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TILLM1AN TALKS. He Wi;i Not Answsr the Gcver nor-s Last Letter. GOES FOR McLAURIN. Says the Jurior Senator Acted Dishonorably in Withdrawing His Resigra'lo. as it Was a Joint Compact The Columbia State says when Sena tor Tillman passed through that city Wednesday on his way to Rock Hill, he had not received Gov. NleSweeney's letter but was shown a copy of it a- gven to the press. He read this a d then said that he saw very little in it to call for notice from him. "He's a little hot he feels that his dignity has been outraged a little, etc., etc. He doesn't say anything about the really important point, that he had claimed the right to decline the resignations. I acknowl edged that he had the right to return the resignations but he did not stop there. He went on to assume an au thority he did not possess." The senator was then asked if he had noticed that Gov. McSweeney was re ceiving a great many letters of com mendation in regard to his course in this matter. He answered that he I ad and then went on t> say: "I notice that most of the letters he has received are from my old, inveterate, dyed-in the-wool - -emies. I also see that he has recei' one from a Richmond eapitalist. It is rather remarkable that our governor should be taking the ad vice of men from Richmond in regard to local matters. LETTING X'LAURIN OUT." "The hue and cry that has been raised about 'breaking the peace,' and interrupting the prosperity of the State' has been the main lever of those opposed to this csmpaign and Gov. McSweeny himself has used it as an excuse for letting MXLaurin out of his dilemma. Next year, judging by the last canvas, we will have at least 25 candidates for State offices. There will not be less than five or six aspirants for McLaurin's seat. There will be, then, an aggregation of 30 men going around over the State attempting to discuss public questions and show their fitness for the highest offices in the gift of the people. "The only possible result will be that McLaurin will claim, if he enters the race then, that he is being double teamed on and persecuted and ought to have more time than his opponent?, which, of course, will be unfair to them, for no man can discuss these matters in less than an hour or an hour and a half. So that with five candidates' for senator it will take all day for their discussions. But this year we would have had an opportani ty to discuss these matters without re ference to anything else. "Gov. McSweeney has defeated it and lent him~self to McL aurin as a ladder of escape. Now if the people think he is right of course I can do nothing but take what comes. I have offered myfse:f as a target to be shot at and was ready to permit a combination be tween -.ny candidate Gonzales might have gotten out wi h the M.:Laurin following. And I believe that as the people undernrand fully the result of Gov. Me~ereeney's action that instead of patting himself on the back and taking the little dozen or two doz-n or forty or a hundred letters he has re ceived as a consensus of public opinion he will find that he has made an aw ful blunder as a Damcrat. "I think the primary next summer, unless some scheme is arranged by the Democratic committee to have a double set of canvassers meeting each other from opposite sides of the State, will be a fares. Thirty men cannot get up and address anybody with any satis faction to themselves or anybody else ione day. All of the minor candi dates will have to be ruled out. There ire some people in the State who would be glad to kill the primary." Being asked if he would resign his seat and enter the race against Mc Laurin next smmer, he said: "I will not enter the primary next year. I only resigned to get at MicLaurin. I never yould have gone to Gaffney but for the fact that the candidates who wanted to get at him were not in a position to do so, and he was taking advantage - of the situation to go about the country propagating Republican dot:mnes. There will be plenty of oth ers to attend to him next years-if he don't get sick And by the way, that sickness of his is rather funny. Now -you see it and now you don't." "Iwas invited to Newberry," he said, "but declined on the ground that I had already an appointment to speak at the college commencement and did not want te speak there twice within a fe w weeks." A QUESTION OF HONOR. "In regard to this question of whether Ilam entitled to resign or not, if Senator McLaurin did not have a Republican senate in Washington that would almost certainly maintain that he has the right to withdraw his resigna tion, I would contest the matter there; but as he is in full accord with that crowd they are not going to vacate his seat and establish a precedent. He is the first man, though, in the 125 years that we have had a government that ever resigned and afterwards withdrew his resignation, so far as my investiga tions go. This is not a parliamentary question at all. It is a question of honor. He made a compact with me and ameng gentle men such compacts are not broken unless both parties are willing to do so. He has flunked out of this proposition through Gov. Mc Sweeney's instrumentalities. If I had known he was going to try this game and that the governor was going to al low him to get out I could have writ ten the resignations and sent them to Roosevelt. But I was not looking that far ahead. He was making out as if he was 'spiling for a fight' and I really thought he was ready for the fray. "The claim that a vacancy had to be created before any action could be taken by the Democratic executive committee is contrary to all precedent. Senator McLaurin's term will not be ended until the 4th of March, 1903; but his successor will be chosen at the Democratic primary in August, 1902, and the legisature in January will obey the orders of the people at the primary, two months before his term expires." The senator was asked what plane he would have pitched the campaign upon this summer. He said: "I would have, pitched it upon as high a plane as I would have been allowc d. Mr. DeCamp here," he said. '-was at Gaffaey and Le knows that McLaurin b-gan his spec ch withi persornalitIes andi that gave me an excuse for doing as I did. AS TO MEDDLING. "The efiort to a ake me appear as a meddle wn't wash when the people it ali out. Tne people wi get I more rd mOrC d4ssatified at the gov einor's action when they ful!y realize its cors-quences. I"In regard to that special from Ben- T nettsville that Mr. McLaurin has an explosive in store, it is very strange that he does not uie the ammunition. Mr. McLaurin ought to be ashamed of himself to have such iasiruttions made public when he is too cowardly to with draw and fight it out io-." Asked if he thought the Democ-aic T party of South Carolina esdorsed His views, he ans xered that he was satis fi'd that he had the pariy behind him --The S:ate convention elected by the People," he said, "adopted the platform of principles which was formulsted by Col. Hoyt. There is not a thing in the State platform that is not in the na tional pltaorm The K.inas City plat- e form is u'ler and covers more ground, 8 tIat's alI. Every platk of the Stste h platform is incorpcrated in the national N enunciation of principles." "Will ycu answerGov. McSweeney s barter to resign immediately?" ti "Why should I pay any attention to tc it. I have been accused of actieg like h, a school boy in this matter, but his ac- ti tion is school-boyish from the groun - up. There is no excuse or reason for my resigning to go before the people C just for fun. There are others who can E attend to McLaurin in the regular cam- tc paign. I don't care to discuss Gov. MeSweeney ay further. I shall watch g the signs of the times to see if there 4 has been a dicker or indications that 0 there was one."-The State. NOT ENCOURAGING. U PI it The Weekly Crop Bulletin StatesThat tI Cotton is Getting Grassy. Mr. J. W. Bauer issued the followi1g 1 weekly crop bulletin, stating in general that cotton is gstting grassy and other crops are not making much progress. The week ending Monday, June 3rd, had a temperature of 66 degrees-about 10 below the normal-with a maximum 0 of 86 at Columbia on the 2nd, and a minimum of 44 at Greenvidie on May 29.h. The cool weather, and & defi ciency in sunshine, were detrimental to all crops. Although the rainfall for the week averaged but little over one and one half inches, yet this amount is much above the normal, and following the s heavy rains of the week immediately preceeding, kept the ground too wet to work, except for a day or so on wall drained uplands. The week's rainfall ranged from less than an inch to near ly four inches, and covered the entire State. The ground is saturated, and the excessive moisture is proving in juricus to most field crops by prevent- t ing cultivation. Complaints of grassy fields come from every county and every . Eeftion of the State. j1 Cotton chopping made slow progiess, el and cultivation practicaily none. so that fields are becoming foul, and in a a few localities stands are dying. Rust g1 and lice have appeared at a few points. The weather was too ccol for the growth of cotton, and at many places it is losing its previous healthy apperance. There has been a slight improvement in sea islarnd.c Upland corn made little growth, but retains its healthy look while on low azads, all of which are very wet, somne corn is turning yelow and firiog, for lack ef su; shine and cultiv Mion. B~t-P torn land panting an-1 re planting has not been anished. In placs ccrn im-0 proved, and in others it deteriorated. Tobacco, with fe w exc eptions. is doing pocriy, and is in urgent need of dry., ht weather. Rice made fair growth ~ and planting is in places finishe d Rust c is spreading on late wheat, but toe crop b generadly is free from rust, atnd all will soon be riarvesied, but the we ither has P been unfavoracle for this work. The fruit prospects, espsecially for 0 peaches and apples, are not so brigat a-.t tey have heretofore been, but wild P3 berries, cherries and plums are plen- U. tiful. Gardens show marked improve- ti ment. Pastures afford fine grazing ti Melons need warmer weather. Large shipm'ents of beans and other truck are tI being made to northern markets. The freshets of last week were more a: destructive than first reports indicated, a~ ad the overflowed areas have since e been kept wet by frequent rains, giving little or no opportunity to replant the ti fertle lands on which the crops were a destroyed.E Dangerous Pre served Foods. I: Preserved fruits and veget&bles are ai now in such common use that it is Ui very important to know the quality of fc these articles, especially since so manyt. of them contain elements which are T unwholesome, if not positively danger- t( ou. ?he Year Book of tha Federal et department of agriculture, soon to be gl published, will contain much important et informat on for housekeepers and the Si public generally. Professor W. D Bigelow, one of the government's chem- si ists, has made a long series of investi- b< gations of the use of food preservatives p: in this country, and has made some U startling discoveries which the depart- be ment will publish in its forthcoming pi report. Professor Bigelow says that fc this business has become so large and se employs so many hurtful chemicals st that a law for its stringent regulation ti should be enacted at once. There are is a gre .t many tasteless preserving fluids ei on the market and Professor Bigelow tE declares that every one of them is in- U jurious to the digestion. He analy z~d le 67 samples of preservatives which are ni used largely and found that 33 of them w contained borax or boric acid; 10 so i- e< ium potassium or calclum sulphite fr 8 saicylic acid or its sodium compound 7 benzoic acid or its sodium compound, ti 1 boric acid and salicylic acid; 1 Diri; ti acid and ammonium flurorid; 3 formal; dehy de; 1 ammonium fiaorid; 2 pyrolig- di neous acii, and 1 bota naphtnoi. Pro- ti fessor Bigelow divides these aduhter- u ated preservatives into two classes- 0< those which are undoubtedly injurious, re such as formaldehyde, si licylic aid ti and sulphites, and those whose toxic et action is disputed, like borax and ben- fs zoic aicd. The sale of the first class A he says should be positively prohibited, e< and makes the startling statement that H in every case as much of the hurtful diu; is used in preparing a pound of meat or a quart of liquii as is prescrib- ti ed as a regular doze for an adult, and hi in many casas seven times the ordinary dose. Professor Bigelow says that he e: had great difficulty in obtaining samples pl of most of the injurious preselvatives, qi their manufacturers and agents evident- la l knowing that they were engaged in w an injurious and disreputable business. A By his exposure of these frauds anid mnse s to health Professor Bigelow has done the country good service and G has suggested a most appropriate sub a. j et fur both federal and state legisia- re tion. 5l Wants a Third Term. Senato. Dept FaI. day launened Ma w K itlvy Ls a canii-.ate for a third term. a H sa-,s he :m aenee consa vaive basi- h nss iuterets naet himn, and there is te nothng in the written or unwritun la w e: 'HE ENJPIRE COGM IN. hi Found-ttions of the Repub lic Are Assailed BY THE SUPREME COURT. he Peopio Must Repuciate its Decision or Prepare for the Man on Horse BacK. HIon. Wm J. Bryan has g'ven out an ctended statement bearing upon the 2prcme Court in the imiu'ar eases, and e uses for his text the words, "Empcrcr cK nley." Mr. Bryan declares the 2j rerne Court haq j aieed hands with e Prt sident and Cjngrase in an (,f irt change our forn o! government, and 3 calls upon the people to repudiaie te verdc t. Mr. Bryan says in part: "By a vote of 5 to 4 the Supr me urt has declared President McKinley operor of Porto Rico and, according i the press dispatch, the Emperor has adly and gratcfully accepted the title mferred upon him by the highest jadi al tribunal of the land "Those who were encouraged to be eve that the constitution had caught I p with the flag were doomed to disap- i >:ntment. In the Downes case, decided i amediately afterwards, a mijority of 1 te court, composed of Justices Browa, I ray, White, Siiras and McKnna, I ld that Congress could deal with Porto . ico, and the same logic applies to the < ,ilippines withoutregsrl to the limi tions of the constitutions. Chief I stico Faller and Asseciate Justices I rlan, P.ckham and Brewer dissented i strong and vigorous larguage, but the 1 inion of the majority, even amajority i one, stands until it is reversed. I his is one of the mOEt impyrtant de ions, if not tle most important, ren red by the Court; it not only de ares that Congress is greater than the matitution, which created it-the crea tr greater than the creator-but it mies the necessity for a written con itution. "The position taken by the court is fended, or rather excused, by reason g which, if followed out will destroy institutional liberty in the United tates. Every reason given by Justice i rown could be used with even more i rze to siuppcr6 a decision nulliyfying I 1 limitations placed by the constitu i on on C'o;ngress when dealing with the 1 tizens of the several States. If the I orto Ri-ans can trust the wisdom and 1 etice of a Congress which ti'y do not I ect ajad canoct remove, why do the i ,ople of the United States need a con- i itution tv protect them from a Con- 1 ess which they do elect and can re- I ove? The decision, in effect declares i tat the people are not the source of i wtr it defends taxation without re esentation and denies that govern ents derive their just poser from the anuvnt of thel governed. "It as:-:ails the oundations of the Re cblc and does so on the ground of ex diency. The dissenting cpinions *sle with ; r cedents and burn with triotism. They ough to awaken con i tenuous Repuicans to ai realization the meaning of imt erialista. "Phis decisso2, like the Dred Scott ~siin, raises a poir ical iss which ust be bettled by the people. The ypreme Court has joined with the esi.2nt and Congre:,s in ain at tempt to ange the form of cur government, t there yet remains an appeal to the ole. "In order to fully understand these intons it must be known that in ruhr g tat the Dingley taraff rates could not evaii against Porto R co the cot-t did t act on the theory tnat the constitu on followed the flag during any of tese periods under consideration. "This ruling was ,ade because, in t opinion of the court, a law enacted ir the purpose of levying tariff duties ainst a foreigni country could not be! >plied in levying tariff duties against a untry that was not 'foreign. "In other words, if immedtately after t ratification of the peace treaty Con-1 es had enacted a laW levying the ingley rates, especially against Porto co, those rates would have prevaile d. the court's opinion the legality of y tariff rate between Perto Rico and e United States simply waite dupon a rmal act of Congress establishing ee rates as applying to Porto Rico. te logic of this opinion as it applies the right of Congress to levy tariff stoms would make it possible for Con 'ess to levy tariff duties on articles ming from any Territory of the United ~ates. "With respect to our new posse3 ons the decision is an unfair one, ~cause it denies to them Equal trale ( ivileges with other portions of thea nited States whose sovereignty hasi ten establishet, over them, and the rpose of the legislation in providingi r equal trade privileges was that no ction subject to United Statesi vereignty shall ever become the vic m of discrimination. The principlet in line with the very foundation prin- I ples of this government, which con a mplated that all the people of thea nited States should have equal privi gee should be exempt from discrinmi ition and should enjoy the immunitiesi hich the constitution makers conceiv-t ito be essential to the perpetuity of 1 ee insitutions." After an extended summary of Jus ce Brown's reasoning Mr. Bryan con cues: Thruhout the maj ority opinion,a liveri by Justice Brown, runs to teory that the American CongressC ay doi anything not forbidden in the mstitution. This is one of the most ugnant features of the opinion Jas- I c Brwn seems to have Eearched the atiution for prohibitions rather wr that grant of power which theC merican people have always cnceiv- 1 i to be the true office of that instru- i ent.' Mr. Bryan concludes as follows: t "To what a glorioas field for inspec on this justice of the Sapreme Court as invited the American people. "Under this opiaion we are about to nbark on Great BE:itain's colonial licy and to reassure ourselves, to iiet our conscience, we have but to ok at the history of Great Britan to- 1 ads its outlying possession since the t meiican Revolution.t "A.. inspirinC spectacle, indeed! "We may look at Souta Afribs where j reat Britain's unrestrained possession pwmer hss destroyed two promising publics and has drenched the sot! itti the blood of patriots; we may lcok :Indis, whose re 'ple have been dyingt y staivaticn for years, at hebrd, r' ere on ntral occasict s the bounty rcd gen' rai'y o.f the American people ave ken i.ie, S:ry an order to ease Lut an ;wi'.os, Lving und r the sever- t gny of Gieat Bruain, from death by . A FATAL ACIDENT. In Abandoned Engine Dashes Into a Passenger Train. A switch engire in the yards of the 3outbere railway shops near the city imits cf Atlanta, dashed into a passen ger train as it was passing Tucsday, illing three passengers and i jutring lixteen, three of tbm, it is feared fa ally. The dead: Mrs. A. A. Lem non of McDincugb, I 8. Irma, 10-year old daught-r of Mrs. Lem mon. H. H Vickers, Flovills, Ga. The i; jurtd: Mrs. Julia Kerst v, Alants, -may die. A. F. Banu, McDonough, Ga., may lie. A. F. Fouche, McDonough, Ga , miy lie. D. A. G3 rae, Rex, Ga. Wm. Richardson, Stockbridge, Ga. Miss Rosa Withers, Washirgton, D. C. Miss Alma Massenberg, Washington, D. C. M-s F. M. Smith. McDonough, Ga W. F. Tidwell, McDonough, GA. Rosa Lee, Stockbridge. Mrs. J F. Ridley. Huntsville, Ala. Mrs. A F. Bunn, MeDonough, Ga. Miss Bunr, McDonough, Ga. N. H. Vickers, of Fiovilla. Ptrrce Stewart, MeDonough, Ga. Young son of Mrs. Lemmon. Just beyond the Southern shops are he coal chutes and all about these re sidetracks. Oa one of these side racks and only a few feet from the main track an engine was standing hat had only a short time before been bandoned by its engineer and fireman. As the train was passing the junction :f this sidetrack, the switch engine sud lenly daihed baakward into the moving :rain. The first-class day coach was brown over on its side and partly de nolished, the Pullman car "Arcturus" was thrown from the track and one end mashed iLto kindling wood while the rueks were knocked from under the sombination smoker and passenger saoh. Those killed were in the day ach. Physicians and railroad offi iials were quickly on the scene, some of the nj ured were taken to the hospitals and he dead brought to Atlanta. Soon after the wreck, G. B. Danton, in employe of the Southern road was irrested charged with disorderly con luot. The charge was made only that Danton might be held. He was really irrested on suspicion of having run the ild engine into the swiftly moving pas enger train. Danton denies that he ad anything to do with the wreck and ays he was not on the engine. The outhern officials claim that he was seen o get on the engine, and they say fur :her that he had no business there, as ie is a yard conductor. Danton had :everal gashcs in his head which he ad nits receiving in the vrcck, but he naintains that he was not on the en ine. The officials of the Southern soon Oter the wreck occurred dispatched a ipecial train to McDoncugh to bring up qr. Lemmon whose wife and daugihter were killed in the wreck. The father icompanied the bcdies back to Mc Donough._________ A Remarkable Month. The Columbia State say s the month >f May was remarkable, not only for ta political sensations. but for its eather antics. The total precipitation or the mnonth was 8.52 inc~les. That state'ment soua.ds very tame to ne not a student of mn teorology but it nacs that the rainfatl [or May, 1901, as nearly 30 p~r cent. mcre than for he same itonh for any previons year an record. The average for the month of May or the east 13 years has been 2 83 in shes. This amount was exceeded this Ha, by 5 69 inches. There were six :ear cays during the month, six cloudy nd 19 partly cioudy. The mests excessive precipitation for >ne day during the month juit en ded as 4 88 inches in 24 hour , on the Ot-2ht. The next highest monthly pre cioita ion for May was 6 69 inches in 1894, nd 6.66 in 1888. The lowest was 9 65 n 1899 and 0 95 in 1889 The temperature for the month just ided was equitable, the mean for the nonthi being 72 degrees. The maxi num point reached was 92 on the 33; ud the lowest point was 50 on the 28th. )h the 1st day cf May thethermometer tarted to work in the morning regis ering 50 and woued up with a gain of 10 degrees in one day. Yesterday was like a winter day in hat respect. TIhe thermometer kept p a steady lick all day, varying but even degrees all day long-from 58 to 5. The mean temperature for May 'or the past 13 years has been the same for May this year. Fly Wheel Burst. A fly wheel at the power house of the harleston Consolidated Railway, Gas d Electric Light campany, 16 feet in jiter and weighing 18 tons broke into. myriad of fragments at 11 o'clcck Fri Lay night, one of which killed a negro roman. At the time of the accident the rheel was making 150 revolutions a min te and ernormous pieces went through he wall and roof. One piece, five feet ong and weighing about a ton struck a hanty 350 feet from the power house .nd killed Lydia Bonneau, a negro wo an. In the bed by her side was her insband 'who was untouched. Af ter kill ng the woman the mass of iron burst hirough thes shanty and finally half uried itself in the ground 15 feet away. Lovers For Sixty years. William E Swanton, agecd 90 years, d Mrs. Mary L angley, aged eighty. even, were married Monday in Tipton1 ounty, Ind. The couple were lovers ixty years ago. The day was appoint d for the marriage, but at the eleventh1 tour an estrangement broke off theI natch. Swanton went West and mar ied. Mrs. Langley remained ic In iana and also wedded. S wanton has >een a widower for ten years arnd for3 ive years Mrs. Langley has worn idow's weeds. Relatives of the aged rain recently brought about a meeting I mnd the marriage furnished the inter- I sting sequel. Crazed by Dime Novels. Leroy Grtove, the 16 yea~r old son of I prosperous farmer living near Napo en, staboed his sister, aged 24, to he heart, killing her instantly. He hen strangled his 13 year old brother o death, and, firing the bare., ran in ,nd shot himself through the temple. .c is thought he became insane by read ng dime novels. That Decision.1 Bourke Coohran happily characterize3 he decisions of the Supreme Court in egard to insular matters by saying that] 'L held tha: tae conatii-u follows 1 he- fi.g, but at such a convenient dis I ance tha: the F.,aker act can stand t ietween them and the administration r e allowed to escape fromn a very ser BILL ARP ON ?RUAELERS. Ee Does Not Like the Modern Sensa tional Sermons. There ceems to be an unusual com Motion in the fiAd of rligious thought. Dat of two or three hundred difftrent Dhristian creeds ard forms of worship, )me would suppose there were already .nough to choose from, but some new Ond startling ones keep c rming in and the tager, craving miLds of the un iettled people are failing out with the )1d and falling in with the new theories tod doctrines. There is no cause for very great alarm in this, for it proves 0Ze natural instinctive desire of weak and unscttld minds for Eome religion that will Esatisfy ard comfort the lorg itg heart It provcs the univeraal belief in God the creator and the univer al des ,e to secur RIs favor. There is nothing new cr trange in this. It ib history rcpeatid. One hurdred and eighty years age Alexard r Pope, the grest poet and philosopher, wrote: -For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; He can t be wrong whose life is in the right. n faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind s cuncern is charity-' Pope was a great znd good man and ied a Christiin His devotion to hii mother was intense and beautiful He took the tenderest care of her and she lived with him until she died, in her inety third year. This is tribute enough for any man. There are many men of many minds. There are some in our (lay just like those of Athens of whom St. Paul wrote, "Who spent their time in telling r hearing some new thing." Even some preachers have a morbid- craving for stnsation, and thet, crea-e a com motion wherever they go, They be long to the church militant and believe in thunder and lightning ard cyclones and even war as agencie for the prop agation of Christianty. The news papers are crowded with abstruse essays on the new religion both for and againet. These distract the skepti al and unsettled minds of many, but only for a time. Spiritualism did the same thing for half a century, but happily it has run its course as the last census shows a large dccrease in the number of its followsrs. But true hristianity moves on serenely amidst all these commotions. Meteors and comets may come and go-even the sun itself may for a brief interval be eclipsed; but, like Christianity, it shines on year after year, century after century, bringing light and life to the world, Maybe this seistoInal preaching is needed in these degenerate times, when the spirit of war aid the love of money scems to h .ve demoraliizrd the young men of the land; when murder and suicides are of dadiy occurrence, and getting money by gambling in stooks and other short outs to fcrkune has become a national sin. But to my mind, the old, conservative modes are till the best. I don't like the preach er who ascends the pulpit with a whip in his hand and cracks its lash at every malediction. Tbat would be all right if every man had a pulpit ard a whip, .o that he could fight back. If I were good encugh to be a preachsr I would take a text .sad stick to it reverently and plead with the people in the name of the Lord. Old Dr. Axson, of Savan..ah, was my ideal of a preacher; a man of God who'se very presence in he pulpit increased ont reverence for it. His texts stili linger in the memo ries of those who li-teneg arnd carry with them more endtaring solemrnity. When David pleaded wih the Lord for forgiveness and said, "Remember not agairst me the iniqu-ties or my youth," every one recarded with grief and sorrow the many, many errors of his young life. Wthat a grief to cvery man are the sins of his youth and how earnetly he wishes they courd be colotted out from his own memory. I recall another text, when David ex taimed in the agony of his heart, "Mly sin is ever before me." Wrrat a subhct for an earnea4, eloquent divine the impossibility of escaping from the memory of sin. But the love of God was his favorite theme, and the helplessness of man in contrast. We know not whence we came nor whither we are going- We cannot add a day nor an hour to our existence. We cannot foresee af.ic tions nor calamities nor fortify against them. We are utterly ha~pless and are dependenat on the iGestor. Then be gava a poetic picture of the won drous love of the Creator for His crea tures and prcved it by the adaptation f our snenses to the beauties and luxuries of nature-the moon and stars, the mountains, rivers, trees, fruits and awers; the birds to sing, the flawars to bloom, the earth to bear us food, and how carefully He holds the rolling earth in His mighty hand while we sleep unconscious of any danger, and too of en forgetful that our Maker is at the helm, watching over us and counting every pulse that beats. "Young man, young man, stop and think!" he ex aimed, in tender, tearful pleading. That is the kind of preachirg I like. [t is well to have creeds and a faith 'n them; but creeds are at last the work of men and are controverted arnd hawk. 3 at by those who differ; but when the Lrd says, "Do justly, love mercy md walk humbly with thy God," "Humble yourselves under thbe mighty hand of God," "Love the Lord with ll thy strength and thy neighbor as hyself," and "Love is the fulfilling of :he law," there is no need of any better oreeds. Humility is one of the chief est :ardinal virtues. A man who is vain r conceited is close akin to an idiot. rhe poet says, "Oh, why should the pirit of mcrtal be proud," and the] salmist says, "Lord, what is man that Fhou art imindful of him?" But I didn't start to preach a ser-< non, although I could preach one if I< oad a puipit and a congregation of oung people. I was ruminating about :hese blessings of a kind providence] cause I had strawberry short cake o dinner and felt grateful. I have a housand plants that I planted--I, me,< nyself, no nigger in the woodpil3.t Last ear they did not fruit well and I vrote to Mr. Berckman about it, and e said I must use ashes instead of itable manure.~- So 1 seeped cut a taucer like space around every plant d filled it with ashes, and this year hey are literally loaded and are of large iz and fine quality. As the fellow aid of the mosquitoes: they are so large hat many of them wheigh a pound By he scale, twenty of them do weigh a ound. I am proud of my success, but t does look like a pity that it should ake a man seventy-five years to learn iow to grow strawberries. Our fi )werS lever were so beautiful, and we have mogh for a wedding every week- 1 mud I wish they were wanted. My vife actually praises me almost every lay, and it takes a good deal to do me nd she knows it. I want some when have worked so hard to please her md the children. I don't want to wait or epispa1s on my tomabstone and obi usries in the new.ot.apers. I had I 'ather hav t some praihe right now in rrds that I cso undergtand. I want orme of the floers-aed upon my 1 PROTECTED A XMDERER A Georgia Sheriff Upholds the Law Even to the Death. The nerve of an obscure Georgia Sheriff whose name is Joseph Merrill at Carrollton, G a., Friday upheld the law of the State and saved the life of a regro from a mob. In protecting the negro, who was saved from the gallows only a few hours before through the efforts of his lawyers, one life was k st an i two men were wounded The arrival of the State militia prevented threatened trouble Friday night, and at 9 o clock a speaial traia, bearing the negro whee crime was the murder of a li t'e white bo -whom he found fishing alone, and his guaid, was speed.ng towards A-lant4. The man killed in a tacking the j .l was George Bennett of Carrillton, G* , and the wounded are Thomas S. Word, father of the murdered boy, and an un known man, presumably a farmer. Williams, the negro, was tried and found guilty of murdering 0.i Word, Jan. 1st, this year and sentenced to be hanged Friday, being refus, d a rew trial by Judge Harris Friday maruing. His attorneys, Reese, Smith & Boykin, filed a bill of <xceptions ad carried the case to the sap'eme court. A large crowd of people had coe o town to witness the hanging, and when it was learned that an appea' had been taken to the supreme court, delayirg execu tion, there was much ta k, which crys taiized soon after ia the formation of a mob. At noon the mob made an assault on the jail. They battered down the out side iron door, despite the warning of the sherif, and entered the building They made a demand on the sherif for the key to the negroes cell, but were refuied. With the refusal, they began their advance upon the sheriff an i the few dep-ities which he had been ab!e to summon to his aid. They were told to stop or they would be fired on, but the order was not obeyed. As they advanced down the corridor to wards the sheriff, the order was given to fire. Bennett fell, dying almost in stantly. Thomas Word, the father of Williams' victim, who was in the front of the mob, was badly shot, as was alse an unknown countryman. The unexpeated fight of the sheriff and his posse frightened the mob and they retreated outside the jail. Here they broke and ran and were soon divid ed into little groups diicssing the event. Sheriff Merrill at once consulted Judge Harris, of the county court, and it was decided to call upon Gov. Cand ler for aid. The gcvernor was com manicated with by telephone and said he would send two companies from Atlanta as soon as thsy could be as sembled. Daring the afternoon the mob tele phoned the situation to friends in the sojoining towns of Villa Risa and Temple and made an appe al for more men to effect the capture of the nearo This was communicat d also t3 Gov. Candler and the governor soon wir.:d a proclamation to the people of the county. it was read from the steps oi the court house at 4 o'clock ly the mayor. The governor commanded the people to disperse and said the entire military and civil forces of the State would be used to enforce order if neces eary. The r,;ading of the proclamatiox apparently had a good eff6 et, as many prople were seen to mount their horses and leave town. Much apprehension was felt for the night and the sheriff and, city and county effioials, after a consultation decided io take the prisoner out of the county for safekeeping. The Atlante militia, under command of Major Bar ker, arrived about 6 o'clock, and one hoar later escorted the negro and sheriff to the train which was soot speeding southward for Atlanta. Massacred and Eaten. News has reached Berlin that the members of the First German South Sea expedition on the Cannibal island of St. Matthias has been massacred and eaten by cannibals. Oaly one, Dr. Heinroth, escaped. It seems that the vessel which carried the expedition te the island of St. Matthias left, after a few days for Serbertshop, New Bri tain, to get coal and fresh supplies. Daring its absence the savages who had hitherto appeared friendly, although known to be rabid cannibals, plannt d to kill and rob the diminished party. The plot was carried cut one morn ing while the members of the expedi tion who had a body guard of 40 Pa puans, were cleaning their rifies, which they had taken apart. Suddenly 80 of the islanders broke from the brushes, raising war cries and brandishing spears, with which they stabbed to death the leader of the party, Dr Meneken, his secretary, Herr Caro, and a white sailor who was asleep under a tent. Dr. Heinroth empted his revolver into his assailants wile the bodyguard in the meantime retired to the boats with the wounded, and Dr. Heinreth, leaving 12 dead. The boats put off to an is and not far distant, where the expeditionary vessel rescued them. Subsequently the Eurvvors returned to the isiand of St. Matthias, where they found that the bodies had been devoured and the camp absolutely looted. Our Philippine Revenues. The figures of the war department giving the amount of revenue collec tions from our Philippine trade between April 11, 189~9, and February 28, 1901, show that durirg that pericd, nearly two years, the total government col lections on goods sent from the United States to the Philippines was $1,012, 925. Daring the same period the total collections at our ports on goods import ed from the Philippines was $196.149. These are pitifully petty amounts com pared with the hundreds of millions of dollars we have spent on the Pnilip pines. A Cyclone. A terrific cyclone passed across the extreme nozthwes'ern corr er of Ope lousas, Ls., Friday afternoon and al most completely demolished the ex tensive buildings of the San Landry cotton oil mill, killed a white boy aged 14, named Albert Gautreaux, and ser iously injur-ied John Zoder, a young white man, both of whom were employ ed there completely demolished the resi dences of W. B Lewis ard Ben Melan con and damaged a portion of the office building of the Opelousas Ice Battling works The path of the cyclone was only about 400 feet. To Get Rid of Flies. People in the country who are an noyed by flies sli'ould rcm~mbtr that clusters of fragrant c'over, which grows abundantly by nearly every roadside, if hung in the room and left to dry and shed its faint fragrant pe rfum ' through the air will drive away xrorefiisa than the stiekey saucers of molasses and obter fly traps and fly paper can ever collect gavo and a rose bush planted near, md they might write on my tomb itone. He was a man of words and deeds, Ple kept hii garden clean of weeds; And when the weeds began to grow le slayed them with his garden hoe. BILL ARP Shot at by a Burglar The State says: Mr. A. F. H. Dukes, member of the board of direc'ors of the State di;pensary, had a thrilling ex perience with burglars at his home at Branenville afew nights ago. He told the fa:ts to an intcrssed crowd of lrummers in Columbia one night last week. Oa the night in question, Mr. Dukes was informed that somebody was in his store. Investigation showed that there was a robber in the building, and that he had lighted a lamp and was eliberately looking through same shoes. Mr. Dukes stationtcd his son in law at one door while ne himself went to the other. When he had opened the dcor cautiously, Mr. Dak- s sprang into the store and levelled his gun on the burgiar. The latter raised up and this motion saved his life, for he missecd a load of No. 2 shot which would have struck him bus for a side wise motion in arising. The burglar 6 red. Five times a pis tol ball whistled past Mr. Dakes' bead, and the latter stepped out o: the door. As I e did so he saw that the burglar had an accomplice. Mr Dakes'son-in law had rushed toward the front door when he heard the racket. The bur glars blew out the lamp and bolted out the back door. Mr. Dukcs' son-in-law fired five times with a revolver at the retreating form-that of a negro. A white man ha? fired at Mr. Dakes. Bloodhounds were ordered from sev eral places, but could not be gotten. The conductor on a train from Char leston statcd that he had seen a man bout a mile down the road who an swered the description given by Mr. Dukes. Two young men went down the road in a buggy and found the stranger de sortbed by the ctnductor. They got him into the buggy, he having accept ed their offer of a "lift" on the way toward 0:angeburg. When thev ar rived at Branchville, Mr. A. F. H. Dukes recogn.zed the party as the man who had exchanged courtesies with him. The strsnger protcsted his in nocence, gave his name and said he was from Iredell county, N. C. "Let me see 3 our pistol," commanded- Mr. Dukes. The stranger got out his gun. Thera were five emptied catridges, had jast been fired. The man's feet fitted the burglar's track around the store. Farthermore, the burglar had left a satohel cntaining a No. 40 coat, the stranger's size, and a pair of trousers 38x36, again fitting the stranger. The Iredeil county man was looked up. In the fusilade of 11 shots nobody was hurt. love Among Savages Among the Arabs of upper Egypt the 3outh who prosposes to a girl must eubmit to a whipping at the hands of all her male relatives, and, says a dry arrator, "if he wishes to be considered xorth having he must receiva the chas tisement, wnich is sometimes exceed ingly severe, with an expression of en jonyment." Not infrequently it is the maiden herself who imposes the test. The Sakatava giirls of 31adagascar make their lovers stand at a shcrt distance from a elhver spear-thrower and catch between the arms and s-de every weapon flung at them. If the youth "displays fear or fails to catch the spear he is igno minioudly rejected, but if there be no flischirng and the spears are caught he is at once proclaimed an accepted lover." Worse than this is the trial enforced upon their buitors by the Dangolowee girls. When in doubt as to she respe e~v merits of two rivais the young lad v fast ans a bharply pointed knife to eccti ebow; then, setg herself bi tween her lovers, she drives the blade slooiy into their thighs, and the hsro who sakes the greatest length of steel without a mumur wins the bride. Mjor Mitcheil, in his "Expeditions Into the 1Interior of Eastern Australia," says of the natives on the River Darl ing, that all their ideas of fighting are asociated with the possession of guns and wives, and that after the battle the wives "do not always follow their fugitive husbands from the field, but frequently go over, as a matter of courso, to the victors " "None but the brave deserve the fair" is a maxim of most barbaric races. Served Him Right. A newspaper man was asked, says an exchange, to publish an article roasting a citizen. "Certainly," he said to a caller, "what shall I say?' He was furnished with an outline of what was wanted, and wrote an article that was a scorcher. "That's silendid" ex laimed the friend delightedly when the article was read to him. "That's right; that'll make his old hair chinkle"! "Alnight," said the editor, 'let me see, what are your initials?" "Good heavens," said the citizen, "you are not going to sign my name to thatF' "Why not?' asked the editor. "I would nft have any one know that for the wori.i I cannot afford to get into ~crap with my neighbor." The editor imiled benevilently and said: "Why should I mix up in a scrap that does ot concern me? Why should you ex pect me to assume the blame for the publication of an artice to which you fraid to sign your name?' The inter iew above told is by no meanus unique, ays the Pitusville Courier, nearly ~very newspaper~ sanctum has heard any such conversations, although appily they are less frequent than in ~ormer years. Political warfare is not o bitter, neither so personal as a score >f years ago, and newspapers are not so ften asked to become catspaws. As a general proposition, no one should offer Scommunica':ion to a newspaper un ss he is willing to sign his name :hereto; the reader gives little weight .o statements or arguments, the authors >f which let their names be known to he editor only. Cuba a Colony. The Gaffaey L-tdger says the Platt eendment, which virtually makes aba a colony of the United States, has een rammed down 2he throat of the Juban Convention. The vote steod 15 o 14 for its adoption. It was that or nilitary domination and subjiugation, nd a bare majority of the Convention wallowed the bitter pill. Conventions ~enerally register the decrees of their nasters. And yet Cuba "is and of ight ought to be free and independ nt;" yet we have no designs whatever pon her freedom; yet we helped her arow eff the yoke of Spain for pure iumanitys ake! Just so. Bah! An Excited Editor. The New York Evening Telegram svs we no:ice that General S. B. M. s ung has jast been ordered to San ?arcisco to relieve Maj r General kaf ter. Good ness! is that Falstaffian era still getting his head rubbed at be expnsea of the tax pavers? "You ask for my daughter's hand, eh? You'll find it a pretty heavy on% young man. She's just broken a plate over her mother's head!" - Ally Sloper. Their Dreams. Said he: "Wife, you're crowned with your beauty; No one can dispute me in that." Said she: "If you'd but do your duty I'd be crowned besides with a new hat." And that night when they both slept upon It, What visions their light slumbers fl She had a sweet "dream of a bonnet" And he a bad dream of the bill. -Leslie's Weekly. Best for All Concerned. Comedy-I noticed you in the an. dience last night. What did you think of my part? Criteek-It suited you. Comedy-What did you think the best thing I got off? Criteek-The , stage.-Philadelphia Press. Heroic Treatment. Marjorie-She is one of the hardest worked girls in the city. Madge-Why, what does she do? Marjorie-Follows the directions in the Sunday papers showing how to make her face beautifuL-Town Top. ics. An Expert Opinion. "Our new cook Is way up in his torical novels. Yesterday she had a warm discussion with my wife over the fate of Joan of Are." "Knew all about it, did she?" "Yes. She's something of a steak burner herself."-Cleveland Plain Dealer. One Way to Get Rid of It. "You say my wife has swallowed some foreign substance, and you can't seem to reach It, doctor?" "That's it, exactly." "Well, what can we do, doctor?" "I would recommend six days on an ocean liner."-Yonkers Statesman mrs. rmianthropist-Why do Y01 cry, little boy? Little Boy-Me mudder is sick, an me fader is out uv work, an' we ain't had nuttin' ter eat fer t'ree days. Mrs. PhlaMnthropist. - Poor dear child, how my heart aches for you. Here's a tract on the evils of drink among the masses that you may take home and read.-Judge. Circumstances Alter Cases. Suitor-I have come to ask you for your daughter's hand. Father-Well, the fact is, we are pretty crowded here as it is, and I Suitor-Oh. I intend to take her away from home if I marry her. Father-Oh, well; in that case-but you did give me an awful start, my boy.-Boston Transcript. No Room for Doubt. "You speak with great positiveness about the sincerity of our friend's re ligion." "There can be ao doubt whatever of his sincerity," was the answer. "Why, sir, that man would-rather go to church on Sunday than play golf." Washington Star. Better Fun Than Dancing. "Enjoy your party, Bobby?" "Yes, m a." "Well, what little girls did you dance with ?" "Oh, I didn't dance. I had threea fights downstairs with Willie Richard son, and I licked him every time." Philadelphia Inquirer. Completely Gone. "She's not bad looking," observed the unemotional young man. "But she hasn't any money." "What does a girl with hair like that need of money?" exclaimed the other youth, gazing after her with his soul in his eyes.-Chicago Tribune. Hopeless Case. "I am awfully disappointed in my son," said the fond father. "How so?" "Why, I've used, I suppose, 50 bottles of different hair producers, in my ef forts to make him a professional pianist."-Yonkers Statesman. Striking a Balance, If the great recording angel Has a half-way lenient trend He will give us all fair credit For the good that we intend. Yet. 'twere serious, I take it. If, with equal honest view, lHe should jot down in his volumes Every evil impulse, too. --Chicago Record-Herald. HEARD ON A PLUG ROAD. '] "Rather a large boy for half fare, isn't he, sir?" "Yes, he is now, but he was a small boy when we started."-Moonshine. A Plea for the Erring. If people never made mistakes, Which bid the cynics chaff, This world would be a lonely place, With ne'er a chance to laugh. --Washington Star. Well satisfied. Bliffers--Buncom is a self-made man, isn't he? Wiffers-Yes. What made you think so t Bliffers-He seems to be so well sat. isfied with the job.-N. Y. Weekly. Rather Wild at Figures. "Statistics showv that Chicago people lose 6,500 umbrelLats a ya. "Six thousand five hundred? Pooh I've lost half that many every year my self."-Chicago Record-Herald. An Indication. He-How innocent Miss Priscilla is! She blushes at everything I say to her She-That isn't innocence; that's re