt to mprove on %our architecture God rade you, and 5tu must work out your titure in this country as He made you. Saild up charaiter, be trae to your elf. Yuu will not be able to get away rom .your race. Ngro marnhood is rhat is needed today.". Bishop S nith a'so atisc'ha the roe rums to estroy odors and the pe.r cames t> conceal thema. "Use soap, rater and to4'els," the Bishop said. 'he negro whLo believes that any of hess quack med e'nes or anything else ut soap and water wiil keep down bad dors is guilty of an abturd mistake, as e will find out later. Keep your harateer white. Impra on it, and ou will do y our whole dnty." 'There Sno doubt that the Conferer~e, is in arred. How nmuchn it can accom fish in stamping out this racial vanity imains to be seen, but it has been ery sivce:ssful in mist of its crusades. A Black Crime. Unconscious and, the physicians Eay ying, Mary Paige, the .pretty 16 year ld daughter of C. H. Paige, lies at her ather's home, Brooklyn, the victim of n assault. Since she was found win erng in the streets, it is said she had cen c'nscious oDly a few minuter, 'hen she manag-d to gasp out thaat shei ad been lured to a livery stasls by brees young men, fereed to drink a rugged crink and then assaulted by he three. The police acted promptly fter the girl's father Lad reported to bem.' iey arrested George Abbott, r., 17 years old, of Brooklyn. He ad titted knowing Mary ;said he had taken er for a walk Sunday night, and that wo other- young men hid j ined them, ut declared that he knew nothing. bout her having been drugged, and de j ed that there had been any assault [ gave the names of the other youths, nad en Miss Paige's complaint warrants sre sworn out for their arrest. L se Luet day afternoon the detectives took yong man to the Adamsastreet polie iurt, where he made a long affidavit efore Magistrate Brenner. The de ~ecives said the youth was a most im ortant witness in the case. They ould not per.nit him to talk. Abbott is taken before Mary Paige and fully lentified by her as the one who had iven her the supposed drugged liquor cad assaulted her. A Signal Man's Death. W. W. Blackford, a signal man on le Lehigh Valley road at Park View, .J, was found dead in his tower ily Thursday morning. He had been lot and his death is surrounded with >nsiderable mystery. The belief is ist the man killed himself accidental r, bat not until the coroner and police take an investigation will it be settlel Lst how he died. Blaekford went on aty at ten o'clock Wednesday night. t midnight one of the track. walkers opped in at his post and apparently I was well. At two o'clock the track alker went back and on entering the 'wer floor stumbled over Biackford's ydy. By Blackford's side lay a pistol. he coroner after inveatigation ex 'essed the opinion that Blackford tot himself accidentally. That no ac dent happened was fortunate, as the gnal tower was without any one for venal hours and both passenger and eight trains are canatantly passing. A Good Examaple. A special dispatch from Greenville the Augusta Chroniele says Wednes iy night the police raided a gambling om and caught five y oung men in a une of poker. Thursday morning ey were tried and each fined twenty llars except one who wriggled and eaded not guilty and the mayor made s fine thirty dollars. After the trial the mayor's court Sheriff Gilreath rested the sports, took them before agistrate Clide who held them for urt under three hundred dollar bonds chi. Mayor Williams has determined break up all questionable places of sort wheher fo.. men orwmen. FOWEN 6P WAtEfR" )ole Bored in a Bliuf as it by a Can. non Bal. A little group of sold citisans was standing on Baronne street, New Or. leans, watching a cleaning gang at work with the bose, "That reminds me of old days in Cal ifornia," said one of the party as the stream veered slightly and shaved of the corner of a pile of dirt. "I never realized how much force could be de livered by a jet of. water," he con tinued, "until I tried hydraulic mining: It was lih 1870, up on the Sacramento River. They had brought a stream down the Sierra Nevada Mountains in a big 'flume' that ended in a length of wire-wrapped hose and a~six-foot nos zle with arm on the side for a couyle of men to take hold of. "They played the stream on a big bluff directly opposite, and it bored out the solid, packed foundation like living fire eating Into tinder. " For a donen feet from the nozzle the water seemed like a hard blue bar and there was something strange and-murderous look ing in the way it drove straight out that made by flesh creep to watch it. Several laborers had been accidentally struck by the stream and in each case the man was killed as suddenly as if hit by a cannon ball. "I remember on one occasion some rival claimant came down from Shasta and took possession of a cabin not far - from the end of the flume line. Our boss, who was a big Irishman named Murphy, told us to play the steam on the place, and as we were all spoiling - for a row we lost no time in obeying. I never saw such a demolition in my life. The shanty flew seven ways for Sunday and one of the fellows Inside was pitched bodily through the sir and landed in the river. The distance was. so great nobody was hurt, and after that our gang was known as 'Murphy's light artillery.' Mark Twain draws's very vivid picture of hydraulic mining In 'Roughing It,' and from personal ex perience I can assfire you he hasn't embroidered the facts In the Ieast." A Tornado's Freaks. John R. Musick of Kirksville, Mo., thus describes, in the Century, certain madcap pranks of a tornado whichl passed through tht city. "Many strange freaks were played by the tornado. In a tree-top was found a woman's hais, supposed to have been torn from her head asa was carried through Its branches; yet no person was found near it. A lma scalp was found three miles from the cty limits, under a bridge. Notes, ht. ters, sand papers were blown from the city into Iowa, and found ninety mles away. One promissory note of $40 was found in a field near Granndi, Iowa, nearly 100 miles away, wbl-s clothing and papers were scatted along the entire distance. "One woman was decapitated by a tin roof, and her child was killed near ' A her. Some .persons who were out the rotating current were killed or tam jured by flying timbers, which, like bolts from ,the catapult of Jove, flew -' with deadly force for a great distae, while others in the very center of the storm escaped with little or no injury Perhaps the most remarkble experi " ences were those of Miss Moorehose - Mrs. Webster, and her son. The three were caught up in the storm, and ward carried beyond the Catholie chue1% nearly one-fourth of a mile; and-let - down on the common so getythat3 none were killed. Mrs. Wbtrhade some slight cuts about the head her son had one arm fractured, but Miss Moorehouse was uninjured. "I was conscious all the time I was flying through the air,' said Mis Moorehouse, 'and It seemd a lomo time. I seemed to be lifted- up and. whirled round and round, goingt Aa~ great height, at one time far above the church steeples, and seemed tot be car. ried a long distance. I prayed to thre Lord to save me, for I believed ir could save me, even on the wi. ;of the tornado, and he did .~drf~ preserve my life. As gcIg through the air,d being whirled about at the sport..of~the storm, Ii ma horse soaring afid rotatng about wi&h me. It was a white horse, and had a harness on. By the war It kicked and struggled as It was hurled about r-. know it was alive. I prayed to God tthibe-.horse might not -come in con tsit~with me, and it did not. I was mercifully landed upon the earth a harmed-savd by a miracle. "Young Webster says he saw the horse In the air while he was bdag borne along by the storm. 'At one time It was directly over me, and! was very much afraid I would cogne in contact with Its flying heels?'~h horse, It Is said, was caught up and earrned one mile through the-air, and; according to the accounts of reputable witnesses, at times was over 20Q eet high, passing over a church.-steei Many who were not in the storm my that they saw, horses flying In the' wind. Beyond .being well plastser/ with mud, the white horse wasia' jured by his serial flight." A Fine Job. - Two park laborers sat on tlie curb. stone of the Eastern Parkway I Brooklyn eating diner out of the pails, for It was the noon hour, and discussing their surround.in aI brogue which suggested that thyhad n't been over very long. One of theni fell to admiring the Museum of .Artsc and Sciences, which stands back from. the Parkway. I "It's a folne big buildin',"1he said; "an' solid enough put up to last fog Iver." "'Tis thot," agreed the other.. "But what Is-it fer?" "To kape dead boogs an' other crachures in," said the first. "It's a museum, It is." "An' are them big letters cut into the stone above the windles the name uV "I dono what thim leters wad be,' sald the furst speaker. He fellto spel. Ing out the words, and presently4 a yp ot intelligence succeeded the pussled epression on his face. "Sure, I hay It,'" said he. "Thin IS the na-mes av the centracters." *"'Tis a folne job they done, anny way," observed the ohradmr .lW "They'd be bIg m~In hi own wid slathers of inficene, belike." And Patrick made a good gusess, for the names graven In the stone were Aescbylus, Sophocles, Pericles, Hete* totus, Socrates, Theydidas, and Dmee ems. Death Ex-President Harrisona. Ex-president Benjamin Harrison " died at his home in Indianapolis, Ind., on Wednesday, after an illness of a f6W - days. His death was quiet and pain- . less, there being a general sinking un tl the end came, which was marked by a single gasp for breath, as life de-N parted from the body of the great] statesman. Toe relatives, with a few exceptions, and several of his old and tried friends, were at the former presi dent's bedside when he pssed away. fncreasing Taxes. - The Chicago Times Heraid calls at tentin to the increasing burden of tses. It says, editorially: "The State of illinois is groaning under too nmuch government. The state ise burdened with a vast army of political tax caters who get at the public crib throug the devious channels of complicate, use ess, worn-out and costly goverig machinery. Fifty per cent o h f fee holders in the state are nothing buC political parasites, sucking the life blood from the -body politic. Tbh. property of the people 'down to the iron bedstead and oak washstand of the modest dweller in a cottage is levied pon to feed a great and ever increasing