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Away From You. I spent a day away from you A pennance in a lonely place: I said: "I will forget her face, The mouth's rose -red, the ey es' bold ble: I will forget a little space ' Ah me! Love grants no holiday: I sought my lonesome hold, and there Your happy laughter tilled the air Your footsteps followed in the way, The sunlight tangled in your hair. You whisper thrilled my heart anew: I saw your eyes-1 watched your smile. Oh, mockery of mile and mile! I spent a day away from you And you were with me all the while. -Theodosia Garrison in Hlarper's Bazr THE TALM&GE SERMON. The Noted Divine Preaches on Stcck Gambling In this discourse Dr. falnime arraigns the spirit of wild speculation and gives some account of tho 4:;dal ruin of other days: i-roverbs xxii, 5, "Riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven." Money is a golden breasted bird with silver beat. It alights on the office desk or on the rarlor center tab'e. Men and women stand and admire it. They do not notice that it has wings larger than a raven's, lar ger than a flamingo's. larger than an eagle's One wave of the hand of misfortune and it spreads its beautiful plumage and is gone "as an eagle toward heaven," my text says, though sometimes I think it goes in the other direction. What a verification we have had of the flying capacity of riches in Wall street: A id Wall street is one of the longest streets in the world. It does -not begin at the foot of Trinit church, New York, and end at the East Aver, as many suppose. It reaches through all our American cities and across the sea. Encouraged by the revival of trade and by the fact that Wall street disasters of other years were so far back as to be forgot. ten, speculators run up the stozks from point to point until innocent people on the outside suppose that the stocks would always con tinue to ascend. They gather in from all parts of the country. Large sums of money are taken into Wall street and small sums of money. The crash comes, thank God. in time to warn off a great many who were on their way thither, for the sadness of the thing is that a great many of the young men of our cities who save a little mo>ney for the purpose of starting themselves in busine-s, and who have $500 or $1,000 or $2,000 or $10,000 go into Wall street and lose all. And if there ever was a time for the pul pit to speak out in regard to certain kinds of nefarious enterprises now is the time. Stocks rose and fell, and now they begin torise again, and they will fill again until thousands of young men will be ruined un less the printing press and the pulpit give emphatic utterance. My counsel is to coun trymen, so far as they may hear of this dis course, if they have surplus to invest it in first mortgages and in moneyed institutions which though paying comparatively small interest, are sound and safe beyond dispute. and to stand clear of the Wall street vortex, where so many have been swamped and swallowed. What a compliment it is to the healthy condition of our country that these recent disasters have in nowise de pressed trade! I thank God that Wall street's capacity to blast this country has gone for ever. Across the island of New York in 1685 a wall made of stone and earth and cannon mounted was built to keep off the savages. Along by that wall a street was laid out, and as the street followed the line of the wall it was appropriately called Wall street. It is narrow, is unarchitectural, and yet its his tory is ue. Excepting Lombard street, London, it is the mightiest street on this planet. There the government of the United States was born. There Washington hel l his levees. There Mrs. Adams and Mrs Caldwell and Mrs. Knox and other brilliant women of the Bevolution displa~ ed their charms. There Witherspoon and Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield sometimes preached. There Dr. Mason chided Alexan der Hamilton for writing the constitution of the United States without any God in it There negroes were sold in th'e slave mart. There criminals were harnessed to wheel barrows and, like beasts of burden, com pelled to draw or were lashed through the street behind carts to which they were fas tened. There fortunes have come to cor:na tion or burial since the day when reckless speculators in powdered hair and silver shoe buckles dodged Dugan, the go rernor general of his majesty, clear down to yesterday at 3 o'clock. The history of Wall street is to a certain extent the financial, commercial, agricultural, mining. literary, artistic, moral and religious history of this country. They are the best men in this country and there are the worst. Everything from un swerving integrity to tiptop scoundrelism everything from heaven born charity to bkcod less Shylockism. I want to put the plow in at the curbstone of Trinity and drive it clear through to Wall street ferry. And so it shall go if the horses are strong enough to draw the plow. First of all, Wall street stands as a type in this country for tried integrity and the most outrageous villainy. Farmers who have only a few hundred dollars' worth of pro' due to put on the market have but little to test their character, but put a man into the seyen times heated furnace of Wall street excitement and he either comes out a Shad rach, with hair unsinged, or he is burned into a black moral cinder. No half way work about it. If I wanted to find integrity bombproof, I would go among the bankers and merchants of Wall street, yet because there have been such villainies enacted there at different times some men have supposed that it is a great financial debauchery, and they hardly dare go near the street or valk up or down it unless they have buttone d up their last pocket and had their lives insured or religiously crossed themselves. Yet if you start at either end of the street and read the business signs you will find the rnames of more men of integrity and Christian be nevolence than you can find in the same space in any street of any of our cities. When the Christian commission and the sanitary commission wanted money to send medicine and bandages to the wounded, when breadstuffs were wanted for famish ing Ireland, when colleges were to be en dowed and churches were to be supported and missionary societies were to be equipped for their work of sending the gospel all around the world, the first street to respond has been Wall street, and the largest re sponses in all the land have come from Wall street. But while that street is a type of tried integrity on one hand it is also a type of un bounded swindle on the other. There are the spiders that walt for innocent flies. There are the crocodiles that crawl up through the slime to cranch the calf. There are the anacondas, with lifted loop, ready to crush the unwary. There are financial wreck ers, who stand on the beach praying for a Caribbean whirlwind to sweep over our com mercial interests. Let me say it is no place for a man to go into business unless his moral principle is thoroughly settled. That is no place for a man to go into business who does not know when he is overpaid $5 by mistake whether ne had better take it back again or not. "'hat is no place for a man to go who has large funds in trust and who is all the time tempted to speculate with themn. That is no place for aman to go who does not quite know whether the laws of the state forbid usury or patronize it. Oh..how; many men have risked themselves in the vortex and gone down for the simple reason their integri sy had not been thoroughly established. Re member poor Ketcham. How soon the fly ing hoofs of his iron grays clattered with him to his destruction! .Remember poor Gay. at 80 years of age astonishing the world with his fortunes and his fcageries. Remember that famous man whose steamboats and whose opera houses could not atone fr his adulterous rides through Central park in t . e face of decent New York and whose behavior on Wall street by its examp'e has blasted tens of thousands of young men of this gen eration. I hold up the polluted memory to warn young men whose moral principles are not thoroughly settled to keep out of Wall street. It is no place for a man wh shivers under the who are o*n!egiima-e b~ones, on that or simi arstrectQ of whi'h thatis atype to stsad tirm in Christian priuciple. You are in a great eoaniercai battlefield. Be courageous. Thcre is such a thing as a hero of the bank and a bero of the Stock Exchange. You be that hero I have not so much admiration for the Freneh empress who stood in her bal oony in Pris and addressed an excitel mob and quelled it as I have a imiration for t hat venerable banker on Wall street who in 1864 s:ood on the stcps of hii moneyed insitution and quieted the fears of depositors and bade rpaice to the angry wave of commnercial ex ciement. Go.L did not allow the lions to hurt Daniel, and he wil not allow the "bears" ti huri you. Remember, my friend that all ti ete scetes of bu-ines will s 00 have passed away, and by the law of God's eternal right all theaIVirs of ycur husines life will be aju.lIatet. Honesty pays best for beth worlId. Again I have to rem-trk that Wall street is a type threughiut the country of !egitimate speculation on the one hand and of ruinous gambling cn tie other Almost every mer chant is to some extent a speculator. IHe de pends not only upon the dtlftr'ence between the wholesale price at which he gets the goods ani the retail at which he dispo-es of them, but also upon the fluc-uation of the markets If the markets greatly rise, he greatly gains. If the iarke s greatly sink, he greatly loses. It is as honest to deal in s'ocks as to deal in iron or coat or hardware or dry goods. He who condemns all stck dealings as though they were iniquitous simp ly showshisown ignorance. SLopalllegiti mate speculation in this country andy yu stop all banks, you stop all factories, you stop all storeh uses, you stop all the great financial prosperities of this country. A stock dealer is only a commission merchant under another name. He gets his commission on one style of goods. You, the grocer, get your commis sion on another style of goods. The dollar t oat he makes is just as bright and fair and honest a dollar as the dollar earcel by the day laborer. But here we must draw the line betweenlegitimate speculation and ruia ous gambling. You, a stock operator with out any property behind you, fi3ancially. irrespansible. sell $10) o2 noth ng :and get paid for it. Ycu sell 100 shares at $10.000 a 30 ds If at the ead' of 30 days you can get the scrip for $9,;00, you have made a thous and If at the end of 30 day" you have to pay $11,000, thea you have lost a thousand Now that is trafficking in fition; that is bet ting on chances; that involves the spirit of gambling as much as anything that ever goes on ia the lowest gambling hell. At certain times almost every prosperous merchant wakes up, awl he says: "Now, I have been succesefil in my lice of trade, a'id I have a tolerable income. I think I shall go down to Wall street and treble it in three weeks. There's my neighbor. He was in the sam- line of business. He has his $300, 000 or$400.000 from the simple fact that he went into Wall street. I think I shall go too " Here they come, retired merchants who want to get a little excitement in their lethrrgic veins. Here they come, the trus tees of great property, to fool everythin; away. Here they come, men celebrated for prudence, to trifle with the livelihoods of widows and orphans. Do you wonder that sometimes they become insane? It is in sanity. Do you known there are hundreds of young men who are perishing under the passion for stock gambling? Do you know that in all Christian lands this is one of the greatest cursee? It is not peculiar to mercurial Americans. Oh, no! Almost every nation has indulged in it. The Hollanders, the most phlegmatic people in the world, had their gambling seizure in 16S3. It was called the tulip mania. It was a speculation in tulips. Properties worth $500,000 turned into tulips. All the Hollan I nation either buying or sell ing tulips One tulip root sld for $200, another for $2,000. Excitement rolling on and rolling on until history tells us that one Amsterdam tulip which was supposed to be the only one of the kind in alt tore world actually brought in the markets $l,S1,000: That is a matter of history. Of course, the crash came, and all Holland wvent down un der it. But France must have its gam'ling ex pe'di ion, and that was in 1713. J ;hn Law's Mississippi scheme, it wae called The French had heard that this American con tinnent was buit out of solid g>ll. and the project was to take it acrrss the ocean and dvop it in France. Excitement beyond any - thing that had yet been seen in the world. Three hundred thousand applicants for shares. Excitement so great that sometimes the mounted military had to disperse the crowds that had come to buy the stock. Five hundred temporarr tents built to accom modate the people until they c )ul I have o2 bortunity of interviewing John Law. A lady of great 'ashion had her coachman upset her near the place where John Law was passing in order that she might have an intereiew with that benevolent and sympathetic gentle man. titocks went up to 2,050 per cent, un til one day suspicion gt into the market, and down it all went-John Law's Missis sippi scheme-burying its projector and some of thes e latest financiers is all France and was almost as bad as a French revolution. Sedate England took its chance in 1720. That was the south tea bubble. .They pro posed to transfer all the gold of Peru and Mexico and the islands of the sea to E ag land Five millions' worh of shares were put on the market at ?300 a share. Th e books open, in a few days it is al.- taken and twice the amount subsco-ibed. There was a large company formed with great capital for providing funerals for all parts of the land. Another company with large capital--45,000,0 .0 of capital-to develop a wheel in perpetual motion Another company with a capital of ?4,000, 000 to insure people against loss by servants Another company with S2.&00,000 capital to transplant walnut trees from Virginia to England. Then, to cap the climax, a com pany was formed for 'a great undertaking, nobody to know what it is.'' And, lo, ?600. 000 in shares were cffered at 2100 a share. Books were opened at 9 o'clock in the morn inag and closed at .3 o'clock in the afternoon, and the first day it was all subscribed. "A great u'idertaking. rnoboby to know what it is." But it was left for our own county to sur pass all, about 37 s ears ago. We have the highest mountains and the greatest oata racts and the longest rivers, and of course, we had to have the largest swindle One would have thonght that the nation had seen enough in that direc-ion during the morus mlttcaulis excitement, when almost every man had a bunch of crawling silkworms in his house, out of which he expected to make a fortune. But all thie excitement was as nothing compared with what took place in 18S4 when a man near Titusville, Pa. dig ging for a well struck oil. Twelve hundred oil companies call for a billion of stock. Prominent members of churches, as soon as a certain amount of stock was assigned them, saw it was their privilege to become presi dnts or secretaries or members of the board of direction. Some of these compainies never had a foot of ground, never expected to have. Their entire equipment was a map of a region where oil might be and two via a of grease, crude andi clarified. People rushed down from all parts of the country by the fitst train and put their hard earnings in the gulf. A young man came down from the oil region of Pennsylvania utterly demented, having sold his farm at a fabulous price because it was supposed there might be oil there-coin ing to a hotel in Philadelphia at the time I was living there throwing down a $5,000 check to pay for his noonday meal and say ing he did rnot care anything about the change! Then he stepped back to the gas burner to light his cigar with a $1 000 note. Utterly insane. The good Christian people said, "This company must be all right, because Elder So-and-so is president of it, and Elder So-and so is secretary of it, and then there are three or four highly respected professing Chris tians in the board of directors " They did not know that when a professed Christian goes into st ock gambling he lies like sin. But alas for the country: it became a tragedy, and a thousand million dollars were swamp ed. There are families today sitting in the sh tdow of destitution who but for that great national outrage would have had their cot tages and their home~teads. I hold up be fore the young men i ese four great stock gambling schemes that they may see to what legh mien will go smitten of this passion, ad I want to show them how all the best interests of society are against it, andi God is agait at it and will condemn it for time and cniein it for eterni'y. 1 do not delt upon the frenzied speculations in Wall street last moth. You all have enough remembrance know that it w is in a proession of mono tary fren zies, i ome of which have I a'se I and others are to come 0 men of Wall street and of all stre ts, stand back frm neftrious entcrprises, j:ia that great company of Christian men who are maintaining their integ.-ity, notwitl standing all the pressur- of te nptation. In the morning. when you open business in the broker's oiie or in the banking house, ask God's h:essing. and when you close it pro nounce a benediction upon it. A kind of business that men cannot eng-age in without prayer is u) business for yoa I w'sh tbat the words of George Peabody, uttered in the hearing of the people of his native town Danvers M1tss.-l wish tha- those words could be uttered in the hearing of all the yourg men thrcughout the land. He slid: "Though Provilence has granted me un vane t and universal sucte-s in the pursuit of fortune in other lnds I am still in heart the humble boy who left y inder unpretend-I ing dweling. Tnere is not a y:uth witbiu the soun-1 of my voice whose early opportu nities and eiv ntages a-e not much greater than were my owa, an i I h .ve since acuieved nothing that is impossib'e to the most hum ble boy amort gyou." Ger agePeibody'siuc cets in busints was not more remarkable than his integrity sud his great hea-ted benevolnce. I pray upon yoa God's pro tecting and pr'spering blessing. I hope you may all make fortunes for time and fortunes for eternity. Some day when you come out of your place of business and you go to the clearing house or the place of custom or the bank or your own home-as you come out of your place of business juet look up at the c'ock in the tower and see by the movement of the hands how your life is rapidly going away and be reminded o.f the fact that before God's throne of inexorable ja 'gment you must yet give acc)unt for what you have done since the day you sold the first yard of cloth or the first pound of sugar. I pray f.,r you all prosperity. Stand close by Curist, ani Christ will stand close by you Tue greater the temptation the more mn.gnific nt tue re ward. But, a'as, for the stock gamber what will he d> in the judgmeat? That day will settle everything. Taat to the stock gambler will be a "break" at the "first call" No smugg'ing into heaven. No ' collaterals" (n which to traie your way in. Go in throngi Christ the Lord or you will forever stay out. God forbid that after you have done your last day's work on earth and the hushed assembly s ands around with bowed heads at your obsequies-Vod forbid that the most appropriate text for your funeral oration should be. "As a partridge sitteth on eggs and hatcheth them not, so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at the end he shall be a fool," or that the most appro rarite funeral psalm should be the words of the poet: Price of many a crime untold Gold, gold, gold, gold. PESSIMISTIC BUT TRUE. ar Bauer's Summary of Crop Condi tions fir Week Jast Ended. Mr. J. W. Bauer, the weather bureau man, is persona1y very clever, but be certainly is pessimistic in his official capacity. But if there should be good weather and flurishing crops all the time, there would be no need for a weather bureau In his regular weekly crop bulletin Mr. Bauer says: The week ending Monday, June 10, was somewhat warmer than the preceding one, but the average temperature con tinued below the normal. There was a maimum of 93 at Yemassee on the 5:h, and a mininum of 55 at Grenville on the 4 h. Over the western aod northerg counties, the nights were much too cool for cotton, and there was a general deficiency of sunshine. General showers occured on the 31, and again on the 6 h, and 7.h, light over the greater portion of the S rate, but heavy in the midde and lower Si vanah valley, the southeasern, a'nd portions of the west central c unties, where the ground were kept too wet for general cultivation, and wherc only from two to three day's ploughieg was practicable. Over the western, central, nrthnern and nersheastern counties, tae weather onmditions were favorable "or farm work, and cultiv~tion made fair progress. Cotton is unsually small, lacks cul tivation, and somewhat lousy in places whsite grassy field are the rule. It has s'at all baen ohoppied to stands. In the t'ae eastern and southeastern sections its growth is at a standstill, and the plants are turning red or' yellow, show ing an unhealthy condition, but over the remaindor of the State it is grow. ioig and improving slowly and has a healthy color. Sea islands looks bet ter, but blight is still prevalent. Corn h'as begun to tassel and is being laid by in the southmtern sections, where its condi'ion is, however, very poor, owirg to Ia-k of cultivation and an ea.ess of moisture. I'n other sec tions upland corn has improved and looks healthy, btt bottoms are still too wet to replant. But worms and crows are damaging bottom land corn in the extreme st. Late wheat has rusted badly, while early is being harvested with the aver age result only fair, and not up to ex pectations. Oats harvest is well ad va'nced, but the rains have damaged some in the shock. Yields are variable, but averaged fairly good. Tobace) is extremely poor, and dy ing from lack of proper cultivation and excessive moisture in Williamsburg county and vicinity, while in the other tobacco districts, it has improved slightly, but is still poor. Worms are numerous in places. Upland rice is fine, and some river rice also, but in the Georgetown dis tricts freshets have done much damage and prevented a full acreage of June sowing. Melons are a failure in plaoes, and por generally. Phaches are drorping, and early varieties are rottin;;. Pas tures and gardens have improved. Truck is growing and yielding well. Many c orrespondents report a scarcity of farn' laborers. Heavy on Carolina. Oil Inspector E. B. Hook, of Augusta, Ga., sezeda car of defective oil in that city a few days ago, and sent a sample of it to the State Oil Inspec tor at Atlnta. After testing the oil the State Oil Inspector wrote the fol lowing letter to Mr. Hook: "State of Georgia, Department of Oils, Atlanta, Ga, Juane 3, 1901.-Mr. E B. Hook, Augusta, Ga-Daar Sir The sample oil arrived and was tested by Dr. McCandless in the presence of a respesentative of the Standard Oil Company. You were correct in reject ing it and not allowing them to unload it. They have agreed to transfer this tank to Carolina. "'Glascock Barrett, "'State Oil Inspector.' Souith Carolina being less particnlar about the quality of oil farnished her :iiz sus this defselive oil was prompt ly shipped into this State. They Come High. The present expense ir. salaries for he judiciary is as follows in New York ity: Supreme court, Ne w I ork count y8192.000;eut rogate'3 cour t, $1l4;000o; city court $ll1'0t0; city magistrates, :327, 000; special sessionI., 123.000t; ~eneral sesion's, $18:Z 000t musnip'aI, urts, $:330,000;: supremon cour .,' ' m.i oun y, $159,000; .urrogatc' s ourt, i60000; Qicens county courts, $:'N,t000~, and Ricamond county c2'urts, $14t000, a tota of $1T-0a n0a THE OLD VETER&NS. Bill Arp Writes of the Great Gather ing of Brave Men Forty years have passed sncee thes soldier boys first shouldered arms snd hurried to the front, No such arra: of patriots were ever seen, for ther was not n tory among them nor i foreign hireling, and even the N rth ern-born e.tiz~ns of the South vo'un teered with one ac-crl and cast thei: lives and property in the common peri of their adopted State. To that clasi we owe all the ! ore honor for it was i great heart stru:gle to sever the bond that bound cm to their kindrcd an( the place , . their birth Forty yoar have not, ffse d nor dimmed the me mory of those four long years fro-n t< minds of the vterans who gathered a the Memphis reunion. As time roli on they seem the more cager to con gregate and communc together; and happily, there are nons nen to moles1 or make them afraid. Happily the soldiers of the blue ani the gray are becoming every yev the more considerate of the feeling! and p-inciples of each other. The sil diers, I say-those who fought against us-for the bravest are the tenderest. 1 is the politicians who saw the battle from afar, who still refuse to give u back our flags' and are still worriin 1 over the rebel brigaliers whom we have seat to Congres;. But time is a good doctor, and soft words take awa3 wrath. Thai was a grand convocation thai paraded the stTeets of Memphis. Hearts b at rapidly and eyes wert moist with tearE ' While memory lingered o'er the sad revies Of joys that laded like th; morning dew That was a beautiful prayer sent ul to heaven by our beloved grand chap lain. Rev. J. William Jones, and faith ful bulwark of Confederate history. I know that the blue and the gray claspei hands and hearts as he invck d a bless ing upon Mr. at d Mrs McK'oley anc asked for ht r rettoration to health. ] tell you, my bretheren, there is noth ing Emall or Eelfish or mean in the hearts of our great leaders 12 wai and in peace they have been and ar gentlemen. There was not a Nero or a Duke of Alva among them nor a heart less destroyer of the innocent nor i violator of the laws of kindress to wo men and children. Oar soldiers foughi a gocd fight, on patriotic principles, and it rejaices us that they have kept the faith and are as true now to the na tion as they were then to the principlei for which they fought. Those priaoi ples are not dead; and we believe thai if this republican government is pre served from the domination of imperial. ism, with which it is threatened, it wil: be the conservative spirit of the Souti that will do it. The spir't of constitu tional liberty is yet alive with us and will be transmitted to our children. It is high time that the Nortbert preachers and teachers and editors wer< learning a salutary lesson from these annual reunions of the old Confederates If I had been a Federal soldier and lived up there, it seems to me that] would say, "My brethren, those rebels must have been tremendously in earnest There is no let up or abatement in theil fat. Forty year4 has not humbled them one iota. We had batter mak' friends with such a people and divide honors and pensions, too. They have caried an awful load fi>r all these years. Tey have to pay a good part of the pensions to our soldicr3 and all of the pensons of their own and a big tax t< educate their negrocs; and they had t< endure the rrvages and stealages of the carpes-baggexs f.or years, but they nevel complain. Thiey fight back and defend their honor, but, like the sons of Alne mot. they never complain. Su-ely they are a great people. 'They suffer, and art strong, and when solidiers were wan ted for Cuba and the Philippines they cami at the first call. Brethren, let's stoi all this anti Southern sentiment and make our preachers and editors stop it. There is no good in rubbing an told sore. We don't know what may hap pen, and we may need those boys tc save the euntry. The old veterant are dying cut, but their sons are th< same old stock. The Sourh -is fasi comir g to the front, and is destined to be a great power in the land, and if wt keep on aggravating them with abuse, it is possiole they may get fighting mad some of these days and get up anothei ivil war and-and-and whip us again, or come pretty near it." That's whatI would say if I wasent a fool. These are alarming times. Wars, fires, floods. Awful calamities an land and on the sea, explosions in mines, wrecks on railroads, mturders, suicides, robberies, abductions of children, and worse than all, there seems to be nc stop to these horrible outrages of brutal negroes. Then there is the insubor dination of students in our colleget and the infamy of hazing is still going on. It distre~ssed me to see among those expelled from West Point the names of two Soutnerners-one from Alabama and one from Texas. Edu ation and disciplnie seem to be divore d. Time was when Mr. Benmar boasted that he had subdued every big boy in his school-subdued him by the rod. Old man Isham did the saine thing, and so did Dr. Patterson thresh out the worst boys at our Manual Labor chool; but now it is the boys who rule the teachers and ake demands, and the consequences is our colleges have no discipline and hazing seems to be ae popular as ever. I thought that this hazing business was a modern invention, but in the second volume of "Americsa Litera ure" I find a letter of John L awson, a Seotchmcan, who lived for years among the North Carolina Indians. He is writing to his folks at home 1714 aout the custcoms of those Indians, and says the way they make warriors of their young men is to husquedaw them in early manhood. They are shut up in a dark log house for six weeks, and kept half starved and made to drink a decoction of pellitory bark, which renders them raving mad. They nake the most dismal, hellish cries and iowlings over heard. When given a ittle meat it is mixed with nas'y, oathsome, filthy stuff. After sin weeks they come out as poor and mis irable as creatures ever become. Some >f them die under this diabolical treat nent, and some young men run away :o avoid it. 'The savages told me that :his hardens them to the, fatigues of war and kills cff the weak and infirm and cowardly who would bring dis race upon the nation. Husquenawing!i l'hat's it that's where hazing started and Wes t Point is where it ma' riculated and fl urished! Th'is insubordination of college boys sems to havo crept into our own South :rn institutiors, and has wellnigh de nraliz d Oxford and Tuscaloosa. What dtoes it mean? Wc had nothir.g ikc it in our day. We feared our athrs and wo feared and respecd he faculty. The Teca boys caught the niection not long ago; but that don't anything else be-Mdes play ball, the newspapers don't publish it. Ball seems . to be the only textbook in the currieu lum. Their accomplishments in that line may bt. satifactory to the boys and the professors, but the pa'rans an-i friends of the institution are surfeited, and would advise arace-ssl Ball play is another Indian game in whici the savages excelled. BILL ARP COTTON IS GRaSSY. The Stands are Fair But Scmswhat Iaregular. Tho condition of the growing cotton crop is of greit rpcculative interest a- this tim , and the general impres s-on prevails that it is in an extremely peor condition over the entire Cotten Bit. Mr. J. W. Baucr i. his weekly seim-ary declares that this is not uri versally the casc, although the crop as a whole is proba'ly two to three weeks late, and in many Iceilities q-iite grassy, especiaily over the Atlantic Statts, and portions of the Gulf, and Mississippi val'ey States. S ands are fair to good, but some what irregular, owing to the unusual amount of planting that was necessar). Insects are not more numerous and destrueive than usual, and in Texas the weevil is not less threatening than heretofore. At a few points only has the'plant begun to fruit. A few weeks of dry and warmer weather in the Atlantic States, and a continuation of the prs nt favorable weather to the westward, would put the growing ct ton crop into a very promis-ng condi tion. The following short statements in dicate how tie crop is in the principal cotton raising States: In North Carolina all reports indi cate that the past week has been very favorable both fir farm work and for growth of craps. Chopping cotton pro gressed very rapidly, but is not yet finished. Where fields have been cleased the crop shows good stand and better color, but large areas are all very grassy, and some fields have been abandoned or will be plowed up for corn. Cotton seems to be almost the smallest for the season on record. In South Carolina cotton is unusually small, licks cultivation and is home what lousy in places, while grasy fields are the rule. In the eastern and southeastern sections it j growth is at a stands-ill, and the plants are turning red or yellow, showing an unhealthy condition, but over the remainder of the State it is growing and improving slow'y, and has a healthy color. Sea island looks better butablight is still prevalent. In Georgia the weekly reports con tinue to be generally of a dissouraging character. Crops have suffered from excessive rains in nearly all c unties; and are much in need of cultivation. The condition of cotton is on the whole poor, and numerous correspondents consijer the outlook gloomy. In Alabama cotton has nearly all been chopped; and, while the general condition of this staple has improved very slightly, it is becoming quite grassy in many fields, and continued dry weather is needed for its proper cultivation insects continue damaig irg in a few locahoties, and some is dy ing from efiects of previous cold; cot ton is just beginning to form eqaares in southern and middle counties. In Miss sippi over a greater portion of the State farm work has been con siderably delayed on account of the wet condition of the soil. Crops on lowlands have been damagcd by over flow and lack of culhivation, while on uplands all crops are generally grow iug rapidly and are in a fair state of cuttivation. Cotton is from two to thuee weeks late, and in some counties has been materially injured as a resunt of the cool weather aluring the last decade in May; chopping out has not been completed in many northiern counties. in Louisiana reports cone rning the improvement ~ op conditions and prospects are almost universally favor abie and in some cases enthusiastically encouraging. The c ondition of the cot ton crop in the State, as a whole, ho~s greatly improved Hail injured it in localities in the central and northern parishes; so badly, in fact that Some fields have been plowed up and re pianted, or abandoned, but the acreage thus destroyed is not large. In some of the northern parishes, too, the crop .is becoming foul with grass, because the griund is too wet to work. Bat, as stated above, the conditions and prospects generally have imprcved ma terially. Cotton in Bienville parish is reported to be forming sqjuares rapidly. In Tennessee the past week was characteriz.-:d by higher and more sea sonable temperature and timely show ers -conditions very favorable to the growth of crops. Cotton made good progress during the week, and though the plants are small and stand poor in many localities, the t~ne of reports is much more encouraging than for soveral weeks. There are guita a num ber of complaints of cut-worms. In Arkansas fairly well distribut el rainfall and decidedly warmer weather have improved crop conditions to a greater extent. Cotton is fiom 10 to 20 days late, the stands are poor to fair but rapid growth was made during the week. In Texas the past week has been the most favorable one of the season for the growth and development of crops. Sufficient rainfall has occu-red in most sections for the immediate needs of crops, and the temperature, especially during the latter portion of the week, has been conducive to rapid growth. In some localities the growth of cot ton was somewhat retarded by the cold nights during the first few days of the week, but the crop generally has made good progress. The crop is fruiting over the south portion. The boll weevil is becoming less numerous, but still doing considerable damage. In Oklahoma fair weather with warm days and moderately cool nights, caused slightly drouthy canditions until the 7th and 8th, when general rains reliev. ed and helped the crops. Farm work progressed rapidly under favorable con ditions, except over the Chickasaw Nation and Greer county, where the ground was too wet to cultivate. .True Bills Found. A dispatch from Anderson says the grand jury returned true bills against J. S. Fowler in four cases for con spi racy, false imprisonment and assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature. True bills were returned against W. 0. Hammond in four eases, on the same charges, and against Wil lis McGee, George Thomas, James Cook, Mike Robins, James Martin and W. M. Bailety, one ease each. The grand jury has not completed its work. A local weather prophet says there will be no drought this summer. We hope this prediction will prove tru 3, and that the farmers will make big Icrops. A NEGRO SAGE Who Is Willeg tro Bst His Ox cn eon T UIman AGAINST ALL COMER i Except Rev. Sar Jones, Who He Says Ran th i "Dsbble" Out of ths City of Savannah. To the Editor of The News and Courirr: Negro poiticians, once so plentiful, are becoming scarce in this part of the State, as I suppose they are in all other parts of the State. Now and then, however, you ktumble on one of the "has beens" and, strange as it may bs, most of them admire Ben Till man. Why this is the case it would be hard to say, unless it be as one has said, "So much ob de big buckra ne'r like um ten yare gone." Old Scipio G.diden came up to the "willage" a few days since to make some small purchases from one of the two stores which old Gillisonville now boasts. Seipio is getting old, but is a great fiddler and politician, and never fails to Isten attentively to ths reading of a newspaper-himself not knowing B from the proverbial bull's foot. An old "brudder" fift espied Scipio coming around "Morrison's corner," riding on a forlorn looking ox, whose horns were the thriftiest part to look upon of hie weather-beaten anatomy. Behind Scipio's ancient remainder of a saddle, and across Jerry's emaciated back, fluttered a half dozan chickcns, about half grown, whio were te be "current money" with the merchant in payment for his small purchases. T he merchant, knowing S ipio's in terest in things political read a portion of the Tillman-McLaurin-McSweeney embroglio and asked him if ho had heard it and what he thought of it. "Yes, sir." said Scipio; "I binner yerry Mr Petterman read 'bou- dem to 'Coosybatchie,' en one wite man binner git off de cahr da da, en e bin stand round wid segah enn a mont wen Mr. Peterman der read 'bout dem, en o say: McLaurin sho beit Tillman, e say. Ea Tillman ner gwine bin een de race, e say. Ea den Mr Rowel speak up en e say, e say; 'Do debble ner beat Tillman, muss lesS Mr L :urin.' But I nor say nuttin; none tall. I der yerry wuh all ment say, En Mr Pererman ax dem how 'bout MoSwiny, en de wite man pull t segahr out e mout en blow de smoake en swell up like, en e say, e say: McSwinny beat Tillman, e say. Den Mr Rwell speak up gin en e say, e say: McSwinny beat MeLaurin mebby, but e ent beat Tillman.' Din Mr. Peter man read some more en e ax me wah I der tink? En now you ax me, en I tell yunner all wuh it is. "I tink say wadder Mr. Rronel say, e de Gawd's trute: e ent no man wid two legs der beat Mr. Tillmnaa wid e one eye; e ent no nouse talk 'bout beat Mr. Ben Tillman, 'cause ebble body dun try en e cut no man kin beat um " "Scipio, you seem, to be stuck on Tillman. Why is it you do not like MlcLaurin and MoSweeney?" "No, sir, I ner struck on dem, en I nor say I nor like Mr. MeLauria en Mr. McSweeney. I ent kaow Mr. Mc Laurin en I nubber shoum, but I der yerry e berry nice man. I der iise talk politic. I ner tink all two boat dun kin beat Mr. Ben Tillman-dadder wah I tink, en I bet dat ole Jerry Ox on wuh I der say." "Wel11, Scipio, do you think McSwee ney will beat MoLaurin if he runs against him nort year?" 'Well, I ent know rightly, sir. Mr. McSwinny bin try bill e fence berry high, but e bill wid McLaurin rail en e bi& wid Tillman rail, en e out lay well togedder. All two boat dem. En e haff elimb pun top demon straddle dem fur mek dem lay still, but e small man en e leg short, en ent no foot hit de groun.' En Mr. McLaurin stan' pun one si-e en Mr. Tillman stan' pun carrer side. Ea e hab watch boat dem tur keep dem juckin rail out~ e fence. But I tink say e binner watch Mr. Till man de inoest ob do time. E know Mr. l'illmnan bin de bell ram, on e hab pitch fork on e head for horn, en won de deb ble git eon do, e ent no doin' nuttin' wid dem, none tall. Jiss haff let dein lone en leh dem but till e butt nuff. Lawdi e out nobody kin beat Mr. Ben Tillman. Scep'n e bin Mr Sam Jones, I yerry say e bin run do debble round Savannah, en of e bin trute, mebby so, him kin stan' fore Mr. Tillman, cause Savannah der bin do debble home, en I tink say e binner keep e besi pitchfork eon Savannali." 'Sc Soipio. you would not bet on Till man if Sam Jones was a Carolinian and was to run against him?" "Ha! Hal Hal No, sirr ru, I nor bet 'gainst no man kin run do debble eon Savannah, no sir ru." "Well, then, in that case would you bet on Sam Jones?" "I ent know rightly 'bout dat, sir. I ner tink, no, sir. I nor bet cu one, ner tarrer. I nor bet none tall." "Then you are willing to bet on Till man against all corners, except Sam Jones?" "Dadder him! Dadder him! En you kin tell anybody Scipio Gadsden ready ;o bet dat Jerry Ox Mr. Ben Tillman beat anybody scep'n Mr. Sam Jones." Lawton Lamar. Gillisonville, Hampton County, June 10. He May Change. The Columbia State says "after all, it may be a mistake to take President McKinley's declination of a third term seriously. The Teller resolution recog nizing the fact that the people of Cuba 'wore, and of right ought to be, free and independent,' and pledging the United States to withdraw its forses from the island as soon as its pacification should be accomplished was quite as ex plicit and comprehensive in its terms as President McKinley's declaration that he will not be a candidate for re election-but Mr. McKinley founa a way to "get around'' that. We would not wager two cents on the virtue of President McKinley, advised and con trolled as he is, where personal and par ty interests are involved. Many Killed. An explosion in a cartridge factory situated in the suburb of Los Mouli neaux Franee has resulted in the loss of 15 lives and the injuring of about 20 persons. The victims were horribly mutilated. A majority of those injured were women. William J. Samford, Governor of Alabama, died Wednesday night at Tuscaloosa, Ala., where he has been ill for some time. Disease of the heart A CASUAL ' He came among us one bleak, winter day, When hands and hearts alike were cold and stern; A nameless stranger, passing on his way- ( An aimless way, for aught we could dia cern. T Unbidden guest! without the savoir faire To bring his welcome with him in his face. We caught th' reflex of th' repellent air, And only wish'd to bow him from the ti place. But one, whose gentle heart the inward 4 fires i3 Of grief and pain had purg'd and purified, a Spoke bravely out, rebuking our desires, And this was what our Heav'n-taught teacher said: "Oh, treat him kindly; He's some moth- t] er's son, Who holds her hands around him, while I she may; And, when his willful feet go wand'ring on,. She bows her head to weep, perchance to pray. 'So, for her sake, if not for his, oh, friends! And, more than either, for the free-giv'n grace By which Our Lord His love to us com- s mends, S Turn and look kindly on the stranger's face." 0 #--Author of "Matthew Dale," In Chambers' v Journal. SISTER TABITHA t By A. H. Holden. (copyright, 1901, by Authors Syndica) T HE Shaker meadows were steam ing. Hot sun and frequent show ers were makingamends for the tardy coming of spring. The low, massive clouds were heavy with rain. As the first drops fell on John Van Dyne's canvas he gathered up his artist be longings and sought shelter. "Just my luck," muttered he. "I couldn't have grouped the cattle bet ter If I had done it myself, and the light was right until this confounded show er came up." He leaped the rail fence, crossed the road and strode wrathfully up the street of the quiet Shaker village. Strains of mild, sweet melody floated through the open windows of the plain white church, for this was a Sabbath day John Van Dyne had chosen to dese crate. Thither he hurried, for the rain was beating down hard and sharp. Depos Iting his encumbrance in the little yes tibule, with much needless clatter, he entered the worship room and took a seat. The congregation turned to gaze at the Intruder-the white capped sisters in a mildly reproachful way. Sister Tabitha quickly everted her face, and her voice was silent dur ing the rest of the musical exercises. . At the close of the minister's dis course, in the bustle of the prepara tion for the dancing which in reality was lively marching with waving arms, Sister Tabitha die'tppeared through a side door. Surely nature never meant this woman, with her gorgeous, sensuous I beauty, for an ascetic. Her beautiful dark eyes were full of earthly tender ness and longing. The roses of her cheeks were of too deep a hue to have faded out entirely. The calm of herc expression was that of the apathy of l despair rather than an evidence of holy peace and a quiet mind. The morning dawned cool and bright,< and Van Dyne, having craved the hos-] pitality of the community, remained t until he had finished his study. Sister Tabith'a pleaded Illness, and remained In seclusion during his stay. Her dui-c ties were in the herb garden, in which< her roommate shared. The latter was middle aged and deaf, besides beingi much absorbed In self-communing, and consequently. was little restraint to 1 Sister Tabitha.1 The herb garden lay at the north of 1 the house of the aged sisters, and be yond stretched the apple orchard. Sis- f ter Martha, who had been the elder sis-< ter when Sister Tabitha first joined I the community, had- been transferred to the house of the aged sisters. From f her window she watched Sister Tabitha at her labor., and noted with sorrow that the old restlessness had returned. 1 "It seemed," said Sister Martha to t the sister who shared her cozy nooki at the window, "that Sister Tabitha would never gather, but at last she i found rest and peace. I can't see t what has disturbed her. I fear the 1 old longing for the world has come 1 back,"t "Wasn't there something mysteri ous about her when she came?" asked I Sister Sarah. "Yee," Sister Martha replied, "but I then there Is more or less mystery about all who come after they are grown. We did not question her. She said she had had trouble and wanted I a refuge. She i still young and like- a ly at times feels the attractions of 1 the world, but, then," added Sister a Martha, "that is something I can't un- a derstand, for I came here with my z mother when I was too young to re member. Before she died she made S me promise never to leave. More- E over, I can't see how anyone should I want to live In the sinful world." "It must be the heat," said the sis ters, in commenting on Sister Ta- I bitha's changed appearance; "it's an il unommon hot seas""a One day Sister Tabitha with a few t of the sisters went up the grass- Z grown lane to the sheep pasture, whewe some rare herbs were to be C found. She drew apart from the rest ad pursued her quest alone, the bet ter to indulge In her sad thoughts.iE In passing around a- clump of bushes she came face to face with John Van Dyne. He sprang towards her with C outstretched arms, scattering canvas and brushes to the winds. "Edithl" exclaimed he. "Yes, 'tis I, John, but don't you dare to touch me. What evil spirit guided you here, to wreck. my life ~ H. A Student Killed. H.S. Bigelow, of Buffalo, N. Y., a freshman at Harvard, was instantlyE killed by a chemical engine of the r Cambridge fire department. A fire was r found among a pile of boards near the t Harvard agricultural building by one of 'v the Harvard professors. An alarm 6 was sent in, bat before the firemen re- o sponded Prof Hollis and the students t had put out the fire. The alarm cans- t ed the under graduates to assemble and t as the fireman came there was much it eering. The chemical engine was very h~ late and the crowd hooted the men. z The accident is described differently, the firemen claiming that the horses on the engine became excited at the how ling crowd and dashed forward, scatter- ~A ing the crowd. The students claim S that the driver, Johb Dowdis, delib- u erstely drove his engine into the crowd n of students. Blgelow was caught under b the wheels and other students wereb knocked down, but only one had an in- w jury to speak of. As soon as the sta- at dents realized what had happened they L make a wild demonstration. But cool ha heads maiintained control and the fire- It men were allowed to return to their ai rain, just as I had found rest -ncl ace!" "You must let me explain," and the \ asterful expression came over his ce that she knew of old. "No, no, not here," warned Sister abitha, casting an apprehensive. ance in the direction of her fellow orkers. "Then meet me in the orchard to. ght, just at the edge, by the herb Lrden. There is no moon, but I can gnal you with these," said he, touch g his case of cigar lighters. With reluctant assent she left him. It was easy to evade her room Late, who always slept soundly, and ith light footsteps she passed down ie stairs and out the unlocked door. "Do not reproach me," implored an Dyne; "you could not, you would ot, if you knew how a foolish, boy ;h mistake blighted my young life. is true that the woman who shat !red our dream of happiness was my, twful wife, but I swear I thought he was dead when I married you. he was years older than I and scores f years older in worldly wisdom ,hen I was trapped by her viles. 'hen came the rude awakening. I ound her cold and calculating and estitute of refinement. She was de-. ermined to change my purposes in fe. She sneered at art and tried o force me to abandon my ambition nd shape my course according to, er ideas. Finally I broke away from er and went abroad to study. I sent er all I could possibly spare -of my, itiful income. Then for some rea on of her own she caused me to be ieve that she was dead. I forgive ter now, for she died in a few weeks. fter she went to Italy. Since then have searched for you far and wide. "Oh, Edith," continued he, "do you emember that glorious day when we et? Italy's skies were never so. ilue. The sea never sang so s*eet song. Oh, my love, my love, I wil Lever take your hand in mine until oU give me permission, but you must ay you forgive me," and the strong nan shook with sobs. She was silent for a moment. "I ill forgive you, but it is hard for a roman to forgive a wrong like this, 'eplied she, in a constrained voice. 'How can I ever forget that awful lay? You did not, you could not, eny the truth of that woman's asser ions, and what could I do? I had out one thought, and that was to go .way from what had been Paradise o me the day before. I crossed the ea and came back to the city where -" _, had passed a few years.of myebld iood. You know I was alone In the vorld. Ill health almost exhansted ny small inheritance. I remembered hese good people and came here. I vas at peace and almost happy until saw you again. Go, now, John. )ur lives are in different paths, far, ar apart." "You must not leave me so. Say rou will come again. I shall be here. o-morrow night. I have so much nore to say to you." Sister Tabitha turned and fleetly >assed through the garden to the Louse. There were aged sisters afflicted ith the sleeplessness of old age who a~w in the small hours of the night nysterious signals, the little flashe >f light and sometimes the Theat ightning, or the moonlight revealed ;ister Tabitha hastening to meet the >lack-robed figure whom they do lared must be an emiary of the Evil One. This story spread through - he community. The elder sister be ran an investigation. Sister Tabitha's roommate was - luestioned, who unhesitatingly do lared that Sister Tabitha had never dt the chamber in the night, and, gnoring her own physical infirmity,. Lelared further that it would have seen an impossibility without her' :nowledge. Some of the sisters tee ified that they had heard strange ounds and had seen ghostly shadows - itting through the halls, but had ree ignized no one. There were some tighly colored stories that the elder ister put aside as being merely the ltion of an excited imagination. The aged sisters insisted that they verc not mistaken, and the wraith-. ike, elusive appearance with which: hey were now familiar was, without Loubt, Sister Tabitha. Brother Israel was detailed to atch for the appearance of the dis urber, who was reported to make is vis'itations almost nightly. This. rother was growing . old and the ask was not altogether to his taste. verything in the way of the super atural was so familiar to his mind, not in actual experience; he was ot sufficiently excited to keep awake. Lfter comfortably seating himself un er an apple tree and leaning against ts huge trunk he fell into a pro ound fit of meditation, and after, while lapsed -into a peaceful slum er, from which he awoke with a tart, remembering his responsibility s a watchman, as the intruder was raling signals with his little lights. Brother Israel rose slowly withI auch laborious puffing, and the fig re, seeing the sentinel, slipped be .ind a tree. The. brother reported that a black obed figure with fiery eyes was visi-. se for a moment and then vanshed! to thin air. The mystery deepened! d more active measures were about o be taken for its solution, when one. sorning Sister Tabitha was missing. The aged sisters shook their heads minously and gave utterance to their. elief that Sister Tabitha had been pirited away by the Prince of the ower of the air, and many were the ales they related which they had een told in their youth of mysteri us disappearances by that agency;: ut some of the younger sisters who .ad not long been in tha c sacred re reat smiled shyly and strongly, inted of a power of which they were tot entirely ignorant-the power of ve. Grand Lodge Rescinds. The grand lodge of Masons of the ltate of Washington have rescinded the esolution adopted two sears ago Boguing negro Masonry. The sc ion of the lodge at that time was se erely criticised all over the [United tates and- as a result she next session f the grand lodge attempted to return athe old established principles, but de resolution wasn so artfully drawn at sister lodges refased to construe as an honess expression. The lodge as now in unmistakable language nde its position known. Three Boys Drowned. Arthur Backmian, 19 years old .rthur Kalbflesh, 13, and Edward leets, 13, were taken dead from a ater hole in Leonard's stone quarry sar Baltimore, Friday. The three >ys left home Thursday accompanied two dogs. When the dogs returned ithout the boys a search was made d the boys were traced to the quarry. onard's qarry is an old one which is lain unworked for a loag time. s depths are usually filled with water d it was a favorite swimming place tha boys in that locality.