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8AVING OF NATIONS. Dr. Taimage Tells of the Sacrifices of Our Savior. $e Speaks of Gethsemane as It Ap peared to Him-Sermon from the Text: "Ye Are Boaght with a Price." [Copyright, 1901. by Lou!s Klopsch, N. 7.1 Washington, March 31. In this discourse Dr. Talmage shows the Messianic sacrifices for the sav ing of all nations and speaks of Gethsemane as it appeared to him; text, I. Corinthians 6:20: "Ye are bought with a price." Your friend takes you through his valuable house. You examine the arches, the frescoes, the grass plots, the fish ponds, the conservatories, the parks of deer, and you say with in yourself or you say aloud: "What did all this cost?" You see a costly diamond flashing In an earring, or you hear a costly dress rustling across the drawing-room, or you see a high mettled span of horses har nessed with silver and gold, and you begin to make an estimate of the value. The man who owns a large estate cannot instantly tell you all it is worth. He says: "I will estimate so much for the house so much for the furniture, so much for laying out the grounds, so much for the stock, so much for the barn, so much for the equipage, adding up in all mak ing this aggregate." Well, my friends, I hear so much about our mansion in Heaven, about its furniture and the grand surround ings, that I want to know how much it is all worth and what has actually been paid for it. I cannot complete in a month nor a year the magnifi cent calculation, but before I get through to-day I hope to give you the figures. "Ye are bought with a price." The first installment paid for the clearance of our souls was the igno minious birth of Christ in Bethle hem. Though we may never be care fully looked after afterward, our ad vent into the world is carefully guard ed. We came into the world amid kindly attentions. Privacy and si lence are afforded when God launches an immortal soul into the world. Even the roughest of men know enough to stand back. But I have to tell you that in the village on the side of the hill there was a very bed lam of uproar when Jesus was born. In a village capable of accommodat ing only a few 'hundred people many thousand people were crowded, and amid hostlers and muleteers and cam el drivers yelling at stupid beasts of burden the Messiah appeared. No si lence. No privacy. A better adapted place hath the eaglet in the eyrie, hath the whelp in the lions' lair. The exile of Heaven lieth down upon straw. The first night out from the palace of Heaven spent in an out ouse. One hour after laying aside the robes of Heaven dressed in a wrapper of coarse linen. One would have supposed that Christ would have ma'de a more gradual descent, com ing from Heaven first to a half-way world of great magnitude, then to Caesar's palace, then to a merchant's palace in Galilee, then to a private home in Bethany, then to a fisher man's hut and last of all to a stable. No! It was one leap from the top to the bottom. Let us open the door of the caravan mary in Bethlehem and drive away the camels. P-ss on through the group of idlers and loungers. What, 0 Mary. no light? "No light," she says, "save that which comes through the door." What, Mary, no food? "None," she says, "only that which was brought in the sack on the fourney." Let the Bethle hem woman who has come in here with kindly attentions put back the cover ing from the babe that we may look upon it. Look! Look! Uncover your head. Lest us kneel. Let all voices be hushed. Son of Mary! Son of God! Child of a day! Monarch of eternity! In that eye the glanee of a God. Om nipotence sheathed in that Babe's arm. That voice to be changed from the feeble plaint to the tone that shall wake the dead. Hosanna! Hosanna! Glory to God that Jesus came from throne to manger that we might rise ftro manger to throne, and that all the gates are open, and that the door of Heaven that once swung this way to let Jesus out now swings the other way to let us in. Let all the bellmen of Heaven lay hold the rope and ring out the news: "Behold, I bring you glad tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people, for toklday is born in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord!" The second installment paid for our soul's clearance was the scene In Quar antanla, a mountainous region, full of caverns, where are to-day panthers and wild beasts of all sorts, so that you must now go there armed with knife or gun or pistol. It was there that Jesus went to think and to pray. and It was there that this monster of bell-more sly, more terrible, than anything that prowled in that country --Satan himself, met Christ. The rose in the cheek of Christ that Publius Lentullus, in his letter to the Roman senate, ascribed to Jesus that rose had scattered its petals. Ab stinence from food had thrown him into emaciation. A long abstinence from food recorded in profane his tory is that of the crew of the ship Juno. For 23 days they had noth ing to eat. But this sufferer had fasted a month and ten days before he broke fast. Hunger must have agonized every fiber of the body and gnawed on the stomaeh with teeth of death. The thought of a morsel of bread or meat must have thrilled the body with some thing like feroeity Turn out a pack of men hungry as Christ was a-hungered, and If they had strength with on. What It Would Do. The sum collected by the internal re venue bureau under the provisions of the war revenue act, from June 13, 1898, when the act, went into efrect, to February 28 1901, was $281,311,515. This sum of money would have built an inter- oceanie canal, opened the arid lands of the west to cultivation bya sys tem of irrigation and made navigable every desirable waterway in the coun try. And who will deny that these in vestments would have been better ones than the war for which this money has been spent in the far east?-Atlanta Journal. ______ They Are Chummy. A Washington dispatch to the Char leston Post says Senator McLaurin of South Carolina, who is still in Washing ton, was at the White House Tues day afternoon, and had a talk with President McKinley about some South Carolina matters. The Senator stated that there was nothing in his talk with the President of public interest. Since the adjournment of Congress the Sena tor has been a frequent caller at the White House. It is understood he will will leave Washington for South C'arolina within a short time now. yell they would detour you as a ad. It was in that pang of hunger that n Jesus was accosted, and satan said: w "Now, change these st nes, which look a: like bread. into an actual supply of a bread." Had the temptation come to you and me under those circumstances ix we would have cried: "Bread it shall v be!" and been almost impatient at the h time taken for mastication, but Christ r with one hand beat back the hunger v and with the other hand beat back the a monarch of darkness. 0 ye tempted v ones! Christ was tempted. We are a told that Napoleon ordered a coat-of- d mail made. but he was not quite cer- a tain that it was impenetrable. so he e: said to the manufacturer of the coat- a of-mail: "Put it on now yourself and 2. let us try it." And with shot after I shot fired from his own pistol the em- t: peror found that it was just what it c pretended to be, a good coat-of-mail. Then the man received a large reward. b I bless God that the same coat-of- il mail that struck back the weapons of :b temptation from the head of Christ is we may now -all wear, for Jesus comes t and says: "I have been tempted, and I C know what it is to be tempted. Take o this robe that defended me and wear t it for yourselves. I shall see you i through all trials, and I shall see you t through all temptation." C 'But," says Satan still further to r Jesus, "come, and I will show you so:nething worth looking at." And r after a half day's journey they came to b Jerusalem and to the top of the tem- y ple. Just as one might go up in the I tower of Antwerp and look off upon Belgium, so Satan brought Christ to 6 the top of the temple. Some people at s a great height feel dizzy and a strange c disposition to jump. So Satan comes to Christ in that very crisis. Stand- b ing there at the top of the temple, they looked off. A magnificent reach of u country. Grain fields, vineyards, olive groves, forests and streams, cattle in v the valley, flocks on the hills and vil- r ages and cities and realms. "Now," v says Satan, "I'll make a bargain. Just t jump off. I know it is a great way C from the top of the temple to the val- 8 ley, but if you are Divine you can fly. a Jump off. It won't hurt you. Angels will catch you. Your Father will hold d you. Besides, I'll make you a large C present if you will. I'll give you Asia Minor, I'll give you China, I'll give you Ethiopia, I'll give you Italy, I'll give v you Spain, I'll give you Germany, I'll 9 give you Britain, I'll give you all the p world." What a temptation it must have been! The third installment paid for our redemption was the agonizing prayer a h in Gethsemane. As I sat in that gar- t den at the foot of an old gnarled and twisted olive tree the historic scene came upon me overwhelmingly. These old olive trees are the lineal descend ants of those under which Christ stood and wept and knelt. Have the leaves of whole botanical generations told the the story of our Lord's agony to their successors? Next to Calvary the o solemnest place in Palestine is Geth semane. While sitting there it seemed as if I could hear our Lord's prayer, laden with sobs and groans. Can this be the Jesus who gathered fragrance from the frankincense brought to His cradle and from the lilies that flung their sweetness into His sermons and from the box of alabaster that brbke r at his feet? Is this Jesus the corn forter of Bethany, the resurrector at Nain, the oculist at Bethsaida? Is this the Christ whose frown is theC storm,whos~e smile is the sunlight, the spring morning His breath, the thun-r der His voice, the ocean a drop on the tip of His finger, Heaven a sparkle onb the bosom of His love, the universe the IP dust of His chariot wheel? Is this the Christ who Is able to heal a heart-1 break or hush a tempest or drown a world or flood immensity with His 1 glory? Behold im in prayer, the ~ globules of blood by sorrow pressed I through the skin of His forehead! ~ What an installment in part payment ~ of the greatest price that was ever0 paid! The fourth installment paid for our redemption was the Saviour's sham ' trial. I call It a sham trial-there has never been anything so indecent ort unfair in any cr'minal court as was witnessed at the trial of Christ. Why, they hustled him into the courtroom . at two o'clock in the morning. They gave Him no time for counsel. They gave him no opportunity for subpoe naing witnesses. The ruffans who t were wande'ring around through the midnight, of course they saw the ar- 1 rest and went into the courtroom. But Jesus' friends were sober men, wereg respectable men, and at that hour, two o'clock in the morning, of course they were at home asleep. Consequently Christ entered the courtroom with the ru~ans. Oh, look at Him! No one to speak a word for Him. I lift the lantern un- t til I can look into His face, and as mya heart beats in sympathy for this, the d best friend the world ever had, Him-g self now utterly friendless, an oficer of the courtroom comes up and smites Him in the mouth, and I see the blood stealing from gum and lip. Oh, it was c a farce of a trial, lasting only perhaps an hour, and then the judge rises for sentence! Stop! It is against the law to give sentence unless there has been an adjournment of the court be tween condemnation and sentence, but what cares the : dge for the law? "The0 man has no friends. Let Him die," says the judge. And the rusians out side the rail - cry: "Aha, aha, that's c what we want! Fass Him out here toa us! Away with Him! Away with b Him!" t Oh, I bless God that amid all the in justice that may have been Infieted upon us in this world we have a divine sympathizer. The world cannaot lie b about you nor abuse you as much as they did Christ, and Jesus stands to day in every courtroom, in every ' house, in every store, and says: "Cour- t* age! By all my hours of maltreiatment and abuse I will pr otect these who are trampled upon." And when Christ for- d gets that two o'clock morning scene In ik ark Hanna's Town. Tom L. Johnson's success in: being ~lected mayor of Mark Hanna's town N. shows the value of a strong pereonality a: d the usefulness of convictions. The th ~onorable 'Tom is a free trader and in mingle taxer in national politics and pr idvocates 3 cents fares on municipal oar w% ie. He has made money out of street hi -ilways, but now that he is a million- by mire does not appear to be averse to the ad people nrofiting from municipal rail ci1 ways. His stand on this matter alone pr is enough to explain his election alon g Pl with the defeat of all other Demcoratic se landidates -he Sate. 'ti' After a Long Absence, Twenty-nine years ago, when the fain. ily of . C. Richard, Esq., 'was residing in Newark, Ohio, the youngest son, eld John, then a boy of 17, ran away from on home, and, until Wednesday, when he I hi: ame to Bellefontaine to look for his Ith parents, nothing has been known of his I Ji hereabouts. He has been a soldier of o s ortune, and has lived in Calif omnia and I ta Lexico during almost all of his lyng ~8 stay away from home and friends. He a was almost overcome to learn of the ru death of his mother, which occurred Pr se.1a years ..g41 a the stroke of the ruffian on the Louth and the howling of the un 'ashed crowd then He will forget you ad me in the injustices of life that ay be inflicted upon us. Further I remark: The last great istallment paid for our redemption 'as the demise of Christ. The world as seen many dark days. Many sum ers ago there was a very dark day -Len the sun was eclipsed. The fowl t noonday went to their perch, and -e felt a gloom as we looked at the I stronomical wonder. It was a dark ay in London when the plague was t its height, and the dead with uncov red faces were taken in open carts nd dumped in the trenches. It was dark day when the earth opened and isbon sank, but the darkest day since be creation of the world was when the arnage of Calvary was enacted. W It was about noon when the curtain o1 egan to be drawn. It was the swing- I g of a great gloom all around the ti eavens. God hung it. As when there V i a dead one in the house you bow o he shutters or turn the lattice, so r lod in the afternoon shut the windows ft f the world. As it is appropriate to u: hrow a black pall upon the coffin as b passes along, so it was appropriate tl bat everything should be somber that ti ay as the great hearse of the earth o: oiled on, bearing the corpse of the c ring. A man's last hours are ordi- tj arily kept sacred. However you may W .ave hiated or caricatured.a man, when a au hear he is dying silence puts its v ands on your lips, and you would t' .ave a loathing for the man who could o tend by a deathbed making faces and yoffing. But Christ in His last hour annot be left alone. What, pursuing [im yet after so long a pursuit? You .ave been drinking His tears. Do you t rant to drink His blood? They come p closely, so that notwithstanding the arkness they can glut their revenge rith the contortions of His counte ance. They examine His feet. They f rant to feel for themselves whether hose feet are really spiked. They put t ut their hands and touch the spikes nd bring them back wet with blood nd wipe them on their garments. Vomen stand there and weep, but can o no good. It is no place for the ten er-hearted women. It wants a heart u hat crime has turned into granite. J 'he waves of man's hatred and of hell's r. engeance dash up against the man led feet, and the hands of sin and ain and torture clutch for his holy ' art. Had he not been thoroughly b istened to the cross they would have b orn Him down and trampled Him J ith both feet. How the cavalry t] orses arched their necks and champed C heir bits and reared and sniffed at S he blood! Had a Roman officer called J gut for a light, his voice would not 13 .ave been heard in the tumult. but ti uder than the crash of spears, and b he wailing of womanhood, and the a .eighing of the chargers, and the bel- a wing of the crucifiers, there comes P voice crashing through-loud, clear, p verwhelming, terrific. It is the groan- o ig of the 4-ing Son of God! Look, ii that a scene! Look, world, at what r< ou have done! t] I lift the covering from the mal- e' reated Christ to let you count the ti 'ounds and estimate the cost. Oh, h rhen the nails went through Christ's t1 Ight hand that bought your hands, a ith all their power to work and lift a nd write! When the nails went il rough Christ's right foot and u lrist's left foot, that bought your lh et, with all their power to walk or t an or climb. When the thorn went in- ~ a Christ's temple, that bought your y rain, with all its power to think and a an. When the spear cleft Christ's ti ide, that bought your heart, wit~h all a es power to love and repent and pray. When the Atlantic cable was lost in a: 65, do you remember that the Great a: :astern and the Medway and the Al any went out to find it? Thirty times b hey sank the grapnel 2% miles deep ~ i water. After awhile they found the a able and brought it to the surface. , o sooner had it been brought to the S irface than they lifted a shout of ex ltation, but the cable slipped back F gain into the water and was lost. hen for two weeks more they sweptE i sea with the grappling hooks, and t last they found the cable, and they. rought it up in silence. They fastened this time. Then with great excite lent they took one end of the cable a the electrician's room to see if there 01 -er0 really any life in it, and when iy saw a spark and knew that a mes- P ige could be sent then every hat was a fted, and the rockets flew and the E ans sounded, until all the vessels on E o excpedition knew, and the conti- Se ents were lashed together. Well, my E -iends, Sabbath after Sabbath Gospel Y essengers have come searching down >r your souls. We have swept the sea b ith the grappling hook of Christ's & espeL Again and again we have al iought that you were at the surface, bi :d we began to rejoice over your- re- h mption, but at the moment of our Ladness you sank back again into the a orld and back again into sin. To-day w e come with the Gospel searching for ti our soul. We apply the cross of hrist fitst to see whether there is any m fe left in you, while all around the sople stand, looking to see whether p ie work will be done, and the angels di f God bend down and witness, and, it b if now we could see only one spark love and hope and faith we would nd up a shout that would be heard a the battlements of Heaven, and two -orlds would keep jubilee because >mmunication is open between ChristW ad the soul, and your nature that has een sunken in sin has been lifted into se light and joy of the Gospel. Hard on the Goat. "And, shure, they tell me your hoos- f nd's very litherary?" "That he is, indade." ta "That he devours Ivery thing in the ny of a book or a paper that cooms ithe house." "Shure, he does."b "And vot in the name of goodness~ >es the poor goat get to ate?" onkers Statesman. Too Sensitive.W A prominent citizen of Wilmington, fo C., had a fight a few days ago with bI Philadelphia man who objected to o Wilmington citizen cisting admir- ge g glauces at the Philadelphia man's gl etty wife and her glad elothes. The 'ilmington citizen says his wife called R attention to the pretty waist worn the Philadelphia lady, and the Phil- w elpia man thought the Wilmington re izen was stating impudently. An un- de ejudied judge would say that the w aiadephian is too big a fool to de- p rye to be the husband of an attrac r woman.-The State. o Can't Beat Him. Carter H. Harrison has been re- n< ted mayor of Chicago for the see- tc d time and will this week commence ni third term as the chief executiv i of 9 e city. His eciiial plurality ever 81 dge Eibridge Haneey, the R 'publi- P. n nominee, is 28 257 votes. Trhe to- hI t vote of the city is: H arrison 156,- b] 2; Hlsnecy 128,695. Ia the last R iyoralty election tbe vote was, Har n< on, Democrat, 148,496; Carter, Re blican, 107 357; Harrison's plurality, S1 ,05o w: IiLLED HIS FRIEND w b; nd Employer With Chloroform 31 While He Slept. w a1 A VERY STRANGE CASE. E it cw a Pair of Vitians Plannd Is 01 to Oet the Mones .f ti a M.Ilionaire in e Ii N'wYork. I Without the slightest quaver in his e, eil [rmodu'a el 'OLO and diep aying no ? itwai d sign of regret or remorse, k hares Jur1es, sccretary and valet to te late Wm. .arsh Rice. conftssed g, iedtesday in s New Ywk ourt under d tth that he had ended the life of his p nployr' and benefaeter with chloro rm. The confession was the climax p a remarkabie recital in which was T id bare the details of an alleged sub e conspiracy which had for its object te se;zurc of three million dollars in ish and negotiable securities and the >nversion of three millions in realty p the alieged chief conspirator. '1 here ti as a dramatic force in the dircciness ad minute attention to detail with hieh Jones approched the tragedy 1e moment when be covered the face p F tho sleeping man with the saturated b apkin and then waited for him to die. The self confessed n-urderer told the F ory of the allegea pl.)t from its ir- F :ption. The capital crime he commit- d d and all the minor cnffenes that pie d,d it were, he declar, d, at the in iention ar,d direction of Albert T. 3 a'rick. It was Patrick, he ta-d, who n >neeiv(d the idea of forging a ill and I ,rgiog transfers and conveyances It ) as Pa'tik Rho induced two persons h witress the forged s'gnatures. It a as Pstrick who deternii d that Roce F iou'd die and it was Patrick who sught to have him killed slowly and si ten, beeoming impatient, de'ermined I ton quick action. And, according to o ones, rema kable as it may seem. Rice ever knew Patrick curing his life fi me. arc4 never saw him but once v According to this remarkable con asion, Patrick told Jones that the old a an was lasting too long, that he must e put out of the way at on' e, that ones should do the work and that a it ra would really be no harm in it be- tl use Rice had poisoned his own wife ti ars rgo and deserved punishment- t, ones described his return to Mr. d ice's apartments and the discovery of ie millionaire slecping peacefully in s, d; he told of his stealthy search for r na1 kin and the fashioning of it into 1] cont-shape as directed, he said, by atrick. He detailed the story of the r, nning of a small sponge at the point h the cone. Then he t old of saturat- si g the napkin and sponge with chlo- b form ani holding it over his own nos a -ils to test its effect. Jones lacked t, raight into the eyes o. Asiistant Dis , it Attorney Osborne and conionued I is story without a break, without a h en orin his voice. He describes his g -proach to the bed with the satarated t) apkin in his haud; of the flight from n 1e room; e f the weary wait of 30 mint- .i, R(.s in secordar ca wi~ h Patrick's al a gd instructiont; at the expiration of t, te half hour he returned and found a ice dead. He then threw open the d indows to free the rcomn frcm the odor o chlorofoim telephor~ed to Patrick h tat R'ca was dead st for a physi- ti an and then, after expressing his lef at the loss of so gocd and kind u 1 employer he said he went to bed c, d fell into a sound sleep. Patrick, acededdby the witness of t< ?ing the arch-criminal. listened to the itnse with attention and occasion- it ly made notes of the testimony. Not p: ren the remarkable witness on the 12 and was more ecol, calm and col eted than this remarble prisoner-. ti atrick's hand was firm and steady. e displayed neither anger, fear nor sentment. When Jones reached the g, ~sciption of the murder of the sleep- h~ g man, Patrick merely stroked his t< lard and leaned back in his chair, parently slightly bored by the re- w tal of the details. 1 Charles F. Jones, R'oe's valet, when m at on the Etand said he hai worked n, stort keeper at the Capital hotel, B ouston, Tex', owned by R c3. He h et Rice in 1896 and l~ad been Rice's a, eretary, valet and general utility an. Rice, he said, moved to New crk in Sep.tember, 18H- rc Witness first met Patr'ek in Novenm- e] tr, 1899 Pa'riek represented him- fa lf as a commercial man from Texas R~ d wanted to see Rice. Riee was in al d at the time and Pataick introduced o, imself as Mr. Smith. n: Patrick at that time, Jones said, had o' long talk with witass. He asked hether Rice had a legal representa- h< v in this city and sheowed himself in- w isitive abcut the affairs of the old fa illionaire. of In December, 1899, witness swore, w trick first approached him about the a 'awing of a will Jontes was to draw tt e domument on his typewriter and al t Rhee to sign it when his mind was ir t quite clear. w Jones told Patrick thet signing of the a1 i uight be arranged but that it i auzld be more difficult to obtain wit sees.. Patrick proposed they should -tr to w t the witnesses of the wilt of 1896 tI >nes afterwards approached Weath- '. bee, the clerk in Sienson & Sons of- w e to get him to aut as a witness. D 'eatherbee re'used and threatened to w, e Jones' "head off" if he dared to to ggest any fr audulent schemes against tce. in Jones said: "Patricr wanted me to th a witness to the will, but I refused of was very anxious to become bene- $g tiary under tlhe will, though. Pat- si zk said this would never do as there T: uld be a suspicion of undue infia- to e attached to the w:ill which there- ni re would not be admitted to pro- m Patrick then said he would arrange at r witnesses and mentioned Meyer and At the afternoon session Jonas said ice had some papers to execute and se mes took them to Patrick's office ti ere he met Short who at Patrick's wt quest had beoome a commissionier of sh eds for the State of Texas. Short M nt to Rice's house and executed the ot pers. gr "Was the will you saw in Patrick's )ei ce dated before it was shown to pr eyer?" asked Mr. Osborne. fic "No, it was made in March, but was pt it dated until June 30. Mr. Patrick th l me he destroyed it on the Monday es ght following the death of Mr. Rice. ha hen the signattures of Meyer and ev tort were to be taken as witnesses,I itrik told me i.L would be well toj e them use the tame ink as was used 'Mr. Rice, and I toolk a bottle of Mr. ce e's ink to Patriek'ti office. I have A' t seen that ink bottle since." ,os Continuing Jones said Meyer and .ur tort were at Rices fiat en June 30 to Gi TEE STATE SUMMER SCHOOL. lome Facts About It That Will be of Intesest. The following information about the annual State summer school to be held r his year at Converse college, Spartan- a >urg, has been issued by the State t upsrintendent of education: a It is still two months and a half be- t ore the opening of the third session of he State summer school for teachers, >ut the lines of work to be offered have )nen definitely determined and most of a he proposed instructors have been s agaged. Already the teachers of the r tate are making their plans fcr attend- r ng the school, and many boards o; g ru-tees are taking action looking to I iding their teachers to attend. Super atendent McMahan regards the pros- c )ects of the school as most satisfactory y nd furnishes the following information f hich will be given in greater detail in I he announcement of the courses of in- e trvction soon to be issued and dis. I ,ri'rutcd to the teachers: I Free ha.nd drawirg will again be I aught by Prof. Jas. William Pattison t >f the Chicago institute, four lady as . istants. f A course in South Carolina history r mud one in general history will be given >y Prof. R. Means Davis of the South c jarolina college. That in South Caro ] ina history will be particularly "live," a stressing the personal element in our t ,olitios of the past. A courie of conversational personal i 'e.niniscencea on South Carolina his. x .ry will be given by Dr. James H. e Jarlisle. I Dr. J. I. McCain of Erskine college will teacn English grammar with spe ial reference to Buehler's grammar .ecently adopted by the State board for ise in the public schools. Courses in t English literature will be given by Prof. f t. James Cummings of the Citadel. L The cff >rt to introduce into the pub f lie schools the teaching of sight sing < ing will be continued by continuing to 1 offer the teachers the opportunity to i be themselves instructed in this art. 1'he inittuetor this year will be Dr. R. H. Peters of Converse college. As i heretofore, the musical director will < organize a chorus, whose entertainments E will prove :he means of amusement as ] weil as culture. The grand organ in I the new auditorium will contribute to l make these choruses mrgnificent. Prof. W. C. A. Hammel of the Mary- < land State normal school will continue i the course so admirably begun last t year in school physics and in manual i training. The latter work (to which a i large number of teachers were neces- I sarily refused admission last year) he i will be able to plan on a larger scale, as he will bring with him an assist-|< ant trained in his methods. t Prof. J. V. Lewis of Clemson col lege will teach physical geography, i sing Tarr's book, whiph has been pre- I scribed for the public schools by the i State board. Frye's geography will be . taught by Superintendent Frank Evans i of Spartanburg cits schools; and Superintendent S. L. Hughes of the Greenville city schools will give i a course in school georgraphy, glo'oe making, etc., along the lines which proved so practical and popular last year. This course will be fuller than last year anid- will include cer tain facts I of history related to the geography study. Prof. Marshall D. Earle of Furman aniversity will teach mathematics, Prof. A. G. Rembert of Wofford will ave charge of Latin and Greek. Kindergarten principles and primary methods will be taught by Miss Min ie Macfeat of Winthrop college, and Miss Sarah Withers of the Chester graded schools. Miss Sarah Chandler of the Spartanburg city schools will illustrate prnmary methods with a class, if small children. Nature study will be in charge of Miss Sarah C. Thurston of the Columbia schools. Courses in pedagogics and school su pervision will be given by Prof. Ward Law of South Carolina college and Su- I perintendent W. H. Hand of Chester graded schools. Mr. James L. Hughes, inspecton of schools of Toronto, Can-t da, will probably give a week's course I >f lectures. Some Facts for Farmers. Present ruling prices for cotton to be elivered in the fall months will not. jastify more than 6 to 6 1 2 cents for she farmera. It generally happens that when so nech cotton is coming to mar et in the fall months prices shrink, so tis within the range of possibilities to1 ;ee 4-cent cotton again this fall, if the present tendency of prices be maintain d. Farmers should always rememoer that. . t5cnt en 11,000,000 bales a et en 275,000,000. 10,000,000 bales at 6 cents means 300,000,000. 9,fJ00,000 balks at 7 cents means $35000,000. 8 000,00 bales at 10 cents means 400,000,000.t The smaller the crop the better are ;he returns per acre. Spinners are reducing consumption eause they complain of skect trade md high prices for cotton. Let the fAr e ncr reduce his productseccordingly, and r n plaoe of the extra amount of cotton c et him plar.c grain, potatoes, vegeta >les, watermelons, cane, sorghum and e es where possible Diversitication fa as already abundantly prospered d~ outhern farm 3rs. Keep it up.-Atlan- f a Journal. April Fool Hoax. Repor~ers have been told of an April 'ol hoax at Graniteville, whiehi seems I o have been one of the best in years. g rhe big smoknstack for the new mill is t, r. It is very tall and imposing. Mr. a >am T. Denning, who is at work in haniteville, procured a suit of old lothing, stuffed it carefully and, du ing Sunday night, caused it to be sus ended from the top. When the popula- 0 ion started to work on the morning of 14 ipril 1 tbey saw what appeare d to be a nan hanging from the chimney. top The E igure was perfectly gotten up. Sensation ' an high for a couple of hours, when the b igure was cat down and the hoax ex osed. But the news hadgotten out nd for two days people tramped in from 1 he outlying sections to see the man ~ rho had been hanged or who had hang- e d himself from the big smokestack. ugusta Herald. War Everywhere. p War feeling is intense in Japan. It e 3threatened in Russia and Germany. I 3ut actual war exists with Great Bri- J in and the United States. While ii here is uneasiness in several of the d outh American States that may lead I i hostilities. This is the most lament- w ble condition for the beginning of a ra ew century which many of the states- ai ien and philosophers expected would e the inauguration of universal peace. 'here is no need to despair, however 5< r there is a tremendous revulsion w gainst war. That is hopeful for the fi eace of Christendom.-Newport News hb "Did Mr. Patrick ever do any legal ark for Mr. Rice?" asked Mr. 03 irne. c "He did not." "Did Mr. Rice sign any will on June ), during the time Meyer and Short ere in the apartment?" "He did not. I was there all the time a id I did not see him sign any will. t ad he signed one I would have known Jones then testified that somewhat ter, at the request of Patrick, he wrote his typewriter the assignments ansferring Rice's property to Patrick. "Pairck asked me," witness continu- 1 I, "whether I did think old Rice was ving a little too long for our purposes. said I thought so. Patrick suggest I we put him out of the way. I bug sted Dr. Curry, but Patrick said r. Curry would not do anything of the "Patrick," witness went on, ' sug sted that Jores get Iudaum from a I pug store at Coney Islhnd for the tur se of pcsioniig R-ce.' Witness then went on to say that he *ocured pcsicn from his brothr in eas. "What did you get?' '-Chloroform ano laudaum." "How was the poison bent?' "It was sent by express. A small ickage containing the poison came I tink, by the American ErpreEs. '-Did you sign a raceipt?" "I did." Jones testified that he delivered the oison to Patrick about three weeks )fore the death of Mr. Rice Jones then went on to testify that atrick had never been introduced to ice up to the time of the latter's Bath. "As far as I know," Jones said, Rice never saw Patrick but once. This as an evening when Patrick called on to. Rice, against his custom, was up <'e. Hie loosed i, the parlor and raw atrick, who was there. Next morning e asked who the bald-headed man ith the red beard was. I told Mr. ce it was a friend of mine Mr. 0.borne then referred to the a gnments transferring the property of Ir. It ce to Patrick. which were exe ated on Se; tember 7th. Jones was handed adeed for indcnti eation. He said it was witnessed by Leyer on September 7. "Did Mr. Rice sign any general as gnment on that day?" "He did not." The witness said Mr. Rce prepared 1 his meals himse;f. Witness was ten shown tie general assignments 'ansferring all property of Mr. Rice Patrick. Jones testified that Rice id not sign the assignments. "Jor.e3, will you state all the conver tion that took plce between you and atrick in regard to getting Rice out of e wad ?" said Mr O;borne. "About the end of August," witness plied, "Pa-rick asked me whether I ad gotten the laudanum from the drug yore at Coney Island. I said I had not at that I had made some other arrange Lent to get the poison. Patrick then ild me to give Rice sapoho as that ould break him down. I told Patrick ecu d not do that, but I told him I ad some mercurial pill which Dr. Curry te me Patrick sa d I ought to give te to Riee. I told Patriok I could at do so without taking them myself Shis presence 'Then do so,' Patrick tid,, 'it won't do you any harm.' I >ck some of the pills in Rice's presence 3d then left the bottle of pills on the resser Rice took tome. This brought 2 a severe diarrhoea, which weakened im, but after ie got over this attack te mercury seemed to do him good." Witness also said that by the s'me ethod he got Rice to take some mer rial tablets which Patrick gave him. "Would Rice take anything you "Yes, and he would never take med ie unless I first took some in his esenee All medicine that was sent im I had to taste when he saw it." Jones then related what teck placson e day of the death of Mr. Rice "I a Patrick at his house," said he. He told me to let him know if Rice ew better. He would then get fr~m s office a bottle of oxalis acid, hce said quicken Rice's nerve." Rtce got better and about noon he anted to get up. He talked cheerful about going down town and seemed uch improved. Jones said he could t get Rice to take the' oxalic acid. e then telephoned Pa-rick to meet .m at luncheon at a restaurant on Sixth renue resr Fif tieth street. "I met him there," Jones continued, Patrick gave me the bottle of chlc form. He told me to saturate a tow. in chloroform and leave it over his c for about 30 minutes. He t aid ice would probably laugh, but that I ould not be scared as that would ily show that the poison was begin og to work and that it would soon be "I did as Patrick told me. I returned >me, took a napkin atnd saturated it ith chloroform. I put it on my own ce first and then put it over the face Mr. Riue and left the room. I alked up and dcwn in the hall sev i1 times. The bell rang several ses. I did not open the door. Fin ly after about half an hour I went to Mr. Rice's room. I raised the indow, took the napkin and towel ray from his-face and placed them both the range where 1 burnt them. 'I sent a bail boy for Dr. Curry, tell g him that Mr. Rice was very bad. I mnt to the telephone to tell Patriek at Mr Rici was pretty near gone. 'en Dr. Curry came. Patrick was (th him. 1 told them Roee was dead. tad! Oh. my Gtd, doet~r, that is the rst thing that could have happened mel" said Patrtck. Jones said Patrick on the day follow-. g took charge of the apartments. On at day, Jones testified, at the request Patrick, he made out the checks for1 '5,000 and 135,000 respectively, on renson & Sons and the Fifth Avenue ut company. Jones said Patrick also k charge of $450 in bills and eight or ne dollars in silver from a drawer in the ilionaire's writing desk. Jones said trick also took away two gold-watches d all private papers of Mr. Rey. An Election Row. United States Distriot Attorney Be ir, while at precinct No. 4 of tLa I enty fifth ward, St. Louis, Wednesday is wounded in the left arm by a stray ot fired by one of a gang of negroes. e. Rsier had challenged the vote of ~ e of a crowd of twenty or more no mes An officer started with the al ged repeater to a patrol box. 'lhe isoner's friends closed around the of er, fired forty or fifty shots for the il rpose of intimidation, and released e prisoner. After the negroes hadt laped, it was found that Mr. Rosier t: d been wounded, not seriously, how- 8 er. ___________ t, a Takes the Oath. The war department Thursday re- z ived information from Qen. Mtiac- b thur that Aguinaldo has taken the 'I th of allegiance to the United States f, der the terms of amnesty offered by a m. MacArthur by direction of the p A SLICK THIEF Touch's the Southern Express for Five Thousand. THE PACKAGE WAS OPENED Between Columbia and New York and Strips of Brown Paper Substituted for the Bills. The Southern Express Company has been struck again. The robbery was either committed on the road between Columbia and New York city, or else in New York coty, or else in the New York transfer office. The thief, however, was a smooth article, and he did the job according to Hoyle.' Indeed he did it so neatly that the robbery was not dis covered until the package -reached the New York bank to which it was consign ed. Monday General Superintendent Sadler of the Southern Express Company was at Columbia looking into the matter, and it is stated that he and all other oeffiials are satisfied that the package left the Columbia offi e in proper form. It is also otrtain that the package left the office of the shipper in the same manner. it appears that on Thursday last the Bank of Columbia for aid.d thrcugh the express ffice here a package eon taming $5.000 in amount, to be placed. to the credit of the local bank. The package was made up in the bank by one of the offisial3 and fortunately was: not sent b, a porter, but by one of the officials to the express cffiee where it was dlivered and the proper receipt given Nothing more was tnoaght of the shipment until S iturday when the pre sident of the Bank of Columbia receiv ed a telegram from the Bank of Com mtrce saying that a package had been received marked to conutaia $5.000 in cash but that it contained only slips of brown paper. Tien the investigation began. Most careful investigations show the robbery was not committed in Columbia. Is is thought by those at uorkon the case that tie package went through to New York city all right and was not molested unil it got into the.. New York cffie?, where it laid over all nigbt before it was deiivertd to the bank. While the-mrney was gone when the package was open =d, and the neat~strips of brown paper just the sire and weight of the bills were found therein instead of the eash, the Bank of Columbia, from which institution it was shipped does not lose one dollar of the amount. The loss falls upon the Siuthera Ec press Company and will doubtless ba made good forthwith, the company tak ing its chances of locating and captur ing the thief. The loss is, of course, a heavy one for the express company, but it is gratifying to know that the evi deuce indicates that the robbery was' committed at the other end of the line. A Severe Criticism. What the imjerialists have left, of the American conscience is being disturbed by the methods which were use to of fset the capture of Aguinaido. M1any newspapers and individuals hay, en tered their protests against the-employ ment of such means, andsshe conchla sions reached many zbe summed up in. the words of- the New York World, which takes its evidence from Gen. Funston's own account of the achieve-. ment. it says: "We have now the suc cessive steps clearly before us: treach ery by Aguinaldo's confidential agent; forgery by Gen. Funston, a fraudulent expedition conposed of Tagalo and Macabebe traitors and four Amenesa officers is disguise; she agpeal to Ag uinaldo for food so save them from death by starvation; Agnrinaldo's pro mpt sending of the fooo; his instant order that the supposed American prns oners be kindly treated; the final scene with the traitor Tagalo throwing his arms about the enir apped leader."' The episode, says The Wond, raises two in terestig questions: "Ers; if for the name of Fanston, Kitohener be substi tuted, for the name of Aguninaldo, Do Wet, for the name of Lacuna, Botha, etc., how doe the accont impress the average American? S&cnd, is Every thing fair in war?' G*en. Funston. has his reward and t he Filipino traiters who aided him will have theirs; but men of mental integrity will think them very dearly bought. We should not hke to think that we had eaten a ma2's food while straying andi had thein forthwith delivered him up to his enemies. B~ut this repugnance may bei merely a survival of the aboriginal bar barism which forbade the betrayal of a man whose salt one had eaten. *This is Love The New York Press calls attention to the case of Luhia, a native Honolulu girl, who has bidden the world farewell and gone to the leper island to live with her husband who became a leper and was banished from her side. The story is pathetic. The press tells is thus: "rwo years ago she married Lui a-. lapa, a young native, who recently de veoped unnastakable temp,.ms of lep rosy. Hiding the secres from her ne seretly made preparations to go so-Mo lokal Island. At the last he left a letter: for his young wife bidding her farewell. forever. Life shows very many in stances of such suiering as was hers then, bat few of such a depth of resolve. She begged to be allowed to follow, but the law forbade. Blocked here .she sought out a witch doctor who gave her a preparation whieb, when ruobed on the skin, made is silvery white, simula ting the track of the dreadful leprous mark. For weeks day after day and secretly, she ustd the glistening flnid; then with its brand upon her she appli ed again to the authorities. They (fo medical science grows wise) suspecre tested and saw through the subterfage, but when they knew the cause of her grief and measured the depth of her' desire they set aside the rule which kept wife and husband a; att and per mitted her to go joyfully to her living death." The Augusta Chroniele says: In the light of this romae from real life who will ask "is marriage a fail re," or "what is love?" YErily those of us who are disposed to look lighti upon the sensibilirties and finer feelin of any but the Anglo-Ssxson can le a lesson in devotion and self-sacrifi from this Hawaiian girl. Viewing he willing resignation of the world for life with him to whom ehe had plighted her troth, even though stricken with the most horrible of all diseases, we can say without doubt, "This is love." WillGo On. The respres'entative of the Filipinos at Madrid said recently that while the capture of Aguinaldo was a severe blow them it was not decisive. He added that the Filipinos would elect a new President and maintain the struggle for TBE PASSING OF A NATION. Ifter a Hundred Years of Continual Warfare Achin Submits South Africs, China and the Philip ines are :ot the only countries where gar is in progress. In different parts cf de world campaigns of long standing re being carried on -daily. Some of hem have never been heard of in this ountry; others have been forgotten. Under the later head comes Achin, here for years the Dutch have been triving to subjugate the natives, a wee so important that at one time its alers received embassies from the reatest potentates in Europe, that of logland included. Achin is probably the most war rid en state in the world. For a hundr ears it has known but little peace, Ss: wish one :and, then with another, ut principally with the Dutch. The nd of this proracted war is, however, elieved to oe within sign at last. )uring the last three years the Datch ave won repeated victories. Batoeilik, he strongest fortified garrison of the lcinese, is hard pressed, and its all is txpected to result in the sur ender of the natives. A race tha: can resist for a number f years a well organized invasion of Buropean troops is worthy of some ttention. l'he country is bituatea in he north of Sumatra. It is the only tate in the island that still remains adependent of the Dutch, but, as al eatiy forehaaowea, its independ nee appears to be now doomed. The population numbers about 328,000. B.;fore its dtclne, whien cammeno d early in the eighteenth century, schin was in close touch commerciaily ith Eagiand. It was the port of Achin hat London merchants airected their rbt efforts toward securing trade in he Inaies. Queen Elizabeth sent con idential communications to the King f Achin by special envoy, and James also csrrespondtd with the regining onarch, who hved in such luxrious tyle that he had mine hundred state lephants. To this day there stand ear the gate of the King's palace a ouple of brads cannon of extraordinary ize. They were a present from James to the ruler of Achin. Tney still ear the founder's name and the-date egibly inscribed upon them. So consideraole, in fact, was Aehin's me time power that to reduce Malacca t fitted out an armada of no fewer han five hundred ships, a hundred of hich were larger than any then used n Europe. The ships carried sixty housand men, with tae King himself n cammand. Moreover, at ore time, Achin pro luced more gold than any other eoun ry in the east, excepting perhaps [apan. One chronicler fixes the an imal output at 512,000 ounces. For iftyeight years female sovereigns re gned, and the foreign residents in &chin believe, thcught erroneously hat the Queen of Sheba was Queen of ,chin. The Achinese employ minted money, noluding a gold coin stamped with .rabic characters called "mas." Great stretches of the interior have sot yet been explored, but from the eaward two gigantic volcanic monu ains rising to a height of about 11,000 eet are vaijble. Though ones powerful enough to rive the Portugnes out of the island bnd to have a fleet and an army that vere the envy of lage: countries. Achin las slowly drifted into the limbo of orgotten S:ates, and now appears de tined to disappear from the map al ogether. A fter thie Railroad Commision. T. Larry Gar-tt, who is now a con ributor to the Spartanburg Herald, ays: So far as our state railroad com nission is concerne s, it is afraud of the irst water. Unless a change is made n its mamberships, the c~mmission had >etter be abolished. When I ran my aw mill near Inman, 1 was made by he c->mmission to pay more than one hird the money I received for a car nd of lumber for simply hauling it 11 ailes. I furnished the timber and cut ,d hauled the logs from the woods to ny mill. I then carried the lumber two iles and a half to the railroad on wag ins and had to both load and unload t on and from the cars. All the' rail oad did was to couple up that car and trag it 11 miles, and as I have already tated, the road took more than one hird of the gross proceeds, of my lum ser for this sright service. I complain d more than once to our board of comn oissioners about this ontrage; but tothing was done, and I finally had to elI my saw miil. The railroads not rly pay the salaries of our beard of airoad commissioners, but tr-ey are uraished free transportation; antd I m told the tnembers are often givea M~race cars stocked with liquid and ther refresements with trained aer ants to wait on-them to cavort ever he state. The Democrats Won. Co'mplete returns of the St. Louis letions show the election by a plu ality of 7 985 of Rolia Wells, Demo ratio canuidate for mayor. The re ,aiuder of the Dmocratic ticket was lected 1-y about the Eame pluralities ad that par y will control the house of legates. 'The vote for mayor on the our principal tickets was: Rolla Vels, Democrat, 43,023; George 'ark er, Rejuolican, 35,038; Ohaneey .FiLie, Good Government, 2,121; Lee Lrwether, Public Ownership, 28,565. Leturns indicate that the house of dele ates will be made up as follows: Thir en Dem ocrat s, twelve Republicans ad three public ownership members. A Good One. The Daaville Rrgister tells a story Sa Page~ county, Virginia, farmer who st his knife while barreling potatoes aving sold his crop to a New York rm. Next seed time he thought he ould get something exira, so ordered is seed potators from a Michigan firm. Then he opened the barrel, he found is long lost kn'fe, and also fcund that a had paid a high price for potatoes bich he himself had sold some months rlier. It Rained Shingles. The cyclone that struck the southern rt of Granvilla county last week, kill i five people one of whom was Mr. aul Cannady a leading farmer. Mr. W. Harris a merchant was seriously jured and may aiie. It is stated that ~ors were carried 10 cr 15 miles to .ittrell, the people of which place ere astonished by a windstorm that ,ed shingles and pieces of lumber :d furniture-Wilmington Messenger. The Abbeville Medium says a hand me woman fell into Long Cane and hen she was rescued a ten-pound cat hwas found entangled in her wirc utle. Her husband wanted to set