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Does Any One Know! boes any one kncw what's in your heart and mine, The sorrow and song, The demon of tin and the angel divine, The right and wiong; The dread of the darkgess, the lcve of day, The ebb and the flow Of hope and of doubt forever and aye. Does any one kno** Does any one dream of the love that is yours, The heart that is mine; The depth and the width of the cup which each pours Of richest red win Of the hate that is dark as the midnight of grief, The anguish and woe, The doubt clouds of halting and blind unbe lief. Does any one know? Does any one see what we have in the heart To love and to hate; Of life's every motive an intr-cate part, Of chance and of fate; The mem'ry of kisses, of starlight, of songs, Of roses and suDow, Of women's bwcet eyes, of prayers and of wrongs. Does any one know? Does any one hearken to music of bells, And the sigh of the sea, And the whisper of woodlands that murmurs and swells For you and for me; The sound of fond voices that ever respond, In tones soft and low, To the prayer we are breathing into the be yond, Does any one know? TBE TALMAGE SEEMON. The Great Divine Sounds the Praises of the Redemer. In this discourse Dr. Talmage sounds the praises of the world's Redeemer and puts before us the portraits of some of his great disciples and exponents; text, John iii, 31, "He that cometh from above is above all." The most conspicit U character of history steps out upon the platform. The finger which diamonded with light, pointed down to him from the Bethle hem sky was only a ratification of the finger of prophecv, the finger of gene alogy, the finger of chronology, the finger of events-all five fingers point ing in one direction. Christ is the overtopping figures of all time. He is the vox humans in all music, the most exquisite mingling of lights and shades inall painting, the acme of all climaxes, the dome of all cathedraled grandeur and the peroration of all splendid language. The Greek alphabet is made up of 24 letters, and when Christ compared himself to the first letter and the last letter, the alpha and the omega, he ap propriated to himself all the splendors that'you can spell out with those two letters and allthe letters between them. "I am the alpha and the omega, the beginmng and the end, the first and the last," or, if you prefer the words of the text, "aboye all." I -neans, after you have Riled up all AI..' and Himalayan altitudes, the glory of Christ would have to pread its wings and descend a thousand leagues to touch those summits. Pehion, a high mountain of Thessaly; Ossa, a high mountain, and Olympus, a high mountain, but mythology tell us when the giants warred against the gods they piledup these three mountains and from the top of them proposed to scale the heavens, but the height was not great enough, and there was a complete failure. And after all the giants Isaiah arnd Paul, prohetic and apostolic giants; Raphael and Michael Angelo, artistic giants; cherubim and seraphim and archangel celestial giants-havefail to climb to the top of Christ's glory they might all well unite in the words of the text, and say, "He that cometh from above is above all." First, Christ must be above all else in our preaching. There are so many books on homiletics scattered through the world that all laymen as well as all clergymen have made up their minds what sermons ought to be. That ser mon is most effectual which most point edly puts forth Christ as the pardon of all sin and the correction of all evil, individual, social, political, national. There is no reason why 'we should ring the endless ohanges on a few phrases. There are those who think that if an exhortation or a discourse have frequent mention of justification, sanctifiaation, convenant of works and covenant of prace that therefore it must be pro foundly evangelical, while they are sus picious of a discourse which presents the same truth, but under different phrastology. Now, I say there is noth ing in all the opulent realm of Anglo Saxonism or all the world treasures that we inherited from the Latin and Greek and the Indo-European but we have a right to marshall it in religious discus sion. Christ sets the example. His illustrations were from the grass, the flowers, the spittle, the salve, the barn yard fowl, the crystals of salt, as well as from the seas and the stars, and we do not propose in our Sunday school teaching and in our pulpit address to be put on the limits. I know that there is a greet deal said in cur day against words, as though they were nothing. They may be misused, but they have an imperial power. They are the bridge between soul and soul, between Almighty God and the human race. What did God write upon the tables of stone?' Words. What did Christ utter on Mount Olivet? Words. Out of what did Christ strike the spark for the illumination of the universe? Oat of words. "Let there be light," and light was. Of course thought is the cargo, and words are only the ship, but how fast would your cargo get on without the ship? What you need, my friends, in all your work, in your Sunday school class, in your re formatory institution, and what we all need is to enlarge our vocabulary when we come to speak about God and Christ and heaven. We ride a few old words to death when there is such illimitable re source. Shakespeare employed 15,000 different words for dramatic purposes, Milton employed 8,000 different words for poetic purposes, Rufus Choate em ployed over 11,000 different words for legal purposes, but the most of us have less than 1,000 words that we can manage, less than 500, and that makes us so stupid. When we come to set forth the love of Christ, we are going to take the ten derest phraseology wherever, we find it, and if it has never been used in that direction before all the more shall we use it. When we comne to speak of the glory of Christ, the cornqueror, we are going to draw our similes trom trumphal arch and oratorio and everything grand and stupendous. The French navy have 18 flags by which they give signal, but those 18 fsgs they can put into 66,000 diffhrent combinations. And I have to tell you that these standards of the cross may be lifted into cambina tions infinite and varieties everlasting. And let me say to young men who al-e after awhile going to preach Jesus Christ, you will have the largest liber ty and unlimited resource. You orly I ave to present Christ in your own way. Jonmaan Edwards prached Christ in the Severest arument eer penned, and John Bunyan preached Christ in the sublimest allegory ever composed. Edward Pay son, sick and exhausted, leaned up against the side of the pulpit and wept out out his disocurse, while Ge(rge Whiti field, with the manner ard the voice and the start of an actor cvcr helmed his auditory. It wculd hi ve bzen a different thing if Jonathan E-Iwards had tried to write and dream about the pilgrim's prcgress to the celestial city or John Bun3 an hsd a tempted an escay on the humanwill. Br'ghter than the light, fresher than the fcuuaies, deeper than the seas, are these gospel themes. Sorg has no melody, flowers have no tweetness, sunset sky has no color, c mpared with these glorious themes. These harvests of grace spring up q rieker than we csn sick!e tlem. KiLdling pullits with thtir fire and producing revolutions with their power, lighting up dying beds with their glory, they are the sweetest thought fe:r the poet, and they are the most thrilling illustration for the orator, and they cffer the most in teLse soete for the artist, and they are to the embassador of the sky all enthu siasm. Complete pardon for the direst guilt. Sweetest comfort for ghastliest agony. Brightest hope for grimmest death. Grandest rLsurrection for dark est sepulcher. Oh, what a gospel to preach! Chr:st over all in it. His birth, his euffering, his miracles, his parables, his sweat, his tea-s, his bood, his atonement, bi- interession-wbat glorious themes! Do we exercise faith? Christ is its ol j c. D. we hava loyc ? It fastens on Jesus. Have we a fond ness for the churb? It is because Christ died for it. Have we a hope of heaven? It is because Jesus went ahead, the herald and the forerunner. The royal robe of Demetrius was so costly, so beautiful, that aftcr he had put it off no one ever dared put it on, but this robe of Christ, richer than that, the poorest and the wannest and the wcrat may wear, "Where sin abounded grace may mush more abound." "Oh, my sins, my sins," said Martin Luther to Staupitz. "my sins, my sin !" The fact is that the brawny German student had founqd a Latin Bible that had made him quake, and nothing else ever did make him quake, and when he found bow through Christ he was par doned and save I he wrote to a friend saying: '-Come cver and join us, great and awful sinners saved by the grace of of God. You seem to be only a slender sinner, and you don't much extol the mercy of God, but we who have been such very awful sinnerspraise his grace the more now that we have been re deemed." Can itbe thatyou are so des perately egotistical that you feel your self in first rate spiritual trim and that from the root of the hair to the tip of the toe you are scarless and immaculate? Whatyou needisa looking glass,and here it is in the Bible. Poor and wretched and miserable and blind and naked from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot, full of wounds and putrefy ing sores. No health in us. And then take the fact that Christ gathered up all the notes against us and paid them and offered us the receipt... And how much we need him in oir sorowst We are independent of cir umstances if we have his grace. Why, he made Paul sing in the dungeon, and under that grae 8St. John from desolate Patmos heard the blast of the appoca lyptic trumpets. After all other can dies have been snuffed out this the light that gets brighter and brighter unto the perfeet day, and after under the hard hoofs of calamity all the pools of worldly en joyment have been trampled into deep mire at the foot of the eternal rock the Christian, from cups of granite, lily rimmed and vine covered, puts out the thirst of his soul. Again, I remark that Christ is above all in- dying alleviations. I have nct any sympathy with the morbidity abroad about our demise. Tfhe emperor of Constantinople arranged that on the day of his coronation the stonemason2 should come and consult with him about his tombstone that after awhile he would need. And there are men who are monomaniacal on the subject of departure from this life by death, and the more they think of it the less prepared are' they to go. This is an unmanliness not worthy of you, not worthy of me. Saladin, the gretest conqueror of his day, while dying, ordered the tunic he had'on him to be carried after his death on a spear at the head of his army, and then the soldier ever and anon should stop and say: "B~ehold all that is left of Saladin, the emperor and conqueror! Of all the states he conquered, of all the wealth he accumulated, nothing did he retain but this shroud." I have no sympathy with such behavior or such absurd demonstration or with much that we hear uttered in regard to de parture from this life to the next. There is a commonsensical idea on this subject that you and I need to consi der, that there are only two styles of departure. A thousand feet underground, by light of torch touling in a miner's shaft, a ledge of rock may fall upon us, and we may die a miner's death. Far out at sea, falling from the slippery ratlines and broken on the halyards, we may die a sailor's death. On mis sion of mercy in hospital amid broken bones and reeking leprosies and raging fevers we may die a philantropist's death. On the field of battle, serving God and our country, slugs through the heart, the gun carriage may roll over us, and we may die a patriot's death. But after all there are only two styles of departure, the death of the righteous ar~d of the wicked, and we all want to die the former. God grant that when that hour comes you may be at home! You want the hand of your kindred in your hand. You want your children to surround you. You want the light on your pil low from eyes that have long reflected your love. You want the roo~m still. You do not want any curious strar g rs standing around watching you. You want your kindred from afar to hear your last prayer. I think that is the wish of all of us, But is that all? Can earthly friends hold us when the bil lows of death come up to the girdle? Can human voice charm open heaven's gate? Can human . hands pilot us through the narrows of death into he~ven's harbor? Can an earthly friendship shield us from the arrows of death and in the hour when satan shall Dractic upon us his infernal 'arehory ? No, no! Alas, poor soul, if that is all! Better die in the wilderness, far from tree shadow and far from fountain, alone, vultures circling through the air waiting for our body, unknown to men, and to have no burial, if only Christ would say through the solitudes: "I will never leave thee. I will never forsake thee." From that pillow of stone a ladder would soar heavenward, angels coming and going, and across the solitude and the barrenness would come the sweet note of heavenly min strelsy. Gordon Hall, far from home, dying in the door of a heathen temple, said, "Glory to thee, 0 Ged!" What did dying Wilberforce say to his wife?: ta'k of heaven. I never knew what happiness was until I found Christ." What did dying Hannah More say? "To get to heaveD, thick what that it! To go to Christ, who die that I might live I Oh, gloricus grave! Oh, what a glorious thing it is to die! Oh. the love of Christ, the love of Ctrisi ' What did Mr. Toplady, the great hymn maker, Eay in his last boa)? Who can mea:sure the depth of the third heaven? Oh, the sunshine that fit's my EoulI [ t1 soon be gone, for iuwely no ore can Lve hre after such glories as God has manifested to my soul." What did the dyingJaneway sa ? "I osn as eabily die as close my eyes or turn my head in sleep. B-fore a few hours have pa-sed I shall stand on M..uat Zion with the one hundred and forty and four thousand and with the just men made perfect, and we shall ascribe riches and horor and glory and mpjesty ard dominion unto God and the Lanb," Dr. Tay lvr, condemned to burn at the staks, on his way thither broke away from the guardsmen and went bouading ard leaping and jump ing toward the fire, glad to go to Jesus and to die for him. Sir Obarles Hare in his last moment had such rapturous vision that he cried, "Up lard, upward, upwarc !' And so'great was the pesca of one of Christ's disciples that he put his fingers upon the pu'se in his wrist and couotcd it and obstrvsd its halting beats until hislife hai ended hera to begin in heaven. But grander than that was the testimmny of the worcoat first mis sionary, when in the Mamartine dan geon he cried: "I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought the good fight, I have finished my cousre, I have kept the faith. Hcnceforth there is laid up fcr me a crown of righteousncs3, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give me ia that day, and not tome only but to all them that love his appear ing!" D) you not sEe that Christ is abcve all ia dying alleviationi? Toward the last hour of our etrthly residence we are speeding. When I see the spring blossoms scattered, I say, "Another season gone forever." When I close the Bible on Sabbath night, I say, ' Another Sabbath departed." When I bary a friend, I say, "Another earthly attraction gone forever." What nimble feet the years have! The roe bucks and the lightnings run not so fast. From decade to decade, from sky to sky they go at a bound. There is a place lor us, whether marked or not, where you an i I will sleep the last sleep and the men are now living who will with solemn tread, carry us to our rest ing place. Brighter than a banqueting hall through which the light feet of the dancers go up and down to the sound of trumpeters will be the sepulcher through whose rifts the holy light of heaven streameth. God will watch you. He will send his angels to guard your slumbering ground until, at Christ's be hest, they shall roll away the Etone. So also Christ is above allin heaven. The Bible distinctly says that Christ is the chief theme of the celestial asorip tion, all the thrnes facing his throne. all the palms waved before his face, all the crowns down at his feet. Cherubin to cherubim seraphim to seraphim, re deemed spirit to r. deemed spirit shall recite the Saviour's earthly sacrifice. S'and on some bigh hill of heaven, and in all the radiant sweep the meat glorious cbject will be Jesus. Myriads gszing on the scars of his suffering, in silence first afterward breaking forth into acclamation: The marty rs, all the purer for the flame through which they pssed, will say, "This is Josns, for whom we died." The apostles, all the happier for the shipwreck ar~d the eourgiog through which they went, will say, ' Thisis the Jesus whom we preach ed at Corinth and in Cappadecia and at Antioch and a~t Jerusa!em." Little chidren clad in white will say, "This is the Jesus who took us in his arms and blessed us and when the storms of the world were too cold and loud brought us intothis beautifal place." The multi tedes of the bereft will say, "This is the Jesus who comforted us when our hert 1 roke." Many who had wander ed clear eff from QGd and plunged into vagabondism, but were ave d by grace, will say: "This is the Jesus w ao par doned us. We were lost on the moun tains, and he brought us home. We were guilty, and hie made us white as snow. Mercy boundless grace un paralleled. And then, af ter each one has recited his peculiar deliverances and peculiar mtercies, reci'ed them as by solo, all the voices will come to ether in a great choru~s which shall ake the arches reecho with thle eternal reverberation of gladness and peace and triumph. EBiward I was so anxious to go to the Holy L nd that when he was about to expire he bequeathed $l60,000 to have his heart after his decease taken and depsited in the Holy L and, and his re quest was complied with. But there e hundreds today whose hearts are al ready in the holy land of heaven. Where your treasur:sa are, there are your hearts als. John Banyan, of whom I spoke at the opening of the dir osurse, csught a glimpse of that place, and in his quaint way he said, "And I heard in my dream, and lo, the bells of the city rang again fcr joy, and as they epened the gates to let in the men Ilooked in after them and lo, the city shone like the sun and there were streets of gold, and men walked on them, harps in their hands to sing praises with all, and after that they shut up the gates, which when [ had Eeen 1 wished my self among them 1" Had to Go. The board of public instruction of Pensacola, Fla, has demanded the resignation of C. H. Dye, principal of public school No. 1. They allege Dye made himself obnoxious to the teachers and pupils by making insulting remarks about the southern ouarse when they were at work preparing a programme for the pupils to take part in the Con federate decoration day. He attempted to change the programme by substitut ing a song in accordance with his 'own sentiment. The matter reached the ears of members of Camp Ward, Con federate veterans, and they joined with the teachers and pupils in demanding that Dye's resignation be asked for. He was notified by the board that he must resign at once. Dye is from Massachusetts and is bitter in his hatred for the Confederacy, and was outspoken in his opposition to the pupils honoring the dead heroes of the south. A Brave Woman. The Charlotte Observer says: "If our Rutherfordton correspondent is correctly informed, these would have been a double acoident at Buffalo creek trestle on the South Carolina & Georgia road Saturday and two trains would have gone down in the wreck instead of one. According to this correspondent's story in Wednesday's Observer an old colored woman flagged down the pas senger train for Biacksburg j ust betore it reached the trestle. It is to be re gretted that the old woman's name was not learned, for her service in most probably saving precious lives was a great ne." BABY BURIED ALIVE A Big Sensation in the City rf N. w York. THE WONAN WATCHED While th- Man Dug the Grave. They Ran Away, But Was Followcd and Arrested An Italian who said he was Givrio Battaccavallo, living on the lower East Side of New Ycrk city, and a pale faced girl of 18, who refused to say any thing about herself, were committed to the Westchester county jail at White Plains Wednesday night on a charge cf burying a live child beneath three feet of earth at the foot of a ravine border ing the village cf Hasings-on-the-Hud son. A contractor's foreman, who dug the obild from the grave and saved its life, caused the arrest f the couple. The child may die. Buttaccavallo and his companion were arrested on their way from Ha, - tings to Yonkers. The arrest was made on a Warburton avenus trolley car. Warburton avenue is the road that con Dects Yonkers with Hastings-on-the Hudson. It is about five miles in lenghth and extends through a hilly country where there are but few houses. The road crosEes a ravine near the Hastings village. A brook known as Rowley's brook flows through the ravine. It was on the bank of this brook that the child was buried. Patrick McAvoy, foreman over a gang of laborer, was at work building a rail road trestle over this brook. They were a quarter of a mile from Rowley's bridge, which spans the brook at War burton avenue. The men quit work at 12 30 o'clock Wednesday. McAvoy walked toward Warburton avenue to ro to lunch at his home in Hastings. He passed through the ravine along tie bank of the brook. About three hundred feet ahead of him he saw a man sod waman kneeling on the ground The man appeared to be digging in the ground. As McAvoy appr3sched the woman beckoned to her companion as if to tell him to hurry with the work he was doing. The m-m glanced up and seeing McAvoy ap proach hurriedly filled in the hole he had dug Then as the woman started to run toward the trolley road the man stopped and picked up a bush which vie placed over the newly-turned earth. He hastened after the woman and they crossed Warburton avenue and disap peared in a ravine on the other side of the trolley track'. MoAvoy hurried af ter him. He saw the man put a hatchet under his coat and he believed that the strarger had used it to bury or dig up a treasure. When McAvoy got to the crown of the - hill on Warburton avenue the nian and woman were not in sight. Then he hurried back to the spot where he had seen the man digging. As he approsokxed HecAvoy says he heard the cries of a baby. He climed over a hedge and throwing aside thbe bush, began to dig up the earih with his hands. After he had removed about three feet of earth he found a bundle ei white clothes inside of which was a boy baby about three weeks old and ap parently in good health. The child had geod lungs and made use of them. It had been saved from suffocation by having its face covered with a small cape. With the child in his arms Ma Avoy ran to Warburton avenue and boarded a trolley car going toward Hastings. He told the conductor and mortorman all about his find. The conductor. Wil liam Walsh, said he remembered an Italian coupie had. been passengers on a previous trip. He said the couple had get on his car at Yonkers and left it at Rowley's bridge. He thought it strange at the time fox a womsn to get off the car at this point, for most of h's passengers rode all the way to the village. MecAvoy road into Hastings and turned the child over to the first woman he mret. This woman was Mrs Barbara Bauer, the jatitress. of the village school. M Avoy then iDn to the headquarters of the village police and reported the case. He desoribed the man and wo-nan whom he had seen burying the child and the village po lice telephoned the description to the police of Yonkers. Conductor Walsh started on his trip back to Yonkers. About a mile and a half out of Hastings a man and woman signalled the motorman to stop. When Welsh saw the couple he ma-le up his mind that they were the ones who had buried the baby and told the anotor man to call the first policeman they met when Yonkers was reached. At that city the motorman shouted to po liceman Archer, and he put the couple under arrest. A Railrood Levied On. The Columbia State says a rather un usual ase has just developed in Barr well county. Thirteen miles of railroad track and right of way have been levi ed upon by the sheriff that county and will be advertised for sale on the ap proachirng salesday. It will be reacall ed that Penitentiary Guard Watts fell into an unprotected out in this city and was severely injured. He brought suit in Barnwell county for damages and got a verdict of $,500. .Lt seems that the South Bound Railroad company, against which the verdict was allowed, has refused to pay the amount of the judgement, upon what grounds is not yet known and the Sheriff of the county has proceeded, failing to find any personal property belonging to the defendant company, to levy upan its track. This levy was made a few days ago, and complicates the matter consi derably, as the Seaboard trains are run ning dails over the track " Fraudulent Healing. In the Federal Court here Stephen A. Weltmer and Joseph M. Kelly, president and secretary respectively of the Weltmer Institute of Magnetic Healing in Gavada, Mo , pleaded guilty of indictments charging them with using the mail to defraud. Thay threw themselves on the mercy cef the court. Sentence is reserved. The in stitute was advertised to heal "all diseases known to man or woman, giving absent treatment," and did such a tremendous mail order business that the Postoffics Department ordered their mail stopped on a fraud order. He Didn't Lose Him. A darky died and a great crowd col lected at the African Methodist Episco pal chureh to hear the funeral sermon, says the Atchison Globe. There was great curiosity to know what the par son would say, as the dead man had frequently been invited to join the cburch and refused. The parrson said: "Is this man lost? I don't know but I do know that if he is lost, I didn't 1ese him," TRtS BILL WAS A W 0rP21t. Philadelphi Physician Attended a Senator and Charged $190,000. A dispatch to the New Ycrk San from Philadelphia says. This city has a claim I o dis! inction in tl e pcstssion of a physician who for twenty one months' attendence on a siek man Ire seated a bill for $190,000 In h's bill there are items of $80 a virit fr.r several calls a! d one item calls for $17,000 for Jast summer's treatment at Atlantic 0 .ty. The phi sie!an is Dr. Walter 0. Brownirg, and his patient was the late Sonator Christopher L. Magte, of Pitts burg, who died a short time ago. The il was sent to tt e cxecutcrs of the es tate of Senator 3agee and they acknowl edged its receipt Thursday. They did not say whether they would psy it or whether they thtught the charges (X co- sive. Dr. Browning lives at 1325 Spruce street, but he was not at home f Fr.day ani a nurse who was seen at the hsuse Ea d she did not know when he would get back as his labcra with Senator Magee and other patients had so acted upon his nerves ti at he'ad bee n forced to take a few da5 s' rt s5, and he was traveling swifly from city to city so as to have cot stant change of scene, she could not tell where a telegram or other message would reach him. The m m beis of the medical fraternity of this city will say nothing of Dr. Browning or his bill except ti at they think it is the largest that was ever rendered in this country fir mEdical attendance at any ratA, for the length of time men iioned. Until one year ago, or for a period of eleven month's,Senator Ma gee, who was living at the Stratford, called at the office of Dr. Browning. Then he announced that he would 1 ra fer to have the doctor call to see him at the hotel, and Dr. Browning d'd so for a number of times, bpecified in the bill. The doctor's time is Talued at $80 an hour and this same charge is continued in the record of several trips to health resorts which the physician thought would benc fit his patient. One of these chargea is for $12.000 for accompany ing the Senator to Hot Springs, Va. A nurse at tb doctor s office said Friday that his usual charges for treatment at the office were $20 for an hour; cx amination at the c ffice, $30 an hour; fir treatment elsewhere, $40 an hour. She admitted that the charge of $80 made against the estate of the lat3 Senator was double what the doctor usually re ceived, but said that it had been agreed that should be the price the senatcr would pay as he required a great deal of the doctor's time and caused him to lose other patient. Held Up a Train. The poicO3 officials of Memphis and railroad and express detectives are haid at work t rying to locate the six robbers who held up the midnight express on the Choctaw Railroad about midnight. The dettetives woiking on the case have every reason to believe that the bandits after the held up and robbery made their way back to Memphis with their bonty. They iecur d something in the nregh borsod of $4,000 the express people claim. They admit that both the through at d local1safes were r'il d and to bank people in Memphis the story of the small loss seems absurd. They be lieve the loss to bi great r. Suifiient evidence has been steured to warrant the Etatement that the men have been in Memphis for the past several days, planning the hold up. Sidney Drew, the negro porter who was shot by the bandits was taken to St. Vincent's Hos pital at Little Rock, Ark., where his wound was dress d. His condition is sernus. - Plot Was Deep Laid. A disjatoh from Memphie, Tern., says J. W. Sk ne-, the wealthy yadiry man who was arrested a few days aco, charged with :'e alisasination of Dr. Hal 8eruggs, who was shot in the back while returning from a professional call, was indicted by the grand j ary this afternoon. 'Skinner, who was cut on bail, awaiting the action of the jury, was rearrested and jailled. Skin ner .still c enies al knowledge of the crime. The latest develop mentsstreng then the theory th at the crime was tne resu't of a deep laid p'ot, foil owing a political feud. Wednesday the detectives learn that several attempts were made the day before the crims to lure the physican to-Binghampton, just outside the town. He answer d one call to the rown, but failed to res pend to a second. On the first trip he was accompanied by a friend named Rawlins. It is now believed that had he been alone he would have been assassinated on this trip. __________ Want to Raise Silk Worms. Any one in 8>uth Carolina who desires to engage in the silk industry has an opportunity to get a start any way. It is said that the climate and conditions in this 8 a'e are well adopted to silk worm culture, and Mrs Kelley, of Charleeton, who is now in Italy has wr'.tten the governor seteral letters on the sul jeer. She has also sent a Dumber of packages of mulberry seeds for the purpose of growing trees. Upon the leaves of which the silk worm thr.ves. Packages of these seeds will be sent to)Winthrop, Clemson and the Colored Agricultural college and a few other packages a-e for general distri butioni. Any one who wants to engage in the business may secure a package by application to the governor. Goes Back to Adam. Alfred Judson Fishe r, the Chicago historian, has woven the highly inter esting results of a genealogical investi gation into "A Daughter of Adam," a short story which he has written for The Ladies' Home Journal. He traces the heroine of his rom ance (in real life a well-known Philadelphia womar) di retly back to Adam, establishing with corrbrative derail every link in the long geneagical chain. He brings to light the fact that thero have been one hundred and twenty-one generations of the human family, beginning with Adam. ______ Pat's Answer. "There !" cried Jonathan to a newly1 arrived Paddy, as he waved his hand 1 in the direction of the Horseshoe falls i at Niagara There I Now, isn't thatc wonderful?" "Wonderful! 'replied Pat. "What's wonderfal ?" "Wh~y, to see all that water come thundering over them rocks." ' Faix, then, to tell ye the honest1 truth," was the response, "I can't see2 anything very wonderful in that. Why, what the divil is thetre to hinder it from coming aver?"-Baltimore Sun. A Financial Panic. A dispatch from Yokohoma, JapaD, says over twenty banks have suspended payment at Osaka and in the southern and central provinces. The Bank of Japan has assisted them but further trouble is npprehended. A financial panic prevails..- About four years ago Japan adopted the gold standard, and it was then predicted that her days of HE B.D WEATHER, is Effict Upon the Or. wirg Cr ps cf the State. RAIN PREVENTED FRoST. rho Wct k y B.iletin ist ud Last Week by Sec i-n D r c tor Bauer, (f the Weather Bureau. Below is the regular weekly bulleti2 f the cotdition of the weather and irops of the State issued last week by Dirc ctor Bauer of the S uth Carolins itetion of the climate and crop Eeivice >f the United States weather bareau: The wet k endirg Mcnday, April 22 ,ad nearly normal t mperature until :he last two days wh'ci were between 10 and 25 degrees colder than usual, md had minimum temperatures low mough for severe frosts that were Lverted by the rainy and cloudy weather that prevailed. There was much sunshine and dry weatter until Thursday right, when a warm rain set in that continued broughout Friday and Saturday, but )n the latter day the falling tempt r tture made tle rain c'iillig, and over the weste in counties the I rt cip'tation was at times in the form of hail, snow )r sleet. Snow flurrit were observed Ls far eastward as the cenir.al counties. 'he precipitation was heavy ove r a Large portion of the State, amounting to between three and four inches in many Lclities, and did much damage by packing p'o ved lands and washing gul Lies in terraces, while freshets occurred in many streams, flooding bottcm lands Dver the scutheastern counties the rain was needed and provel beneficisl. Farm werk rapid I roaress tv r tha 3asteri por-ions of tthe State, wheie mpland corn atd cotton planting is practically inithed, and tobacco was largely transplanted under favorable oonditions, although -the plants are Bmall; rice planting also made rapid progress, except in the Georgetown district, where freshets and high tides broke the river banks and flooded the aelds, preventing planting. In these scetions, c:rn and cott::n are coming up, but germination is slow ani stands generally poor, rec3Esitatiog much re planting, but with exeeptions where stands are good. Corn is receiving its first cultivation in the southeastern countiec, and oats are heading. There, too, trt c and gardens, and minor c-ops generaily,-are doing well, and farm work is as far advanced as usual at this seasor. In the central and western ecunties, and particularly in the North Carolina border counties, the conditions were less favorable and although much up land corn-ani Eome ectton has been planted, very little is up, as the ground has been too wet and cold for favora ble germination, and stands of such ciorps that are up are potr. The ground was fit to plow, over the western half of the State, on from two to four days only, and the recent rains will still further delay farm werk on uplands, while bottom lands will be too wet for a long time. Some plowed lands have been so packed by the heavy rains that they will have to be plowed again to fit them for planting. The heavy rains have seemingly im proved wheat, but oats were damaged in places by too much rain, alhhough the crop as a whole remains very promising. Colorado beetles are widely prevalent on white potatot s. Peaehes premise le's than a fall crop in Le z ingto and Edge field ecunties, and in localities elsewhere, otherwise they ars very promising Apple and cherry trees are in fall blot m. Sunshine 'and warmer weather are needed for all crops. CROPS IN OTHER STA TER. The national weathcr bureau's week ly summary of crop conditions says un der date of April 20: This is the fourth consecutive week of abnormally cold weather over nearls the whole country, with the most marked tempera ure dediciency of the season in the ce-ntral valleys and southern States, the heavy precipita tion. throughout the Ohio valley and over the greater portion of the Atlantic coast and Gnif districts. These con ditiens have been very unfavorable for farmir g operatior s. Very slow progress has been made with corn planting; none yet has been planted north of the Ohio river, and extensive replanting will be necessary over a large part of the southern States, where the growth of the crop has been decidedly checked. The week has been very unfavorable for cotton planting over a large part of the catton belt, more particularly in the central districts, where mueti re planting will be necessary. The early planted is camiag up to poor stand, genrally, and in Texas and Oeergia some damage has been done by frost. [n Tennessee about one third of the rop has been planted. Although freezing temperatures oc curred as far southi as eastern Ten ness ee and western North Carolina, the reports indicate that fruit- has very argely escaped injury. In portions of the central valleys and southern States ruit has sustained irijnry, but it is probable that the damege was not erione. In a Bad Way. Af ter being "tiflicially dead" for thir ~y-seven years James Foust, formerly >f Kokoma, Ind., now living on a faim djoining that of Gan. Fred Funston, iear lola, Kan., is in the former place ollecting evidence to pra e himself live. In the civil war Foub: had all ;he back part of his skull tcrn of by a ihell and was thrown on the "dead eap." He was suppostd to have ien >uried with his dead cor;ades, but he 'eeovered consciousness and pulling limself out of the pile of dead, crept yeyond the lines in the darkness and >eams lost. He was listed with the~ ead and the record "dead" still stands' pposite his nams on the military roll. A Curious Epitaph. In Hollywood cemetery, Richmond, Ia, is a tombstone, whioh was erected ~y the fello r workers of a brave rail 'ad engineer, who died at his post of uty. The epitaph on the stone is ouched in the language of the craft, nd runs as follows: Intil the brakes are put on time, Life's throttle-valve shut down, le waits to pilot in the crew .That wears the martyr's crown. )n schedule time and upper grade Along the heavenw<.rd section, [e lands his train in God's roundhouse The morn of resurrection. [is time all full-no wages docked His name on God's pay-roll. and transportation through to H eaven, A free pass forbhis soul.I -Enuabhl Record kiratied 46 66fiuag U66i. -atience-Is that so that yout ifi' gagement Is broken? Patrice-Yes, it is. "And the ring; that's gone too?" "Yes; the mean thing asked me to return it." "Why, you wouldn't want to keep the ring if the engagement was broken, would you?" "Certainly, I would. Why, he wore out four of my waists and nearly fractured my ribs in three weeks. Isn't that worth some- compensa tion?"-Yonkers Statesman. Loyalty. "Your wife," observed one of his friends, "says you are decidedly in favor of amending the laws so as to give women equal rights with men in voting, holdihg office and dispos ing of property." "If my wife says so," said Mr Meeker, "it's so. I have always been of the understanding that my mar riage vow bound me to love honoi and 0. K. her in everything."-Chi cago Tribune. He Knew the Act. Vaudeville Manager-No, we can not book you to act. You see, we do not allow any profanity in our house. Badd (of Wroughten and Badd) Why, sir, there is not a profane ex pression-not even any slang-in our turn. Manager-I know. But we do not allow the audience to swear, either. -Baltimore American. A Case in Point. "Money," remarked the man who is given to trite remarks, "is the root o: all evil." "That's nonsense," answered thf commercial friend. "I have read the histories treating of the subject wit: great care, and I am convinced thai the snake who made the trouble in the garden of Eden didn't have a dollat to his name."-Washington Star. It's Wicked to Lies "rm surprised, dear, that you] friend, Miss Singleton, should encour age wickedness." "Why, Charles, she wouldn't. How can you say such a thing?" "Because she did. She asked me hoit old I thought she was, and she knew I was too much of a gentleman to tel; the truth."-Philadelphia -Bulletin. Propheer Fulfilled. "The late editor's wife is something of a humorist." "Indeed?" "Yes. Took a line from his original salutatory and placed it on his tomb stone." "What was it?" "We are here to stay!"-Atlanta Constitution. Slow to Realize. "My dear," said Mr. Bickers to his wife, "I saw in the paper to-day a de cision of a Virginia court that the wife may, in some cases, be the head of the family." - "John Henry," feplied Mrs. Bickers, "the courts are sometimes very slow about finding out things!"-Puck. - Money Tight. Drug Clerk-I've been docked a week's salary for making a mistake and killing a man. Lend me five dol lars, won't you? Friendly Policeman-Couldn't pos sibly. I've just been suspended a week for killing another one.-N. Y. Weekly._______ A Moral Lecture. Miss Upperten-They say there is a great deal of misery among the poor. Miss Gotrox-Well, it's their fault. There is Reggy van,Pelt, for instance, with only $10,000 a year, trying to keep a yacht and a stable of horses no wonder he's miserable.-Puck. Then He Dodges. Who says I cannot meet my bills? Of libels that's the worst! Why, sirs, I meet them every day Unless I see them first. --Philadelphia Press. NOT LIKE MOTHER'S. Mother Hen-You're all right, my dear, but you can't lay eggs like mother used to lay.-Chips. The Exception to the Ruale. "When a woman is telling anything she always adds a little to it," re marked the observer of events and things; "except it is her age which she happens to be telling."-Yonkers Statesman. Not Always Necessary. "I tell you it takes a mighty smart and shrewd man to accumulate a large fortune these days." "Oh, I don't know; not while heir esses are so easily satisfied as some of them seem to be."-Chicago Post. Good Cause for Deduction. Doctor-Why have you deducted a quarter from my bill? Patient-That is for the six cigars you broke when you thumped my chest.-Philadelphia Record. Paradoxical. "Is love blind?" "So they say." "Well, how can they say love at first sigt?"-Chicago Daily News. Can't Bar A-L. St. Peter-Did you ever do anything very bad? Fair Arrival-I-I smuggled a few laces through the customhouse. St. Peter-Oh, well, come in. We can't get along without women.-N. Y. Weekly.______ Another Opinion. "Do you think bachelors ought to bc taxed?" asked Willie Wlshington. "No," answered Miss Cayenne. "I think the girls ought to make up purses and pay them bounties for not making homes unhappy."-Washing ton Star. Too Much of a Good Thing. Jimson-What became of that man who had 27 medals for saving people from d'rowning? Dock Worker-He fell in one day when he had them all on, and thie weight of 'em sunk him.-N. Y. Week ly. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Just His Way. Mabel-I sometimes think that Charlie doesn't love me-he acts so silly. Agnes-Nonsense! When he acts silly that shows he's in earnest. A certain naval officer was pdmpouis and conceited when on duty. One day, when he was officer of the watch, and he could not, as usual, fnd anything of consequence to grumble about, he attempted to vent his spit. on one of the -stokers of the vessel, who was in the engine-room, on duty. Going to the speaking tube, the offi eer yelled: "Is there a blithering idiot at the end of this tube?" The reply came quick and start ling: "Not at this end, sir!" The feelings of the officer, as he turned away with a black frown, can be better imagined than described. Leslie's Weekly. Can't Cut Him Entirely. "Dear me," sighed Mrs. Fiddlefaddle, "since they were reduced, you know, the Waxywoddles have become most plebeian. Why, their son has actually become a postman." "Yes, but then," replied Mrs. Diddle daddle, "there's one consolation, .hi route is in the most exclusive district, so he will still have some of our best people on his calling list."-Philadel phia Bulletin. His Recommendation. Tom-Halloa,. Bill! I hear you hare a position with my friends, Skinner & Co.? Bill-Oh, yes; I have a position-as collector there. Tom-That's first-rate. - Who re ommended you? Bill-Oh, nobody. I told them ika' I once collected an account from and they instantly gave me the -Tit-Bits. Papa's Consent. She-Isn't it lovely? Papa coe He-Does he really? Sher-Yes. He wanted to know you were, and I told him you _w tape clerk at Scrimp & Co.'s seemed real pleased. He-I am delighted. She-Yes; and he said we o married just as soon as yoa were into the firm.-N. Y. WeekIy. "-Why is'brevity considersl,. soul of wit?" asked the manw foolish questions. "Because," answered *the mn makes foolish answers, "when'. is short he is much more likely acute. Nothing stimulates tivity like needing the mone ton Journal. The Great wai. "Mam 9" said the bright y woman, "I wonder if wesaw geysers when we were at Y park." - "I suppose so, dear. Why? "I heard Mr. Pimpernickel customer of his to-day that the ser Wilhelm was the greatest ofa -Philadelphia Press. The Changed View. "I always thought she wea most commonplace of girls. "At any rate, she has just A most ro-Inantic thing." ; "What, pray?" "Married a young man of age who is neither-a comhman~ prince:"-Leslie's Weekly. An Awful Revengen-~ Friend (to amateur~ poet)I~! are sending off a aucithO Bonton Magazine. I thoughtjti me only :the other day youth~~i disliked and despisedthe eio particular magazine? Poet-I do. That's why 1'm him my\poem.,Tudge. Nearer Yet and Dearerlf. Wen you were a blushing youngmi And I was your dutiful swn A smile from you savored, of bliss And a frown filled my heart with You were. dear then, but now, as Of course you're somewhat neant. And In paying your bills, on my life -- I'd swear you get dearer and deae -Chicago Daily Newis. AT THE MATINEE. ; The Girl-Beg pardon, doea my 1a trouble you? The Man-I can see nothing else. - The Girl-Then I'll tell you what-tn do. Just keep your eye on me, as when I laugh you laugh-when 1 c you cry.-Chicago Chronicle. Self-Conviction. The man who talks about himself' Who flaunts his "me's" and " -s But gives undoubted proof to those Who hear him that he lies. --Chicago Record-Herald.: .i Forehandea Lover. "Shall we elope, George?" "Yes-if you thinkit willipleasyour father. Financially, I'm not pre~ee to get him down on me."-Dei Press. The Begi=ng. Divorce Judge-When did your do mestic troubles begin? . The Plaintiff--On the day Iwamar red, your honor-.-Chicago DailyNewi.$ An Anachironism. Theodore-He went so far as to cal me a puppy! Harriet-Anid at your agei. h4S ea!-Boston Transcript. . A Marrying Ma-n. In the arrest of Count Leopold De Melville, otherwise known as Laeo Ira quis, who is held by the New York poeg lice on a charge of bigamr, sworn toirg a brother of one of his Chicago wiyes, there was brought to light in sha( city a romance which reveals the Count as the hero of more than one hurndred loT affair. He is declared to be the hus band of an assortment of wives,- whoii' number a recently deserted wifein Chi cago estimated last night at not less than fifty or so." When placed under arrest in New York the Count was re - ported to have told Detective Burke he ad so many wives that he had notbeen able to keep track of even their ames and could form no idea as to their num bcr. With fifty wives to his credit the DJount would be found to have thrown uto the shade the recrls of the cuae ,rated Chicaco bigamists, Bates..sa Bernsworth, since Bates was abl deo nuster only five at his trial and Yform worth about the same number, althouglim ernsworth told the police that the num-? >er of his living wives was forty-two.