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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