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AN .EASTLR SERMON Dr. Talmage Delivers a Timely Dis course on the Risen Savior. C A Prophecy on Our Owu Resurrection -As Christ Eas Risen So V111 C His People Rise-ThLC In- C mortal Body. C [Copyright, 190:. by Lou's xli psch, N. Y.1 NVetLirg,bw: Apnil t. Washington, April 7.-Tha great Christian festival celebrated in all the churches is the theme of Dr. 'aulage's discourse; I. Corinthians, .:O0 "Now is Christ risen from the dead and be come the first fruits of then tha t slept." . On this glorious Easter norafng. amid the music and the low. ers, 1 give you Christian salutation. 'Ths m:L ing, Russian meeting R ssian on the streets of St. Petersburg, hams him c with the salutation: 'Christ is risen - and is answered by his friend in samu tation: "He is risen indeed!" In some parts of England and Ireland to this A very day there is the superstition that t on Easter morning the sun dances inl the heavens. And well may we forgive such a superstition, which illustrates the fact that the natural world seems t to sympathize with the spirit ual. Hail, Easter morning! Flowers: Flowers! All of them a-voice, all of c them a-tongue, all of them full of speech to-day. I bend over one of the lilies, and I hear it say: "Consider tho lilies of the valley, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin, yet Solomon in all his glory was not ar rayed like one of these." I bend over a rose, and it seems to whisper: "I am the rose of Sharon." And then 1 stand and listen. From all sides there comes the chorus of flowers, saying: "If God so clothed the grass of the field which to-day is and to-morrow is cast into the oven, shall He not much more clothe you, Q ye of little faith?" -Flowers! Flowers! Braidtheminto the bride's hair. Flowers! Flowers: Strew them over the graves of the dead, sweet prophecy of the resurrec tion. Flowers! Flowers: Twist them Into a garland for my Lord Jesus on Easter morning, and "Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost; as it was in the beginning., is now and ever shall be." The women came to the Saviour's tomb, and they dropped spices all around the tomb, and those apices were the seed that began to grow, and from them came all the fowers of this Easter morn. -The two angels robed in white took hold of the stone at the Saviour's tomb, t and they hurled it with such force down the hill that it crushed in the door of the world's sepulcher, and the stark and the dead must come forth. I care not hew labyrinthine the mau soleum or how costly the sarcophagus or however beautifully parterred the family grounds, we want them all I broken up by the Lord of the resur rection. They must come out. Fa ther and mother-they must come out. Husband and wife-they must come out. Brother and sister-they must come out. Our darling children-they .nust come out. The eyes that we closed with such trembling fingers 'I must open again in the radiance of that morn. The arms we folded in dust must join ours in an embrace of re-C union. The voice that was hushed inc our dwelling must be returned. Oh,e how long some of you seem to be wait-e ing for the resurrection! And for r these broken hearts to-day I make a soft, cool bandage out of Easter flowers. This morning I find in the risenc Christ a prophecy of our own resur-a rection, my text setting forth the idea that as Christ has risen so Is people a 'will rise. He, the first sheaf of the 1: resurrection harvest. He, "the first f fruits of them that slept." Before I I get through this morning I will walk d~ through all the cemeteries of the t dead, through all the country grave. yards, where your loved ones arc buried, and I will pluck off these flow- a era, and I will drop a sweet promise d of the Gospel-a rose of hope, a lily t of joy-on every tomb--the child's i: tomb, the husband's tomb, the wife's tomb, the father's grave, the mother's grave. And while we celebrate the res- 1 urrection of Christ we will at the sameu time celebrate the resurrection of all the good. "Christ, the first fruits of a them that slept." If I should come to you and ask you t for the names of the great conquerors i of the we - a , u would say Alexander, Cae , Philip, 1\ leon I. Ah, you .-ave forgotten to men ' name b of a greater conqueror than all t --a cruel, a ghastly conqueror. He il rode on a black horse across Waterloo and Chalons and Atlanta, the bloody I hoofs crushing the hearts of nations. r It is the conqueror Death. He carriesa a black fag, and he takes no prisoners. t He digs a trench across the hem- a ispheres and fills it with the carcasses c of nations. Fifty times would thev ,world have been depopulated had not I God kept making new generatior s. a Filfty times the world would have a swung lifeless through the air-no man on the mountain, no man or the sea, e an abandoned ship plowing through e Immensity. Again and again has he o done this work with all generations. i He is a monarch as well as a con-' b queror; his palace a sepulcher; his t fountains the falling tears of a world. n 31essed be God! In the light of this Ia Easter morning I see the prophecy a that his scepter shall be broken and I bis palace shall be demolished. Thea hour is coming when all who ars in y their graves shall come forth. Christv risen, we shall rise. Jesu~s, "the firsts fruits of them that slept."v Now, around this doctrine of the res- k urrection there are a great many ::nyvs teries. You come to me and say: "If f the bodies of the dead are to be raised, d how is this and how is that ?" And ; ou v ask me a thousand questions I am in Frolicsome Students. Seventy five students of the Armour institute, in Chicago, wearing night gowns outside their others garmcnts, took possession of a South Side elIst ed train Thursday night ard bfr they were ejected by the police they caused several women passengcra to go into hysterics and otherwise created pandemonium. The students weret celebrating the gift of $1,000 000 to the institute by Mrs. P. D. Arm. ur: and J. Ogden Armour, widow andi scn of the founder. Comning Home. The Philadelphia Times says: "A Connecticut absoondr, guilty of de fal cation, is working his way back to this country as a stoker on a merchant steam 0 er, although he knows that a ter m < imprisonment awaits himn. This loi patriotic, at least. A mna 'ho would rather be in jil in Americs than free in Eome other country shr uld bec a vsiu able ol'jeotlesson to America::s w'to per sist in spending their money abroad. Mr. Croker and Mr. William Waldorf Astor may be pleased to hesr of this re- j -akle person from Connectient. _o'~'- an: weT. But th 6re ern a reat many things you believe that you .re no: aile to explain. You would be very foolish man to say: "I won't -lie ve anyth:ng I can't understand." ';hy, putting down one kind of flower ced, cues there up this flower of this olor? Why, putting down another ower seed, comes there up a lower > this color? One flower white, an >ther flower yellow, another flower rimson. Why the difference when the ;eeds look to be very much olike-are -err much alike? Explain thc- things. -'ain that wart on the tinger. Ex )lain the difference why the ta waf s cii:terent from the leaf of the hick >rv. Tell ne how the Lord Almighty turn the chariot of His omnipo enee on a rose ltaf. You ask me ques ;ons about the resurrection I cannot swer. I will ask you a thousand ut-sions about everyday life you can ot answer. I dnd my strength in this passage: All who are in their graves shall ome forth." I do not pretend to nake the explanation. You go on end say: "Suppose a returned mis ionary dies in this city. When he vas in China, his foot was ampu ated; he lived years after in Eng and, and there he had an arm ampu ated; he is buried to-day in yonder emetery. In the resurrection will he foot come from China, will the Lrm come from England, and will the ifferent parts of the body be re -onstructed in the resurrection? How s that possible?" You have noticed. I suppose, in -ending the story of the resurrection hat almost every account of the ible gives the idea that the charac eristic of that day will be a great ound. I do not know that it will be rery loud, but I know it will be very >enetrating. In the mausoleum there silence has reigned a thousand -ears that voice must penetrate. In he coral cave of the deep that voice nust penetrate. Millions of spirits vill come through the gates of :ternity, and they will come to the :ombs of the earth, and they will :ry: "Give us back onr bodies; we rave them to you in corruption; sur -erser them now in incorruption." -u dreds of spirits hovering about he fields of Gettysburg, for there he bodies are buried. A hundred housand spirits coming to Green vood, for there the bodies are buried, vaiting for the reunion of body and oul. All along the sea route from New cork to Liverpool, at every few miles Shere a steamer went down, depart d spirits coming back, hovering over he wave. There is where the City >f Boston perished. Found at last. there is where the President per shed. Steamer found at last. There s where the Central America went town. Spirits hovering, hundreds of pirits hovering, waiting for the re nion of body and soul. Out on the rairie a spirit alights. There is there a traveler died in the snow. rash goes Westminster abbey, and he poets and the orators come orth; wonderful mingling of good Ind bad. Crash go the pyramids of gypt, and the monarchs come forth. Who can sketch the scene? I sup ose that one moment before that eneral rising there will be an entire ilence, save as you hear the grinding f a wheel or the clatter of the hoofs f a procession passing into the cemn tery. Silence in all the caves of the arth. Silence on the side of the nountain. Silence 'down in the val es and far out into the sea. Silence. ut in a moment, in the twinkling of .n eye, as the archangel's trumpet omes pealing, rolling, crashing,' cross the mountain and sea, the arth will give one terrific shudder. nd the graves of the dead will heave ke the waves of the sea, and Ostend, evastopol and Chalons will stalk orth in the lurid air, and the rowned will come up and wring out heir wet locks above the billows, and 1 the land and all the sea become ne moving mass of life-all faces, 11 ages, all conditions, gazing in one irection and upon one throne-the hrone of resurrection. "All who are a their graves shall come forth." "But," you say, "if this doetrine of he resurrection is true, as prefigured y this Easter morning, can you tell s something about the resurrected odv?" I can. There are mysteries bout that, but I shall tell you three r four thirngs in regard to the res rrected body that are beyond guess 2g and beyond mistake. In the first place, I remark In re-] ard to your resurrected body, it will e a glorious body. The body we vnow Is a mere skeleton of what ;wou" ' eni sin had not arred and defaced it. ~4ht ost exquisite statue that was ever - ade by an artist and chip It here nd chip it there with a chisel, and atter and bruise it here and there nd then stand it out in the storms f a hundred years, and the beauty rould be gone. Well, the human ody has been chipped and battered ud bruised and damaged with thei torms of thousands of years-the hysical defects of other generations oming domern from generation to gen ration, we inheriting the infelicities f past generations. But In the morn 2g of the resurrection the body will e adorned and beautified according the original model. And there is o such difference between a gymnast: nd an emaciated wretch in a laz retto as there will be a difference 1 etween our bodies as they are now. nd our resurrected forms. There ou will see the perfect eye after the raters of death have washed out the tains of tears and study. There you till see the perfect hand after the not: of toil have been untied from he knuckes. There you will see the orm erect and elastic after the bur ens have gone off the shoulder-the ry life ef God in the body. In this rorld th. mst impressive thing, the I Some New Decisions. North Carolina has decided that en an ir jury is inflicted upon an em- - oye or passenger, that the burden of 3 'oof is on the railroad to show that it 1 is not the railroad's fault. Now a i urt in Chicago has given a verdict for ~50 against a prominent attorney f or I t conducting a lawsuit with proper t re. After a while they will hold doe- c rs responsible for a wrorng diagnosis t diseases and druggists for mistakes in a 'iog prescriptions. Then there will he 0 t r d'plomas sold by the medical cel- -a gs.-S;artanburg Herald. WYill Be In the Race. In a recent conversation with a re- Id rttr of Ote Columbia Resord ex verncr Evans said that he would I dyv t~e in the senatorisl race to sue-a ed3 Sernator Me Laurin. He has not 4 siively decided, but the prospects d that ho will be in the race. The .1, I er e'ntlemen who have decide d ot -.ke ~the ra.te are Col. Wilie Jones, d nor D). HI. Henderson and Con aman Latimer. But there are othersg b ha'e tle bce in the'r bonnets,t dst Txpi'essie thing, id' the humaN ace, Pt that ftte is veiid with the riefs tf a tho-.and years. But in he resurrection morn that veil will be taken away from the face, and the noonday sun is dull and dim and stupid compared with the outfiaming giories of the countenances of the saved. When those faces of the righteous. those resurrected faces, turn toward the gate or look up to ward the throne, it will be like the dawning of a new mcruing on the In bosom of e'erlasting day. 0 glorious, resurrected body! But I remark, also, in regard to that body which you are to get in the resur rection, it will be an important body. These bodies are wasting away. Some body has said that as soon as we begin to live we begin to die. Unless we keep putting the fuel into the furnace the furnace dies out. The blood vessels "e are canals tt.kling the breadstuffs to S all parts of the system. We must be L reconstructed hour by Four, day by re day. Eickness and death are all the time trying to get their pry under the tenement or to push us off the embank- hc ment of the grave. But, blessed be F God, in the resurrection we will get a body immortal. No malaria in the air, no cough, no neuralgic twinge, no rheumatic pang, no fluttering of the heart, no shortness of breath, no am- 2 bulance, no dispensary, no hospital, no invalid's chair, no spectacles to im: o prove the dim vision, but health, im- 9 mortal health! 0 ye who have aches pnd pains indescribable this morning, S ye who are never well, ye who are lacerated with physical distress, let me tell you of the resurrected body, free from all disease. Immortal! Im mortal! tC] I go further and say in regard to of that body which you are to get in the pr resurrection, it will be a vigorous body. fo We walk now eight or ten miles, and 0 we are fatigued; we lift a few hundred Pi pounds, and we are exhausted; un- C1 armed, we meet a wild beast, and we JO must run or flee or climb or dodge be- D. cause we are incompetent to meet it; H1 we toil eight or ten bgrs energentical- Dt ly, and then we are \, eary. But in the Jr resurrection we are to have a body that never gets tired. Is it not a glri- an ous thought? 1 Plenty of occupation in Heaven. I We suppose Broadway, New York, in the sUl busiest season of the year at noonday Ju is not so busy as Heaven is all the sel time. Grand projects of mercy for the other worlds. Victories to be cele brated. The downfall of despotism on Lei earth to be anno'unced. Great songs to th be learned and sung. Great expedi- sii tions on which God shall send forth tb His children. Plenty to do, but no ye fatigue. If you are seated under the th trees of life, it will not be to rest, but to talk over with some old comrade old re times-the battles where you fought ani shoulder to shoulder. set Sometimes in this world we feel we fiv would like to have such a body as that. yel There is so much work to be done for afi Christ, there are so many tears to be Ca wiped away, there are so many bur- se dens to life, there is so much to be TI achieved for Christ, we sometimes 'e wish that from the first of January to th the last of December we could toil on without stopping to sleep or to take set any recreation or to rest or even to Se: take food-that we could toil right on o without stopping a moment in our of 'ork of commending Christ and 01 Eeaven to all the people. But we all get tired. It is a characteristic of the - human body in this condition; we must get tired. Is it not a glorious thought hat we are going to have a body that 1 vill never grow weary? 0 glorious 1 resurrection day! Gladly will I fling side this poor body of sin and fling it into the tomb if at thy bidding Iel shall have a body that never wearies. 1 'hat is a spler did resurrection hymn1 :ha we have all sung: So Tesus s'ept. God's dying Son Passed through the grave and blessed the 1 bed. Rest here, blest saint, till from His throne f The mornin~g breaks to pierce the shade. 0 blessed resurrection! Speak out, sweet flowers, beautiful flowers! r Thile you tell of a risen Christ tell ofe1 the righteous who shall rise. May God all you this morning with anticipa tion!rs I heard of a father and son whore among others were shipwrecked at fl sea. The father and the son climbed. nto the rigging. The father held on, i aut the son after awhile lost his hold n the rigging and was dashed down. ap [rhe father supposed he had gone hope- 2 essly under the wave. The next day he father was brought ashore from the rigging in an exhausted state andap aid on a bed in a fisherman's hut, and fter many hours had passed he came to consciousness and saw lying besijo aim on the same bed his boys- Oh'my en riends, what a gloriggs-thing it willif ifwe wajke..g-dt last to find our oved ones beside us, coming up from the same plot in the graveyard, coming M~ ip in the same morning light-the fa .her and sen alive forever, all the loved Po: nes alive forever, never more to weep, ever more to part, never more to die. ele May the God of peace that brought sei rain from the dead our Lord Jesus, hat great Shepherd of the sheep: hiu hrough the blood of the everlasting Sta :ovenant make you perfect in every hal rood work, to do His will, and let the issociations of this morning transport Ma >ur thoughts to the grander assem- ne' yage before the throne. The one hun ired and forty and four thousand and sirl :he "great multitude that no man can Fre iumber," some of our best friends Jul mong them, we after awhile to join wh the multitude. Glarious anticipation! anc 3lgst-are the saInts beloved of God; u Vashed are their robes in .Tesus' blood. Brighter than angels. lo, they shine. e' e [heir wornders splendid and sublime. Iy soul anticipates the day, elt Vould stretch her wIngs and soar away 'o aid the song, the palm to bear. Ld bow, the chief of sinners, there. yea Work on the first factory for the nanufacture of American shoes in exico began last month. Mexica die eather will be usud. Something Up.J The State says the dispatches tell us for hat Aguinaldo is buying diamonds and and welre -evidence that he has money tco pare. Evidently there is an object in. Pot bis announoement, which has, it must ' ar< e remembered, passed the censor. ; oes the administratio2 take this me ito I hod to intimate that Aguioaldo's 6 apture was secured by bribery ? In Re ht case, Funston's fant astic feat was fake. Or is it the purpose to dis-- ele< redit Aguinaldo in the eyes of the in mercau~ peopie. We are not sure hot ha it is, but there is something up. ( 184 Who Got This Gold? On the arrival at Cherbourg, TueE-18 sy of the North German Licyd steam- age eKaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, Capt. . uglehardt, New York A pril 2, it was tire aouned that three geld bars, worth tim .000 pourtds each, had bet n stolen I aring the voyage. All the baggage wai dd here w as examined with the Jut most care by the custom d.fie~rs ard J ~teetives but the gold was not dis- 9 vyered. One hundred and fifty passen- elec rs landed for Paris, and several dc- J etives traveled in the special ytrain J th thm Jal AMES OF SENATORS ho Have Represente d this State in the United States Senate FROM THE BEGINNINO. the Early Days of the Repub lic it Was Not Unusual for a Senator To Resign. Since the formation of this govern ,nt, South Carolina has had 34 repre tatives in the United States senate. me of these names are illustrious in I tional history as well as beloved and rered at home. There were seven cf this number Lo died in office: John Ewing Col un, John Gaillard, John 0. Calhoun, anklin H. Elmore, Andrew P. But , Josiah J. Evans and Joseph H. rle. John Gaillard served longer than any er senator from this State, nearly years contiLuously. Franklin H. 1 mere, who succeeded John C. Cal un, served but 40 days before his 'n death. Those senators who also served the I ite as governor are Charles Pink- E y, John Taylor, S. D. Miller, George ,Daffie, J H. Hammond, Wade I impton and B. R. Tillman. There were quite a number of sena- E -s who resigned. In the early days I the republic it seemed to be the >per thing for a senator to resign be e his term expired. Those who from I e cause or another resigned are erce Butler (twice,) John Hunter, I Larles Pinckney, Thomas Sumter, i hn Taylcr, Robert Y. Hayne, Stephen Miller, John C. Calhoun, D. E 1 ier, William C. Preston, George Me- i iffie, R. B. Rhett, James Chestnut, i and James H. Hammond. The largest number of senators in y one year was in 1850. Calhoun died irch.31; Elmore died May 20; Barn- I 11 was appointed June 4, and was :c:eded by Rhett December 18th. 1 *dge A. P. Butler was the junior istor who was the contemporary of ese senators in that year. There were from the beginning two iators. Pierce Butler was allotted e four year ttm;..nd Ralph Izard the I year term. At the expiration of 1 B four year term, it too became a six i ar term. This was in order to keep 1 a two offices from being ooterminal. Pierce Butler served seven years and igned. Later he served two years 1 d resigned again. William Smith < ved seven years. Later he served I e years. John C. Calhoun served 10 ors and resigned. His successor, I :er two years' service, resigned and ,houn was returned to his old seat, ying five years-until his death. Lees are the only cases of senators ing returned after once retiring from e senate. Senator Tillman today coeupies the it nce held by Pierce Butler; and ator MrcLaurin succeeds to the chair Ralph Izard. Followirg is the list senators who succeeded Pierce But BUTLER'S SUCCESSORS Proe Butler, service commenced1 irch 4, 1789; reelected 1793; resigned1 36. rohn Hunter, Dec. 8th, 1796, resigned 38. Dharles Pinckney, MaTch 4, 1798; oted for full term in 1299; resigned [0. 'homas Sumter, DL c 3, 1801; in 1805 eted for full term; resigned 1810. John Taylor, Decc. 19 1810; elected in 1 for full term; resigned in 1816. Wlliam Smith, Dec 4, 1816; elected1 1817 for full term.1 Robert Young Hayne, -March 4, 1823; elected 1829; and resigned in 1832. John C. Calhoun, Dac. 12, 1832; ted fcr full term in 1835; re elected 1. Resigned 1842. Re-elected 1845 Daniel Elliott Huger, Dec. 15 1842; igned in 1845. John C. Calhoun, Dec. 26, 1845 to out Huger's term; elected~ full term 1847; died March 31, 1850. lranklin H. Elmore, April 11, 1850, ointed temporarily by governor to cut Calhoun's term, and died May Robrt W. Barnwell, June 4, 1850,a yointed temporarily .by governor toi out Elmore's term. bberLBairnwell Rhett, Dec. 18, orelected by legislature to perman-e ;ly fill out Calhoun's term. Resigned 1852. Am F. DeSaussure, May 10, 1852. Fosiah J. Evans, March 4, 1853; diedr y 6, 1858. rthur P. Hayne, May 11, 1858, ap nted by governor temporarily. ames Chestnut, Jr., Dec. 3, 1858; ete d full term in 1859. Retired from ate Nov. 10 1860. or the next four year3 there was a ,tus-during the War Between the tes. Sanator Chestnut's term would re expired in 1865. 3enjamin F. Perry and John L. r uning were elected in 1865, but a rer qual fied. 'hen followed the period of recon ction. Thos. J. Robertson and c derick A. Sawyer were elected on c e 25, 1868. Robertson had the seat ch came d.own from Pierce Butler, a l in 1871 succeeded himself, ser ving t il 1877. I. C. Butler, March 4, 1877; re- . eted 1883 and in 1889. -t 3. . Tillman, March 4, 1895, re c:ed in 1901. IZARD'S SUCCESSO)RS- t: laph Izard, March 4, 1789, six b ,rs. racob Read, March 4, 1795. f, rohn Ewing Colhoun, March 4, 1801; b d Nov. 3, 1802. - C 'ierce Butler, (whc had resigned in c '6,) Nov. 1802; ressigned 1804. Fohn Gaillard, Dec. 6, 1804; elected full term in 1807; in 1813: in 1819 l in 1825. Died Feb. 26, 1826. 11 Villiam Harper, March 8, 1826, ap- t] nted by governor '.o succeed Gail- a 1. a: Villain Smith, elected by legislature t, ucceed Gaillard, Nov. 18, 1826. n tephen D. Miller, March 4, 1831. u uigned in 1833.a illiam C. Preston, Nov. 26, 1833; a ,ted for full term in 1837. Resigned o [842 (at the same time with Cal- p co. MLDaffie, Dec. 1842; elected in ir 3 for full term; resign~ed in 1846. , udrew Pickens Butler, Dec. 21, et 6; elected 1849 for full term; and ai in in 1855. Died May 25, 1857. tI ames Hammond, Dec. 7, 1857; re- C d from senate Nov. 1011860 (at same m e with Chestnut.) -y, Lfter the interim occnsioned by the ir ,Frederick A. Sawyer was elected di Le 25, 1868 for five years. ohn J. Patterson, March 4, 1873. 7ade Hampton, March 4, 1879; re- T ted in 1885. s ohn L. M. Ir'by, March 4, 1891. V os. H. Earle, March 4, 1897; died s< . 1897. y, John L. MoL thin, appointed to tt teed Jos: H. Earle in 1897 and electe in 1898 to fill out term expiring Marc 3rd, 1903. COLUm.BIA'S M7SIC FESTIVAL. Preparations Comipleted for a Mo Attractive Entertainment. Columbia, April 12.-Special: TI eminent success of the concerts give last spring, has induced the Columbi Festival Association to provide the pe ple o' the city and State another ente ainment not only equaling but sn passing last year's in the number < performers and in the character of tU ,elections. The leading performer will be the following: Companani, the world renowned bar one. Mrs. Marie Kunkel Zimmerman Soprane. Miss Fielding Roselle, Contralto. Miss Marie Nichols, Solo Violin. Mr. Glenn Hall, Tenor. Mr. Gwilym Miles, Baritone. Mr. Louis Heine, Violoncello. Mr. A. B. Rogers, Harp. The reading of this list of itself suj est.s an entertainment of such chara< er and variety as to please the and nce, even though there were to be n >ther participants-no other feature han the high-class music, vocal and ii itrumental alike, which these eminer soloists will furnish. But there are other features-amor ;hem superb orchestra of fifty mus ,ians. Such a performance is rare] een in this section. Certainly non ike it has been witnessed in Columbia We have had the famous marine bane md Philip Sousa's collection of fit nusicians, but neither of these equal either in number or instrumentatioi he orchestra that will play at the con ng May Festival. Not the least attractive feature < he Festival cencerts will be the sink og of the mixed chorus of 200 voic ender tne direction of Mr. Geo. L. Ki redge, the head of the department nusic in the Presbyterian College f< women. The voices in this chorus has >een carefully selected; and they hal 'or some time been in training undi dr. Kittredge, whose skill and tast ire fully recognizd. Considered as a whole the Festive promises to afford music, of the differ nt kinds indicated, of such a charat ;er as to delight the large audiencE hat are already assured. The sever -ailroads will give special rates, and s certain that quite a number of mus overs will come to Columbia for t >casion. There will be three conaerts-tl irst in the evening of May 6, the see nd in the afternoon of the 7th, an he third in the evening of the 7th. Letters in relation to the Festiva addressed to Mr. Geo. L. Kittredge Presbyterian College for Women, th :ity, will receive prompt attention. FIRST CROP REPORT. condition of the Young Crop. Fac1 of Interest to the Farmers. Last week the first weekly bulleti >f the season of the weather and croj i Sonth Carolina was issued by Direi ~or Baner of the South Carolina sectio of the climate and crop service of ti United States weather bureau. It wi e of special interest. It reads as fo lows: The week ending Monday, April 8t1 iveraged about seven degrees per :da ,ooler than usual, with light frost c the morning of the 4th over practical] he entire State, that retarded growt >f vegetation, but was not otherwis juious. There was a deficiencyi lunshine. The rainfall was excessive over th whole State, and the amounts for t1 ,eek, at different points, ranged fro2 me to nearly four inches. In the uj ountry, lands were badly washed an owlands flooded. The wet conditio f the soil stopped the plows the greal r part of the week, thus .delaying th >reparation of landranifplanting 01 rations, although farm work is we ,vanced for the season. It has bee ;enerally too wet for plowing over th restern half of the State since'Marc :5th. Corn, rice, melons, cane, gardeni nd minor crops generally, have bee) xtensively planted over the easter nd central counties, but germinatio: a slow, and corn is coming up to poc tands. Over the western counties plantini iperations have made less progresi lthough some corn, minor crops anc arens have been planted. Most c he lands for cotton have been mad eady to plant, and some cotton ha een planted, but the latter work wil ot become general until the middle c pril, or until the weather condition are more favorable, except that muc] easisland cotton is already planted. Tobacco plants are unusually small >lentiful in places and scarce in oth rs, but none have been transplanted Theat and fall sown oats are bot1 romising, but are small, having onl; eently started to grow; spring sowa ats are poor. Some hessian flies ar eported on wheat. With the exception of Edgefieli ounty, where less than a full cro) f peaches is indicated, the fruit pros ects are unimpaired, and the tree re in bloom from the mountains ti he sea. The moisture conditions are favor ble in the coast truck fields, but thi emperature has been too low for quic] ermination of seeds, and for rapi< rowth of the young plants, althougl ruck looks healthy. Some potato bugi ave appeared on whiite potatoes [eavy shipments of cabbages, and ew shipments of strawberries, havy een made to northern markets fron iharleston. In general. truck is fron ne to two weeks later than usual. Eaten by an Alligator. The military authorities at Monterey [exico, have received confirmation o: ae report that Lient. Jose Carmonia, popular young officer of the Mexicar emy, has been devoured by an alliga r while bathing in the Tamesin river ear Tampico. Lieut. Carmona was ieber of the department of engineert nd had been stationed at Tampico fo: me time past. He and a number o: then army offeers were enjoying lnge in the Tamnesin river, when Lonterous aligator was seen to be mak ig for Lieut. Carmona. He was giver arning and made a desperate effort t< icape, but the alligator overtook hin id the young offcer was devoured in e presence of his componions. Lieut, armona graduated at the go'vernmenl ilitary academy at Chapultepec foun ars ago. He was a leader in scciet3 i the city of Mexico during his resi ,ne in that city. You say advertising won't help you oes every newspaper reader in thiu ition know just what you do? No rell, if they did, would there not be me that would have new business foi n immedael? A MURDEROUS PLOT The Chinese Planned to Kill Every Foreign Resident. it HAD IMPERIAL SANCTION. .e a Report of the American Bible Society Shows How Chinese Murdaring Was Directed Against Christians. 0 s The annual report of the American Bible society relative to the situation in China will contain the following in teresting statements from its rgents in China, the Rev. John R. Hykes, D. D.: "There was a deep and cunningly laid plot, under imperial sanction, to extirpate Christianity, expel all foreign ers and destroy all foreign interests. No one divined the full extent of the inquity which was diliberately contem plated. "In all 183 Protestant misssonaries, 0 including 60 men, 75 women an 48 s children, have been massacred. With the exception of the massacres at Ku Choo, in Chinese Kian, where 11 persons were killed, and at Hong Choo, $ in Hu-Nan, all of the deaths occurred - in the northern provinces. y "The question has been raised at e home as to whether the Boxer uprising *' was anti-missionary in its character. No doubt exists in the minds of any e well-informed person in China. The movement was undoubtedly against foreigners as such, and the crusade was directed against everything foreign, Christianity, of course, included. Hsu Ching Chen and Yuen Chang, two ministers of the foreign office, would not transmit the awful edict which reiterated the order to 'painfully Ex tirpate foreigners,' but changed it so as r to protect all foreigners,' and then sent e it flying over the wires to the remotest e provinces. They were sentenced to be r cut in two. Missionaries were the class e that benefited by this act of heroism. The fact that every missionary escaped from 14 out of the 18 provinces would indicate that the crusade was not specially anti-missionary. "In the provinces Chih Li and Shan Si every school, hospital, chapel and t dwelling was looted and burned by the e Boxers and imperial troops, the only e exception being the property in the e foreign settlement at Tien Tsin. So complete was the demolition of property by these mad fanatics that not a vestige was left to mark the site; even the foundations were dug up and carried away. There was also destruction of mission property in the province of 1e Shen Si, Ho Tan, Hu Nan, Hupe Chang Si, Che Kiang and Kivan Tung. Relative Christians have been the worst sufferers. Those who escaped the general slaughter in the northern a provinces lost absolutely everything, and many of them are perishing from cold and starvation. n "The Scriptures destroyed will ag is gregate rnot less than 100 volumes, and :- the actual loss to the society will not be a less than eight or ten thousand gold .e dollars, including the necessary expense Li of getting workers to places of safety 1. and back again to their stations. All of our foreign superintendents were L, saved. We have to mourn the loss of y many roble and devoted native workers. n They were warned of the risks they y were inning, but not a man of the noble h band of 18 flinched. 'ltheir reply was: e "we go on a colportage tour. -God's ai will will be done." Only four of the 18 returned from that journey. The e homes of these martyrs were looted e and burned and their families extermi n nated. Those who survived escaped to -mountains, where they suffered terrible d privations and managed to get back to u Pekin after it was captuied by the -allied armies. Of the colporteurs under e missionary supervision I have not heard Sof one that escaped. Some other parts .1 of China complain bi-terly of the same a treatment. e "More than 40,000 native converts S(including Rozpan Catholice) met death in a heroism worthy of the best age of the church. S "While the total number of volumes a the Scriptures published is 6,700 less a than previous years, the number of r pages is slightly in excess. The num ber of pages printed in 1899 was 76, g 932,200; this year it was 77,616,700, or ,about three quarters of a million more. tThis is the largest number of pages f ever printed in one year by the China s agency, and will give some idea of the s proportions to which the work has 1 grown when, in common with all other f forms of Christian work, it was sudden a ly interrupted by the events of the past 1 year. The number of mandarin Bit-les manufactured is worthy of special ,notice. There we received from the -printers no less than 16,500 complete , Bibles and 5,000 copies were in press on SDecember 31." Texas Cotton. S The state of Texas raised last year more cotton than was produced by the whole world not very many years ago. 'Year before last the Texas crop amount -ed to 3,555,000 bales, but even these enormous figures were excelled in 1900. SSince the first of last September 3,400, 000 bales of cotton have been market ed in Texas and a conservative estii--te putS the amount of Texts cotton of the last crop not yet marketed at 250,000 bales. There is a very striking differ ence in the amount of money paid for the crop cf 1898-99 and that which the last crop is worth. The former brought about $89,000,000. Tue average irice paid for it was 5 cents a pound. Owing to the great advance of the price the last Texas crop will bring about $169, 000,000, or nearly twice as much as the preceding crop, though it was only about 100,000 bales larger. The great or part of the last crop was sold at 9 cents a pound. It is gratifying to know that the increased cotton acreage of Texas will not be as large as was ex pected a few weeks ago. The Texas papers generally predict that the crop of cotton in that state this year will not be any larger than that of last year. The farmers of that state sEem to real ize that overproduction means a decline in price and are refraining from con tributing to that result It is to be hoped that the cotton planters of other states will act with equal wisdom.-At lanta Journal. Killed His Sweetheart. T. L. Arrington, a well known young man of Summerville, Ga , Wed nesday afternoon shot and killed Miss. Mamie Cleghorn, a prominent young lady of that town, and then killed himself. Arrington had been ergaged to the young lady but because of par ental objection the ergsgement k ad been broken. Arrington Tucsday notified the parents of the girls that unless objections were withdrawn he THE WIFE'S BR1AIR. An Article That We Want All Hus bands to Read. One of the most timely, most practi cal and wisest articles we have read lately appears in Harper's Bazzar for this week from the pen of Margaret Hamilton Welch. It is entitled "The Wife's Share of the Income." We can not refrain from quoting the following paragraphs, though every word and every sentiment of the intire essay are true and just: "The wife whose husband is just enough to accord to her as her right the unrestricted use of a share of the family income can scarcely appreciate the con tinuous suffering of her sister whose matrimonial finances are arranged on the opposite plans. It pikes little dif ference whether the establishment be elaborate or simple. Women who can select Paris gowns and rose dimonds are often as destitute of money in the purse to buy a theatre ticket, to bestow a gift or even to purchase a bunch of violets at the street corner as the un fortunate little housekeeper who has never the sum of a car fare to call her own. Etch woman is equally bamiliat ed and each undoubtedly has moments in common when all the virtues of her otherwise kind and even loving spouse fail to outweigh in the scale of her self respect the bitterness which her igno miny produces toward the man who causes it. It would be a revelation to some men, domestic tyrants in this way. if they could look into the hearts of their non-resisting, accepting wives and see the positive eontempt and hatred that is, at times, written there for their partners in wedlock. Is it to be wondered at? Can a woman wholly love a man whose actions in making her a worse dependent than her servant must arouse contempt? The high spirited woman will not submit, it will be said. She does, though, all over the land, every day in the year. She will remonstrate, perhaps, but the nature of the man who puts this yoke upon his wife is not, as a rule, amen able to remonstrance, and the peace of the home, the respect of the children, the gossip of servants and the speech of people must all be considered and verve to keep the sorely tried woman from any radical step. If the lives of unsuspected myrtyrs are ever written these unhappy partners of many a good but unconsciously cruel man should be set forth in characters of gold for their years of unnecessary, torturing endur ance. "The injustice of the husband who doles out a rigidly to be-accounted-for stipend for the household expenses, al lowing the wife not a penny for her private, independent purse, is as fia grant as it is unmanly. In any busi ness partnership the share of profit is in proportion to capital invested. Certainly she who leaves her father's house to assist the man of her choice in the upbuilding of a home in which both share contributes by her presence, her thought, her labor, her responsi bility, her effort and rianagement in a thousand ways an equal share with the man in the new investment. It is her right that this &hould be recognized in the control of the firm's money receipts." How many husbands who read diese words must feel that they apply to them! In most cases it is thoughtless ness which causes husbands to subject their wives to the inconvenience and humiliation which Miss Welch describes in terms none too severe: By her force ful portrayal of this evil and her strong plea for its abatement Miss Welch may do much for the relief of those unfor tunate wives to whom her heart goes out in sympathy. FIGHTING WITH MURDEREES. A Sheriff, After Chasing A Gang Comes to Battle Two men were kille d and two woun ! ed in a fight between Shenif John W. Wright and his deputies, on one side, and the desperadoes who robbed and murdered aged Mrs. Jemiria Hall and hr son, en the o he~r. The fight o0 curred on the mountain top between Boone's Fork and Millstone creek, Ky. Wright and his posse started out several months ago to capture the gang who cruelly tortured the aged widow and after securing her money murdered her and her son and burned her body with' the little hut in which she lived. Citizens have been daily expecting to hear of a pitched battle between'-the two crowds that already had several small sorim mages. Friday John and Morgan Reynolds, Isaac and Creed Porter and George Newsome were located by the posse in a rendezvous on'top of the motutain. Morgaa Reynolds, Newsome and Isaac Perter went away, and while they were goae the officers suddenly confronted Ureed Petrer and John Reynolds, and all of them, 10 in number, opened fire. The desperadoes replied with rfihs and revolvers and more than 300 shots were exchanged at a distance of less than a dozen paces. John Reynolds received a serious if not fatal wound in the left shoulder and retreated, leaving Porter alone. The latter's ammunition soon gave out, and he too, went into hiding. Of the posse, Willie Wright, aged 18, was killed by a steel bullet which passed through his abdomen, and Isaac Millard, aged 21, was shot throagh the heart. A third man named Osborne was struck in the right leg and severely hurt. Young Wrigh t who was killed at the firstiire, joined the posse abouta.month ago to avenge the murder of his father, W. S. Wrightt, whom the gang assassi nated about a year ago. The firing was heard for a distance of three miles. It was at first thought that the posse had been defeated and Gov. Bookham was telegraphed to send State troops to cap ture the gang. When it was learned however, that thc posse had not been victoricus and a message was sent to the governor to the effec: that no troops were maintain ed. Found a Silver Service. The handsome silver service belong ing to the cruiser Cincinnati, presented to that ship by the city of Cincinnati, which has been lost for the last two years, and which the navy department used eve ry effort to get trace of, has been found. It was entirely lost sight of for many months and only recently was the first trace of it secured through an officer who had been on the Cincin nati when the Spanish-American war broke out. It appears that in tha rush of getting ready for the war, the C)in cinnati made a hurried trip at the Nor folk navy y ard, where she stripped her self of all superfluous belongings. Among the articles unloaded was the souvenir silver service, but in the hurry of departure no receipt was taken for it. It was stored away without knowledge of its value, as the officers of the ship were expected to look after such a possession. It has now been found in tact and steps are being taken to restore PUBLISHES ARE BCBBD Of Five Million Dollars a Year by Paper Trust. The manufacture of news print paper of the country was the subject of in quiry on the part of the industrial com mission at Washington Friday, John Norris, business manager of the New York Times, being the witness. Mr. Norris devoted hi' attention especially to the International Paper company. "I will assert," he said, "that the International Paper company has fail ed in every expectation it held cut to the newspapers and to the f ublic. The cost of mar uacture is greater under c )nEolidation than under individual ownership of the paper mills. The economics which were to be obtained under the consolidated management have not been realized. The expert trade has fallen off, or at least has not increased, though that was to be a strong feature of the consolidated company's effort The promised policy of an enlightened self iaterest has been abandoned. The net result to news paper publishers has been an increase over $4,800,000 per antu 3 in the cost of news print paper." Mr. Norris placed the enhancement of the cost price of producing paper at $3 per ton. He kn..w oi two news papars which were payir g an increase of $150,000 each, in the parer used by them. Mr. Norris attributed the recent in crease in the. price of papers to foar causes, namely to the Spanish Ameri can war, the South African war, the drought of 1899 and 1900. and .the at tempt of the International company to monopolize the spruce land. To meet the last difficulty he suggested that trade relations with Canada should be promoted in order that practfcally in exhaustib'e pulp supply of that coun try m'ght be drawn upon. "We should," he said, "adopt the plan which President McKinley had advocated of remitting those taxes which experience has shown to be most burden' om, to the iniuitries of the people." He asserted that the International company had opposed Canadian ree prosity and that the result had been Canadian reprisals He advocated the removal of the tariff on lumber as in the interests of all o:asses. He said there recently had been an effort to reunite the outside eastern: mills in the scheme to maintain prices:. "While there is no positive evidence of : a collusion," he said, "publishers real= ise in some in:angible way that the source of th ir supply has been p-te determined for them and the price they are to pay has been prearranged." There w.re, he said, more viol'e fiuctuations in the price of paper than prior to the consolidation, and some newspaper publishers pay more for in ferior pap ir than others pay for goo:s paper. A City Moving. A portion of Butte, Mon., believed to embrace the larger part of the big hill upon which some of the Anaconda mines are located, has made a very. perceptible mort m ant southward dur ing the past few days. At the foot of the A'iaoonds hill, the slide pushed the tracks of. the street railway line; about six inches f<r a distance of abous 300~ feet along the road. As there are no large buildings ii that part of- the city, no damage was done except to the railroad tracks, and but for their dim plaeament the slide would nothave been noticed. Geologist s sad scientifte men claim that the entire range of moun tains about Batte is constantly moving, and that the sliding process which has been going on for ag-s and has ornalled and mixed the copper veins and ore bodies in the Butte district and dia-m placed may of them is stili going on. About a year sg ia simiiar slide occur red in the western portion of the city ar d right in the heart of the residence portion The county court house, the hansie residence of Senator W. A. Clark, several churches and other buildings were seriously cracked, the residence of the Senator having a fissure about two inches wide through the entire building from east to west and the street car track in several placesbe ing humped up by the sliding move ment. The statement is made by a well known miner that ths collar shaft'of the Green Mountain mine, one of the Anaconda properties, has moved in ten years . about 7 feet. The strange phet omenon is reg ried with interest by scientific men but no danger is ever apprehended from it A Fight With Bugas Friday wes an eventful day in Pitta burg, Pa. Thom~as D. Kahne, a Mount Washington gree r was s'iot and killed in his home by tree brg'ars while de fending his wire, who was being chlo roformtd. A few hours later the ,ren de zvous of the felt ns was dicovered at 32 Falton street. a.4 a foice of detec tives put to work "n the case. In a detperate fight wehich follond, City Detective Pat.riok E.L Fitzg~rsld was in stantly killed and one ?i the alleged roihers, 'who gave r~is namc a, Edaard Wright who fired the shots that killed Fi'zzecrald, was bally rountded. Two male and tso female members of the aleged robber gaog were airested and iamonds and oth, r oooty worth from 3 000 to $1 000 res ov. red. The whole f'the gang is believed to be in custody and the d-tectives have evidence that he men are respons:ble for the numer- - ous burglaries of the past month or two n and aronr.d this city. The wounded risoner was removed to Mercy hospital here it is said he n ay recover, al hough he wa- shot three times. The thers arrest d gave their names as obert Wilcx and hisi "if 2. Jennie B. Wrig'it, a brother of th~e alleged mur erer and a woman eadi be his wife. They were taken to Ce. tral station, where it was learncd that ali were from hicago.__________ Cuba Rejects It. The Cubao e.neittii .:nvention pas ed i s-if upr-n rec r Friday egainat he Pla t e rn.n.! -,iby a v..a of 18 to 0 on a res. u:eoon t:as <LC convention hould declarc itself opposed to the mend ment on aecount of the terms of ome of the clautes and the way which hey are drawn and also on account of he contents of others, especially lau es Ili; VI and VII. The con ervaivzs assert te at troiseaction is em arras-ing, inasisea se it practically ies the harnds of any cozrmission that might be Eent to Wasirgton. No Dispensary for Rock Hill. Rock Bill, by a vote of 56 to 170, ecided last Friday against the estab ishment of a dispensary in that city. ome advocates of the dispensary have laimed that those votitg against the oveent were but eLncouraging the ale of blind tiger whiskey. To show heir sincerity the anti's followed up heir victors by circulating a subscrip ~ion list to be used to fight the illegal sale of whiskey in the city. A vigor us effort will be made to stamp out